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republicansaredomesticterrorists · 18 days

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The MAGA extremists want to only pass legislation they initiate and things their orange leader want. They are refusing to work with Democrats on anything in the national interest. Agreeing among themselves to let a single member call for a vote to replace the Speaker was a huge mistake. Matt Gaetz single-handedly ousted McCarthy which paralyzed the House of Representatives for weeks. Now extremist kook Greene wants to call for a vote to oust “MAGA Mike Johnson” over aid to Ukraine. Many old school Republican conservatives want to stand up to Russia by funding Ukraine but traitor Trump wants to help Russia by canceling aid. Greene is doing Trump’s bidding which is ridiculous and outrageous.

#republican assholes #maga morons #marjorie traitor greene #Trump sycophant #maga mike johnson #Mike Lawler #never trump #ukraine aid #traitor trump #crooked donald #traitor #Putin owns Trump

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maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick · 1 year

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persephone-nymph · 6 months

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The Cranberries for Bravo Magazine, Feb. 1995

#the cranberries #bravo magazine #dolores o'riordan #noel hogan #mike hogan #fergal lawler #1990s #alternative rock #90s rock #pop rock #Irish rock #dream pop #90s alt rock #rock and roll #90s aesthetic

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kellymagovern · 2 months

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The Cranberries - "Ode To My Family" [x]

#The Cranberries #thecranberriesedit #Ode To My Family #Dolores O'Riordan #Noel Hogan #Fergal Lawler #Mike Hogan #alternative rock #alternative #rock #jangle pop #90's #90's music #Cranberries #my gifs

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mazzy-rockstar · 5 months

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#mazzy listens #the cranberries #dolores o'riordan #noel hogan #mike hogan #fergal lawler #indie rock #pop rock #alternative rock #limerick #republic of ireland #Spotify

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all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual · 3 months

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B-Side Magazine December 94/January 95/The Cranberries

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#the cranberries #dolores o'riordan #mike hogan #noel hogan #fergal lawler #b-side magazine #90s #magazine scans #my scans

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Republicans who are facing tough races in 2024 are defending Donald Trump against his criminal charges, either by assailing what they say is a political prosecution or offering full-throated support for the former president. And Democrats are betting they'll pay for it.

The day Trump was arraigned in New York on felony charges, two GOP House members from New York — Reps. Mike Lawler and Marc Molinaro – attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, with Molinaro accusing him of pursuing a "political vendetta."

Rep. Mike Garcia, of California, appeared to invoke a comparison to Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in Russia. Embattled Rep. George Santos, embroiled in his own series of scandals, showed up at a pro-Trump rally in Manhattan and tweeted "that's what real supporters do" using the hashtag "#Trump2024NowMorethanEver."

Trump's indictment in New York on charges of 34 felony counts of falsification of business records leaves vulnerable down-ballot Republicans in a predicament: Avoid the topic and risk losing pro-Trump voters in a potential GOP primary, or defend him now and risk losing swing voters later in a general election.

THE GOP ONCE AGAIN BOXED IN BY TRUMP

While some vulnerable Republicans have remained quiet, others have weighed in with comments that Democrats expect will age poorly.

"It's the latest iteration of the Republican Party being owned by this guy and paying the electoral price for it," said Shripal Shah, a partner at Left Hook and a former spokesperson for both the House and Senate Democrats' campaign arms. "I think it helps Democrats across the board, in both House and Senate races. Just like in 2022 — when you have to embrace everything about Trumpism in order to survive a primary you're doing so at your own peril."

Republicans are still reluctant to criticize Trump, even after he lashed out against federal law enforcement. Only three of the 18 Republicans who represent districts that President Joe Biden won in 2020 — Molinaro, Rep. Young Kim of California and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon — would go on the record with Punchbowl News to distance themselves from Trump's call to defund the FBI and Department of Justice.

The 2024 elections are still a long way off and it's unclear which issues will motivate voters the most. But Democrats are betting that MAGA-charged politics will be a loser.

