Tonight as Tennessee House Republicans push forward to schedule vote on our expulsion, Speaker Sexton orders the gallery cleared as crowd chants “fascists.”
Media forced out at as well.
Then, Rep. Lafferty (R-Knox) pushes me and grabs my phone.
This is a sad day for Tennessee.
In the last 8 weeks Iran’s regime has killed over 300 protestors, imprisoned nearly 15,000, and threatened to execute hundreds more, yet Iran’s women persist. Today female university students removed their forced hejab and chant, “I am a free woman.” https://t.co/OjQZ6zHfG5
BREAKING: An anti-abortion Evangelical leader is caught on a hot mic bragging that she prayed with Supreme Court Justices, a MAJOR breach of the separation of church and state — and her organization was cited in the repeal of Roe. RT IF YOU THINK THE JUSTICES MUST BE IMPEACHED!
BREAKING: Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for a full impeachment investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas's role in the Jan. 6th Trump coup attempt as well as into Gorsuch, Alito, Barett, and Kavanaugh for lying under oath during their confirmation hearings. RT IF YOU STAND WITH ILHAN!
Abortions in the 3rd trimester are almost always done for fetal anomalies. There is no 39 week “I’m bored so I’m having an abortion” abortion. These procedures are $20k plus. Seriously. Stop fetishizing the fetus.
Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.
BREAKING: In a major loss for Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni, Congress advances a bill to implement a Supreme Court ethics code and strengthen rules requiring Justices to recuse themselves from cases when they have conflicts of interest. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THIS BILL!
Understand this: abortion bans fall hardest on low-income people, on people of color, on survivors of rape and incest, and on those working two jobs for less than enough to support the kids they already have. The GOP has turned its backs on them. The rest of us can’t.
ICYMI: @JCisnerosTX says her Democratic opponent, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), “could become the Joe Manchin of the House” due to anti-abortion stance.
“The last thing we want is to hold onto a slim Democratic majority and then have someone ... keep siding with Republicans.”
We stood up against #SB8, Texas’ extreme abortion ban.
Yet Henry Cuellar sided with Republicans and voted against our health care and our rights.
He voted against codifying #Roe, against the right to abortion care.
But on May 24, we can have the last word. #TX28
With the House majority on the line, I am calling on Democratic Party leadership to withdraw their support of Henry Cuellar, the last anti-choice Dem in the House.
We are watching the fall of #Roe. In this moment, we need to do everything we can to fight for our rights. #TX28
When they said we had no chance, we showed them just how powerful the dreams of immigrants, teachers, and rancheros are.
Now, it’s time to finish what we started.
I’m running for Congress because #TX28 deserves a representative who will fight for our dreams as hard as we do.
There's legislation in California to shorten the workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours without a reduction in pay, which would be the most transformative labor legislation in our generation, and it should be bigger news... but it barely made a headline.
BEZOS: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proposes an amendment to remove a $10 Billion grant to Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, from a bill to increase America's industrial competitiveness.
I suspect you haven't heard much about the Competitiveness bill that's in the Senate right now. Here’s what you need to know: the taxpayers of this country should not be giving $53 billion to profitable microchip companies and $10 billion to Jeff Bezos to go to space. Period.
It makes zero sense to provide $53 billion in corporate welfare to the microchip industry and give $10 billion to Jeff Bezos so he can go to the moon.
I know it is a radical concept, but maybe the government might want to work for working class Americans, not the billionaires.