Apparently Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will host a town hall in her district. I don't believe her. She spent far less time in her congressional district since taking office. I guess my posts online saying she doesn't do much reached her staff.
I bet you money, Greene will face an onslaught of protesters and will be Loomed.
Even Vice President Kamala Harris went to Dalton, Georgia. She went to the state far more than Greene.
Greene is too busy trying build a career as an online troll. She goes to almost every Washed Up 45 rally. Attacks lawmakers, celebrities and public officials regularly.
She spends too much time on the internet. She spends far too much time dating her boyfriend Brian Glenn, a far right media agitator.
The 5'1" woman is a pint size bitch. She is an insufferable woman.
Now she is feuding with not only Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), her fellow insufferable bitch but Laura Loomer, a washed up media personality who is a known white supremacist. A perennial gadfly that has the most ugliest personality and looks to match.
Laura Loomer is mentally unstable and a documented liar.
She can not be trusted.
She spent months lying about me and attacking me just because I supported Kevin McCarthy for Speaker and after I had refused to endorse her last election cycle.
Now that I’m back on Twitter, I can set the record straight and defend myself from people like you with ulterior motives who are openly lying about me, when I’ve done nothing but support President Trump.
I’m not going to stand for being viciously defamed in the media and called a LIAR and TOXIC by someone who couldn’t keep their loyalty to their own husband and family.
Your word has no value. It’s why your husband divorced you.
Loomer is Islamophobic, racist and frankly a pathetic agent provocateur.
Washed Up 45 considered her a feisty lawmaker. He was considering hiring her on his youth and nationalist vote.
The war of words was sparked by a The New York Times report that said Washed Up 45 had told aides to hire Loomer, a self-described "proud Islamophobe" who has promoted COVID-19 misinformation.
Greene took to Twitter on Friday to say Loomer is "mentally unstable and a documented liar" who "can not be trusted."
The Georgia Republican listed various complaints about Loomer, including claims that the activist attacked her for supporting Kevin McCarthy's bid for House speaker and for not endorsing Loomer in her most recent congressional campaign.
She also claimed that Loomer loves "weirdo" Nick Fuentes, the conservative firebrand and white supremacist who Washed Up 45 had a controversial dinner with in November along with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
"Never hire or do business with a liar. Liars are toxic and poisonous to everything they touch. I'll make sure he knows," Greene said about Loomer.
Loomer responded with multiple tweets attacking Greene, calling her a liar and describing her behavior as "not very "Christian."
Loomer shared a video of the congresswoman praising her in 2018, and claimed that she had screenshots of Greene promising to endorse her for Congress and accused her of changing her mind after she "made deals with McCarthy."
She also criticized Greene for hiring Milo Yiannopoulos, a British alt-right provocateur, to intern for her last year, and accused her of not doing enough to attack Washed Up 45's rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
After Greene and other MAGA world figures reacted negatively to The New York Times report, a high-ranking campaign official told the paper that Loomer was no longer going to be hired.
The controversial activist was barred from ride-hail apps Lyft and Uber and temporarily banned from Twitter for making bigoted comments in 2019. Musk reinstated her in 2022.
It is not clear what sparked their feud. Greene and Loomer once publicly praised and defended one another, but the relationship has since soured.
Judge Matthew Cockinazz denies women reproductive freedom.
The federal judge who issued his decision on access to women's health and reproductive rights is expected to have round the clock U.S. Marshal protection. He made a decision that will piss off a lot of medical providers and women who need to have access to safe procedures. President Joe Biden confirms that the federal government will appeal the decision.
A judge appointed by Washed Up 45 issued his long awaited and expected decision.
The American Bar Association rated this federal judge "qualified" for the nomination, which is the association's second-highest ranking, below "well qualified”. They made a mistake.
Access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. plunged into uncertainty Friday following conflicting court rulings over the legality of the abortion medication mifepristone that has been widely available for more than 20 years.
For now, the drug the Food and Drug Administration approved in 2000 appeared to remain at least immediately available in wake of two separate rulings that were issued just minutes apart by federal judges in Texas and Washington.
Washed Up 45's appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered a hold on federal approval of mifepristone in a decision that overruled decades of scientific approval. But that decision came at nearly same time that U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee, essentially ordered the opposite and directed U.S. authorities not to make any changes that would restrict access to the drug in at least 17 states where Democrats sued in an effort to protect availability.
According to The Washington Post, conservative groups have employed "forum shopping" in filing lawsuits within Kacsmaryk's federal district against many Biden administration's policies; since Kacsmaryk is the only federal judge in his district, any lawsuit filed there is guaranteed to be presided over by him.