"Voters overwhelmingly rejected Trump and MAGA extremism in 2020 and 2022, but having learned nothing, House Republicans are eagerly showing voters that they are still at the mercy of one disgraced ex-president, even as he calls to defund federal law enforcement," Tommy Garcia, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told Insider. "It's dangerous and will likely cost them."

Spokespeople for the National Republican Congressional Committee and National Republican Senatorial Committee did not respond to a request for comment.

PROSECUTING TRUMP POLLS WELL

Most Americans — 60%— approve of Trump's indictment, according to a CNN poll, though about three-quarters said politics played some role in it. About 4 in 10 said they thought he acted illegally in making alleged hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election, while 33% said he acted unethically but not illegally.

MAGA booster Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado called that poll "as fake as Biden's White House play set." Boebert, who only narrowly won her 2022 election in a Trump 2020 district, called on her Twitter followers to be vocal about "this assault on our nation."

Boebert is on House Democrats' list of 31 vulnerable Republicans and two competitive open seats that they are targeting to take back control of the House in 2024.

Senate Democrats face a tough election cycle with 20 Democrat-controlled seats and three independent seats up for election, but they're expecting to see Trump playing a role in messy primaries on the Republican side.

In Pennsylvania, former gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, a potential Senate candidate, called out the "weaponizing of our Justice system against the leading Republican candidate for president is unprecedented, disconcerting and dangerous." He also retweeted a supporter who criticized a potential opponent, David McCormick, for being "completely silent" on Trump's indictment and arrest and called him a "coward."

"Donald Trump's indictment is intensifying Senate Republicans' nasty primary dynamics across the map — exacerbating their intra-party fighting and pushing GOP Senate candidates further away from the voters who will decide the general election," Nora Keefe, a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesperson, told Insider.

Biden hasn't commented on Trump's charges, and Democrats in Congress are treading carefully.

Democrats shouldn't get ahead of the judicial process, said Rodell Mollineau, a cofounder and partner at Rokk Solutions in Washington, DC. They should say Trump deserves his day in court and "be the party of the rule of law," he said.

If it comes out that this was political overreach or a stretch, he said, "this is where I think it becomes more problematic for our side."

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czerwonynotesblekitnyprochowiec · 2 years

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the cranberries - everybody else is doing it so why can't we

1 I Still Do 8.5/10 2 Dreams 7.5/10 3 Sunday 7.5/10 4 Pretty 7.25/10 5 Waltzing Back 8.5/10 6 Not Sorry 7.75/10 8 Wanted 7.5/10 9 Still Can't ... 7.5/10 10 I Will Always 7.75/10 11 How 7.75/10 12 Put Me Down 8.5/10 7/10

#alternative rock #indie pop #irish folk #jangle pop #post punk #dream pop #the cranberries #everybody else is doing it so why can't we #dolores o'riordan #noel hogan #mike hogan #fergal lawler

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davedyecom · 2 years

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PODCAST: Cabell Harris

Ad agencies often claim to have no set style, that each campaign is created from scratch, bespoke for every client. It may be true for the mediocre ones, but not the great ones. Nobody used to confuse the work of AMV, BBH and GGT. The same with Wieden, Chiat and Fallon. Today, stick me in front of a tv and I’d fancy my chances at picking the Droga5. Or spotting the Uncommon on a tube…

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0atm11k · 5 months

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New York state’s Fourth Judicial Department has reinstated a controversial policy that empowers the state government to lawfully order people to involuntarily isolate or quarantine in order to prevent the spread of highly contagious diseases.

Originally passed in February 2022, the dramatic expansion of the rights and abilities of the State Health Commissioner, collectively referred to as Rule 2.13, was struck down in July of that same year in the state Supreme Court, following a lawsuit filed by Republican lawmakers Sen. George Borrello, Assemblyman Chris Tague and U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, who was a member of the Assembly at the time of the filing.

