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Meet Douglas: a support dog outside the Senate today. I love him and he gives high-fives.
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Fetterman talking to reporters as Ossoff walks by.
Fetterman stops, points at Ossoff and says, “I wish I could look like that, you know. God damn.”
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@AOC
tells me a few mins ago that she wouldn’t outright rule out working w/ Rs to resolve the speaker battle, but McCarthy would not be a unity candidate + Ds would need more concessions than just things like committee ratios.
“But, I mean, hey, if we could get some chairs.”
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who heckled George Santos mid Santos-gaggle moments ago, in a tiff with MTG outside the Capitol steps.
AOC comes up at the end: “She ain’t worth it bro”
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Fetterman on border via
@hollyotterbein
"I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border...It’s a reasonable conversation, and Democrats should engage" - Fetterman
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NH GOP Gov. Sununu says on CNN that it was right for Gosar to be censured and removed from committees — and that “of course” it was ok for the 13 House Republicans to vote for a BIF.
“We have our priorities wrong.”
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Exclu: Dr. Oz at a campaign stop last weekend was asked a simple question.
“How many houses do you own?”
His response? — "Legitimately, I own two houses."
And well, reader, you know where this is going. The number is... not two.
For
@thedailybeast
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breaking: classified docs held by Bear found in the Big Blue House
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to be clear this article is based on:
- two schools
- that are private schools
- in australia
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Paris Hilton said “legislation is hot” and I said “say no more”
Happy Halloween
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Shutdown averted. These bears better be F A T
During a shutdown, many agencies such as the National Park Service are also not permitted to update websites and social media pages.
That means the viral park service social media promotions of Fat Bear Week would halt.
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You don’t have to tweet your take on Afghanistan if you’re not actually well-versed in the Afghanistan story. It’s ok. The internet will survive without your post
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Gonna start telling people I’ll get back to them by EOD when I really mean End of Delta
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New Sanders statement pins blame on the media for Americans’ lack of awareness of what’s in the BBB plan, says press has done an “exceptionally poor job” covering the bill and that there has been “very limited coverage as to what the provisions of the bill are”
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NEW:
#PASen
candidate Dr. Oz has a secret, previously undisclosed condo in NJ.
And his tenants, well, are his buddies and Turkish nationalists who are linked to groups that have denied the Armenian genocide.
With
@WillBredderman
for
@thedailybeast
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Megan Rapinoe posing at the White House podium, a series
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Dressed as the most terrifying thing I could think of ahead of Election Day: the NYT needle
Happy Halloween, nerds
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Fun fact: We only included properties in this count of 10 that were listed as “residential real estate.” If Oz wants to talk about properties writ large, he also has commercial real estate, which would add eight more properties to this total (by my count)
@JohnFetterman
I have 10 properties (disclosed when I announced).
2 homes.
My turn: when can we debate?
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Some personal news: Next week I’ll be joining
@TheDailyBeast
as a politics reporter, with a focus on progressives.
I’m psyched to get started!
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I am in the Hart office building for
@SenThomTillis
’ annual Halloween party for dogs
Will be posting my favorite costumes. Here is a starter — a dog as a spy balloon
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The pain of your 20s is watching golf slowly grip each of your friends, one by one
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still learning to accept the new three branches of government
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New: Senate conservatives are likely to block a request to unanimously pass Sen. Duckworth's bill tomorrow, which would protect IVF at the federal level
Some Senate Rs saying Dobbs made IVF a states-rights issue
W/
@DaniellaMicaela
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Biden announcing this while gobbling ice cream is the most veep sh*t I’ve seen in years
President Joe Biden said Monday that he hopes there will be a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war by next week.
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Washington, D.C. would never and for that I am thankful
"Karma Chameleon" is taking over the New York Subways!
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(after sending a media request that my entire story hinges on) Let me know. Thanks!
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Lil scoop: Mike Lawler’s personal Wikipedia account is currently banned sitewide because he made too many edits about himself, including on his own page and by adding himself to the notable alums list for his alma mater
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@savtwopointoh
This is great and all but can we please discuss the orientation of your foot in the second picture because wow
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Sanders' hand here popping in to do the most Sanders-esque motions
A fight almost broke out in a Senate hearing.
Markwayne Mullin read a tweet from Teamster boss Sean O'Brien which challenged Mullin to a fight. Mullin said he was ready to settle things right here, right now.
Bernie Sanders shut the scene down.
