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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

28 days

Meanwhile in Ukraine

Lorenzo The Cat

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Today’s Ukrainian cat—his name is Fred and he has seen some things. Photo: @AnimalRescueKh

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Today in "Pelosi Never Forgets:" referring to Rep. Bob Barr, the ex-Ga. congressman who introduced the Defense of Marriage Act in '96, Pelosi notes he was married three times. "We don't know which marriage he was defending."

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Jonathan Nicholson

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3 years

Has no one mentioned the reason this impeachment trial is starting after Trump's term is because the GOP Leader said he would not allow it to begin until then?

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Prospects for Elizabeth Warren's bill to prohibit lawmakers from owning/trading individual stocks may be looking up.

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If I understand Senate rules correctly, with the change in power in there, Patrick Leahy as the most senior Democrat becomes the new Q Shaman.

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@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Lot of Trump defense on right-wing outlets is "another witch hunt, just like Russia." Earlier today, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort disclosed he passed polling data to Russian intel asset Kilimnik.

Darren Samuelsohn

@dsamuelsohn

2 years

NEW: In an interview with @thisisinsider , Paul Manafort made his 1st public admission that in 2016 he shared polling data from the Trump campaign w/ Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate w/ suspected ties to Russian intelligence. by @Schwartzesque

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

A little more than two years ago, who thought Gaetz would outlast Tucker?

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

3 years

Gaetz again bizarrely implicates Tucker Carlson in his own personal peccadillo, then says, "providing for flights and hotel rooms for people that you're dating who are of legal age is not a crime"

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Jonathan Nicholson

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7 years

CBO: Trump budget would NOT reach balance in 10 years, would see a $720 billion deficit in 2027. WH had claimed $16B surplus in 2027.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

Not every Hill staffer is some unctuous, 24-year-old Capitol Lounge denizen (though, tbf, many are). Some are incredibly nice, smart, middle-aged and older folks who refused to cash in on their expertise because their passion is making public policy.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 months

You can almost see Mike Pence's soul leave his body as he hears Trump joke about models at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Trump has jokes: "The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the model. The professionals did the models and I was never involved in a model. At least this kind of a model."

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Jonathan Nicholson

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1 year

For about two Christmases in a row, maybe 2018 & 2019, lawmakers kept saying they were *so* close to a federal law regulating autonomous vehicle testing, only for possible deals to slip away at the last minute, allowing current use-the-general-public-as-guinea-pigs to continue.

Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

1 year

I hadn't realized how much of a wild west the self-driving vehicles business is. For example, there are no federal restrictions on the testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

BERNIE BUILDS THE CASE: Having gotten CBO to say a new minimum wage bill would have a substantive impact on the budget (unlike '19 min wage score), Bernie gets CBO to say it would have broader effects than ind'l mandate/ANWR parts of '17 tax bill. All aimed at Byrd rule worries.

U.S. CBO

@USCBO

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CBO provides information on the breadth of the budgetary effects of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 compared with certain other reconciliation legislation the agency has analyzed.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

New Alaska rep Mary Peltola has said one of her top priorities for her brief time in Washington before Congress leaves for fall campaign trail a bill to renew federal fishery policy. What's set for markup Wednesday in Nat Resources Comm? A bill to reauthorize fed fishery policy.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

@kristin__wilson Two-thirds of House GOP conference would be... 148? Maybe he's bad at math? (which would be surprising for a ex-Goldman guy)

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

There's a feasible estimate that Dobbs will add about $13 billion to the deficit over 10 years via Medicare. But few of the traditional "government spending is bad" folks want to talk about it.

GOP No Longer Cares About The Deficit If It Means Women Having More Babies

More than 4 in 10 U.S. births are paid for by Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for the poor — and fewer abortions will mean more births.

www.huffpost.com

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Become ungovernable

The Associated Press

@AP

2 years

A family’s beloved pet cat, Rowdy, escaped her carrier on June 24 in pursuit of some birds at Boston’s Logan International Airport. She’s managed to evade airport personnel, airline employees, and animal experts until finally being caught on Wednesday.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Imagine that when Bush announced The Surge in '07, he also said he'd reinstate the draft to gather the necessary manpower. That's the kind of shock I suspect Russians are feeling now.

Laura Rozen

@lrozen

2 years

“Even if only partial, a Kremlin-ordered mobilization would amount to a full recognition that the country is at war. It would also make that war existential for Russia. Until now, the invasion of Ukraine has not even been presented as a war to most of the Russian population.”

