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“Nevertheless, She Persisted”

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Fucking Senate Majority Leader Mitch Fucking McConnell when he banned Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking in the U.S. Senate re: Jeff Sessions when she dared read the words of Corretta Scott King.

Feb 7, 2017

May we all fucking persist when shitbirds like these 49 cowards silence women for speaking out against racism, when our elected officials shrink at the words of a woman like Coretta Scott King.

Watch what happened: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/elizabeth-warren-mitch-mcconnell/

Read King’s letter from 1986 re: Sessions: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259988-Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed.html

(via she-kicks-she-throws)

npr: “The words were those of Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But they resulted in a rarely invoked Senate rule being used to formally silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. On the Senate floor Tuesday, Warren began...

npr:

The words were those of Coretta Scott King, widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

But they resulted in a rarely invoked Senate rule being used to formally silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

On the Senate floor Tuesday, Warren began reading from a letter Scott King wrote in 1986 objecting to President Reagan’s ultimately unsuccessful nomination of then-U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions to a federal district court seat.

Now-Sen. Sessions, R-Ala., is President Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general. Warren was speaking in the debate leading up to Sessions’ likely confirmation by the Senate Wednesday.

Republicans Vote To Silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren In Confirmation Debate

Photo: Pete Marovic/Bloomberg via Getty Images

danieljlayton:

jacobtrueman:

stachionalgeographic:

micdotcom:

Watch: Warren’s got a great response for Trump’s desire to win over Bernie Sanders supporters.

She’s seriously an angel.

I love Elizabeth Warren.

She is a beast and I adore her. Also, what she’s saying and the WAY she says it throughout this interview is so important to listen to. The arguments on the Democratic side are about how best to make progress, the most assured way forward. The goals are the same and the distinction between methods is a matter of degrees.

And, of course, the key point that each Democratic candidate, even on their worst day, is 10000% better than the alternative.