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Voting is Your POWER<p>REMEMBER: Mike Johnson and his son check on how much PORN they watch <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicans</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/speakerjohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speakerjohnson</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epstein</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/jefferyepstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jefferyepstein</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EpsteinFiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EpsteinFiles</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/epsteincoverup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epsteincoverup</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/</span></a></p>
Bill Bot<p>S2366<br>A bill to direct the Attorney General to identify and publish a list of anarchist jurisdictions, and for other purposes.</p><p>📢 Introduced in Senate</p><p><a href="https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2366" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">congress.gov/bill/119th-congre</span><span class="invisible">ss/senate-bill/2366</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/S2366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>S2366</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress119" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress119</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newbill</span></a></p>
Bill Bot<p>SRES327<br>A resolution condemning the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries and encouraging the President to prioritize the protection of persecuted Christians in United States foreign policy.</p><p>📢 Introduced in Senate</p><p><a href="https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/327" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">congress.gov/bill/119th-congre</span><span class="invisible">ss/senate-resolution/327</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SRES327" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SRES327</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress119" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress119</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>senate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newbill</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But the GAO’s recent work on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impoundment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impoundment</span></a> has proved more politically contentious, &amp; under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, it has been met w/fierce <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> opposition.</p><p>In May, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watchdog</span></a> found that the admin wrongly blocked funds under a $5B program to build <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> charging stations, a component of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>-era <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bipartisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bipartisan</span></a> infrastructure <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> that Trump sees as *wasteful*. In June, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> determined the admin mishandled funding for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museums</span></a>, after Trump curtailed the agency overseeing the money.</p>
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Oh, and there's this...! #GOPWillEatItself

'Hold the line': House GOP holds #Epstein 'crisis' meeting amid reports it's 'lost control'

Alexander Willis
July 22, 2025

" '#GOP leaders are talking with #Trump administration officials, searching for ways to appease #Republican members incensed over the lack of public information and Speaker #MikeJohnson’s handling of the matter broadly.'

"The meeting comes just a day after House Republicans abruptly shut down legislative business Monday to block a vote on a measure that would compel the Trump administration to release additional files on #Epstein, largely supported by Democrats, but as well by a handful of Republicans.

"With many of Trump’s most diehard supporters frustrated with the president’s refusal to disclose sufficient information on Epstein, GOP lawmakers have been caught in a balancing act of trying to both please their base, while not drawing the ire of Trump, who has called theories around Epstein a Democrat-manufactured 'hoax.' "

rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2

#EpsteinFiles #USPol #EpsteinCoverup
#TrumpEpstein #TheLionsAreEatingEachOthersFaces

Raw Story · 'Hold the line': House GOP holds Epstein 'crisis' meeting amid reports it's 'lost control'By Alexander Willis

A federal watchdog has opened dozens of investigations to determine if #Trump & his top aides have illegally withheld billions of dollars in congressionally approved funds.

Now, #Republican lawmakers are working alongside the White House to stymie those inquiries & the officials conducting them, in a move that could help Trump seize more control over the nation’s #budget.

#law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/poli

White House officials including Russell T. Vought, its budget director, are targeting the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan agency that helps Congress parcel out money more effectively.
The New York Times · White House Pushes to Block Government Accountability Office Inquiries Into Its CutsBy Tony Romm

FFS

Speaker #MikeJohnson said he would shut down the #House until September in order to head off #Democratic [& #Republican] demands for votes calling for the release of files from the investigation into #JeffreyEpstein, the disgraced financier & sex offender who was friends with #Trump. Johnson said votes would end Wednesday night in what he called an effort to avoid “political games” related to the #DOJ’s [mis]handling of the files.

#obstruction #law #USpol #CoverUp
nytimes.com/live/2025/07/22/us

The New York Times · Trump Live Updates: Johnson Blocks Epstein Vote as Justice Dept. Seeks Interview with MaxwellBy Alexa Robles-Gil

#NPR news chief Edith Chapin to step down days after #Congress votes to strip #funding

NPR's #editor in chief & acting chief content officer Edith Chapin told colleagues Tues morning that she has decided to step down.

The veteran #news leader's announcement comes just days after the #Republican-led Congress, driven largely by #Trump's claims of liberal bias at #NPR, voted to strip #PublicBroadcasting of all #FederalFunding.

#PublicRadio
npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-s1-54761

Can you sense the temporal boundary, that indescribable foreknowledge of the #End Of #Trump, #MAGA and #Republican politicians who still mindlessly lash themselves to the mast of the sinking #GOP ship?

The "Soon" part cannot come fast enough.

You can sense it's in the air, this vicious desperation of ugly hideous trapped monsters lunging against their cages, aimlessly lashing out, looking to inflict harm.

May they all burn forever in eternal Hell.

Ridiculous

#MikeJohnson Retreats on Demand for #JeffreyEpstein Disclosures, Saying #Trump Needs ‘Space’

The #Republican speaker of the #House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the #Epstein files, in a rare break with Trump that predictably turned out to be short-lived.

#law #rapist47 #RapistInChief #CoverUp
nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/poli

Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol last week.
The New York Times · Johnson Says He Won’t Hold Vote Calling on Trump to Release Epstein Files This SummerBy Annie Karni

#republican politicians, #autoindustry lobbyists and #toothless #hayseeds cost the #unitedstates the global auto industry to #china, exhibit 2,675,778,324.

Good going idiots. The thing is, I don't want ANY modern #us -built cars. They are bland and noncompetitive again because the industry insisted on fighting #EV mandates forever and allied with the #gop. The excitement is in the foreign EV space, and that ship already passed the US due to our own short-sightedness.

electrek.co/2025/07/21/11000-c

Electrek · This $11,000 Chinese EV with semi-solid state batteries is about shake up the industryBy Peter Johnson