Has anyone written a coherent, good-faith argument *against* a ban on stock trading by members of Congress, or in favor of the status quo? What is the argument lawmakers use when explaining why they don't want a vote on the matter? Having trouble finding.

This looks far away for many of you. But it is exactly the same everywhere. Chickens are bred in a shed for 6-8 weeks. Thrown in crates and slaughtered. Your chicken had a miserable life. 99% of all chickens are factory fHarmed. #EndAnimalAgriculture #LiveVegan have compassion🙏

-Bust up monopolies -Boost unions -$20/hr fed minimum wage -Ban Wall Street from buying homes -Pass M4A -Universal childcare -Get rid of Trump’s tariffs -Enact UBI -Tax the rich These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

Release the Epstein files.

Release the #Epstein files NOW! Wealthy rapists are still free, committing violent crimes.

More of this nationwide please!

Known as the "quiet lawyer," Jack MacDonald lived a very frugal and private life.Only when he passed away in 2013, did it emerge that he had secretly donated nearly all of his $187 million fortune to children’s hospitals, schools, and programs for youth. A life you could truly call meaningful.

Kressly: So let’s talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces, and it can be spread through touch—from someone who is shedding the virus to someone else. So when we’re in situations where we can’t know 100% who is at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.

They want a recount for that Tennessee election. Some ballots mysteriously appeared towards the end of the Election Day. I say recount for sure. How many times did they recount when republicans believed there was fraud in an election? Many! Just do it.

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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

We can't have nice things, because a large portion of voters in this country, don't understand that they're voting for their enemy unawares. Learn, dammit learn. Stop voting for poverty. It's insane. 🤦 Kick out these parasitic crooks!! (they're feeding on us all) Life can be so much more....

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

NEW: Carol Loennig tells Nicoll Wallace on MSNOW that the DOJ intends to try and indict Letitia James a THIRD time. The trouble with that is these multiple tries help James prove her vindictive and selective prosecution bid, and bolster a case to get the grand jury materials.

If you’re looking for a job in the Trump Administration, loyalty to MAGA is the only required skill. @thelisagraves.bsky.social joined me for a new episode of Making the Case to discuss MAGA madness and dark-money mischief. open.spotify.com/episode/0Q2O... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Absolutely. The STOCK Act was supposed to curb trading on nonpublic info, but it’s basically unenforced, late filings and tiny fines. A real fix would ban all stock trades (or require blind trusts) for every elected official, not just leadership.

Congress is basically a get-out-of-jail free zone for inside traders.

The discharge petition to end Congressional stock trading only has 16 signatures. 👀 If you're MOC has not signed yet...call them and tell them you expect them to sign it. If they have signed, please take a minute to call and thank them. ☎️ 202-224-3121 ☎️

🎯 I’d like to get rid of their lifetime pension, also.

That and removing lifetime healthcare.

Isn't this the definition of insider trading?

Serving the country on Capitol Hill was never meant to be a life long career. Serve then retire and go back to public life. Banning stock trade would go far to apply a kind of term limit IMO. We need trustworthy politicians not greedy bastards.

And term limits! Ask yourself why an 89-year-old Chuck Grassley and 86-year old Nancy Pelosi are hanging around instead of retiring!? They don’t work for us, only their own power and back accounts (inside trading)

Yup. And get rid of Citizens United and we might have a shot at repairing our country

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

I get sad when I see sun dried tomatoes on examples of cringe "dated" food trends because it's got to be one of the best tomato innovations in tomato history.

The Golden Age.

Russian President Putin reiterated his commitment to his original war aims from 2021 and 2022 and unwillingness to compromise – likely as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to shape the international information space during the ongoing negotiations. More here: www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Koh: He appointed a junior staffer as the U.S. Attorney because he couldn't get anyone else to bring this forward. This is a sign of incompetence in this administration. We're seeing everywhere. Incompetence is leading to a 30x increase in measles year over year in this country…

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

I also want to point out that it's not like SCOTUS gets to just overrule and nothing can be done about it. Congress can just pass the law over again. They can prematurely end a court's term to prevent them ruling against it. They can pack the court. A Congress willing to pass that bill would do that

i mean never underestimate the current court's urge to carry water for republicans, but the constitution gives congress broad power to regulate house elections, which they have used in the past to, e.g., ban multimember districts

House expansion and anti-gerrymandering laws with teeth would go a long way to cleaning up our representation issues.

You'd have to go much further and prescribe how redistricting needs to happen. Otherwise they just play games. I think you need to set procedural regulations for how the process unfolds. And you need to set outcome standards that mandate more coherent geographic districts with actual metrics.

another funny thing is that while the constitution gives sweeping power to congress to regulate how congressional elections operate, it does not do the same for choosing presidential electors, unfortunately

anyway, a fun thing about the "time, places, and manner" clause is that when taken to its logical conclusion it implies that congress could simply draw its own nationwide district map, something that wouldn't have insane reprecussions at all

congress would probably like it all the more if it was broadly worded enough to kick actual enforcement to the courts, which would be a whole can of worms, but still

anyway i bring this up bc any attempt to impose a specific nationwide fair system seems doomed to failure just based on congressional dynamics but i'm willing to guess a basic "no gerrymanding" rule would be supermajority popular when polled and could conceivably get over the line

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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

3 Questions: 1) What are we doing? 2) How is this pro-life? 3) What are we doing? www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

EXCLUSIVE: The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did NOT appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday.

Now that SCOTUS has validated gerrymandering for any racist arbitrary reason imaginable—EVERY Blue state Governor needs to redistrict their state to completely eliminate red seats. This is the MAGA precedent. It is law now. Run with it. Beat MAGAs at their own game. Vote MAGAs out permanently.

It’s sad to think that no mention of Our President isn’t accompanied by news of more scandal, crime or pettiness. We’re being led by a gaggle of slow, arrogant teenagers at a nonstop tailgating party.