Last Friday, the Fourth Judicial Department repealed that decision, stating that the Republican challengers, who had argued that Rule 2.13 gave undue power to the executive branch and disregarded the authority of the state legislature, had not established how their authority had been negated.

The court’s Democratic Supermajority, in a unanimous vote, ruled that the “Legislature retains its power to address the regulation,” essentially stating that New York legislators still maintain the authority to change the laws which originally empowered the Governor’s office to pass new and stricter public health policies. Furthermore, the Fourth Judical Court wrote “that the legislator petitioners failed to fulfill the injury-in-fact requirement to establish standing” arguing that the state legislators who originally brought the suit did not have the legal standing to do so.

The lower court ruled that Rule 2.13 did not nullify any vote cast by the plaintiffs or strip them of any due authority, thus the challengers had no grounds on which to personally sue.

“Inasmuch as the legislator petitioners merely asserted an alleged harm to the separation of powers shared by the legislative branch as a whole, they failed to establish that they suffered a direct, personal injury beyond an abstract institutional harm,” wrote the court.

Republicans have categorized the Fourth Judical Departments ruling as a technicality, and have vowed to continue challenging the policy.

“The court seems to insinuate that the only person with the right to sue is someone who has been forcibly locked in their home against their will” Bobbie Anne Flower Cox, the attorney representing the petitioners, wrote in a blog post following the lower court’s decision.

Rule 2.13 was fi rst made possible when, during the early days of the Covid 19 Pandemic, the state legislature amended executive law and gave then Governor Andrew Cuomo broad power to suspend laws and issue directives through executive orders.

The new ruling supersedes the conclusion of Supreme Court Justice Ronald Ploetz of Cattaraugus County, who stated Rule 2.13 violates the constitutional requirement for a separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches when establishing actions as severe as involuntary isolation.

With Rule 2.13 reinstated, the State Commissioner of Health now resumes the authority to “whenever appropriate to control the spread of a highly contagious communicable disease, issue and/or direct the local health authority to issue isolation and/or quarantine orders, consistent with due process of law, to all such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate.”

#quarantine #covid #COVID-19 #covid19 #covid 19 #face masks #new york #new york state #government #politics

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plethoraworldatlas · 6 months

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House Republicans approved legislation Friday that would slash nearly 40 percent of the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The funding bill, passed by a 213-203 vote, cuts 39 percent of the EPA’s budget and would be the smallest budget the agency has had in three decades. Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Marc Molinaro (N.Y.) voted against the bill, while Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) was recorded as voting for it.

This bill:

●Proposes a draconian 40% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, down to levels not seen in more than 30 years;

● Completely zeroes out spending on environmental justice programs;

●Slashes basic clean air and water protections and environmental cleanup programs;

●Rescinds funding for critical Inflation Reduction Act programs like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund;

●Mandates fossil fuel leases;

●and Dooms imperiled species to extinction.

#ecology #enviromentalism #us politics #fuck the gop #EPA

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[ 📹 An overnight air raid by the Zionist occupation army targeted the residential home of the Awad family, in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 6 civilians, including a baby, while dozens of others were wounded in the strike. ]

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GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS CONTINUES FOR THE 204TH DAY AS ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES BOMB MORE CIVILIAN HOMES

On the 204th day of "Israel's" ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 4 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of 32 civilians, mostly women and children, while another 69 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that Gaza's Ministry of Health, along with the entirety of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip, have been pummeled by the Israeli occupation's aggression, causing extensive damage to the systems of monitoring the deaths of Palestinians in the Israeli genocide, and are no longer capable of keeping an accurate tally of the number of civilians killed.

Many of those killed in Israeli airstrikes remain buried under the rubble and are unable to be recovered due to continued Zionist aggression, which, along with extensive damage to local infrastructure, has left the official tally of Palestinians killed grossly undercounted.

