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I'm less impressed by how @ossoff speaks (though he's terrific at that too) and more impressed by what he says.
This 2-minute clip is the best explanation of Trump corruption that I've ever heard. His explanation of the Russian dirty deals is so accurate and so clear. He knows the facts cold. And he explains them better than I can.
The Tennessee Republicans at the suggestion of President Trump, Gerrymandered TN9 ( my district) seeking a 9-0 republican delegation. Tennessee is still 8-1 as in their redistricting zeal they politically harmed the Republican incumbent in Tn4 and he lost.
So they spent 3 to $4 million of taxpayer money on a special session and election expenses and still ended up 8-1 and besides screwing me and my constituents (which I know they enjoyed) they screwed one of their own. Screw them!
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BREAKING: "THE BAD GUYS LOST" Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed brings down the roof with a victory speech for the ages — and calls out JD Vance with a hilarious jab.
A beautiful day is dawning in America...
"We showed that in a battle between the money and the many that the many really can win," said El-Sayed. "And so to all the kids who watched this last month, to all the parents who struggled to explain why the President openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost!"
It's hard to even describe how satisfying this victory is. Mike Rogers ran the most disgustingly racist, Islamophobic campaign in recent memory. He and Trump relentlessly attacked El-Sayed for his name, the color of his skin, and his religion. None of it worked. The people of Michigan rose up, rejected bigotry, and voted for the man who wants to get money out of politics, money in their pockets, and Medicare for All.
"We won, so Mike, enjoy your retirement. I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts. See, you chose hate and Michigan chose hope," said El-Sayed. "May we never have to see the likes of you in this state again."
But perhaps the funniest part of El-Sayed's speech was when he brought up Vance, with whom he has been feuding back and forth with for months.
"JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January, so you know what that means," said El-Sayed. "Wolverine 1, Buckeye 0."
"Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name, so after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator," he added.
Senator-elect El-Sayed, you are the very best this country has to offer. Congrats on running an incredible campaign and defeating these fascist monsters!
Please ❤️ and share if you think Abdul El-Sayed has a long, bright future in American politics!
For those of you in the Memphis area, I’ll be on Fox 13 in just a few minutes. The first of two segments they did on my career. It’s weird to see my career but with Trump and gerrymandering ,It’s “my career.”
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🗞️ U.S. Congressmember Steve Cohen Introduces Bill to Deschedule Marijuana, Eliminate Mandatory Minimums and Overhaul Federal Drug Laws
🔥-take: Cohen’s bill finally does the obvious thing —the full descheduling of cannabis, treating it more like alcohol.
🗣️ Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) @RepCohen
"Most Americans believe the ‘War on Drugs’ has been a failure at cross purposes with good public policy and aimed largely at minorities with draconian mandatory minimum sentences for minor offenses that most now believe aren’t really offenses at all."
"This bill would set comprehensive policies on all aspects of drug regulation while also defining the purpose of federal involvement. A thoughtful review of national drug policy is long overdue."
🇺🇸🌿🧺 $MSOS
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For Trump, it's genius.
For Witkoff, a humanitarian act.
Musk loses sleep over russian soldiers.
Meanwhile, a russian soldiers kills two civilians fleeing under a white flag. Their dog dies too.
And this is the terrorist state the Trump administration is whitewashing.
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A U.S. congressman from a prohibition state is hoping to legalize cannabis by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) while redesigning how drugs are scheduled altogether.
"Most Americans believe the ‘war on drugs’ has been a failure."
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“On this International Day of Political Prisoners, we pledge to continue advocating for the release of all those imprisoned for exercising their fundamental rights.”
Joint statement by special rapporteurs from @PACE_News and @oscepa @AzadehRojhan @RepCohen.
pace.coe.int/en/news/10486
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Rep. @RepCohen, retiring at the end of his term, has intro'ed the first serious reform of the awful Controlled Substances Act in years. It's not perfect, says @dr4liberty at @reason, but it's a definite step in the right direction for better drug policy. reason.com/2026/10/29/rep-st…
And Trump's special representative Whitkoff, said Putin was a humanitarian. Right!
In April 2022, a 12-year-old Russian girl named Masha Moskalyova was told in art class to draw a picture supporting russian troops in Ukraine.
Instead, she drew a Ukrainian mother protecting her child as russian missiles flew toward them. On the Ukrainian flag she wrote, “Glory to Ukraine.”
On the russian flag: “No to war. No to Putin.” Her school reported her to the authorities. Police began investigating her father, Alexei Moskalyov, a single father who had raised Masha largely on his own.
They searched his social media and discovered posts criticizing russia’s invasion and documenting russian atrocities in Bucha.
In December 2022, around a dozen russian security officers raided their home. They ransacked it, seized their computers, phones, and savings.
Alexei later said that during interrogations, officers beat him and slammed his head against the wall and floor. They blasted the russian national anthem at full volume while questioning him.
Eventually, the regime charged him with repeatedly “discrediting” the russian military because of his anti-war social-media posts.
Masha was taken away from him and placed in a state “social rehabilitation” center. Alexei was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
He later described horrific conditions there: a tiny punishment cell roughly two meters long, freezing temperatures, rats crawling out of the sewer, and days when he was forced to stand for as long as 16 hours because the bunk was locked against the wall.
