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Friday, May 15, 2026

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Thursday, May 14, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/thursday-may-14-2026/

#America, what will you do when the 2026 #midterms leads to even LARGER #Republican majorities in the #USHouse and #USSenate? Will you take to the streets? Will you defend your country?
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https://abcnews.com/Politics/judge-denies-request-force-fbi-return-seized-2020/story?id=132727542

#uspol #electioninterference #votersuppression #stolenmidterms #thefixisin

Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-redistricting-supreme-court-have-cut-voters-out-us-house-races-2026-05-03/

#HackerNews #redistricting #voters #USHouse #SupremeCourt #electionreform #democracy

Ex-classmate of 'racist' MAGA lawmaker Randy Fine (R-FL) spills details: 'He was a laughing stock'
https://www.rawstory.com/randy-fine-2675280080/
#RandyFine #USHouse #Florida #GOPAsshole #GOPRacist #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

South Texas has elected an idiosyncratic Democrat to the US House who supports El Salvador’s authoritarian leader and has voted against trans rights.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2026/02/vicente-gonzalez.html

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#Texas #Democrats #Elections #Politics #US #USA #USPol #USPolitics #House #USHouse

US News Live | All Hell Breaks Loose As Comer & McGovern Clash Over Contempt Charges For Clintons

At today's House Rules Committee hearing, Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) clashed with Rep. James Comer (R-KY) over the Contempt of Congress charges against the Clintons. #live #ushouse #billclinton #epsteinfiles #donaldtrump #ice #immigration Mint is an Indian financial daily newspaper published by HT Media. The Mint YT Channel brings you cutting edge analysis of the latest…

https://fllics.com/en/video/us-news-live-all-hell-breaks-loose-as-comer-mcgovern-clash-over-contempt-charges-for-clintons/

#OR Senator Jeff Merkley and #OR6 Congresswoman Andrea Salinas have introduced legislation in the #USSenate and #USHouse to give legal tools to victims to sue #ICE and #CBP when their agents violate people’s civil and Constitutional rights.

This is needed but we shouldn’t leave loopholes to be exploited. There should be an easy-to-access remedy for individuals to sue ANY federal law enforcement agency that violates their rights.

#civilrights #jeffmerkley #andreasalinas

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-salinas-lead-new-bill-to-hold-ice-cbp-accountable-for-abusing-americans-constitutional-rights/

Democrat Christian Menefee wins Texas house seat to finally give district representation in DC after 11 month vacancy

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2026/01/31/542159/runoff-election-results-congress-district-18-houston-edwards-menefee/

#goodNews #USpol #TXpol #ChristianMenefee #USelection #UShouse

Dear staff member of my House rep … clear your throat 3 times if one of “them” are also on the line.

We heard Vance’s threats against #Democracy

#Skulduggery ? #Constitution #FreeSpeach #USHouse #USA #America #Congress #1stamendment #Activism #Resist #Protest #firstamendment #Law #Justice #Politics #USPol #fascism #nazis #impeachment #tRump #Antifa #anonymous

Fun #NewYear viewing, the full 8 hour #JackSmith #deposition to the #USHouse #Judiciary Committee Glad @[email protected] put this on my radar today... @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #NoKings #Trump #Jan6th

WATCH: Jack Smith's full House...

Republicans have a mess on their hands over health care subsidies – Axios

Axios, 24 hours ago – Politics & Policy

Republicans have a mess on their hands over health care subsidies – By Stef W. Kight,Kate Santaliz, and Hans Nichols

Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson are both considering votes on GOP health care priorities next week — if they can figure out what those priorities are.

Why it matters: Democrats are unified in their demand for a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies, which expire Dec. 31. Republicans are still divided and debating their counter offers.

• Johnson (R-La.) has said he hopes to reveal a House GOP health care package early next week, though some sources are skeptical that will happen.
• Thune (R-S.D.) has promised Democrats a vote on their health care bill next week. But his conference is still in the idea stage on their counters, which are more likely to come as amendment or unanimous consent votes rather than a single broader GOP package.