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

The FOMO level here...

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

Little-noticed from McConnell today: "My personal view is it's none of the federal government's business how states decide to conduct their elections ... The results are accepted when you get finality in 50 separate states. And the final decision is up to states."

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

24 days

Beginning to think that Johnson-MTG meeting did not go so well.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

24 days

Marge says Mike Johnson is "full of shit"

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 months

"I don't have teleprompters here, folks. I don't need teleprompters." -- Trump, Jun. 3, 2016

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 months

"Don't pay the teleprompter company" -- Trump, having a hard time reading the teleprompter in the wind, muses about stiffing the company that set it up

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

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Bringing the total number of laws made in the 118th Congress so far to 47. Six of them, including this one, were to keep the government open. Two of them were to keep aviation and airport programs authorized.

Craig Caplan

@CraigCaplan

1 month

Federal government is now fully funded until September 30, the end of the fiscal year. President Biden today signed the $1.2T spending package funding the remaining 70% of the gov’t into law. Bill passed the House 286-134 yesterday & the Senate 74-24 at 2:03am ET this morning.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

Some may find it as an odd definition of "essential" that in a shutdown the troops don't get paid but the House gym remains open.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

8 months

1) If Ukraine was paying for/had been told Starlink was on for it, why did that NOT include Crimea, which is part of Ukraine? One can see why this would be a surprise for Ukraine's military. 2) "Cause a major war"? This was already the biggest war in Europe since World War II.

Walter Isaacson

@WalterIsaacson

8 months

To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a…

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

This. Another emerging Trump line is Russia and Ukraine need to cut a deal, as though both are equally responsible or at fault. He catches himself here - "we could a had a negotia-" but in Alaska said "we could a had a deal." Putin wants a deal where he gets east/south Ukraine.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Trump still can't bring himself to condemn Putin's aggression in Ukraine. He talks about it like it was a natural disaster and not an invasion.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

7 years

CBO score tidbit: 2 million of the projected 17 million people losing coverage in 2018 would be losing EMPLOYER-BASED coverage.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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4 years

Columbus catching ZERO breaks these days: the House Dem DC statehood bill would name the 51st state "the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth," after Marylander Frederick Douglass.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

"Swan Lake" was what was traditionally played on Soviet-era state TV when one of the octogenarian leaders died and the world waited for 3 days or so to see who/if there'd be a new one or whether we all would die in nuclear fire.

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

2 years

@juliaioffe I want to see some Swan Lake.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

Treating objectively false statements ("the moon is made of cheese") and truthful ones ("the moon is a satellite of Earth") with equal credence is not fairness but actually laziness.

Michael Baym

@baym

6 years

Lets flip that meme around: what’s something that should be obvious, but your profession seems to misunderstand?

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Jonathan Nicholson

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3 months

Reminder that Neyanyahu refused to back Ukraine after the war broke out because he wanted Putin's help in Syria. And after Oct. 7, he refused a meeting w/ Zelensky but took a call from Putin. Aid for Israel at Ukraine's expense would reward these calculated moves.

Sarah Kendzior

@sarahkendzior

3 months

Literally the most obvious shit. Why the collective amnesia over this among alleged Putin experts?

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

This is all just lowering expectations until Thursday, when the show of support for the USPS culminates with a speech from Utah Jazz great Karl Malone.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 months

CNBC has long had a "it's a recession, folks" or "it's a boom, baby" approach to econ coverage (pro tip: numbers go up, down or sideways - rarely all in same direction). But I don't think they have ever put on someone who didn't know that GDP was seasonally adjusted.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

3 months

Don't fret tho, Fox Business found some negative spin: "What troubles me about this GDP estimate for the 4th quarter is number one, it was a holiday quarter, so people are gonna push it for the holidays because you don't want to tell your kids there's no presents under the tree"

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

23 days

In which Trump conflates Pickett's Charge with the end of the big final fight in "The Revenge of the Sith."

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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Trump goes on a weird rant about the battle of Gettysburg and then notes of Robert E Lee that "he's no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that?"

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Jonathan Nicholson

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2 years

I've had to make quite a few awkward phone calls as a reporter but one for this REALLY awkward. Imagine the 2-min. spiel as I had to explain to McAlester superintendent who I am, why I'm calling and oh btw did y'all ever have a meeting about cat litter?