Meanwhile, his daughter wrote to him. “Dad, don’t give up.” “You are my hero.” They were separated for more than a year and a half.
On October 15, 2024, Alexei finally walked out of prison. Masha was waiting for him. Five days later, they fled russia. They first escaped to Armenia and applied for a German humanitarian visa.
After waiting for more than a year, their case stalled when Germany suspended the relevant humanitarian admission program. Then France stepped in. In March 2026, Masha and Alexei received French humanitarian visas and flew to Paris. And on July 17, 2026, France granted them political asylum.
Today, Masha is drawing again and hopes to pursue art. She also writes and has spoken out in support of russian political prisoners.
When asked whether, knowing everything that happened afterward, she would still have made that drawing, Masha said she would. “One only lives once.”
One drawing. A child saying no to war. And for that, the russian state destroyed their home, separated a father from his daughter, imprisoned him, and drove them both into exile.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
Hooray for the Kennedy women.Kerry and Tatiaaa Schlossberg among ….
BREAKING: "I am deeply ashamed of him” RFK Jr.'s sister Kerry Kennedy tears into him for his disgustingly racist remarks about Arabs.
And she was just getting started...
"There's 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don't produce science, they don't win the Nobel Prize, they don't win the Fields prize, they don't win the Wolf Prize, they don't produce literature," RFK falsely claimed at a rally for Mike Rogers in Michigan.
It represented a new low for a man who sold his soul for power inside Trump's administration and it was a blatant attempt to smear Abdul El-Sayed, who is Arab-American. Since they can't contest him on the merits of his policies, right-wingers have been relying entirely on Islamophobic and racist attacks. For the record, Arabs regularly win awards in everything from literature to chemistry.
In response to the hateful remarks, Kerry Kennedy posted a quote from her brother on Larry King Now back in 2016 when he said, "The easiest thing for a political leader to do is to appeal to our bigotry and our hatred and xenophobia and prejudice, and point to people who are unlike us and say they're the ones who are damaging our country."
Beneath the post was where she really tore into him—
"There was a time when I completely agreed with my brother," wrote Kennedy. "Today, I am deeply ashamed of him. Arab and Muslim people alike have made extraordinary contributions to the world across literature, science, mathematics, medicine and countless other fields."
"To name a few, Omar M. Yaghi won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2018 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025. Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999, and Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988," she added.
"A person's race, religion, ethnicity or socioeconomic background does not determine their intellect, creativity or capacity to contribute to humanity. My thoughts are with all those hurt by my brother's false, cruel and derogatory words," Kennedy concluded.
There is one final layer to this scandal. In addition to being jaw-droppingly racist, RFK's remarks are just plain bad strategy. Michigan has a heavy Arab population and he's out there telling these people that they're stupid and useless. Next week, they'll have a chance to pay his entire party back in spades by sending Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate!
Please ❤️ and share if you think that RFK Jr. is a disgrace to his family name!
Yesterday was a beautiful day to mark the official opening of Mud Island’s Greenbelt Landing — a project I secured $3 million for in Congress. This investment builds on our work to strengthen Memphis’ riverfront and make the Mississippi River and our downtown waterfront more accessible, and will help bring more tourism, visitors, and economic development to Memphis and TN-09.
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מה אני אגיד לכם? יש משהו ב״שיר לשלום״ שתמיד ריגש אותי. אולי אלה הזיכרונות משנות ה-90׳, זיכרונות של יהודים וערבים רוקדים ביחד ומאמינים שעתיד אחר אפשרי.
אבל לראות את הרגע הזה מרגש אותי אפילו יותר, וגם משמח אותי.
לראות כל כך הרבה צעירים, לא רק שרים, אלא זועקים וקופצים למען השלום. צעירים שכבר הספיקו לחוות כל כך הרבה מלחמות, ובכל זאת בוחרים להאמין שאפשר גם אחרת.
שאי אפשר לחיות על החרב.
זה דבר כל כך גדול.
ועם זאת, חשוב שזעקת השלום הזו תכלול גם הכרה עמוקה בכך שחיים כאן שני עמים, ושאף אחד מהם לא הולך לשום מקום.
השלום מחייב לסיים את הכיבוש ואת ההשמדה בעזה, ולעשות הכול כדי שכל הצעירים, ישראלים ופלסטינים כאחד, יוכלו לגדל את ילדיהם בשלום, בכבוד ובביטחון.
חייבים לתת לשמש לעלות. חייבים לתת לבוקר הזה להאיר.
I’m proud to have received a score of 100 on the @HRC Congressional Scorecard! During the 119thth Congress, we defeated nearly all anti-LGBTQ+ provisions pushed by MAGA Republicans. I’m proud to defend my LGBTQ+ constituents – in this Congress and every Congress.
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WATCH: “The viral Kendrick Lamar A.I. video offended a lot of Black Americans, what’s your response?”
@rob_sneed_ busted @MarshaBlackburn on her ridiculous video in MEMPHIS
























