🧵KRISTI NOEM HEARING MEGATHREAD: In a sense of how the DHS secretary’s testimony today may go, she’s already getting heckled by protesters as she enters the chamber.

“How many people will die for the Epstein files?” says someone as she arrives.

https://twitter.com/benjaminsweiss/status/2028831805986463940

Senate Judiciary chairman GRASSLEY in his opening statement observes there's a lot of "interest" in today's hearing (understatement) and urges decorum.

🚨Gavin Newsom Fortnite Friday megathread:

@ConnorEatsPants: if you die i'm gonna ask you harder questions
@CAgovernor: *immediately downs*

The governor of California has Switch left-side stick drift btw Newsom on @SpeakerJohnson: "He and I are not on the best of terms"

The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at @NRCgov, the federal government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations.

I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵 The WH says NRC has failed to license new nuclear plants because the agency has tried to “insulate Americans from the most remote risks” without taking into account “domestic and geopolitical costs” of risk aversion. They slam the “no threshold” model NRC uses for rad limits