Man Who Wants To Run Oklahoma’s Schools Buys Into Bogus 'Cat Litter' Conspiracy Theory

Republican Ryan Walters, a candidate for state school superintendent, promoted the urban legend.

www.huffpost.com

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

There's an underrated - I think - part of Biden's appeal, that he's just a fundamentally decent guy in an increasingly unhinged world. So when he says "democracy is on the ballot," it hits slightly differently than when more polished, less folksy pols say it.

S.V. Dáte

@svdate

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@StevenTDennis It’s hard to really hate Biden. It’s quite easy not only to loathe Trump, but to genuinely believe he is a menace to democracy not just here, but the world over.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Lest you think this is alarmist, Trump on his social media site RT'd this afternoon an NY Post article likening the FBI to the Gestapo because of its siege of white supremacist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. McVeigh believed the same and called OKC payback, "dirty for dirty."

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

2 years

Me: Do you think we should be worried about another Oklahoma City? Historian Nicole Hemmer: Yes, I do. I had a long talk with @pastpunditry about the parallels between the 1990s and the present. It's deeply alarming stuff.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

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"We are a nation... where the flight attendants insist you put your carry-on in the overhead lengthwise, even when you're pretty sure it could fit flat..." (to be clear, that's a joke but not by much if you listen to the clip)

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Trump awkwardly pivots from talking about brutal murders to ... whining about flight cancelations

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

What if student loan forgiveness ends up deepening human capital stock?

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

White House adviser Kevin Hassett: "Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work." #HumanCapitalStock

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Non-zero chance that had the election gone the other way, Zelenskyy would be in prison - or worse - and Putin would be at the White House, hailing Trump's "peacemaking" that allowed him to take over Ukraine with a minimum of Russian blood spilled. Peace of the grave.

S.V. Dáte

@svdate

1 year

NEW -- Three years after suffering through Trump's attempted extortion, Zelenskyy receives a hero's welcome at Biden's White House in his first foreign trip since Russia invaded.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

The parties: Dems: the Senate parliamentarian ruled against us on an ideas that was a longshot anyway - all is lost! GOP: we lost the White House, the Senate and the House in the most recent national elections - we've got the Dems on the run!

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

Literally three-fifths of this Tweet is true.

Mike Pompeo

@mikepompeo

3 years

If we teach that the founding of the United States of America was somehow flawed. It was corrupt. It was racist. That's really dangerous. It strikes at the very foundations of our country.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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McCaul gets his ATACMS in Ukraine bill. The Foreign Affairs Chair has been most vocal proponent of getting Ukraine long-range strike weapons that have been in short supply from France and Great Britain.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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3 years

Reminder that the bipartisan commission to find the causes of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 saw its GOP members issue a dissenting view that blamed (checks notes) the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

Reminder: it's December and the president of the United States has held only one solo formal press conference since taking office.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Also with lack of House rules, the Speaker's Lobby, where reporters can talk to lawmakers on their way off the floor, has no dress code now. Jackets and ties optional! Shoulders bare! Cats and dogs, living together!

Howard Mortman

@HowardMortman

1 year

FYI Capitol Hill press corps: Need a sidebar feature for Congress drama? Story idea: C-SPAN (& other independent media) TV cameras will be in the House chamber again today & we expect at least until a Speaker is elected Which is how we get shots of...the Capitol Hill press corps!

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

This picture is a reminder the periodic apocalyptic battles over tax policy in the last 28 years have largely been fought over ONLY 4.6-PERCENTAGE POINTS in top tax rates.

southpaw

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"Being evil, though, also makes Musk foolish, ignorant, and as perspicacious as a bag of hammers."

Is Elon Musk evil or simply a fool?

Both. The answer is both.

www.publicnotice.co

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

"I have nothing to do with the Arizona situation. They're doing it, the state Senate of Arizona." - Trump, tonight.

Rosalind Helderman

@PostRoz

3 years

Trump called Arizona Senate president to thank her ‘for pushing to prove any fraud’ in election, emails show by @amybwang

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

If Babbitt had gotten thru the broken glass she was climbing, a) she would have been 4 or 5 feet from doors to chamber filled with lawmakers, and b) the Speaker's Lobby, under House rules, IS part of the floor (which is why you'll hear reporters complain abt dress code sometimes)

JM Rieger

@RiegerReport

3 years

NEW The Post has obtained two previously unreported videos of the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt. They show Babbitt and others attempting to breach a barricaded door at the Capitol. A House member is seen on the other side of the door only yards away.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

This is Jim Cooper, a Blue Dog-type Dem known as calm, rational and maybe a tad dull. (Beige's nickname for him is "beige.") This is where he's at on the USPS thing.

