"The HSE has been idled for 30 minutes now after Republicans demanded that words of Rep McGovern D-MA be 'taken down.' McGovern spoke about Donald Trump & was admonished by the Chair before making this statement⬇️:
After an extended delay, the Chair rules that McGovern's words are out of order, seemingly saying members cannot even talk about criminal charges against Trump on the HSE floor. The words below were stricken from the Record."
-J Dupree
A RW operator is helping #TFG raise$, influence media... He invests in ‘patriotic’ ‘anti-woke’ bus' incl. one with Cambridge Analytica funder R Mercer that funded T Carlson...
Biden's funding of the IRS via the IRA, is paying off:
Wealthy taxpayers who haven’t filed in years are beginning to get their returns in order, even if they haven’t received collection notices. The IRS is going after rich taxpayers who haven’t been filing their returns, an announcement hailed as a sign the agency was getting back on track after Covid delays & decades of underfunding. Agency sent out 125K notices to those who should have filed.
#RWMedia, & most of MSM #media, have helped poison the brains of voters. The outlets have bashed Pres Biden, eclipsing what they did to HRC, while giving #TFG & Republicans undue credit:
"That’s right: A flat majority says that economic conditions in our country are “poor.” Even though they simultaneously say that their own lives are going pretty well."
The "2024 Steal" is underway. Who'll stop #TFG's plan to assume power whether he 'legitimately' wins, or not? R leaders continue to aid & abet him, with lies, sabotage...
Rs have passed laws allowing them to manipulate & change the location of polling places, criminalize voter reg. drives, replace Dem & nonpartisan election officials with partisan GOP hacks...
GOP: trying to organize an army of 100K RW warriors to “oversee” elections & challenge voters...
"Majorities know little or nothing about the Biden admin's INFRA bill, CHIPS act, ARP & IRA. While 40% of respondents said Biden has done more than Trump on INFRA, 37% said Trump had done more.
It's largely a media problem, large chunk is Fox News & Sinclair, their local affiliate, RW radio... If Biden did anything good, they won't hear it, but they'll hear lies, or gross distortions of the truth-."
The biggest GOP donors in America—Dick & Liz Uihlein—are targeting Tammy Baldwin. Their Super PAC is spending millions on a blatantly dishonest ad that'd to be recut due to inaccuracy🚨.
An ad declaring that Sen Baldwin voted to "cut MDCR funding & use that$ to subsidize EVs" was pulled & replaced with a new ad: Baldwin voted "to use MDCR$ for EV subsidies, instead of seniors."
Support Sen Baldwin & the other vulnerable Dem Senators & candidates.
Rs say they'll mobilize >100K ppl in battleground states. When Black or Hispanic voters show up to vote -Task Force officers are there to stop them before they enter the polling place, asking to see their voter reg. card & ID *with implied violence of police power.
RW extremist groups: QAnon, Proud Boys, Boogaloos & so-called militia grps, have all called for a physical presence at polling places-.
Trump: awarded 36M shares of $DJT stock worth $1.8B as an "earnout bonus."
His newly awarded shares, worth ~$1.8B, were valuated at Tues closing price of $49.93 *prohibited from selling the shares until a 6-mon lockup period expires.
He was rewarded with the shares for keeping the stock price above $17.50 for 20 straight trading days.
He now owns about 65% of $DJT *in the red -booked just $4.1M in rev. last yr.
Musk undercuts the Biden admin's EV charging initiative:
"Elon Musk has upended a deal the WH saluted early last year to open Tesla’s chargers to other automakers, dealing a blow to Pres Biden’s EV agenda.
Musk decided in the last week to eliminate almost the entire Supercharger team at Tesla. He hasn’t publicly confirmed the move or offered a rationale, but has said the co will slow the expansion of its charging network."
Suppressing the vote has been the goal of GOP leaders for decades. Their efforts are working:
Polling locations are supposed to be accessible to all voters -but ~1 in 5 polling locations is a church, -religious entities are exempt from the Disabilities Act. The prevalence of inaccessible polling places -alarming for disabled & aging ppl in states that have moved to quash mail-in voting—incl. OK & AK -churches make up >50% of voting locations.
Recently there've been a series of lawsuits aimed at undoing protections for election workers.
