𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘑. 𝘋𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 @StevenJDuffield Twitter profile

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𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘑. 𝘋𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥

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Some people are never happy unless they're attacking their allies.

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This is an amazing chart. Gallup.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Virginians: your state health department just covered up tens of thousands of COVID test results -- *all negative* --thereby confusing the public about how much risk there was, and likely extending the Phase One lockdown in NoVA. Does this bother you? THREAD 1/x

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3 years

Justice Thomas, dropping this delicious footnote today in Jones v Miss. (a juvenile sentencing case)...

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Now think about how Romney would have responded if the situation was reversed.

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

4 years

Trump snarks Romney being in COVID-19 isolation. "Gee. That's too bad."

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

The law does not require violence. It is illegal to protest out a judge's home to try to influence the decision, no matter how "peaceful" you are. Tell DOJ to prosecute.

Curtis Houck

@CurtisHouck

2 years

OUCH: Confronted by an AP reporter with the fact that there's a law against protesting outside someone's the private residence (like with SCOTUS justices), Psaki insists "violence, threats, and intimidation have no place in political discourse" & "no one" should "violate the law"

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Wait, what? A campaign that avoided interaction with the press and public and avoided discussion of the most important policy questions (court-packing/filibuster) -- that's not an "old fashioned campaign." The opposite.

Ezra Klein

@ezraklein

3 years

Joe Biden ran a kind of campaign that wasn’t supposed to work anymore in American politics. Facing a media-hungry, anti-system outsider, Biden ran an old-fashioned campaign that defended the system and delighted in the messy, coalitional work of politics.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Does that explain her filibusters of Ajit Pai and Ben Carson?

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@axios

3 years

Elizabeth Warren calls Senate filibuster racist

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

Who leaked the Dobbs opinion?

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

57% of Americans voted against Bill Clinton in 1992, yet somehow he became president and appointed Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. Crazy!

Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

2 years

A reminder: Two presidents who became president despite losing the popular vote appointed five of nine Supreme Court nominees, including Samuel Alito, who wrote yesterday’s leaked draft opinion.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

From 70% to 47% in 20 years.

Bruce Mehlman

@bpmehlman

3 years

Imagine no religion... fewer than half of U.S, adults belong to a church, synagogue or mosque. (Gallup)

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

Garbage headline, as the article itself explains. Sen. Paul wants a vote on an amendment to ensure the entitlement is paid-for. Sen. Lee wants to ensure oversight. Neither opposes the substance of the bill.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

5 years

Two Republican senators emerge as opponents to 9/11 victims bill

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

I wonder how many people under 30 even know this story. RIP.

David Hookstead

@dhookstead

4 years

United Flight 93 will always be the 9/11 story that hits me the hardest. The passengers knew they were dead, and had a choice to make. They could let the terrorist kill more innocent people, or they could fight back. They chose to fight back and retake the plane . #Heroes

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

"And Mr. Engel’s memo, dated Sept. 24, said in a footnote that it was a revision of an original from Sept. 3, and that the department had “changed the prior version to avoid references to certain details that remain classified.”"

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

Sen. Leahy voted to filibuster the nominations of both Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch.

Andrea Mitchell

@mitchellreports

2 years

On nomination battle ahead, @SenatorLeahy , "I worry, when it becomes just a one-party kind of vote, I think think it's hurting the credibility of the Supreme Court when such nominees are put in there. I wish we could come back to the time when we come together." #AMRstaff

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@StevenJDuffield

10 months

Justice Sotomayor, fresh of yesterday's efforts to not only defend but encourage race discrimination in college admissions, whipsaws around today in 303 Creative to note that discrimination is, you know, actually bad.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Kudos to @TedCruz (and @JohnKennedyLA ) for offering an amendment to the "Asian hate crimes" bill on the Senate floor barring funds to any college that discriminates against Asian Americans in admissions. Vote today.

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@StevenJDuffield

1 month

Indeed:

David Harsanyi

@davidharsanyi

1 month

A few weeks ago, Biden admitted in an interview with MSNBC that Hamas wants an immediate ceasefire to "survive" and "rebuild."

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@StevenJDuffield

9 months

Delay clearly caused by climate change.

