'I Bawled': A Congresswoman's 18-Month Fight For A Neglected Tribal School Just Paid Off

(HuffPost) A single sentence in the 4,155-page omnibus spending bill is everything that Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) came to Congress to do.

WASHINGTON – Buried in the 4,155-page omnibus spending bill unveiled in the Senate on Tuesday is a single sentence that’s likely to go unnoticed by almost everyone – except the freshman congresswoman who fought for it with everything she had for the last year and a half. “For an additional amount for ‘Education Construction,’ $90,465,000, to remain available until expended for necessary expenses related to the consequences of flooding at the To’Hajiilee Community School.”

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The To’Hajiilee Community School has been neglected and massively underfunded since its founding. It’s one of 183 K-12 schools overseen by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), responsible for providing education to more than 48,000 Native American children around the country. Of these schools, 86 are in “poor condition,” and 73 don’t have the money for needed repairs, according to BIE data from 2021. An additional 41 of these schools are in “fair condition.” The school isn’t just substandard; it’s a site that carries historical trauma. Like many of today’s BIE schools, the To’Hajiilee Community School is also a former Indian boarding school. For about 150 years, the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Indigenous children to attend these schools to try to assimilate them into white culture. As a result, these kids endured physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Some died. Others disappeared.

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Over the past few weeks, as lawmakers scrambled to get their priorities into the $1.7 trillion year-end spending bill, Stansbury says she spent “every day, all day long,” dogging House and Senate appropriators, Hill leaders and administration officials to include money for the school. She didn’t know until Tuesday morning, when the bill was publicly released and she pored over its text, that her efforts had paid off. “We’ve been working so hard on this, for so long, I literally woke up … and bawled my eyes out,” Stansbury told HuffPost in an emotional interview on Tuesday. “I invested everything I had to get funding for this school. The To’Hajiilee community is only a short distance from Albuquerque, but the people out there have so much need, and the community hasn’t had its needs and priorities met. It’s just so huge for this community.”

“Even if I accomplish nothing else in my time serving in Congress,” she added, “this is the most important thing I could have ever imagined that we could get into the budget.”

Read More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melanie-stansbury-tribal-school-funding-construction_n_63a1fe41e4b04414304b9f12

So CNN is carrying the orange idiot's lying speech.

Just wow.
Was watching Alex on MSNBC and briefly switched over to CNN and that crap was on. Why are they even carrying him? None of the big networks are - not ABC, not CBS or NBC. SMH.

Farewell To The 2022 Class Of MAGA Weirdos

(HuffPost) 2good + 2be = 4gotten.

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People in politics like to use the term “candidate quality” to diplomatically critique poor candidates. Even by Trump GOP standards, candidate quality was sorely lacking this election cycle. That’s why we’ll never forget the MAGA Class of 2022. Don’t ever change!

Most Likely To Never Again Set Foot In The State Where They Ran
Celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz had a hard time convincing voters that he was actually from the state he hoped to represent in Washington. The GOP’s Senate nominee in Pennsylvania did not help his case when, the weekend before the election, he urged voters to “contact 10 people before the Steelers game” — although no such game was happening that weekend. At least this blunder didn’t involve a “Wegner’s.”

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Most Likely To Have One Or 20 Skeletons In Their Closet
Things always seemed to be getting worse for Herschel Walker. The Senate hopeful and former star running back would routinely make head-scratching comments about evolution, pollution and pretty much anything else under the sun. It was nothing, however, compared to the jaw-dropping revelations from Walker’s personal life, which included domestic violence allegations and two previously undisclosed children.

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Most Likely To Parlay This Election Into A Newsmax Show
Kari Lake’s announcement that she was running for Arizona governor was about as unsubtle as taking a sledgehammer to a television — which is exactly how the ex-newscaster made her political ambitions known in a video. That theme has been consistent throughout her campaign. Lake has taken a sledgehammer to everything in her way: her old job, the media, the GOP establishment. And now she’s smashed her way to a near-win in a race against Democrat Katie Hobbs that’s still too close to call.

Read More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2022-midterms-maga-nominees_n_636e4affe4b0ca9acf23be0d

7PM livestream debate: Val Demings and Marco Rubio

How are you? Are you safe? God bless you. Said Speaker Pelosi to VP Pence on Jan 6.

Watching the documentary clips on msnbc. Nancy Pelosi is the one who cares enough to ask if he was okay. Not his own president. What a psycho piece of garbage trump is, he really wanted his veep dead or at least injured that day.

Warnock/Walker live debate link

The 11th Circuit really came through for us! Trump loses in classified docs appeal.

While we knew that the amazing and wonderful Judge Robin Rosenbaum (Obama appointee and a hero to us here in Florida) would do the right thing, kinda surprised the other two trump appointed judges Grant and Brasher voted the same. Well done! "We agree"

Ex-Trump Official Accuses Former President Of Sinister Immigration Plot

(HuffPost) Miles Taylor, a former DHS chief of staff, made the stunning disclosure on CNN amid renewed tensions over border policy.

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But Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff in the DHS, said Trump, whose 2016 campaign cornerstone was to build a border wall, once took the idea of shipping migrants north to the next level.

Taylor said Trump directed officials in early 2019 to dump immigrants into Democratic cities and states. However, the president was “much more specific.”

“He wanted us to identify the murderers, the rapists and the criminals and in particular, make sure we did not incarcerate them, and we put them in those cities,” Taylor said on CNN. “It doesn’t take a lawyer or genius to recognize that this would likely be illegal to do.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/miles-taylor-donald-trump-criminals-immigration_n_632aeac3e4b0913a3dd6c80e

If you need a quick chuckle....

Nikki Fried's last ad before election tomorrow. She wants to take down DeSantis in November.