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22 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Politicians and federal nominees have been dragged down by all-white club scandals for decades and decades, it's not like there wasn't fair warning or this is some new 2020s social standard washingtonpost.com/politics/senat…
1990 washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
1988 washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
. @SenatorLeahy on all-white clubs and federal office in 1988 washingtonpost.com/archive/politi… Image

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24 Jun
Biden says bipartisan infrastructure deal has to be paired with D-only reconciliation bill.

"If this is the only thing that comes to me I'm not signing. It's in tandem."

Asked about Pelosi plan to hold first bill in House until second bill arrives, says he supports it.
Biden and D leaders are quite clear heading into the bipartisan deal that it's all contingent on a reconciliation bill passing with other D priorities. R's are approving this deal knowing that's Biden's publicly stated plan. So are Manchin and Sinema.
Doesn't mean it's going to work! But everyone is going in with clear eyes here.
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17 Jun
The Manchin voting rights bill is what a real negotiation between Manchin and voting rights advocates looks like, which is why the latter sound encouraged. But there's not even the beginning of a constituency in the GOP to work on this. It's a virtually 100% internal D debate.
This isn't like other issues, where there's a GOP version of how to approach it and a D one and maybe they can find some overlap. They just fundamentally are not working on the same issue here. Outside Murkowski, almost no interest in making significant federal changes, period.
In other words, the only q that matters: Are Manchin (and other Ds) willing to change the rules to pass a D-only bill on voting rights? No indication his position is budging there. If it does, this is what a deal looks like. If not, it's just an interesting thought experiment.
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7 May
Trump lost and R's lost the Senate, yet R's near-universally conclude they need him. Why? They're not wrong exactly. Trump's leverage isn't so much his ability to grow the GOP, it's that he could *destroy* them if he wanted and not think twice about doing so. It always has been.
Graham is correct that Trump brings millions of people to the GOP who are loyal to him and him alone. He also repels millions more. What Graham is hinting at, but not saying is that Trump -- unique among R leaders -- is willing to tell his voters to stay home or go third party.
Trump's lack of loyalty to the GOP has been one of his biggest strengths since the start. Many in the party would have loved to expel him in 2015 when they feared he hurt the brand. But he was threatening to run as an Independent -- and they believed him. nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…
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5 May
If the formula they’re using is “Trump pushing his election lies creates a risk of violence” it’s hard to see how that condition ever goes away
If the main issue they have is that it’s “indefinite” and they’re revisiting it in six months, odds are he’s still talking about it nonstop, the party is purging more Cheneys over it, and we’re even closer to the next elections. Not exactly making it easy for them to reverse.
Reading the full Oversight Board report here and it really doesn’t leave much room for Trump to fix the problem as they define it. He’s not going to renounce his prior behavior or stop doing it in the future.
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16 Apr
It’s a good jumping off point for discussion, which foreign citizens “imported en masse” in our history would they say were a mistake who tore at national unity
Theory of immigration in the America First caucus document implicates, among other groups, nearly all Asian Americans. Vast majority are immigrants or descendants of immigrants allowed in by the 1965 law. Without it, less than 1% of country would be Asian, per Pew Research. Image
The America First Caucus suggests a pause in immigration could help in "weeding out those
who could not or refused to abandon their old loyalties and plunge head-first into mainstream
American society."

"Weeding" is an interesting term. Which groups do they have in mind?
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13 Apr
A selection of threads from public heath/vaccine/epidemiology people I follow
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