Steve Milloy

@JunkScience

9 months

Hawaii government official reportedly delayed for five hours a request to divert stream water to the Maui Fire Department. via @dailycaller

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

This is quite the video that Jim Jordan is running at the Barr hearing. Watching a bunch of leftists cheer the toppling of Junipero Serra's statute, attacking police, burning down streets, etc...

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

" a law school faculty report, dated Dec. 1, 1965, that concluded that Mr. Biden had ''used five pages from a published law review article without quotation or attribution'' and that he ought to be failed"

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

"Mr. Biden released a 65-page file ... from the Syracuse University College of Law, that he said contained all the records of his years there. It disclosed relatively poor grades in college and law school, mixed evaluations from teachers and details of the plagiarism."

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Can somebody send me the data on outdoor transmission by individuals who are 6-10 feet apart?

Jonathan Karl

@jonkarl

4 years

Almost everybody in the Rose Garden is wearing a mask — almost everybody.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

This scandal is in plain sight. You can read about it right here: . It's just that you have to think for a moment about the implications. 2/x

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Yes, it would set the precedent that if you provoke a mob of violent rioters to attack the Capitol to stop them from performing their constitutional duties, you might get impeached, removed, and disqualified. BE ON NOTICE

Lindsay Wise

@lindsaywise

3 years

HAWLEY: "I think ex-president's rhetoric on the day was inflammatory. I think it was irresponsible. I think it was wrong. But I think that this impeachment effort is, I mean, I think it's blatantly unconstitutional. It's a really really, really dangerous precedent."

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Can we be candid that he was lying when he said everyone was on board? Just once?

Peter Baker

@peterbakernyt

3 years

"With his presidency hanging in the balance, it turned out, Biden had chosen to risk a public unveiling ceremony for an agreement that his party had not yet actually signed on to," ⁦ @sbg1 ⁩ notes. Will the gamble pay off?

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

They won't regret it. They will face no in-Senate or electoral repercussions, and will reassure themselves of their bravery in the echo chamber that closes around them.

Josh Holmes

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3 years

Rarely can you predict with 100% assurance that years from now everyone who went down this road will wish they had a mulligan.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

When they received the non-electronic data, VDH then prioritized data-entry of the POSITIVE tests, and let all the negative tests go unreported to the public. That's right: they ONLY reported the positive tests to the public. 4/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

What a bullsh*t tweet. Later in the clip here Sec. DeVos says clearly: "it's obviously a 'no' answer." She had been seeking more time to debunk other aspects of his rambling question. Take this nonsense down @thehill .

The Hill

@thehill

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. @repmarkpocan : "Do you think charter schools who receive federal funding should be allowed to use those funds to purchase private jets? A yes or no question." Sec. Betsy DeVos: "It's not a yes or no question." Pocan: "Actually it is. Actually it really is."

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

One more example of the Garland DOJ refusing to enforce the law when victims are Supreme Court justices. 18 USC 1507. Read it.

Julio Rosas

@Julio_Rosas11

2 years

A small group of pro-abortion protesters are outside Justice Kavanaugh’s home to demonstrate about the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. Police formed a line in front of the home.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

"More than 920 people were shot in D.C. in 2020, a 64 percent increase from three years ago."

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

3 years

Homicides in D.C. hit 15-year high; shootings also have spiked

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@StevenJDuffield

10 months

Justice Thomas, keeping at it w/ Justice Jackson's dissent:

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

One more time: it is all about delegitimizing the constitutional structure -- Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court. Next steps: kill Senate minority rights and filibuster; pack SCOTUS; add states; restrict political speech.

Comfortably Smug

@ComfortablySmug

5 years

This really proves the point that Dems knew the smear was bullshit, they just want to undermine the supreme court so they can ignore rulings and eventually pack the court under the guise of social justice

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

This is another way in which the DC policy/comms/political community, as well as the journalists who cover it, have fundamentally different life experiences and perspectives on "normal life" versus most Americans. It seeps into policy/political biases constantly.