Jim Cooper

@jimcoopertn

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We need to subpoena the Postmaster General, and if he fails to appear, we should send the Sgt at Arms to arrest him.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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2 years

Something intuitively feels off, to me, w/ our reactions to these: Friday: "at least 90" dead from an atmospheric event that happens randomly with maybe 15 mins. notice, if lucky Today: 1,298 dead from something we've known about for 2 years, for which we know ways to stop it

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Jonathan Nicholson

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7 years

It's sad world where Hugh Hewitt is considered a "serious" conservative and @SykesCharlie is basically persona non grata in his own party.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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1 year

@RadioFreeTom @FPRI_Orbis Shouldn't this call into question all those years of DOD officials warning Russia was a "near-peer" power and justified bigger budgets? On a purely intel assessment basis, this seems almost as big a miss as Iraq.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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3 years

A few weeks ago I had lunch with a friend whose wife is an ex-nurse. Upon prodding, she told of walking down hallways lined with covid victim body bags and changing post-shift clothes in the garage to keep her husband safe. TV has been too worried about "tough to watch."

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

5 years

As the saying goes, you come for The Atlantic's National Correspondent @jamesfallows , you best not miss...

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@yashar

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

This is actually one of the conditions for declaring a genocide under the international Genocide Convention treaty.

The Associated Press

@AP

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An @AP investigation found that officials have deported Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories without consent, lied to them that they were not wanted by their parents, used them for propaganda and given them Russian citizenship.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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1 year

This is replacing the behind-the-scenes bank transaction clearing system that FLEW PHYSICAL CHECKS. BETWEEN CITIES. ON PLANES. Seriously. Ffs, folks.

Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

1 year

New from @bcheungz + me: For months, the far-right has insisted the US is about to adopt a new digital currency that would ban people from buying meat, and bar the unvaccinated from buying... anything. They finally have boogeyman: a thing called FedNow.

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Jonathan Nicholson

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7 months

👀 McCaul on CNN, on what next if Jordan ultimately loses: "If it doesn't work, then we're kind of back to, alright, maybe we ought to look at Kevin McCarthy again."

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

The Trump tantrum on his plane had already been reported, minus the phone throwing detail and name of the reporter. By a reporter who got booted before the trip.

Hugo Lowell

@hugolowell

1 year

NEW: Trump insisted last night on his plane that he was “not frustrated” by expected criminal charges in the Manhattan DA hush money investigation — but the manner of his responses suggested he was actually quite frustrated. @Guardian

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Jonathan Nicholson

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1 year

@RadioFreeTom 's advice to everyone enjoying Trump/Putin/Xi's very bad, no good November:

Gustavo 🗽🇺🇸✍🏽🗳️

@gustavoelias24

1 year

“We can be relieved, for the moment, that the right is in disarray. But we should not lose sight of the fact that some of the worst people in national and global politics are reorganizing and retrenching. They will be back.” - ⁦ @RadioFreeTom ⁩

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

There's a reason I ask some questions, including sometimes for history's sake.

Mike DeBonis

@mikedebonis

8 years

> @SpeakerRyan asked by @JNicholsonInDC if Trump is qualified to be orez. answer: 'Donald Trump won the nomination.'

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Jonathan Nicholson

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10 months

@weskrantz Cute limit exceeded

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

28 days

Folks, seriously, let's just not retcon Ross Perot into wise-man-before-his-time person instead of the bat**** crazy guy he was. I was there. I lived it. He said ninjas tried to break up his daughter's wedding.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

"One represents the 'radical' wing of the NFL, while the other gives voice to its 'pragmatist' bloc and both merit consideration." - NYT, if it endorsed sports teams

Darren Rovell

@darrenrovell

4 years

Super Bowl LIV will be the first Super Bowl between two teams with red prominently in their logo. The Chiefs Red is Pantone 186C. The 49ers Red is Pantone 187 C.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

10 months

So this is the Nat'l Weather Svc in Norman, Okla. - like smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley - being unable to gather realtime info on storms that it can use in its warnings or to assess storm severity afterwards.

