House Democrats are planning to adopt a new rule on Tuesday that will prevent members of the House Freedom Caucus from demanding individual roll call votes on dozens of noncontroversial bills and consuming hours of floor time.

Lawmakers have grown frustrated in recent weeks as Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and several members of the Freedom Caucus have insisted upon roll call votes on bills that normally pass by voice vote.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that Democrats plan to adopt a rule that will allow consideration of the bills en bloc, meaning that one vote would serve as passage of multiple measures at once.

"There's overwhelming agreement among both the Republicans and the Democrats that these bills are in the best interests of our country, and therefore are non controversial, that they can be considered as they have been historically in a fashion which will not take the kind of time that we've been taking over the last two weeks," Hoyer told reporters.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/549233-democrats-adopting-new-rule-to-limit-freedom-caucus-from-demanding-votes-on

Today, I'm signing on as an original co-sponsor of the Green New Deal. Over the past few months, after conversations with environmental advocates and labor leaders, I worked with Congressional colleagues to strengthen pro-worker provisions in the legislation.

https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1384529754553036802

(CNN)Former President Donald Trump has elevated his son Donald Trump Jr. to an unofficial new role inside his orbit as he weighs the idea of a comeback presidential bid in 2024 that would require him to maintain a vise grip on the Republican base for any chance of success.

Behind the scenes, Trump's eldest son has emerged as one of the former president's chief political advisers, according to multiple sources who are close to Trump or involved with his political operation. Like his brother-in-law Jared Kushner, who spent much of the last four years attempting to steer the Trump show from inside the West Wing, Trump Jr. has been working closely with his father's team to ensure the next iteration of the 45th President's political career is running smoothly and that his father is endorsing reliably conservative candidates.

But his role extends far beyond operational guidance. In the months since Trump left Washington, Trump Jr. -- who never worked in the White House and is undeniably the most conservative member of the Trump family -- has been steadily influencing his father's political instincts. Aides describe their relationship as notably more affable than Trump's ever was with Kushner, who has taken a break from politics.

Trump Jr.'s impact was on full display earlier this month, when Trump caught himself fuming at a televised interview with Gov. Asa Hutchinson over the Arkansas Republican's stance on transgender issues, one that would have previously escaped his attention. Unlike the days when Trump would camp out in an annex off the Oval Office, griping to aides about critical cable coverage he'd seen of himself or his administration, this time he was incensed by Hutchinson's veto of a Republican-backed bill blocking gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth in his state.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/politics/donald-trump-jr-adviser/index.html

That’s one scary croissant.

According to an animal control group from Poland, they received a call that an unidentifiable animal was terrorizing the residents of a street in Krakow. When officials arrived on the scene, however, they discovered that there was no danger at all.

The Krakow Animal Welfare Society posted about the incident on Facebook, confirming that a woman called in to report that a "creature" had been terrorizing her neighbors for two days. According to the post, people were apparently afraid to open their windows because an unidentified animal had been lurking in a tree.

When officials arrived on the scene, however, they discovered that there was no chance that the animal was going to enter anyone’s house or pounce on anyone walking underneath the tree.

That’s because the "creature" was actually just a croissant stuck in a tree.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/creature-lurking-in-tree-terrorizing-poland-town-turns-out-to-be-a-croissant-stuck-in-a-tree