Nick Riccardi

@NickRiccardi

2 years

If you are 26 or older and live more than 100 miles away from where you grew up, you are very, very unusual

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Kudos, @bensasse : "Conservatives regularly denounce executive overreach – but we ought primarily to denounce legislative impotence. This trial is constitutional because the president abused his power while in office and the House of Representatives impeached him ..." 1/3

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Note that this was happening while Gov. Northam and local politicians were saying that the "percent positive of tests" was an essential metric for deciding how to reopen. 7/x

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

I have very low confidence in this guy's ability to manage the DOT (or anything) if he misunderstands the DC rental market this badly.

Morgan Baskin

@mhbaskin

3 years

The rent in D.C. is too damn high for Pete and Chasten Buttigieg: "We couldn’t afford the one-bedroom-plus-den."

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

As Virginia Dep't of Health explains, at some point in the (recent?) past, VDH received tens of thousands of non-electronic reports from labs. This created a backlog for data-entry. (It was 2 labs, but they refuse to tell us which ones.) 3/x

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

They deserve personal applogies

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

But it's even more bizarre, because now we know they were relying on "% positive" results that were grossly inflated because of all the missing negative test results! 9/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

But they didn't tell us what they were doing! They didn't say "hey, we are missing a bunch of negative results; we just don't have the exact numbers entered yet." No, instead, they just put out their reports every day - hiding this flaw. 6/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

This inexcusable conduct by the state health officials screwed up how the public looks at the numbers and, unless our state/local electeds *knew* about this problem with VDH's data releases, it affected how *they* looked at the numbers. It changed policy. 10/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Very deceptive headline. Data say nothing about social distancing. They show people are leaving their homes more. Totally different issue.

DCist

@DCist

4 years

D.C. region has gotten worse at social distancing since April, smartphone data show.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

Oh, I know one person who definitely needed to hear this.

Karine Jean-Pierre

@PressSec

2 years

For anyone who needs to hear it. @VP is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country—from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Moreover, this was a time when Northern Virginia has been under a delayed opening due to vague claims about "the data" -- but the claims never made sense based on the data we could see. We had steady improvement where it counted. 8/x

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

What if -- now hear me out -- we had a system where states could legislate to their own preferences on this issue, and -- again, wait -- a great many state laws would be out of step, sometimes more restrictive, sometimes more liberalized?

GallupNews

@GallupNews

5 years

By failing to include an exception for cases of rape or incest, the Alabama anti-abortion bill is out of step with the views of most Americans. Learn more with Gallup’s latest analysis of Americans’ views on abortion.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

EVERY TIME. Beautiful.

Kevin W.

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2 years

Baby hearing for the first time gives a smile that’ll make your day 👍

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

The press release does not say how long this went on, but they do say it was b/c they wanted to focus public health resources on the positives. Fair enough. It's weird that VDH wasn't able to draw on state employees to do *data entry,* but let's assume this was a smart. 5/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Oh -- and according to the data actually reported as of today, the percent positive for VA over the past 14 days is just 7.03%. But can you really trust the underlying data? END

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

I can't prove it, but I suspect that VDH's holding-back of this information caused NoVA to be stuck in Phase One for longer than we needed to be. More people cooped up for longer, and more economic damage. 11/x

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Everyone's being nicey-nice to the Capitol Police, but either they didn't have a plan (but they did) or they refused to execute it. It's all been "security theater" since 9/11 -- all those guns and body armor -- if they couldn't stop this.

Keith E. Whittington

@kewhittington

3 years

When this is over there should be a full accounting of why there was not more security stationed at the capitol

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

To be fair, I have ranted against the "% positive" metric for 2 months because of the uncertainty as to quantity and location of tests - and I was right. I just had no idea that we also had a problem that VDH was holding back data and skewing public perceptions. 12/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Wait: isn't the bigger issue here that Trump agreed to meet with Khalid bin Salman, who in 2018 said "that reports that Mr. Khashoggi had been detained or killed inside the consulate were 'absolutely false, and baseless.'"

Opinion | The Saudi ambassador lied point-blank about a journalist’s murder. Now he has the gall to...

