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There's some conflation of issues around RCV and vote counting. Elections offices don't call races the night of, that's the press. The problem is that elections offices don't make counts of any choice other than first publicly available
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These Governors pulling their National Guard troops away from their full-time jobs and their families, just to have them standing around being hot and bored for a photo-op is wild.
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The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
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Elon just told us he spent hundreds of millions of dollars in support of someone he believed at the time to be a pedophile.
Orange catholic Bible when?
Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name:
"... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour."
Just taking the implication here: if a journalist can somehow insert themselves into their signal conversation, why are they using that app to plan military strikes? Couldn't any of our adversaries do the same thing?
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I'm starting to think that Chuck Schumer might not be a strategic genius.
Hoping the House changes its mind is not an affirmative course of action. Voting for cloture on the bill that causes the problem is abandoning DC.
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Putting aside for a second whether the shutdown is the correct or incorrect call for Dems, just worth noting that Trump will get more *legal* power over the federal budget under the CR, at least per numerous appropriators/approps experts I've interviewed
Sen. Patty Murray (Washington) published a list of dozens of examples of programs that the House-passed measure could allow Trump to change w/o Congress
For instance, Trump would have “near-absolute” authority over specific Army Corps of Engineers projects. More authority to pick which health-care or mental health programs to implement. “Broad discretion” over Centers for Disease Control and Prevention programs, per Murray’s office.
If that was all the bill did, it wouldn't be 99 pages. This makes significant changes to current spending, and was written without bothering to negotiate with Democrats, whose votes they need for passage.
You could have made us a state in 2021, but your caucus decided preserving the filibuster was more important. If you won't use that now to keep us from being punished for no federal benefit, this is your fault.
Asked @SenSchumer whether he's considering any options to address DCs $1B cuts before voting for that
"First, Republicans made this mistake. It’s in their bill. So they’re responsible for it. But, a number of them have said that they realize it was a mistake, & I think we can...
Michael Lambright retweeted
Extreme hypocrisy from an administration that literally just threw a green card holder in ICE detention because of his political speech.
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Even if one believes opposing cloture is a political risk for Democrats—though new polling shows exactly the opposite, with most voters saying they’d blame Republicans for a shutdown—if Ossoff is putting country first and doing it, then other Democratic Senators have no excuse.
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez tells reporters Senate Dems can still change their minds on CR & House Dems will push them to tonight
On point from Schumer that shutdown is worse than the CR: "I cannot underscore enough how incorrect that is," saying failure to block it empowers Musk cuts
