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Nov 10 6 tweets 1 min read Read on X
I voted no tonight.

But the next phase of Democrats’ health care affordability fight is starting.

While I personally don’t believe Republicans will keep their promise to work with us on lowering health care costs, I would be thrilled to be wrong.
The American people are with us, and Republicans will pay a heavy political price if they do not follow through on their commitment to work in a bipartisan way to lower skyrocketing premiums.
We have also unlocked some progress on the path to a year-long government funding deal. Bipartisan appropriations are a key restraint on Trump.
The shutdown puts this president’s mad cruelty on display for the world to see.
President Trump and his goons were happy to inflict maximal pain on people and our economy, while throwing extravagant parties and wasting enormous sums to turn the White House into a gaudy palace. Everyone saw that.
From his gilded golf club, President Trump kept food off the tables of millions of children and families. The American people will not forget.

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More from @SenWhitehouse

Nov 10
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.

I get it. I have my own feelings.

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But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
Read 10 tweets
Sep 30
The latest shadow docket decision moves the Supreme Court further down a submissive pattern of wins given up to Trump: the pattern is 10:1. 🧵
Courts allow bias to be assessed using evidence of pattern, so what’s good for the goose should be good for gander, and pattern evidence should be fair game.
Particularly when the shadow docket allows this Supreme Court to submit to Trump without explanation,  pattern is all we’re left with.
Read 11 tweets
Sep 18
It’s always good to pounce on government liars when they lie, so it’s been good posting about Patel lying.

But note where his lies led:

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Saying the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in D.C. had issued an order, challenging me “Do you want me to violate a court order?”
The judge later all but said on the record there was no order; Patel was free all along to disclose his own grand jury testimony as a witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Read 5 tweets
Sep 17
Another low moment in yesterday’s hearing was Patel saying he and MAGA Bondi tried to get Epstein files out but judges wouldn’t let them.

Here’s what really happened:

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Federal judges (who are not idiots) know that ONLY grand jury documents are protected by secrecy rule.  

So why, two separate judges wondered, would FBI/DOJ release nothing FBI/DOJ had, and only try to release protected documents? Weird, huh?
Then the judges looked at the grand jury documents and noticed how few they were (a “snippet”) and how it was most ALREADY public. Oops.
Read 13 tweets
Sep 11
Republicans still grouse about Harry Reid “going nuclear” ONCE, way back in 2013, to undo their blockade of D.C. Circuit judicial nominees. Supreme Court nominees were negotiated out of that.

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Then, when Republicans had the majority and wanted to jam partisan justices onto the Supreme Court, they went nuclear. Happily. So much for their complaining; so much for the deal exempting the Supreme Court.
Senate Republicans have now gone nuclear THREE TIMES in the last few months (four, technically, if you count going nuclear twice in this episode). All the big talk while we were in the majority, all the early assurances — POOF! Pure fakery.
Read 4 tweets
Sep 4
After Trump’s fossil-fuel goons shut down Revolution Wind, I’ve been waiting for the phone to ring with the ransom demand.

But maybe this is attempted murder, not extortion, and there will be no demand.

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That moves us to litigation, where my experience tells me the discovery phase will be fascinating as the lawyers dig into the true motivations and scheming behind this ugly fossil-fuel thuggery.
In the meantime, it’s worth spotlighting the corruption. This is a switcheroo to replace the clean energy electrons from Revolution with polluting fossil-fuel-generated electrons, adding revenues to Trump’s political patrons and string-pullers.
Read 11 tweets

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