What’s now being distributed in Springfield, according to a local pastor
Noah Lanard
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Noah Lanard
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- DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
- A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. It's in Spanish but I think the meaning should be clear to anyone.
00:00 - Republicans ran incredibly racist ads portraying Antonio Delgado—a Rhodes scholar—as a rapper unsuited to represent an overwhelmingly white district. He won and will now be the district's first nonwhite representative.
- New: This is the previously unpublished speech Georgia Rep. Ruwa Romman wants to give at the DNC. The DNC has told uncommitted organizers that neither a Palestinian American or doctor who has volunteered in Gaza will get to speak.
- New: Rep. Clay Higgins—who built his brand on law and order—has been in a motorcycle group run by a former fellow cop convicted of incest. A teenage relative accused Higgins' friend of abusing her for 4 years. Higgins knew that, the friend told me.
- US Rep. Greg Casar talks outside the United Center about reading Rep. Ruwa Romman’s speech and describes his strong support for her having a chance to speak tonight
00:00 - Rep. Ruwa Romman reads the speech she would have given at the DNC had she and other Palestinian Americans not been denied a speaking slot.
00:00 - Transcript of court hearing where Trump admin argued it needs more time to reunite separated families. Judge: "Will counsel be here this weekend, or are you going back?" ACLU lawyer: "We will do whatever is needed..." US attorney: "I have dog-sitting responsibilities."
- Replying to @nlanardWrote three tours overseas in initial post. Should be four. Two in Iraq and two in Afghanistan.
- This is what John McCain described yesterday as regular order.I was just handed a 479-page tax bill a few hours before the vote. One page literally has hand scribbled policy changes on it that can’t be read. This is Washington, D.C. at its worst. Montanans deserve so much better.
00:00 - Replying to @nlanardFrom this Washington Post article "based on interviews and messages with more than 275 federal workers, as well as dozens of government records and communications reviewed" by the paper.
- Protesters, including a wheelchair user with muscular dystrophy, are removed from budget committee hearing
00:00 - Ken Cuccinelli has made his family's immigration story central to his case for the public charge rule. His family tree shows that his ancestors had a lot in common with the people that could be denied green cards under the rule.
