Keane Bhatt

Policy director for @USProgressives. Previously comms director for @SenSanders. Views are my own. Ethical vegan 🌱

[J. Dale Shoemaker @JDale_Shoemaker]

It’s happened again:

A migrant was released from jail (charges dropped) and picked up by ICE.

ICE decides not to deport.

ICE drops migrant off far from home.

Migrant dies in the cold.

Manner of death: Homicide.

Nearly identical to Buffalo case.

https://t.co/hHCcIGQfIK

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

Why should any of us care that Donald Trump is hosting a UFC fight on the White House lawn?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cain: You have to talk about Platner’s policies, the way he would affect people's lives. Like higher taxes on billionaires…. He preaches universal healthcare.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

The future of Colombia should be decided by the Colombian people alone—not by American politicians trying to tip the scales or interfere in another country’s elections.

20 Members of Congress are calling on the U.S. to respect Colombian sovereignty.

Read our statement here:
https://t.co/sAEVzMls5X

[Head in the Office @headintheoffice]

Sat down with the GOAT @AbdulElSayed

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

White phosphorus is a dangerous chemical that the Israeli military has improperly used across Lebanon, harming civilians.

I introduced an amendment to prevent the sale or transfer of white phosphorus munitions to Israel because it is the moral and strategic thing to do.

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

On the first day of the war, U.S. precision strikes killed 120 children at a school and 21 civilians at/near a sports hall. Just last night, precision strikes destroyed a drinking water facility serving 20,000 people in 100°F heat. “Very precise, very controlled.”

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

🚨Trump is going to deport Iranian women who PROVED to an immigration court that they would be persecuted in Iran to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous to others the U.S. recommends no American travel there.

Trump is destroying this country's legacy of freedom!

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

A six-year-old Palestinian boy with leukemia died while waiting for the Netanyahu government to approve his medical evacuation request. His name was Ghazal.

In Gaza, no hospital is fully functional and Israeli approval is required to leave. A cancer diagnosis is a death sentence.

That’s why I led 61 of my colleagues in demanding that the Trump Administration reestablish a medical evacuation corridor so patients have a chance to survive—a chance that was never afforded to Ghazal.

Read more about how @ChrisVanHollen, @SenMarkey, @RepDean, @RepDexterOR, & I are demanding immediate action to alleviate this horrific humanitarian crisis:

https://t.co/u66mdlOzQQ

[Rachel Schilke @rachel_schilke]

News: Rep. Jim McGovern tells @BGOV Trump's pick of Jay Clayton as DNI is not enough to sway him on a vote to extend FISA.

"I had problems with the way the FISA language was drafted. I’m worried about privacy issues,” he told us at a roundtable today.
https://t.co/w5BoACbuKa

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Only Congress can declare war. Invading Iran’s Kharg Island would be brazenly unconstitutional.

American troops would die during the invasion. And then every day Iran would try to kill more American troops on Kharg Island.

Senate must pass the House’s War Powers Resolution.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Trump promised his “Board of Peace” would help rebuild Gaza. But Palestinians continue to be killed & there is ZERO transparency about the Board’s finances.

I introduced an amendment to get answers & require documentation of civilian harm at any BoP sites funded by taxpayers.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Republicans want to hand over another $70 BILLION to ICE and CBP with zero meaningful guardrails or reforms.

This bill is a sham and does absolutely nothing to address the real issues Americans are facing. I’m a NO.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

NEW: Randy Villegas is declaring victory in #CA22 over DCCC-backed rival Jasmeet Bains

[House Foreign Affairs Committee Dems @HouseForeign]

The Trump admin's Cuba policy remains trapped in the past.

More sanctions, more isolation, more suffering—but no serious plan to empower the Cuban people or prevent state collapse in our own hemisphere.

Lift the oil blockade. Reverse 6 decades of failed policy.

[Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @repdeliaramirez]

A year ago, 21 members of Congress joined me to introduce the Block the Bombs Act to withhold weapons from Israel that were being used to violate U.S. and international law.

Today, we are proud to have 73 bipartisan cosponsors.
We must demand an end to U.S. complicity in destruction, displacement, and death in Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.

It's time to Block the Bombs!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy served as a combat surgeon in Iraq, which we invaded based on lies told by Ari Fleischer. Hamawy told me yesterday that on heavy days of battle he’d operate on as many as 30-40 American servicemembers, triaging where he had to.

Ari bears significant responsibility for every single one of those maimed men and women that Hamawy worked to save.

Now to have the balls to link him to Al Qaeda is not remotely the most shameful thing he’s done in his life, but it has to be in the top ten.

[TMZ @TMZ]

TMZ obtained video of the incident from CODEPINK, where Rep. Luna says a protester assaulted her.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mast: Israel is killing terrorists who I just listed off all of the attacks that have gone on just since early April…

Tlaib: She wasn't a terrorist. She was returning from home after completing her exams at the Lebanese university in Beirut. The Israeli bomb targeted her family's car, killing her alongside her brother, her father.

Mast: Prove it.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

A chaotic exchange grinds House floor debate on Lebanon war powers to a halt.

Max Miller says of Rashida Tlaib: "Hezbollah is a terrorist organization ... and its members are butchers that you like to hang out with to a certain extent."

Tlaib moves to take down his words. "Are you getting a little emotional?" Miller says, telling Tlaib: "You advocate for terrorists on a daily basis."

"That is an attack on my character," Tlaib responds.