Built US Tough

Words are fun! First Amendment enthusiast, responsive to the quagmire of the status quo. Profane, thoughtful, rarely whimsical. Read with forewarning.

[Sarah Ferris @sarahnferris]

Today, new members get to learn about the BLUE SCREEN

House votes are currently in pause because a vets bill that Dems opposed passed by voice vote because - it appears on tape - Democrats did not ask for a recorded vote

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@HomelandDems 😳 Whaat?! Audit ICE hires, IMMEDIATELY! How many human beings; How many Americans, like Good or Pretti have to be murdered in U.S. city streets? No police force would allow this!

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@RayESmithJr Congratulations! Serve well! America needs you, Dr.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

And just like that, Democrats hit 260 seats in the House.

That’s probably as high as they get unless there ends up being some sort of miracle in AK-AL.

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@cspan @David_J_Bier Man, people get tired. The Latino vote will be the defining vote for Repubs to gain the White House again in ‘28. What a hole Trump & Co. have dug for themselves.

[CSPAN @cspan]

South Texas Builders Association Vice Chair Benny Melendez to White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller: "If you want to continue harassing our communities...These same communities you're now harassing will make sure you lose the White House."

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Every Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., the sun lines up perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona.

[Mybuddysully @mybuddysully]

Patel’s drinking lawsuit blows up in his face as judge allows hunt for medical records
https://t.co/1Dja1sk40U

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"Come at me, bro" -- Rep. Stephen Lynch on the White House counsel threatening to go after Democrats like him that investigate the Trump administration

[DIN Intel Network @DININTELNETWORK]

🚨Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”

We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Another person who voted to decertify the 2020 election is gone.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 BREAKING: Democrat Raymond Smith has flipped his Trump +21 seat blue in North Carolina.

The seat has flipped blue for the first time in 31 years.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The Trump administration has laid off around 28,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees, nearly half of which were veterans employed by the agency.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Candidate for U.S. senator Mary Peltola (D) now significantly leads not just her main GOP opponent, Dan Sullivan, but both Sullivan candidates combined in Alaska’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race. https://t.co/EBPKUcLhgp

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Russia's ambassador to the United States has reportedly died.

[SM @sensiblemiddle]

Ohio State Wrestler Adam DiSabato testifies that new GOP House Minority Leader Jim Jordan begged him to change his testimony about Jordan looking the other way while school wrestlers were being molested. Says “Jim Jordan is a coward”.

Good Wednesday

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Scott Colom slams Mississippi’s Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson for using credit agency data to remove Mississippians from the active voter rolls: “Experian told him they were not reliable. And he did it anyway. This chaos is a result of that decision.”

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

BREAKING: Mississippi’s second most populous county rejected two-thirds of affidavit ballots in the state’s U.S. Senate race.

This comes after thousands had to cast affidavit ballots following a change in voter list maintenance procedures that marked them “inactive.” https://t.co/Kjwrqi1328

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

BBC asks court to permit Jack Smith to sit for deposition in Trump's $10 billion defamation suit vs the media organization:

Smith has "strong evidence" that the January 6th violence was "foreseeable to Trump, that he caused it, and that he and his co-conspirators leveraged it”