THREAD: 55 yrs ago 2day, #MLK was murdered in Memphis standing w sanitation workers in their strike 4 better working conditions. He said of the strike, “We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop.” We still have! (1/4) 2/4 Unions help workers come together to bargain with bosses over safety, health benes, pay. Unions also co-founded & support civil rights coalition @civilrightsorg . The nations oldest & largest. bit.ly/3GDjOof

1/4 Tonight was my last appearance on @MSNBC as a Legal Analyst. It has been a great honor to join the smart, gracious hosts, the other contributors & guests, & to work w/ the producers, camera & sound crew, make up artists & security who made it family. And YOU the audience! 2/2 You supported me, defended me, loved my cats with me, and have become like family too! I always worried about letting you down because you never let me fall.

[1] Reading the #Jan6thCommittee court filing: “[Despite being told that his allegations of campaign fraud were false, [Trump] continued to feature those same false allegation ads seen by millions of Americans.” Translation: Trump knew he was lying. [2] On 1/2/21 Trump w/ John Eastman who #Jan6Committee deems a co-conspirator, had a tele co defense w/ hundreds of state legislators in SEIU states trying to get them to decertify the election results. Translation: Trump personally acted to advance the conspiracy.

THREAD: This morning I stood once again in front of the Lucerne Hotel where men who were homeless were housed until last week. There I announced the end to my campaign for Mayor. 1/10 I went back to Lucerne because it was a moving and miraculous model of a community coming together in an historic crisis of the pandemic to solve another crisis.
Homelessness. 2/10

“My 16-year-old son: He needs a future. Please. Please.” Those are the words that have been ringing in my ears since I heard them last week. They are the reason I am running for mayor, though I don’t know the name of the woman who spoke them to me and may never meet her son. This has been a hard-fought campaign played out at a time of great turmoil in our city and our lives. But it is also a moment when New Yorkers are coming together and the city is alive with possibility.

Nothing makes me optimistic for the future of New York city more than talking to voters. Threading some of my favorite moments throughout the day today below! 🧵 “You keep me going!”

If my father were alive he would be 90 years old. He only lived to be 42. But what he managed to do more fighting, more living, more loving in those 42 years than most of us get to do in a lifetime! He loved me and he was my world. 1/5 My father also worked ceaselessly with and for Black women! And he taught me that you never stop fighting for an end to poverty because for those who are given much, much is expected. 2/5

Surrounded by so much joy today! A thread in celebration of Black liberation in NYC. 🧵 "It's good to see someone on the ballot who looks like me." 💜

Latino and Hispanic New Yorkers are the very heart of our economy, our workforce, our culture & our vibrancy -- but they’ve long been denied a voice in our government and haven’t had leaders who recognize their contributions and prioritize their needs. No longer. 🧵 Like all New Yorkers, Latino New Yorkers deserve to be safe from violent crime and from mistreatment from the NYPD. When I’m mayor, we’ll make sure everyone has their civil and human rights upheld and protected.

Today, George Floyd received some of the justice in death that he was not given in life.
We must do more than just reform policing.
We must look at each other and see human beings.
With hopes, dreams, and wishes.
That when we say Black Lives Matter we mean it. Gianna Floyd, George Floyd’s six-year-old daughter, at the time of his death, said “Daddy changed the world.”

We must make Gianna’s innocent belief a truth!

It's time we take care of those who take care of us. And I have a plan to do it!

Use $300 million currently earmarked for the NYPD & corrections to give caregivers an annual income to compensate for their labor. No more making poverty a crime. Instead, we start solving poverty. Women, particularly women of color, make up roughly 88% of the City’s paid caregivers, and 77% of its unpaid caregivers in families. Mostly overworked and underpaid, these caregivers from vulnerable communities need to be cared about to live with dignity.

There’s a debate happening inside my campaign about whether or not I should post a video I made tonight about the violence in our nation’s Capitol threatening our democracy. I am a candidate for Mayor. A Black women candidate. The standards are not the same. (1/4) The most important thing though is that as dangerous as what we saw today is, as reprehensible as the behavior of the aiders and abettors who wear the Capitol Police uniform, democracy still won at the ballot box.(2/4)

I’m usually light hearted in these threads. Times are hard so asking for $ is awful. I like to make it fun. But my Campaign Manager surprised me with this video! Didn’t know she was doing it. Moved to tears because being THIS real is so brave. bit.ly/3pN2xxV (1/5)

https://twitter.com/mayarupert/status/1346248978657136645

@MayaRupert knows what she is talking about. She was a top aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s prez campaign & Julian Castro’s Campaign Manager before that. Warren made the “gender trap” plain. We pay a price just by naming it! bit.ly/3oiF5bx (2/5)

Ok so NYC can’t count on the Eagles to help the Giants. BUT... (YES the ask is coming!) 👉🏽 bit.ly/3oftnhO If you give me money and help me make history in NYC be becoming the first woman Mayor... with fabulous hair... bit.ly/3oftnhO

Last month 22 yr old Shyheim McLean was shot walking to his neighborhood store in a senseless act of gun violence in Brooklyn. He was my friend’s beautiful nephew. And like many gun violence victims, his death was preventable. 1/ Leaders can’t just care about what to do after a bullet is fired when we can root out causes of gun violence. We we want to hold people accountable butvwe must do more. We need to prevent circumstances that drive people to pick the gun up to begin with. 2/

Rather than asking what we can all do in light of a devastating wave of anti-semitic violence, some are using it to point fingers at Democrats. That serves hate rather than solves it. Here r actions: Find your local @ADL Chapter and see how you can help. bit.ly/2MDxLX4

1/ My thread on #GOP defense of #Trump: General defense amounts to 2 arguments: 1. #Trump was genuinely concerned about #corruption in #Ukraine; 2) not enough evidence to #impeach. We have no evidence on the first & evidence to the contrary. Legally, there’s enough evidence. 2/ The strongest args #GOP makes - #Trump not caught on tape saying he was abusing his office for his personal gain. Ukraine history of corruption & publicly denied pressure. But you have to suspend reason & ignore a boatload of evidence to conclude he did nothing impeachable.

Thread: #Trump legal team arguments for creating the constitutional crisis of complete #obstruction turns on 3 arguments that are all merit less: #TrumpOnstruction arg 1.: The House must vote to have #impeachmentknquiry. Nope. Constitution doesn’t require it & neither do House rules. Judiciary must vote articles out & then send to full House. They’re working on it.

Of 235 #Dems in the House, 139 publicly support #impeachment investigation on #Ukraine allegations that #Trump personally & directly intervened in release of foreig#n aid $ to a “hot” war zone & raised investigating #Biden. Today I expect we will hear #Pelosi saying it’s time. While the #MuellerReoort gave ample grounds for concern on #Trump campaign 271 contacts with #Russians, this is a case where #Trump admits undeniably dangerous behavior & obstructing Congressional oversight of it.

Agree that @jackgoldsmith makes impt pts but implication wld be no way to protect Nat’l security from a rogue #POTUS. AND...

https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1174787731962155011

As I tweeted yesterday...Congress has not conceded the point, explicitly reserving its position that it has a constitutional “need to know” of intelligence community wrong-doing.

Congress & White House have a history of fighting abt what classified material Congress can have on demand. In this case, a fed’l law says that a #whistleblower complaint that the Inspector Gen’l finds “urgent” be sent to Congress Intel Committees. So what is “urgent”?

https://twitter.com/mayawiley/status/1174495681677090816

The federal law defines “urgent” as “A serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law or Executive order,..., or operations of an intelligence activity involving #classified information...” among other things. This appears to be the relevant part of the #whistleblower story