Democratic Rep. Cori Bush claims that 'We're facing threats from a growing far-right, white supremacist movement across Missouri and the country'



Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri asserted in a Friday tweet that there is a metastasizing "white supremacist movement" in her state and the U.S. at large.

"We're facing threats from a growing far-right, white supremacist movement across Missouri and the country," Bush tweeted. "But I've seen the power we hold when we come together. We've proven it & we'll never back down. There's so much at stake. Let's continue this work. Together."

Her post included a campaign advertisement — the left-wing lawmaker, who entered office last year, is currently running for re-election.

\u201cWe're facing threats from a growing far-right, white supremacist movement across Missouri and the country. But I've seen the power we hold when we come together. We've proven it & we'll never back down.\n\nThere's so much at stake. Let's continue this work. Together.\u201d
— Cori Bush (@Cori Bush) 1657910805

Liberal actor Mark Ruffalo has urged people to donate to Bush. "Hey everyone, @CoriBush is in a tight primary race against a very corporate democrat. We already have plenty of them, and there is only one Cori Bush fighting for the rest of us. Let’s all chip in and send her some funding love," Ruffalo tweeted on Friday.

In a statement last month about the U.S. Supreme Court, Bush declared that "The Court's jurisprudence of white supremacy is unjust, profound, and dangerous."

In a tweet posted to her @RepCori account on Friday, Bush claimed that "codifying the right to abortion" would "further reproductive, economic, and racial justice."

\u201cToday\u2019s vote on the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act is more crucial than ever. By codifying the right to abortion we can further reproductive, economic, and racial justice.\n\nI\u2019m proud to have joined my colleagues in voting YES for reproductive rights.\u201d
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@Congresswoman Cori Bush) 1657907216

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week, one of the witnesses, University of California, Berkeley School of Law professor Khiara M. Bridges, accused GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri of pursuing a "line of questioning" that she described as "transphobic."

Bush hailed Bridges, calling the professor her "new personal hero."

"I'd like to introduce everyone to my new personal hero, Professor Khiara Bridges," Bush tweeted. "Our trans community members and all of us in Missouri who hold them close to our hearts as their rights are ruthlessly opposed by the likes of insurrectionist saluter Hawley thank you, Professor."

\u201cI\u2019d like to introduce everyone to my new personal hero, Professor Khiara Bridges. \n\nOur trans community members and all of us in Missouri who hold them close to our hearts as their rights are ruthlessly opposed by the likes of insurrectionist saluter Hawley thank you, Professor.\u201d
— Cori Bush (@Cori Bush) 1657671359

Cori Bush calls Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act 'anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant'



Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has been a persistent road block in the left's quest to splurge beaucoup bucks on a massive spending plan, and now Rep. Cori Bush is decrying the senator's steadfast opposition to the Biden administration's proposal as "anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant."

"Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant. When we talk about transformative change, we are talking about a bill that will benefit Black, brown and Indigenous communities. Those same communities are overwhelmingly excluded from the bipartisan infrastructure bill. We cannot leave anyone behind," Bush declared in a statement.

"Senator Manchin must support the Build Back Better Act," she insisted.

Joe Manchin does not get to dictate the future of our country. https://t.co/aG7zBuyMQy

— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) 1635808093.0

Manchin on Monday called for Congress to approve a bipartisan infrastructure proposal. But he remained unwilling to get on board with other legislation that Democrats want to ram through Congress.

"Simply put, I will not support a bill that is this consequential without thoroughly understanding the impact that it'll have on our national debt, our economy, and most importantly all of our American people," Manchin said.

Last week during a congressional hearing Bush blasted energy company executives.

"For years you all have continued to promote fossil fuels despite knowing that promoting them means promoting environmental racism and violence in black and brown communities," Bush declared. She continued, saying that they persist in "promoting and selling fossil fuels that are killing millions of people. This is a striking example of white supremacy. Your profit-driven choices threaten my life, the lives of my family, my neighbors, and our communities every single day."

Bush said that they should resign: "Developing fossil fuels now given the escalation of the climate crisis and its harm on black and brown communities is unconscionable. Given each of your roles in these attacks on our humanity, you all should resign."

'This is a striking example of white supremacy': Rep. Cori Bush scolds energy execs for dealing in 'fossil fuels that are killing millions of people'



Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri rebuked energy company executives during a Thursday congressional hearing, claiming that they are peddling fossil fuels that kill millions of people.

The freshman lawmaker said that an oil refinery is more likely to be located in a black community than a white community and that the results of climate change are more likely to impact a black neighborhood first before a white neighborhood.

"For years you all have continued to promote fossil fuels despite knowing that promoting them means promoting environmental racism and violence in black and brown communities," Bush declared.

She continued, saying that they persist in "promoting and selling fossil fuels that are killing millions of people. This is a striking example of white supremacy. Your profit-driven choices threaten my life, the lives of my family, my neighbors, and our communities every single day," she said, noting that she has asthma.

Bush told the energy company executives that they should all resign.

"Developing fossil fuels now given the escalation of the climate crisis and its harm on black and brown communities is unconscionable. Given each of your roles in these attacks on our humanity, you all should resign," Bush said.

For decades, Big Oil has been investing billions in covering up their role in the climate crisis.At our… https://t.co/CQi5f7MBJI

— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) 1635456746.0

Her comments during the hearing come as many on the left continue to claim that catastrophic consequences will befall humanity if drastic actions are not taken to combat climate change.

