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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🗳️ A new tracker maps where every congressional Democrat stands on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries leading the party in the new Congress, compiled from national and local news and social media.

🔸 Schumer for Senate majority leader (56 Democrats, 29 votes needed, can lose 27):
➤ Supporters: 9
➤ Opponents: 8
➤ Uncommitted: 8
➤ Open to Sen. Chris Van Hollen: 2
➤ Unclear statement: 14
➤ No statement: 17

🔸 Jeffries for House speaker (260 Democrats, 218 votes needed, can lose 42):
➤ Supporters: 49
➤ Opponents: 0
➤ Uncommitted: 23
➤ Unclear statement: 8
➤ No statement: 180

The full tracker created by @aaronnarraph, @thedemsocmarul, @arachno_commie and William Prince includes a lawmaker-by-lawmaker breakdown for both chambers. Link in reply.

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Katherine Clark is the Democratic Whip in the House, and it is thus her responsibility to ensure members are there to vote.

Clark is also a founding member of EDW, which hosted an event tonight from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, overlapping with the 5:30pm vote on the Hegseth impeachment.

Of the 11 members who missed the Hegseth vote, 8 have received support from EDW or its AIPAC-tied super PAC EDW Action. Of those 8, two are sitting board members.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

11 Dems, including Pelosi who has been making the rounds on the Hill today to talk to press, didn’t vote to advance Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.

Because of those Dem absences, Republicans successfully sent it to Judiciary Committee, where it will collect dust.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

We are watching another phase of the Holocaust in Gaza. Tens of thousands of tents flooded in a matter of hours. Children buried alive when the ground collapsed beneath them. Families who survived the bombs now have nowhere to sleep, surrounded by sewage, exposed to disease and the freezing cold.

Israel has destroyed the infrastructure necessary for human survival and continues to obstruct the materials needed to rebuild it. This is what extermination looks like beyond the bombs. Through displacement, exposure, disease and the systematic destruction of the conditions necessary to sustain life.

I don’t even know what else there is to say anymore. We have watched every conceivable horror unfold before our eyes and still allowed it to continue. We have failed Gaza. We have failed humanity.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

oh my

[Sam Adams ~ #NotMeUs @CapaTosta122]

Hakeem Jeffries accepted campaign money from Palantir. Palantir is behind ICE and Flock cameras.
https://t.co/lMpagfYhjH

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

At least three children have been killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as heavy rains and bitter cold batter displaced families in makeshift tents. For the fourth consecutive winter, Palestinians are being denied adequate shelter as Israel continues to block the entry of tents, mobile homes and other essential materials, with President Trump’s @BoardOfPeace failing to press for their delivery despite trucks waiting at Gaza’s borders.

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

Decision Desk HQ projects Abdul El-Sayed wins the MI US Senate General Election

#DecisionMade: 1:15 AM EST

Follow live results here: https://t.co/3rzJgHtluc

[so informed @_soinformed]

@LauraLoomer Cope and seethe, loser.

[so informed @_soinformed]

@tyleroakley

[austin @jesuissupreme]

Texting my friends in Texas about the election from Brooklyn, New York

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

So the spokesperson for Mike Rogers’ campaign, Abby Ronson, is a federally registered foreign agent for Israel

And it looks like Ronson is helping to shape Haley Stevens’ turncoat messaging

[Deep Singh Badhesha @DeepNotShallow]

This Haley Stevens 11th hour betrayal should be a wake up call for 2028 that anyone who takes AIPAC money is completely compromised

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

Oh look the French government has been forced to concede to the protesting students.

Who woulda thought that revolting actually works

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

Genocide is wrong because it is wrong, not because it is expensive for Americans. The longer we allow these disgusting talking points which center US comfort rather than the lives of those enduring atrocities, the longer we will find support for these atrocities

[James Li @5149jamesli]

A reminder that opposing this lady's insane genocidal opinion is illegal in 38 states.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.

Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.

The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

The new “progressive” Democratic position—that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and enforcing apartheid in the West Bank, where settler terrorists run rampant with government and military support, yet we shouldn’t impose an arms embargo or support the Palestinians’ right to resistance—is completely incoherent and indefensible.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

When Iran did this France called for regime change

[Kaka Zodia @kakazodia]

People are finally beginning to ask the right questions about the No Kings people . They are the biggest ongoing political-movement grift worldwide.