Eric Swalwell to Jim Jordan: How dumb do you think the American people are that you would seek to hold someone in contempt when you are 608 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes, and 47 seconds out of compliance of your own subpoena?
@Acyn
🚨NEW: A Florida death row inmate and convicted killer used his last words before he was executed to insult Governor Ron DeSantis, saying the Republican politician has "done a lot worse" than he has in life:
"I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up," Dillbeck…
Mitch McConnell is the reason why the United States hasn't passed a renewed Voting Rights Act. He is the reason why the United States hasn't passed democracy reform. He is the reason why Donald Trump is still able to run for office (he had the opportunity to end this nightmare…
Newly elected freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY) makes White power gesture as he casts his vote for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.
*Reuters Photo by Evelyn Hockstein
@evelynpix
Congressman John Rose (R-TN) pictured with his then fiancée (now wife) in 2011.
She was a college junior, he was 46.
They met at a Future Farmers of America convention event while she was still in high school.
Rose later accused Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of being…
🚨CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn.
@RawStory
Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from Republicans who argue that such measures will “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and incomes.
A study by LSE* says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich. (2021)
NEW: The two Democratic state representatives in TN who were expelled by Republicans over gun violence protests won their primary races for their old seats Thursday night.
Justin Jones won in Nashville, and Justin J. Pearson won in Memphis.
@NBCNews
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In a carefully worded, but blunt statement, conservative former federal judge J. Michael Luttig called on SCOTUS to enact a code of conduct that would “subject itself to the highest ethical standards that would render the Court beyond reproach.”
A new documentary about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests the following:
1. Kananaugh had other alleged victims.
2. His team knew about these allegations and poisoned the media landscape with narratives undermining his accusers.
@NBCNews
🚨After the PGA Tour shocked the world by announcing it would be joining a for-profit venture with its heretofore hated rival—the Saudi-backed LIV Golf—a Congressional bill has been introduced to strip the tour of its tax-exempt status.
@YahooNews
Florida death row inmate and convicted killer Donald Dillbeck used his final words on Earth to blast Governor Ron DeSantis, saying the Republican politician had “done a lot worse" than him.
"I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up," Dillbeck said, “But I know…
Bob Costas on Trump: "He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history.
You have to be in a toxic cult to believe that Trump has ever been emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or ethically fit to be POTUS." *
🚨CA Gov. Newsom previews Disneyland expansion with CEO Bob Iger:
The DisneylandForward initiative may create more than 4k construction and 2k operations jobs. The study also says $20M of annual tax revenue would go directly to the State of CA.
@CBSNews
🚨By deciding to entertain Donald Trump’s appeal and shelving the arguments till April, the U.S. Supreme Court has blatantly thrown its lot in with political maneuvering to favor Trump. The appellate court’s logic, unassailable, is now overshadowed by the Supreme Court’s apparent…
NEW: A bipartisan bill set to be unveiled Thursday by Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., would block members of Congress from getting paid if the U.S. enters debt default or if the government shuts down.
@NBCNews
Former U.S. Senator Harry Reid’s (D-NV) letter to former FBI Director James Comey:
“…You possess explosive information about close ties between Donald Trump and the Russian government…”
- October 30, 2016.
Mitch McConnell is the reason why the United States hasn't passed a renewed Voting Rights Act. He is the reason why the United States hasn't passed democracy reform. He is the reason why Donald Trump is still able to run for office (he had the opportunity to end this nightmare…
House Speaker Mike Johnson accepted campaign funds from a company owned by Russians. One owner, Konstantin Nikolaev, supported Maria Butina, a Russian convicted for acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from Republicans who argue that such measures will “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and incomes. A study by LSE* says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich. (2021)
Former conservative Chief Justice of SCOTUS, Warren Burger:
The 2nd Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime".
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) is set to propose universal free preschool and community college for all high school graduates in the state. This ambitious plan, aims to boost educational attainment and attract more residents to Michigan
NEW: Lindsey Graham used $350,000 of campaign money to pay Jones Day, the law firm that unsuccessfully tried to get him out of testifying about attempts to overthrow the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.
@Forbes
🚨NEW: Newly elected Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles (R) allegedly invented his entire past and resume.
He allegedly lied about:
1. Being an economist
2. His college major
3. The nature of his work at a think tank
4. Being in law enforcement
5. Being …
NEW: “We need to talk about changing rules that Republicans have learned to exploit. We can’t continue in a world where one senator puts our entire national defense at risk because he doesn’t like one policy.”
– Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
🚨NEW: Governor Ron DeSantis’ lawyers were forced by the court to define “woke.” The lead lawyer described it as “The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
NEW: Last year, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a law making it legal for anyone in Texas over the age of 21 to openly carry a gun in public without a permit or license.
Since then, the number of mass shootings has risen 62.5 percent.
