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I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian 🙃
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I feel so angry about the murder of Lt. Richard Collins III and so sad at his loss.
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DAN MANNARINO: [Describe the year in one word & tell me why that word.]
MAYOR ADAMS: "New York. This is a place where everyday you wake up you could experience… a plane crashing into our Trade Center… And that's why it's the greatest city on the globe."
DM: "Uh-huh."
🤷🏻♂️
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2016: "Russia, if you're listening."
2024: *Russia, if you help elect me this time, not only will you get Ukraine, but also two NATO countries to be named later.*
Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
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@bennyjohnson
Today, Ukrainian President Zelensky came to the WH – straight from a war zone – yet you say he showed "no respect" because he wasn't wearing a suit.
In 2018, Kanye West came to the WH – from one of his multi-million dollar homes – not wearing a suit & all you said was "Wow."
🤦🏻♂️
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Quite the photo. I mean, could it be any more obvious that Trudeau has had a manicure?
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Donald Trump on computer hacking: "Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password."
🤷🏼♂️
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Ex-president Clinton might have been indicted, but he was offered a deal: Admit he'd lied and he'd be spared.
He took the deal.
Ex-president Trump was also offered a deal: Return all the NDI/classified docs he had and he'd be spared.
He didn't take the deal.
And here we are.
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> On the left: The original, ominous-enough real-life photo by
@GrantDenham
.
> On the right: A popular tweaked version that's going around, because it seems someone felt the real-life photo wasn't real enough.
#photography
#photoshop
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@AoDespair
I can't recall seeing a photo vs video that had such a large difference in emotional
#intensity
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The woman with the red mask over Trump's left shoulder nods when he says something affirmative and shakes her head when he says something negative.
Props to Team Trump for planting her there, but how did
@NBCNews
let this happen?
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Donald Trump on computer hacking: "Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password."
[video]
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@MEPFuller
FUN FACT: If the House Republican leadership want Matt Gaetz to attend closed HPSCI hearings, they'd have made him a member of HPSCI & then he'd be allowed in – but they don't, so they didn't, so he isn't.
Or they'd have put him on Oversight or Foreign Affairs. But again, nope.
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@revhowardarson
@Zylie
By Elon's measure, milk isn't animal, plant, or fungus, either.
Welcome to Elon's Land of Milk & Honey.
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But if the ballots in Ohio were counted by machines, can we really know who won until after Mike Lindell investigates???
Trump-backed author J.D. Vance wins GOP primary for Ohio Senate seat
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So, what really happened with Musk and Ukraine & their "drone subs" and his Starlink system?
Short answer: 🤷🏻♂️
Long answer: Here are three tellings of the tale, each one different, all told by the same person.
These are two very different narratives from
@WalterIsaacson
…was there a secret message to his engineers to turn off coverage or not?
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@nycsouthpaw
It's the Occasional Unitary Executive Theory.
Trump, on firing the whole NSC pandemic team: “When you say ‘me,’ I didn’t do it.”
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If the House won't start arresting people who refuse to comply with its subpoenas, what's the point of continuing to issue subpoenas?
(they should start with people who've never been federal employees, eg an exec at Mazars and Lewandowski)
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Some years later…
WALLACE: When you were Trump's chief of staff–
MULVANEY: Acting.
W: His *acting* chief of staff, after he said or tweeted something outrageous, and often totally false, you'd come here and fiercely defend him. How–
M: Again, I was acting.
W: …
M: Acting.
CHRIS WALLACE: There's a clear pattern of Trump using the term "infested" to refer to black communities
MICK MULVANEY: You're spending way too much time reading between the lines
CW: I'm not reading between the lines. I'm reading the lines
MM: That's what POTUS does. He fights
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Today on "What if…?"
What if Bloomberg isn't truly running to become president?
"Ira, what do you mean?"
I mean what if his true goal is ensuring Trump's defeat by spending (eg) $500M… but for legal & strategic reasons it's best done as a candidate?
