#katie porter

[ventmyfrustrations]

katie porter reading the subtle art of not giving a fuck during the house speaker vote drama

#katie porter #speaker of the house #us politics #politics

[liberalsarecool]

Katie for President.

#medicare for all #katie porter

[beardedmrbean]

They were simply "Fortifying Democracy" how can she be upset about that?

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#katie porter #election 2024 #adam schiff #totally different when they did it to the other guy I bet

[whatbigotspost]

Oh this is so good. So very very good 😂

#us politics #katie porter #lolololololol

[chrysocomae]

Katie Porter is #goals honestly

#us politics #kevin mccarthy #katie porter

[porterdavis]

#price gouging #katie porter

[living400lbs]

"Congressional salaries are $174,000. That pay has not increased since 2009; in real dollars, salaries are the lowest they’ve been since 1955. Our health insurance is purchased on the Affordable Care Act exchange. We pay 30% of the premium; the House of Representatives pays 70%, similar to most workplace insurance plans. ... Mandatory pensions take up 4.4% of the salary.... two residences are required; votes keep House members in Washington, D.C., about a hundred days each year. No housing allowance or per diem is paid, and no tax deduction for business housing is permitted. ...

Juxtapose these facts against the misconception that people become rich by serving in Congress. ... Congress is full of multimillionaires for the same reason that the NBA is full of tall people. It’s easier to get recruited and win with such advantages. Serving in Congress does not pad your bank account any more than playing basketball adds inches to your height. While we might accept physical attributes in athletes as natural or desirable, wealth does not give a better perspective for politics. It undercuts the purpose of representative democracy.

Americans rightfully fume that congressmembers trade stocks, convinced that insider information is misused, but we refuse to squarely address the harm that comes from representatives having such wealth in the first place. From 2019 to 2022, over 130 members of the House of Representatives each traded over $100,000 of stock. To trade that dollar volume in a year, these folks are either addicted day traders who cannot manage their money (much less our economy), or—and this is the reality—they own stocks worth many multiples of what they traded.

Representatives who are my peers in age and years of political service—like Cindy Axne, Mike Garcia, Ashley Hinson, Ro Khanna, Tom Malinowski, Blake Moore, Kim Schrier, and Mikie Sherrill—have each traded over $1 million while in office. In my life before Congress, I knew that people with net worths in the tens of millions were not my peers. Pretending they are in Congress is an indignity."

From I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan by US Rep Katie Porter

#katie porter #us politics #worker housing #government #who can afford to have a residence in DC and California #us house of representatives

[gwydionmisha]

Yes, most of these are two young for this election cycle.

Poll suggested by a friend.

#Justin Pearson #Justin Jones #Alexandria Ocasio Cortez #Katie Porter #Zaynab Mohamed #Hakeem Jeffries #Maxwell Alejandro Frost

[lo-nuestro-es-imparable]

Just a U.S. congresswoman out striking with us today no biggie.

#wga solidarity #wga strike #sag strike #sag afra strike #katie porter

[triviareads]

Tastes Like shakkar sounds so good! What are your top 5 books with brown or desi characters?

I enjoyed Tastes Like Shakkar a lot more than I was expecting, and have relentlessly been shilling it ever since. It's such a solid romance, the sex was good, a lot of the desi family stuff (the concept of being a "family manager") really hit, but it never took away from the main romance. Also, it's always nice to feel "seen" in the books you read even though it's pretty rare for me, but since this was specifically about Indian-Americans in the NY-NJ area, I really felt that.

Here are books with desi rep apart from Tastes Like Shakkar that are in my top 5:

Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai: I debated putting my other fave by Alisha, Serving Pleasure, on here but Wrong to Need You portrayed a less-troubled desi family dynamic than Serving Pleasure so I'm picking this. Sadia is a widowed single mom grappling with her attraction to her brother-in-law, Jackson who's just returned after a self-imposed exile related to a mysterious fire. The restrained tension between these two is so hot (ok maybe not entirely restrained; she doesn't recognize him when he first returns and nearly has sex with him lol). Also, Sadia, like Jiya below, subverts the passive Asian woman trope on multiple levels, and based on the dynamic between her and Jackson.

I also liked how Sadia's large, close-knit Pakistani-American family was portrayed; they may not see eye-to-eye all the time, but they love one another and are willing to learn and compromise.

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert: Zafir Ansari is truly a prince among men; him and Dani go viral for his rescue of her, and they start fake dating so his football charity can get some positive attention and donations. I like how Zafir was the romantic one among the two of them (and is a Bollywood romance fan, predictably), and is also great in the sack so... a winner, basically.

