Just hours before her death, 90-year-old Dianne Feinstein was helped onto the Senate floor for the final public act of her trailblazing career.
The California Democrat, holding onto her aide's arm, slowly raised her hand to vote 'aye' on Thursday morning in a procedural vote for short-term government funding.
Feinstein walked in without the wheelchair she used in the final months of her 30-year Senate career as her health deteriorated following a bout with shingles.
After giving her colleagues a brief wave, she was escorted out again following her last fleeting appearance in the upper chamber.
Feinstein subsequently missed two Senate votes in the afternoon.
Truly a witch to the last.
Yes, allowing dying people to vote on our future is totallybl normal, bigot.
You can see the empire is dying. Mechanisms of decency are gone.