Benita Bizarre
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Democracy lover / Demon deacons basketball fan 🏀 / LGBTQIA+ ally
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Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher
about 4 hours ago
Speaker Johnson sending the House home a day early ensures there is no vote on the ACA meaning healthcare premiums will now double for hundreds of thousands of Coloradans. Congress is truly broken when it takes vacation early rather than help Americans with unendurable costs.
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Senator Patty Murray
about 4 hours ago
ICYMI: Speaker Johnson is REFUSING to let the House vote on a bill to extend the ACA tax credits this month. People are buying health coverage NOW—January is TOO LATE. Republican Leaders won't do a thing to help families keep their health care.
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Mollie Katzen
about 4 hours ago
No matter how much Speaker Johnson holds down the felon's fort and carries his water, you just know he will ultimately get thrown under the bus. Is he the only person in the world who doesn't know this?
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Rep. Kelly Morrison
about 3 hours ago
Speaker Johnson is using the precious little time that we have left to kick even more Americans off of their coverage, block the bipartisan effort to extend tax credits so that working families can afford health insurance, and shove through a backdoor ban on abortion.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 4 hours ago
This has the votes to pass with bipartisan support, but Johnson is going to adjourn the House again to delay it as long as possible just like he did with Epstein.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 hours ago
House Republicans were on paid vacation for two months and couldn’t be bothered to come up with a real plan to stop costs from skyrocketing for 24 million Americans. Speaker Johnson won’t even hold a vote. Hard to escape the conclusion that they don’t care.
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ProPublica
about 2 hours ago
Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1766025001&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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It’s cute how maga podcasters always believe they’d do a better job than the career public servants with extensive education, training and experience who actually have those jobs. Right Dan Bongino?
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Bradley P. Moss
about 4 hours ago
Most FBI Deputy Directors spend years working through the ranks of the Bureau to reach that position. It’s the height of prestige. Bongino quit after less than a year to return to his life getting paid to spew conspiracy theories on his podcast in a T-shirt.
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The Washington Post
about 2 hours ago
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, who was once President Trump’s national security adviser, was hired as a consultant for the Bosnian Serb republic eight years after he admitted to secretly working to benefit the Turkish government.
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Michael Flynn, once probed over foreign payments, lobbied for Bosnian Serbs
Flynn is the second person pardoned by President Trump to work on behalf of the Bosnian Serb republic.
https://wapo.st/4amVExL
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The Associated Press
about 4 hours ago
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame. The plaques include bombastic language, from “Sleepy Joe” Biden references to painting Republican icon Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
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Trump writes partisan plaques for predecessors in his newly installed Presidential Walk of Fame
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
https://bit.ly/4s3rSEH
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Raider
about 5 hours ago
Evanston Mayor and congressional candidate Daniel Biss in a heated confrontation with controversial Border Patrol front man Greg Bovino this morning.
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Jacob T. Levy
about 5 hours ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Being unqualified, incompetent, and generally an absurd choice for a position is no barrier to working in this administration, but it does make it hard to actually do the job, and Bongino didn't like doing hard work. Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey
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Bongino to Step Down From F.B.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/dan-bongino-steps-down-fbi.html
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Congresswoman Andrea Salinas
about 7 hours ago
Time’s almost up, but Speaker Johnson has the power to stop this chaos and bring costs down for you and your families.
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Rep. James Walkinshaw
about 6 hours ago
We have 218 signatures on the discharge petition to extend the ACA premium tax credits. But Speaker Johnson is refusing to bring the bill to the floor. Premiums are set to skyrocket on Jan. 1. The time to act is now.
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Mother Earth
about 6 hours ago
Speaker Johnson slammed the gavel and ended a vote early on a discharge petition forcing action on extending ACA tax credits. Lawmakers were still trying to cast votes when Johnson cut it off, freezing the count, triggered boos, shouting, and chaos in the chamber.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1GxN...
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Congresswoman Julie Johnson
about 5 hours ago
Americans are about to face thousands more in health care costs — or lose coverage altogether. Trump & Republicans created this crisis and are refusing to fix it. I voted NO on a GOP bill that raises costs and won’t extend ACA tax credits. Speaker Johnson must put an extension up for a vote — now.
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Rep. Rob Menendez
about 5 hours ago
Democrats succeeded in forcing a vote to stop ACA premium hikes. It’s time for Speaker Johnson to immediately bring this vote to the floor & protect healthcare for all Americans
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Vanity Fair
1 day ago
How's Karoline Leavitt faring in the onslaught of questions about the Epstein files? "It's pretty clear he wants us to be aggressively offensive when it comes to this issue."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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DiscussingFilm
about 9 hours ago
The Oscars will stream exclusively on YouTube, starting in 2029.
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Harry Dunn
about 12 hours ago
"All of a sudden, after Republicans got crushed in that election, Fox News is willing to talk about affordability. It is a crisis, and health insurance is the coming crisis. Johnson kept us out of session for 8 weeks, we could have been working day in and day out preparing for this upcoming crisis."
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
about 11 hours ago
Speaker Johnson must bring this to the floor immediately. No more excuses.
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Congresswoman Sarah McBride
about 11 hours ago
A discharge petition to force a House floor vote to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has majority support in the House of Representatives. That means Speaker Johnson must allow a vote to protect Americans’ health care. Congress should not leave for the holidays without voting on this.