Meanwhile, in the United States, protests continue on University campuses across the country, with tens of thousands of students demonstrating to call for divestment and sanctions against the Israeli entity.

In response to these protests, two American Congressman, one Democrat and one Republican, have introduced a bipartisan bill to force colleges to allow supervision by an official "antisemitism" monitor on campus.

The official name for the bill is "COLOMBIA" (College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability) Act.

Colleges which are accused of "allowing antisemitism to fester" would have a monitor appointed by the Secretary of Education who would supervise actions taken by universities to tamp down "antisemitic" sentiments.

"Failure to comply the monitorship would result in a loss of Federal funds," a press release by the offices of Congressmember Ritchie Torres, a cosponsor of the bill, said.

The second cosponsor of the COLOMBIA protest-suppression bill is Rockland County Republican, Mike Lawler of New York.

In further news from Gaza, the Ministry of Health made an announcement on Saturday stating that all of the citizens of the Gaza Strip are drinking unsafe water, putting the Palestinian population at risk of disease and death.

The Ministry pointed out that the public health laboratory has long been shut down due to the Zionist aggression, and the ministry remains incapable of examining drinking water in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry also slammed the Israeli occupation's blocking of chlorine from entering the enclave, leaving the Health Ministry unable to treat drinking water in Gaza, forcing the entire civilian population to drink unsafe water and putting their lives at risk.

Gaza's Ministry of Health also said the suffering of Gaza's population is compounded by the difficulty of obtaining water following the Israeli occupation's destruction of Gaza's desalinization plants.

In Beit Lahiya for instance, in the northern Gaza Strip, the city's mayor, Alaa Al-Attar, reported that the Israeli occupation army has destroyed 70% of water wells in the city, along with 50% of the city's sewage pumps, and has destroyed more than 80km of water and sewage networks, resulting in a humanitarian catastrophe for the local population.

In further tragic news, an infant who's life was saved after being removed from her mother's womb her death in an Israeli airstrike, has died herself from complications.

According to several reports in the local Palestinian media, as well as an Al-Jazeera report, the infant baby, named Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, was rescued from her mother's womb after an Israeli airstrike hit their home, killing the unborn child's entire family, including her mother who carried her at the time, along with her father, and her young sister.

The infant Rouh died in hospital on Thursday and was buried with the rest of her family in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the massacre of civilians in Gaza continues unabated, with airstrikes and artillery shelling targeting residential homes and buildings across the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of casualties over the last day.

In Gaza's north, Zionist gunboats fired live bullets from heavy machine-guns towards the fisherman's port of Gaza City, while at the same time shelling the outskirts of the Al-Shati Refugee Camp with artillery.

In another gruesome massacre, Zionist warplanes bombed near the Faisal School in the Japanese neighborhood of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing three Palestinian civilians and wounding a number of others.

Similarly, occupation fighter jets bombed the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, martyring two civilians and wounding several others.

The slaughter of Palestinians continued with another Zionist airstrike targeting a civilian house in Rafah City, in the south of Gaza, killing at least 6 civilians.

That strike was immediately followed by two more airstrikes on residential homes in Rafah, resulting in the deaths of 8 more civilians, mostly women and children, and wounding dozens of others.

In yet another tragedy, Zionist occupation forces destroyed a residential home in the al-Sultan neighborhood of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, leading to the death of 4 civilians, including a baby girl.

Elsewhere, Zionist warplanes bombed yet another inhabited residential building, also in the Nuseirat Camp, killing 4 citizens and wounding at least 30 others.

The occupation army continued its terror with the launch of repeated firebelts targeting the Al-Mughraqa area of central Gaza, while Gaza City in the north was hammered with a multitude of airstrikes, several of which focused on the Shuja'iyya neighborhood where three residential homes were targeted.

The Zionist army also obliterated a house in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, killing 3 civilians, including a woman and her child.

Previously, an occupation airstrike that targeted a residential building belonging to the Shawa family, housing displaced civilians, was scoured by Civil Defense crews who managed to recover the bodies of three civilians, including a child, while several others who were wounded were taken to Al-Ahli Arab National Hospital.

