Policy Soup stir the pot ALPHA

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govAug 2(source)

Reminder that insurrectionists attacked police officers on January 6th and Trump pardoned every one of them. This one wanted to go after the officer he attacked.

Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney.bsky.social

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

A Jan. 6 defendant, convicted for the brutal beating of an MPD officer, lost his bid to FOIA records about the victim officer — in part because Trump's pardon made it moot Webster, a former NYPD officer, had been sentenced to 10 years before the pardon ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govAug 1(source)

A version of this happened under Obam—oh it was Nixon. That makes more sense

Article titled: President Nixon on Jews in the Government

Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

FLAG: Trump just directed his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics over the latest jobs numbers reports.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govAug 1(source)

Ah so Trump did this intentionally?

Kyle Griffin

BREAKING on MSNBC: Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney has confirmed to NBC News that Maxwell has just been moved to a federal prison in Texas. That prison — FPC Bryan in Bryan, TX — is a minimum-security federal prison camp.

Heard we’re discussing re-drawing districts so I wanted to drop an idea

Bumper sticker depicting a enlarged Minnesota with the text “Make Minnesota Bigger”

Is this where they’re going to store the Epstein files?

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U.S. Senator Gary Peters @peters.senate.govJul 30(source)

Under 5 U.S.C §2954, HSGAC has the unique authority to request information from any executive agency that falls within our Committee’s oversight jurisdiction. We are using that authority to request the Epstein files from AG Bondi. The American people deserve transparency.

I hear about this all the time from constituents. People are repulsed by the inhumanity of this and how innocent people are being targeted when they are just trying to figure out how to get just a little bit of food – literally starving to death. I stand firmly against that.

Civilians in Gaza have been turned into a weapon of war in a way that is despicable. The point of this letter and the point of what many of us have been doing for months is to put pressure on the Netanyahu government to change their policy.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable. Netanyahu needs to take responsibility to solve this problem instead of continually pushing the blame off on others. The hostages need to be returned. We need an end to the fighting.

Sen. Adam Schiff

@schiff.senate.gov

@factpostnews.bsky.social

Children are starving. Civilian deaths continue to mount. Hostages are still held. Today I led 43 of my Senate colleagues in demanding the State Department work urgently to end the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. This cannot continue.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock@warnock.senate.govJul 30(source)

This administration is saying the quiet part out loud: they want to dismantle social security.

FactPost

Trump's Treasury Secretary says the Trump Accounts created by the budget bill are a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security"

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govJul 30(source)

“I get to give $350B to whoever I want”

Twitter post, quoting an announcement from Trump: “South Korea will give the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as President”

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govJul 30(source)

Medicare and Medicaid provide life-saving health insurance to the folks who need it. Millions of Americans are better off, but Republicans brazenly gutted that care to cater to their rich friends and big corporations who'll never know what it's like to struggle. Shame on them.

Protect Our Care

@protectourcare.org

On the 60th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, Protect Our Care is highlighting the catastrophic impact the GOP tax bill will have on these life-saving programs.

60 Years Later, Medicare and Medicaid Hang On By A Thread After Republicans Pass Devastating Tax Bill

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Katherine Clark@whipkclark.bsky.socialJul 30(source)

60 years ago today, Medicaid and Medicare transformed health care in America. Today, the GOP is rolling back access to care to pad the pockets of the wealthy few. We won't stand by while they make care less affordable and our families less healthy. You deserve better.

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govJul 30(source)

The laws of war don’t just apply when it’s convenient. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization. But Netanyahu doesn’t get a pass. He is responsible for the pervasive starvation and famine, which is morally repugnant. Feed Gaza.

If Trump were actually the strong-man he pretends to be, he'd tell Netanyahu to allow the food to flow, so innocent Palestinian children don't die of starvation. Talking about how sad this is in between rounds at his golf course in Scotland is weak beyond words. Feed Gaza.

I’m prepared to help in any way I can.

I've been in touch with Mayor Carter and am monitoring the situation in St. Paul. A coordinated, malicious attack on one of Minnesota’s biggest cities is disruptive, but I’m grateful to Governor Walz and Mayor Carter for their leadership, and to all the experts working to get to the bottom of this.

Headline from the Star Tribune: Major cyberattack hits St. Paul, shuts down many services