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'Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no' says Judge Bennathan in the sentencing of Russell Brand.
Even though this should be common sense, it feels so moving to hear it said today
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Hegseth must be held accountable for:
1 Murdering 250 fishermen suspected of drug trafficking w/o due process
2 Murdering 160 Iranian school girls
3 Lying about how many US troops have been killed/wounded in Iran War
4 Unjustifiably firing black and/or female generals&admirals
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As a former US Capitol Police Officer, current detective, and future prosecuting attorney, I can say from my soul that this person is a stain on our national soul.
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As an immediate first step to Medicare for All, the new Democratic Congress must lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55, cover all kids & expand Medicare for dental, vision & hearing.
All of this can be passed with 51 votes in the Senate through reconciliation. Let’s do it.
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My favorite Midterms metric is that Talarico got more votes in early voting than Paxton did for the whole election.
Talarico could have received ZERO votes on Election Day and still would have won. The nation is healing, MAGA is dying.
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James Talarico understood what too many politicians still don’t.
The real fight isn’t left vs. right. It’s top vs. bottom.
Working Americans have more in common with each other than with the billionaires who benefit from keeping us divided.
Stop fighting your neighbors. Follow the money.
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Russell Vought has found a neat way to make Congress optional: hold approved money until the fiscal year ends, then pretend the calendar did the canceling. In September, OMB sought $810 million in rescissions. The GAO said the administration couldn't use that request to let the funding expire. Somehow the man who lectures everyone about constitutional government keeps misplacing Article I.
The stakes are Head Start, disaster relief, medical research, and the basic promise that laws passed by Congress mean something. Get the records. Put the officials under oath. Close the claimed loopholes. A president doesn't get a line-item veto just because his budget director knows how to wait until midnight.
Russell Vought is the most powerful Trump official most Americans have never heard of. And Democrats are coming for his power.
@crampell explains how Trump’s budget chief helped undermine Congress’s authority and why his reckoning may be coming.
lnk.thebulwark.com/4irI149?u…
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Two guys who have been illegally writing checks and illegally withholding congressionally appropriated money at the same time. Subpoena Vought and Mrs. Beasley for a joint hearing so we can watch them try to throw each other under the bus.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but if the market is wildly selling off AI stocks because of the election results then it’s safe to assume the value wasn’t in the product but in the administrations willingness to let Silicon Valley fellate each other on your dime.
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I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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You don't reach across the aisle to greet people who sold Alligator Alcatraz merchandise, you reach across the aisle to hand them a subpoena.