Zionist warplanes also heavily bombed the Al-Zawayda area of central Gaza, targeting civilian homes in multiple intense raids, killing a Palestinian civilian and wounding a number of others.

A multitude of civilians were also wounded following occupation artillery shelling which targeted agricultural lands in the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat Camp, while occupation fighter jets continue firing firebelts to the northwest of Khan Yunis, in Gaza's south.

Occupation aircraft similarly targeted residential buildings in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

As a result of "Israel's" ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the current death toll among the local population has surged yet again, now exceeding 34,388 Palestinians killed, including over 14'690 children and 9'680 women, while another 77'437 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

April 27th, 2024.

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mojave-pete · 6 months

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Here Are The 22 Republicans Who Voted Against Jordan:

Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon voted for Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan voted for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds.

Colorado Rep. Ken Buck then voted for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer.

Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer voted for McCarthy.

New York Rep. Anthony D’Esposito voted for New York GOP Gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin.

Florida Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart voted for Scalise.

Texas Rep. Jake Ellzey voted for California Rep. Mike Garcia.

Georgia Rep. Drew Ferguson voted for Scalise

New York Rep. Andrew Garbarino voted for Zeldin.

Florida Rep. Carlos Giménez voted for McCarthy.

Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales voted for Scalise.

Texas Rep. Kay Granger voted for Scalise.

Michigan Rep. John James voted for former Michigan Rep. Candice Miller

Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly voted for former Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Virginia Rep. Jen Kiggans voted for McCarthy.

New York Rep. Nick LaLota voted for Zeldin.

New York Rep. Mike Lawler voted for McCarthy.

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks ended up voting for Granger.

Florida Rep. John Rutherford voted for Scalise.

Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson also voted for Scalise.

Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber voted for Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman.

Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack voted for Scalise.

These RINOs (democRats) need to be un elected!

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eretzyisrael · 4 months

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by Phyllis Chesler

Just last week, pro-Palestinian Arab demonstrators tried to stop Congressmen Richie Torres and Mike Lawler, from speaking about Israeli-Arab peace through the Abraham Accords at the 92nd St Y in New York City.

Approximately twenty to twenty five protestors stood up in waves, one after the other, yelling out "Free Palestine" and "Genocide is not peace." It took about twenty minutes to clear the room. The assembled audience booed them and eventually started yelling "Get them out" and "Yeah, free Palestine from Hamas."

Torres sat on the platform entirely unfazed. Afterwards, he tweeted: "No amount of Astroturf Anti-Israel agitation is going to bully me into supporting a ceasefire that perpetuates the genocidal terrorism of Hamas. I refuse to be intimidated by a fanatical fringe that represents no one and nothing but itself."

This demonstrating-in-waves is hardly original. It is an Islamist/Marxist tactic long in use.

For example, in 2008, female students, members of the Muslim Student Association (a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood), chose to interrupt my friend and colleague Nonie Darwish's lecture about eight Iranian women who were facing execution and about Sharia law. Each hijabbed student sat at the end of each row, cleared their throats rather loudly, and then proceeded to leave, one after the other, for the bathroom. Their interruptions continued as Nonie spoke.

In 2010, ten Muslim students interrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's lecture at the University of California's Irvine campus. They continued to heckle and shout him down. "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech" and "Sir, you are an accomplice to genocide." Amazingly, the students were charged, found guilty and sentenced to three years of probation, 56 hours of community service and fines.

For the last twenty years in America outside lecturers, professors, and students have been bullied, cancelled, and shut down all across America. Loud mobs have harassed politicians at their homes, on the street, and while dining out with their families.

These anti-Israel demonstrators have also disrupted High Culture.

In October of this year, at least 1,000 pro-Palestinian Arab hordes demonstrated outside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia. The government had illuminated the House in the colors of the Israeli flag following Hamas's 10/7 brutal terrorist massacre against Israeli civilians.

