Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

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Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

DHS has so much money (thank GOP) that now new secret service detail agents get two new tailored suits each! "The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed"

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Time to STOP calling them the Epstein Files! They are and will always be the: Trump/Epstein/Maxwell Files

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Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

We’ve had ppl living in separate realities for a long time…

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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

Michelle Obama said Americans shouldn't look to her to run for the nation's highest office. During a live conversation with actor Tracee Ellis Ross in NY, the former first lady said the United States is "not ready for a woman" to be president, because the country has a "lot of growing up to do."

Ladies and gentleman, boys & girls, the Marsh Family. A tribute to true American patriot. youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM?...

Jon Stewart telling truths about billionaire Oligarchs who feel that they are, to all intent and purposes, above the law? youtube.com/shorts/l0V7S...

Palantir, so named after the seeing stones in Lord of the Rings, that could see great distances but ultimately corrupted those using them is a greater threat to democracy than Trump. Peter Thiel is also one of the authors of Project 2025. youtube.com/shorts/JJNxu...

Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"

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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Jesus is 22. Shot in the eye with a pepper-ball while standing nearby. Not protesting. Just existing. Congress is voting to fund weapons that blind people instead of healthcare that heals them. #FundHealthcareOverICE

Minnesota needs to know the number of children in federal detention, who they are, and where they’re being held.

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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

I’m here to say that if you spend one thin dime to see this movie and you’re not a journalist, you lose your credibility on moral boycotts or ethical consumption for the rest of your life. And that journalism carve out is a bit of a gift.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Christian Nationalism is just White Supremacy in Bible drag.

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

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So two Latinos CBP killed Alex Pretti. I wonder if they got deported from the US?

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