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It's a new Thanksgiving tradition: People post pics of their plates on Twitter and other folks roast them. This year people started catching on but that didn't mean the pictures slowed. In fact, people challenged folks to roast them.

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The U.S. Senate approved the nomination of accused eco-terrorist Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management, ...

There was an effect on the federal bottom line if there web the case outlining rms, and that could potentially be added to the reconciliation bill. elizabeth mcdonogh as she wants and can explain or not her decision as much as she so decides. parties are taking a soft touch and this is the one shot to get immigration reform done in this congress as its currently constructed. i had a conversation with jon cornyn a while ago and he calls it the issue on which congress has never failed to fail. des...

We merged a couple independent efforts. now we have $16 billion to $17 billion for coastal restoration and 3.5 or 2.5 for fema for flood mitigation. >> because it was legislation that was used to get things done which we havent seen for a long time. >> republicans, when he we controlled the senate, passed four our five relief packages for covid relief at the end of our term. why? bipartisan. >> thats true. i want to ask you specifically about this. some of your fellow senate republicans say they...

Our term. why bipartisan? >> thats true. i want to ask you specifically about this. some of your fellow senate republicans say theyre going to oppose this. and theyre pointing to a congressional budget office estimate that its $250 billion that it adds to the deficit that much. here is what some of your gop colleagues have said. chuck grassley said it was dpointing. jon cornyn called it a real problem. mike brawn called it the swamps debt bomb. what do you know that they dont? >> we absolutely s...

>> okay. >> im proud of what we have come up with. president biden was great in the oval office today. his team has been intimate in the negotiations over the last couple of weeks, and god knows there are things like voting rights to make my heart sick that we have not gotten the bipartisan support but most of the same group came together under equally challenging circumstances under president trump with a second largest investment ever in late november, early december on covid relief that many ...

That if joe mafrn ipo sees that the republicans are completely dug in, that he will become so frustrated with their lack of bipartisanship that he might join with the rest of the democratic party and certainly do what the president wants and come up with as he did a compromise that might then put the progressives in the democratic party on the spot with something that he would support? >> i think the hope among progressives and activist wing of the democratic party is that manchin will see this ...

Hard line with vladimir putin when he met with him, including stepping up sanction on that nordstream gas pipeline into germany. they wanted to see this robust response. some of them coming away unsatisfied, perhaps none more so than tom cotton, who spoke on another network a few minutes ago. take a listen to this. >> if joe biden had gone into this summit from a position of strength, if he had not extended a very badly one-sided nuclear arms control agreement with russia, shut down that russia ...

Like texas but fundamentally disregarding them? >> i want to invite them to see it for themselves in texas. this is the toughest state in which to register to vote and its not tough for everyone equally. its disproportionately born by black voters, voters of color, those voters with disabilities, the very young, the very old, and those lo live in big cities. can you not have a democracy if everyone who is eligible cannot participate in t i believe those three senators you just mentioned. once th...