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| 4:02a |
Urgent: Child tax credit
US citizens:
call on Biden to keep fighting for the expanded Child Tax
Credit.
Here's the text I used for the letter.
I know it won't be easy to get the House to pass expansion of the
Child Tax Credit, but it is vital that you and the Democrats be no
less stubborn than Republican terrorist politicians.
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| 4:02a |
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| 4:17a |
Office of Congressional Ethics, closed
Congressional Republicans changed the rules
of the Office of
Congressional Ethics to make it unable to operate.
This is to protect various Republicans such as from any follow-up on
the ethics complaints they would have faced.
Alas for poor Rep. Santos, it will not protect him from possible
extradition to Brazil for the fraud charges he ducked out on a few
years ago.
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| 4:31a |
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| 5:02a |
Political destruction, Brazil
The Bolsonaro mob vented their hatred of democrac
y on Brazil's
equivalents of the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court.
They destroyed even abstract art as if it expressed support for
democracy, and wrote graffiti on the walls calling for military
dictatorship.
People have a right to say they would prefer a military dictatorship,
but taking or planning violent action in the name of establishing one
is an unforgivable crime.
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| 5:02a |
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| 5:02a |
Discharge petition, thwart McCarthy
Democrats in the House could thwart
McCarthy's vow to use the debt
ceiling to hold the US government to ransom
by signing a discharge
petition.
They would need at least five Republicans to sign it with them.
I think there is another way. Robert Reich recommended that
Democrats
should unite with the slightly-less-extremist Republicans
to elect one of those as speaker.
It has been reported that any member of the House can now demand a new
election for speaker, per the new rules McCarthy imposed at the demand
of the hyperextremists. If Democrats make a deal with the Republican
slightly-less-extremists to support one of those as speaker, perse
would win. They could make a deal beforehand to raise (or eliminate)
the debt ceiling and to leave Social Security and Medicare untouched.
Reich referred to those Republican as "moderates", but I don't think
that term fits them. Just as "moderate" Democrats are actually
plutocratist, not moderate at all, so are "moderate" Republicans.
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