NWS Norman

@NWSNorman

10 months

Due to issues with Twitter rate limits, we are unable to access most tweets at this time. With the storms beginning to enter NW Oklahoma, send reports to our other social media accounts or direct through our phone line: (405) 325-3816 #okwx #texomawx #txwx

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

Next week, Republicans will vote for a tax cut increasing the 10-year deficit by $1.5 trillion & to exempt Pentagon from spending caps they agreed to in 2011 before arguing next year that entitlements will bankrupt the government.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Trump refers to Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, who who was also Trump's Transportation secretary, as "Coco Chow."

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

2 years

It's an embarrassment that Donald Trump was ever our president. It's an embarrassment that so many still support him, and that so many others in his party cower before him.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

7 years

But where is she on jackets/ties required for men in the Lobby? #NoJacketRequired

Alexis Levinson

@alexis_levinson

7 years

AZ Rep. Martha McSally with some dress code commentary on the House floor a few minutes ago:

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

The "Lemon, it's Wednesday" of this week is that Ginni Thomas has completely knocked Mo Brooks saying Trump was wanting to be unconstitutionally "reinstated" as POTUS as late as Labor Day last year right off the map.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

Note the difference in the assumed level of Normie care about violating the Hatch Act vs the assumed level of Normie care about getting rid of the filibuster.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

Welp, this blew up, probably more than an offhand - and arguably slightly incomplete - observation should have. No SoundCloud, but if you like wonky fiscal policy, I'm your dude. Like this:

A guide to budget reconciliation, which Democrats could use to push Biden's agenda

If President Joe Biden cannot gather enough bipartisan support for his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan, Democrats will look to get at least some of it...

www.marketwatch.com

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

OK, as climate change effects go, this one seems objectively the most horror movie one yet...

sebastian usher

@sebusher

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#Egypt : Health official in Aswan has told BBC that the heavy thunder & hail storm there washed scorpions into the streets & people’s homes - causing 400 people to be stung - in the rains scorpions seek refuge anywhere they can… #أسوان #مِصر

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@JNicholsonInDC

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Welp, Tax Reform Week is off to the rousing start usually seen for Infrastructure Weeks.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

What does the Fox pay?

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Trump has also said "hundreds of thousands" of civilians have been killed in Ukraine, when UN puts it at 6,200 (which is admittedly low because we don't know yet what kind of charnel houses the Russians created in Mariupol, Kherson and occupied Donbas yet, but still).

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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i'm pretty sure the guy who sold me schwag in college didn't kill anywhere close to 500 Americans and didn't deserve to be put to death

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

If you've spent any time in a newsroom or gallery with female reporters, you've heard these stories and know this is why the screen portrayals make them so angry.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

Half of American Indian Twitter: seriously, yeah, "Indian Country" is legit, swear to God. Other half: please don't make us defend the guy who uses "Pocahontas" as a slur.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Meet the Oklahoma pol who's anti-Trump, socially moderate and wildly popular: OKC Mayor David Holt

Does The Mayor Of Oklahoma City Represent A Post-Trump Roadmap For The Republican Party?

Anti-Trump, tax-raising David Holt is waiting for the GOP’s fever to break.

www.huffpost.com

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

When newspapers still were made of paper, that's s the style and font size of a headline that would make you stop in front of a news stand, when there were news stands.

Michael Li 李之樸

@mcpli

2 years

The front page of today’s NYT

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

As unhinged as today has been, it feels oddly familiar to anyone who can recall the mid-90s and Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph (ATL Olympics bombing) and of course McVeigh.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

Wondering if Rubio would have said this to the faces of the dozen or so remaining journalists in the Capitol last week as he talked up his role in the stimulus bill.

Marco Rubio

@marcorubio

4 years

Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more #CoronaVirus cases than #China Beyond being grotesque,its bad journalism We have NO IDEA how many cases China really has but without any doubt its significantly more than why they admit to

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

@nycsouthpaw Wait - the same reporter who announced his new site just yesterday, promising "fact-based news without an agenda, with a neutral voice and with unprecedented transparency"? That guy?

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Jan. 3, 2019: Rep. Liz Cheney makes a formal nomination speech in support of Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

2 years

Cart of oranges, apples and bananas wheeled into the cloak room just off Senate floor. Senators arriving to vote with cups of coffee in hand. McDonald's getting handed out to Capitol Police who also had to pull this all-nighter. Daybreak seems to be giving the Capitol a 2nd wind.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

7 years

Well how do you do, fellow Indianapolis Colts NFL professional football team fans...

