I need to write a longer piece about this but I'm also trying vertical video, knowing it's likely to be useless in a matter of months if not weeks

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As I understand it, both sides have their whip office monitoring impact of travel delays on head count.

Saying, "we didn't suspend her because she researched authoritarian states, we suspended her because she talked about her research"....that's a bizarre distinction.

If you suspended her because of something else, it would be useful to know.

sarah oh my god

the matthewcortland story

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did you read the thread?

Sheldon Whitehouse is a really smart guy. He's genuinely smart — there are quite a few senators who do not have anywhere near the sort of legal intellectual firepower this guy has.

Like all politicians, sometimes Sheldon plays dumb. Fine. But scolding us? As if we're the fuckups? 🧵

Right before finding out which way SCOTUS comes down on the question of starving millions of children? That's the worst, stupidest time to cave. It's really weird that Dem Senators are posting pretending like they don't know that.

Sheldon Whitehouse absolutely understood what Jackson, J did. 🧵

it's really quite something that you're yelling at me, a person who doesn't know you at all. anyway, when i block you, your reply will disappear. and i'll never have to deal with you again. bye

If SCOTUS actually had ruled against feeding 42 million people, if you need to surrender at that point? they're actually starving millions of children so I accept any Senator saying, 'I will go on a hunger strike, but I can't let them starve four year olds'

We were about to get those court orders 🧵

I think there are a lot of really smart lawyers in the Senate who absolutely did not come away from the stay order believing — genuinely, actually believing — that Justice Jackson would do anything other than maximize the odds the judiciary kept people from going hungry. 🧵

And by caving, i.e. by folding in exchange for nothing meaningful on healthcare, the suffering was done for nothing? The deaths weren't avoided...

I don't think the administrative stay from Justice Jackson was a sign to surrender, quite the opposite. It was smart, strategic, harm reduction 🧵

A bunch of suffering was endured by folks who are all much poorer than any US Senator, in the name of avoiding all those needless health care deaths. Folks were struggling to pay bills, buy food, take care of their families.

Trump / MAGA were correctly getting the blame from the public 🧵