Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

@jrbslc @thejenniwren that was always the danger of allowing crazies into Congress.

Republicans made a choice to embrace the Tea Party, for the sake of having power.

They lost control of the monster, and have been devolving ever sense.

You can't make this up. George Santos' official House web page says that he was sworn in today by the speaker of the House: https://santos.house.gov/media/press-releases/taking-oath-office. (Screen shot below in case it goes away suddenly…)

The results of the SIXTH round:

Hakeem #Jeffries - 212
Kevin #McCarthy - 201
Byron #Donalds - 20
Present - 1

Team Hakeem Jeffries earns the highest number of votes for a sixth time to become the #SpeakerOfTheHouse.

Yes, the House GOP in disarray.

But don’t let any of it distract you from the GOP's enormously destructive agenda.

They're already trying to gut Congressional ethics, rescind funds for the IRS to go after rich tax dodgers, and eliminate the Congressional Workers Union.

Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. ~Kurt Vonnegut

Book: A Man Without a country

#quote #art #life

I don’t understand the reasoning that Hakeem Jeffries or House Dems need to do anything for a good long time.

Republicans wanted to play with fire by hosting extremists In their caucus. Let them pay the price for it.

If Republicans want to strategically vote present to help Jeffries, fine. But there’s little reason to bail out #McCarthy or any other Republican candidate unless Dems are getting key committee chairmanships and significant say over the Rules package.

#118thCongress

4 January 1931 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Sara Pierotto, was born in Amsterdam.

In December 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

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#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #antisemitism #Amsterdam #Netherlands #children

Another cute little cat pencil drawing from my sketchbook for you.

Wishing you a Good Night and sweet dreams....

#MastoArt #art #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #drawing #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #humanartist #sketch #sketchbook #pencil #blackandwhite #illustration
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat #catlovers #pets #cute #animals #GoodNight #catstodon #doodle

@MeidasTouch McCarthy appears to have lost the vote for the 6th time. Si what will the repugs do next? Are we facing another day of losing votes tomorrow? Will anything change?

@rbreich
I'm old enough have witnessed that transition, and I agree with your analysis.

Once upon a time, GOP stood for limited government. In time, it became the party of “cultural conservatism.”

Now, it’s a cauldron of bitterness, xenophobia, racism, homophobia & anti-intellectualism.

Let's be clear: The Republican Party has lost any legitimate reason for being.

"He will arrive in a black package. But I will buy myself a f*cking car," says a regular Russian women that would love to send her husband to the front in order to receive that precious Lada.

Gotta love your family right.

Another Black man falsely accused of a crime and arrested because of a bad facial recognition search. Fourth or so we know about; probably many more we don't. Arrested while driving to a family Thanksgiving and kept in jail for 7 days, even though he'd never been in the same state as the crime scene

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/jpso-used-facial-recognition-to-arrest-a-man-it-was-wrong/article_0818361a-8886-11ed-8119-93b98ecccc8d.html

A quail chickling to brighten your day #cute

@vicgrinberg

Mehr?

#Halsbandsittiche #Heidelberg

The collective term for a group of otters is a "romp" but I think a "snuggle" of otters works well here.

After fishing alone for a while, mum had returned to her two young cubs, and showed them some affection.

One for the otter fans out there.

#otters #mull #wildlife #nature #cute #AnimalMagic #snuggle #BritishWildlife

Why in the world is child poverty a partisan issue?

The Child Tax Credit expansion lifted 2.1 million children out of poverty in 2021.

In a society that had even the slightest moral compass, the need to restore it would be painfully obvious to everyone.

Every month, our government gives us:
-Reporting on prices
-Reporting on jobs
-Reporting on wages

You know what we don't get a monthly report on?
Corporate profits.

Why do you think that is?