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

5 months

True, this is simply the way things are supposed to work. But still worth taking a breath and appreciating we sent almost 3 million people up in pressurized tubes, brought them back down safely and no one got hurt.

Flightradar24

@flightradar24

5 months

Yesterday was the busiest day ever at airports in the US, with the @TSA reporting 2,884,783 people screened. It was also an incredibly smooth day of travel with fewer than one-half of one percent of 51,332 scheduled flights canceled.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

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Back in 2016, I was telling people to read @sarahkendzior and her analysis of Trump, through the lens of former Soviet states. My suggestion now would be to research the psychological term "discard phase" and narcissism.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

Capitol Police allowed protesters to demonstrate directly below the south side of the Capitol and within earshot of lawmakers going to votes from House office buildings in 2010, during health care debate.

Matt Laslo

@MattLaslo

6 years

Barricades have been erected around the Capitol ahead of the Kavanaugh vote. Have been here 12 years and have never seen this for a vote.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

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Rep. Tom Cole, a Chickasaw Nation member and a Republican to boot, once told me his mother or grandmother used to ask that $20 bills be broken so she wouldn't have to carry an Andrew Jackson bill. Now, there'll be a Native woman's next to Jackson's pic.

Biden Names Mohegan Tribe Member To Be First Native American U.S. Treasurer

Lynn Malerba, the first woman to be named ceremonial chief of the Mohegan Tribe, will have her name on currency and head up a new Treasury Department tribal affairs office.

www.huffpost.com

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

@MadiLAlexander @CLeuthy BRB - planning my strategy for making a “60 Under 60” list ...

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

10 months

So Ukraine is saying they've taken north part of Staromaiorske. In a kneebone-is-connected-to-the-thigh bone-is-connected-to-the-hip bone way, Staromairorkse is 8 km from Staromlynivka, a logistics ctr, and that's 140 km to Berdyansk, on the coast. That would cut the land bridge.

Blake Allen

@Blake_Allen13

10 months

Ukraine has been attacking the town of Staromaiors’ke for the past few days and a few Russian TG channels are now saying they’ve taken the town and potentially the one next to it called Urozhaine. Both are on high-ground so would be good to have taken them

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

Meanwhile, at the Trump boat parade on Oklahoma's biggest lake ...

Logan Hill

@LHillthefirst

4 years

BIG UPDATE!!! 2 boats have sank! That’s right, the water is so choppy two house boats have sank! The water is insane and we aren’t even near the parade yet.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

4 years

Mnuchin on way to Schumer's says they're getting close. Asked how close, he holds up two fingers about an inch apart. "This close."

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Remember, starting on this seventh vote, candidates for speaker have to go for the two-point conversion after a touchdown if no speaker is selected in regulation voting.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 years

INBOX: ND GOPer Kevin Cramer NOT going to support Electoral College challenges, at least absent persuasive evidence. "While I am not pleased with the outcome of the election, objecting to the Electoral College votes is not an appropriate or effective way to change the results.”

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 years

Old enough to remember when one party's rallying cry was "abolish the IRS."

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 months

Sen. Thom Tillis, vowing a long memory to the his Ukraine-skeptic colleagues: "People who people who choose to ultimately exit Ukraine, if they are successful, for as long as I am breathing, I will remind them of the consequences I am convinced we will have to live through."

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

3 months

It's been more than 12 hours and still no statement from Trump on Navalny, while almost every high-profile elected official from both sides of the aisle have made at least perfunctory statements. A Navalny statement is not even directly an anti-Putin one. And yet, silence.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

Beginning to think Louise Mensch's faith in the investigatory powers of the Marshal of the Supreme Court was misplaced.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

1 year

The toughest demand faced by McCarthy from those who oppose his speaker bid appears to be their demand he not be speaker.

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Jonathan Nicholson

@JNicholsonInDC

6 months

The irony here is how often people have to remind others that "censorship," which is what Musk says he opposes, is government-involved restriction of free speech and 90% of accusations of it here lack that element. But actual states and actual AGs prosecuting a website...

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

6 months

It's bad enough that Texas AG Ken Paxton and Stephen Miller are floating investigations and prosecutions of Media Matters to protect Elon Musk. Worse, this is a preview of exactly what Trump allies are vowing to do if he regains power. 1/ (free link)

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