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a girl with a unicorn on her head is kneeling in front of a christmas tree with the words " so many awesome things " below her ALT: a girl with a unicorn on her head is kneeling in front of a christmas tree with the words " so many awesome things " below her

Can you imagine the possible toppings?!

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."

Q: Speaker Johnson is calling on the Senate to make revisions to this bill because he says it's doesn't adequately protect survivors


MASSIE: That's been a red herring all along. The survivors have always been in favor of this legislation. He's trying to save face.

Thank you Jamie Raskin!!
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Thou Shalt Not Call Women “Piggy" Can God get a frigging amen?

THOU SHALT NOT CALL WOMEN ‘PIGGY’!

Never. Not once. Not even in a dream. Every decent human being knows this.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

Pay attention to how Mike Johnson is trying to shift the narrative today - he’s saying some Epstein files can’t be released because they’re intelligence products and would harm national security.

Master at gaslighting

World Without Exploitation presents the latest PSA with victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Join our movement and help us fight for a world where no person is bought, sold, or exploited. #psa #epstein #files #trump #usa

Prosecuting Comey Today, in Alexandria, Virginia, a senior federal judge from South Carolina, Cameron Currie, heard oral argument on consolidated motions filed by former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney Gen...

“This is all about standing up to the bully. Americans didn’t sign up for rule by the rich…It couldn’t be any more important to understand what’s going on here.”
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

This right here.

Thank you, Senator, for standing strong for Colorado!

Coloradans thank you, Senator!

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

“We don’t have illegal aliens. The legal term for my people was slaves! The last thing that I'm going to do is accept the type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.”
~Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

Major props to the mayor for correcting their racist & dehumanizing language!

#Chicago

“The legal term for my people was ‘slaves.’”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson rejects the term “illegal aliens” for immigrants.

Video by Jake Sheridan, reporter for the Chicago Tribune, from Suzie Rizzio via X (@Suzierizzo1)

Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, delivered a delicious #CupOfJoe. “This isn’t a sci-fi show. These are human beings. We will not abandon our humanity to score cheap political points.”

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.
 
During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Trump is threatening to withhold back pay for federal workers furloughed during the shutdown — which goes against a law he signed in 2019, by the way.

This should come as no surprise: Trump and his businesses have been accused of stiffing hundreds of their own workers out of pay over the years.