MIDNIGHT - ADA - BTC

🚨This morning we reached the required 218 signatures on my discharge petition for Epstein Files Transparency Act II ! I’m working closely with @RepJayapal, @RepTeresaLF and @RepRoKhanna to get this to the floor for a vote soon.

🫏 Hakeem Jeffries did not say whether he supports removing provisions deepening U.S. defense cooperation and intelligence sharing with Israel from the National Defense Authorization Act when asked at his Thursday press conference. “I haven’t had a conversation with Senator Van Hollen,” Jeffries said, referring to the senator leading the charge for their removal. He called for “dramatic change” in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and the U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding “as it winds down,” without specifying what changes he would seek to the agreement.

Democrats had a chance to impeach Pete Hegseth because a GOP House member who risked his political career for his beliefs -- Thomas Massie -- gave it to them. When they failed, they didn't even bother offering an excuse better than: "eh, we got caught in traffic" -- which isn't even acceptable for a mid-level manager being late to a random work meeting -- because they know they can heap as much contempt on their own voters without weakening (let alone losing) their blind partisan loyalty. And even in the wake of this debacle, prominent media liberals will not just swallow but celebrate the "historic" and inspiring elevation of AIPAC Shakur to House Speaker because AOC told them there are unfortunately no other candidates against him (as if she didn't help cause that) and it's basically just a clerical position anyway. When the Democrats win, they get worse, and the pretzels their supporters have to twist themselves into to justify all of it becomes both sadder and funnier.

AOC busts out the whiteboard to explain why democrats can’t do anything and you won’t be getting healthcare.