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I report on Congress, the Trump administration and now authoritarianism for HuffPost. Tips: jen.bendery@huffpost.com / jbendery@proton.me Signal: jbendery.41

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Marjorie Taylor Greene To Resign From Congress The surprising news comes amid a public feud with President Donald Trump.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress, effective Jan. 5, 2026 www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

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Spotted on Capitol Hill πŸ˜‚

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Welcome to the resistance Norse death metal

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Elon appears to have trained Grok to say he would win at everything

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene.

This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.

"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."

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WATCH: "If the President is saying you should be hanged, then we shouldn't be surprised when folks on the ground are going to follow suit and say even worse," says Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Trump amplifying calls to hang six Democratic lawmakers.

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Now THAT is Trump derangement syndrome.

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RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language.

Cassidy in February: β€œIf confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”

Note the language in second photo.

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Death Metal-Style Protest Erupts Outside Of Heritage Foundation

How could I not write this up www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Seems like this is winding down. But a pink frog has arrived.

"No pizza for Nazis!"

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There's a Handmaid out here blowing a whistle, someone with an Anonymous mask on, at least one veteran, and this hardcore dude. Fuck yeah DC.

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This guy is like Henry Rollins out here, screaming about all things dark

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It's freezing out here. This woman is dancing to the screaming anyway.

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One attendee, an Air Force veteran, said he's with a group called Sons of Liberty. I asked why he's out here today.

"Because 20 of us kill ourselves today."

"We go overseas and there is no enemy."

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So this is happening outside of the Heritage Foundation right now

"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"

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Jeffries went off on Johnson for not even having β€œthe decency” to push back on Trump’s call for executing Dem lawmakers.

Even John Thune β€œhad the decency” to distance himself, he said, but not Johnson. β€œHis silence speaks volumes.”

Thune said earlier "I don't agree" with executing Dems. Which, ok.

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Hakeem Jeffries says Mike Johnson is a "nice guy" but has "zero control" over House Republicans.

He brings up that Trump once said he has two titles, president and speaker of the House.

"Man, you lettin the president punk you like that? Publicly?"

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Trump's call for executing Dem lawmakers comes as he's been losing all week, I imagine he's unraveling or desperate for a distraction. Just this week:

*GOP bucked him on Epstein
*GOP rebuked him on tariff rebates
*Approval rating tanked
*Big setback in Comey indictment
*Texas gerrymander backfired

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Just a crazy, terrible moment to be reading a statement like this from six members of Congress:

β€œEvery American must unite and condemn the President’s calls for our murder and political violence."

β€œThis is a time for moral clarity.... We will continue to lead and will not be intimidated."

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The Dem lawmakers who made the video Trump is flipping out about issued a joint statement.

β€œWhat’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our servicemembers should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution."

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The White House's clean-up strategy here is just pretending Dems urged service members to defy legal orders, not illegal ones.

WH press sec: β€œTo suggest and encourage that active duty service members defy the chain of command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do."

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β€˜HANG THEM’: Trump Boosts Message Calling For Executing Democrats In Congress In a series of unhinged social media posts, he also called it β€œpunishable by DEATH” that lawmakers released a video urging military service members to disobey unlawful orders.

UPDATE: The White House press secretary responded to all this by saying Trump isn't the one inciting violence by calling for the execution of Democratic lawmakers -- it's the Democrats inciting violence.

Really. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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'HANG THEM': Trump Boosts Message Calling For Executing Democrats In Congress In a series of unhinged social media posts, he also called it β€œpunishable by DEATH” that lawmakers released a video urging military service members to disobey unlawful orders.

A bit ago on the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer said "every senator, every representative, every American―regardless of party―should condemn this immediately and without qualification."

"Because if we don’t draw a line here, then there is no line left to draw." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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In its section on punishments for service members who are "willfully disobeying superior commissioned officer," the manual also states a clear exception, on page 334:

"...does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime."

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Page 28 of the U.S. military’s 2024 manual for courts-martial:

A military order is lawful, β€œunless it is contrary to the Constitution, the laws of the United States, or lawful superior orders or for some other reason is beyond the authority of the official issuing it.”

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Contrary to Trump's dangerous tirade, U.S. military service members have a right to refuse illegal orders and even a duty to do so.

Everyone in the military swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a particular president of the United States or anyone else in the chain of command.

20.11.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I haven't seen a single Republican in Congress condemning Trump's call to hang/execute Democrats in Congress.

Any of you out there?

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In a joint statement, House Democratic leaders said they have contacted the House Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police to ensure the safety of the six Democrats and their families because of Trump's messages.

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And still another message from Trump today, saying "an example MUST BE SET" by apparently arresting and putting on trial these six Democrats in Congress for urging servicemembers to disobey unlawful orders.

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