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⭕️ It would take just ~43 House Democrats to keep Hakeem Jeffries from becoming speaker. The Congressional Progressive Caucus alone expects more than 100 members in January.
🔹Its chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), co-sponsored Rep. Rashida Tlaib's November 2025 resolution "recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza." Now he says he expects to "deliver the votes" for Jeffries. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another co-sponsor, told MS NOW on Monday that Jeffries will have the caucus's unanimous support, calling his expected rise a "pretty historic moment." In all, 22 House Democrats backed the genocide resolution and well over 40 have described Israel’s actions as genocide.
🔹Jeffries has been one of the strongest supporters of Israel’s military response in Gaza. He opposed a July bid to cut off US military aid to Israel, saying it would "restrict our country's ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the region." His promised "reset" wouldn't touch aid until the current 10-year deal expires in 2028.
🔹The math: Speaker needs 218 votes cast for a person by name on Jan 3, 2027. With roughly 260 Democrats, if 43 commit to naming someone else and every Republican votes against Jeffries, he falls short.
🔹It's been done before. In January 2023, about 20 Republicans withheld their votes from Rep. Kevin McCarthy through 15 rounds of voting. He won only after major concessions, including a rule letting any single member force a vote to remove the speaker, which Rep. Matt Gaetz used to oust him nine months later.
🔗 Drop Site's Julian Andreone asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), another co-sponsor of the genocide resolution who backs Jeffries, whether progressives could use that kind of leverage.
Drop Site’s @JulianAndreone pressed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) on her supporting Hakeem Jeffries’ bid for Speaker of the House.
Jeffries has explicitly said he does not support Medicare for All, has routinely supported sending aid to Israel, even throughout the genocide in Gaza, and has yet to commit to blocking any and all funding to continue the war in Iran.
Ocasio-Cortez said progressives will seek to secure concessions on these key policy differences but that she believes the margin is too large to contest his speakership without a challenger.
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Because your whip hosted an AIPAC-adjacent PAC event at the same time so they would miss the vote. Your whip literally planned this.
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Ya know- it was around that time that @ericweinstein offered to fly me to Israel too. Out of the blue.
Something something about he was just the messenger for other people that wanted me to have the opportunity.
I’ve assumed he’s an extension of Israeli intelligence ever since.
Here's the clip of @ComicDaveSmith identifying @ericweinstein as the person who invited him to Israel and attempted to convince him of the futility of his entire political worldview on a cold call.
(The new part starts at 3:40)
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Here's the clip of @ComicDaveSmith identifying @ericweinstein as the person who invited him to Israel and attempted to convince him of the futility of his entire political worldview on a cold call.
(The new part starts at 3:40)
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All the Democrats in the House are using the excuse that no one else is running for Speaker. That's why they have to back Hakeem Jeffries, who is opposed to all of their policy priorities. Then, why don't one of you run against him? Why do you have to concede power to the establishment?
Presumably @RoKhanna and @AOC are going to run for some sort of higher office. What's everyone else's excuse? Why doesn't @GregCasar run? Or nominate a progressive/populist to run? What's the point of being a progressive leader if you aren't going to lead?
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Why is Marc Cohodes, a Glass House promoter, praising AHAA and HIFA, after falling for a fake news hemp post by Bret Worley, when their members literally lobbied and helped kill Amendment 3 in Florida in addition to selling synthetic cannabinoid vape products?
$MSOS $GLASF
🧵1/5 - A large number of the hemp lobby association members in FL who appear to have joined DeSantis in his crusade against adult-use cannabis legalization, Amendment 3, have previously sold lung-toxic synthetic cannabinoid acetate containing vapes as recently as the Summer of 2023.
Synthetic cannabinoid acetates (HHC-O, THC-O, etc) were found to be just as toxic as vitamin-e acetate when vaporized in May of 2022. Multiple follow-up studies have confirmed that vaping cannabinoid acetates produces the same lung-toxic gas, ketene, as vitamin-e acetate, which was responsible for the 2019 EVALI vape-lung epidemic. Despite that, some of these hemp-derived companies continue to sell these products today.
The "Florida Healthy Alternatives Association" is a hemp-lobby group and appears to be a daughter organization of "American Healthy Alternatives Association". Most of the members of these 2 associations overlap.
These hemp lobby organizations include members such as: Urb, Looper, CannaAid, Torch, FlyingMonkey etc.
These associations' President, @HealthyJDMac, has said that they will fight against Amendment 3.
src: Miami Herald article (miamiherald.com/news/politic…)
The unregulated hemp-derived cannabinoid product market in Florida is estimated to be around $10B annually.
Almost 4x larger than the current state-regulated medical marijuana market.
How does @HealthyJDMac feel about his associations' members selling synthetic & lung-toxic cannabinoid acetate products?