Lies on top of more lies give the Saudi ambassador “zero credibility.”

www.washingtonpost.com

WHCA

@whca

4 years

WHCA Statement on White House Meeting with Saudi Minister

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

In a functioning political community with a competent Richmond or Northern Virginia press, this would be a scandal and our elected officials would be furious with VDH. (But did our elected officials know they were using skewed data? ) 13/x

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

This news comes on the heels of the article in @TheAtlantic by @alexismadrigal and Robinson Meyer @yayitsrob about how VDH was "juking" the data in another way. That was roughly a million years ago on May 13, 2020. 14/x

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@StevenJDuffield

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Matt Diller

@mattdiller83

2 years

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. If you have a drink in your hand, raise a toast to the pilots of the Enterprise, the Hornet, and the Yorktown.

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

THREAD The handwringing from the Left* on today’s Senate procedural changes is utter nonsense. (*Bracket the Right’s concerns about the procedural precedent and focus on what is being substantively changed.) 1/

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

"who ran on culture wars" -- these people, smdh

Post Local

@postlocal

2 years

Gov. Youngkin, who ran on culture wars, takes cautious approach to Pride

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Classy tweet from a fierce competitor.

Claire McCaskill

@clairecmc

3 years

I just learned that Todd Akin has died. He was a nice man,and although we had major disagreements about just about everything, he was authentic to his beliefs. He actually believed in everything he said, which is a tribute to his character. My thoughts are with his lovely family.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Statewide officials who should care about this include @GovernorVA and Justin Fairfax. And what about @SenDaveMarsden @DickSaslaw @AdamEbbin and the rest of the state delegation in NoVA? Or local officials in Alexandria, Arlington, and Fairfax County? 15/x

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

16yo daughter came home from 1st day unmasked. She's not nuts like her Dad, but was excited at how much better it was for class discussion and social interaction. Spirits noticeably better. Anecdotes aren't data, but I'm so happy for her.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Love it. Congrats, Democrats. You convinced Bernie to give tax breaks to the rich.

Kyle Pomerleau

@kpomerleau

3 years

Sanders budget proposal includes $120 billion for SALT deduction cap relief.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Remember, 6-3 is "divided" but 7-2 is not.

Bloomberg Law

@BLaw

3 years

JUST IN: A divided Supreme Court lifted the Biden administration’s moratorium on evictions, ending protections for millions of people who have fallen behind on rent payments during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Attention Republicans: poll shows 51-33 to open schools (partial or full) with Independents -- a solid number -- and it's 76-13 for Republicans. Also happens to be the right position. 1 of 2

Kevin Robillard 🇺🇸

@Robillard

3 years

New HuffPost/YouGov polling finds little consensus on school openings in the pandemic – 26% say fully reopen, 29% say partially reopen and 31% say stay closed. Story from @aedwardslevy and @rklein90 :

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

Henry Clay on Andrew Jackson: "He is ignorant, passionate, hypocritical, corrupt and easily swayed by the basest men who surround him."

Niels Lesniewski

@nielslesniewski

7 years

President Trump is giving a speech about Henry Clay.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 months

Imagine if the NYT newsroom would get as exercised about this as they do about Chik Fil A.

Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

2 months

JUST IN: A federal judge has found former CBS/Fox reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt of court, fining her $800 a day until she reveals the source of a story that is the subject of a defamation/leak lawsuit.

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

This. The failure of Casey on its own terms -- as a societal resolution -- has long been apparent. The Court has poisoned our politics for nearly 50 years b/c of this issue, with the harm far worse than w/ w/ SSM, death penalty, crim pro, speech, etc. Just get out.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

Can't wait for all the "Rand Paul hearts Putin" crap because he wants an inspector general to keep an eye on more than $40 billion of spending.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Sometimes one side is being candid about requirements and isn't just posturing to eventually meet in the middle.

Manu Raju

@mkraju

3 years

New - Despite Biden floating $1.9T-$2.2T, Manchin and Sinema are not behind that and haven’t seen details from WH. Manchin has a range of concerns - Medicare, climate, paid family leave. Both want fewer programs. Sinema wants infrastructure passed first.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

Biden: "Mitt Romney's a straight guy. ... a serious guy." Also Biden: "Mitt Romney will put black Americans in chains if he's President."

