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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 1d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

That “tariff revenue” is drying up quickly.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Scoop: White House says it has funding to save food aid program that had been threatened by the government shutdown

Scoop: White House says it has funding to save food aid program

The administration will transfer funding derived from tariff revenue to keep WIC going for "the foreseeable future."

www.axios.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

Every day Republicans are choosing to keep the government closed rather than lower your health care costs.

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like watching Manos: The Hands of Fate without Joel, Crow, and Tom riffing it. An endless Torgo walking sequence.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like we’ve been doing this forever.

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 1d

No AI
No Billionaires
No Crypto

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Murray: "If House Republicans were here, I'd make sure they understood over 3/4 of the families on the exchanges actually live in R states. And I'd make sure they understand the 10 states where families will face biggest average premium increase hikes when the ACA credits expire are all R states."

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell she knows exactly what legal liability she is under by the fact that she is reading a scripted answer and is not deviating from it. This is a witness who has been coached by counsel to avoid perjuring herself.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 1d

So, tomorrow?

Ryan Nobles @ryanobles.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Speaker Johnson pressed by Manu Raju on why he doesn’t swear in Adelita Grijalva during a pro forma session responds:

“Look, we'll schedule it. I guess as soon as she wants.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Whitehouse: "The supposed contribution made to me by some Epstein person is actually not true. It's false. So, weird when an AG of the US comes to the Judiciary Committee & makes false allegations about a senator - demonstrably false - rather than answer a simple Q: Is there a picture, or no?"

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve done it before!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

On Marjorie Taylor Greene saying they need to fix Obamacare subsidies:

““When Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying we need to pass this, you’re idiots if you’re going to go down to a loss because of Donald Trump and Mike Johnson. And covering for Pedophiles.”

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 1d

Uhhhhhhhh

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Graham: Can you tell me why my phone records were sought by the jack Smith agents. Why did they ask to know who I called and what I was doing from January 4th to the seventh? Can you tell me that?

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 1d

Close the Rogan podass!

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act.

West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 1d

Announce you’ll be deploying the Illinois National Guard to Texas.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

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Are You Being Detained @sailbarque.bsky.social · 1d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov should announce he’s send 20,000 soldiers of the Illinois National Guard to Texas to police things for them cowpokes.