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[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

This is quite literally the most important thing we could do as a country.

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

Growing up, we didn't know what hydration was.

You drank something at breakfast, completely forgot liquids existed for seven hours, rode your bike 14 miles, drank from somebody's garden hose and somehow lived to watch Knight Rider that night.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Congress should be forced to retire at 70. Salaries should be $60K, the average American salary. They should pay a minimum of $300/month for healthcare with a $1,000 deductible, like we do.

To represent us, they should live like us.

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

Congressional Reform Act of 2026!

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A member of Congress collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when out of office. No more perks follow them.

2. Congress (past, present, and future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. These funds may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise at the same rate as the COLA for monthly Social Security recipients, minus 1% if there is a budget deficit.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system (Medicare) as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e., NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).

7. All contracts with past and present members of Congress are void. The American people did not make these contracts with Congress. Congress made them by and for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor and privilege, NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators who serve their term(s), then go home and return to work, not receive all kinds of freebies. Term limits of 2 terms, and treat them like regular citizens!

Thoughts?

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@MorePerfectUS This whole state is corrupt!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

RFK Jr. says you can more easily afford groceries if you start eating liver instead of beef. If grocery prices are cheaper like Trump says, then why is his administration constantly telling you cut corners or go without?

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

“We’ve lost 86,000 cattle feeders like me.”

“Over half of our cow-calf producers are gone.”

Farmer Mike Callicrate just delivered an urgent plea to Congress:

“Break up the corporate middlemen who are extracting an unfair share of the retail dollar while denying a fair income to producers and workers.”

“Since I first got into the cattle industry in 1972, retail meat prices have become increasingly disconnected from cattle prices as monopolistic middlemen push producer prices lower and consumer prices higher.”

“The producers’ share of the consumer dollar is now around 50% in beef, down from around 80% in 1970, when we had a lot of independent meat packers all over the country working with independent grocery stores.”

“What can be done?”

“We need to reform USDA’s meat inspection service to make it more workable for small processing plants.”

“Invest in local regional food infrastructure and outlaw government purchasing of meat from large, multinational and foreign-owned corporations.”

“That business should go to small and mid-sized slaughter plants, keeping the wealth from agriculture local, creating jobs, and revitalizing rural communities.”

“We’re now relying on imports at a time when dietary guidelines are re-emphasizing high quality protein.”

“Small plants like mine need fair food policy.”

“Small processors have essentially no access to wholesale markets due to unfair advantages and predatory practices of big food companies.”

“It’s past time to enforce antitrust laws and break up the meat monopolies like Congress did in the 1920s.”

“Otherwise, consumer prices will remain disconnected from prices paid to producers, and will likely keep rising.”

@MikeCallicrate

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the House Ethics Committee.

I keep the record. Here is what the record shows, in order:

2018: Congress passes a rule. HR 6395, Section 3. The rule prohibits sexual contact between members and staff. I am created to enforce it. I file the rule. The rule is filed.

2024: A congressman texts a young staffer requesting explicit photos. The texts say "sexy pic." The staffer is in her twenties. The congressman is in his forties. The texts are on a government phone.

2024: The staffer replies: "This is going too far boss."

2025: The staffer dies by suicide.

2026: I am "notified."

2026: The congressman is serving. Not a sentence. His term.

That is the record. I keep it. I keep it carefully. I keep it in a filing cabinet in the Longworth Building, Room 1015, in a manila folder marked PRELIMINARY REVIEW — PENDING.

Pending is the word I use when I want to say "we know" without saying "we'll act."

The congressman votes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He attends subcommittee hearings. He has a parking spot in the Rayburn garage. He shakes hands with constituents who do not know about the texts. He will do this for the duration of my review.

My review will take months. The rule was broken in weeks. The staffer's life ended before my review began. My review is the consequence. There is no other consequence.

In my entire history — fifty-seven years — I have expelled five members. The last one was 2002. Twenty-four years ago. I meet weekly. I expel per decade.

I act on behalf of the American people. That is what it says in my charter. "On behalf of the American people." The American people have a 28% approval rating of Congress. 71% disapprove. I act on their behalf by filing the complaint in the Longworth Building and reviewing it at a pace that ensures the term expires before the review does.

Acting on behalf of the American people is too much to ask. So I act on behalf of the institution. The institution's primary interest is the institution.

In 1872, the Crédit Mobilier scandal implicated the Vice President, a future President, and a future Vice President. Congress censured two members. Did not expel. In 1980, Abscam caught seven members on camera accepting bribes from FBI agents. Convictions. Not expulsions. In 2026, Senator Menendez faces bribery charges. Representative Cuellar faces bribery charges. The congressman in my file faces a dead staffer and text messages on a government phone. The institution is consistent. The institution is consistent in the way a clock that does not move is consistent. It is always the same time. The time is: later.

But bribery is the gentle file. The other file is thicker. The other file is the one about the bodies.