In 2021, Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of a Trump administration policy that required that asylum seekers wait outside U.S. territory while their claims are processed. In his order, he said that the Biden administration had ended the policy without fully considering the consequences. His decision was overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 30, 2022.
In November 2022, Kacsmaryk ruled that the Biden administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act while misinterpreting the Affordable Care Act to enforce the prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity within "on the basis of sex".
Also in 2022, Kacsmaryk vacated protections for transgender workers enacted by the Biden administration, citing Bostock v. Clayton County saying that Title VII "prohibits employers from discriminating against employees for being gay or transgender, "but not necessarily [in the case of] all correlated conduct."
Judge Kacsmaryk's decision affects millions.
The extraordinary timing of the competing orders revealed the high stakes surrounding the drug nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and curtailed access to abortion across the country.
The Justice Department swiftly gave notice it would appeal the Texas ruling and said it was reviewing the decision from Washington.
Abortion providers slammed the Texas ruling, including Whole Woman’s Health, which operates six clinics in five states and said it would continue to dispense mifepristone in person and by mail over the next week as they review the rulings.
“FDA is under one order that says you can do nothing and another that says in seven days I’m going to require you to vacate the approval of mifepristone,” said Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School.
The abortion drug has been widely used in the U.S. since securing FDA approval and there is essentially no precedent for a lone judge overruling the medical decisions of the Food and Drug Administration. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions.
Kacsmaryk signed an injunction directing the FDA to stay mifepristone’s approval while a lawsuit challenging the safety and approval of the drug continues. His 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal.
“Today’s decision overturns the FDA’s expert judgment, rendered over two decades ago, that mifepristone is safe and effective,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said. “The Department will continue to defend the FDA’s decision.”
Clinics and doctors that prescribe the two-drug combination have said that if mifepristone were pulled from the market, they would switch to using only the second drug, misoprostol. That single-drug approach has a slightly lower rate of effectiveness in ending pregnancies, but it is widely used in countries where mifepristone is illegal or unavailable.
The lawsuit in the Texas case was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was also involved in the Mississippi case that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned. At the core of the lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because it did not adequately review its safety risks.
Courts have long deferred to the FDA on issues of drug safety and effectiveness. But the agency’s authority faces new challenges in a post-Roe legal environment in which abortions are banned or unavailable in 14 states, while 16 states have laws specifically targeting abortion medications.
Since the Texas lawsuit was filed in November, legal experts have warned of questionable arguments and factual inaccuracies in the Christian group’s filing. Kacsmaryk essentially agreed with the plaintiffs on all of their major points, including that the FDA didn’t adequately review mifepristone’s safety.
“The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly.” Kacsmaryk wrote. “But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns — in violation of its statutory duty — based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.”
Mifepristone has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years, and complications from mifepristone occur at a lower rate than that seen with wisdom teeth removal, colonoscopies and other routine medical procedures, medical groups have recently noted.
Elsewhere, Kacsmaryk sided with plaintiffs in stating that the FDA overstepped its authority in approving mifepristone, in part, by using a specialized review process reserved for drugs to treat “serious or life-threatening illnesses.” The judge brushed aside FDA arguments that its own regulations make clear that pregnancy is a medical condition that can sometimes be serious and life-threatening, instead calling it a natural process essential to perpetuating human life.
Anti-abortion groups, which are newly encouraged about their ability to further restrict abortion and prevail in court since last’s year’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, embraced the Texas ruling.
“The court’s decision today is a major step forward for women and girls whose health and safety have been jeopardized for decades by the FDA’s rushed, flawed and politicized approval of these dangerous drugs,” said March for Life President Jeanne Mancini.
Legal experts warned that the ruling could upend decades of precedent, setting the stage for political groups to overturn other FDA approvals of controversial drugs and vaccines.
“This has never happened before in history — it’s a huge deal,” said Greer Donley, a professor specializing in reproductive health care at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. “You have a federal judge who has zero scientific background second guessing every scientific decision that the FDA made.”
Still, because of the contradictory nature of the rulings, Greer and other experts said there would be little immediate impact.
“In the short term, nothing’s going to change,” Greer said. “This is the time to be preparing for the fact that in a week, potentially, mifepristone becomes an unapproved drug in this country.”
These so called pro-life groups are not lifting a fucking finger to stop gun violence. They care about fetuses and religious freedom. Yet, they have zero fucks for the poverty of families or the threats of the gun violence a child in poverty faces.
They care only about preserving white supremacy. They do not care about Black babies because they automatically assume they're criminals at birth.
