Slotkin is without doubt a Democratic all-star - she flipped a Trump-district seat in 2018 and held on in 2020 and 2022, making her the only House Democrat in the country to represent a district that had gone Republican in the last three presidential races.
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden honored Iranian Shervin Hajipour's hit song “Baraye" which has become "the anthem of the Mahsa Amini protests, a powerful and poetic poem for freedom and women’s rights."
Per the SF Chronicle, “Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi — who rarely weighs in on Democrat-versus-Democrat races — is endorsing Burbank Rep. Adam Schiff for Senate if Sen. Dianne Feinstein declines to run in what will be a fiercely contested, possibly once-in-a-generation contest.”
.@SpeakerBoehner tribute to @SpeakerPelosi: "No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results. You are one tough cookie."
"President Biden’s historic pardon of thousands of Americans convicted of a federal crime for simple marijuana possession is a long overdue correction in the overheated war on drugs — a failed effort that has wreaked havoc in communities of color."
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The Biden administration’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, called Raisi's statement "ludicrous and dangerous" and "a form of antisemitism."
"Russian President Vladimir Putin is devoting considerable time and energy to fostering a new axis of autocrats that is bringing Moscow into ever tighter collaboration with China, North Korea and Iran."
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"We owe you big, man. We owe you big," President Biden thanked comedian Jon Stewart for his advocacy for expanding health care access for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.