#mike johnson

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Walter Einenkel at Daily Kos:

On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson took time away from trying to defend President Donald Trump’s catastrophic “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” to dismiss Americans’ concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents masking their identities while detaining immigrants. “From the people who mandated mask-wearing for years in America, it's absurd. They need to back off of ICE and respect their agents and stop protesting against them,” Johnson told reporters as he walked briskly through the halls of the U.S. Capitol.  When asked if he was concerned about faceless armed agents refusing to identify themselves when arresting immigrants, Johnson replied, “Why? So that they can target them so they can put their names and faces online and dox them? That's what these activists do.”

Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE, has defended agents using masks to hide their identities. [...] After years of attacking mask-wearing as weak and fearful, Trump and the GOP have fully embraced mask mandates—at least for ICE agents.  To recap: masks as a public health measure during the coronavirus pandemic, which conservatively claimed 1.23 million Americans’ lives, were symbolic of a nefarious plan to control Americans. But masks as a way for ICE agents to anonymously detain and deport people illegally is totally okay.

Republicans on masks during COVID: “Tyranny!”

Republicans on ICE agents being masked: “A-OK!”

Hypocrisy in action.

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Source: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, April 6, 2025

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I am too tired to cover all the protests against mass deportantion, USAID dissolution, Treasury Invasion, etc., but you can find them all over the country and the world.

This was today, but I'm putting it hear because it gives some scope.

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The corruption is just so lazy and obvious.

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AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”

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Looks like some GOP politicians are finally standing up to Trump by refusing to back his “Big Beautiful Bill” and now he and House Speaker Mike Johnson are scrambling to get them to fall in line.

Also, fun fact: Big Beautiful Bill is also the name of the sex worker from Trump’s pee-pee tape.

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Just to emphasize: Mike Johnson is an antivaxxer, an anti-abortion, forced bither, he believes the job of poor women is to give birth to an infinite supply of low wage jobseekers, he is a climate change denier, he wants to cut Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid, and he’s a “Trump won!” Republican. And House Republicans just unanimously voted for him as Speaker of the House.

Please take note: there are no “moderates” in the Republican Party.

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Capitol police quickly issued a warning to the protesters — which included U.S. army whistleblower Chelsea Manning alongside author and activist Raquel Willis — to disperse or face arrest, including sexual misconduct charges. Following those warnings, they were arrested and escorted from the building by Capitol police. 

The protest follows Johnson’s announcement in November that transgender women are not allowed to access women’s restrooms and facilities in the Capitol and House buildings — an announcement that was not accompanied with any information about enforcement, or how such a policy would be carried out. The group called for elected officials to block Rep. Nancy Mace’s proposed bill that would ban trans people from bathrooms in museums, national parks and other federal property and for Democratic members of Congress to filibuster and block the bill if or when it comes to a vote. 

“This bathroom sit-in sets an example of the righteous defiance and solidarity needed under a second Trump administration,” Gender Liberation Movement said in a press release, citing support from transgender and cisgender participants. The group said survivors of sexual violence also joined the protest to demand that proponents of bathroom bills stop falsely accusing trans women of endangering cis women when they use women’s facilities.  

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Morgan Stephens at Daily Kos:

When asked if he would reconvene the House to vote on additional FEMA aid for Hurricane Helene across the southeast U.S. and Hurricane Milton victims in Florida, Speaker Mike Johnson declined—for the second time this week.  “To be clear: Congress will act again upon its return in November to address funding needs and ensure those impacted receive the necessary resources,” Athina Lawson, a spokesman for Johnson, said in a statement to POLITICO on Thursday.

Talk about hypocrisy.  Johnson visited Helene disaster sites in North Carolina, and had the audacity to attack FEMA, all while refusing to bring the House back together for a vote for more aid. On Thursday, he posted on X: “Congress is fully prepared to provide additional disaster relief funding as soon as states submit their damage assessments. Our prayers and support are with every American community across the broad swath of these historic storms.” U.S. military deliveries of emergency supplies in Western North Carolina’s “unreachable areas” are still being dropped by air to isolated residents due to unusable roads, lack of water supply, and power outages. FEMA has spent $9 billion already, nearly half of its allocated $20 billion budget in just eight days. 

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This comes after President Joe Biden sent a letter last Friday formally asking Congress for more funding and to reconvene in the wake of the natural disaster. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not want to help Hurricane Helene and Milton victims. Vote Democratic if you want reliable disaster relief instead of it becoming a political football.

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Corpse Bride

2005 | dir. Tim Burton

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