SaraMurphy

I'll go with both.

A Record of Dysfunction: Congress to Break Record for Longest Shutdown in U.S. History With Republicans controlling the government, Washington edges toward a record shutdown that lays bare a crisis of competence and the costs of one-party rule.

🚨Republicans control the presidency, Congress, and a Supreme Court with six GOP appointees, yet cannot govern. As the shutdown nears a record 35 days, millions go unpaid and the government stands paralyzed.
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"When all are tired, cold, and hungry at the end of the day, it is the leader who puts aside his personal discomfort to look to the needs of his soldiers."

General George Catlett Marshall, Jr 🇺🇸
#SheShed

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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well damn, now I have to boycott Menards.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Oh.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

This seems like a salient point.

Florida seems to be the place to go if you're a pedophile or sexually abuse women! 🤔

Check his mortgage documentation!

Remember the House? There is a certain rhythm to the way in which the House of Representatives conducts its business. The House begins each year with a few weeks of voting before cutting out for an extended Easter break....

The current work stoppage in the House is really unusual for a non-midterm year. It isn't about the shutdown; the House cast votes in October 2013 despite one. And it started earlier — about when Grijalva won her election. www.pbump.net/o/remember-t...

Corporate media is in a bad place.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.

It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.

It corrupts our political system every day.

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

This was my first thought when I saw this! His number 1 priority apparently is not bringing down grocery prices! Shocking! He lied.

"nearly half..." ???

it's an open book test.

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Things like this keep happening.

ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.

It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.

Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?

Angie Craig on Trump importing beef from Argentina: "This is either corrupt or stupid, and it's probably both."

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

The people of flight 93 gave their lives to stop terrorists from destroying the White House.

I am shocked that this can be done without review and approval by Congress or at minimum a historical society. Is the WH not a historical registered building? 😢