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What a March (madness) day on the links. Got to play with 3 former @NCCAAChamps (Carlos Boozer Duke 2001, Luke Hancock Louisville 2013 & Joel Berry UNC 2017) & they witnessed my first ever ace. You read that correctly. 3 pro athletes in the group and the @ferc nerd made hole in 1
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This is so hilarious. Harry Reid once slapped me for trying to eat a pastry…said I didn’t need it. Richard Burr literally choked me for whipping against an amendment he was championing. Who are these staffers???? Weak weak weak.
The thing about these "Democratic politician was MEAN" stories is that a lot of Democratic staffers deserve to be stuffed into a locker
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DOE, EPA & FERC are all racing to address AI-driven affordability issues, says @FERChatterjee, even as a "ratepayer protection pledge" vote stalls in the Senate. Will policymakers take real action? Listen now: buff.ly/W4fID2I
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Very big news. Makes permitting reform more likely than not this year.
SCOOP: Trump signals he would ease his administration's blockade on wind projects to entice Democrats to agree to a permitting deal. He told top aides he'd agree to direct DOD to start clearing its queue of long-delayed onshore wind projects subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
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Nike signed Messi when he was 14. They lost him over a few hundred dollars worth of tracksuits, a mistake now estimated at $10 billion in brand value.
In 2005, Messi's father Jorge asked Nike for some extra tracksuits for his son, a routine request from the family of an 18-year-old who had just broken into Barcelona's first team. Nike's Iberian and South American offices both ignored it. He never got a reply.
Adidas was paying attention. They offered around $1 million a year, and Nike refused to match because they didn't want a bidding war over a teenager. They were busy building their 2006 World Cup campaign around established stars.
Once the Adidas deal leaked, Nike panicked and sued in Spanish court, claiming a binding contract. The judges found all Nike had was a "commitment letter" with no legal weight. Messi signed with Adidas in February 2006, and in 2017 they gave him a lifetime deal.
So when he walks out at El Monumental on October 6 for his final Argentina match, in front of 84,000 people, the gold-lettered farewell jersey he revealed today will carry three stripes.
Twenty years, 125 international goals, a World Cup, and every shirt sold along the way. All of it went to Adidas because someone at Nike didn't answer an email about tracksuits.
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I know a little something about this case because I was an @FEC Commissioner when we investigated Navatek and its leadership for criminal-level campaign-finance violations. This slanted story reeks of self-serving lies from a convicted felon.
At no time did the FEC have any evidence that 1820 PAC or Senator Collins' campaign knew or did anything wrong. We dismissed or took no action on every potential violation against the PAC, and pursued significant civil penalties against the company. Those are the facts. Any suggestion otherwise is hackery.
The seven-year-old allegations made against Senator Collins and her staff in this piece are categorically false. There have never been any allegations of wrongdoing by the Collins for Senator campaign, and the campaign was never the target of the FBI investigation.
ProPublica took the word of someone who pled guilty to five counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and making false submissions to the FEC. As Martin Kao was awaiting sentencing, he began making outlandish charges about the Collins office, deflecting blame from himself and placing it on Senator Collins, including alleging that our office required contributions before taking meetings and engaged in extortion, pay for play, and bribery. The FBI and the Court obviously did not believe Kao, and in 2025 he was sentenced in two separate cases to prison terms of seven years and three years to be served concurrently, as well as an additional five years of supervised release at the end of his prison term.
It is important to note that during the Biden Administration the FBI and the Department of Justice thoroughly investigated the Navatek matter. The Collins campaign cooperated fully with the FBI throughout the investigation, producing all of the documents it requested and serving as fact witnesses in official settings. In response to the allegations in the ProPublica piece, the FBI clearly stated that a suggestion of wrongdoing by Senator Collins or her staff is “totally false.”
These issues were resolved in 2021, and the FBI has not contacted us about Martin Kao since then.
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.@hughhewitt asks: Can solar help meet rising energy demand?
Resoundingly, yes. But that’s not all we can help with…
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Critical minerals are the invisible architecture of modern life: the chips in your phone, the magnets in jet engines, the copper in every data center. We dig into why these materials have become the battleground of global competition, and what it will take for the US to compete.
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If a permitting deal is good on the merits, Dems should do it as soon as they can. The idea that it is politically costly is silly. Polling shows voters think Dems are too reflexively anti-Trump & not focused enough on solving problems. A good bipartisan deal is not a liability.
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This was me at Kentucky in 1996. Only back then I was by myself. This picture makes me happy. A group of Indian kids hooking horns, pounding beers and cheering on an amazing comeback is the most American thing ever.
I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.
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Check out my Presidential background 😁
AI + Energy collision is “the most bipartisan thing" in politics right now, argues @FERChatterjee. Is it time to create an AI regulator? Listen to the newest @Poli_Climate episode for more on one of the biggest issues heading into the midterms: buff.ly/YqDtfkN
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Nothing better than college football! Kentucky played a great first half, terrible second. Texas played a horrible first half - but what a comeback!!!! SEC!!!
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Couldn’t sleep so I watched “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” for the 1st time. On 9/11. Haven’t watched before because critics were so harsh in their reviews and I was discouraged. I don’t understand. It’s a beautiful movie. How is it even remotely controversial?
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