More recently, at the end of November, climate (!) demonstrators managed to interrupt and delay the performance of Wagner's Tanhauser at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House for one hour. In tried and true Alinsky/Marxist/Black Lives Matter/Antifa/Islamist form, the protesters sat in different parts of the audience and then, one by one, they stood, screamed, dropped banners over the balconies, resisted being escorted out.

Makes sense. Environmentalist poster child Greta Thunberg has moved on from saving the planet to "doubling down on (her) anti-Israel stance, accusing it of "genocide" in Gaza. She has taken to chanting "crush Zionism" at rallies.

I guess all those who need attention go where the action is.

Such demonstrations, delays, and interruptions are precisely what I'm talking about when I say that a Red/Green alliance is trying to destroy Western culture and civilization.

Right now, we are living through near-constant demonstrations replete with drums, megaphones, and loud and aggressive marchers; they are shutting speakers down, blocking the entrances to trains, obstructing traffic by blocking roads and bridges all over North America.

Slowly, surely, our sense of safety in public spaces is being eroded.

These "smaller" but almost continuous interruptions have begun to unravel our democratic rights to free speech, lawful assembly, civil society, and street safety. This is what I mean when I write that Islamists/Marxists are destroying Western culture and our civilization.

They must be stopped

#islamists #greta thunberg #western culture #zionism #muslims

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tomorrowusa · 13 days

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Postcards from Ukraine to members of Congress – a suggestion 💡 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 📮

It's clear that House Speaker Mike Johnson is acting on orders from Donald Trump to prevent a Senate bill which includes aid to Ukraine from getting a vote in the House of Representatives. Johnson is a craven careerist who would sell his mother into slavery to please Trump.

The Senate bill ("Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act") could still be taken up – and would almost certainly pass – if just a handful of Republicans from moderate districts decided to support a parliamentary procedure called a "discharge petition" in order to bypass Speaker Johnson.

There are 17 Republicans in the House of Representatives in 2022 who won in congressional districts where Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump in 2020. These Republicans from moderate districts would be a good grouping to entreat to support the discharge petition. A number of them have already expressed support for Ukraine in the past. It's a matter of getting them to put conscience ahead of their fear of Trump.

Below is a list of addresses of the district offices of those 17 Republican Representatives. If you are in Ukraine, buy a postcard and clearly write a short message which tells how you love freedom and how Putin's illegal war has affected you. It can be in English or Ukrainian. Use a Ukrainian stamp for postage and mail it as soon as possible.

Individuals need pick just 1 of the 17. But schools, businesses, clubs, and military units with at least 17 people can arrange to send one to each of the listed Representatives.

Be polite but urgent. Perhaps remind them that Ronald Reagan understood the dangers of Russian imperialism.

Rep. David Schweikert 14500 N. Northsight Blvd., Suite 221 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 USA

Rep. Juan Ciscomani 1636 N. Swan Road, Suite 200 Tucson, AZ 85712 USA

Rep. John Duarte 90 S. First Street Turlock, CA 95380 USA

Rep. David Valadeo 2700 M Street, Suite 250B Bakersfield, CA 93301 USA

Rep. Mike Garcia 27200 Tourney Rd., Suite 300 Santa Clarita, CA 91355 USA

Rep. Young Kim 180 N. Riverview Dr., Suite 150 Anaheim, CA 92808 USA

Rep. Michelle Steel 10805 Holder St., Suite 225 Cypress, CA 90630 USA

Rep. Don Bacon 13906 Gold Circle, Suite 101 Omaha, NE 68144 USA

Rep. Tom Kean Hopatcong Borough Municipal Building 111 River Styx Road Hopatcong, NJ 07843 USA