NV enacted a new Election Worker Protection Law to combat the⬆️ threats faced by election workers. Shortly after it was enacted: a failed R AG cand. filed a lawsuit to block the law.
AZ: RW orgs, incl. America First Policy Inst., are suing to block the anti-harassment provisions of AZ's Election Procedures Manual from going into effect.
Wealthy AIPAC & GOP donors are funding primary Dem candidates to defeat progressive Dem incumbents who've been supportive of Palestinians & have called for a #ceasefire. Many American's are supportive of Rep Bowman's views. Whether you like Bowman, or not, this attack is concerning.
"We need de-escalation, restraint, a lasting ceasefire, and diplomacy. It's the only way forward, not just for Palestinians & Israelis, but us all."
-Rep Bowman
Rep Scalise & GOP MOC are warmongering. They appear to want a regional war to hurt Pres Biden:
"House Majority leader Scalise called Netanyahu & said he supports any Israeli decision regarding a retaliation against IR, the Israeli PM office said. Netanyahu told Scalise that Israel will do whatever it needs to defend itself." -B Ravid
On X: "The House of Representatives stands strongly with Israel, & there must be consequences for this unprovoked attack." -S Scalise
When #MAGA Republicans hold power, the Constitution isn't upheld:
#DeathSantis signed a new law today that guts oversight of police.
The law furthers limit local civilian police oversight boards by barring them from investigating allegations of police misconduct. Police unions support the law -it protects the rights of officers. Critics: another blow to police accountability efforts already shackled by existing state laws giving cops extraordinary legal protections-.
The Republican AGs Assc. (#RAGA) is a pol org. that helps AGs in red🩸states to push extreme policies. They use their state’s legal power to end abortion access, assail LGBTQ+ rights, attack social justice, destroy our ENVIR, assault our democracy.
L Leo, the architect of the #MAGA hijacking of the SC that overturned Roe v Wade, has been RAGA’s biggest funder for years. Alongside Leo are Big: Oil & Gas, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, the Gun lobby...
Gov Abbott continues to militarize the border, wasting$, resources...
"TX has spent $10B on Operation Lone Star so far, which has had virtually no impact at all on overall migration across the southern border."
-A Reichlin-Melnick
TX is building a massive new $400M anti-migrant MIL base. The "Forward Operating Base” outside of Eagle Pass will house up to 1,800 NG members, incl. an armory & have "surge" capacity for 2,300 troops.
RW judges are taking away Americans' Constitutional rights🚨:
"AZ SC's decision: revives a 160-yr-old total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.
AZ Rs expanded their ST SC to entrench today's hard-right conservative majority. The AZ SC makes it clear that rape victims may no longer terminate their pregnancies within the state at any point, even at the very outset of pregnancy. Any AZ doctor who helps a rape victim obtain an abortion may now be imprisoned."
-MJ Stern
Rs push for more tax cuts, benefiting only the rich:
“The inevitable trillionaire isn't bc rich people are getting smarter or savvier at business. It’s a story of congressional capture & decades of policy failures. This is bad for everyone. Since Reagan, the US has lacked a tax mechanism to stop individual fortunes from growing wildly out of control, from becoming something akin to a black hole -devouring ever-greater portions of the nations’ economic pie.” #GOPSabotagehttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/wealth-inequality-trillionaires-oligarchy-federal-tax-policy/
#TFG has used mob tactics for >50 yrs. Republicans now employ them: MSM is still ignoring the threats.
OH GOP SOC says he will keep Pres Biden off the Nov election unless the DNC moves its convention up to early Aug. So when it came to Trump being barred from ballot by way of the #14A the GOP went ballistic but now the Ohio GOP is going to do this & nothing!
-D Obeidallah
Biden could face challenges getting on OH gen. ballot.
Pres Biden's economy is "GOLDILOCKS", but Republicans repeatedly tell voters that it's awful & that they & #TFG will make it better, like they did before. Their lies are significant, bc voters believe them:
Goldman: “We expect much stronger #GDP growth this year than consensus but nevertheless expect core PCE inflation to fall meaningfully, enough for the FOMC to cut 3X starting in Jun. We're often asked whether these forecasts aren’t contradictory.. We don’t think so.”