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Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens."

Whitehouse: "Callais is gonna drive up voter participation. This makes voters angry. When you see leading Black members of Congress have enjoyed respect of their states redistricted out office by political manipulation, that gets you mad. Let's make sure they lose where they can't redistrict"

Candelaria: "Labor & democracy have always been the same fight. The same forces trying to silence Black & brown voices are too often the same forces that are attacking us as unions, that are suppressing wages, that are underfunding our public schools, & blocking opportunities for working families."

Planned Parenthood's Melanie Newman: "When the people in power substitute their beliefs for our rights, that is tyranny ... we now have judges who are more interested in imposing their ideology than following the law ... our rights are not up for debate."

Hatcher-Mays of @weareufd.bsky.social: ''A lot of people get down on voting, like, 'Just vote harder.' But we should all be voting really hard. That's step one toward a more just & equitable system. That's why SCOTUS is constantly attacking our voting rights. They understand how important it is."

End Citizens United's Justin Unga: "Corporations and billionaires poured billions into our last presidential election, and this is what they bought for themselves. We have a vot that has been auctioned to the highest bidders, and that means big oil and gas, they get to decide how clean our air is."

Crockett 🔥: "Some of y'all need to read up on your history books, the same ones Republicans have decided people shouldn't hear about bc you don't want real history taught in schools. You're afraid it's gonna hurt people's feelings to know their ancestors were so savage they would enslave Black folk"

Ken'Travius Coleman: "Black people in Louisiana may feel defeated because on a random Wednesday, we learned we'd have less reflective representation. We need to demand a plan from Congress. Organize and demand real action from those who say they want to represent us."

Rep. Analilia Mejia: "The erosion of voting rights is coupled with a rigged economy, because the way the prevent the rules from coming for them, the way they can keep the grift going, is ensuring we do not have a political voice to stop them. That's the game."

Trump: "We have Cuba on our mind. Very important. It's been a lot of problems for a lot of years. This is a very big moment."

Trump: "A lot of those people are related to me in the sense that I've had such a great relationship with Cuban-Americans. They supported me at a 94% level. So on a humanitarian basis, we're there to help."

Trump: "We're freeing up Cuba"

Q: Gavin Newsom said JD Vance doesn't have what it takes to follow you TRUMP: Well look, we've done a lot, and JD is very talented. He'll do very well, if it's JD.

Trump: "AI is amazing because right now we have more people working in the United States by far than we ever had before"

Q: Do you have a response to people who critical of your settlement? TRUMP: It was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics -- what they did. And yet if I say, 'let's look at this one,' they say, 'Weaponization!' We think anybody involved should partake. You're talking about peanuts.

Trump on Iran: "It's right on the borderline, believe me. If we don't get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We're all ready to go. We have to get the right answers."

BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election? FLOWERS: Legally speaking, Joe Biden was certified BLUMENTHAL: Your failure to answer that question mocks this committee. Mr Schwartz, who won the popular vote in 2020 election? SCHWARTZ: Again, consistent with the-- BLUMENTHAL: This is a factual question!

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on J6? SCHWARTZ: There was definitely trespass & violence B: So the Capitol was attacked? S: You're asking me to weigh in on sort of public characterizations B: You're insulting our intelligence. Do you really expect us to accept these canned answers?

Booker to Schwartz: "Can you name in all of American history another appellate nominee who was actively representing the president who nominated him at the moment of his nomination? Don't you think it's germane to our evaluation of your objectivity if the president owes you $400,000?"

Trump Mobile phones are finally shipping to the suckers who put down deposits, and it’s so damn ugly.

Moskowitz to a Republican witness who won't stop promoting her book: "Dr Swain, I can promise you there's no freakin' way I'm buying your book when it took me two minutes to convince you that neo-Nazis are supremacists."

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit its highest level since 2007 — right before the financial crisis. That means more expensive mortgages. Costlier car loans. Higher credit card interest rates. Trump promised to lower costs. His reckless agenda is doing the opposite.

