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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Democrat Scott Colom has won the Mississippi U.S. Senate race, defeating GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. He is the first African American to represent Mississippi in 145 years.

RETWEET to congratulate Senator-elect Colom on making history!

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

I’ll be posting this every single day:

SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE: Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill was designed to leave Americans feeling the pain long after Republicans passed it.

When the worst cuts hit, don’t suddenly blame Democrats.

REPUBLICANS WROTE IT. REPUBLICANS PASSED IT. REPUBLICANS OWN IT.

Don’t let them rewrite history.

[Soulseeds @Soulseedzforall]

She gets the job done 💪

[Maura DragonHeart 🍀🇺🇸🇮🇪🌛🌝🌜💙 @maura_resister]

Exactly

[Tomthunkit™ @TomthunkitsMind]

🚨 GOVERNOR GINA HINOJOSA GIVES ELON MUSK UNTIL DECEMBER TO PAY ALL OUTSTANDING TAXES OWED IN TEXAS OR FACE SERIOUS LEGAL CONSEQUENCES.

Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has reportedly issued a December deadline to Elon Musk, demanding that Tesla and his other companies operating in Texas fully comply with applicable state tax obligations or face potential legal and regulatory action.

The development could open another major political confrontation between the Democrats and Republicans, particularly as Donald Trump and several Republican allies have maintained close political ties with Elon Musk.

Hinojosa, a Democrat, is making it clear that her incoming administration will not give special treatment to billionaires or major corporations. She reportedly wants Tesla and other Musk-owned businesses to meet their tax responsibilities rather than benefit from political connections.

The situation could further intensify the growing divide between Democrats and Republicans, with Trump’s relationship with Musk potentially becoming another talking point in the battle over corporate taxation, economic policy and political influence in Texas.

The controversy also raises questions about the future of Tesla’s operations in Texas, considering the company’s significant manufacturing presence in the state. Any proposed changes to corporate taxation could have implications for Tesla’s business plans, investment decisions and relationship with the incoming Democratic administration.

Meanwhile, Republicans close to Donald Trump could find themselves under pressure to respond, especially given Musk’s public support for Trump and his involvement in Republican political circles. Democrats, on the other hand, could use the controversy to reignite discussions about billionaire wealth, corporate accountability and whether major companies should receive preferential treatment.

With December approaching, all eyes would be on Elon Musk, Tesla, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership to see how they respond to the proposed ultimatum.

[Joe Cecchini @joececchini]

Whoever managed this guy's campaign is going to have a long, long career.

[Nuar @xbtnuar]

A 43-year-old man picked up a 16-year-old girl at a parking lot, paid $150 to have sex with her, and drove her to his house. She shot him in the back of the head while he slept. The court tried her as an adult. Found her guilty of first-degree murder. Sentenced her to life in prison. She wouldn't be eligible for parole until she was 67 years old. The man who bought a child for sex - he was the victim. The child who was being sold - she was the murderer. She was sixteen. Her name is Cyntoia Brown.

Her biological mother was 16 when she gave birth. Drank alcohol the entire pregnancy. Cyntoia was born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Her mother moved on to crack cocaine. Couldn't take care of her. Gave her up for adoption.

Cyntoia grew up in a loving home. But something was wrong. She couldn't stay in school. Kept running away. By 13 she was in and out of the juvenile system. By 16 she was living on the streets of Nashville.

That's where she met a man who called himself "Kut-Throat." He said he was her boyfriend. He wasn't. He was her pimp. He beat her. Raped her. Gave her a gun "for protection." And every night sent her out to sell herself so he could eat.

On August 6, 2004, Kut-Throat sent her to a Sonic Drive-In parking lot. A man named Johnny Allen - 43, real estate agent, former youth pastor, Sunday school teacher - pulled up and asked if she was hungry. Then asked if she was "up for any action."

He paid $150. Drove her to his house. They ate dinner. Then he took her to his bedroom.

Cyntoia says he kept standing over her. Touching her. She says he told her he was a military sharpshooter and showed her his gun collection. She was terrified. She believed he was reaching for a weapon.

She grabbed the .40-caliber handgun Kut-Throat had given her. And shot Johnny Allen in the back of the head.

She took $172 from his wallet and two of his guns. Drove away in his truck. Left it in a Walmart parking lot. Went back to the motel where Kut-Throat was waiting.

The prosecutors said she wasn't scared. They said she killed him in his sleep to rob him. A neighbor told police Cyntoia said she'd been "waiting on a lick like that all week." A recorded call with her mother caught her saying she had "executed" him.

She was 16. The judge ruled she'd be tried as an adult. The jury convicted her of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Life sentence. No parole until age 67.

In prison, she earned her GED. Then an associate degree - 4.0 GPA. Then a bachelor's degree - 4.0 GPA. She became a model prisoner. She also realized for the first time that she had been a trafficking victim. She didn't understand it until her late twenties.

In 2011, a PBS documentary told her story. Nobody cared.

Then in November 2017 - thirteen years after the shooting - her case went viral. Kim Kardashian posted about it. Then Rihanna. Then LeBron James. Then Snoop Dogg. Then T.I. Millions of people asked the same question: why is a trafficked child serving life for killing the man who bought her?

A clemency hearing was held. The board split: two voted for clemency, two voted for 25 years, two voted to deny.

The lead detective on the case wrote a seven-page letter to the governor urging him to deny clemency. He said there was no evidence she was trafficked. He said the motive was robbery.

