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If you believe that the healthcare crisis in America— that more than 28 million Americans (8%) are uninsured— is an existential issue
If you believe that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon with U.S. weapons
THEN, it is not possible to say those things and mean them while backing someone to lead an entire chamber of Congress who insists on allowing those circumstances to persist. Anybody is well within their right to choose either but they cannot exist simultaneously.
Perhaps it was all just some campaign trail slogans to these guys
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We all need to call Schumer’s office as either Joe or Eileen-“this is Eileen Bailey - Joe and I believe its time for you to STEP DOWN”
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Israel is drowning Gaza in raw sewage.
Why is only Gaza flooding? “This isn’t water. It’s sewage,” a displaced man says as filthy water pours into his family’s tent, soaking the children’s bedding and every piece of clothing they own. This is not just rainwater. With Gaza’s sewage and drainage networks wrecked by the Israeli occupation during the genocide, sewage escapes broken pipes, mixes with storm runoff and flows straight into the tents.
At the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin, Gaza City’s main collection point for floodwater, only two of six pumps are working, and the pond has turned toxic. “We have the tools, we have the equipment, we have the engineers,” says UNICEF’s Jonathan Veitch, “but we have not been enabled to bring this in.”
After a year of negotiations, the Israeli occupation’s military aid body, COGAT, rejected UNICEF’s 3 million dollar plan to repair the basin, citing “security grounds.” Not a single wastewater treatment plant in Gaza is working, and around 950,000 displaced people live in areas at risk of flooding, 400,000 of them at extremely high risk. A new tent cover cannot fix a broken sewage system. Families need the pumps, generators, fuel and spare parts to get in, and the chance to rebuild their homes.
Sources: UN/Unifeed
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Van Hollen on the blue wave: “The notion that this was somehow a Washington-engineered victory is delusional. This was the power of the people.”
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In the last 2 weeks, @LeverNews has seen the largest influx of new subscribers in our 6-year history.
This is a sign of support for the relatively few outlets that do anti-corruption reporting holding both parties’ politicians accountable.
Big thanks to our paying subscribers!
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Final results of the poll posted by Aaron Parnas on Threads asking who should be the next Senate Majority Leader:
51,300 votes
Chris Van Hollen: 98% ✅
Chuck Schumer: 2% ❌
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In January, Ryan Grim and Krystal Ball spoke with Sen. Chris Van Hollen about his opposition to U.S. regime-change wars. Grim recalled attending a 2003 University of Maryland speech by then-congressman, where he warned in “incredibly prescient detail” against the impending U.S. invasion of Iraq. More than two decades later, Grim noted, the consequences Van Hollen warned about had played out.
Chris Van Hollen's wife, Katherine Wilkens, is a Middle East scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and a former staff director of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East. In June 2021, as a board member of the humanitarian group Anera, she visited Gaza, Jerusalem and the West Bank. In Gaza, she toured clinics, water projects and a hospital less than two weeks after Israel's brutal 11-day bombardment of that killed 256 Palestinians, including 66 children, and wounded 1,948, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
On Israel’s actions since 2023, Senator Van Hollen said “the overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that it meets the definition of genocide.”
@ryangrim | @krystalball
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I’m sorry there was one book that anticipated the potential in Texas and it wasn’t hers.
Completely vindicated, @joshtpm The left followed my advice to embrace economic populism and cultural moderation and they won. Now we’ll see how they govern
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Barker repeatedly insisted Texas would not flip and told people to bookmark it, recommending focus on Midwest states instead. Texas Democrats swept, with Talarico winning Senate by ~12 pts. She later admitted error on Texas.
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Watch out for Schatz. If Schumer can be convinced to step aside, Schatz's pitch will be to make him Majority Leader so Dems can keep the Schumer leadership structure intact. He's courting Talarico.
Slotkin is pledging not to vote for Schumer, but hasn't yet backed Van Hollen.
This is a cool moment for me. I got to know James a little bit during the campaign, and I think he’s an extraordinary young leader. Here we are in my office sitting on a couch that was used in both of our predecessors’ offices. It was originally Lyndon Baines Johnson’s couch, and then when he ascended to the presidency, he gave it to Daniel K. Inouye. Senator Inouye then gave it to my friend Jon Tester, who gave it to my office.
We will both work hard to be worthy of the legislative lions that came before us.
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Hello from Denver, where I just spotted a banner hanging off a bridge on I-70 westbound imploring Democrats not to choose @SenSchumer as the next Majority Leader.
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“[Elizabeth Warren] wrote a letter… Donald Trump is killing people, locking people up, deporting people, taking away basic civil rights, ignoring court rulings.”
Watch @mehdirhasan's ‘Reason’ debate, where he argues why right-wing authoritarianism is the main problem in the US.
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With reports that Admiral Brian Monahan has been removed from the Office of the Attending Physician, questions emerge about the office's leadership and accountability. This also raises an important question: Can we trust Monahan's July statement regarding Senator Mitch McConnell? mcconnell.senate.gov/public/…
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SNAP is up to 30% of sales for Bronx bodegas.
Trump's own USDA gave them two months to meet new stocking rules or lose it.
Mamdani did his job making the call, and Trump gets thanked for pausing a crisis his own administration created.
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11/12/26 – Questions Mount Over Who Is Receiving Medical Care at the Office of the Attending Physician on Capitol Hill
Today, I documented an individual who appeared to be a congressional staffer entering one of the Office of the Attending Physician’s locations in the basement of the Russell Senate Office Building.
One of the concerns repeatedly raised by Navy sailors assigned to the office is whether they are being directed to provide medical care to individuals who may not be authorized to receive those services.
According to multiple sources, the office has allegedly provided care not only to sitting members of Congress, but also to former members, including former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as well as congressional staff, family members, and even friends.
These allegations raise serious questions about the scope of the office’s medical authority, the appropriate use of active-duty Navy personnel, and whether taxpayer-funded resources are being used to provide services beyond those authorized.
Could the alleged provision of medical care to unauthorized civilians be among the reasons the Navy reportedly removed and reassigned sailors from the office?
That is one of several questions I am continuing to investigate.
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Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
Israel is still bombing hospitals.
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CALL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATOR AND DEMAND THEY SUPPORT CHRIS VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
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This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
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11/12/26 - A quick update on my ongoing investigation into the Office of the Attending Physician, where questions are mounting over reports that physicians are providing routine primary care to members of Congress despite the office’s stated mandate to provide emergency medical care.