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How to break down Tuberville's blockade, Alt Take:
1) Biden withdraws from the Senate all his pending senior military promotions/nominations.
2) He immediately resubmits all 300+ of them as one nomination.
3) They're referred to Armed Services Cmte (SASC) as one nomination.
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Remember, this is an American Commander in Chief who refused to take responsibility when, early on, one of our guys was killed on a misson; he said "they" lost one.
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If only Jordan told his wrestlers they should "avoid Dr. Richard Strauss" at the gym.
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@BillAckman
: "I can’t think of one example in the last 181 days where
@POTUS
Biden has expressed concern for the American hostages that are still being held by Hamas."
ME: Here are some of the many times Joe Biden has expressed concern for our hostages being held by Hamas.
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Can anyone think of another situation in history where Americans were taken hostage by terrorists and our President acted as if this has not occurred.
I can’t think of one example in the last 181 days where
@POTUS
Biden has expressed concern for the American hostages that are
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#United
compensating everyone on that Chicago flight is a move from the Delta Airlines playbook from last year…
JUST IN: United says all customers on flight 3411, where a man was dragged off, are receiving compensation for the cost of their tickets.
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@emptywheel
F*cking a porn star?
— $130K.
Being indicted for how you booked it?
— Priceless.
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@DWWilber1
Here's another video showing tempered glass being hit with hammers *from the outside* and the glass *falling outside*. So, the glass pieces by the door *outside* of the Pelosis' house actually could be the result of someone breaking the glass *from the outside*.
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More than 85,000 Likes for the notion that a student who makes a devil's-advocate argument is "arguing from the perspective of evil."
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@TexasTribune
Best newspaper conflict-disclosure ever...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home Monday in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
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Dear Mr Putin,
Thanks for hosting a Hamas delegation in Russia at this critical time when Congress is considering a supplemental aid bill. B/c now when a member asks, "But why put aid for Ukraine in with aid for Israel? They're unrelated," our briefers have one more answer.
😑👍
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that a Hamas delegation is indeed in Moscow.
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@DWWilber1
If you were a cop and you did that, I can't disagree. I will offer: 1) standard window glass is different from door safety glass; 2) CA building code requires tempered glass in doors; 3) tempered glass (also in car windows) will shatter both away from the impact _and_ towards it.
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This is arcane stuff, b/c it rarely comes up.
Presumably that aide figured if authorizing subpoenas requires a cmte vote, and the cmte doesn't have the votes to report out judges, then they don't have the votes to authorize subpoenas. Ah, but the subpoena rules are different.
New Feinstein wrinkle.
Democratic aide says the Judiciary Committee can’t issue a subpoena as part of a Clarence Thomas inquiry; that would require a majority on the panel and Democrats don’t have it without her.
“So that option is out of the question.”
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@CassLowe
B/c inquiring minds: The pill-carrying pigeon was caught by customs officers in Kuwait.
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If Bolton is worried about being prosecuted, here's what he should do: When the FBI shows up to question him, he just needs to lie to them and then Barr will order the US Attorney to drop the case.
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@nycsouthpaw
FUN FACT: There's actually a rule for this.
If only Tuberville or Trump’s attorney were present in the room to answer this question
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@kyledcheney
Yes, he did. And he blamed it on "the parliamentarians".
Despite the Constitution instructing him to open "all certificates", Pence did not open the (unofficial) certificate from Trump's Arizona electors. Instead he punted the issue & explicitly put the burden on "the parliamentarians" – which (at least until now) is not a real thing.
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"Emasculated."
"Could you please use it in a sentence?"
"After Donald Trump called Senator Cruz's wife ugly and implicated Cruz's father in JFK's assassination, yet ever since the senator has regularly praised Mr Trump, people say Senator Cruz has really been emasculated."
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@nycsouthpaw
Your question reminds me of a House Judiciary Committee hearing long ago, where Attorney General Griffin Bell replied in final frustration to Rep. Tom Railsback, "Congressman, I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."
