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I fully get the frustration. However this overestimates how much the average (busy) person pays attn to politics. When @vanhollen.senate.gov went to El Salvador it created a media event and gt information out to the public, and we know that b/c polls shifted significantly afterward. That’s what is

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28/10/26, 5:48 am5 reposts30 likes

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

10h

needed now and in 2027: a sustained effort, using the bully pulpit of the Congressional investigatory and media-attention power, to drive information about crimes out to every corner of the mass public.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

10h

We should get to the point where NFL and crime drama ratings go down — because the whole country is on the edge of their seats waiting for the next installment of the true crime Trump Family Corruption Show, presented by Congressional Majority Oversight, Inc.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

10h

Can start with dramatic hearings about Bolsonaro family coups and the State dept process that led to these visas. Run the compelling footage of Brazilian coup effort, talk about how Brazil held the insurrectionists accountable. Two birds, one stone.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department says it will give US visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family.

Andrew Hazlett

@andrewhazlett.bsky.social

10h

Yes. Something more like the Jan 6 Committee hearings. Not the usual testimony with tiresome mugging for the cameras and clicks.

@musicdunnright.bsky.social

most people aren't aware of shit. This is another reason that Democrats suck. They never amplify what they are fighting for and when they win there is not a single brag about it. Jesus fuck. REPUBLICANS TAKE CREDIT FOR SHIT THEY VOTED AGAINST. You bring a string to a grenade fight.