#timkaine — Public Fediverse posts
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Trump claims hostilities have ended in Iran in letter to congressional leaders https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/01/trump-iran-war-hostilities-letter #UsisraelWarOnIran #DonaldTrump #UsCongress #Iran #ChuckSchumer #TimKaine #PeteHegseth #Democrats #UsSenate #HouseOfRepresentatives #UsForeignPolicy #UsMilitary #UsPolitics #UsNews #MiddleEastAndNorthAfrica #WorldNews
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Hostilities with Iran ‘terminated,’ Trump says in War Powers letter – Roll Call
The White House is arguing to lawmakers that President Donald Trump…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Alaska #BrandSafety #breakingnews #CharlesEGrassley #Congress #Defense #democrats #DonaldTrump #donald-j-trump #Elections #ExecutiveBranch #Florida #Foreignpolicy #house #Iran #LisaMurkowski #Military #national #Policy #Republicans #Senate #TimKaine #troops #Trump #Virginia #WhiteHouse
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/93294/ Trump contends hostilities with Iran have ‘terminated’ #AdamSchiff #AdamSmith #ChuckGrassley #Congress #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #InternationalAgreements #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #JohnCurtis #JohnThune #JoshHawley #KevinCramer #LisaMurkowski #MikeJohnson #MilitaryAndDefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #SusanCollins #ThomTillis #TimKaine #USDemocraticParty #USRepublicanParty #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesCongress #UnitedStatesGovernment #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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Facing 60-day deadline, Trump administration claims Iran war ‘terminated’
The Trump administration is arguing that the war in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #BrennanCenter #Congress #donaldtrump #FoundationforDefenceofDemocracies #iran #KatherineYonEbright #NationalSecurityCouncil #OperationEpicFury #PeteHegseth #RichardGoldberg #Senate #StraitofHormuz #SusanCollins #TimKaine #UnitedStatesofAmerica #WarPowersResolution
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https://www.europesays.com/news/22991/ Trump administration says its war in Iran has been ‘terminated’ #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #GovernmentAndPolitics #Headlines #InternationalAgreements #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #MilitaryAndDefense #News #PeteHegseth #Politics #RichardGoldberg #SusanCollins #TimKaine #TopStories #USDemocraticParty #USRepublicanParty #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesGovernment #WarAndUnrest #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/91960/ Hegseth clashes for a second day with Democratic lawmakers #APTopNews #ChrissyHoulahan #DCWire #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #Iran #IranWar #JackReed #JoeBiden #JoniErnst #MilitaryAndDefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #RandyGeorge #RoKhanna #TimKaine #USDemocraticParty #USDepartmentOfDefense #USRepublicanParty #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesGovernment #WarAndUnrest #WashingtonNews
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Democrats threaten more Iran war powers votes
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol after President Donald Trump selected Sen. Markwayne…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AdamSchiff #BoeingCo #breakingnews #BreakingNews:Politics #businessnews #CoryBooker #DonaldTrump #donald-j-trump #GeneralDynamicsCorp #Iran #LockheedMartinCorp #MarcoRubio #NorthropGrummanCorp #PeteHegseth #Politics #TammyDuckworth #TimKaine
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Sen #TimKaine also echoed Sen #MarkWarner (D-VA), the top #Democrat of the #Senate #Intelligence Cmte, saying that “all of the intelligence” he has seen suggests that there was “no imminent threat” from #Iran. He said Iran was “a decade” away from building missiles that could reach the #US.
#Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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Moderate Sen. Jacky Rosen urges Noem’s impeachment as Dem fury grows over Minneapolis shooting
WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying…
#Politics #AlexPretti #BillCassidy #CatherineCortezMasto #DonaldTrump #EdwardMarkey #JackyRosen #KeithEllison #kristinoem #LauraGillen #ReneeGood #ThomTillis #TimKaine #timwalz #U.S.News #Washingtonnews
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Calling Tim Kaine's office (he stopped allowing voice calls years ago)
but the voicemail message is "The Office Is Closed For The HOLIDAY SEASON" (emphasis mine)
God he is so terrible.
