Rachel Baxtresser

Lawyer, wife, stay-at-home mom, ice cream enthusiast. She/her.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

NYPD has a budget of $5.8 billion and people are getting stabbed on the street is the takeaway

[Nicholas Grossman @NGrossman81]

The claim that Dems should've saved McCarthy's Speakership for the good of the country presumes that insulating the GOP from the downsides of MAGA craziness helps America. But it's the opposite.
The GOP needs to face the monster they unleased and still promote, or they won't stop

[StraightioLab @StraightioLab]

Did you guys get this??

[Yesh Din English @Yesh_Din]

[1] In response to reports we just received on the closure of the Huwarah road to Palestinians (as well as their businesses in the village), we say loud and clear: Closing off roads to the Palestinian residents while letting Israeli settlers pass freely - is called apartheid.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

Best names for the @ symbol from various languages:

8. Alpha twirl (Norwegian)
7. Strudel (Hebrew)
6. Cinnamon roll (Swedish)
5. Little duck (Greek)
4. Monkey bracket (German)
3. Meow sign (Finnish)
2. Moon’s ear (Kazakh)
1. The ‘at’ symbol (English, the language of Shakespeare)

[jon drake @DrakeGatsby]

“Would you like your receipt printed or emailed?” I would like to feel joy again

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

man the democrats really blundered not sticking with a moderate republican who wanted only to impeach Biden for no reason instead of having him executed before a crowd of ravenous cannibals

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Probably should've thought about your institutional concerns when you were whipping votes to deny the rightful winner of the presidency the White House after your office had been stormed by people with confederate flags.

[Rachel Baxtresser @Rachel_Bax]

Class all the way with these guys

[Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12]

NEWS - As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday

“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed"

w/ @DaniellaMicaela

https://t.co/iRqbztb0Wu

[Adrian Bott @Cavalorn]

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

An oldie but a goodie and still true!

[Christian Schneider @Schneider_CM]

Plenty of time for this dipshit to do his own research on fixing that achilles

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

If Republicans really want a more moderate choice, it will take only five of them to vote for Hakeem Jeffries.

What's that you say, it's insane to expect people to vote for the other party to be speaker?

Right.

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

The consensus GOP position appears to be that Democrats are communist satanist pedophile dictators who want to destroy America, and also it is their solemn responsibility to protect us from the rabid lunatics in our own party, in exchange for nothing.

[Matt Corridoni @mattcorridoni]

(•_•)
<)   )╯It is not the Minority's responsibility
/
(•_•)
(   (> To elect
/
(•_•)
<)   )>  A Speaker
/

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

“Israel isn’t ethnically cleansing children, only teenagers!”

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

republican 1: I’m going to take down the speaker!

speaker: no you’re not, bitch

republicans 2-8: yes we are

dems: do you want to talk about how we could save you

speaker: no you fucking commie slut idiot

*LATER THAT DAY*

conservatives: how dare the democrats do this

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

if "American politics" were broken, we'd have seen things like this happen when Democrats controlled the House

but we didn't

what's broken, very specifically, is the Republican Party