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I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls I'm going to call my congressman and senators every day to push back against Musk-Trump-DOGE excesses.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

thing. Being an ex-senator is a pretty good gig. You can serve on boards and commissions, even lobby you old colleagues, and make more money than a sitting senator who does not engage in graft. Get a spine or grow a pair and keep these absurd, unqualified morons out of government. Please!

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

So back to my original question: among those 50 GOP senators who got Hegseth thru, some were just elected and do not face the voters for 6 years. Why no spine here? They are out of Trump's grasp. And only those that are up in 2026 are at real risk. Beside, put country over party and do the right

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

& McConnell should not have let Trump's 3rd SCOTUS nominee, Amy Barrett, be pushed thru at the last instant, preventing a Biden nominee. Those two acts would have prevented our present out-of-control SCOTUS. Combined with an impeachment conviction of Trump, we would have averted our democracy crisis

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

JoyceWhiteVance what I'd like to know is why only 2 GOP senators have any spine at all. 3 voted against Hegseth but I don't count McConnell. He could have gotten Trump convicted in the impeachment trial and averted this whole mess. He should have let Obama's SCOTUS nominee, Merrick Garland, pass and

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments