Yep. The way she phrased that, I could hear the warning tone in her voice. Quite possibly the warning tone her mother used.
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Someone looks like heâs trying to set up a 2028 prez run.
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Blockchain != secret
However, all the forensic accountants have probably been fired.
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Can they really âturn off the lightsâ in the white house? Iâd like to see that!
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Congress technically controls the purse strings of the government. So theoretically, I suppose they could. But letâs be real. Theyâre not going to. Congressional Republicans are not going to defy Trump, and Congressional Democrats canât do anything like that without support from some Republicans. It would only take a few in the House, but theyâd need 13 Republicans in the Senate to cross the aisle.
What Democrats can do, and arenât, is block appointments, and use their voice and influence in non-legislative ways, like Van Hollen just did.
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That response means one of two things:
- He wants to say itâs not true, but he canât because heâs worried that it might be.
- He knows full well that itâs 100% true, but he doesnât want it to be.
If it wasnât true, he knew it wasnât true, and he could have faith that there was no chance that it would become true, heâd just say so. But he didnât. SoâŚ
The True Believers would fullthroatedly agree that itâs a good thing and make something up if they didnât know, that would somehow still not be as bad as whatâs actually planned.
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Wow⌠this is⌠disingenuous⌠at best⌠âganged upâ on Chuck Grassley? Really?
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This interview with Congresswoman Sarah McBride on Pod Save America was really good and is the kind of thing I need to hear from our Democratic leaders right now.
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My US House rep is currently in El Salvador with two other Dems pressuring them to release Kilmer Albrego Garcia. Heâs not her constituent; sheâs just heard from her district that this is their #1 priority, so sheâs doing shat she can to make it happen.
It should be noted that, back during the campaign, she was criticized as ânot progressive enough.â Sheâd taken sizeable donations from AIPAC. The district she won is Oregonâs most progressive district, and her predecessor is Earl Blumenaur, Oregonâs most progressive representative in decades.
But hereâs the thing: she listens. And ultimately, real leadership is about listening, not telling. We saw that with Biden, who many criticized as not being progressive enough; yet he showed during his presidency that he listens. Even among Democrats, we need to reconfigure how we select our politicians away from people who talk well to people who listen well. Thatâs where true leadership comes from.
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He is Glenn Iveyâs constituent, same district where I live. I couldnât remember Ivey having anything to say about Abrego Garcia*, but now that Iâve looked, he says he is heading to El Salvador:
*Or, more generally, about any presence of ICE in his district:
Recently, the district has experienced large amounts of immigration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in Central America, leading to the district having the largest Latino population in Maryland and one of the largest Central American populations out of any district.[3] These racial transformations have turned the district into the most Democratic seat in Maryland and one of the most Democratic in the country
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