Saylor’s company “has acquired 171,238 Bitcoin year-to-date .. That exceeds the roughly 62,000 Bitcoin produced by the entire global mining network over the same period — and appears to represent the majority of net corporate and ETF-related accumulation ..” #$IBIT www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Well, let's give it a shot and see!

Trump: "See, now I say Eye-raan. I don't use, cause, he obviously has a correct pronunciation. 'We will go back to Eye-raan!'"

NEW: Georgia Republicans baselessly claimed that a delay in Fulton County's primary election reporting was evidence of fraud. In reality, it was postponed for a safety incident near the polls. The GOP used the episode to advance its push to have the state take over elections in the blue county.

This staggering level of self-enrichment confirms what we've already known about Trump: his pockets come first, hardworking Americans come last.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans just voted AGAINST my amendment to stop Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund from bailing out the convicted felons who assaulted cops on January 6th. You read that right. They blocked us from even debating the issue on the House floor. Beyond shameful.

Thankful to @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social for welcoming me into his office in DC for an important conversation about the urgency of protecting our democracy. While the GOP looks out for wealthy oligarchs, we're putting the needs of working people at the forefront of our fight.

🚨 FINALLY: The Senate Votes to Take Up Measure to Force Trump to End Iran War With four Republican backers, Democrats won a vote to advance a resolution that would force the president to end hostilities or win authorization from Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

"Trump either underestimated how powerful the weapon of Hormuz is, or didn’t believe Iran would use it. And now that Iran has successfully created a global energy crisis that’s rapidly turning into an economic one, he still wants someone else to solve the problem. Yet he keeps getting turned down."

NEWS: The Senate voted today to put a check on President Trump’s power — and give Congress the say in bringing his war in Iran to an end. I’m grateful to all my colleagues, including 4 Republicans, who joined us in reaffirming Congress’s constitutional authority over going to war.

JD Vance argues that Democrats don't actually believe in "No Kings" because they didn't protest King Charles 🥴🥴🥴

Here's why we're watching the election in Georgia tonight. (NOTE: This is video from last night, so when Rachel says "tomorrow" she is talking about today.)

So once applications open for the $1.7B slush fund, we're all going to apply and break their portal, right?

SIGN OF THE DAY…

🔥🔥 TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS & I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why incriminating The Epstein Files have suddenly disappeared. Do you agree?

BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.

Productive meeting in DC today with U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin discussing federal relief for LA wildfire recovery and tackling the pollution crisis in the Tijuana River. California will continue to push for federal aid to help our communities recover.

also, the idea that an *acting* attorney general can enter into a waiver of this kind of breadth is ridiculous, and probably violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, but that's speculation b/c it's very much out of my area

The decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives. And that’s especially important when voting rights and basic freedoms are being challenged. Today voters in Georgia can stand up for fairness and integrity by electing Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

Donald Trump is essentially giving a stimulus check to people who broke the law on January 6th — not paid for by him, but instead. paid for by you! Essentially our tax dollars going to a bunch of racist assholes who smeared shit on the Capitol’s walls. Gotta be proud, huh?!

Made in Illinois. Just over a decade ago, the Mitsubishi plant here in Normal closed its doors and now we’re telling a different story with the launch of Rivian’s R2. Creating jobs in Central Illinois, strengthening our manufacturing, and leading the pack in the EV industry.

JD Vance argues Trump's war in Iran isn't a forever war because a large chunk of it has been a ceasefire 🥴

Q: You and the president ran on a platform of no new wars, cutting gas prices, cutting inflation. What do you say to people who are going to the polls today and feel like those prices are unkept? JD VANCE: We've delivered great wins for the American people

Q: The Pentagon halted the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland. Why are you rewarding Putin and punishing your best ally in Europe? JD VANCE: There's been no president who has done more to ensure Ukraine survived the invasion of Russia than Donald Trump

Iran is threatening counterattacks, Trump is talking about snipers and drones on top of his ballroom, Todd Blanche is melting down in a hearing, big news out of Texas, and more. Ben has your midday update: