sweetheart

Sen Warren just said, "I just brought Dunkin Donuts!" House #Dems applaud loudly. #NoBillNoBreak

— Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) June 23, 2016

course they did.

Democrats reportedly ate Chick-fil-A during gun control sit-in https://t.co/Lb1R5XH2Zo pic.twitter.com/ESPd30wxgW

— Eater (@Eater) June 23, 2016

no shade.

keep trying, everyone!

Stop watching Trump and tune into CSPAN!  @repjohnlewis leading sit-in in the House DEMANDING vote on gun measures pic.twitter.com/XVjYcNafo8

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) June 22, 2016

read about it here and here.

bae.

Democrats Senate #filibuster - @ChrisMurphyCT "I'm prepared to stand on this floor...for frankly as long as I can." https://t.co/RjUlVcw10D

— Mohamed Hemish (@MohamedHemish) June 15, 2016

I am proud to announce that after 14+ hours on the floor, we will have a vote on closing the terror gap & universal background checks

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 16, 2016

read all about it.

watch paul ryan actively doing nothing to improve gun control

Day after shooting, House Democrats erupt in protest; some walk out during moment of silence https://t.co/l5g73n1fS6https://t.co/PrsT9B8V9y

— ABC News (@ABC) June 14, 2016

hillary benghazi email madness livestream

watch all 6+ hours HERE. starting right meow.

plenty ladylike

this interview is wonderful.

congress looks fuuuuuuuuun.

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, everyone's favorite congresswoman of the day. pic.twitter.com/AnBzY1kT8U
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 6, 2015

my local congressman makes national news for having a secret daughter

He got caught tweeting a beautiful young woman after the SOTU and people thought he was having some sort of romantic relationship with her. Steve Cohen is not married, so there isn't really anything wrong with that, but whatever. It turns out that the lady in questions wasn't a girlfriend, it was a daughter that had been kept secret from him until three years ago! whoa. To make it even weirder, the girl's mother was previously married to Frank Sinatra Jr. and is a defense lawyer in Texas for international war criminals. huh? I vote for this man.

gabby giffords speaks at congressional hearing on gun control

"be bold. be courageous. americans are counting on you." (via)

hey ladies!

ladies be gettin elected! <3 U Kirsten Gillibrand

get to know claire mccaskill's daughters.

they seem pretty cool!

How did you celebrate her victory?
M: Drank heavily.
L: This was the first election I was old enough to stay up with the adults, so it was really fun.

The next morning, style blogs had declared you a “pleasant surprise” and the “style breakout stars” of the election. Tell me about your style.
M: I like a lot of ugly things, like mixing three different patterns in the same outfit and wearing shoulder pads. I'm not a big fan of matching. There is nothing that can't be improved with a bold lip. The dress I wore on election night is from BCBG.
L: The blue-sleeve sweater and my pants were Theory. I found the top at Beacon's Closet. As for my style, I like dressing like a boy most of the time. (via) 

here we go!

commence internet protest. 

SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

read up, be informed, and contact your representatives, y'all.

not good enough.

the tennessee tea party's follow-up to their hate-speech:

The president of the Tennessee Tea Party apologized for a tweet someone in his group sent out calling Barney Frank a “perverted sodomite,” though she added a caveat: “While privately and inwardly I may agree with the commentary, it is completely irresponsible for any one of us to write these kinds of commentaries.” (via)

still totally gross.

to balance out the internet, i've included rachel maddow's segment from last night, dedicated to highlighting barney frank's many accomplishments while in office. stay classy, tennessee.

the tennessee tea party really grosses me out

in response to the news that representative barney frank will not seek re-election at the end of his term. get a life jerks.

i love nancy pelosi!

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there. i said it.

there are three parts. i recommend watching them all. my favorite moments are when 1) she says "bless their hearts" about the republicans, and 2) she says the answer to all of our problems is more women in politics.

is everyone caught up?

congressional leaders managed to strike a deal on a bill, which passed in the house yesterday, and will be voted on by the senate today. nobody is happy, which is the hallmark of a good compromise. and by "a good compromise", i mean "things are worse than ever."

did you guys hear who showed up to cast a vote last minute?

Scores of Democrats initially held back from voting, to force Republicans to register their positions first. Then, as the time for voting wound down, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, returned to the floor for the first time since being shot in January and voted for the bill to jubilant applause and embraces from her colleagues. It provided an unexpected, unifying ending to a fierce standoff in the House. (via)

jon stewart's two cents:

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old white dudes get pwned.

this is pretty old news, but i just got around to watching. congresswoman jackie speier (d-ca) shares her personal abortion story, and makes a wonderful point about the way republicans behave themselves.

lady power.

i was really touched to hear that gabby gibbons opened her eyes for the first time during a visit from fellow congressladies kirsten gillibrand, nancy pelosi, and debbie wasserman schultz. the new york times has an enchanting article about the bond between these women and others in congress.

drrrrAAaaAaAmmmaaaaAAaAAA!!!

so if you pay attention to anything, you know that the wildly hypocritical republicans used the expiration of long-term unemployment assistance to force obama to agree to a tax plan that included extensions of bush-era tax cuts for rich people. to the dismay of many democrats in congress, he agreed to compromise and is opting to to let the rich people keep their money as long as the poor, unemployed americans can still afford to live.

well, the democrats think this was a bit of a pu$$y move, and in a meeting today, agreed they would vote down obama's repub-friendly tax plan when it comes through congress.

“In the caucus today, House Democrats supported a resolution to reject the Senate Republican tax provisions as currently written,” Ms. Pelosi said. “We will continue discussions with the President and our Democratic and Republican colleagues in the days ahead to improve the proposal before it comes to the House floor for a vote.”

The caucus vote, which is not necessarily binding, nonetheless put Ms. Pelosi in a rare direct conflict with the White House, which is pressing Congress to approve the tax cut proposal. (via)

omg dRaMa!! giving those republican jerks a little taste of the snake they bite us with, amiright!

bad news is, instead of wrapping this mess up before christmas and moving on to a DADT repeal, we're going to just fight for a while, and congress may even get shut down!

oh and ps, republicans blocked a bill to provide healthcare aid to 9/11 workers today. again.