Also, Talia wrote this lovely exploration of grief (Zafir lost his dad and brother) and this really sweet relationship between Zafir and his SIL, and his family as a whole which I appreciated.

Sink or Swim by Tessa Bailey: I know Tessa has gotten a lot of flak for her portrayal of Latinx characters (which, deserved imo), and she's otherwise by and large stuck to writing white characters, but I can't deny she did pretty damn good job of writing Jiya and her family, who are desi, in this book. Here are my full thoughts on this.

The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert: Friends to lovers AND probably one of the only unrequited love books I'll ever recommend only because I love Jasmine so much (even while she's STRUGGLING to figure out that yes, Rahul has had feelings for her ever since she deflowered him on the... I wanna say library floor), and Rahul Khan is adorable and a stern, stern man who can absolutely get it. Similar to Zafir above, Rahul's dad also dies during the book (there's a lot of flashbacks) and Talia portrayed Muslim funeral customs and just the general family dynamics thoughtfully and in such an emotional way.

Hard Way by Katie Porter: lol my problematic fave because there are a few things that are just so weird in terms of rep: For one, the author keeps putting Sunita, the heroine, in "indian inspired" clothes, for example, some kind vaguely described professional suit inspired by a saree? Like, this woman is an attorney who works for a United States congressman. She's probably wearing a regular-ass suit like the rest of the people in that office. Also, her nickname in law school was the "Ice Queen of Bangalore" which was meant to be microaggressive, but the nickname literally makes 0 sense to me since she was raised in AMERICA, and considering half the Indians I know can't make the connection between being Kannadiga and possibly being from Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, what are the chances these white mfs can, right? And the weird thing is, she narratively sort of "reclaims" her nickname, but it was such a cringe one to begin with and I don't even know why the authors bothered to put it in in the first place.

BUT Sunita is the only Kannadiga heroine I've ever read (I am. kannadiga, to clarify), she's a martial artist, she's struggling to work out her marriage with her husband (I'm a sucker for that shit), she's good with being kidnapped and zip-tied straight from the grocery store by her husband because it's a mutual fantasy, and she attends yakshagana performances (also very personal to me and my family)! Do you know how rare it is to see any of these things as far as brown heroines go? Maybe I have a lower bar for South Asian rep because there are so few romances that have South Asians who don't hate themselves/the culture AND have good sex scenes, but hopefully that will change as time goes on.

#talia hibbert #alisha rai #nisha sharma #katie porter #tessa bailey #book recs #romance novels #ask

[liberalsarecool]

The Supreme Court is only going to hear cases they can legislate from the bench.

The goal is to wipe out legislation and the legislative power of Congress.

To restore balance to the three branches, we must expand SCOTUS.

#katie porter #scotus

[kp777]

Right-Winger Tries To Take On Katie Porter... INSTANTLY Regrets It

TYT Investigates

April 18, 2024

Rep. Katie Porter absolutely shreds Lindsey Burke, a right-wing Heritage Foundation official, who tries to say there's not enough money to invest in universal childcare. Porter delivers a brilliant breakdown on the nationwide need for an investment in universal childcare, points out how there's plenty of money available to invest in children for future, sexism in Congress and so much more.

#universal childcare #patriarchy #single parent #katie porter #Youtube

[progressivegraffiti]

Katie Porter is a national treasure. She understands the conflict between corporate power and a democracy that works for real people. She rejects corporate campaign donations, so it's up to us to support her campaign. I just donated to her 2024 Senate campaign. Visit her website to do the same. #Politics #KatiePorter #2024Elections #USSenate

#politics #katie porter #us senate #2024 elections #progressive candidate

[porterdavis]

I’ll say it again — Rep Porter should be named Secretary of Explaining Shit.

#katie porter #profiteering #price gouging

[living400lbs]

"The bad-apple objection was bassackwards, as my granddad would say. The original reference, and the scientific fact, is that one bad apple actually does spoil the whole barrel. I know this because many times I have returned from Washington to discover this miraculous microbial process at work in my produce drawer."

From I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan by US Rep Katie Porter

#katie porter #us politics #us house of representatives #i swear: politics is messier than my minivan #bad apple

[kitmcintireart]

New design hit the shop today!

Katie Porter is the reason I allow myself to hope for the future of the kids I love.

#art #illustration #digital #pop #font #lowbrow #katie porter #whiteboard #marker #lettering #handwriting