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To the staffer who just walked through the senate basement holding two uncovered pies….. what’s up
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Manchin tells me he spoke to Fetterman today about the Senate dress code change
“I said ‘John, I think it’s wrong & there's no way I can comply with that’…Wanted to tell him directly that I totally oppose it & I will do everything I can to try to hold the decorum of the Senate”
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It’s giving Steve from Blue’s Clues
I asked Rep. George Santos if he would sit for an interview with the House Ethics Committee.
"No. Oh, with the Ethics Committee? Of course. Not with you," he told me on his way to lunch.
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New: Fetterman has a new resolution in the Senate that would strip any senator under indictment for certain crimes — like being a foreign agent — of committee seats, receiving classified info & more
Menendez's name isn't on it. But it might as well be
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If Dems magically retain the House, let it be known, Pelosi will be having the press conference of her god damn life
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🚨New:
@ninaturner
is running for Congress again, teeing up a likely primary rematch against Dem Rep. Shontel Brown.
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Sneakers. Turtlenecks with suits. The other day I saw Rep-elect Casar in lace-up ankle boots. The zillennial/millennial fashion era of Congress is here and in this essay I will
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DC: please ride the metro again :)
The Red Line: DC can have one train per 20 minutes IF it is nice to me :)
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give every single c-span producer a raise. i want them freaking swimming in cash
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The three branches of government are Secretaries of State, the NYT needle and Dave Wasserman
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A) these staffers make sure sh*t keeps running in an office that represents more than 39M people, under incredibly difficult circumstances
B) including the whole staff from COS to SA shows such a lack of knowledge on how these offices work/actually interact with their member
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Pour one out for JD Vance’s son, who just dropped a reese’s PB cup into the crack of the senators only elevator shaft
“We lost it buddy” - dad Vance
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If you are the Bob Menendez campaign-side staffers who poured one out at Wunder Garten in the wake of your boss' indictment, my DMs are open
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Dozens of tiktok creators are visiting the Capitol today to push against a ban on the app
Some mixed approaches from content posted. Some are stopping by member offices, talking about impacts of tiktok on income/small biz
Others much less serious (example)
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After another reporter interjected suggesting the debt limit,
@AOC
responded, “Yeah. A combination of things, really.”
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baby yoda but he’s a journalist turning in a story. that’s the tweet
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Much respect to Sen. Mark Kelly’s identical twin brother, who is walking through the building tonight wearing a sticker that says “not senator kelly”
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There is something so difficult for my brain to compute about tiktok infleuncers doing romanticized videos of the Capitol when I've straight up had a mini breakdown on one of those benches she passed
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So, yeah, that spike in Twitter love Rep. Cuellar’s been seeing?
Experts say it’s a troll network meant to hype him up, with many of the accounts being launched — you guessed it — within days of an FBI raid on his home and campaign office.
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guys I know the news is slow but
Kevin Costner's first wife Cindy Silva shops for groceries 30 years after their marriage ended
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.
@Davidhogg111
says he &
@williamlegate
are launching a pillow company — hopefully within the next six months — to compete against Mike Lindell's MyPillow.
Lindell tells me: "Good for them.... nothing wrong with competition..."
Read on
@Axios
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Taking those impersonation guardrails very seriously I see
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the three branches of government are martin short, steve martin and selena gomez
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Buttigieg clapping big time as Biden gives a shout out to (you guessed it) infrastructure
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A non-Floridian friend told me last night that he almost got attacked by an alligator while visiting the Everglades because he thought he could just go up to it in his kayak. I lost it and am now sending him this powerpoint. I just don't understand
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For anyone who's been paying attention to the trial over the past 9 days... this breathing expert's testimony feels like a turning point. His responses have been very favorable toward the prosecution all day long
Dr. Martin Tobin: "Mr. Floyd died from a low level of oxygen. And this caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also caused [an arrhythmia] that caused his heart to stop."
#ChauvinTrial
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Schumer on if he’d prefer Cornyn or Thune for GOP leader:
“As long as they stay minority leader, it’s fine with me”
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Inbox: Reps. Jayapal, Cicilline, Newman, Takano and Torres have introduced a “Trans Bill of Rights” in the House, aimed at curbing anti-trans legislation that’s spread in statehouses
Some proposed protections:
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@DaniellaMicaela
The thing about unanimous consent: any one senator can object. So a majority of Rs could support the bill, but if one objects, it can't pass through UC. Has to go to full vote
Still, any GOP objection will feed Dems' case that Rs are a threat to IVF
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It is:
- my first time to the White House
-my first time on White House pool duty
- my first time covering another Ursula, as Biden meets with Ursula von der Leyen
Happy Friday
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Big day of transparency for
@PeteButtigieg
.