Between the lines: Don’t expect any health care package to pass next week.

• The real question is whether the voting exercise in the Senate and maybe the House fuels ongoing bipartisan dealmaking — or hampers it.

Zoom in: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is circulating a plan that would extend the expiring subsidies — but with a $200,000 income cap and no zero-dollar premium packages, Semafor’s Burgess Everett reports.

• Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) told Axios he hopes a GOP package will include moving the expiring subsidies into health care savings accounts and adding his bipartisan bill requiring more price transparency.
• Republicans are also again eyeing changes known as cost-sharing reductions, aimed at lowering premiums, but could cut subsidies for some enrollees.
• Multiple senators described the conversations as broad and fluid, with no real consensus this week on any one, single GOP package. And Hyde protections continue to be a sore spot, with some Republicans demanding increased assurances that subsidies aren’t used for abortions.

In the House, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) has been holding “listening sessions” with committee leaders and rank-and-file Republicans for weeks to find a consensus GOP plan.

• A bipartisan group of 35 centrist lawmakers , led by Reps. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Josh Gottheimer, unveiled a two-year extension of the ACA subsidies Thursday, but it doesn’t have buy in from leadership.
• “We’re going to come up with something that I think even people like Jen would support,” Scalise said Thursday.

• House GOP leaders have also discussed proposals that would not extend the enhanced subsidies, but instead expand Association Health Plans, where employers band together to purchase health coverage for workers.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Republicans have a mess on their hands over health care subsidies

#ACA #AffordableCareAct #Axios #Deadline #December312025 #GOP #healthCare #HealthSubsidies #HouseSpeakerMikeJohnson #JohnThune #MikeJohnson #RepublicanParty #Republicans #SenatorJohnThune #SenatorSusanCollins #SteveScalise #SubsidiesInJeopardy #USHouse #USSenate

Epstein island photos, videos released by House Oversight Committee – Live Updates – POLITICO

Epstein island photos, videos released by House Oversight Committee

By Hailey Fuchs, 12/03/2025, 11:50am ET, Updated: 12/03/2025, 7:06pm ET, They are the first release from a new tranche of subpoenaed files that include also records from JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank.

The House Oversight Committee has received new materials from major financial institutions as part of its investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as photos and videos of Epstein’s private compound from authorities in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The files from JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank have not yet been publicly released, though Democrats on the panel say they expect to release them in the coming days after a review. These documents are separate from the federal law enforcement records Congress voted to make public last month; the Justice Department is required to make those materials public later this month.

“[House Oversight Democrats] intend to release files to the public in the days ahead,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the panel, in a post on X. A spokesperson for the committee’s Republican majority confirmed the receipt of the materials.

Democrats publicly posted videos and photos Wednesday that were provided by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned his infamous private retreat.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Epstein island photos, videos released by House Oversight Committee – Live Updates – POLITICO

#AuthoritiesInVirginIslands #Democrats #EpsteinIsland #HouseOversightCommittee #Photos #Politico #PrivateRetreat #RepRobertGarcia #USHouse #USVirginIslands #Videos

Letters from an American – November 29, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, November 29, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 29, 2025

In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees have announced they intend to conduct “vigorous oversight” and “gather a full accounting” of the operation. The two committees referred to the Department of Defense by that name, rather than by the “Department of War” rebrand Hegseth and Trump have pushed.

Today former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously “considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both,” and called for “anyone who issues or follows such orders [to] be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.”

The Former JAGs Working Group organized in February 2025 after Hegseth purged JAGs from the Army and Air Force and systematically dismantled the military’s legal guardrails. “Had those guardrails been in place,” they wrote, “we are confident they would have prevented these crimes.”

Congress appears to be stepping up on this issue, and that willingness to cross Trump suggests members are recalculating Trump’s power relative to their own. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo noted: “This is genuinely big news…. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wants to back a weak horse.”

A Gallup poll released yesterday shows President Donald J. Trump’s job approval rating at 36% with disapproval at 60%. Since last month, Trump’s approval has plummeted 11 points. Republicans’ approval of Trump has fallen seven points to a second-term low, while approval among Independents has fallen eight points to its lowest point in either term. Only 3% of Democrats approve of his job performance. Although war conditions usually help a president’s popularity, Trump’s threat to attack Venezuela attracts the support of only 30% of Americans. Seventy percent oppose such military action.

There are signs that the MAGA coalition is fracturing. A Politico poll released yesterday shows that just 55% of those who voted for Trump in 2024 see themselves as MAGA. While the MAGA 55% remain largely loyal to Trump, 38% do not consider themselves as MAGA and are less enamored of him than are his MAGA loyalists.

Last week a new feature on X that permitted users to see where accounts originate revealed that a number of high-engagement MAGA accounts that claim to be those of patriotic Americans are in fact from Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Nigeria, Thailand, and Bangladesh. Since X pays certain content creators for tweets that drive engagement, posters from other countries have a financial incentive to post material that feeds the anger of American users and thus will get reposted.

The splintering of the MAGA coalition showed when Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced on November 21 she would not run for reelection in a public letter that attacked Trump and “Establishment Republicans.” She called out Trump’s threats to primary her, and said, “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”

Three days later, Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News said her letter “rang true to” many House Republicans. One senior House Republican wrote to Sherman: “This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all—appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team is off putting to members who are run roughshod and threatened. They don’t even allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies. Not even the high profile, the regular rank and file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: November 29, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

#gop #heatherCoxRichardson #hegseth #lettersFromAnAmerican #maga #mikeJohnson #politico #substack #uSCongress #uSHouse #venezuela #whiteHouse

‘He Knew’: What Epstein Said About Trump in New Emails – The New York Times

Nov. 13, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET

Hosted by Rachel Abrams, Featuring David Enrich and Michael Gold, Produced by Rob SzypkoAlex Stern and Rachelle Bonja, Edited by Paige Cowett and Lexie Diao, Original music by Dan Powell and Marion Lozano, Engineered by Alyssa Moxley.

Thousands of pages of newly released emails between Jeffrey Epstein and his associates have put the convicted sex offender’s relationship with President Trump back in the spotlight.

David Enrich and Michael Gold, who have been covering the story, explain what the new documents tell us and discuss whether they could prompt the release of the rest of the Epstein files.

On Today’s Episode

David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor for The New York Times.

Michael Gold, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

Background Reading

• Mr. Trump said the Democrats were bringing up the Epstein “hoax” to deflect from the government shutdown.
• House Republicans asserted that the emails revealed little information.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘He Knew’: What Epstein Said About Trump in New Emails – The New York Times

#20000Pages #2025 #america #convictedSexOffender #davidEnrich #democrats #donaldTrump #education #epstein #epsteinFiles #health #history #jeffreyEpstein #libraries #library #libraryOfCongress #michaelGold #opinion #politics #republicans #resistance #science #theNewYorkTimes #trump #trumpAdministration #uSHouse #unitedStates

Although winning the #USPresidency is very important, I believe that winning both the #USHouse and #USSenate are more important. With this, the presidency can be stopped from doing the most egregious acts and impeachment can be back on the table.

#uspol

Mark Alford’s “AI for Mainstreet Act” is empty buzzwords during a shutdown — no plan, no funding, no clue. Missouri deserves better.
🔗 https://www.facebook.com/danaforcongress/posts/122149993976865933
#Missouri #MarkAlford #RickyDana #Congress #USHouse #MO4 #Missouri #Missouri4
https://www.facebook.com/danaforcongress/posts/122149993976865933

#Trump's toy #Speaker, #MAGAMike Johnson won't seat the latest member of the chamber... because that might lead to the release of the #EpsteinFiles. #WhatAreTheyAfraidOf ?

Let this also serve as a preview for 2027, if the #Democrats, against all odds, obtain a majority in the #USHouse.
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#AdelitaGrijalva Says Swearing In Ceremony Delayed Over #Epstein #Vote https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/adelita-grijalva-swearing-in-delayed-epstein-vote-1235438294/

#uspol #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #GOP