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I can’t believe a Democrat is already exposing his own party like this
Don Leonard, the Democrat who just won Ohio’s 15th District, says senior House Democrats warned him what happens if he won’t back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker:
“Making my life a living heII for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election”
He says they “expect you to wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player”
They don’t want representatives, they want obedience
@riley_rogerson Jeffries says Democrats will “run Pete Hegseth out of town.”
Tuesday, 11 of his members didn’t bother to show up for the vote, and he hadn’t even talked to his floor team about it.
If he can’t count votes in the minority, why hand him the Speaker’s gavel unopposed?
Honestly—and I hate to say this—this doesn’t sound like a statement from someone who cares all that much about holding this Administration accountable for its miscreant conduct.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT.
Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth.
This is even WORSE
"The traffic jam story is nonsense. @rep_jackson was there. I saw him. He could've voted."
TMZ's @hicharliecotton says 1 Dem claiming "traffic jam" for missing the Hegseth impeachment vote was there and called it a "mistake" when busted on it.
@RepJeffries care to comment?🧐
Peltola's lead is now greater than the margin of votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan — so even if you took the Trump approach and added his ballots to Sen. Sullivan's, it wouldn't change the outcome.
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has laid out a five-point plan for peace in Ukraine:
1. Integrate Ukraine into NATO’s missile, air and drone defences and send all Patriots to Kyiv
2. Unfreeze Russian assets and give them to Ukraine
3. Enforce more sanctions on Russia and ban all Russian fossil fuel supplies to Europe
4. Move the Coalition of the Willing into Ukraine to defend rear areas and critical infrastructure
5. Develop ironclad security guarantees and expel countries from the Coalition that aren’t willing to fight Russia if a ceasefire breaks down
The Russians know that they have Trump in their pocket, pushing their interests and serving their needs. The amazing thing is that the press still reports these talks as if the US wants to help negotiate or reach a deal. The Trump administration wants Russia to win.
Zelenskyy: The Americans keep saying we must leave our Ukrainian Donbas and then the war will end.
It is impossible to talk to us this way when it is about the independence of our country. 1/
BREAKING: Scott Colom responds to a Fox News host who called him a “bigger threat” than AOC:
“I'm not trying to be a threat to anybody. I'm trying to focus on delivering for Mississippi. I think we got too much celebrity in our politics. We got to get back to leadership that's rooted in serving people.”
Maria Flores Garcia was her high school’s valedictorian & is a student at UMD. Her arrest is the latest example of how Trump lied when he said that he’d only go after the “worst of the worst.”
I’m seeking answers on Maria’s detention & working to get her released.
https://t.co/3fh4giesqU
I gotta say — and it's a tough contest — but if there is one cabinet official in this administration that's maximally guilty of dirty-deeds-done-cheap for China and Russia, my money's on Howard Lutnick. He's been at it for decades.
This plays right into Dems’ hands. Threatening criminal process for oversight gives them ammo to go straight to subpoenas and tell a court ‘what’s the point of lengthy negotiations w a White House trying to criminalize congressional scrutiny?’
It really is time to wake up. If you’re looking for why Hakeem Jeffries lied when he said:
“The people didn’t vote for us to get even, they voted for us to get things done”,
It’s because he’s at the very heart of the problem. You can’t represent the voice of the people if you are bought and paid for by the very corporations who caused the problem in the first place.
Children are dying in a flooded Gaza right now because politicians like Jeffries will give a pass to genocide as long as their seat on the gravy train is secure.
IT HAS TO STOP, AND IT HAS TO STOP NOW.
My thanks to Nobel Prize winning economist Daron Accmoglu for enlightening us.
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