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CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb
11.10.25 Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here.
Questions? Comments? [email protected] by Zachary B. Wolf
CNN What Matters
by Zachary B. Wolf: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a yearThe likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.DrWeb’s Comment…
“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote
I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.
To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.
These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.
It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.
All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.
Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb
Tags: Americans, CNN, Democrats, Eight Senators, Federal Government Shutdown, Government Shutdown, health care, Newsletter, Republicans, Shutdown Deal, Subsidies in Jeopardy, Tim Kaine, Trump, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Voters, What Matters, White House "pledges", Zachary B. Wolf#americans #cnn #democrats #eightSenators #federalGovernmentShutdown #governmentShutdown #healthCare #newsletter #republicans #shutdownDeal #subsidiesInJeopardy #timKaine #trump #uSHouseOfRepresentatives #uSSenate #voters #whatMatters #whiteHousePledges #zacharyBWolf
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CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb
11.10.25 Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here.
Questions? Comments? [email protected] by Zachary B. Wolf
CNN What Matters
by Zachary B. Wolf: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a yearThe likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.DrWeb’s Comment…
“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote
I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.
To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.
These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.
It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.
All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.
Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb
Tags: Americans, CNN, Democrats, Eight Senators, Federal Government Shutdown, Government Shutdown, health care, Newsletter, Republicans, Shutdown Deal, Subsidies in Jeopardy, Tim Kaine, Trump, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Voters, What Matters, White House "pledges", Zachary B. Wolf#Americans #CNN #Democrats #EightSenators #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GovernmentShutdown #healthCare #Newsletter #Republicans #ShutdownDeal #SubsidiesInJeopardy #TimKaine #Trump #USHouseOfRepresentatives #USSenate #Voters #WhatMatters #WhiteHousePledges_ #ZacharyBWolf
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CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb
11.10.25 Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here.
Questions? Comments? [email protected] by Zachary B. Wolf
CNN What Matters
by Zachary B. Wolf: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a yearThe likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.DrWeb’s Comment…
“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote
I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.
To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.
These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.
It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.
All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.
Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb
Tags: Americans, CNN, Democrats, Eight Senators, Federal Government Shutdown, Government Shutdown, health care, Newsletter, Republicans, Shutdown Deal, Subsidies in Jeopardy, Tim Kaine, Trump, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Voters, What Matters, White House "pledges", Zachary B. Wolf#Americans #CNN #Democrats #EightSenators #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GovernmentShutdown #healthCare #Newsletter #Republicans #ShutdownDeal #SubsidiesInJeopardy #TimKaine #Trump #USHouseOfRepresentatives #USSenate #Voters #WhatMatters #WhiteHousePledges_ #ZacharyBWolf
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CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb
11.10.25 Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here.
Questions? Comments? [email protected] by Zachary B. Wolf
CNN What Matters
by Zachary B. Wolf: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a yearThe likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.DrWeb’s Comment…
“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote
I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.
To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.
These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.
It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.
All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.
Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb
#americans #cnn #democrats #eightSenators #federalGovernmentShutdown #governmentShutdown #healthCare #newsletter #republicans #shutdownDeal #subsidiesInJeopardy #timKaine #trump #uSHouseOfRepresentatives #uSSenate #voters #whatMatters #whiteHousePledges #zacharyBWolf
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CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb
11.10.25 Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can sign up here.
Questions? Comments? [email protected] by Zachary B. Wolf
CNN What Matters
by Zachary B. Wolf: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a yearThe likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.DrWeb’s Comment…
“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote
I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.
To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.
These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.
It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.
All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.
Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb
#americans #cnn #democrats #eightSenators #federalGovernmentShutdown #governmentShutdown #healthCare #newsletter #republicans #shutdownDeal #subsidiesInJeopardy #timKaine #trump #uSHouseOfRepresentatives #uSSenate #voters #whatMatters #whiteHousePledges #zacharyBWolf
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What does a list of spineless fucking QUNTS look like?
#CatherineCortezMasto (NV),
#DickDurbin (IL), #MaggieHassan (NH), #TimKaine (VA), #JackyRosen (NV), #Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and #AngusKing (ME).
