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" #Congress has effectively been dissolved by Speaker #MikeJohnson." --Jamelle Bouie on MSNBC.
" #Congress has effectively been dissolved by Speaker #MikeJohnson." --Jamelle Bouie on MSNBC.
Tim Chambers
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Networks Plan Coverage Of Next Round Of No Kings Protests On Saturday
#News #Politics #CSPAN #CNN #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #MikeJohnson #MSNBC #NoKings #RobertDeNiro #Washington
https://deadline.com/2025/10/no-kings-protests-how-to-watch-1236590761/
Networks Plan Coverage Of Next Round Of No Kings Protests On Saturday
#News #Politics #CSPAN #CNN #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #MikeJohnson #MSNBC #NoKings #RobertDeNiro #Washington
https://deadline.com/2025/10/no-kings-protests-how-to-watch-1236590761/
Heidi Li Feldman
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Adelita Grijalva won her special election Sept 23rd.
She’s been prohibited from governing ever since.
Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.
Why? She’s the 218th vote needed to discharge the Epstein petition.
Today she was joined by the Democratic Women’s Caucus and they marched together to demand she be granted her constitutional right to govern.
The AG of Arizona has also threatened legal action against Mike Johnson if he does not swear her in.
Keep saying her name. Call your elected officials.
Let’s get Adelita to Congress!
#uspol #fascism #congress #epstein #mikejohnson #adelitagrijalva
"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."
~ The Bulwark
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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"During the federal shutdown, in which hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, Trump announced that he would give Argentina $20 billion in 'aid' that would go to political and social elites in that country."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Argentina #bailout
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/our-job-invite-disaffected-trump
"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Venezuela
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"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."
~ The Bulwark
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
/7
"Today, Trump tried to pressure Democrats by telling reporters the slashing of government programs will hurt only Democrats. 'We’re not closing up Republican programs because we think they work,' he said. 'So the Democrats are getting killed, but they’re not telling the people about that…. So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Venezuela
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"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America."
~ Will Saletan
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism
"I’ve worked through shutdowns. I’ve witnessed them in Washington, and I’ve covered them for Pod Save America. What Johnson and the Republicans are doing—and why they’re doing it—is truly unconscionable.
It should be a national scandal."
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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"It’s a statement about life in the Trump era that a government shutdown is the most normal thing happening in politics.
If people were paying attention—or if the political press had the attention span and reach to cover the shutdown—the behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans would be a massive scandal."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/mike-johnsons-shutdown-strategy-is
Adelita Grijalva won her special election Sept 23rd.
She’s been prohibited from governing ever since.
Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.
Why? She’s the 218th vote needed to discharge the Epstein petition.
Today she was joined by the Democratic Women’s Caucus and they marched together to demand she be granted her constitutional right to govern.
The AG of Arizona has also threatened legal action against Mike Johnson if he does not swear her in.
Keep saying her name. Call your elected officials.
Let’s get Adelita to Congress!
#uspol #fascism #congress #epstein #mikejohnson #adelitagrijalva
Greg Lloyd
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#MikeJohnson Called Us Hateful. Meet the #Portland #Frog. How dancing protesters proved love defeats hate and why millions #march #October18 https://substack.com/inbox/post/175921873 The costumes also serve practical purposes: They provide protection from #teargas and #pepperspray; They make it visually obvious there are no #weapons; They show the #protests are #peaceful; They make protesting feel accessible to people who are #scared; And most importantly, they refuse to let #Trump set the emotional tone.
#MikeJohnson Called Us Hateful. Meet the #Portland #Frog. How dancing protesters proved love defeats hate and why millions #march #October18 https://substack.com/inbox/post/175921873 The costumes also serve practical purposes: They provide protection from #teargas and #pepperspray; They make it visually obvious there are no #weapons; They show the #protests are #peaceful; They make protesting feel accessible to people who are #scared; And most importantly, they refuse to let #Trump set the emotional tone.
Video posted on social media shows the moment #CharlieKirk was shot & the seconds leading to the incident. Kirk was being asked questions about #MassShootings in the #US.
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.
Speaker #MikeJohnson paused the #House in the middle of a series of votes to call for a moment of silence and prayer for #CharlieKirk.
Several Democrats objected, pointing out that the House had not given a #SchoolShooting in #Colorado earlier in the day the same treatment.
Also #Trump ordered all American flags to be lowered to half-staff until Sunday evening at 6PM in honor of Kirk, he didn’t mention the 3 students shot at Colorado #Evergreen HS.
Alex Akselrod
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#MikeJohnson Retreats on Demand for #JeffreyEpstein Disclosures, Saying #Trump Needs ‘Space’
The #Republican speaker of the #House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the #Epstein files, in a rare break with Trump that predictably turned out to be short-lived.
#law #rapist47#RapistInChief#CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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#MikeJohnson Retreats on Demand for #JeffreyEpstein Disclosures, Saying #Trump Needs ‘Space’
The #Republican speaker of the #House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the #Epstein files, in a rare break with Trump that predictably turned out to be short-lived.
#law #rapist47#RapistInChief#CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare