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Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
The Old Guard stands watch through freezing rain, sleet, and blistering heat to honor America's unidentified fallen. Pete Hegseth couldn't even manage five minutes of the same discipline and respect.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
The same people telling us not to make waves over Schumer and Jeffries are the same people who told us not to make waves over Garland -- and look what keeping silent got us.
MAKE WAVES.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
An IDF statement issued yesterday stated a 14 year old boy was shot dead in the West Bank on Monday, because he planned to throw stones at them. Not threw stones, PLANNED, to throw stones.
This is Zionism.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
Literally all it would take is the progressive caucus deciding not to support Jeffries. If they don't support him, he doesn't succeed. So don't give me any of this "it's inevitable" nonsense. It's only inevitable if progressives decide to make it happen.
⭕️ It would take just ~43 House Democrats to keep Hakeem Jeffries from becoming speaker. The Congressional Progressive Caucus alone expects more than 100 members in January.
🔹Its chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), co-sponsored Rep. Rashida Tlaib's November 2025 resolution "recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza." Now he says he expects to "deliver the votes" for Jeffries. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another co-sponsor, told MS NOW on Monday that Jeffries will have the caucus's unanimous support, calling his expected rise a "pretty historic moment." In all, 22 House Democrats backed the genocide resolution and well over 40 have described Israel’s actions as genocide.
🔹Jeffries has been one of the strongest supporters of Israel’s military response in Gaza. He opposed a July bid to cut off US military aid to Israel, saying it would "restrict our country's ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the region." His promised "reset" wouldn't touch aid until the current 10-year deal expires in 2028.
🔹The math: Speaker needs 218 votes cast for a person by name on Jan 3, 2027. With roughly 260 Democrats, if 43 commit to naming someone else and every Republican votes against Jeffries, he falls short.
🔹It's been done before. In January 2023, about 20 Republicans withheld their votes from Rep. Kevin McCarthy through 15 rounds of voting. He won only after major concessions, including a rule letting any single member force a vote to remove the speaker, which Rep. Matt Gaetz used to oust him nine months later.
🔗 Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another co-sponsor of the genocide resolution who backs Jeffries, whether progressives could use that kind of leverage.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
This is the fourth winter Palestinians in Gaza will spend in tents while Israel blocks aid.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
I jumped out of airplanes for a living. I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I won’t be intimidated by a corrupt White House and its bootlicking lawyers.
.@NewsHour has obtained this letter from White House counsel Will Scharf sent to likely incoming Oversight Chairman Robert Garcia. Scharf writes that congressional oversight must “further a legitimate legislative task.” And accuses Democrats of “abusive and capricious threats”
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
Let me be clear: I will never take a penny from AIPAC or Super PACs that don’t put Mississippi and America first.
This Senate seat belongs to the people of Mississippi. That’s who I’ll answer to.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
Hakeem Jeffries needs to not be doing interviews so smugly and acting as if what happened on Tuesday was because we are just so in love with him! I’m telling you, the more he talks, the louder the calls are going to get, and it has nothing to do with his skin color; it’s his tone and his repeated flippant attitude towards what the American people want vs. what the system wants!
And the biggest elephant in the room was what was done to Angie Nixon in FL, Corey Bush, and others, and those are skinfolk! So I don’t want to hear people are attacking him because he’s black. It’s happening because where there’s smoke, there’s fire!
WATCH — @RepJeffries: “There’s no indication members of Congress have been overwhelmed by any calls.”
(This gaslighting seems to contradict what @axios @AndrewSolender have reported, and the million+ signatures on a petition for new leadership @MarkRuffalo helped circulate)
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
.@hakeemjeffries can get the required votes for himself - in fact guarantee it - but can't deliver the votes necessary to impeach Pete Hegseth.
And Democrats are okay with that?
If you are, you will be giving up the single greatest opportunity Democrats have had for YEARS.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
Israel has just bombed Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killing at least five people, including surgeon Dr. Rezeq Abu Sha’ira.
Yes, the same hospital. The same Israel that carried out a double-tap airstrike there on August 25, 2025, killing journalists, rescue workers, and emergency personnel responding to the first strike.
As the video shows, the missile used in the attack punched through at least two concrete floors.
Same hospital. Same fucking Israel. Same fucking world watching it happen again.
Nothing new to report here.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
Could the @hakeemjeffries supporters out there just explain to me how yesterday he already knew and smiled that he had the votes to be named Speaker of The House
But today...
He somehow did not know 11 Democrats in the House would not show up to vote to impeach @secwar Hegseth?
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
The Democrat Caucus this morning is shook folks….. they honestly thought we’d check out after Tuesday and they could go back to business as usual!
Keep holding them accountable and stay engaged, read every bill and do not accept any form of gaslighting! Keep track of any democrat that even looks like they want to play footsie with the right!
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
"Just case you haven’t already noticed: Current ocean conditions along the California coast are presently just about as far from typical as one could possibly imagine. Water temperatures within about 20-30 miles of shore have reached exceptional, extraordinary, astonishing (running out of superlatives here) levels in recent days, and are now running more than 10°F warmer than average in a contiguous, unbroken region from Punta Eugenia in central Baja California northward to the Sonoma County coast (with “lesser” 5-8 degree anomalies continuing all the way up to the Oregon border). These values are unquestionably record-breaking, and have over the past week progressed even farther beyond that to become “record-shattering” in many areas: Not only are current ocean temperatures the warmest on record for the calendar date along the entire California coast (except for a small area near Crescent City), but they have now reached levels that would be record-breaking for any cool-season (Nov 1-Apr 30) week in the entire period of record (which begins with the satellite era in 1981) all the way from Newport Beach northward to Eureka. Never in our lifetimes has the water been this warm, this late in the season, along the California coast–and in many cases by a considerable margin."
-Daniel Swain
New Weather West post out now: "Sudden shift to active, stormy pattern in California during second half of November; extreme El Niño plus climate change now causing record-shattering near-coastal ocean warmth"
weatherwest.com/archives/441…
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
I honestly thought I had seen it all when it came to Gaza. But humanoid robots, backed by Eric Trump, being lined up for deployment in Gaza? Wtaf!!!
Imagine being Palestinian and watching the world find increasingly disturbing ways to experiment on ur existence.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
A message for war criminal Pete Hegseth. Tick tock. Get ready asshole because we're comin'.
Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦 retweeted
Nobody knew who Don Leonard was two days ago. Now everybody is talking about him. That’s how quickly you can make a name for yourself with a tiny bit of courage and shows how starved people are for just a little communication and honesty from their representatives.