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What a moment! 🤙🇺🇸💕

'Tonight, a Native American, a Native Alaskan & a Native Hawaiian are sitting members of the people’s House.'

[Former U.S. Representative Kaialiʻi Kahele @RepKahele]

It has taken 233 years for the U.S. Congress to be fully represented by this country’s indigenous peoples.

Tonight, a Native American, a Native Alaskan & a Native Hawaiian are sitting members of the people’s House.

Welcome U.S. Representative Peltola to the 117th Congress! 🤙🏽

[The Atlantic Communications @TheAtlanticPR]

Statement from The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

[abicht 🌻 @abicht]

Only 'Mostly false'!

Has the US accomplished regime change in Iran? | via @PolitiFact

https://t.co/SSa48qokoI

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow. Scary. Reminds me of Putins early years of reshaping Russian media.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.

Now the rapists are free.

This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!

#ThisIsIsrael

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Any diplomat who says we can take the Russians at their word needs to be fired immediately and I mean like within the next few minutes

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Huh?

Wait... *huh*?

[Alex Kane @alexbkane]

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. https://t.co/YoR5WY3bWn

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Trump didn’t fire Kristi Noem because she failed to respond to the floods in Texas which claimed the lives of at least 100 people.
He didn’t fire her because Americans were murdered by her rabid masked goons.
He didn’t fire her for posing for photos in front of human beings in cages like they were livestock.
He didn’t fire her for racially profiling Latinos, African-Americans, Arab Americans and Asian Americans.
He didn’t fire her because she was arresting legal permanent residents and US citizens and detaining them illegally.
He didn’t fire her because she was keeping children in fetid, rancid concentration camps without access to clean water, fresh food or medical care.
He didn’t fire her for turning our cities into militarized war zones.

He fired her because she made him “look bad.”

That was the red line.
None of the other things were.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through. It violated a lot of standard practices to protect survivors and due process:

1. It also released documents related to allegations found to be false or unsubstantiated, not just verified violations or settlements. So innocent people would get lumped in with violators.

2. To our knowledge, there was zero victim consent or consultation on this text. That is very different than with Epstein, where victims are centered and consulted at every step. Here, victims offered all their statements with the promise of protection and anonymity. The text gave them no way to have a voice in what information of theirs or their accounts they wanted public or keep private. That is important because…

3. Although there was a throwaway line about redacting victim names, I do believe full witness or victim statements would have been released. With the way employment at the House works (offices are small, time periods of staff employment are publicly disclosed, etc) it means that even with names redacted you can definitely track details in witness statements and use that to ID victims without their consent. And there was zero mechanism for victims themselves to assert their privacy.

Originally we were supposed to debate the details of the text over two days but for some reason they rushed the vote so we couldn’t iron out any of these details to get this information properly disclosed in a way that guarantees victim safety.

If the text was clean I think you’d get a lot more support. As a survivor, I know why the vast majority of women never report at all and a lot of those reasons, even if unintentionally or inadvertently, were included here. For me at least, guaranteeing the safety and agency of victims and survivors would get me to a YES.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Why?

[Chicago Mayor's Press Office @ChicagoMPO]

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Department of Streets and Sanitation today announced the winning names for the City’s fourth annual “You Name a Snowplow” contest.

The six winners are:

Abolish ICE
Stephen Coldbert
Pope Frío XIV
The Blizzard of Oz
Svencoolie
Caleb Chilliams

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

Bragging about his "beautiful ballroom" while he's supposed to be explaining the somber decision to go to war.

It's one of the most politically tone deaf things I've ever seen from a POTUS, including this one...

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Four U.S. soldiers have tragically fallen in Donald Trump's reckless, chaotic war with Iran.

California salutes the courage and enduring sacrifice of our service members and their loved ones.

But our Commander in Chief? Don't worry, he's focused on what really matters: himself.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Update. The Court in our tariffs case has just rejected the Government’s delay tactic with tariff refunds. We will be proceeding immediately to get the refunds Americans are owed.

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

Shame. Shame. Shame

[Impeach Trump a 3rd Time! @Christo12919382]

@kylegriffin1 Ok...NEXT!!!

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Orban's ship is sinking fast.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Trump is bragging about working to eliminate fraud. Most of his presidential pardons have been for people convicted of money laundering and fraud to the tune of over $1 billion.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I realize that most people here haven't read the article (or won't), but no one's actually denying what's in it. So here's a helpful summary and a gift link.

https://t.co/0zu3E2U23T

[Edward Wong @ewong]

A packed house at Politics and Prose last night for a moving tribute to the Washington Post Book World, closed by the paper’s executives. I grew up reading it. Bob Woodward and Rita Dove were among the speakers. “Awful and tragic” — Woodward on the changes to the Post.