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[Val @VAinRI2828]

The f'ing hypocrisy.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

[Val @VAinRI2828]

Right now: Every dollar matters more. https://t.co/nFiQExsyuo

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Our leaders should demonstrate their "seriousness" by building schools and hospitals here, not by blowing up schools and hospitals halfway around the world.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

This is what the Democrats should be doing. Would really like to see this energy from more Dems.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Both the U.S. administration and the Kremlin are backing Viktor Orbán in his bid for reelection in Hungary. (It would be his sixth term.) They are doing it openly and fervently. This says a great deal about our times. And what it says is: very bad news.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

All part of the plan to kneecap America. Trump is in office to wreck the country so autocracies can prosper

[FAFO Farms @FAFOFarmsTX]

How pigs should be raised. Not in confinement. Not in a hog house. Support ethically raised pork, not the rebranded "Save our bacon act" confinement garbage in the farm bill. 🥓🐖✨️

[Esther TheWonder Pig @EstherThePig]

Absolutely unacceptable. Gestation crates are so small the pigs can only lay down or sit, they can’t even turn around. They spend the majority of their “productive life” (3-5 years) in these cages before they are sent to slaughter. Please speak up against this horrible practice.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Pigs are smarter than dogs.

They solve puzzles, play video games with joysticks, and can outsmart 3-year-old children on some tests.

Pigs are highly sentient, showing empathy by mirroring others' stress or joy, forming deep bonds of affection and love, and displaying loyalty through long-term memory and trust.

Yet the pork lobby is sneaking the 'Save Our Bacon Act' into the farm bill to lock millions in cruel gestation crates for life.

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

This is Trump's war of choice. He's chosen to put Americans in harm's way with no plan for what comes next.

We've been here before with Iraq, and it was a disaster. Congress must step in, immediately, to halt the military action.

Read my full op-ed in @MSNOWNews. https://t.co/PykMXBNAdV

[Eric @EricG1247]

Over the last 40 years, about 90 non-citizens voted.

So far, this year, about 204 women have been shot to death by intimate partners.

Literally, everything is more important than a voter suppression bill.

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

So, this seems a rather urgent question: Is it now the policy of the United States Government that we can kidnap or assassinate the leader of any nation state without (1) a declaration of war or (2) a ruling by any court or international body?

Is that the new rule? That we get to kill anyone we want? Assassination is back on the table?
https://t.co/Ds9HEYusle

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

This didn't age well.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Glad to see this go viral — especially among conservatives. This fight isn't left vs. right. It's voters vs. lobbyists.

A lot of people are asking how this got into the farm bill. The answer: House Ag Chair Glenn Thompson put it in. Small farmers in his own district — who don't use crates — urged him not to. He said he didn't care: the National Pork Producers Council wanted it.

Principled conservatives like Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, David Valadao, Nancy Mace, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Thomas Massie have strongly opposed this provision. But too many Congressional Republicans have fallen in line with the industrial pork lobby.

The farm bill still has to pass the full House, then the Senate, where it needs 60 votes. It'll be a close vote, so every vote will matter.

Call 202-224-3121, select your reps and senators, and tell them: oppose the farm bill if the Save Our Bacon Act stays in. We can stop this.

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

Citizens United destroyed American politics.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

As many as 140 servicemembers injured. 7 killed. Thousands of Americans stranded in the region with a target on their backs and no escape.

All for a war that a draft dodger cannot even articulate a coherent and consistent justification for.

How. Is. This. America. First.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The fact that Donald Trump is going to try to subvert the 2026 elections doesn't mean he will be successful. We have shown before that we can fight back in court and win. The key is that we must educate everyone about what is going to happen and what they can do as well.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.

Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.

Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.

The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.

Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at https://t.co/MQvByA4atR and https://t.co/v6ghw99u1K — it takes two minutes and it matters.

[Val @VAinRI2828]

@RadioFreeTom And they all laughed. It's all so sickening.

[Val @VAinRI2828]

@RadioFreeTom Depraved.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Dear God.
(Capturing the ship would have been a far better move, especially if we offered the crew asylum.) This is basically admitting a crime.