Gouri Bhat

Texan for now. Hate the heat, hate the politics.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Just a reminder that Rep Lauren Underwood is the beating heart of the Democratic party. She’s ushered 19 bills into law; she consistently wins in a swing district; she’s a leader on maternal health, particularly for Black women; and she has one of the strongest constituent-service operations in Congress.

And she’s not even 40 years old…

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Four MILLION people have lost their health care coverage because Republicans refused to extended subsidies for the Affordable Care Act

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "The president was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller and refused to sign the affordable housing bill. That's after he gave some felon donor a no bid contract for the reflecting pool and it filled up with algae, which for some reason required the deployment of the National Guard. And then because of his war and tariffs, inflation rose to over 4%. He promised to bring down prices on day one, do you remember that?"

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit you’ll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.

But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly it’s a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.

[aezzie !! ♂ @AezzieUwU]

I spent over a day looking for this clip because I remember seeing it months ago. This is Talarico saying that if Crockett won the nomination, he would “campaign his heart out” for her. Absolutely horrible that Crockett can’t do the same. Her narcissism is exactly why she lost.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

I saw a reel where a woman said "where are the trad wives who are 40, 50 years old? Why aren't they making these barefoot in the kitchen videos? Why is it always a 20 something year old?" Every woman knows the answer.

[Gouri Bhat @GouriNBhat]

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman paying tribute to Obama’s infamous tan suit at the Presidential Center opening is exactly the level of pettiness and historical accuracy I respect. 😂

Some controversies deserve a reunion tour.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “Donald Trump literally made it illegal to be trans and an athlete in the NCAA. Did you experience any fucking material improvements in your life? No, of course you didn’t. Is that fixing the fucking gas prices? Giving Israel more money, is that going to fix your gas prices? We’ve been giving Israel $10B a fucking year. Have things gotten better in that process? Has ICE improved your lives? Elon Musk is a fucking trillionaire. Did it do anything for you that’s positive? No, of course not”

[Gouri Bhat @GouriNBhat]

@samstein @ChrisMurphyCT They excel at metaphors.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

With $300 billion, we could end homelessness, fund cancer research for 40 years, and give every child free pre-K for over 7 years. Instead, Trump is sending it to Iran. This is not America First. Not even close.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So the ballroom is a fiasco, the reflecting pool is a fiasco, the Iran war is a fiasco—the Trump administration is a fiasco.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch on Graham Platner: “Everyone’s talking about toxic relationships and tattoos and all of this shit. Talk about Susan Collins voting to dismantle protections that keep women safe and keep women free because that is the real story here. She is a MAGA fascist to her core. I don’t give a fuck if somebody had a toxic relationship. I myself have been a toxic girlfriend, I’ve had toxic boyfriends. That’s part of the human experience”

[Gouri Bhat @GouriNBhat]

The notion that the federal government can do what it wants with every inch of public property is enough to make me a libertarian. Outrageous.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Very important to point out that he did not achieve this by increasing policing. Right wingers have no answer to this

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is “old news” is no excuse. Most voters have no clue.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed