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Stephanie Mickus retweeted
“I wouldn’t be seduced by a spy” you were seduced by the Sephora Savings Event
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
I haven’t spoken to a single Democratic member whose office HASN’T been inundated and overwhelmed by calls opposing Jeffries for Speaker.
WATCH — @RepJeffries: “There’s no indication members of Congress have been overwhelmed by any calls.”
(This gaslighting seems to contradict what @axios @AndrewSolender have reported, and the million+ signatures on a petition for new leadership @MarkRuffalo helped circulate)
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
The technical term for this is "lie."
WATCH — @RepJeffries: “There’s no indication members of Congress have been overwhelmed by any calls.”
(This gaslighting seems to contradict what @axios @AndrewSolender have reported, and the million+ signatures on a petition for new leadership @MarkRuffalo helped circulate)
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
AOC is doing gymnastics to avoid saying corporate America has long decided who her party’s leader is and that it’s procedural not corruption. But it is corruption so her soundbytes are contradictory, condescending, and accidentally severe admissions of a wholly rigged plutocracy
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
its not lost on me that there're always plenty of absentees when its time to do the bidding of the masses, but can you imagine a world where hakeem failed to whip votes for a funding bill for israel?!?!
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
I'm so sorry but Hakeem @RepJeffries claiming to be able to deliver accountability over the past week and then LITERALLY FAILING TO HAVE HIS CAUCUS PRESENT TO IMPEACH HEGSETH is **INSANE**
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC ****WHIP**** WAS THROWING THE FUNDRAISING BASH THAT KEPT DEMOCRATS FROM VOTING TO SEND THE HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT VOTE TO THE FLOOR.
Katherine Clark is the Democratic Whip in the House, and it is thus her responsibility to ensure members are there to vote.
Clark is also a founding member of EDW, which hosted an event tonight from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, overlapping with the 5:30pm vote on the Hegseth impeachment.
Of the 11 members who missed the Hegseth vote, 8 have received support from EDW or its AIPAC-tied super PAC EDW Action. Of those 8, two are sitting board members.
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
Democrats will have a 56-seat majority in the US Senate. We need to use it. Pass Medicare for All.
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to “vote their conscience,” and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up. This is why people want a stronger leader.
These Democrats were recorded as “Not Voting.”
Had all 11 voted no, it would have failed 211–215, and the House would have moved toward a vote on impeachment itself.
Brownley — California
Correa — California
Gillen — New York
Horsford — Nevada
Jackson — Illinois
Pelosi — California
Pettersen — Colorado
Stansbury — New Mexico
Stevens — Michigan
Strickland — Washington
Wilson — Florida
*I understand Correa is having health challenges.
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
Jeffries is threatening to withhold committee assignments from anyone who does not pledge their support for him to become speaker. So a loyalty pledge — sound familiar? Haven’t we had enough of governing by threat?? Isn’t this exactly what we just voted against?
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
The crazy thing is, Hakeem hasn't even met him. I had a lot of disagreements with Nancy Pelosi, but she at least had the good sense to meet every freshman member of Congress who might be a no on her right away and make a pitch, rather than leading with threats.
Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
Leaving two deeply unpopular corporate, pro-Israel New York Democrats to lead both the House and Senate right now would be badly misreading this moment and fumbling a historic win, and even they know it.
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
BREAKING: YES! Palestinian progressive Ahmed Moor announces his bid to unseat Democratic traitor John Fetterman in the Senate.
We’ve been screaming from the rooftops for someone to do this…
“I’m running to end the war in Iran and to promote the dignity agenda: free healthcare, free childcare, and affordable housing,” Moor, a writer and businessman, wrote on X. “I’m calling for accountability for genocide, for ICE and for corruption. And finally, for the protection of our civil liberties in America.”
Fetterman has quickly become the most widely despised Democratic senator due to his mindless, unrelenting support of Israel and its atrocities in Gaza. He was elected to represent the working class of Pennsylvania and has instead become obsessed with his singleminded Israel First agenda. He no longer cares about wages, healthcare, or civil rights. He exists to send more bombs overseas.
Moor was born in Gaza, so there would be immense poetic justice in him ousting a warmongering ogre like Fetterman.
“It’s clear the United States funds wars based on corruption and lies and has turned its back on its own people. We must make sure this never happens again. That’s why I’m running for U.S. Senate,” Moor wrote on his website.
In the leadup to the midterm elections, it was widely speculated that Fetterman might switch parties if Democrats eked out a narrow majority in the Senate. Instead, the blue tsunami delivered what will likely end up being 56 seats. Even if Fetterman did flip now, it would make no difference.
And he is all but guaranteed to lose if he stands for reelection in 2028. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 69% of Democrats hold an unfavorable view of him. He won’t even make it out of the primary.
To Moor’s credit, he is running an issues-focused campaign, and told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he isn’t running simply to unseat Fetterman. He truly believes that the people of his state deserve better governance.
“The truth is, I’m not really running against Fetterman,” Moor said. “I’m running for good government. I’m running for the rule of law. I’m running because I believe in America. And I believe in our capacity for renewal. I believe in our capacity for redressing wrongs in our midst.”
It’s time to take out the garbage, Pennsylvania. Fetterman must go.
Please ❤️ and share if you want to see Fetterman lose!
Stephanie Mickus retweeted
The gaslighting around the Hakeem situation is crazy. What part of plenty of Black voters do not want him to be Speaker is not clicking? This is not fabricated by white people. And it’s not because we don’t understand what the Speaker’s job is. It’s actually because we do.
