Me when someone doesn't prioritize passing the Recovering America's Wildlife Act this Congress

Having a real normal one on the Hill today

Gonna start challenging experts on a panel I’m hosting to fights from now on

Have NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill:

While talking to Rep. Tim Burchett after the GOP conference meeting, former Kevin McCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not. And a chase ensued...

I like how every few weeks we get a new story about Project 2025--a plan to fill a new Trump admin with loyalists who will obey the Oval Office--and it's reported as a scoop of some kind. The plan is published in full online. They are proud of it. You can order it as a book.

If I read one more post about Hill staffers mad their boss isn’t doing some policy thing they want them to because, you know, they’re elected to Congress and the staffer isn’t, I swear I’m gonna

Biden Approval Polling:

Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 400%

Morning Consult / Oct 17, 2023 / n=45000

Biden: I caution this while you feel that rage, don't be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the US. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes… The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.

🧵 Today, the U.S. House is set to vote on whether Ohio Rep. Rep. Jim Jordan should be the next Speaker.

I've covered Jordan closely since 2018, interviewing him dozens of times and reporting on every aspect of his job.

The story that stands out most is related to Jan. 6, 2021.

Classic DC problem: being connected enough to not only write but secure passage of good policy, but not connected enough to get recognized for it.

I know it’s a part of This Town and I’m usually good at shaking it off, but man. Really feeling it today.

Out of all the horrors we’re aware of so far, this one haunts me the most. Could’ve been me. Could’ve been my friends. Could’ve been my colleagues.

Just. Unfathomable.

I've been fact-checking on Twitter for years, and there's always plenty of misinformation during major events.

But the deluge of false posts in the last two days, many boosted via Twitter Blue, is something else.

Neither fact-checkers nor Community Notes can keep up with this.

The entire argument that we have returned the House to some state of nature is just absurd. And it's especially absurd to claim it's a state of nature where *general parliamentary law* doesn't even exist.

Friend in Tel Aviv says they’re outraged that entire IDF brigades were taken from Gaza to secure the Sukkot festivals of the West Bank settlers (many of whom don’t join the army), while worries of southern Israeli residents ignored

While Israel goes to war, the US:
*Has no Speaker of the House
*No confirmed ambassador to Israel
*Operating under a CR
*Tuberville stalling military nominations
*Senate out of town this week

in the uscp blotter - someone really didn't want to stop swimming in the Capitol reflecting pool and hit a USCP officer who tried to arrest him

Good morning from the U.S. House of Representatives!

Quote of the entire 118th Congress: 'We're tired of fucking around with these whack jobs'

Sarah Ferris on what just happened

politico.com/live-updates/2…

Why yes, I am spending this beautiful, early Fall Saturday glued to four different tick tocks dedicated to government spending.