This Hegseth vote opened at 5:30 pm. Some members have cited traffic produced by some incident near the Capitol as the reason they missed it, but @JulianAndreone was there at the time and saw nothing impeding traffic.
Interestingly, the PAC Elect Democratic Women (EDW) was having a “new member reception” from 4:30-6:30 pm.
If you followed the primaries closely, you know EDW’s offshoot, EDW Action Fund, served as one of the major pass-throughs for AIPAC money, so it’s a very important organization.
If you were at this reception and saw any truant members of Congress, signal is in bio for me and Julian.
Very fun scooplet: AOC delivered a UMich-themed Diet Coke tower to Debbie Dingell this afternoon
Dingell was pretty much running on Diet Coke during the campaign cycle
Rep.-Elect Chevalier: I really do support a pathway to citizenship for all people. I think that’s the only way to have a dignified immigration system.
I always have questions about how we’re doing that to make sure it’s actually dignified for immigrant communities. As someone who grew up as the daughter of immigrants and grew up watching my parents navigate the system, I always want to make sure that it is supportive to people of all socioeconomic classes, all national origins, and that we’re making sure we have true dignity for all in our immigration system.
@AJentleson@joelmwarner Hope you realize how lame you’re going to sound if you try addressing the story later, once it runs, instead of now, when he’s giving you an opportunity to comment.
@pissshota@knife_manifest That's the exact argument I'd hear from a Zionist falsely arguing that BDS is antisemitic if a disproportionate number of the targeted businesses are Jewish-owned. Same fallacy.
@pissshota@knife_manifest My guess is that among the actual decisionmakers in MUG who kicked him out, far more of them agree with you than me on the (100% irrelevant) question of whether Hamas should have attacked civilians.
@pissshota@knife_manifest Anyway, unless you've polled every one of omar's detractors (including the leaders of MUG who kicked him out), I have no idea how you can conclude that they are Zionists who wanted a Muslim scalp.
@pissshota@knife_manifest I don't think a person who is opposed to a Jewish state but condemns armed attacks on civilians thereby becomes a Zionist. You are prostituting what Zionism means and collapsing the question of Zionism/anti-Zionism into a meta-debate about who is entitled to have an opinion.
@pissshota@knife_manifest "Squish about Zionism" is probably your inaccurate term for principled anti-Zionists who don't agree with your exact opinions about resistance tactics, which sort of exemplifies the toxic discourse that OP is criticizing here.