@ReformAustin
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🚨 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has vetoed more than $3M in flood control for counties historically known for supporting Democrats over Republicans.
Which counties? Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties, or 28% of Florida’s population.
🚨BREAKING: Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch. (via ABC News)
A Missouri judge ruled that staff in the state attorney general’s office — while it was being run by Republican Josh Hawley — used private email accounts to “knowingly and purposefully” subvert the state’s open records law.
@MO_Independent
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Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says President Joe Biden is having the strongest positive effect on the economy of any U.S. president since FDR.
@MSNBC
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Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from Republicans who argue that such measures will “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and incomes.
A study by LSE* says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich. (2021)
Mitt Romney: “I will not be voting for former President Trump. I must admit that I find sexual assault to be a line I will not cross in the people I select to be my president.”
@AccountableGOP
A Missouri judge ruled that staff in the state attorney general’s office — while it was being run by Republican Josh Hawley — used private email accounts to “knowingly and purposefully” subvert the state’s open records law.
CBS News: You talk about the sanctity of life. Your state has one of the highest maternal mortality rates. Why don't you want those moms to get care for a full 12 months instead of just 60 days?
Sanders: I disagree with the premise of your question...
Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld says President Joe Biden is having the strongest positive effect on the economy of any U.S. president since FDR.
@MSNBC
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New Hampshire voter: "I voted for Nikki Haley, because that was voting against Donald Trump. I am 74 years old, I lived in a constitutional democracy all my life. I want to remain that way, I want my grandchildren to grow up in one, not a dictatorship."
1. In an interview with
@NicolleDWallace
, former CIA Officer
@tracy_walder
expressed concern that the documents unlawfully retained by former President Donald Trump could be linked to the deaths of CIA informants overseas.
What caused her concern? The known timeline. 1/10
There is more than enough public information to confidently assess Governor Ron Desantis's character, intentions, and his approach to governance.
The press is treating him like an ordinary candidate, when he is anything but.
DeSantis is a small, thin-skinned demagogue who has…
CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn.
Congressman John Rose (R-TN) pictured with his then fiancée (now wife) in 2011.
She was a college junior, he was 46. They met at a Future Farmers of America convention event while she was still in high school.
Rose later accused Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of being soft on…
NEW: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the House GOP conference chairwoman, is urging people to donate to the “Official Trump Defense Fund,” but virtually all of that money would go to her campaign.
@HuffPost
Hannity: “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some boxes we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’”
Trump: “I would do that..I have the right to take stuff! You know they ended up paying Nixon $18 million for what he had.”
Witness: “In 2022 … every single politically motivated murder was committed by a rightwing extremist.
MTG: “Are you sure about that?”
Witness: “I am.”
MTG: “The TN shooter ... was she a right-wing extremist?”
Witness: “That happened in 2023.” (2023)
Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from Republicans who argue that such measures will “trickle down” and eventually boost jobs and incomes.
A study by LSE* says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich. (2021)
Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) is angry that George Stephanopoulos asked her how she could support a rapist for president who supports the culture of silence, when she is a rape survivor who has spoken out against the culture of silence.
Unable to adequately respond to the…
A new documentary about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests the following:
1. Kananaugh had other alleged victims.
2. His team knew about these allegations and poisoned the media landscape with narratives undermining his accusers.
@NBCNews
…
Congressman John Rose (R-TN) pictured with his then fiancée (now wife) in 2011.
She was a college junior, he was 46.
They met at a Future Farmers of America convention event while she was still in high school.
Rose later accused Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of…
"We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator ...we take an oath to the Constitution ... and we're willing to die to protect it".
@AndrewFeinberg
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- Mark Milley (2023)
Conservative former federal
@judgeluttig
sent a warning shot to SCOTUS, calling on the Court to enact a code of conduct that would “subject itself to the highest professional and ethical standards that would render the Court beyond reproach.”
Lindsey Graham used $350,000 of campaign money to pay Jones Day, the law firm that unsuccessfully tried to get him out of testifying about attempts to overthrow the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.
@Forbes
Justice Samuel Alito’s wife leased land to an oil and gas firm as her husband heard cases involving the fossil fuel industry.
In May, Alito penned the majority decision for Sackett v. EPA, a decision which drastically scaled back the Clean Water Act.
An analysis shows Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have received more than $450,000 from the same GOP megadonor who has lavished Justice Clarence Thomas with undisclosed gifts.
@commondreams
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The FEC received a complaint on Tuesday against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), accusing the 2024 GOP presidential hopeful of illegally moving $80M from a state PAC to a super PAC backing his presidential run.
@RawStory
NEW: Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors.
*(Published on June 11, 2022)
NEW: Lindsey Graham used $350,000 of campaign money to pay Jones Day, the law firm that unsuccessfully tried to get him out of testifying about attempts to overthrow the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.
@Forbes
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― The Great Gatsby (1925)
CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn.
@RawStory
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