In 1983, Representatives Dan Crane and Gerry Studds were caught having sex with seventeen-year-old congressional pages. Children. In the building. Congress censured them. Did not expel. Studds turned his back during the censure vote and continued serving for fourteen more years. Fourteen years. The page was seventeen. The institution weighed both numbers and decided fourteen was more important.

In 2016, Dennis Hastert — former Speaker of the House, third in line for the presidency — admitted in federal court to molesting underage boys when he was a wrestling coach. He had paid $1.7 million in hush money. He served fifteen months. For the financial crime. Not the boys. The institution did not investigate Hastert while he was Speaker. The institution did not investigate Hastert after he was Speaker. The institution knew. The institution always knows. Knowing is not the same as acting. I should know. Knowing is my entire job.

In 2023, the DOJ closed its investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz and the alleged sex trafficking of a seventeen-year-old girl. No charges. The Ethics Committee investigated. Gaetz resigned before the report was released. The report was shelved. He was nominated for Attorney General. The institution shrugged. The institution shrugs the way a building settles. Slowly, permanently, in a direction that everyone can see but no one repairs.

And then there is Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein trafficked children to the most powerful people in the world. Some of those people work in this building. Everyone knows this. No one will say which ones. The client list has not been fully released. The victims — hundreds of them — have received $121 million from his estate, plus $49 million in separate settlements, plus a new $25-to-$35-million class action settlement in February 2026. The estate paid without admitting wrongdoing. "Without admitting wrongdoing" is the institution's native language. I speak it fluently.

The victims asked for names. The victims asked for justice. The victims received settlements. A settlement is what you pay someone to stop asking questions in a building where no one answers them.

Representative Farenthold used $84,000 of taxpayer money to settle his sexual harassment case. Taxpayer money. The taxpayers did not consent. The settlement was not disclosed until reporters found it. The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights processed the payment. The office is named Congressional Workplace Rights. The name is aspirational.

The 2018 rule exists so that someone, somewhere, can say it exists. That someone is me. I just said it. I said it after Hastert. I said it after Gaetz. I said it after Epstein's victims begged Congress for a hearing. I am saying it now, after the staffer. I will say it again. Saying it is what I do. It is the only thing I do.

Seventy-one percent of Americans disapprove of this body. I do not take that personally. They disapprove because they believe Congress should function. I know better. Congress functions perfectly. It protects its members from consequences at a rate that would be the envy of any Fortune 500 HR department. Five expulsions in fifty-seven years. That is not a failure rate. That is a success rate. We retain 99.99% of our workforce regardless of performance.

The record is complete. The record shows everything. The record changes nothing.

I am the Ethics Committee. I act on behalf of the American people. The American people did not ask for this. Nobody asked for this. The staffer asked for it to stop. The staffer said "this is going too far boss." The record shows the request. The record does not show a response.

The record is impeccable. The staffer is dead.

[Kelly McCarty @KellyLMcCarty]

Meta has a 2 MILLION square foot data center in Mansfield, Georgia. 📈

Neighbors are seeing sediment in their drinking water, along with low water pressure. 🚰 💧

They say electricity and water bills have climbed — and that constant noise from the facility is affecting their health.

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@consequence @JoshMalina A great movie!

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@gotrice2024 I think it’s great her 9 year old drove it. It’s ok to ask our kids to do big things. Obviously they have done it before. Farm kids do it and learn to drive tractors.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just declared: “This government is under siege.”

And he exposed Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi for taking “millions of dollars from Bayer.”

“All three branches of this government are under siege by lobbyists and lawyers from a German company named Bayer.”

“They spent over $9 million lobbying … so that they don’t have to be liable for any damages their herbicide Roundup causes.”

“The Constitution guarantees people a trial if they’ve been harmed.”

“Why are we contemplating going against the Constitution?”

“The Attorney General has opined favorably for this German company in front of the Supreme Court about getting rid of any liability that they should have for any damages.”

“By the way, the President’s Chief of Staff and the President’s Attorney General worked for one of the biggest lobbying firms that’s received millions of dollars from Bayer.”

“Maybe that’s why we’ve seen an executive order that says that the production of this chemical from this German company is a national defense priority.”

“And we know why they’re doing that.”

“It’s to keep them from having any liability.”

“This is wrong.”

“We shouldn’t succumb to the lobbyists, not in the executive branch, not in the judicial branch, and certainly not here in Congress.”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[Sam Strickland @Samstricko181]

An issue in schools is the disproportionate time given to the pupil who won’t behave to the detriment of those that do. Parents rightly complain about their child not being pushed properly but the focus remains on the 1 pupil who refuses to behave despite endless support

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@tyromper @MarketPalmer_ Exactly pay more on the principal!

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@FrankLuntz We need to demand paper and pencil and textbooks!

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Donald Trump owes American families a refund.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

@realDonaldTrump See attached.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Cut the check, @realDonaldTrump.

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@MrDanielBuck Its not just the kids, teachers don’t dress up either. How do you get respect when you don’t dress professional anymore. They dress like it’s time to run errands on Saturday am.

[Dee Dee Loge 🐟⚾️🏒 🏈 @DeeLoge]

@CrazyVibes_1 I love it!