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Wife, Mother, Grandmother. Constant reader, I don't tweet much. Love camping and hiking.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Dr. Oz is attempting to lay the foundation for Republicans to gut Medicaid and Medicare again by calling them programs “of great danger” to the American people.

These people have no health care plan other than taking away yours.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

AI has no business denying doctor-recommended procedures.

I am leading the Democratic effort to shut down WISeR—Trump's backdoor scheme to privatize Medicare.

We need to end AI prior authorization NOW.

[Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost @RepMaxwellFrost]

Today I visited the Donald J. Trump & Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room in DC.

The sheer scale of this exhibit is staggering, but what you see is only a fraction of the story. Millions of files remain hidden from the public.

Survivors deserve answers and the American people deserve the truth.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

MAGA man only charged with assault—after attempted murder of entire Black family reunion.

First he drove by yelling the N-word.

Then he came back wearing body armor and carrying an AR-15-style rifle.

"I grabbed my gun and started returning fire," said Marine veteran at party.

Ramell Green said he was willing to defend the roughly 20 children and older adults who were there.

Jeffrey Tyler Kinzer was identified as the suspect—he was shot and injured by the return fire.

Family insists they were racially targeted—and demand more serious charges be filed.

Incident occurred in Leesburg, Georgia.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Judiciary Republicans called a hearing without bringing the facts. We're still waiting for their witnesses to provide all the evidence about alleged fraud and criminality at the Southern Poverty Law Center they are recklessly throwing around.

So far, they’ve shown nothing. Just another political hit job, another waste of time.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to silence your voice.

This is what happens when authoritarians are desperate to hold on to power.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reports reveal the Trump admin has ordered the Postal Service to stop delivering mail-in ballots to states that do not hand over sensitive voter lists to the government.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

https://t.co/5DwXgxBybt

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The Trump Justice Department is doubling down on an argument that, if accepted, could open the door for the administration — and anti-voting groups — to create lists of voters and send them to states for removal right before elections. https://t.co/cuUDOj13pI

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

I have a message for Rep. James Comer: Stop with the racist comments about “my people” and keep my name out of your mouth.

Republicans are letting the truth slip out about what they really want - to take health care away from millions.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election?

JUDGE TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy. Justice Jackson--

BLUMENTHAL: It's 'political controversy' only because the president refuses to accept the results. I'm asking you as a matter of fact. Who won?

TRAYNOR: As Justice Jackson stated, it is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that

BLUMENTHAL: So you're going to use the same script that other nominees have used before this panel to avoid the question?

TRAYNOR: I think the precedent established by Justice Jackson ...

BLUMENTHAL: As a matter of fact, which presidential candidate got more votes in 2020?

TRAYNOR: As I stated before, this is an issue that Justice Jackson--

BLUMENTHAL: You're adopting a script that has been dictated to you by the White House

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Democrats need to start asking these nominees the following four questions:

1. Who won the 2000 presidential election?

2. Who won the 2004 presidential election?

3. Who won the 2016 presidential election?

4. Who won the 2024 presidential election?

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Donald Trump Jr.’s net worth mysteriously skyrocketed from $50M to $300M after a foreign billionaire family dropped $100M into his secret business—right before his dad wiped out their tariffs. Inside the next big House investigation: 👇 https://t.co/J3qBUSGEtU

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Rep. Rob Wittman again shows us how dumb the MAGA GOP really are and how much they lie.

Look at him pretending to be on a call because he doesn't want to answer questions about Social Security cuts.

Problem for him was the phone's screen showed he was faking his call.

Another fucking MAGA GOP liar.
#DemsUnited

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Someone dragged a cross into downtown Chicago… and lit it on fire in Grant Park.

And since some people seem determined to rewrite American history, here’s a reminder of what that means.

The KKK burned crosses for a reason… it was racial terrorism. It was meant to threaten, intimidate, and terrorize Black communities, and anyone else they viewed as “less than,” into submission.

And we’ve spent years watching that same racism get a makeover.

We’ve watched politicians tell Americans to fear their neighbors. We’ve watched masked agents terrorize communities while people cheer it on. We’ve watched police brutality get a free pass, as long as the victim is someone society has decided “deserves it”.

When politicians spend years telling Americans that certain groups are “invading” our country, don’t belong here, or are violent criminals…

The hate and racism doesn’t stay contained.

You can’t use fear, dehumanization, and hatred as political tools, and then not expect people to feel comfortable taking that hatred into a public park, with a torch.

History has shown us, over and over, that when racism and political violence are tolerated, the target list doesn’t get shorter.

So, it’s on us to shut it down before history repeats itself.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning new report, Congressman Tom Kean has not showed up to vote for 96 days. This is as good of reason as ever to vote for his Democratic opponent, Rebecca Bennett. Bennett is a veteran who has served our nation admirably.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

UPDATE: New York Times files additional motion challenging Pete Hegseth's press restrictions at Pentagon, calling requirements "retaliatory, arbitrary, unconstitutional"

But check this out: the Times says it's been landing more scoops *after* Hegseth tried to clamp down
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[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

Update: If Trump moves forward with Pulte as acting DNI, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are demanding he undergo "a full security clearance process that includes an examination of his financial holdings and foreign contacts."

"Additionally, Mr. Pulte should be subject to polygraph screening ..."

We reported last week that Pulte had not been previously vetted for potential security vulnerabilities before Trump announced he would be acting DNI.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Congress Just Learned Something Pretty Stunning About Jeffrey Epstein’s Operation.

According to Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Epstein’s longtime executive assistant admitted her legal fees are being paid by a fund established through Epstein’s estate.

Read that again.

Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019.

Yet his money is still paying the attorneys of a key witness connected to his network.

Then came another admission.

She acknowledged helping arrange calls between Epstein and Trump, Prince Andrew, and other powerful figures.

Even now, Epstein’s money appears to be shaping who can afford legal representation and who can’t.

That’s a remarkable revelation.