"Scott Bessent and I have something in common: neither of us have the first clue what the hell he was talking about."

@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social knocks Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's bizarre attempt to downplay inflation.

@kamlager-dove.house.gov on the story of a California man who was picked up by federal immigration officials and missing for six weeks.
"I've never gotten a call from a family who said your constituent has disappeared into thin air...If it can happen to Vicente, it can happen to anyone else."

"The weirdest part of all this is that also we found out Marjorie Taylor Greene is a snowflake. She doesn't like that loyalty is not a two-way street in Trump's world even though that's always been the case." @timobrien.bsky.social

“You could hear Mr. Khashoggi being killed, and the president is basically covering for him… the president has said on the record that he ‘covered MBS’ ass.’”
Congressman Eugene Vindman explains why he’s pushing for the release of Trump’s 2019 call with Mohammed bin Salman.

It wasn't that long ago that President Trump was attacking NYC's next mayor Zohran Mamdani non-stop. Take a look at this contrast between what Trump said about him before and during yesterday's meeting. Does anyone else think J.D. Vance might be a little jealous?

@politicsgirl.bsky.social: "If [Marjorie Taylor Greene] does not have a podcast by February... I will be surprised."

@anthonycoley.bsky.social: "She's totally getting a podcast. Maybe she'll come on your podcast."

@ahylton26.bsky.social: "I would tune in! You vs MTG, I'll be listening."

"We are facing an intense crisis of morality. It demands people of conscious to be able to say something about it." Rev. Michael Woolf discusses his recent arrest outside a Chicago-area ICE facility while @esglaude.bsky.social compared the current moment to America's dark past.

@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social says enhanced Obamacare subsidies helped to close the gap in racial health inequities and without the affordable plans and access to maternity care, the Black "maternal mortality rate will increase."

"Protecting pedophiles is never a good look in politics." Former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) mocks Trump's efforts to block the House vote releasing the Epstein files.

@repyassansari.bsky.social predicts a bad week for Trump with the House Epstein vote.

"I personally expect that several dozen Republican members of Congress will vote... to release the Epstein files... I think the dam is going to break this week and Donald Trump cannot hide from this any longer."

"There is so much going on in the lives of voters right now, that totality needs to be addressed." MS NOW Political Analyst Basil Smikle calls out hiking rent prices and the rising median age for first-time home buyers as issues that also need to be addressed post-government shutdown.

"I think this whole thing stinks... we are fools if we believe that they are going to come back and give us a vote that has a chance at passing if we capitulate right now. We got to hold the line." @balint.house.gov on the Senate shutdown deal.