- Campaign says future fundraisers will be open to the press, and vows to release a list of fundraiser names
- McKinsey says it will allow Buttigieg to release a list of his former clients
Read here w/
@Axios
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it's worth noting that
@andrewyang
consistently exhibits this kind of sportsmanship with his competitors as they dropout, qualify for debates, etc.
Congrats to Tim Ryan for stepping up to fight for Americans across the country. I got to spend time with Tim on the trail and he is a true patriot and family man. Made the race better - and he will continue to fight for us all.
#mindfulness
#SEL
👍🥊🇺🇸
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will be thinking about this pause for the rest of the evening
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Feinstein not present for first vote in the judiciary committee markup this morning
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"major" is putting in some work here
Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson has announced she’s running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party’s nomination in 2024.
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Murphy vibe check: outright pissed off
“I know that it’s easy to lose your sense of outrage… but what has happened here over the last four months is outrageous”
Negotiators missed much of the holidays with their families, spent many hours on this. Murphy still wants vote tmrw
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New: The RFK Jr. campaign (accidentally, it seems) sent me an invite to one of their slack channels
And if you've ever wanted to better understand the vibes of the RFK Jr. campaign, friends, I have a story for you
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Good time for a reminder that any and every insinuation that the Jan. 6 committee’s work is political theater or isn’t important is absolute bullshit
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CDC and FDA statement on recommendation to pause J&J COVID vaccines: “We are recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution”
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New: Warren, Schumer, Jayapal, Pressley, Omar, Porter have led more than 80 members of Congress in signing on to a letter calling on Biden to cancel up to $50K in student loan debt per borrower
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today in "random things noticed in FEC reports": the Henry Cuellar campaign really loves Olive Garden
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McCarthy lost 19 Republicans on his first ballot
Jordan just lost 20 Republicans on his first ballot
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can only imagine the producers screaming through her earpiece to take it back
Bizarre: Harris Faulkner falsely reports live on air that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has resigned, then immediately walks it back
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Per a new release, Jessica Cisneros' campaign says she's raised $240,000 since a runoff against Rep. Cuellar was confirmed yesterday
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I’m all for Champ and Major Biden news, but must also report that Buddy and Truman Buttigieg appear to be in DC and enjoying the beautiful springtime
Courtesy of
@Chasten
Buttigieg’s Instagram
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gorgeous gorgeous girls wear their k-95 or surgical masks tightly fitted to their face ✨
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Amid Oz's criticism of Fetterman's absence from the trail while recovering from a stroke, the Dem Sen hopeful didn't shy away from talking about his health at his comeback rally tonight.
In fact, he led with it.
My dispatch from Erie for
@thedailybeast
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man, if only congress didn't take pretty much all of august off, or most fridays, and some mondays, and random weeks here and there, and all government holidays, and have an easter break, and
Durbin says it will be tough to schedule votes in the Senate on bills protecting gay marriage, contraception given the packed calendar.
"We have more priorities than we have time," he says
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AOC on talks about her future ambitions with a heavy comment: "Realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me."
via
@WesleyLowery
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We're now up to six senators calling on Menendez to resign:
Fetterman
Brown
Welch
Baldwin
Tester
Casey
Pretty clear trend of vulnerable 2024 Dems (Casey, Brown, Baldwin and Tester) along with progressives (Welch, Fetterman)
While he is entitled to the presumption of innocence, serving in public office is a privilege that demands a higher standard of conduct. Senator Menendez should resign.
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The House votes 223-207-1 in favor of censuring Rep. Gosar and revoking his committee assignments.
Only two Republicans - Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger — joined Dems in voting yes. Rep David Joyce voted present
AOC sitting in the front row of the chamber when vote became final
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Some news: All roads lead (back) to
@POLITICO
.
Excited to join the Congress team next month to cover the Senate!
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First Senate Republican—that I've seen at least—to denounce Trump's dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
(Noting Cassidy's tweet says "racist antisemites" plural)
President Trump hosting racist antisemites for dinner encourages other racist antisemites. These attitudes are immoral and should not be entertained. This is not the Republican Party.
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Takeaways so far from today's 1/6 Senate hearing:
- There are *more* discrepancies on the timeline of NatGuard approval
- DC NG Commander says it was "unusual" to not get approval before 1/6
- DC Commander says he got immediate approval to respond to BLM protests, but not 1/6
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These exchanges are the literal definition of love bombing. “Love you” messages without other substance and without addressing broader problems.
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Dozens of House Democrats have gathered at the bottom of the House steps and are marching to the Supreme Court.
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