This judge is a man. He doesn't know what a woman goes through when they're pregnant.
It is a damn shame that Americans like this dumb ass judge and the so called pro life groups are fucking busy meddling in the business of others. Parading fascism and ethno nationalism under guise of protecting lives.
The jobs report for the month of March is out. The tech sector has taken the worst. Still some fear a recession is coming.
Nonfarm payrolls growth in March was about in line with expectations, but showed signs that the jobs picture is in the early stages of a slowdown.
The Labor Department reported Friday that payrolls grew by 236,000 for the month, compared to the Dow Jones estimate for 238,000 and below the upwardly revised 326,000 in February.
The unemployment rate ticked lower to 3.5%, against expectations that it would hold at 3.6%, with the decrease coming as labor force participation increased to its highest level since before the Covid pandemic.
Leisure and hospitality led sectors with growth of 72,000 jobs, below the 95,000 pace of the past six months. Government (47,000), professional and business services (39,000) and health care (34,000) also posted solid increases. Retail saw a loss of 15,000 positions.
While the February report was revised up from its initially reported 311,000, January’s number moved lower to 472,000, a reduction of 32,000 from the last estimate.
Being laid off or being fired from a job really sucks. Take it from me, I hate it. I am stable but I hate the two jobs I am working at. They don't pay enough and I based my whole life around them and nothing else. It has to come to an end soon.
Nonetheless, it will get better and I believe there will be something better down the line.
As expected, for the 50 states, District of Columbia and five U.S. territories; the jobs are given to places far and wide.
The unfortunate side of a jobs report is the aftermath.
An alternative measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons edged lower to 6.7%. The household survey, which is used to calculate the unemployment rate, was much stronger than the establishment survey, showing growth of 577,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate for Blacks tumbled 0.7 percentage points to a record low 5%, according to data going back to 1972.
The report comes amid a bevy of signs that job creation is on wane.
Inflation has trickled down slightly.
The OPEC nations have announced a cutback to oil production and it could lead to a Summer of high gas prices. Of course, Republicans will push for more drilling and force President Joe Biden to open up drilling on federal lands.
Democrats are furious in Tennessee as two state lawmakers were expelled after they joined protesters calling for gun reform in the wake of a mass shooting in a Nashville Christian school.
Keeping her happy keeps him the Speaker.
A Democrat from North Carolina defected to the Republicans giving the party immediate control of the state capitol.
Republicans are passing a "parent's right bill" which is aimed at transgender Americans.
They also have pressured Manhattan, New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Last Thursday, the Manhattan District Attorney formally indicted Washed Up 45 on 34 criminal charges of fraud and falsification of documents. The former president has pleaded not guilty. The judge ordered the former president to not threaten anyone or face a gag order. The former president ignored it.
Dominion Voting Systems will head to trial in mid-April. They are suing far right entities like Fox, Newsmax, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow's CEO Mike Lindell.
Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Janine Pirro and Sean "Softball" Hannity maybe forced to testify under oath. Fox has allowed misinformation spread throughout the years. This defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion could shape how networks spread opinion, news and misinformation.
Gun violence is still a major issue. There are 166 mass shootings so far and we're nearly 100 days into year 2023.
Asa Hutchinson has announced he intents on running for president. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a conspiracy theorist and possible Republican masquerading as a Democrat is challenging President Joe Biden in the primary.
With Washed Up 45 being the first indicted president, Republicans seek revenge. Instead of working on making the country move forward, they pivoted to culture wars.
Democrats are quietly planning on retaking Congress.
Republicans already signal impeachment, national abortion bans, more guns on the streets, ending birthright citizenship, stopping the Biden pledge to cancel student debt, use taxpayer money to build a border wall, ban transgender people from playing gender based sports, start endless investigations into the president, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Big Tech, the FBI, the pull out in Afghanistan, repeal the Affordable Care Act, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, end COVID pandemic assistance and enforce voter ID laws on all Americans.
Republicans see the only path to victory is basically obstruct and complain about the president. They won't offer solutions or policies. All they care about is trying to keep folks angry with culture wars and distractions.
President Joe Biden's headaches:
The Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Gun violence and Congress not doing anything to stop it.
Inflation.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. George Santos (R-NY), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO).
Republican governors Ron DeSantis, Kay Ivey, Greg Abbott, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Bill Lee, Glenn Youngkin, Kristie Noem, Kim Reynolds, Brian Kemp, Brad Little and Greg Gianforte
The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
Anti-Vaxxers.
Lawmakers and activists who protest the CDC guidelines during the pandemic.
