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Tony Stark (tonystark@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 09:20:26 JST Tony Stark

Since nobody’s covering this stuff, I’ll do it.
This is from Hakeem Jeffries, Leader of the House Democratic Caucus.
My own U.S. House representative has been all over the district, and has called an emergency town hall for Thursday evening.
If you’re not seeing this in the same media that normalized and generally wanted Trump by all appearances, don’t be shocked.
Democrats are doing things, limited by the power voters didn’t bother to give them. That’s just the reality of the situation.
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1. Screenshot of a letter to Democrats from Hakeem Jeffries: “Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Leader, February 3, 2025: Dear Colleague: As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, House Democrats will continue to push back against the far-right extremism that is being relentlessly unleashed on the American people. I write with an update on several urgent matters that we are working on for the country. First, I have made clear to House Republican leadership that any effort to steal taxpayer money from the American people, end Medicaid as we know it or defund programs important to everyday Americans, as contemplated by the illegal White House Office of Management and Budget order, must be choked off in the upcoming government funding bill, if not sooner. Second, at my direction, legislation will be introduced shortly to prevent unlawful access to the Department of Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service payment system that contains highly confidential and personal information related to Social Security and Medicare recipients, taxpayers, households, nonprofits, businesses and federal contractors. Third, in partnership with the Democratic Policy & Communications Committee, we will continue to highlight Republican policies that raise the already high cost of living for everyday Americans, including the wide-ranging tariffs directed at allies that risk dramatically increasing the price of groceries, fuel and automobiles in the United States of America.”
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  StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:57:46 JST StillIRise1963
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  @TonyStark This is exactly what I want to hear and see.
  https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-trump-2671089396/
  
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  Tony Stark (tonystark@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:57:48 JST Tony Stark
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  @StillIRise1963 Zero interest in starting anything with you so I’ll just DM this but this is is just one example out of many I’ve posted, people didn’t elect enough Democrats for them to do much else, and “do something” needs to be more specific. Just “do something” is not helpful nor will it likely have the effect of winning elections this year and next, which we need to do.
  Doing something was voting for Harris and white people didn’t do it.
  
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  GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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  StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 22:57:49 JST StillIRise1963
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  @TonyStark The things that should be “givens” are covered. Great. What else.
  
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