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If
@TomHanks
tweeted, "I love Coke Zero and it'd be great if 10 cases of it magically appeared in my driveway tomorrow,"
@CocaCola
might just make 10 cases of Coke Zero appear in his driveway tomorrow… and yet he could honestly say, "I didn't speak to them."
#HowThingsWork
“I didn’t speak to them,” Trump says when asked if he spoke to DOJ about reducing Roger Stone’s sentence recommendation. “I stay out of things to a degree that people wouldn’t believe.” He said he thought the initial recommendation for Stone was “an insult to our country”
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Jim Jordan, in 9th term & now Speaker candidate
vs
Madison Cawthorn, one-hit wonder
Who's had more bills passed by the House, Jim Jordan or Madison Cawthorn?
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@Martina
IMO, a great statement by Nadal.
"It's very clear that Novak Djokovic is one of the best players of the history, without a doubt. But… no one, even Roger, Novak, myself, Bjorn Borg who was amazing at his times, and tennis keep going. Australian Open is much more important than any player."–
@RafaelNadal
#Nadal
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FUN FACT: With multiple Senate Republicans saying they oppose a national emergency declaration for the wall... If their numbers get to 20… and if all 20 are willing to vote their opposition... that's enough Senate Repubs to override a presidential veto.
#YesThoseAreBigIfs
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@WatchChad
Yes, DeLuca touched a table, but she is charged with *stealing* a table – and the photo at lower-right appears to show her in the process of doing that.
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If the House votes NO tomorrow & Trump then gives up, he will have spent less time moving on
#AHCA
than he did on Nancy O'Dell.
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@emptywheel
Why is Speaker Johnson putting security funding for Israel before security funding for America to "stop the invasion at our southern border"?
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@catturd2
Until "a few years ago"? Because 22 years ago the presidential count in Florida didn't end until Dec 12. And 62 years ago it took so long to count some states' returns, Nixon didn't concede the presidential election until the next afternoon.
Closer the election, longer to count.
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Donald Trump is the guy driving the white car...
"No, I don't take responsibility at all." – Donald Trump
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1) A toothbrush is a non-grocery item.
2) Here's the Massachusetts rule for non-grocery items...
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@Bernadotte22
And you're also saying your tweet on the right, that you posted just yesterday, "Does not make you anti-Jew [or] anti-Semitic" either?
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And,
@BillAckman
, next time you "can't think of one example" of President Biden making remarks on a subject, before tweeting about it, you might first try a simple search. For example, here's how I found Biden's comments that I screen-shotted for you...
.
@BillAckman
: "I can’t think of one example in the last 181 days where
@POTUS
Biden has expressed concern for the American hostages that are still being held by Hamas."
ME: Here are some of the many times Joe Biden has expressed concern for our hostages being held by Hamas.
🧵
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If Durbin doesn't get this story straightened out (that he could issue subpoenas by getting Feinstein's proxy), should we consider he doesn't really want to investigate Thomas – not b/c he thinks there shouldn't be an investigation, but because _he_ doesn't want to get into it?
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Under this Texas election bill, if a driver transports more than 2 people at once to the polls and those people are not related to the driver, the driver must register with an election official.
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Biden was 9 when Elizabeth became Queen & through the 1950s she rec'd lots of US press, and Joe likely heard "God save the Queen" in lots of newsreels. And in the US it became a slang-ish way of saying "God save us."
Here, Biden says it after the Jan 6, 2017 Joint Session.
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BREAKING:
@POTUS
ended his gun control event in Connecticut just now with a baffling remark: “God save the Queen, man.”
@WhiteHouse
correspondent
@toddgillman
of
@dallasnews
, today’s pool reporter, told the press corps to stop asking him why Mr. Biden said it (Gillman: “I have
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TUCKER CARLSON: Three weeks ago, Joe Biden said there would be enough vaccine supply for all Americans to be vaccinated by the end of July. Today he admitted that was a lie.*
(* – predict-a-quote)
Three weeks ago, I announced we would have enough vaccine supply for all Americans by the end of July.
