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I see a hand full of visits per week at urgent care due to inappropriate q-tip use. Please avoid using q-tips inside your ears. Save yourself the doctor's visit and the copay. 😉

“Before she left, I found her on the House floor,” Rep. Ilhan Omar said of former Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene. “[And] thanked her for her support in ending the genocide, her willingness to speak up about what the people in Gaza have experienced and what our tax dollars have allowed to take place.” Omar encouraged Democrats to “put our arms around” former MAGA supporters like Greene who have distanced themselves from Trump. 🎥 via Pod Save America. Full ep. linked below.

AIPAC releases a new ad bragging to America that it owns top leadership in the Democratic Party and that it will be the true winner in the midterm elections, regardless of the results. AIPAC brags that it is the top fundraiser for members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Hispanic Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus, Progressive Caucus, and Equality Caucus. “AIPAC is the top fundraiser for Democrats.”

Eric Swalwell's office door highlights his utility to the malign forces that propelled his career. When he staged his first run for Congress in 2012, Swalwell’s seemingly underdog campaign was aggressively propelled by AIPAC, Big Pharma, and corrupt land developers. Their target was Rep. Pete Stark, a legendary reformer and antiwar stalwart who had infuriated the Israel lobby with his consistent opposition to wars on Iraq and Lebanon. At the end of their only debate, Stark called Swalwell a “slimeball,” a “fucking crook,” accused him of bribery, and predicted, “you’re going to jail.” Mainstream media condemned Stark as a bully in the throes of cognitive decline, while Swalwell became their darling. After the centrist 31-year-old prosecutor eked out a victory, The New Republic hailed him as a “costume-donning, prop-loving thirty something who ousted Pete Stark.” No mention was made of the bathrobe he donned in his now-notorious role as a liquor-sodden lothario. In Congress, Swalwell provided a reliable rubber stamp for military aid to Israel while distinguishing himself as the most cartoonish promoters of the Russiagate hoax. When he ran for president in 2019 – polling around 0% throughout his campaign – he branded himself the “Guns and Russia” candidate, meaning he would restrict guns for Americans while forking over billions in military aid to Ukraine. With Swalwell’s demise, Pete Stark may have gotten the last laugh. But in a Democratic Party that is hostile to class politics, overrun by corporate lobbyists and occupied by Israel, Swalwell was a prototype. In his wake, new slimeballs will rise to the surface.

Me: “Are you worried about the FISA backdoor search loophole given the government used it to spy on Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020?” Jim Clyburn (D-SC): “I don’t worry about stuff. I just live through it.”