The endless culture wars that Republicans find outrage in.
Washed Up 45 and his minions on Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the internet.
Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. The idiots who run it and the idiots who post on it.
Fox, The Daily Mail, Newsmax and OANN's relentless talk about conspiracies. The endless attacks on the president's age, First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden and the conspiracies about the president's mental capacity and health.
The endless racism towards Biden's allies Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Barack Obama.
The relentless talk about spending despite the former president's reckless spending.
The lack of civility towards fellow Americans.
Vladimir Putin.
Xi Jinping.
Kim Jong-Un.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Alexander Lukashenko
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about your business, your performances, your personal finances and travel. It doesn't care about the funerals, the birthday parties, the weddings, the vacations, the events and your graduations.
An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.
You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.
Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in.
Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!
DEAD
BORN
THE PANDEMIC
CLIMATE CHANGE
IN PRISON
IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
IN HIGH SCHOOL
IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING
VOLUNTEER
DISABLED
INFLATION
STAY AT HOME PARENT
RETIRED
QUIT ON THEIR OWN
TERMINATED FROM EMPLOYMENT
NOT HIRING UNQUALIFIED
NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
ACTIVE MILITARY
NATURAL DISASTERS
MASS SHOOTINGS DISRUPT DAILY ROUTINE
BEING LAID OFF DUE TO CLOSING OR STAFF REDUCTION
DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY OR PROPRETY
OUTSOURCING JOBS TO OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
BEING UNDOCUMENTED IN FEAR OF I.C.E. OR U.S. AGENCIES
BEING PUBLICLY OUTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DOING SHAMEFUL ACTS
PARTICIPATING IN UNCIVIL OR VIOLENT PROTESTS
Jobs are looking good despite fears of an economic slowdown.
Companies are still trying to hire employees. With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to returning to a job that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour. Matter of fact, no one can survive on $15 an hour.
Republicans don't see the bigger picture itself. They rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people collecting the safety net and not going back to work.
Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market.
Republicans zeroed towards white nationalism.
We can't always assume that folks are lazy. People are literally dying from being exposed to the coronavirus and folks are tired of the status quo of their jobs.
Many single mothers are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.
Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.
Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience.
Washed Up 45's presidency and Republican controlled governments killed millions of Americans. Biden has a slim majority in Congress and things can't be done with obstruction from both parties.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that women deserve the right to safe medical procedures. Let them know that their failure to pass legislation to lower prices are the reasons why the economy is in a free fall.
A non violent protest leads to two Black state lawmakers being removed.
Prayers, sending condolences, lowering flags, moments of silence, taking a knee, showboating and photo ops do not save lives. Having more armed individuals will not stop a gunman who has a goddamn AR-15.
As Kid Rock's dumb ass shown in videos, those firearms blow up things.
Imagine how many people heads are blown off from a high powered firearm!
The Republicans who hold a supermajority in Tennessee legislature voted to remove two of three House Democrats from office. Their reason for removal, violations of decor.
The very fact that the two removed were Black men and one who survived was white shows how Republicans are the party of white nationalism. Their policies are not popular among most Americans. They rather have you focused on culture wars instead focusing on real issues like gun violence, protecting democracy and fixing the economy.
For them, they believe "cancel culture" only means ban Democrats, progressives and those who support them.
The three protested with gun control advocates on the steps of the state capitol andmit riled up the Republicans. The House Republican which control most of the state had its resolution to remove two of the lawmakers.
State Reps. Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, who were expelled, and Rep. Gloria Johnson -- faced separate expulsion hearings Thursday for allegedly violating the chamber's rules of decorum by participating in a gun control protest at the state Capitol last week.
At one point during the protest, the trio stood at the well of the House chambers, leading chants with a megaphone. The demonstration came in the wake of the deadly Covenant School shooting in Nashville on March 27, where a former student fatally shot three children and three adults, police have said.
Days later, Tennessee Republican Reps. Bud Hulsey, Gino Bulso and Andrew Farmer sponsored the expulsion resolutions, arguing the three Democratic lawmakers "did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives through their individual and collective actions."
Jones, the first lawmaker expelled when House members voted to adopt HR65 Thursday, called the resolution "a spectacle" and "a lynch mob assembled to not lynch me, but our democratic process."
"We called for you all to ban assault weapons and you respond with an assault on democracy," Jones said during his 20-minute opening statement.
Justin Pearson and Justin Jones were expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Following the adoption of the expulsion resolution, Jones said his ouster set a "precedent that any member who voices dissent or opposition can be expelled from the legislative body."
