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— Marjorie Taylor Green’s latest stunt may be a gift to Democrats…or maybe not. After Speaker Mike Johnson got a vote to suspend the House rules to pass a $1.2 trillion piece of legislation to keep the government from shutting down this weekend, the Georgia congresswoman filed a “motion to vacate the chair”: the first step in unseating Johnson as speaker. She hasn’t yet pushed it as far as calling for a vote, saying it’s “only a warning” that if he allows any aid to the people of Ukraine she will then move to unseat him. Ukraine is currently under a vicious missile and bombing attack by Russia, not to mention the theft of over 100,000 Ukrainian children, stolen from their families in occupied territories and trafficked into Russia, the world’s #2 producer of child porn, and Greene, along with a few dozen other Republicans in the House and Senate, are firmly on Putin’s side. (Particularly concerning is the Friday attack on the Russian theater, an echo of the theater attack in 2002 that provided Putin with the rationale to bomb Chechnya back to the Stone Age. American intelligence warned Russia this was coming two weeks ago, and Ukrainian intelligence is now saying it’s an inside job by the Russian security services themselves. Keep an eye out: Putin and Trump may try to blame this on Ukraine and use it to justify a massive invasion or bombing campaign.) But back to the motion to vacate: former Rep. Adam Kinzinger sent out a blast to his Substack subscribers arguing that this is a great opportunity for Democrats to tell Johnson they’ll support him if he goes ahead and allows a vote on Ukraine aid, which he’s been holding up for months in fealty to Trump and Putin. I ran it by vice-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Rep. Ro Khanna, on the air yesterday and he thought it was a good idea and a viable strategy. Stay tuned!
— Just when you thought Republicans couldn't get any crueler, now they're forcing women to have unnecessary abdominal surgery. Seriously. This is the new GOP thing. They argue that abortions are never medically necessary, so are now forcing women with dead, dying, or deformed fetuses, instead of getting a normal surgical or medication abortion, to undergo C-sections to “birth” the non-viable fetus. As Jessica Valenti notes at her brilliant Substack newsletter Abortion Every Day: “The report details one case, for example, where a woman’s water broke 20 weeks into her pregnancy—far too early for a fetus to survive. In order to ‘preserve the appearance of not doing an abortion,’ the doctor performed a c-section.” She can no longer have a normal vaginal birth and will suffer lifelong scarring from the expensive, painful, and unnecessary surgery. While this
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