The United Nations Development Programme released a video earlier this week showcasing a talking computer-generated dinosaur urging humans to take action to prevent their impending extinction.

"You're headed for a climate disaster. And yet every year governments spend hundreds of billions of public funds on fossil fuel subsidies," the dinosaur, who is voiced in English by actor Jack Black, declares in the video.

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush praises BLM activist who called for death of cops and popularized the 'Fry 'em like bacon' chant



Democratic Rep. Cori Bush from Missouri delivered a speech on the House floor, where she lauded an infamous Black Lives Matter activist who called for the death of police officers. With the Israel-Gaza conflict making headlines this week, Bush sang the praises of Bassem Masri, a Palestinian-American Black Lives Matter activist who became well-known because of his vitriolic, at times threatening, rhetoric toward cops.

On Thursday, Bush compared the "militarized occupation" in Palestine to St. Louis after the 2014 shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown Jr.

"As a Palestinian, he was ready to resist, to rebel, to rise up with us as our St. Louis community mourned Mike Brown, Jr.'s state-sanctioned murder, and as we demanded an end to the militarized police occupation of our communities," Bush said on the floor of the House of Representatives. "Palestinians know what state violence, militarized policing, and occupation of their communities look like."

"So when heavily militarized police forces showed up in Ferguson in 2014, Bassem and so many others of our St. Louis Palestinian community, our Palestinian siblings showed up too," the far-left Democrat said.

The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected.We oppose our money going t… https://t.co/Ol0Tw7BVgw

— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) 1620950055.0

Following the Ferguson shooting, Masri garnered notoriety for malicious messages that he would scream at police officers. Marsi would regularly threaten police officers, and even call for their deaths.

"Coward straight pig out here b****! You gotta go. Your life is in danger homie," Marsi yelled at cops in October 2014, according to KTVI-TV. During one BLM protest, Marsi asked a police officer, "What happens when we take your gun?"

Marsi went down the line of police officers and pointed at each one, "I'm praying for your death and your death and your death and your death."

Masri was one of the BLM activists who popularized the notorious anti-police chant: "Pigs in a blanket! Fry 'em like bacon!"

Pigs In a Blanket Fry Em Like Baconnnn #Ferguson

— Bassem Masri (@bassem_masri) 1419119274.0


Fry em like whaaaat? #Ferguson #FergusonOctober

— Bassem Masri (@bassem_masri) 1413669803.0

Marsi, who had 40 arrests for traffic violations, passed away in 2018 from what Bush called a "health crisis."

Bush called for an end to foreign aid to Israel during her speech, "That harassment, that extortion, that brutalization by heavily armed militarized presence in our community, that's what we fund when our government sends our tax dollars to the Israeli military."

The congresswoman suggested using those funds to support St. Louis communities instead.

Earlier this month, Bush praised the "historic" vote to defund the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and axe nearly 100 police officer positions, despite the city being one of the most violent in the world.

Liberals are pushing 'birthing people' phrase and social media erupts with laughter and ridicule



Some on the left have begun using the phrase "birthing people" as a euphemism for persons who are biologically women, and many on social media responded with mockery and ridicule.

Among the more prominent people using the phrase was far-left Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who posted a video of her testimony before Congress about racial inequality in medical care.

Every day, Black birthing people and our babies die because our doctors don't believe our pain. My children almost… https://t.co/mfRFlzZ3sn
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) 1620320753.0

"Every day, Black birthing people and our babies die because our doctors don't believe our pain. My children almost became a statistic. I almost became a statistic," tweeted Bush.

Many objected to the odd use of "birthing people" instead of simply saying, "mothers," or something similar.

"This is s***. They're called mothers. Calling them 'birthing people' is reducing them to a function--making them not human," replied Tim Carney of the American Enterprise Institute. "That's what's at the heart of this whole gender ideology. Reduce us to atomized autonomous individuals without a role or connection."

"These people really want to remove all of the beauty and truth from the world. Leftism is a scourge. It is poison. It makes everything ugly and dull and weird. I hate it with all my soul," responded commentator Matt Walsh.

"Liberals have devalued unborn babies for years by calling them clumps of cells or balls of tissue. Now they're devaluing their mothers by calling them 'birthing people,'" tweeted pro-life news outlet Life News.

NARAL, the abortion advocacy organization, defended Bush's use of the phrase and tried to explain what it meant precisely.

"When we talk about birthing people, we're being inclusive. It's that simple," the organization tweeted.

When we talk about birthing people, we're being inclusive. It's that simple.We use gender neutral language when t… https://t.co/1jD67NwPTe
— NARAL (@NARAL) 1620330068.0

"We use gender neutral language when talking about pregnancy, because it's not just cis-gender women that can get pregnant and give birth. Reproductive freedom is for *every* body," the tweet added.

Bush appeared to respond to the online ridicule in a later tweet as well.

"Trans people give birth. Gender non-conforming people give birth. I identify as a mother, but not every person who gives birth identifies as one. Everything I do is rooted in love, a love that means that everyone's identity is respected, welcomed, and celebrated," she tweeted.

In December, a Twitter account from the Harvard Medical School department also referred to "birthing persons," and later clarified why it was using the odd phrase.

"The webinar panelists used the term 'birthing person' to include those who identify as non-binary or transgender because not all who give birth identify as 'women' or 'girls.' We understand the reactions to this terminology and in no way meant for it to erase or dehumanize women," the account said in a later tweet.

Bush made headlines in February when she appeared to defend a violent riot by 115 prisoners at the St. Louis County Jail.