Thomas Abrams retweeted
This is what happens when you let bigots write laws.
Florida’s anti-DEI law just came back to bite them in the ass. They were so busy trying to cancel everybody else’s culture, they ended up canceling their own parade. Oops.
📌 Delray Beach can no longer sponsor its beloved St. Patrick’s Day Parade because celebrating Irish heritage falls under the state’s sweeping restrictions on ethnicity-based programs.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed absolutely destroys Donald Trump.
Q: You recently called President Trump the dumbest effing guy who ever was president.
AES: True.
Q: You've also said Democrats should drop the decorum and treat the president as the unserious fool that he is.
AES: True.
Q: Why are you taking that approach?
AES: Because he's a bully alongside being a narcissist. And the only way you deal with bullies is to stand up to them. Bullies don't bully you because they necessarily care for the thing you have. They bully you because they like to bully you because it makes them feel strong. And the way you take on a bully is to bully back. Because then they learn that this does not make them feel strong. It makes them feel weak and they don't like to feel weak. So they back off. And the more you let a bully get away with bullying, the more they signal to everybody else that this person cannot be stood up to. And so I think it's important for us to stand up to him.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
Before he became a performative, pretend-to-be-braindead Trump cult member and sycophant, @tomemmer was a pretty normal Republican. Now he spews out non-stop imbecility like this for the remaining ultra-MAGA cult, even after his party was crushed to pieces last. Fucking pathetic.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
I will ALWAYS cherish the memory that trump BEGGED his followers to act like he was on the ballot, and voters delivered a political beatdown the likes of which have never been seen before.
We flipped TEXAS. We won in Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, and kicked Susan Collins to the curb.
We even elected a Black man, Scott Colom, in the city where the Ku Klux Klan was first formed.
All because America acted like trump was on the ballot. That's priceless.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
it's really remarkable how watching Fox and Newsmax over the past week has demonstrated that MAGA really only has one play -- smear, demonize, deflect, lie -- and now that that approach has been resounding rejected by voters, they have no idea what to do. They're just running it back and I guess hoping for a different result in two years.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
BREAKING: GENIUS! Sen. Chris Van Hollen suggests restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies by gutting ICE’s bloated $200 billion in funding.
Two birds, one stone…
“We need to respond to the economic pain people are feeling. And that means a commitment, for example, to immediately pass legislation to make sure that none of us pay one dime, not one in higher electric costs, to build data centers for the richest AI companies on the planet,” Van Hollen said on “Pod Save America.”
“It means dealing with healthcare,” he continued. “And I mean, yes, of course, we need to reverse the damage the Trump administration has done with respect to their cuts to Medicaid. And by the way, we should claw back the approximately $200 billion in ICE funding that they banked last time.”
He also called for restoring the ACA subsidies that Republicans refused to extend in 2025.
We can’t think of a more elegant solution to this. Democrats are determined to undo Trump’s healthcare cuts and stem the deluge of financial stress, suffering, and death that those cuts are inflicting on the American people.
At the same time, we must abolish ICE. It’s a rogue paramilitary organization whose masked agents are terrorizing and murdering people in the streets. They’re trampling civil liberties and their detention centers are rife with sexual abuse. The last thing they deserve is another dollar of funding from taxpayers. That money should go towards saving lives, not ending them.
“But on healthcare, we need to go beyond that. We need to make sure that we deal with the system where premiums are going up and co-pays are going up and up and up,” added Van Hollen. “I ultimately believe we need to get to Medicare for All, but we certainly need to begin moving toward a public option. And finally, political corruption, because if you look at the results, it was interesting. If you look at what was on people's mind, number one was the economy and costs, but protecting our democracy was right up there. And these things are connected.”
There are growing calls among the Democratic base for Van Hollen to contest Chuck Schumer for the Senate Majority Leadership to empower a more progressive voice after the blue tsunami.
What do you think?
Please ❤️ and share if you’re a proud supporter of Chris Van Hollen!
Thomas Abrams retweeted
NEW: GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith spoke to Scott Colom and conceded, per the Colom campaign
Thomas Abrams retweeted
In 2023, Biden nominated Colom to be a federal judge.
Hyde-Smith blocked him.
Now he he is taking her seat in the U.S. Senate.
Karma.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
North Carolina’s Trump-loving former lieutenant governor, who declared himself a “black NAZI!,” has filed for bankruptcy. thedailybeast.com/maga-black…
Thomas Abrams retweeted
Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.
In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.
Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.
I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.
So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court
Thomas Abrams retweeted
It will never NOT be funny to me that if Cindy Hyde Smith hadn't (proudly) BLOCKED Scott Colom from that federal judge position, she'd be celebrating re-election.
Instead, she's about to LOSE HER JOB.
And I LOVE it.
Call the damn race, already.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
North Carolina Democrats will have an 11-3 D congressional delegation next year for a map that was drawn to elect 11 Republicans and 3 Democrats.
Thomas Abrams retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: The new Epstein discharge petition just hit 218 signatures. Every Democrat signed, plus Massie, Mace, Norman and Fitzpatrick. That forces a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which would let survivors and state AGs sue DOJ to release the files. Johnson can’t stop it.