"Today is a very dangerous day for America," he said in a hallway interview after the vote.
Pearson, who sang "Power to the People" and quoted from the Bible during his opening statement, called the resolution to remove him an "injustice against the First Amendment."
"Speaking up on behalf of the last, the lost, the least, those who've been left out, those who've been ignored, those who've been silenced but refuse to be silent anymore, that does not deserve expulsion from this House," he said before he was expelled from the chamber Thursday evening.
During her hearing, Johnson, the sole lawmaker to survive the expulsion resolutions, denied allegations that she "shouted" from the well during the demonstration last week. But she maintained that she joined the protest, breaching House decorum, in a needed effort to stir "good trouble."
"My friends in school all called me 'Little Miss Law and Order' because I'm a rule-follower, and I know that rules sometimes have to be broken and sometimes you have to get in good trouble," she said.
The reason why I am still here is because I'm white. I am showing solidarity with Justin Pearson and Justin Jones.
"I may have broken a rule, but the words in this document are false and I did what I was compelled to do based on speaking for the voters in my district who were begging me to bring this issue forward," she later added, gesturing at HR64, which would have expelled her from the legislative body.
Following the votes, Republican Speaker Cameron Sexton, who previously accused the trio of attempting to incite an insurrection, said he personally voted for all three Democratic members to be expelled.
"I think what you heard on the House floor today is that those members took away the voice of this chamber for 45 minutes when they were on the House floor, leading the protest to those and disrupting the business that we were doing," he said in an interview with NewsNation. "What I will say is there are consequences for action."
The three Republican lawmakers who introduced the expulsion resolutions, Hulsey, Bulso and Farmer, did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Earlier in the Thursday session, the legislature passed HB322, a bill that requires schools to implement a number of safety plans and security systems, including requiring locked doors and active shooter training for school security guards, over the objections of the three members who faced expulsion.
"This bill is not about school safety," Jones said, adding the move to "make our schools militarized zones" is borne out of refusal "to address the real issue, which is easy access to military grade weapons."
Johnson, a former teacher, decried the possibility of "gun battles at our schoolhouse door," while Pearson argued that "the root cause that each of us have to address is this gun violence epidemic."
"We don't need a solution that says if you don't lock a door or get someone with a gun, we need a solution that says people shouldn't be going to schools and to houses and to neighborhoods with weapons of war," Pearson added.
President Joe Biden said in a statement that the move to oust the lawmakers was "shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent," arguing Republicans in Tennessee were focused on punishing lawmakers who "stood in solidarity with students and families and helped lift their voices" rather than pushing for gun control reforms.
Since the Civil War, the Tennessee state House has voted only twice to expel a member.
But the effort to expel the three Tennessee lawmakers is one of several recent moves by state legislatures to penalize lawmakers of underrepresented backgrounds taking a stand on progressive causes.
For example, Oklahoma Republicans removed the state’s only nonbinary legislator from House committees after the lawmaker provided refuge to a transgender rights activist.
As of Thursday, the trio of Democratic lawmakers said they have already lost ID access to the state Capitol and been stripped of any committee assignments.
But Pearson and Jones, flanked by their fellow Democratic lawmakers as they heard the results of their expulsion votes, said they remain undeterred in fighting for their constituents.
"We're gonna keep fighting for people in Nashville and Memphis, across the state of Tennessee and across the United States of America who want justice. We deserve it. This is our birthright. Our inheritance is not just some pieces of paper and constitutions and rules," Pearson said in a hallway interview following his expulsion. "It is the advocacy and the ability to protest for what is right and to create laws and to advocate for laws that make justice more possible."
Jones addressed his Republican colleagues directly during his hearing.
"My prayer to you, is that even if you expel me that you still act to address the crisis of mass shootings because if I'm expelled from here, I'll be back out there with the people, every week, demanding that you act," he said.
After 2022, the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives. They hold a five seat majority and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) became the House Speaker. In the three months since taking over, the Republican Party passed legislation that has nothing to do with the economy.
Even if they do pass any legislation that deals with the economy, any spending cuts that go against the Democratic-controlled Senate will no advance. And if it goes against President Joe Biden's policies, it will be vetoed.
So far the 118th Congress has been lackluster to say the least. Many of the House bills involve abortion, anti-LGBTQ, lowering taxes, the U.S.-Mexican border and energy production which means oil drilling.
About 80% of the Republican passed bills stand little progress in the Senate.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called upon Republicans to find bipartisan bills and end the unnecessary showboating.
With the Republicans fearing the young voters, the legislature they're passing at the state level increases guns, illegal gerrymandering, bans on books, bans on independent teaching, bans on transgender services and voting restrictions.