Now, with our efforts to ramp up production, we will have enough vaccines for every American by the end of May.
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@BobbyBigWheel
@zeynep
Two doctors in Russia died of a combination of a pandemic and falling out windows.
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@mls1776
To paraphrase something AG Griffin Bell once said, "They can explain it to him, but they can't understand it for him."
Schumer to Dan Coats: “I believe it is incumbent on you, Director Wray and Director Haspel to insist on an immediate meeting with the President to educate him about the facts...He is .. hurting the national interest in the process. You must find a way to make that clear to him.”
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@AnnaBower
@lrozen
When the judge tells you, set off by commas, that any request for additional briefing is covered by the Statute of Frauds.
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FUN FACT: While lots of people are making a big deal that Joe Biden called Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a "stupid SOB", I've seen not one person come to Doocy's defense to say he's not.
Biden just very audibly called a reporter asking about inflation a "stupid son of a bitch"
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@brianbeutler
@PressSec
Reminds me of the Bess Truman story about someone asking her to urge Harry to start saying "fertilizer" instead of "manure" and she replies, "It took me long enough to get him to say 'manure'.'"
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@tplohetski
@Bencjacobs
So, one impeachment charge against Ken Paxton may involve him getting a job for his mistress?
Oh, that could be awkward. Because if he is impeached, among the senators who will be voting whether or not to convict him & thereby remove him from office, isn't one of them his wife?
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@VanityFair
It's NOT a "Senate report"; it's a "Senate Republican staff report", as is eventually mentioned in the story. Iow, it was written by staff who work for Republican senators who *from the start* have said Covid came from a lab in China.
So they reported their bosses' priors. See?
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@Carrasquillo
@SarahMMimms
Wow, that's some high-tech countermeasures right there, I tell you what.
WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders
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To help everyone get on the same page here: What Gaetz, et al., did is in violation of House Rule XI (2)(g)(1) – unless the committee, pursuant to its rules, specifically authorized Gaetz & any other non-members to attend.
BREAKING: I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding secret impeachment depositions. Still inside - more details to come.
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TODAY'S QUESTION OF THE DAY DU JOUR: If Sheldon Whitehouse were nominated to the Supreme Court, would he vote against his own nomination on the grounds he's a member of an all-white beach club?
SW: "It's a long tradition in RI and there are many of them."
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@nycsouthpaw
B/c when you're defending the President of the United States, of course you want to allude to a book in which a former star of the NFL explains how he killed his wife.
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@AshaRangappa_
NEWS: Trump declares "I don't mind" spending 27 years in prison.
Trump: Look what happened this weekend with two good people, they hound them and scare them. But we don't get scared. We don't get scared. I don't mind being Nelson Mandela.
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@kylegriffin1
When asked how they knew the man was an imposter, a spokesman for the Capitol Police said, "The 'the' in 'Department of the INTERPOL'."
@kylegriffin1
It's stories such as this that make me wonder if bad guys with guns are mostly stopped not by good guys with guns but by their own incompetence.
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@RAVerBruggen
Let's see if I've got this: Legislative history in the form of committee reports and floor speeches is unimportant, but justices will discern the meaning of a law based on who voted for it and how they voted on some other other bill?
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IN SUM: What Schumer just did – make a constitutional point of order at the start against a Mayorkas impeachment article – is what Rand Paul did at the start of Trump's second impeachment trial.
(just, Paul didn't have the votes; Schumer does)
Receipt ⬇️
On Jan 26, 2021, the day after Trump's articles were presented, Rand Paul – as he had a right to do – made a point of order that, if sustained, would have ended Trump's trial immediately. Blackburn, Johnson, Marshall, Cruz, Kennedy, Lee & 39 other Rs voted to do just that…
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Funny that the guy who's repeatedly said "no do-overs" now has DOJ lawyers scrambling to get him a Census-case do-over.
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@seungminkim
Wouldn't that be 52 people having the right to sabotage what 48 want?