See the posts below with proof of multiple members of these hemp-lobby associations having sold lung-toxic synthetic cannabinoid acetate products (vapes, carts, distillate, etc)
$MSOS $YOLO $TOKE $CNBS #Cannabis #CannabisIndustry #Marijuana #Weed #YesOn3 #Hemp
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#SmokeShopGate
We have the receipts!
🧵EXCLUSIVE: The Hemp Mogul, the Chief of Staff’s Daughter, and the Race to Save Synthetic THC
America’s self-proclaimed largest synthetic-cannabinoid supplier is carrying two state consumer-protection settlements, a federal racketeering counterclaim, a bank lawsuit, and a bankruptcy in his corporate family.
This summer he married the daughter of the White House Chief of Staff — just as the White House began pushing Congress to soften the hemp ban that its own National Drug Control Strategy demands.
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The Republicans have a huge problem.
What messaging can they possibly use to win people back?
"Democrats are communists who will pass sharia law trans your kids!" 😱
Did not work.
They have lost all credibility on no new wars, cutting spending, fighting the "deep state."
Immigration is the ONLY thing they have left.
Bleak.
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Tunnels packed with ballistic missiles -- Iran just unveiled an underground “missile city”
Eight months into the war, Tehran acts like it holds the stronger hand
Why? A number that has barely moved for two months, and it runs straight through your gas tank
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Dept of War: *triple tap school full of girls*
@RepThomasMassie: *impeach*
Sloppers: MASSIE IS A LOSER!!!!!!!!
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Look, this is the problem that I have with AOC
Bernie Sanders at the moment is a kind of looking around for the leader in the Senate, and he found one, and now he's telling him to run against Chuck Schumer
AOC should be doing the same thing, looking around in Congress to see who's more likely to be able to win against Hakeem Jeffries
Not just throwing the towel and be like, well, there's only one person running
That is a defeatist attitude
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The impeachment effort against Pete Hegseth didn’t get a direct vote, not because 11 Democrats skipped it, but because Republican leaders used a procedural move to shelve it.
Here’s the simple breakdown:
• The 211–204 vote was not an impeachment vote. It was a motion to refer Massie’s impeachment articles to the House Judiciary Committee, a standard way to take a resolution off the floor and stall it.
• 211 Republicans voted for the referral (to send it to committee and block the push).
• 203 Democrats voted against the referral (to keep the impeachment effort alive).
• Rep. Thomas Massie voted against the referral alongside Democrats, the only Republican to do so.
Because the motion to refer passed, the impeachment resolution itself never got a straight up-or-down vote. The effort was shelved by procedure, not defeated on the merits.
Bottom line: It didn’t fail because of missing Democrats. It failed because Republicans had the votes to send the resolution to committee, which effectively ended the push for now.
What’s next? The resolution can be revived in the next Congress, when Democrats take control in January and can bring it to the floor. The remaining obstacle is the Senate: conviction and removal require 67 votes, which remains a high bar.
Massie himself has predicted Democrats will pursue it more aggressively: “When the Democrats get control in January, they’re not going to be as polite as I am. They’re gonna have hearings in the House. They’re gonna bring in people who’ve served under Hegseth… and know some things that aren’t even public yet.”
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Here are the 11 Democrats who couldn’t be bothered to show up to impeach war criminal Pete Hegseth:
Nancy Pelosi (CA-11)
Haley Stevens (MI-11)
Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Lou Correa (CA-46)
Laura Gillen (NY-4)
Steven Horsford (NV-4)
Jonathan Jackson (IL-1)
Brittany Pettersen (CO-7)
Melanie Stansbury (NM-1)
Marilyn Strickland (WA-10)
Frederica Wilson (FL-24)
There are no excuses left to make. The Democrats couldn’t even show up to hold a war criminal accountable who bombed an elementary school and mass murdered children.
A new party is required.
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I don't care if you hate/love Trump.
I don't care if you hate/love Democrats.
The issue is much bigger than that.
The DOJ is the enemy of the people.
The FBI is the enemy of the people.
The federal government has gone totally rogue.
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Kyle McCord season!
#Cuse
The Dolphins are placing QB Malik Willis on injured reserve, sources tell @ringer @netflixsports.
Willis has been battling a groin injury that impacted his mobility. An MRI showed it has now developed into a core muscle injury, which requires rest. Not season-ending, but he’ll miss at least four weeks.
Kyle McCord season!
#Cuse
The Dolphins are placing QB Malik Willis on injured reserve, sources tell @ringer @netflixsports.
Willis has been battling a groin injury that impacted his mobility. An MRI showed it has now developed into a core muscle injury, which requires rest. Not season-ending, but he’ll miss at least four weeks.