They want more Americans to provide identification to vote. They don't accept the word of a voter anymore in many states states Republican control.
They have Americans angry over woke, the indictment of Washed Up 45, transgender people and crime. They whip up phony outrage over border agents and their apprehensions of migrants and fentanyl as "weak border protection."
They claim that transgender people are destroying families.
They have stated that Blacks were better off as slaves. Some believe the Democrats keep Blacks on the plantation.
They claimed that under Washed Up 45 leadership, the economy was great. They literally ignored the pandemic, the unrest and the complete idiocy.
In America, a bunch of white folks show the world what gun violence does.
These weapons of mass destruction have shown to be the choice for mass shooters. They can easily use them to wipe out at least five lives within seconds of fire.
Washed up entertainer Kid Rock showed the world how an assualt rifle destroys human bodies. In a rant going after Anheuser-Busch, Kid Rock was shouting and screaming at Dylan Mulvaney and Drew Barrymore.
He ends up shooting up a bunch of Bud Light beer cans and it showed the massive destruction. The moron explicitly shows what mass shooters do when they kill innocent lives.
Mulvaney, a 26 year old transgender activist and social media influencer announced she will be spokeswoman for Bud Light.
Libs of TikTok (Chaya Raichik) and the far right were outraged over it. So now, they decided to "boycott" Bud Light by dumping their $15 boxes of 12 or $28 boxes of 24 into the drain.
Boycotting is their right.
However, they are fucking stupid to be outraged over an endorsement.
Mulvaney has faced backlash over her transition. In recent weeks, she appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show and Drew kneeled to Dylan to show solidarity with her journey.
Fox and many far right extremists resorted to labeling Dylan a "man."
Kid Rock used several Bud Light cases for target practice on Monday, shooting them with a rifle in response to the news that beer maker Anheuser-Busch made a transgender woman a Bud Light spokesperson.
After destroying several dozen beers with some heavy firepower, the performer turned to the camera and declared "Fuck Bud Light and fuck Anheuser-Busch!"
Rock’s explosive statement happened after the beer company sent a pack of Bud Light to transgender woman and activist Dylan Mulvaney with her face on it over the weekend. The biological male has been celebrating "365 Days of Girlhood," marking each day up to a year, since undergoing her transition from male to female.
The camera then immediately panned to reveal Rock holding a rifle and taking aim at several Bud Light cases laid out on a table about fifteen yards in front of him.
In an intense burst of gunfire, the musician tore through the beer cans, spraying foam and sparks everywhere. When he stopped firing, the table was drenched in beer and blue can fragments were strewn about.
The camera then panned back to Rock, who turned around, flipped the bird at the camera and said, "Fuck Bud Light and fuck Anheuser-Busch! Have a terrific day." The video ended with one last look at the beer can carnage he left.
In less than 12 hours, Rock’s video had already received more than eight million views.
Dylan Mulvaney gets a sponsorship and the far right outraged.
Anheuser-Busch has since responded to the backlash generated by making Mulvaney a Bud Light partner. In a statement to Fox News, the company explained, "Anheuser-Busch works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics and passion points."
An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.
The shooter is motivated within seconds to take out as many people as he/she can.
Culture wars that have nothing to what's really going on in the U.S. in general. Gun violence is the most common problem in the United States. Over 145 people die a day from gun violence.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanics and Asians shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left. Of course, extremists often promote disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox and they force it into national news.
Republicans solutions are more guns, blame others for America's social ills and defect from accepting reality.
With Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, the only thing they'll offer to every mass shooting is "thoughts and prayers", "our hearts going out to", "the good guy with a gun", and their most common phrase "now it's not the time to politicize these tragedies."
Use the hashtag #ignorethenoise whenever you deal with folks who embrace this.
This Red Wave the Republicans are talking about in 2024 is looking unlikely. Given that Democrats will have to defend five seats in states that Washed Up 45 carried, it will be a challenge for the them and President Joe Biden.
Nonetheless, Democrats are motivated this year.
For the first time in 15 years, the Supreme Court elected a progressive jurist.
Another defeat for the far right and its poster boy Scott Presler.
Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, giving liberals their first majority on the state’s highest court in 15 years.
Protasiewicz defeated conservative Dan Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, on Tuesday in what became the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history and one of the most closely watched elections of 2023.
Protasiewicz’s victory will allow the court’s new liberal majority to determine the future of several pivotal issues the bench is likely to decide in the coming years, including abortion rights, the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps and election administration — including, possibly, the outcome of the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state.
