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Liberal Democrat. Interested in all things politics & pop culture. I'm limited in how many I can follow; don't be offended if I don't return the follow (yet).

Philadelphia, PA
Joined March 2013
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Michael Porter retweeted
I heard you can get sued for that.
Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes edited its latest interview with Donald Trump to make the octogenarian’s responses appear much more sane than they actually were. mrf.lu/2YYdT
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You asked us to show up and vote. We expect the same courtesy.
Pete Hegseth is unfit and unqualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. House Republicans just chose to protect him over American servicemembers.
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This is huge. A sitting member of Congress is now saying, on the record, that Epstein’s entire trafficking operation depended on billionaire money — and that Les Wexner was central to it. No island. No planes. No network. No trafficking — without elite financing. Follow the money. Expose the cover-up. No more protection for billionaires.
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Paxton famously did this with a much more substantive issue: he refused to defend the Texas Ethics Commission, which was seeking to hold his donors accountable, in court.
Texas’s Supreme Court brief raises a serious concern: the incoming AG has said he won’t defend the Ten Commandments law. Texans deserve an attorney general who will vigorously defend their laws—even when he disagrees with them. The office is a public trust, not a personal veto.
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The fact that a felonious madman who incited an attack on our Capitol could turn around a few years later and desecrate the White House like this, will forever be one of the most shameful stains this nation has ever known.
Wow the Whitehouse Ball room is….quite something. To put it mildly
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Michael Porter retweeted
Democrat Cindy Holscher is now leading Ty Masterson by 7,564 votes for Kansas governor. It’s time for this race to be called and Masterson to concede.
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I think we’ve found an explanation for how the trump regime “lost” $31.5 billion in aircraft parts. Connect the goddamn dots.
NEW: Jared Kushner's firm just disclosed a $31.8 million stake in an F-35 parts supplier. It left the stake off its original filing in August.
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Truly.
Sure, house Dems will have 259 seats in January instead of current 213. And Hegseth impeachment can be reintroduced. But Hakeem having 11 Dem absences today on Hegseth (thus losing vote) reveals a Hakeem leadership problem. Embarrassing.
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Lauren Boebert did a lot of terrible things as a member of Congress but at the top of that list is throwing away a pin honoring a victim of the Uvalde, school shooting seconds after she got it.
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Michael Porter retweeted
What an embarrassment. None of these lackeys is fit for a lifetime judicial appointment. Actually, none should be allowed to practice law.
JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term? Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…” Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term. Silence. Every single one of them refused to say it. Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face. Never stop connecting the dots.
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It’s a white supremacist militia at this point and needs to be torn down and abolished. There is no ‘reforming’ this.
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One staffer told me their office was so swamped with calls the member had to field some of them. Here's what another person sent me:
Hakeem Jeffries on whether the petition against him being Speaker has actually converted into phone calls pressuring members of Congress “There’s no indication that members of Congress have been overwhelmed by any calls…”
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Michael Porter retweeted
MAGA: "Abdul El-Sayed better not force his religious beliefs on us." ALSO MAGA: "We want the 10 Commandments placed in every school and government/State building." And THAT is why MAGA are the dumbest motherfuckers on this planet.
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A USF professor and nurse from Nigeria has been in ICE custody for 2 months. She no longer appears in the database but might be in Louisiana. She had a protection from removal order/no record. This is inhumane we must get these people out of detention. abc10.com/article/news/polit…
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This guy is fucking awesome
We gotta stop throwing America’s sons and daughters into the damn meat grinder of war just so Raytheon and the military industrial complex can make a shiny penny.
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Michael Porter retweeted
He cannot grasp anything not about him
Trump giving a campaign speech at Arlington right now. Totally normal
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I gotta say — and it's a tough contest — but if there is one cabinet official in this administration that's maximally guilty of dirty-deeds-done-cheap for China and Russia, my money's on Howard Lutnick. He's been at it for decades.
“Sources told Axios that Lutnick has spent the last year "undoing" efforts by other administration officials to hold Megaspeed — a company accused of illegally diverting U.S. chips to China — accountable because of concerns it would escalate the trade war with China.”
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"Come at me, bro" -- Rep. Stephen Lynch on the White House counsel threatening to go after Democrats like him that investigate the Trump administration
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Wow
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Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to “vote their conscience,” and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up. This is why people want a stronger leader.
These Democrats were recorded as “Not Voting.” Had all 11 voted no, it would have failed 211–215, and the House would have moved toward a vote on impeachment itself. Brownley — California Correa — California Gillen — New York Horsford — Nevada Jackson — Illinois Pelosi — California Pettersen — Colorado Stansbury — New Mexico Stevens — Michigan Strickland — Washington Wilson — Florida *I understand Correa is having health challenges.
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