Sanders says “two people do not have the right to sabotage what 48 want” (as well as the president of the United States)
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This is literal* LOL hilarious.
I mean, it is serious for Santos' constituents, I do feel bad for them, and I commend
@JoshLafazan
for cutting him no slack here, but still... Santos is a tragicomedy.
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NEWS: Giraffes recently hired a publicist
A new study suggests that giraffes are not loners, but socially complex creatures, akin to elephants or chimpanzees. They’re just a little more subtle about it.
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In sum... Treasury sent Senators Grassley & Johnson private financial information about Hunter Biden & others in response to a letter that, on its face, cites no actual authority to request the information.
🤷🏼♂️
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"It's very clear that Novak Djokovic is one of the best players of the history, without a doubt. But… no one, even Roger, Novak, myself, Bjorn Borg who was amazing at his times, and tennis keep going. Australian Open is much more important than any player."–
@RafaelNadal
#Nadal
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Jon Ossoff as chairman of PSI could go after the Trump kids, and Jarred, too. 😀👍
shortly after House Republicans hold a news conference about Hunter Biden, Ron Johnson grills FBI Director Wray about Hunter Biden
gonna be a big couple years for you know who
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Two things a senator could do on the floor of the Senate today:
1) Call up a privileged resolution to admonish Bob Menendez and suspend his access to all classified material and other National Defense Information in the possession of the Senate.
2) Something else.
On July 30, 1954, Sen Ralph Flanders (R-VT) notified the Senate that later in the day he'd be offering a privileged motion* to censure the junior senator from Wisconsin – ie, Sen Joe McCarthy.
(* – privileged resolution)
(and yes, this thread is b/c Bob Menendez)
#SRules
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@mattblaze
She made the right decision to ask actual Qs (vs making a speech). And they were good Qs. That said, they were written & we don't know who wrote them. Nothing wrong if they were staff-written (says the ex-staffer); just, based on what we know, let's not get carried away
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@joshchafetz
Assuming Trump is not convicted, but then he loses in Nov, there will be 77 days until the next president takes office.
For months I've been wondering what Putin might do during those 77 days... and what Trump might not do.
#FraughtTimes
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@oneunderscore__
@donie
@drewharwell
MUSK: The Twitter Files expose the outrage that people were regularly banned from Twitter even though they hadn't broken any rule in the TOS.
Also MUSK: If I ban someone, that means they violated a rule in the TOS, and I can add new rules to the TOS just by thinking about them.
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HSSWFG (aka the weaponization subcmte) will hold its first hearing Thurs, where the witnesses will include Senators Ron Johnson & Chuck Grassley and ex-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
So why am I tweeting this video? To remind everyone that members can ask witnesses any questions they want.
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KENNEDY: It was over the top when Pelosi ripped up Trump's speech. It was juvenile.
REPORTER: What about Trump refusing to shake her hand?
KENNEDY: Well, that's just Trump.
(paraphrased)
Senator John Kennedy criticizes Nancy Pelosi for ripping up the speech but defends Trump for not shaking her hand
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@juliaioffe
Short answer: B/c the Senate.
Longer answer: John Boehner faced ongoing open opposition 'til he finally quit. Paul Ryan faced open opposition, now he's retiring. House leaders face open opposition; in the Senate, if they face any, it's behind closed doors.
I’m trying to put my finger on why it is Nancy Pelosi faces opposition and calls for fresh blood but Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer never do. 🤔
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@hughhewitt
Congress has the authority to enact a law to make it a crime for a justice to accept a >$50 gift from anyone but an immediate family member, and a justice alleged to have violated that law may be investigated, prosecuted, and (if convicted) imprisoned.
So, it's not "Period."
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@yoav_snake
@Steven_Strauss
And so the order of not helping is:
> Don't help homeless vets first.
> Don't help anyone else until after you've not helped homeless vets.
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@Balerstos
@mattblaze
Funny, because one of the other people I thought who did well was Rep. Plaskett.
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