Catholic | husband | dad | former Counsel to @VP, @FEC Commissioner, and Senate staffer | @NatlParkService fan. A personal account. Posts are my own.
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I step out of my time machine in 2013 to tell the Senate what an effective bipartisan legislator Ted Cruz is in the future, and I'm immediately committed to a mental institution.
Vote update: The 6:00pm roll call vote has changed.
The Senate will immediately proceed to up to 8 roll call votes on the following in relation to Cal. #449, S.4668, Protect College Sports Act of 2026:
1. Baldwin amendment #6828
2. Scott (SC) amendment #6830
3. Paul amendment #6758
4. Kennedy amendment #6760 (60-vote affirmative threshold)
5. Moody-Blumenthal amendment #6831
6. Booker amendment #6805
7. Booker amendment #6835
8. Passage of Cal. #449, S.4668, Protect College Sports Act of 2026, as amended.
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After Austin switched off its Flock license plate cameras in June 2025, car theft rose 24% when measured against trends in comparable cities.
Austin's auto theft came in above expectations every month for the following year. About 776 more stolen cars than there otherwise would be.
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I guess this is probably a typo but there's no such thing as 18 U.S.C § 1641. And it all kind of goes downhill from there.
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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This is what NIMBYs want.
Google launching a datacenter into space next week nytimes.com/2026/09/24/techn…
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On the latest episode of All Things with @KimStrassel, @SenatorCollins says she is “offended by” the allegations in a ProPublica piece that the FBI cleared her of five years ago. on.wsj.com/4yNHGOm
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Remember that Collins did not lead in a single poll throughout the entire 2020 race against Sara Gideon. She beat Gideon by 8.5 points.
NYT/Siena poll | 9/15-9/22 LV
US Senate Maine 2026
🟥Susan Collins 49% (incumbent)
🟦Troy Jackson 46%
Link to poll: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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If she can do it, so can you.
Angela Paxton is breaking her silence on Ken Paxton's Senate race, after accusing him of infidelity in divorce proceedings.
Without naming him, she told a group of GOP women to vote the ticket, "even when we're mad at them"
more from @birenbomb
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Sean Cooksey retweeted
During the Garland years DOJ revised its policy on congressional subpoenas so that they’d have to be approved by the Public Integrity Section (PIN). When they told me this I was not nearly as pleased as they expected bc PIN is/was a notoriously lawless office, devoid of sound judgment. “Honestly,” I responded, “we’d rather Monaco have to sign off. At least she has a democratic mandate and political accountability for her partisanship, unlike the guys at PIN.”
Recall these are the guys who went after Ted Stevens over nonsense to give the Dems 60 votes in 2009 and then ruined Bob McDonnell’s political career in a case laughed out of the Supreme Court. PIN was well represented later in Jack Smith’s bizarro Elliot Ness cosplay. When Emil Bove took them to the woodshed on day one, I didn’t shed a tear.
I was reminded of all this with today’s “news,” a situation where PIN didn’t proceed during the very partisan Biden administration and somehow that *still* results in a shameless political hit job.
I don’t even know what the term for this would be. It’s not lawfare because PIN didn’t pursue it!
Attempted lawfare?
Lawfare by proxy?
Arabella lawfare?
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Recall that Ryan was bending over backwards to minimize reporting about Graham Platner's sexual assault. But he's happy to take "a felon showed us an email; no you can't see it" at face value.
Bro the PAC and the crook emailed each other about setting up a shell company to hide the illegal bribe. Just because you did a shoddy investigation doesn’t mean there isn’t a crime here.
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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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"I never thought the schools would fail to educate MY child," sobs woman who voted for the Schools Not Educating Children Party.
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President Trump understands the issue of AI regulation better than any other political leader today.
When an entire industry comes to Washington and says "Please regulate us, oh, and also give us an antitrust exemption," everyone's alarm bells should be going off.
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