No blue checkmark, check. 🇺🇦

A human caring for humans.

[No blue checkmark, check. 🇺🇦 @NancyKort]

We should not be paying for "General" Mike Flynn's pension. He is a traitor to this country to which he took an oath. And why does he still have the privilege of rank of General? He longer deserves that honor either. #January6thCommitteeHearings #liar #Insurrectionists

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

I don’t come from a wealthy family, but I have gotten loans from my dad that I paid back.

It was $5,000, not $200,000. But my dad was a car engineer, not a political figure with generational wealth.

Even if this were the correct context, it was 2018. Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps saying “influence peddling” when posting this.

The entire Trump empire was built off influence peddling, not hard work. He licenses his name (brand) to companies who put it on THEIR building. He didn’t build them and doesn’t own them.

Why is it ok for the Trump family but not Biden’s? 👀

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

“When the crimes belatedly surfaced in 2018, Jordan insisted that he had been unaware of Strauss’s behavior. His office issued an uncompromising declaration: ‘Congressman Jordan never saw any abuse, never heard about any abuse, and never had any abuse reported to him during his time as a coach at Ohio State.’ Jordan issued that denial despite the fact that Strauss — often referred to by athletes as ‘Dr. Jelly Paws’ — was notorious according to many members of the wrestling team for lingering nude in the sauna and showers with them, often returning to take a second shower if he saw them coming down from their practice room. He routinely examined them in darkness in his nearby office, stood close by them at the scales when they weighed in naked, and dressed and undressed at a locker adjacent to Jordan’s.”

[Peggy Gabour @peggy_gabour]

@SteveScalise @GOPoversight Lol...all the Rs posting this...ha! Cheseboro pled GUILTY and told the court he knew Trump did not win the election!
Why was Jared paid $2 BILLION from MBS Saudi pvt account?????
Republicans can't govern! Or organize bake sales...pathetic!

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

🧵Now that Republicans have nominated Jim Jordan as Speaker, it’s important that people know who he is and what a total and complete disaster he would be as Speaker of the House. So who is Jim Jordan?

[No blue checkmark, check. 🇺🇦 @NancyKort]

@julie_kelly2 Anyone indicted for a crime in the US goes to trial. A political candidate is not above the law. Either is Trump. You cloak yourself in an America flag, yet you don't seem very familiar with how the judicial system works in the US. Perhaps you should acquaint yourself.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

After Hamas slaughters hundreds of Jewish families, and Israel confronts an unprecedented security crisis, Donald Trump attacks the Israeli govt and praises Hezbollah terrorists. Are Republicans really going to nominate this dangerous man to be President of the United States?

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

Ok, WELL folks… can you guess what my day 4 update on the speaker vote is?!

1) Spoiler alert: We still don’t have a speaker.

2) George Santos was holding a small baby (random) & then went off on some random people saying they have no right to be in the Capitol (pot meet kettle).

3) Jordan stayed in the speaker race & a non election denying Repub entered the race & when the votes were counted, can you guess which the Rs preferred? Yep clearly it is a prerequisite to be in the running for speaker of the US that you be an election denier. 🤷🏽‍♀️

4) Oh while the dems didn’t have to have a million caucus meetings b/c we decided days ago to support Hakeem Jeffries, there was a rumor going around that we left… no we were waiting around on Rs to get their stuff together & most of us are stuck here waiting to see if they will be ready on MONDAY, since they decided to take OFF for the weekend!

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Democrats had a slim majority in the House and delivered COVID relief, the biggest climate bill ever, healthcare for vets, infrastructure, manufacturing & more.

The result? See below.

With THEIR slim majority, Republicans can’t tie their own shoes.

#DemocratsDeliverJobsForUS

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“It makes us look like a bunch of idiots,”
Says GOP Rep. Austin Scott on Republicans not being able to pick a Speaker.

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

Actually, at that moment I was on the phone with the State Department trying to get American citizens out of Israel and Gaza. Meanwhile, all the Republicans have done is fight each other because they can’t elect a speaker. Get your house in order so we can all get to work!

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here's a compilation of Trump from last night calling Hezbollah "very smart," praising Chinese President Xi, attacking Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, attacking Israel, and calling the Israeli Defense Minister a "jerk."

[No blue checkmark, check. 🇺🇦 @NancyKort]

@Acyn They have, and will, say just about anything.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

On October 23, 1983, Hezbollah terrorists drove an
explosive-laden truck into the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and 3 soldiers.
It was the deadliest single day for the U.S. Marine Corps since WWII.

Yesterday, Trump praised Hezbollah as “very smart.”

How can any patriotic American support Trump?

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

Today, we wrapped up the second week of our trial against Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.

The numbers don’t lie: Trump engaged in years of financial fraud to enrich himself and his family.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Pence: Jim Jordan would be an outstanding speaker 

Collins: It's interesting to hear you say that given he was someone who sent a text to the chief of staff on January 5th that outlined for you to violate the constitution

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

When my family and I arrived at the Tel Aviv airport to leave Israel on Sunday, the airport head pulled me aside and said: “We need you all in Congress now.”

Yet Congress can’t do anything to help Israel because the GOP can’t pick a speaker.

It’s embarrassing and shameful.

[Barbara Comstock @BarbaraComstock]

It gets even worse for Jordan. Sources told us that Republican members of the Armed Services and Appropriations committees are forming an alliance of nearly 20 to block Jordan from becoming speaker. If that holds, there’s no chance Jordan can get the gavel.

[Sarah Reese Jones @PoliticusSarah]

Hakeem Jeffries shreds Jim Jordan "House Republicans have just elected a speaker nominee who in 16 years in congress hasn't passed a single bill, because his focus has not been on the American people, his focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and division."

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Jim Jordan was involved in Trump's conspiracy to steal the election and seize power; he urged that Pence refuse to count lawful electoral votes. If Rs nominate Jordan to be Speaker, they will be abandoning the Constitution. They’ll lose the House majority and they’ll deserve to.

[No blue checkmark, check. 🇺🇦 @NancyKort]

@WilliamLaurent3 @krassenstein So saving an ice rink means he should be president (again)? No way!