With 85% of the expected vote counted, Protasiewicz had the support of 55% percent of voters, while Kelly had 45% percent.
Conservative-leaning justices hold a 4-3 majority on the court. Protasiewicz will fill the seat being vacated by retiring conservative Justice Patience Roggensack, giving liberals the majority for the first time since 2008. Protasiewicz was elected to a 10-year term.
Throughout her campaign, Protasiewicz made it clear that her positions on many issues — most prominently abortions rights — aligned with those of the Democratic Party. She was endorsed by the Democratic abortion rights group Emily’s List, Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder and several other prominent Democrats.
Democrats in the state, and nationally, described the race as the most important one in the country this year, and they focused their messaging on emphasizing abortion rights and fair elections — extending a strategy the national party used last year to fend off a red wave in the House and keep the Senate. The win by Protasiewicz suggests that the strategy continues to pay off for the party — a data point national Democrats will be all but certain to rely on heading into next year’s presidential election.
State Democrats and abortion rights groups lauded her win in the moments after NBC News called the race for her. Ben Wikler, the chair of the state Democratic Party, tweeted that the race was "a release valve for twelve years of Democratic rage in Wisconsin about Republicans rigging our state and smashing our democracy." Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily's List, a group that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights, said in a statement to NBC News that Protasiewicz’s win "will change the lives of Wisconsinites for years to come and give the state the opportunity to become a beacon of reproductive health care access."
Another significant factor was that the Protasiewicz campaign, as well as groups supporting it, widely outspent Kelly’s campaign and groups supporting it.
In her victory speech from Milwaukee, Protasiewicz praised voters for having “chosen to reject partisan extremism in this state” and said, “Our democracy will always prevail.”
“Too many have tried to overturn the will of the people,” she added in a veiled reference to attacks she made against Kelly during the campaign for his ties to a plot to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.
“Today’s results show that Wisconsinites believe in democracy and the democratic process,” she said.
Kelly, who lost his seat on the state Supreme Court in 2020 to liberal Jill Karofsky, faced relentless attacks from Protasiewicz and allied groups for having advised Republicans on legal efforts to overturn the 2020 race through the use of “fake electors.”
Kelly, in a blistering speech to supporters in the small town of Green Lake, acknowledged his loss but slammed Protasiewicz for having run what he called "the mostly deeply deceitful, dishonorable, despicable campaign I’ve ever seen run for the courts."
“The people of Wisconsin have chosen the rule of Janet. I respect that decision because it is theirs to make," Kelly said.
“I wish I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent," he added, "but I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede."
He ended his remarks with another jab, saying he wished Wisconsin luck, "because I think it's going to need it."
In a deposition to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, former Wisconsin GOP chairman Andrew Hitt said he and Kelly had “pretty extensive conversations” about the plan, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported last month that the Republican Party at the state and national levels had paid Kelly $120,000 to advise them on “election integrity” issues.
Kelly repeatedly hit back against the accusations and denied any involvement in the matter.
At the center of the race, however, was abortion rights.
The state Supreme Court is widely expected to decide the fate of the state’s restrictive 1849 abortion law in the near term.
Several of Protasiewicz’s television advertisements emphasized her support for abortion rights and slammed “extremists” on the other side. Kelly, who refrained from saying how he would rule in such a case, was endorsed by three groups that oppose abortion rights, and he provided counsel to another Wisconsin group that opposes abortion rights.
The state Supreme Court is also likely to hear various challenges to existing election laws, as well as cases that might relate to recounts, absentee ballots and other facets of election administration that could have material impacts on the outcomes of close elections in the perpetual battleground state — including the 2024 presidential election.
Daniel Kelly bitter to the last drop.
For example, in a 4-3 decision last year, the state Supreme Court deemed all ballot drop boxes outside of election clerks’ offices illegal — a setback for Democrats, who had advocated to preserve one of the more lenient rules about the boxes that arose during the coronavirus pandemic. Two years earlier, the court, in another 4-3 vote, narrowly upheld the 2020 election results in the state. Court watchers predict similar cases in the future.
Other issues that could make it before the court in the coming years are challenges to Act 10, a law enacted by then-Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, that eliminated collective bargaining for most public workers. It could also hear cases about redrawn legislative maps (the current map, which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the country, was approved by the current state Supreme Court last year). As is the case in many states, in Wisconsin, if the governor and the Legislature cannot agree on legislative maps, the issue falls to the state Supreme Court.
Protasiewicz made her stance clear, saying at a debate: “I think the map issue is really kind of easy, actually. I don’t think anybody thinks both maps are fair.”
