I am a left-handed, dachshund-owning, liberal rowing architect who paints, mother of two gorgeous skiing Colorado women and wife of a MadMan #resistance
Nancy Pelosi is the one who anointed Hakeem Jeffries-now she needs to pick up the phone and tell him to step aside! Over a million voters don't want him as Speaker. He’s compromised by corporate PACs and backroom meetings with Jared Kushner, and We the People voted for a bold new Democratic Party—not the same old machine! @SpeakerPelosi
Remember when Jensen was not invited and then suddenly he was because Trump wanted it?
Trump knew he was compromised and didn’t care because he thought it was a favor to his “friend Xi”—and that it would hurt the stock market if it came out.
High crimes and misdemeanors.
Trump and Stephen Miller's Nazification of America Has a Body Count — Call It What It Is: Pure Hate
David Brouillette wrote the verdict four years before he pulled the trigger. He looked at his own sister's partner — a Colombian man living legally in the country, studying, raising children with her — and saw contamination. He called him a non-citizen who should drag his ass back to his third-world country and enjoy the luxuries there. He dismissed the man's bloodline as something that could never understand what it means to earn or cherish American freedom. He told his sister she was dead to him for choosing that man. This was not a bureaucratic complaint about paperwork. It was the old, raw calculus of race: some blood belongs, some blood does not, and the ones who do not must be pushed out before they sit at the table.
That is the same logic that hardened into law and street violence in 1938 Germany. Define the outsider by ancestry. Declare their presence an offense against the nation. Empower the men who already believe it in their marrow. Then treat whatever follows as the necessary price of purity.
On a July morning in Biddeford, Maine, Brouillette opened fire on Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. The Colombian father was leaving home for work. He was not the person ICE had come for. He had work authorization, a young daughter, a partner, no final removal order. Multiple rounds hit him in the face and neck. His car was later rammed. He was dragged out and handcuffed after the shots, in front of the people who loved him. The official line was that a vehicle tried to flee and public safety required deadly force. His own family says the agent admitted what he had done and asked them to cover for him.
The man who fired those shots carried a long trail of warning signs: allegations of violence against the women in his life, protective orders, a childhood diagnosis of severe bipolar disorder with hospitalizations, PTSD, a head injury that left him impaired, earlier racist talk, local police departments that refused to hire him because the red flags were too loud. ICE took him anyway. The post-election hiring surge needed bodies. Training was shortened or bypassed. Background review lagged. A man who had already written that a Colombian's bloodline had no place in America was handed a badge and a gun and sent to enforce immigration law.
This is not a tragic accident of enforcement. It is the result of a political project that treats certain immigrants as an invasive force whose blood itself is the problem, that floods the streets with agents under lowered standards, and that accepts dead fathers as the cost of keeping the table pure. Guerrero's daughter is three. The pavement where he died is now a memorial of flowers and candles. Brouillette's emails are the motive in his own handwriting.
When a government arms men who talk about foreign bloodlines as unworthy and then calls the bodies collateral, it is running the same machinery that powered the racial hate that consumed Germany in 1938: identify the contaminant, empower the enforcers who already hate them, and treat the violence that follows as order restored.
Senator Chuck Schumar voted to advance the BAAJA bill, which would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act AND the Clean Water Act while harming Indigenous communities.
Just in case you wanted another reason why he shouldn't be the Majority Senate Leader.
Dear Justice Thomas,
Your rich friends paid for the superyacht trip and the private jets, and bought your mom’s house.
We can’t buy you a yacht. We can tell Congress to impeach you.
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I do not have the words to describe the total disrespect the Secretary of War shows at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
His group is loudly reprimanded by the guard. Shameful.
@JakeSherman@daveweigel How about learning how to play the game, Clark and Jeffries. You’ve both been in the House for years - how is it neither of you understand the house machinations? Or are you trying to lose?
This is unacceptable.
Two days. Two demonstrations of democrats incompetence.
Yesterday, House Democrats failed on the Hegseth impeachment vote. Today, Republicans pulled a procedural bait-and-switch on TCAVA, using last-minute technical corrections to draw Mark Takano away from the podium before passing the bill by voice vote. Republicans own the dirty maneuver. Democratic leadership owns the failure to anticipate it and protect the opportunity for a recorded vote.
Enough. No more Hakeem Jeffries or Katherine Clark. Democrats cannot keep handing Republicans procedural victories and then offering explanations after the damage is done. Jeffries and Clark have had their chance. It’s time for new leadership.
@Landenberg619@WalshFreedom The memorial was designed to complement its site. It is elegantly beautiful. The ballroom is a huge, inappropriate carbuncle.