The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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May 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

— Kye (@gxldsociety.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T21:51:17.784Z

[FirstLight]

1. Thank you thank you thank you!

These are the patriots! Thank you for Fighting when I am bedridden and can't do it myself!

[SheltieLover]

2. Good trouble

John Lewis is smiling!

[calimary]

14. Yes. VERY good trouble.

VERY good trouble. On all of our behalf.

[SheltieLover]

16. Absolutely!

[JMCKUSICK]

23. You nailed it First Light!

[OldBaldy1701E]

30. Hear Hear!

(Not bedridden, but almost there and just got back from finding out if I have gallstones or not.)

"I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired!" - Fannie Lou Hamer.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Thank you for this report

and link.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Is the media covering any of this.

The only one who seems to be reporting it is Rachel Maddow.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Go to Google News and search for "rayburn building protest."

https://news.google.com/search?for=rayburn+building+protest&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Politico, Fox News, The Hill. The usual suspects.

And good evening.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Cory Booker!

[Irish_Dem]

7. I meant the national TV news.

I don't see any reporting on daily national news in the evening.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Fox News was listed.

I think they’re paywalled. I didn’t check.

Update: no, it is not behind a paywall.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/capitol-police-arrest-protesters-disrupting-budget-markup-cory-booker-thanks-them-defending-medicaid.amp

[BOSSHOG]

9. Tourists can sometimes get exuberant

[Jerry2144]

10. Watch the media falsely say it's the same as Jan 6's trump insurrection

[Marcuse]

11. I bet they are potty trained. Not like J6.

[Scrivener7]

12. The photo of the blind guy being dragged away by two cops made me gasp.

[2naSalit]

13. K&R

[bdamomma]

15. Good

Trouble.

Fucking around with people's lives this is the outcome.

[ultralite001]

17. An attempt to stop

American genocide...

Thanks to all for making good trouble...

[EndlessWire]

18. We all heard the speeches

and the promises he made on camera that he would not touch medicare, medicaid, or social security. What a liar. But, he is playing with fire.

[mountain grammy]

19. Many thanks to all

[iluvtennis]

20. KnR. n/t

[angrychair]

21. I'll load up

The guillotine.... *now where did I put my tools*

[iemanja]

22. I don't see anyone calling for arrest

As is the case with every thread about protests against the killing of 2 million Palestinians.

[Dan]

24. History says that revolution comes from the middle class, but

I am wondering, maybe revolution will come from the poor. The middle class worries because we have so much to lose. The poor, they have nothing to lose because they have nothing.

Not sure what will happen, but I suspect that both the middle and poor are starting to put their sights on the Oligarchs.

And, what the hell, Trump getting a 400 million dollar jet and that is legal, why do we even pretend we are a Republic anymore.

[boonecreek]

25. I have to believe that

Sam Rayburn would be proud.

[KPN]

27. Absolutely!

[KPN]

26. So frigging inspiring!

[Meowmee]

28. Great 👏🏻👏🏻

ty...🤗

[Deep State Witch]

29. The Capitol Police

Can arrest people in wheelchairs and scooters, but not the Proud Boys.

[Borogove]

31. I wish I could be there with them.