#the house of representatives

[sugas6thtooth]

The United States has as much blood on its hands as any Israeli soldier. Rep. Brian Mast is a monster.

[margoshansons]

Me watching the Republicans get physical during the house vote: THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING!!!!

[thesweetcaroline]

To Congressman Kevin McCarthy with peace and love 💗:

[todaysgenderistherevengecrew]

I need someone else to confirm they watched a congress man have to be physically restrained on live TV tonight. What the fuck is happening???

[fionatheicicle]

The terrorist state’s illegal bombardment of Palestinian civilians has resumed today.

To any who stand for said bombardment or who remain silent about it: may every dream and intrusive thought you have be haunted with the screams, cries, and images of the Palestinian people.

[haorev]

my mom did some googling the other day and, and this might be wrong, she found that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a sitting member of the house (which makes sense to me since they really just keep order and conduct the flow of stuff)

so, if that’s true, i think it’s time we start just having non-representatives be speaker just to stop this fuckery

[stone-cold-groove]

Analysis of the constitution.

[remindertoclick]

Here's your daily reminder to click for Palestine!!!

U.S. residents, take 5 minutes and use this link to pressure your members of Congress to stop sending weapons to the Israeli military!!

(Letter variants you can copy/paste under the cut!!)

Original letter written by Jewish Voice for Peace:

I am writing as your constituent to ask that you do everything in your power to press the Biden administration to suspend all weapons shipments to the Israeli military, and oppose all future military funding to Israel. The Israeli government has vowed to push forward with a large-scale military operation in Rafah, even though President Biden has repeatedly said such an operation would be a "red line." On May 7, the Israeli military seized the Rafah border crossing, a crucial passage for humanitarian aid, and ordered 100,000 Palestinians in eastern Rafah to evacuate. The 1.3 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah will have nowhere to flee should a full invasion commence. Millions of Palestinian lives now hang in the balance. I urge you to do everything in your power to stop this unfolding catastrophe before it's too late. Thank you.

Slight variations I created (so that emails don't get marked as spam for being identical to each other)

Variation 1:

I'm writing to you as your constituent to ask you to do everything you can to pressure the Biden administration into suspending all weapons shipments to the Israeli military and opposing any and all future military funding to Israel! The Israeli government is pushing forward with a large-scale military operation in Rafah. President Biden has repeatedly said such an operation would be a "red line," yet his administration is still supporting this operation. On May 7th 2024, the Israeli military seized the Rafah border crossing, a crucial passage for humanitarian aid, and forced 100,000 Palestinians in eastern Rafah to abandon their homes. 1.3 million Palestinians have been displaced. Those sheltering in Rafah have nowhere to flee during a full invasion. Millions of Palestinian lives now hang in the balance. Their fate lies in the hands on Congress, in your hands. I urge you to do everything in your power to stop this unfolding catastrophe before it's too late. Thank you.

Variation 2:

I'm writing you today to ask that you do everything in your power to convince the Biden administration to stop funding Israel. We have to telk them to stop all shipments of weapons to the Israeli military and oppose all future military funding to Israel. The Israeli government has vowed to push forward with a large-scale military operation in Rafah... President Biden made it clear that such an operation would be a "red line," and yet he continues to fund them. On May 7th of this year, the Israeli military seized the Rafah border crossing, a crucial passage for humanitarian aid, and forced 100,000 Palestinians to flee their own home of Eastern Rafah. Should a full invasion commence, 1.3 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah will have nowhere safe to go. Millions of Palestinian lives now hang in the balance. I am begging you now, as your constituent, to do everything in your power to stop this unfolding catastrophe before it's too late... Thank you

[thefirsthogokage]

Absolutely. Fucking. Disgusting.

(link to post) (link to Clerk House vote results)

(link to Business Insider's article confirming this)

From that article, Thomas Massive (R-Kentucky)'s comment on his no vote:

"Antisemitism is deplorable, but expanding it to include criticism of Israel is not helpful," Massie wrote on X.

I hope everyone of those islamophobic, arabphobic, Palestinianphobic, antisemitic 412 members of house lose their elections to people who actually give a damn about Palestine.

ALL of them put their seats in jeopardy with this shit.

Anti-zionism isn't antisemitic, Palestinians are native to the region AND EXIST and NONE of them are listening to anyone about that. Fuck all of them.

[sugas6thtooth]

No fuckin way. To equate anti-zionism to antisemitism is antisemitic in and of itself. Also, what about the serious rise in islamophobia?!?! Why aren't they making an act for that??? We have absolute idiots in congress.

[instantbee]

On the one hand, not having a Speaker of the House is indicative of very serious issues in the American populace. It shows a divisive political dialogue and a country in crisis. The last two times this happened both preceded horrible periods of disruption in our country by about 10 years, the Great Depression and the Civil War. So it's not a great look and does make one nervous about what is coming down the pipe On the other hand it is genuinely so fucking funny

[mapsontheweb]

United States House of Representatives Apportioned based on alligator population

[dazeddoodles]

I love the human Raeda pic from The Owl House gallery show. Because you have Raine dressed all properly in their uniform. Tie, dress shoes, and everything.

And then there's EDA with her shirt unbuttoned, one sock pulled up and the other scrunched up, red shorts underneath, complete contrast with her yellow undershirt, bandaged knees, sneakers with BOTH shoelaces untied, and sitting like THAT (Bi ADHD queen)

[fionatheicicle]

My niece just gave me a wonderful idea. Lets take all of the US politicians and throw them in the hunger games.

[gwydionmisha]

I am happy to hear it.  I'd been worried.