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  • Dead members of Congress can’t stop posting

    06/29/2025 9:14:24 AM PDT · by DFG · 27 replies
    Politico ^ | 06/28/2025 | Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing
    After Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory in the New York Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) liked an Instagram post congratulating him on his win. The only problem — Jackson Lee died last July. From ghost-likes and new profile pictures to a posthumous endorsement, accounts for dead lawmakers have seemingly resurrected on social media in an unsettling trend of beyond-the-grave engagement. “Dear White Staffers,” an anonymous account dedicated to highlighting experiences and perspectives of non-white congressional staffers, on Wednesday posted a screenshot of a notification that the late Texas representative’s account had liked the congratulatory post...
  • The Resistance 2.0 arrives with nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests

    06/15/2025 7:05:29 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 64 replies
    Politico ^ | June 14, 2025 | Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing
    As President Donald Trump’s military parade rolled through the nation’s capital on Saturday, millions of Americans across the country took part in the largest coordinated protests against the president since the start of his second administration. While Trump’s parade aimed to show America’s military prowess in its new era — remade under the administration’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion policies — over 2,000 protests planned for major cities and small towns nationwide were expected to outdo the president’s parade in scale. “These are not normal times in America. This is not a normal presidency,” Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) told thousands of...