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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee
about 10 hours ago
🚨 Despite Speaker Johnson's attempts to shut us down, House Democrats are forcing a vote on a 3-year extension of the ACA tax credits. Our communities can't wait any longer for healthcare costs to be addressed. Republicans need to bring this vote to the floor NOW.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D.
about 10 hours ago
A majority of the House supports a clean extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Â Instead of letting us vote on this TODAY, Republican leadership is pushing a backdoor abortion ban. That is unconscionable. Speaker Johnson, call a vote on the ACA tax credit extensions immediately.
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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07)
about 10 hours ago
It’s rare that commonsense rules the day in Washington — but today it did. As one of the first to sign, I’m grateful to my Republican colleagues who did the right thing and stood up for health care. But we’re not done yet — Speaker Johnson MUST get a vote on the floor ASAP.
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Ben Schwartz
about 9 hours ago
No, Johnson did not lose control of the House. Trump lost control of the House.
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Congressman André Carson
about 9 hours ago
UPDATE: We now have enough signatures to vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits and lower health care costs. Health care should be a human right, not a financial burden. Speaker Johnson must bring this legislation to the floor for a vote NOW.
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Congressman Robert Garcia
about 9 hours ago
🚨 BIG NEWS: Speaker Johnson has been forced by Democrats to bring a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. Now is the time to act and lower costs for the American people.
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NPR
about 8 hours ago
The former Justice Department special counsel told the House Judiciary Committee that his team developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump took part in a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election.
n.pr/3N5wwln
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Jack Smith defends his prosecutions of Trump in closed-door session in Congress
The former Justice Department special counsel told the House Judiciary Committee that his team developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Trump took part in a criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election.
https://n.pr/3N5wwln
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barbisblue
about 10 hours ago
With word of an impending departure has come speculation that Bongino is returning to podcasting, which reportedly made him worth $160 million. Bongino has stayed mostly mum as media reports teased a departure that could come “as soon as this week” or possibly “in the near future.”
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FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
https://www.ms.now/news/bongino-fbi-leaving
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Lee West
about 10 hours ago
Much like DOGE, grifter podcaster Bongino got a paycheck to decimate the FBI and now he is moving on. Who does he work for really?
www.ms.now/news/bongino...
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FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
https://www.ms.now/news/bongino-fbi-leaving
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The Tennessee Holler
about 10 hours ago
Bongino out! How long til Kash follows him? ⏰ 🎪
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Mueller, She Wrote
about 10 hours ago
Interesting that Bongino is leaving the same day the Epstein files are supposed to be released, and 120 days after Bailey was appointed his co-deputy director.
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Zach Dorfman
about 9 hours ago
As this piece notes, Bongino is reportedly retiring just as the Epstein materials will be released.
www.ms.now/news/bongino...
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FBI’s No. 2 quietly tells colleagues he’s moving on
Controversial deputy director has cleared out his office, sources tell MS NOW.
https://www.ms.now/news/bongino-fbi-leaving
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The Washington Post
about 8 hours ago
Exclusive: The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The association has been one of the harshest critics of Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s changes to federal vaccine policy.
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American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/17/aap-hhs-funding-rfk/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Colorado Newsline
about 9 hours ago
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado after viewing unedited video footage of a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of an initial strike said, “I believe this was an unlawful second strike." By
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No justification for second boat strike, Rep. Crow says after viewing unedited video | Colorado Newsline
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow called for the public release of unedited video footage of a September strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.
https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/boat-strike-rep-crow-video/
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WBUR
about 9 hours ago
The Boston-born Queen of Disco, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall said.
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The Queen of Disco: Donna Summer is posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Boston-born Queen of Disco, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has been ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/12/17/queen-of-disco-donna-summer-songwriters-hall-of-fame
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Justin Baragona
about 13 hours ago
This feels like the trailer for a low-rent psychological thriller
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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
about 14 hours ago
🚨NO national coverage🚨 🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨 We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
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FactPost
about 13 hours ago
Rep. Deluzio: Members of this committee need to see exactly what happened and who was giving what kind of commands. Those who have seen the video have talked about the fact that a jarring and horrific. If it's being done in the name of the American people, the American people ought to see it.
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Hakeem Jeffries
about 13 hours ago
Urgent update. Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures. Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 13 hours ago
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
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Jen Bendery
about 13 hours ago
Sen. Chris Murphy said Hegseth + Rubio admitted to senators yesterday that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela -- despite Trump’s misleading efforts to tie the country to the deadly drug so he can justify bombing boats. The boats have cocaine, bound for Europe.
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Senator Reaches Damning Conclusions After Classified Briefing With Hegseth, Rubio
Sen. Chris Murphy trashed a meeting with the Cabinet duo about the Trump administration's boat bombings.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-murphy-pete-hegseth-marco-rubio-briefing-boat-strikes_n_69428d09e4b0ec0b2f95c5c4?hc
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MeidasTouch
about 13 hours ago
BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
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cait (and adonis)
1 day ago
I'm genuinely about to start crying at this close up picture of Karoline Leavitt from Vanity Fair. this woman is 28 years old lmfao how are you going to believe in lip injections but not vaccines
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Mark Hamill
1 day ago
SHOUT-OUT to multi-talented International Treasure: DICK VAN DYKE! Today we celebrate his 100th year+3 days birthday. From the day I first met him (story included below) he's been an inspiration & a source of joy to his countless fans around the globe, myself included. Thank you sir 🙏 For DVD: 🎂❤️
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Mueller, She Wrote
1 day ago
WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
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Acyn
1 day ago
AOC to
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: It is the responsibility of Congress to declare and authorize the use of military force. Congress has not authorized a military use of force. There has not been a case made, and I think the absence of one really speaks volumes.
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