Rep. Nick Lalota 515 Hauppauge Road, Suite 3B Hauppauge, NY 11788 USA

Rep. Anthony D'Esposito 229 7th Street, Suite 102 Garden City, NY 11530 USA

Rep. Mike Lawler 60 McAlpin Ave Mahopac, NY 10541 USA

Rep. Marc Molinaro 49 Court Street, Suite 210 Binghamton, NY 13901 USA

Rep. Brandon Williams 421 Broad Street, Suite 7 Utica, NY 13501 USA

Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer 621 High Street Oregon City, OR 97045 USA

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 1717 Langhorne Newtown Rd., Suite 225 Langhorne, PA 19047 USA

Rep. Jen Kiggans 283 Constitution Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23462 USA

FAQ

Why physical mail instead of email or phone calls? There's an enormous chance that your email would end up in a spam folder. Also, the Congressional email system tends to prioritize email originating from the districts of each individual House member. Phone calls from outside the US are likely to be filtered out. Unlike email or phone calls, a physical piece of mail has a real world presence. The recipient has to do something with it. You can't simply press DELETE to get rid of it.

Why postcards and not letters? For security reasons. It takes less time and effort to inspect a postcard than a letter or parcel. Your mail will arrive sooner.

Why use postage stamps instead of a postage meter? You want the recipient to know that you are REALLY from Ukraine. Using official Ukrainian stamps is a simple way to do that. When people see Україна or Ukraina on the stamp then they will know it originated in Free Ukraine. FYI: the letter Ї does not exist in Russian, recipients should look for this on the stamp. Also, your stamp automatically turns the postcard into a collector's item. It is more likely to be saved and to serve as a continuing reminder of your urgent request.

Why send the postcards to district offices instead of offices in Washington? Postcards from Ukraine will get more attention locally by local staff; if a sizable number arrive, it might even get mentioned in local media. In Washington, people tend to be more blasé about such things.

What is the proper form of address for House members? Rep. or Representative before the surname – no distinction based on gender.

FOR REFERENCE: Here are electoral stats for the districts. The column marked R margin indicates the size of each Representative's winning margin in 2022. Rep. Duarte, for example, beat his Democratic opponent by a very narrow 0.4%

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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Another member of the House Republican conference, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), said Tuesday she opposes Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) plan to strip committee assignments from several House Democrats.

Why It Matters: Her comments put an expected vote to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) off the Foreign Affairs Committee in serious jeopardy as Republicans, with their narrow majority, can only afford to lose a handful of votes.

• That vote could come as soon as this week: House Democrats’ steering committee is meeting Tuesday evening to recommend committee assignments.

• Compounding matters for Republicans is that Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has said he will be out of D.C. for “several weeks” as he recovers from injuries sustained from falling off a ladder.

Driving The News: Spartz, in a statement, cited her votes in 2021 against kicking Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) off their committees.

• “Two wrongs do not make a right. Speaker Pelosi took unprecedented actions last Congress to remove Reps. Greene and Gosar from their committees without proper due process," she said.

• “As I spoke against it on the House floor two years ago, I will not support this charade again."

• Her statement also applied to McCarthy's plan to kick Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) off of the House Intelligence Committee as well, but McCarthy can do that unilaterally without a House vote.

The Backdrop: Spartz joins Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who told Axios in December, "I’m not going to support it."

• Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) also told Axios at the time, “I’ve never been a fan of that. Members are elected by their districts. ... To throw them off just seems inappropriate.”

The Other Side: Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), who represents a Biden district but also has many Jewish constituents, told Axios last month he supports booting Omar.

• "Somebody like Ilhan Omar should not be serving on Foreign Affairs, especially with her stated positions with respect to the state of Israel. So I would absolutely vote to remove her," he said in a phone interview.

What Caught Our Eye: Spartz also issued a broader rebuke of McCarthy's governance, stating: "Speaker McCarthy needs to stop 'bread and circuses' in Congress and start governing for a change.”

• She has proven increasingly independent in her second term, voting "present" on several ballots during the speaker election earlier this month and denying McCarthy a crucial vote before eventually flipping back to voting for him.

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