Meanwhile, Wisconsin voters Tuesday also approved a constitutional amendment that could make it more difficult for suspects in violent crimes to be released from jail on bail. Protasiewicz and Kelly had supported the proposed amendment.
Fun fact: There are African Americans mayors in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Dallas, Charlotte, Baltimore, Milwaukee and Kansas City.
The noise of the far left helped a candidate that will be vilified by the far right.
Brandon Johnson became the mayor-elect of Chicago. The third largest U.S. city has become the scapegoat for crime and Republicans often use the city as a wedge issue against Democrats.
It will be a test for Johnson.
Johnson, a union organizer and former teacher, was elected as Chicago’s next mayor Tuesday in a major victory for the Democratic Party’s progressive wing as the heavily blue-leaning city grapples with high crime and financial challenges.
Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, won a close race over former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, who was backed by the police union. Johnson, 47, will succeed Lori Lightfoot, the first Black woman and first openly gay person to be the city’s mayor.
Lightfoot became the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose her reelection bid when she finished third in a crowded February contest.
Bernie Sanders managed to carry his endorsement to victory.
Johnson’s victory in the nation’s third-largest city topped a remarkable trajectory for a candidate who was little known when he entered the race last year. He climbed to the top of the field with organizing and financial help from the politically influential Chicago Teachers Union and high-profile endorsements from progressive Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Sanders appeared at a rally for Johnson in the final days of the race.
Taking the stage Tuesday night for his victory speech, a jubilant Johnson thanked his supporters for helping usher in “a new chapter in the history of our city.” He promised that under his administration, the city would look out for everyone, regardless of how much money they have, whom they love or where they come from.
“Tonight is the beginning of a Chicago that truly invests in all of its people,” Johnson said.
Johnson, who is Black, recalled growing up in a poor family, teaching at a school in Cabrini Green, a notorious former public housing complex, and shielding his kids from gunfire in their west side neighborhood.
He referenced Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and called his victory a continuation of their legacies. He also noted that he was speaking on the anniversary of King’s assassination.
“Today the dream is alive,” Johnson said, “and so today we celebrate the revival and the resurrection of the city of Chicago.”
It was a momentous win for progressive organizations such as the teachers union, with Johnson winning the highest office of any active teachers union member in recent history, leaders say. It comes as groups such as Our Revolution, a powerful progressive advocacy organization, push to win more offices in local and state office, including in upcoming mayoral elections in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Paul Vallas backed by the Chicago police union was defeated.
Speaking to supporters Tuesday night, Vallas said that he had called Johnson and that he expected him to be the next mayor. Some in the crowd seemed to jeer the news, but Vallas urged them to put aside differences and support the next mayor in “the daunting work ahead.”
“This campaign that I ran to bring the city together would not be a campaign that fulfills my ambitions if this election is going to divide us,” Vallas said.
He added that he had offered Johnson his full support in the transition.
The contest surfaced longstanding tensions among Democrats, with Johnson and his supporters blasting Vallas — who was endorsed by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the chamber’s second-ranking Democrat — as too conservative and a Republican in disguise.
Johnson and Vallas were the top two vote-getters in the all-Democrat but officially nonpartisan February race, which moved to the runoff because no candidate received over 50%. Both candidates have deep roots in the Democratic Party, though with vastly different backgrounds and views.
After teaching middle and high school, Johnson helped mobilize teachers, including during a historic 2012 strike through which the Chicago Teachers Union increased its organizing muscle and influence in city politics.
Vallas, who finished first in the February contest, was the only white candidate in that nine-person field. A former Chicago budget director, he later led schools in Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has run unsuccessfully for office multiple times, including a 2019 bid for Chicago mayor.
Among the biggest disputes between Johnson and Vallas was how to address crime. Like many U.S. cities, Chicago saw violent crime increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, hitting a 25-year high of 797 homicides in 2021, though the number decreased last year and the city has a lower murder rate than others in the Midwest, such as St. Louis.
Vallas, 69, said he would hire hundreds more police officers, while Johnson said he didn’t plan to cut the number of officers, but that the current system of policing isn’t working. Johnson was forced to defend past statements expressing support for “defunding” police — something he insisted he would not do as mayor.
But Johnson argued that instead of investing more in policing and incarceration, the city should focus on mental health treatment, affordable housing for all and jobs for youth. He has proposed a plan he says will raise $800 million by taxing “ultrarich” individuals and businesses, including a per-employee “head tax” on employers and an additional tax on hotel room stays. Vallas says that so-called “tax-the-rich” plan would be a disaster for the city’s recovering economy.
