Tamara Houde
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Tamara Houde
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· Jan 28
www.congress.gov
Not sure how to reach your Senators and Reps? Capitol Hill Switchboard can connect you with DC offices. 202-224-3121.
Also, Congress.gov can hook you up.
www.congress.gov/members lets you pull up individual members or whole categories. More tips downskeet.
Also, Congress.gov can hook you up.
www.congress.gov/members lets you pull up individual members or whole categories. More tips downskeet.
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📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
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As predicted, the call was coming from inside the house.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As predicted, the call was coming from inside the house.
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Roberts is worse than Taney atp
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Roberts is worse than Taney atp
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Pete Hegseth has murdered 87 people so far and Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t think impeaching Hegseth is worth the time.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Pete Hegseth has murdered 87 people so far and Hakeem Jeffries doesn’t think impeaching Hegseth is worth the time.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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In most places in this country that’s first degree premeditated murder.
I am opposed to the death penalty and always have been, but if anyone outside of a law enforcement uniform/not under color of state authority did this, it would be life imprisonment without the possibility of parole AT LEAST.
I am opposed to the death penalty and always have been, but if anyone outside of a law enforcement uniform/not under color of state authority did this, it would be life imprisonment without the possibility of parole AT LEAST.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In most places in this country that’s first degree premeditated murder.
I am opposed to the death penalty and always have been, but if anyone outside of a law enforcement uniform/not under color of state authority did this, it would be life imprisonment without the possibility of parole AT LEAST.
I am opposed to the death penalty and always have been, but if anyone outside of a law enforcement uniform/not under color of state authority did this, it would be life imprisonment without the possibility of parole AT LEAST.
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Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.
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SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
I mean, this is an execution
December 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
SPLIT IN HALF?
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF?
I got nothing folks.
Trials. Prison. Everyone.
If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.
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NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
Spotify: Wrapped in complicity
app.sosha.ai
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
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Good morning and please don’t put videos of traumatic things on the timeline without a warning.
(I know everything is traumatic these days but seriously don’t but violent accidents on the TL without a warning. It’s 5:48 am here and I am sitting at my counter thinking social media was a bad idea.)
(I know everything is traumatic these days but seriously don’t but violent accidents on the TL without a warning. It’s 5:48 am here and I am sitting at my counter thinking social media was a bad idea.)
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Good morning and please don’t put videos of traumatic things on the timeline without a warning.
(I know everything is traumatic these days but seriously don’t but violent accidents on the TL without a warning. It’s 5:48 am here and I am sitting at my counter thinking social media was a bad idea.)
(I know everything is traumatic these days but seriously don’t but violent accidents on the TL without a warning. It’s 5:48 am here and I am sitting at my counter thinking social media was a bad idea.)
This! Time and again people call for leaders to fight and push back against fascism, to hold accountable those who consistently seek to harm. And time and again, those cries are met with excuses and ineffectual responses that foster more harmful actions. Step up to the task at hand or step aside.
Hakeem Jeffries will never lead the Dems where they need to go in order to help the people.
He will choose restoration over reform because he has been groomed by the Establishment.
I wish people could finally accept this.
He will choose restoration over reform because he has been groomed by the Establishment.
I wish people could finally accept this.
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This! Time and again people call for leaders to fight and push back against fascism, to hold accountable those who consistently seek to harm. And time and again, those cries are met with excuses and ineffectual responses that foster more harmful actions. Step up to the task at hand or step aside.
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The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
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Guess the speed of democracy depends on who you voted for and what they look like.
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Guess the speed of democracy depends on who you voted for and what they look like.
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🚨The Oversight Committee has received files related to Jeffrey Epstein from JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank & the U.S. Virgin Islands. Oversight Dems intend to release files to the public in the days ahead.
Mr. President, release the files, NOW.
Mr. President, release the files, NOW.
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨The Oversight Committee has received files related to Jeffrey Epstein from JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank & the U.S. Virgin Islands. Oversight Dems intend to release files to the public in the days ahead.
Mr. President, release the files, NOW.
Mr. President, release the files, NOW.
Capitulation and acquiescence
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Capitulation and acquiescence
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Hegseth is practically daring the Dems to try.
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hegseth is practically daring the Dems to try.
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Hegseth has given them *everything* *willingly* to prove high crimes and misdemeanors justifying his impeachment.
It should not go to waste.
It should not go to waste.
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hegseth has given them *everything* *willingly* to prove high crimes and misdemeanors justifying his impeachment.
It should not go to waste.
It should not go to waste.
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The most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The most dangerous moment in every authoritarian regime is when it realizes that its power has crested and is now falling. This is when they realize that if they are to achieve their maximalist ambitions, now they have to throw the dice — because no matter how bad the odds, their odds are best now.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to manage all of these cookies, but this season I'm planning to bake:
Triple Chocolate Chip
Gingersnaps
Jam Thumbprints
Peanut Butter
Cannoli Cookies
Snickerdoodles
Pfeffernusse
Molasses Crinkles
Benne Wafers
Caramel Apple Cookies
Peach Crumble Bars
PB & J Bars
Triple Chocolate Chip
Gingersnaps
Jam Thumbprints
Peanut Butter
Cannoli Cookies
Snickerdoodles
Pfeffernusse
Molasses Crinkles
Benne Wafers
Caramel Apple Cookies
Peach Crumble Bars
PB & J Bars
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to manage all of these cookies, but this season I'm planning to bake:
Triple Chocolate Chip
Gingersnaps
Jam Thumbprints
Peanut Butter
Cannoli Cookies
Snickerdoodles
Pfeffernusse
Molasses Crinkles
Benne Wafers
Caramel Apple Cookies
Peach Crumble Bars
PB & J Bars
Triple Chocolate Chip
Gingersnaps
Jam Thumbprints
Peanut Butter
Cannoli Cookies
Snickerdoodles
Pfeffernusse
Molasses Crinkles
Benne Wafers
Caramel Apple Cookies
Peach Crumble Bars
PB & J Bars
Reminder- it would be a war crime if we were actually at war. We're not, it's a systematic attack against a civilian population. We generally refer to those as crimes against humanity.
So far 83 people have been killed in this regime's unprovoked attacks on their boats.
So far 83 people have been killed in this regime's unprovoked attacks on their boats.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Reminder- it would be a war crime if we were actually at war. We're not, it's a systematic attack against a civilian population. We generally refer to those as crimes against humanity.
So far 83 people have been killed in this regime's unprovoked attacks on their boats.
So far 83 people have been killed in this regime's unprovoked attacks on their boats.
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Seriously, Dems should just introduce an impeachment resolution. Hold fcking hearings. Who cares if it doesn't get out of committee?
I want to see the rampant evidence he's put into the public domain shoved in his face, trial style.
This is murder and it demands a response.
I want to see the rampant evidence he's put into the public domain shoved in his face, trial style.
This is murder and it demands a response.
Hegseth: "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean"
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Seriously, Dems should just introduce an impeachment resolution. Hold fcking hearings. Who cares if it doesn't get out of committee?
I want to see the rampant evidence he's put into the public domain shoved in his face, trial style.
This is murder and it demands a response.
I want to see the rampant evidence he's put into the public domain shoved in his face, trial style.
This is murder and it demands a response.