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YouTube video by MSNBC 'Republicans are AWOL': Top Dem. slams GOP absence during shutdown

"Republicans are AWOL”: @welch.senate.gov joins The Weeknight to break down the government shutdown and what’s at stake as the Capitol Hill standoff deepens.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDYQ...

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Fuck Pam Bondi Pedophile-Protector Pam and the Pageant of Performed Offense.

Jo Jo pulls no punches...

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

The facts.

Good question Sen. Warren. Can you pin him down on that?

Priorities.

Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Swear her in.

Meltdown on "Truth" Social in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

Just like when Chump said The Epstein Files were a Democratic
Hoax.......

Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone. Civil War has been canceled because the shooter is a straight white Mormon kid from Utah.

I spoke at the Federal Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in Minneapolis to highlight the important work of attorneys and judges across our nation. Their work is vital to upholding the rule of law, strengthening our justice system, and protecting our democracy.

Read every word of this.

Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court.

This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.

#ANewHope 🙏

Priorities.