Brian Beutler

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RT @[email protected]

And yet we haven’t seen DeSantis send any voting police raids to The Villages. https://twitter.com/FloridaMan__/status/1620393601623793664

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EricKleefeld/status/1620413482469580800

Florida Man on Twitter

“4th Florida Man resident of The Villages admits to voting twice in the 2020 election https://t.co/xQf15Iac2G”

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RT @[email protected]

Deprived of Trump-style excitement for so long, the media has jumped on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents with breathless glee. Finally, a chance to get back to false equivalence! … Read my new ⁦@[email protected]⁩ column here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/31/media-biden-documents-coverage-out-of-proportion-margaret-sullivan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1620389856684679168

The media is blowing Biden’s documents ‘scandal’ out of proportion

The news media has greeted the supposed scandal of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents with breathless glee

The Guardian

RT @[email protected]

They’re settling on a narrative. And somehow it’s worse than if they had defended the cops.

Police agencies have been relaxing hiring standards for a couple decades now. It isn’t “affirmative action.” And it isn’t due to lack of funding.

(I’m also *pretty* sure it isn’t me.)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1619846555913318400

Radley Balko on Twitter

“They’re settling on a narrative. And somehow it’s worse than if they had defended the cops. Police agencies have been relaxing hiring standards for a couple decades now. It isn’t “affirmative action.” And it isn’t due to lack of funding. (I’m also *pretty* sure it isn’t me.)”

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RT @[email protected]

Watch this. House republicans are now saying they’re going to collapse the entire economy and throw millions out of work just for spite. https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1620212990485078016

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BillPascrell/status/1620238377860894720

Manu Raju on Twitter

“McCarthy has members of his conference who will vote against a debt ceiling hike no matter what's in the package. "No," Greg Pence told me when asked if he would vote to raise the debt ceiling if it included "every" single one of his priorities.”

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RT @[email protected]

“[T]he best way to deradicalize the GOP isn't indirectly by softening up its voters with better industrial policy; it's directly, by making the party's extremism and corruption a first order liability for all of its candidates” https://us19.campaign-archive.com/?u=8855a23519ab892dfe2cd34f6&id=826c4daecf

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HalMarshall2309/status/1620198173531668483

Big Tent

Crooked Media’s Editor-in-Chief Brian Beutler is here to walk you through the big debates unfolding among Democrats in real time. New edition every Friday

RT @[email protected]

There you have it…

@[email protected]: “The question that I’d ask you is whether you think this debt ceiling is going to be used as a bargaining chip in a way that could turn dangerous?”

House GOP Budget Chair @[email protected]: “I believe it will and I believe it has to.”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JesseLee46/status/1620210008448188417

Jesse Lee on Twitter

“There you have it… @andrewrsorkin: “The question that I’d ask you is whether you think this debt ceiling is going to be used as a bargaining chip in a way that could turn dangerous?” House GOP Budget Chair @RepArrington: “I believe it will and I believe it has to.””

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The appeals court panel included two Trump judges and one (HW) Bush judge.

RT @[email protected]

NEWS: New details here about DOJ’s months-long secret legal fight to access Rep. Scott PERRY’s phone, a battle that has sharply intensified in recent weeks.

After a win last month, DOJ was dealt a setback by the appeals court.

w/ @[email protected]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/30/secret-hold-doj-phone-trump-scott-perry-00080233

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1620181708921520139

Secret hold restricts DOJ's bid to access phone of Trump ally Rep. Scott Perry

The decision by a panel of federal appellate judges temporarily blocks a lower-court ruling, escalating the battle over communications related to DOJ's probe of 2020 election challenges.

POLITICO

RT @[email protected]

J&J's legal strategy—to avoid baby powder liabilities by transferring them to a subsidiary & putting that subsidiary into bankruptcy—had been inspired by the Sackler family's attempts to escape penalties over opioid sales.

See this thread by @[email protected]:

https://twitter.com/moetkacik/status/1620110670581882880

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1620145145143521280

moe tkacik on Twitter

“J&J's lead medical director predicted in 1969 that the company would face mountains of litigation from grieving families "in 40 years" if it didn't pull the baby powder from the market. So... for more than 40 years J&J covered up their findings & kept the cancer powder in stores”

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Durbin issued a statement today promising to “take a hard look” at the new revelations. That’s good, though as @[email protected] notes, it’s unclear how hard, and little sense that Dems see their role as fighting an information war against an aggressive GOP. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/30/john-durham-investigation-trump-house-gop/
Awful new details about the Durham probe demand a serious response

With the House GOP spewing propaganda, Senate Democrats must show that real probes of genuine abuses are possible.

The Washington Post

RT @[email protected]

Trump: I stand by my decision to side with Putin against the US intelligence community.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/1620056232567644160

Christian Vanderbrouk 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 on Twitter

“Trump: I stand by my decision to side with Putin against the US intelligence community.”

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