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Originally posted by tanner:
Where’s all the activist support that went after Kavanaugh?
Where is Christine Blasey Ford supporting the allegations?
Where’s the impartial investigation?

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Originally posted by synthplayer:

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Originally posted by az4783054:
OAN reported yesterday that the DCPD has quietly and quickly made the sexual assault case go from active to inactive. When asked why, the asst. DCPD PIO would not provide an explanation.

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Prominent Bernie Sanders Supporters Are Calling On Joe Biden To Drop Out Of The 2020 Race Over Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation
Eliza Relman, Buisness Insider, 4/29/2020

Just days after Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his 2020 Democratic presidential bid, he appeared on an April 13 livestream with former Vice President Joe Biden and issued a strong endorsement of the presumptive nominee. This took place just weeks after Tara Reade, a former aide in Biden's Senate office in the early 1990s, came forward with new allegations that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill corridor in 1993. Reade was one of seven women who came forward last year to allege that Biden had touched or kissed them inappropriately.

Biden's campaign has repeatedly denied Reade's assault claims. But as new evidence has emerged corroborating Reade's allegations, several prominent Sanders supporters and former aides have broken with Sanders and called for Biden to drop out of the 2020 race (sic).

Claire Sandberg, Sanders' 2020 national organizing director, on Tuesday called on Biden to drop out of the 2020 race. "Now is the time to deal with the ramifications of Tara Reade's accusations, not this fall. There is simply no moral justification for Biden to continue as the presumptive nominee," she tweeted. "Out of respect for survivors and for the good of the country, he should withdraw from the race."

Peter Daou, a Hillary Clinton aide-turned vocal Sanders supporter, called on Biden over the weekend to end his presidential bid because Reade's allegations and said Sanders and other candidates should reenter the race. "We lose ALL moral authority if we embrace "the lesser of two accused rapists,"" he wrote.

Nick Brana, Sanders' 2016 national outreach director and the founder of Movement for a People's Party, urged the Democratic National Committee over the weekend to force Biden out of the race and "win with Bernie," adding the hashtag #DropOutBiden. "Dear @DNC, you have two options: 1. Pull Biden now and win with Bernie. 2. Keep Biden, re-elect Trump, and admit that suppressing progressives is the true purpose of your party," he wrote, retweeting a Saturday Politico story examining a recording of Reade's mother alleging her daughter had "problems" with a "prominent senator."

The @PeopleforBernie Twitter account run by Sanders supporters tweeted on Tuesday, "Joe Biden's candidacy is imploding."

Briahna Joy Gray, Sanders' 2020 campaign spokeswoman, on Tuesday argued that it's "not a moral argument" to support Biden simply because he's a better option than Trump. Sanders publicly distanced himself from Gray after she declared earlier this month that she wouldn't endorse Biden for president, citing his opposition to Medicare for All, cancelling all student debt, and a wealth tax. "She is my former press secretary - not on the payroll," Sanders told the Associated Press on April 14. Sanders added that it's "irresponsible" to reject Biden in the general election.

Other high-profile Sanders supporters and former aides have been more compromising in their approach to Biden's candidacy. Former senior Sanders advisers, including Sanders' 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver, recently announced they're forming a super PAC with the aim of unifying progressives behind Biden. Sanders, who has long opposed the existence of super PACs, hasn't endorsed the effort.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, perhaps Sanders' most influential 2020 supporter and surrogate, says she wants to see Biden move to the left on key policy issues before she endorses or campaigns for him, but she insisted she would vote for him regardless in November. Ocasio-Cortez was one of the first lawmakers to offer support for Reade and urge other Democrats to take her claims seriously. "I think it's legitimate to talk about these things," she said in mid-April of Reade's allegations. "You can't say, you know - both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you, until it inconveniences us."

Some prominent feminist voices on the left have also accused Democratic politicians and other more moderate feminists of prematurely dismissing Reade's claims and sowing doubt on her credibility. They've expressed anger at being forced to support Biden as the lesser of two evils. And they've lamented that the #MeToo movement will be damaged by electing the Democratic nominee to the White House and that Biden's feminist critics will be demonized for hurting his candidacy. "I am livid that Democratic women will be called on, once again, to cast our vote in the name of reducing harm to the country rather than moving it forward," Jessica Valenti, a feminist author and columnist, wrote in an April 14 Medium post. "The truth is that this election is going to be terrible for women, no matter what we do."

Rebecca Traister, another well-known feminist writer, argued that the women Biden plans to pick as his vice presidential running mate, appoint to the Supreme Court, and fill his Cabinet will be tarred by the allegations against him and should be given the freedom to criticize his record. "If part of the work of this election is pushing for a politics that is more just, we should be insisting on freedom for women - including those who will be asked to support Joe Biden, within his party and as his running mate - to fully express themselves about the gendered and political realities in front of us, Traister wrote in New York Magazine this week.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Lacy Clay is a pretty funny guy. He's a reliable Democrat but he's a decent guy and will work with his Republican colleagues when he can.

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Twitter's Demand To Fire Chris Hayes Goes Against The Entire #MeToo Movement
Britni de la Cretaz, Refinery29, 4/30/2020

(Excerpt) On Thursday, Twitter users demanded that MSNBC #FireChrisHayes, so much so, that the hashtag began trending. The tweets are coming from both right-wing media (Really? IC) and Democratic constituents who are all upset that the host of All In With Chris Hayes covered sexual assault allegations against the presumed Democratic candidate for president on his show. The trending topic is highlighting the inflammatory discourse that has bubbled up around the allegations against Joe Biden by a former staffer, Tara Reade.

On Wednsday night, Hayes dedicated a segment of his show to discussing Reade's allegations. "There have been moments...for all of us when we have heard about accusations against someone that we find ourselves desperately wanting not to believe," Hayes said to open the segment. He continued on in describing difficulties when accusations are against someone for whom we have "political admiration - someone on our 'side'".

"But part of that difficult lesson of the Me Too era is not that every accusation is true and everything should be believed on its face, but that you do have to fight yourself when you feel that impulse," Hayes said. "You have to do that in order to take seriously what is being alleged and what the evidence is and to evaluate it." As a result of those statements, Twitter began to speculate everything (sic) from Haye's motives on air to whether he was a "Russian agent".

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