🇺🇸 Discussion: Congress, The Senate, The House of Representatives - Part I

[blueharvest]

An influencer is running for Senate. Is she just the first of many?

Caroline Gleich’s Utah Senate campaign is a sign of the blurring lines between digital creators and politicians.

www.vox.com

 

[squeekness]

An influencer is running for Senate. Is she just the first of many?

Caroline Gleich’s Utah Senate campaign is a sign of the blurring lines between digital creators and politicians.

www.vox.com

Guess we don't need real qualifications any more.

 

[Teelie]

I think when Reagan became President we accepted that.

 

[Lily Adler]

Schiff, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Provide Free PO Boxes for Those Experiencing Homelessness

The Official U.S. House website of Congressman Adam Schiff of California District 30

schiff.house.gov

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

FBI agents execute search warrant on Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, NewsChannel 5 confirms

FBI agents executed a search warrant late last week on Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles as the first-term Republican faces continuing scrutiny over fraudulent campaign financial reports that he filed

www.newschannel5.com

 

[Lily Adler]

FBI agents execute search warrant on Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles, NewsChannel 5 confirms

FBI agents executed a search warrant late last week on Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles as the first-term Republican faces continuing scrutiny over fraudulent campaign financial reports that he filed

www.newschannel5.com

These green ear MAGAs think because Trump got away with it, they can too.

 

[blueharvest]

Cori Bush loses primary after pro-Israel groups spend millions to oust ‘Squad’ member

St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Missouri’s first Black female member of Congress with about 51% of the vote

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Cori Bush loses primary after pro-Israel groups spend millions to oust ‘Squad’ member

St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Missouri’s first Black female member of Congress with about 51% of the vote

www.theguardian.com

Just a reminder she ran on getting justice for victims of police violence.

 

[Lily Adler]

Senate Republicans block bill to expand child tax credit

Democrats held the vote amid criticism over Sen. JD Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies,” seeking to cast the GOP as on the wrong side of helping families raising children.

www.nbcnews.com

Republicans you know what to do! And I'm not talking about you MAGAs who think Trump is God, but the ones who are aware their party is being held hostage by right extremists. Vote these nimrods out. VOTE THEM OUT!

Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

vote.gov

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk and Jim Jordan want to force companies to advertise on Musk’s right-wing platform

Today X (formerly known as Twitter) filed a lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), saying that GARM’s brand safety standards had cost X/Twitter “billions of dollars in advertising revenue”. X’s owner Elon Musk has stated...

www.dailykos.com

Futurism - Elon Musk to Sue X Advertisers After Telling Them to "**** Themselves"
A new entry for the Galaxy Brain Hall-of-Fame, legal scholar Elon Musk is here to set a new kind of precedent.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Scott wants Senate Republican leader McConnell's job as soon as he exits.

 

[Lily Adler]

Scott wants Senate Republican leader McConnell's job as soon as he exits.

Lord Voldemort.

 

[squeekness]

Scott wants Senate Republican leader McConnell's job as soon as he exits.

The minions want to take their strategic positions, with or without Trump.

 

[Lily Adler]

Reminds me of my dad who couldn't believe Obama and Bernie were able to pull similar feats.

 

[blueharvest]

Pelosi has ‘never been that impressed’ with Biden’s political operation

Pelosi discusses how she concluded the president couldn’t beat Trump and should step aside

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Lucas Kunce chances of beating Josh Hawley in Missouri, according to polls

Democrats will have an uphill battle in their bid to defeat the incumbent Republican Senator.

www.newsweek.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos

“Eradicate climate change references”; only talk to conservative media; don’t leave a paper trail for watchdogs to discover. In a series of never-before-published videos, Project 2025 details how a second Trump administration would operate.

www.propublica.org

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

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If the House membership size grew with the population instead of being frozen since the 1920s, this would also be less of a problem.

 

[Lily Adler]

She still thinks her governor race was rigged by the way.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[squeekness]

I really can't stand these guys making up rules about how others should live.

 

[Lily Adler]

I really can't stand these guys making up rules about how others should live.

The way you're living is too radical to ignore. Like the gays and blacks. If you don't act like a hetero cisgender white Christian man, then you aren't welcome in this country.

 

[blueharvest]

Republican Senate hopefuls get bad news from new swing states poll

Democratic Senate candidates are winning in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, according to a new poll.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Lily Adler]