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[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

If I was in charge.

I am not in charge😢

[Maria @mlstrat]

never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Am I dreaming or what

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Texas Tribune: Democrat Gina Hinojosa launches first ad of Texas governor’s race, to be streamed during NBA Finals

The spot will stream throughout the Spurs-Knicks series on ESPN+, depicting Gov. Greg Abbott as a basketball-playing string puppet committing “turnover after turnover of our money to his donors.”

#TexasGovernor

https://t.co/2CHibfRuzK

[JT Ennis @jt_ennis]

Official Statement from @JamesTalarico on Protecting Texas Cattle Industry from New World Screwworm

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

🚨🚨🚨

Bill Pulte was picked to join Blanche, Patel, Hegseth, and Mullin to be ready to help Trump stay in power no matter what. Do congressional Democrats appreciate that their #1 task is to confront this threat?

https://t.co/VMcLuc7SlQ

[Mark Satter @marksatter]

NEWS:

In a rebuke to the Trump administration and GOP leadership in Congress, lawmakers voted, 218-204, to move forward with a Russia sanctions and Ukraine aid bill.

Lawmakers used a discharge petition to circumvent leadership and force a vote on the issue. Six Republicans and one Independent voted in support.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

…and House Dems and a few R’s doing their jobs—score ANOTHER WIN!

We won’t stand by as the President turns a blind eye to Putin’s push to take over Ukraine! We stand on the right side of history 🇺🇦 https://t.co/QgzGdqP7Yg

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!!! Republican Senator Rick Scott joins bipartisan push to tighten congressional grip on Russia sanctions

Florida Senator cosponsors Ruben Gallego’s bill aimed at blocking unilateral presidential moves to ease penalties on Moscow

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!!! Six Republicans just joined Democrats on to push through a vote on military aid for Ukraine.

House moves forward on Ukraine Support Act!!!

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Congress could give Trump's personal henchman power to spy on you without a warrant. We have to stop it.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

I brought AOC tortillas from H-E-B.

They make people feel better after a tough night, and that's what the Spurs are going to give Knicks fans tonight.

Go Spurs go!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Collins: Just to clarify. is the $1.8 billion DOJ fund dead or is it on hold?

Trump: I'd have to ask the lawyers. I don't know. People like you have abused our people.

Collins: But Republicans—

Trump: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be conservative from Alabama. CNN does such false reporting, but now they have new ownership, so maybe it'll straighten it out. It’s hard to straighten garbage out.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of 1 (Bari) service an audience of 1 (Ellison) serving an audience of 1 (Trump). This is how oligarch-authoritarian takeover of media happens

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

Scott Pelley is a LEGEND for not going quietly into that night.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

The way Pelley was fired by CBS after 22 years by Executive Producer who has been at 60 Minutes for one day ⬇️

[Ale @aliasvaughn]

Bari Weiss and her wife are in the Epstein files. Weiss’s wife was VERY close to Epstein, so much so that she shared with Epstein her first encounter with. See her wife’s enthusiasm to meet Epstein here. In 2018. When everyone already knew he was a pedophile.

[The Election Center @ElectionCenter_]

The logic here is just so laughable. All of this was literally litigated in Allan V Milligan!!!! And the supreme court just said “just kidding we’re overturning ourselves!” They once again prove they have 0 legitimacy.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WAKE UP, AMERICA.

The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.

In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.

All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!

This is sick.

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Holy shit. Maine reporter Andy O’Brien just implied that Susan Collins carried on a years-long affair with a man while his first wife was battling (and dying from) cancer