Ellen Brenna 🚲 ⛵ 🌞 🏠 @ellenbrenna

NJ to LI to NYC to CO to NYC to CA. Interests: historic preservation, urban design, housing, transportation and maritime history, and ecology. ellenbrenna.com Berkeley, CA Joined May 2008

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Ellen Brenna 🚲 ⛵ 🌞 🏠 @ellenbrenna

2 weeks ago

@DonnaCu17173846 @luckytran You took a nuanced article that included criticism of the Republican controlled Congress, Bush admin officials, and Trump and tried to reduce its content to Obama Bad. The fact is that when faced with an international crisis Trump fumbled it, lied continously, and people died.

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2 weeks ago

@DonnaCu17173846 @luckytran From the same article: "But Trump’s claims have been generally panned by fact-checkers; for instance, Obama did declare a public health emergency before a single American had died. At the time, experts even concurred that H1N1 was generally well-handled."

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2 weeks ago

@DonnaCu17173846 @luckytran The Obama Admin had a pandemic response team organized and Trump got rid of it during his 1st term before COVID 19 hit.

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4 weeks ago

@treeeckob @laura_waxee @Safeway @sfchronicle Locals had decades to approve housing and over and over they refused to alter their neighborhoods a little bit to accomodate more people. Now decades worth of building is happening after state intervention and they are all freaked out.

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a month ago

@JeffStern5 @mattyglesias A TV series might work, call it Agents of Sheilds, or something.

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a month ago

@Sox30599976 @i_aver @kenklippenstein @Babygravy9 @grok The "explosives" were noisy fireworks and the people convicted did not know the man who shot the gun and did not intend to shoot anyone. It is meant to prevent anyone from protesting out of fear that they will be held responsible for the behavior of strangers.

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a month ago

@kenklippenstein Not looking forward to the kettling, the "riots" initiated by police assaults, and the "terrorism" charges that result.

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a month ago

@RandyEischer @ryangrim This is nonsense. Many issues impacting the working class that Dems have enacted that Republicans have been tearing apart in Trump's 2nd term including enforcing anti-trust rules, creating the CFPB which forced banks to return customers money, and enviro protections.

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a month ago

@medievalgill I always imagined it in the style of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Acrobatic, colorful, fantastic... potentially infuriating for the "historical accuracy" crowd.

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Ellen Brenna 🚲 ⛵ 🌞 🏠 @ellenbrenna

2 months ago

@dbinthed She will get primaried and be out in 2 years if she does not do adequate constituent service or uses her vote to spoil legislation that is broadly popular and useful for the American people over a pet leftist issue. IF she makes for a good rep there is no reason for her ouster.

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2 months ago

@thegiamonet @olesoul57_2 Trump assuming powers he's not granted by the Constitution or by a law passed by Congress is not in the interest of any Americans. The Executive branch enforces and upholds the laws passed by Congress, it is not empowered by the Constitution to make the rules on one man's say so.

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2 months ago

@humantransit @himbo_urbanist The Bound used to have comic book style art on the outside that said 30th Street in a single BOUND. It was great.

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2 months ago

@amanda_booberry @atrupar And to use the word diabolical to connect his opponents to Satan is so damn irresponsible when his voters are likely to believe in the literal devil.

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2 months ago

@trrvrj @MrSnookers @CNN The recommendations in the US were changed in 2008 and in other countries in 2016.

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2 months ago

@User_843964 @GOP__Ls It was not the country that was weak: it was Republican politicians who did not impeach Trump when they had the chance.

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2 months ago

@COCountryGirl24 @platinaplatypus @cigaM_88 @CH33ZUS_CRUST @GOP__Ls When given the chance to establish their own Constitution, Confederates copied many of the provisions in the U.S. version but also explicitly, legally protected the enslavement of Africans. The practice and protection of slavery were essential to their society.

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3 months ago

@Henry5474641776 @TheTNHoller 1800 people nationwide went to prison for the riots in 2020. Nobody got pardoned.

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3 months ago

@SketchesbyBoze I was watching Some Like it Hot, Witness for the Prosecution, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, and Arsenic for Old Lace on VHS in 1989. Lack of cultural literacy is a parental failure not a youthful one.

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4 months ago

@dIx0n_MaThIs @HeerJeet @redsteeze They had complete control of Congress but the GOP could not seem to pass any laws except to cut their friends taxes. What kind of bullshit will they need to talk to keep you guys mad at the elites and the government when they have been both for years?

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Ellen Brenna 🚲 ⛵ 🌞 🏠 @ellenbrenna

4 months ago

@dIx0n_MaThIs @HeerJeet @redsteeze There is an entire right wing media ecosystem that has been trolling the opposition in terms that would make Gingrich seem mild by comparison and suddenly get offended when libs talk shit about Trump.

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4 months ago

@dIx0n_MaThIs @HeerJeet @redsteeze Your side was characterizing moderate Dems as radicals for decades while refusing to pass laws with them so you could keep issues like immigration alive so your guy could run on them. GOP inaction and the rhetoric used to keep the base mad has brought us to this point.