FUCK them ALL - especially the dribbling #Repugliqunt in disguise #JohnFetterman! -
Tiniest Crack In The Wall: Senate Votes To Dump Trump’s Vindictive Brazil Tariffs
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'A Trump statue?' Senator fears Lincoln Memorial could be target after White House rebuild
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-2674244490/
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@ALittleBitOfEverything the #christiannationalists are attacking #timkaine’s remarks that “god given rights” (which the #declarationofindependence says is the basis of our #democracy ) is “what the Iranian government believes.”
#republicans counter that if government is the source of our rights, then government can take them away
How is that any different than the #christiannationalist’s using their interpretation of their god to taking our rights away?
https://christianaction.org/u-s-senator-says-our-rights-dont-come-from-god/
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Here's the names of the 14 Democrat Senators who voted to support #BernieSanders' resolutions to block billions of $US of military aid and weapons to #Israel on Thurs 3rd April, 2025.
#RichardDurbin
#MartinHeinrich
#MazieHirono
#BenRayLuján
#TimKaine
#AndyKim
#EdMarkey
#JeffMerkley
#ChrisMurphy
#BrianSchatz
#TinaSmith
#ChrisVanHollen
#ElizabethWarren
#PeterWelch
#NonGenocidalSenatorsThe others nowhere!
#TheGreatWhenhttps://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/senate-democrats-cancel-military-aid-israel
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A cheap, non-obvious, D.C.-adjacency-required way to get a quality American flag
The American flag we’d bought in the summer of 2021 had faded and then developed a tear at one corner, so it was time to buy a replacement. That’s been a task that’s come due every three to four years over our two decades and counting of home ownership–the Stars and Stripes are not forever when subjected to mid-Atlantic weather–but this time I wanted to research my options instead of throwing still more money at Amazon.
At some point, probably in the middle of work-related clicking around, that shopping research led me to my congressman’s Web site. Rep. Don Beyer (D.-Va.), like other members of Congress, has a flag-request form that I’d thought of only as a way to buy a flag flown over the Capitol. But on actually eyeballing that form, I realized that I could buy an unflown, 3-by-5-foot cotton flag for just $15… at a mandatory shipping cost of $10.75.
Paying that much for shipping bothered me when I can get to and from the Capitol for $6 and change via Metro, less if I use Capital Bikeshare on the way there. Fortunately, the legislative branch of the U.S. has two houses, so I checked the site of Sen. Tim Kaine (D.-Va.) and saw that I could buy the same flag at the same $15 price and pick it up for free. Sold!
(Sen. Mark Warner, D.-Va., also offers free flag pickup; I’m not aware of complaints about Rep. Beyer’s constituent service, so maybe this is a site-template issue on the House side?)
Three business days later, I got an e-mail from a staff assistant for Sen. Kaine saying the flag was ready for pickup at his office in the Russell Senate Office Building. I stopped by Tuesday evening on the way to an event in Navy Yard, appreciating the Russell Building’s handsome Beaux-Arts architecture, then attached our reasonably-priced purchase to the flagpole on our front porch Wednesday morning.
Sometime that afternoon or evening, a gust of wind put enough strain to crack a plastic bracket on one of the flagpole rings that had helped secure the flag, leaving it clumsily draped over the shrubbery below the pole. I am fixing that problem by ordering two new rings–which means I’m throwing still more money at Amazon.
#AmericanFlag #CapitolFlag #CongressionalFlagOrder #congressman #constituentService #DonBeyer #flagRequest #red #redWhiteAndBlue #senator #StarsAndStripes #TimKaine #USFlag #ValleyForgeFlag
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#Democrat #TimKaine and #Conservative #ConspiracyTheorist #HungCao #facesoff in only #debate of #campaign for #US #Senate seat from #Virginia.
“When you’re using a #dragqueen to #recruit for the #Navy, that’s not the people we want,” Cao said. “
https://apnews.com/article/virginia-senate-debate-kaine-cao-7371d70b8969bef41c070be7259502a7