Raskin: Somebody should tell Todd Blanche and his team to get a Supreme Court decision called Steffel v. Thompson, which says it’s legally actionable to bring an injunction action against the government if the government is trying to scare you out of exercising your First Amendment rights and your constitutional rights.
In our case, it’s not just that these members were exercising their constitutional rights; they were exercising their constitutional duties. We have a duty, as the Article I preeminent branch of government, to conduct oversight operations of the entire government, as well as the economy and other things happening in society.
Last week ICE agents used restraints while detaining an eight year-old child when he showed up for a scheduled immigration appointment.
There is no excuse for traumatizing a child and taking him away from his community and his classmates.
ICE's brutal enforcement tactics have to stop. My colleagues and I are demanding answers on why he was detained and with such cruelty.
Killing shipwrecked survivors in an armed conflict is a war crime. If no armed conflict exists, it's murder.
Hegseth should be impeached for this alone.
There are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and for decades thousands of those American dead were only letters cut in black granite.
Even the man who founded the Wall doubted a photograph could be found for every one. On August 9, 2022, the last face was found.
It began small. Janna Hoehn, a floral designer on Maui with no personal tie to the war, visited the Wall, picked a name at random and made a rubbing of it.
She wanted a photo of that man and could not find one. A cousin who knew genealogy finally did.
She sent it to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, and the Fund asked her to find the 42 fallen from Maui County. She went through old high school yearbooks and had all 42 in six months.
Then she kept going, state by state.
In 2014 more than 24,000 faces were still missing.
That year a Wisconsin newspaper publisher named Andrew Johnson joined the hunt. His son, 1st Lt. David Johnson, had been killed in Afghanistan in January 2012 at age 24.
Johnson said many Vietnam veterans "embraced me and let me know how much they loved my son." He rallied newspapers across his state, and in 2016 his own paper printed a section showing every Wisconsin face.
In western New York the final man had no picture anywhere. No school and no library had a copy of his high school yearbook.
A researcher found one for sale on eBay and bought it.
Puerto Rico was harder still. Hoehn said Hurricane Maria had destroyed libraries and high schools there, and New York libraries had no old yearbooks. Sometimes volunteers found the family and the family had no photo to share.
So for the last names the team got each man's basic training location from the national records center, and a volunteer searched old basic training books.
Hoehn's team posted about 8,000 photos. She found about 5,000 of them herself.
Hundreds of volunteers did the rest: cold calls, obituaries, library visits, small-town newspapers.
This Veterans Day, type any name from the Wall into the Wall of Faces online. A face looks back at you.
All 58,281 of them.
🔥 Rep. (retired Major) @Ojeda4America (D-NC): “We need to all come together and elevate the lives of the 🇺🇸 people. Put money in the pockets of the working class… I didn’t come here to become a millionaire, I came here to teach these people who the hell they work for.”
What authentic leadership sounds like👇🏽
The major problem with some very rich people is that they have no sense of value at all...except money
That becomes their only motivation and they can't quite believe that other people don't think the same way
It's a disease. of course
Very infectious, too
So, why does the U.S. give Israel $4 billion a year for “infrastructure” when remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation have no access to electricity or basic running water?
Furthermore, what does the U.S. get in return?
WOW holy shit…@SecWar Pete Kegseth and his crew decided to take pictures at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and one of the morons started laughing so the US Army sentinel guarding the tomb reprimanded them
"Maintain silence, Pay respect"
Pete Hegseth told America's generals that women might not measure up for some combat jobs. A Marine drill instructor, a Navy helicopter pilot and an Army officer with three Bronze Stars just gave him their answer.
All three of them: https://t.co/HmORNw1uTk
BREAKING: I just moved to subpoena the classified Volume II of Jack Smith’s report.
Republicans BLOCKED it. They won’t be able to, come January.
The truth will come out.
Today, I introduced the Protecting Our Public Lands from Data Centers Act, a bill dedicated to every Oregonian who called my office and spoke out.
This administration wants to sell our public lands to the highest bidder for destructive data centers, but I refuse to stand by. I will keep fighting to protect these lands and keep them in public hands for generations to come.
These are my Lebanese and Korean grandfathers, from opposite sides of the world, holding their grandson. Last week, that grandson made history as the first Asian American and Arab American elected to represent Massachusetts in Congress.
America, the beautiful melting pot. ❤️🇺🇸
Dr. Amish Shah has flipped Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, defeating Republican Jay Feely. An emergency room physician, former three-term state legislator and self-described longtime ally of the LGBTQ+ community, Shah becomes the first Indian American elected to represent Arizona in Congress #NOH8
OJEDA: These are people that should be impeached and then prosecuted for what they have done. People have been snatched off the streets, given no due process and have ended up in gulags someplace. For what? Because they wanted to come to the United States of America and create a better opportunity for their children. This is unacceptable. That's not American.
Immigrants make this country great, you know, for what you do to the least of my brethren, you do unto me. Jesus did not tell you to hate the stranger. Jesus told you to love the stranger. And that's what we need to do. And that's not what we're seeing right now.
I want Hegseth and them prosecuted for what they have done.
HOLY SHIT, SEN. BERNIE SANDERS SAID HE WILL NOT SUPPORT CHUCK SCHUMER FOR MAJORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE!
Senator Slotkin agrees, says it's time for new leadership, she's not campaigning for the job.
MTG: "I would vote to impeach. Congress needs to reclaim its authority over war .. I also agree with the articles about the deaths at the children's school. That's something that Hegseth and the the entire department of war has not been transparent on ... this is war crimes"