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

As article makes clear, they do this to ensure remittance flow. Plus, citizens in US don't burden home country social services

Washington Examiner

@dcexaminer

7 years

Central America scrambles to help illegals escape deportation

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Link:

The COVID-19 Responses of Men vs. Women

Gallup data show that gender-based differences in Americans' responses to the pandemic transcend partisan differences. Particularly among Republicans, women worry more about the disease and are more...

news.gallup.com

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

Every Hill staffer should mention the @Apple donation to SPLC when Apple's many lobbyists ask for meetings to beg for tax reform.

Ryan T. Anderson

@RyanTAnd

7 years

A despicable map and article from @CNN . Ludicrously repeating @splcenter slander of @AllianceDefends @FRCdc & others

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

Every single person on TV or Twitter who comments on the Mueller report needs to be asked, repeatedly, "Have you actually read it?" We're going to see super-stupid groupthink on left and right by people relying on raw, uninformed spin.

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@StevenJDuffield

1 year

Kagan persuades nobody not already persuaded, and she looks a bit silly trying to reframe being on the losing side as about legitimacy. This tack is a dead end, but I suppose it is all part of the grieving process.

Josh Gerstein

@joshgerstein

1 year

NEW: A #SCOTUS justice's crisis of doubt. Justice Kagan struggles with her role at a Supreme Court that no longer seems much interested in the consensus-building middle road she has long championed

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Pols go years doing debates and planting press conf questions and never get an f-up pull quote as Gold as this one.

Glenn Youngkin

@GlennYoungkin

3 years

Glenn Youngkin: "I believe parents should be in charge of their kids' education." Terry McAuliffe: "I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." #VAgov

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@StevenJDuffield

1 year

Not only should he have been able to play, but the other tennis players should have stood up for him by refusing to play if he couldn't.

Clay Travis

@ClayTravis

1 year

John McEnroe and Chris Fowler got into an argument about the covid shot live on @espn as Novak Djokovic celebrated his Australian Open win. McEnroe argued Novak should have been able to play, Fowler seemed to take the other side.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Can we revisit this article from 2 1/2 weeks ago? What changes have health departments made to the mandates from labs? The system is massively flawed, up to 90%, but nobody wants to report further? (Short thread with key quotes from article follows.)

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Both administrators should be disciplined for this conduct. Instead they will elevate themselves through outrage at the student going to the press and exposing them.

Eliana Johnson

@elianayjohnson

3 years

Based on leaked audio, this whole @aaronsibarium piece on Yale Law School's diversity/discrimination/harassment bureaucracy offers a rare peak behind the curtain of how this stuff works in practice -

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

I'm not moved by these process arguments by my fellow conservatives. There is no constitutional requirement of any formal vote to start an impeachment inquiry. As a constitutional matter, the House can vote to suspend the rules and impeach the president same-day if it wants.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

I mean, Puerto Rico terrorists literally shot 5 Members of Congress INSIDE the House Chamber in 1954.

Josh Wingrove

@josh_wingrove

3 years

CNN saying this is the first time the Capitol was breached since the War of 1812.

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@StevenJDuffield

10 months

Joe Biden *does* understand that Donald Trump is going to find a way to get that poor Biden grand-daughter into a 2024 debate, right?

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

This is the bill that tens of millions of voters blame for high inflation, right?

Senate Democrats

@dscc

2 years

Regular reminder that not a single Senate Republican voted for the American Rescue Plan, which has helped create over 8.3 MILLION jobs since President @JoeBiden took office.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

This was after Biden lied to Thomas about how he would manage the hearing, too. Justice Thomas tells the story in My Grandfather's Son, which everyone should read (mostly for the 1st half).

Scott Whitlock

@ScottJW

3 years

30 years ago today, Clarence Thomas fought back against the left. I've also included rare video of how angry that made one Joe Biden. | WATCH: Clarence Thomas Takes on the Left’s ‘High Tech Lynching’ 30 Years Ago Today

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

Nobody is even close to being as prepared as Kobach is to do what DJT said he wanted on borders/immigration.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

"Republican Senator Ted Cruz, whom China sanctioned last year for attacking China over its handling of the pandemic and treatment of the Uighurs, said, “American firms should be ashamed to be complicit” in the removal of the monument."

