Democrats going for McConnell-style obstruction for the first time in the new Congress by forcing the Senate to vote on a series of motions to proceed to executive and legislative session just as republicans did late last year
quorumcall
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quorumcall
@quorumcaller
she/her • lancaster, pa
Joined June 2023
- Replying to @SenatorLumawoke corporations and rainbowashing might have been annoying but capitulation to conservatives is definitely way worse. scary to watch what felt like quasi supporters in the 1st trump era completely defect for the second
- Replying to @quorumcallerthe goal here is to stall floor consideration of Pete Hegseth, the abhorrent SecDef nominee who apparently had more allegations come out todayAs Dems look to stall floor consideration of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for DoD Secy, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) says GOP leadership will power thru till he is confirmed: “If we have to, we'll vote for him at 2:30 on Sunday morning, so it depends on what the Dems want to do”
- if anyone doesn’t have rights, no one has rights
Nah sorry. Sex offenders don't deserve rights. They don't even deserve to live. - Replying to @HacknerTyler and @SenatorLumaa big contrast to approving Rubio 99-0; it's amazing to see democrats put up some resistance for once
- bunch of indian americans offended at this (and of course the rabid hindu nationalists) but like. being a Democrat and supporting Modi is effectively saying 'i hate oppression done to me, but back in India? i love cow vigilante mobs'"We should view Modi the way we view Netanyahu. This is a war criminal," says Indian-origin politician Zohran Mamdani in his campaign for New York Mayor
00:00 - instagram vibe check: they’re doing THE EXACT SAME THING????? how does ANYONE believe prices are down
Boss somehow said ‘yep, gas sure is going down…that’s good!’ today while every gas station in the area has visibly gone up by ~50 cents in the past week…I saw Will Stancil speaking to me from the heavens like Mufasa - Replying to @agraybeealso so much of these complaints suffer from hindsight being 20/20. just about every health authority on the planet initially encouraged people to avoid wearing masks! we didn’t know what COVID would be like in Feb 2020 because no one had dealt with it before!
- this got 32k likes on the other app despite being completely fake?
- Replying to @seaweedanxietyliterally every trick in the book to make it more expensive, this is the canadian grocery equivalent of buying everything at erewhon
- this slopulist proposal unfortunately actually works on voters, the entire Instagram comments section is licking it up
01:38It’s time this city empowered small businesses—not bury them in fines, fees and endless bureaucracy. Here’s my plan. - Replying to @stqnfieldngl the sound effects on this one go so hard
- “i might be a psychopath” yeah this is in fact the craziest thing i’ve seen on here
- a sitting democratic member of congress just posted this???
