Andrew Scott Waugh

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

We are governed by idiots

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office AG Mayes Demands Speaker Johnson Swear In Adelita Grijalva | The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.

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For the Epstein-th time, Oversight Dems are demanding no pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. Release the files!

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups The effort would install at the agency’s criminal unit an ally of President Trump who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

After weaponizing the Justice Department to go after his enemies, Trump now plans to turn the IRS on them as well. This is one of the abuses of power cited in the July 1974 articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon.

Each event a dire violation of Constitutional rights. Where is the good faith in our government?

Evil clowns.

lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.”

For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution.

Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.

time will tell if letting a bunch of jackoff 24 year olds download all the data the government has about its own employees to their personal computers in march 2025

LF Congress?

This. Said. It. All. ⬇️⬇️

Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.

Yes! Focus constantly on the illegality!

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

The establishment will irritate you to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor. -John Lennon

Hm. Are we already at war with Venezuela or is that only imminent? What’s the over/under here?

Dear Normies: Time to Stand Up - Truthdig For people who’ve never been to a protest in their lives, Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ rally is a good place to start.

Like a lot of us here, the Lock 'Em Up-est comments I see on social media are coming from, well, extremely normal people. So I wanted to explain how extremely helpful it would be this weekend if they scared the shit out of everyone driving them nuts.

Unfortunately these dudes make women want to close up shop permanently

oh we're gonna *lose* lose the next big war

Republicans’ near-permanent House majority, however, is not inevitable—even if SCOTUS does deliver a death blow to minority voting rights. That’s because the court’s decision would also allow blue states to draw more efficient Democratic gerrymanders, redrawing current majority-minority districts to maximize the party’s electoral advantage. Freed from the VRA’s constraints, states like New York, New Jersey, and Illinois could move more Democratic voters out of deep-blue districts into red and purple districts, eliminating more than a dozen Republican seats in the House. Such a strategy would require painful trade-offs: Congress could become even less diverse, since racial minorities in blue states would have fewer opportunities to elect the representatives of their choice. And the number of truly competitive House elections would shrink even more, further eroding democratic accountability. The net effect, though, would be a substantial boost for the Democratic Party that could offset many of the gains that Republicans are poised to reap. The result may not be a Republican-dominated House so much as a Congress with far fewer members of color—an outcome that the justices bent on destroying the Voting Rights Act blithely dismissed on Wednesday.

The flip side of Callais: Blue states may soon be compelled to "unpack" their majority-minority districts drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

That could net 12+ House seats for Dems if they're ruthless enough.

But at the very real cost of congressional diversity. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Exactly. All of this is illegal and all citizens should be deeply offended.

We often say Congress has the power of the purse, a framing coming from the Federalist Papers. But to be technical, it is federal law that has the power of the purse. Appropriations bills are laws! Rather than a fight between branches, it's better to think of this as a question of the rule of law.

You rarely get to see an actual photograph of the First Amendment being neutered.

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Lol. Party ballot labels in NY are confusing to many.

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.