Eli Lake

@EliLake

3 years

The University of Hong Kong Takes a Page From the Taliban’s Playbook

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

@BraddJaffy @jameshohmann Wikileaks follows DJTJr on Twitter and vice-versa -- DM was available

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@StevenJDuffield

10 months

And again, Justice Thomas:

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Thus making DOJ look even more political. Similar to the hackery in the legal academy we see all the time, esp. with Kavanaugh. These fmr AUSAs only make it worse.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

4 years

More than 1,100 ex-Justice Department officials call for Barr’s resignation

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

Does nobody monitor @thehill for disasters like this inaccurate tweet? Click through to see it. Every Hill reporter suffers from this crap.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

I would say this is delusional but that assumes he means it.

Jonathan Turley

@JonathanTurley

4 years

Had they waited for a couple months as I advised, they could have gotten Bolton's testimony and other witnesses as well as key court orders. It was a rush to a failed impeachment. History will view the decision to rush the vote as one of the most baffling decisions of all time

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Hospitalizations: 14-day average for NoVA* for new hospitalizations down to 6.2/day. That's in 447 square miles, for 1.5 million people. 6.2 hospitalizations a day. Schools are closed. *Fairfax, Arlington, and Alexandria in Virginia.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Hospitalizations: 14-day average for NoVA (Fairfax/Arlington/Alexandria) for new hospitalizations is now just 7.3. 447 square miles, 1.5 million people. Schools are not open. (7-day average is just 5.1, fwiw.)

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

Remember when Elena Kagan told the Senate that the Constitution did not protect a right to same-sex marriage?

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

4 years

Opinion | The Republican strategy for every Supreme Court nominee: Hide what you believe

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@StevenJDuffield

10 months

Justice Kagan's enthusiasm for congressional abdication is dismaying. Much of the smart-set crowd in legal academia disdains Congess and wants to rule, themselves, via the admin state -- but that view is hostile to the very enterprise of self-government.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

He's not wrong. Worth watching it all.

Townhall.com

@townhallcom

2 years

WATCH: @RepChipRoy ERUPTS on the House floor at both Democrats AND Republicans. "That is a DISGUSTING display by BOTH SIDES of this body...STOP selling the American people a bill of goods, and I'm looking directly at my party when I say that."

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@StevenJDuffield

7 years

Jeff Sessions became Attorney General. Judge Gorsuch quietly gained more Senate support. Tom Price moved closer to confirmation.

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@StevenJDuffield

5 years

It remains really unclear why Speaker Pelosi is so determined to weaken Congress.

Justin Amash

@justinamash

5 years

Congress doesn’t need this legislation to hold a president accountable, and it’s not even good policy to allow a sitting president to be indicted. Moreover, the Constitution already provides a remedy: It’s called impeachment. I’m available to serve as speaker if I can be of help.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

I get a chuckle about watching "progressives" cheering the exercise of minority powers to thwart the majority.

Sawyer Hackett

@SawyerHackett

3 years

WOW. Dozens of Texas House Democrats walked out of the chamber to break quorum on SB7, Republicans’ voter suppression bill. Only an hour and change until the session expires.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

New COVID hospitalizations in Northern Virginia. 14-day average now just 4.8. **Lowest 14-day average of the pandemic** Say it with me: 447 square miles, 1.5 million people, just 4.8 new hospitalizations a day. Schools closed.

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@StevenJDuffield

4 years

They want to make 46 pages of changes and call it a "technical corrections" bill. Look, it *might* be, but COME ON.

Chad Pergram

@ChadPergram

4 years

4) Fox is told Gohmert flew back to Washington to review the legislation. Fox is told there are 46 pages of changes to the 110 page bill. “Somebody should at least go through it,” said one source.

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@StevenJDuffield

2 years

The judge issuing the order was confirmed 98-0 by the U.S. Senate.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Breaking News: A federal judge blocked President Biden's nationwide vaccine mandate for health workers. The new rule was set to begin next week.

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@StevenJDuffield

3 years

Zero chance he would follow the science on masking. He will follow the anti-science teacher unions.

Terry McAuliffe

@TerryMcAuliffe

3 years

As governor, I’ll follow the science to keep our kids healthy and in school. Our kids should be in the classroom learning, not stuck at home sick or in quarantine.

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