On January 7, 2019, Governor Bill Haslam commuted her sentence to 15 years plus 10 years supervised parole. He said life with a 51-year minimum was "too harsh" for a juvenile.

She walked out of prison on August 7, 2019. She had been locked up since she was sixteen.

Her pimp Kut-Throat never faced charges for trafficking her. He was shot and killed by someone else in 2005. He was 24.

Johnny Allen's family said their hearts were broken. They said he never got to defend himself.

Cyntoia married a man named J. Long while still in prison. She wrote a memoir. She started a nonprofit for trafficking survivors. She speaks publicly about what happened to her.

She was a child. She was sold. She killed the man who bought her. And the system punished HER.

When a 43-year-old man buys a 16-year-old for sex and gets shot - and the child gets life in prison - who is the criminal?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Tim Snyder on billionaires leaving the US if taxed: "If they're not paying taxes anyway, it doesn't matter, right? Let them go plague some other country... if they're not going to pay taxes here, let them not pay taxes somewhere else, because it is actually no loss."

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

You know what we would love to see? Senators Abdul El-Sayed and Annie Andrews absolutely GRILLING Health Secretary RFK Jr. during an official Senate Hearing.

Once they're sworn in in January, the real fun begins...

El-Sayed is an MD, has a doctorate in public health, and was an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia. Andrews was a pediatric hospitalist and a professor of pediatric medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.

RFK is an unqualified quack who has overseen the total collapse of public health in this country, perhaps most notably with the anti-vaxxer wave that he helped popularize and the subsequent measles outbreak he failed to contain.

Andrews has already vowed to "lead the charge to impeach and remove RFK Jr." and she has good reason to want him gone. Her home state of South Carolina was hit especially hard by measles, with nearly 1,000 documented cases that resulted from parents failing to vaccinate their children.

Imagine the finely-tuned, expert questions that these two would be able to hammer him with. At every turn, Kennedy's profound ignorance and negligence would be put on display. Picture him spluttering and growing redder as his humiliation mounts. It's exactly what this monster deserves.

Democrats, make it happen!

Please ❤️ and share if you'd LOVE to see this happen!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

MSNOW: Do you mind me stopping here for a second? I said, Democrats in Georgia, yes, they won the Senate race the governor’s race, but what did I just say? Specifically, it is Black women who won every single one of these races in Georgia.

Governor. Secretary of State. Attorney General. Agriculture Commissioner. Insurance Commissioner. School Superintendent. Labor Commissioner. Public Service Commissioner.

You have seen Black female Democratic political talent in Georgia growing over the course of this past 15 years in American politics, and this is the fruit of that tree.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Democrats are planning to pass a bill called the Anti-Corruption Bureau Creation Act that will give every American the right to personally sue Trump and his family, including Jared Kushner, to recover funds obtained through corruption.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

WATCH: In a stunning moment, Rep. Jamie Raskin says Democrats are going to take back power from the Executive Branch:

“We have the power to declare war, not Donald Trump. We have got the power to regulate federal buildings. If the president can bulldoze the east wing, he can bulldoze the west wing. It is not his house. It is our house, it belongs to the people, and Congress governs it.”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SWEET KARMA! Democrat Scott Colom, who is about to win the Mississippi Senate seat, only ran after his MAGA opponent stopped him from obtaining a lifetime federal judge position!

This is one of the most glorious backfires in American history...

Back in November of 2022, President Biden nominated Colom to the federal district court in northern Mississippi. He received support from the state's senior senator, Republican Roger Wicker.

But Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who Colom is now leading by 1,764 in the vote count from Tuesday, refused to support the nomination. In fact, she blocked the Senate from even considering him by withholding her blue slip, an old Senate custom that lets one home-state senator veto a judge.

She defended her indefensible move by insisting that he couldn't be trusted with such power because of past support for transgender rights. In reality, she was just pandering to the racist MAGA base by blocking a Black Democrat.

But if she hadn't blocked him, Colom would be a judge right now. Instead, he's poised to take Hyde-Smith's seat, flipping a seat that a Democrat hasn't been able to win since 1972 in a state that handed Trump 61% of its vote in 2024.

While the race has not yet been called, if Colom maintains this lead, as he seems likely to do, the seat is his.

Please ❤️ and share if you can't wait to see Colom in the Senate!

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

The Canadian side of Niagara Falls lit them up with blue to celebrate the democrat's victories in the midterms.

The world just breathed a huge sigh of relief, Thank you, America!

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Senate Dems need new leadership. PERIOD.

[Leila Charles Leigh 🌹 - Purity Tester @leilacleigh]

Democrats this is a MANDATE to get the fuck rid of Schumer and Jeffries

DO SOMETHING

[Samuel Lau @SamuelRLau]

This hit me harder than I thought it would. It's incredible to see a gay man elected to the U.S. Senate, standing proudly next to his husband.

I'm not crying...YOU'RE CRYING!

[Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante @jkrincon]

Elon Musk se mudó de California a Texas porque no le gustaban los demócratas.

Gastó 500 millones de dólares para apoyar a los republicanos.

Y ahora Texas eligió un senador demócrata y una gobernadora demócrata.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Canada lights up Niagara Falls in blue to celebrate the Democratic blue tsunami! WOW! THANK YOU, CANADA! WE LOVE YOU GUYS! 💙🇨🇦

[MAGAts_Exposed @MAGAts_Exposed]

The best news tonight?

Trump will NOT be able to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice.

That alone is HUGE.