Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein will finally return to the senate after a 3-month absence due to health problems.

Dianne Feinstein’s absence from the Senate held up Joe Biden’s judicial confirmations.

Feinstein, 89, has been MIA since she was hospitalized for shingles in March.

The California senator’s absence from the Senate Judiciary Committee had the panel deadlocked at 10-10.

Feinstein has missed 91 floor votes.

The Democrats tried to temporarily replace Feinstein but GOP lawmakers blocked their efforts.

Feinstein will cast a vote on Wednesday according to her spox.

NBC News reported:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is returning to the Senate after a nearly three-month absence due to health problems, a spokesperson said.

Feinstein is expected to cast a vote Wednesday — her first recorded vote since Feb. 16 — after having missed 91 floor votes while she recovered from shingles, according to an NBC News tally.

With Democrats holding just a single-seat advantage in the Senate, Feinstein’s absence complicated her party’s efforts to confirm some of President Joe Biden’s nominees. Her absence was most pronounced on the Judiciary Committee, where an 11-10 majority became a 10-10 stalemate — frustrating Democratic efforts to confirm some judges and scuttling any plans to issue subpoenas on party-line votes.

Feinstein later disputed that her absence had in any way limited the number of nominees advanced by the committee.

“There has been no slowdown,” Feinstein wrote in a statement last week after the Judiciary Committee advanced seven less controversial nominees on a bipartisan basis. “I’m confident that when I return to the Senate, we will be able to move the remaining qualified nominees out of committee quickly and to the Senate floor for a vote.”

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The state of California has launched a ‘snitch hotline’ that people are supposed to use to report ‘hate acts’ including name-calling.

This is the sort of thing you expect to hear about on a liberal college campus, not in a massive state with tons of problems.

California is experiencing shrinking population for the first time in its history as residents flee for other states and this is what they’re focusing on?

The Blaze reports:

California launches new snitch hotline to report ‘hate acts’ and ‘hate incidents’ — including ‘name calling’

California has launched a new hotline for residents to report “hate acts.”

Last Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the California Civil Rights Department announced the launch of CA vs Hate. Through the hotline, Californians will be able to snitch on their neighbors for committing “hate acts,” which the service explicitly states do not always include violence.

“A hate incident is a hostile expression or action that may be motivated by bias against another person’s actual or perceived identity,” the website states. “Perpetrators may be motivated by different discriminatory biases, including, but not limited to; bias based on race, color, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender, including gender identity.”

Some examples of “hate incidents,” according to the website, are “refusing service,” “derogatory name calling,” and bullying.

The new hotline, Newsom explained, is “an unequivocal message that hate will not be tolerated” in California.

“We stand firm for a California for All and it is important that we hold perpetrators accountable for their actions and provide resources for those individuals victimized by hate crimes,” he said in a statement. “Now, Californians have another tool to ensure that not only justice is served, but that individuals have access to additional resources to help deal with the lingering wounds that remain after such a horrendous crime occurs.”

Remember the ‘Stasi’ secret police in East Germany?

Sounds like Fascist Germany and Communist Russia… https://t.co/2tyoUDeEKZ

— Fred Madsen (@FredMadsen12) May 10, 2023

California – a state full of Karens. What could go wrong? https://t.co/tR4eQeJKZt

— Konni Burton (@KonniBurton) May 10, 2023

It’s not only a waste, it sounds un-American.

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