I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
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It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.
We launched one of the biggest operations deep into Russia. Dozens of successful strikes. Some targets were 4,000 kilometers away.
But tell me, did you see a single image of a bombed apartment?
A Russian mother screaming in the dust?
A Russian child buried in bricks?
No. Because we don’t hit civilians.
We fight to live, not to destroy.
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Democrat Keishan Scott WINS the special election for South Carolina's 50th State House District, defeating Republican William Oden by over 41 points in a district Kamala Harris won by about 5 in 2024.
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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.
It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men
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MAGA’s new motto: punish the poor, protect the powerful.
Trump and his crew are pushing work requirements for food, housing, and healthcare—while handing out tab breaks to billionaires.
If they really cared about “fraud”, they’d start with their own damn tax returns.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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HUGE FLIP: Democrat John Ewing Jr. just turned Omaha blue—defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country and becoming the city’s first Black mayor in history.
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As an adoptee I've had to learn that one's worth is not a currency to be bartered for belonging.
You are not on Earth to be everybody’s savior, secretary, sounding board, therapist, mama, mule, or messiah.
You are not a bottomless well of “strength” for people to sip from when they’re thirsty and then walk away when they’re full. Your worth is not in your labor, your silence, your forgiveness, your caretaking, your ability to bend without breaking, or your capacity to carry what no one …
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Ma’am…that is the woman’s voice. We do not use AI. The woman recorded it.
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I have seen a lot of responses to this, but I think what is missing from the conversation is that within this post a founder of substack is encouraging folks to utilize his app to cultivate deeper human connections and make space to hold the nuances of each other’s lived realities. But what about all of the substack writers (mostly writers of color) that are posting in countries that are unable to monetize their writing? They’re encouraged to use the app, encouraged to write and engage on the app, encouraged to add their lived realities to the conversation to grow our paradigms, but only their (mostly) white peers can financially profit off of the app?
I agree with the overall message of please remember we are all engaging with fellow humans that are existing in these tumultuous times, but the message is also use my app that I (and mostly white writers) financially benefit from.
If every publisher on this app was able to monetize their writing as they saw fit, I’d think his point would have landed better. But that just may be me?
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