Mavis Amundson

I went to the Senate floor to make the case for the resolution I lead with Senator Kaine to overturn the punishing Canadian tariffs. No way to treat an ally 🇨🇦 and no way to treat the American people.

It passed the Senate! The House needs to come back and act.

Oh joy! Pete Hegseth proudly announces the extrajudicial execution of four people on board a boat somewhere in the Pacific that he insists had drugs on board. It's a war crime. And Hegseth is very proud to be a war criminal.

Is this true? Bessent at Kennedy School?

Coffee.

Many thanks Rep. Smith for speaking out on this important issue.

The Republican goal in this government shutdown is to inflict the maximum amount of pain possible on the American people.

Democrats want to help the American people by providing food assistance, health care, and federal pay checks.

Supreme Court seems unsure how to proceed in case about whether Trump can deploy National Guard in Illinois. Asks for additional briefing:

Extremely authoritarian images, even uses Coldplay to drive home the message.

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

It’s hilarious how world leaders make so clear that they think Trump is an idiot and easily manipulated and he doesn’t realize it at all.

“Here little boy is the largest cookie in the whole world, made out of rare unicorns and dinosaurs.”

President Trump acknowledged Wednesday that the Constitution makes him ineligible for election to a third term.
https://wapo.st/4hD0vwA

Yes, the Trump Hotel was such a shabby deal. It may have been the first time a US president got sued because of the Emoluments Clause, but Trump didn't learn a lesson from the experience. He operates outside of the law.

If we were a serious country, it all would have ended immediately in 2017 with the open monetization of the presidency for his personal/family benefit at his hotel three blocks from the White House. But we didn't, because we're not, so here we are:

has anybody seen Jake Tapper. perhaps he was kidnapped by aliens

Miraculously, now that Joe Biden is no longer in the White House, we will soon discover that people care not only about inflation, but also about jobs & unemployment:

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This is good, but when people talk about this I want to emphasize: we have not run out of money for SNAP. The money is there, it has been allotted and saved specifically for this instance. Trump refuses to release the billions of dollars that Americans have already allotted to continue food stamps!

Just a reminder …

Congress has an important warmaking role. Mike Johnson is abdicating his constitutional responsibility to investigate this and help determine whether we should be heading to war.

He is so obviously mad and unfit it's just incredible there isn't a national conversation about his need to step down.

They’ve already raised $86k!! 🙌

If other businesses follow suit, and this spreads, it would be send a powerful message about where the *People’s* hearts lie.❤️

Trump on sending troops into American cities: “If I want to enact a certain act, I’m allowed to do it…And I’d be allowed to do whatever I want…And the courts wouldn’t get involved. Nobody would get involved. And I can send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines.”

When Will Bunch writes, I read.

It’s almost as if we are being run by a giant well funded international multigenerational pedophile ring

The Hunger Games Begin 40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

Remember when Paul Krugman’s columns were soooo wonky.

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” - Paul Krugman

Warren: So now Trump wants to give Argentina $40 billion.

He talked about how tough things are for the people in Argentina and how hard they’re fighting for their economic survival.

Look around America. Look at all the farmers sitting on soybeans they’ve got no buyer for now.

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US.

And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.

Davids: I’ve heard some of my Republican colleagues encourage Donald Trump to be transparent about this idea of importing beef from Argentina. I’ll just say this — we don’t need transparency to know this policy is garbage. We need to be supporting American ranchers, farmers, and this ain’t it.

Something unexpected happened at the @meidascanada.ca town hall in Victoria.
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com