Susan Cooper 💙🌊💙🇺🇸💙

Hi I'm Susan from NC, Social Media Enthusiast ♥ Music Movies Politics! Current mood: Hopeful 💙 CashApp: $SusanECooper ~ #VoteBlue #Resist 🌺 She/Her

[Anderson Clayton☀️ @abreezeclayton]

she’s so beautiful

[Susan Cooper 💙🌊💙🇺🇸💙 @BuzzEdition]

Pete Hegseth and others reprimanded for laughing by guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

An Arlington National Cemetery guard told the defense secretary and his companions to maintain a respectful atmosphere during a Veterans Day visit.

https://t.co/4bAKWeYzJ6

[Red Anvil Blade @RedAnvilBlade]

@factpostnews https://t.co/RhFd5lqVie

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Vice President of Turning Point USA at Rutgers alleges that she was held down and sexually assaulted by TPUSA leaders at the organization's national convention this year.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Wow this is horrifying. Turning Point USA has some questions to answer.

[Susan Cooper 💙🌊💙🇺🇸💙 @BuzzEdition]

Virginia Madsen and Antonio Sabàto Jr.'s son, Jack Sabàto, has been arrested in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in Alaska

https://t.co/tR5bJyr6b6

[Tara Copp @TaraCopp]

A security agent for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just warned the reporters here — for Hegseth’s first press conference in 6 months — that we will be physically removed from the briefing room if we are not professional and maintain decorum. We asked if that meant no shouted questions and got no clarity. It’s the first time any of us could ever remember being threatened like this. Shouted questions are normal. “This is crazy town” one journalist said, noting the White House has never threatened reporters like that. We’re in the room, back row:

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

WTF

[Rep. Sam Liccardo @RepLiccardo]

It’s good that Stephen Miller is getting a bigger office because he’s going to need it for all the subpoenas we’re going to send him.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Now that is a FOLLOW! 👏👏👏

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Have you and Brent Taylor spoken?”

@Justinjpearson: “No, I’m not talking to that sexual predator.” 👀

@PepperBaker: “Whoa.”

[Justin Kanew @Kanew]

Damn

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Why should Congressional Democrats investigate corporate America if their mandate is to deliver real economic change? Because investigations are a key catalyst for securing reform and legislation. For much of the last century, Congress used to be the main institutional player working to secure an economy that serves working people. A key tool was oversight. Lawmakers routinely investigated complex markets and major corporations, identifying problems and exposing wrongdoing. A major goal of these investigations was to learn what was driving certain problems and figure out how to fix them.

After Democrats took back the House during the first Trump administration in 2019, I joined the House Judiciary Committee as a staffer on the Antitrust Subcommittee. Under the terrific leadership of @RepJerryNadler and then-Rep @davidcicilline, we pursued an 18-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, securing key evidence of how their business practices were undermining competition and harming people, setting the basis for both lawsuits and proposed legislation.

A few lessons from that experience:

1. The quality of legislative oversight depends on the staff and the support of top members to confront power. Committee and Subcommittee Chairs that are focused on getting answers and unafraid to take on powerful corporate interests will make the difference between oversight that doesn’t surrender to their evasion tactics and oversight that aims low or flames out.

Even a relatively small number of dogged, talented lawyers ready to dive in can make a big impact. In the 1930s a single congressional lawyer, Ferdinand Pecora, helped reshape our entire banking system by subpoenaing records and interrogating top financiers, including J.P Morgan. The investigation exposed self-dealing, market manipulation, and tax avoidance, and laid the groundwork for foundational New Deal legislation, including the Glass-Steagall Act and the Securities Exchange Act.

2. Eliminating bottlenecks to moving investigations forward is key. For example, the House should make sure that Subcommittee Chairs can issue subpoenas rather than needing the sign-off of the full Committee or its Chair. A credible threat of sending subpoenas is critical for credible oversight.

3. Ensuring that members can develop the muscle to effectively interrogate CEOs requires investing in real preparation. In the lead up to the hearing with Bezos, Pichai, Cook, and Zuckerberg, the Antitrust Subcommittee spent months reviewing millions of documents collected from the firms, interviewing affected parties, briefing members on key evidence, and conducting practice hearings. Members came into the hearing deeply informed and able to rebut and call out CEO dissembling. The result was some of the most effective member questioning of executives we’ve seen in decades. @TheProspect wrote up a great overview: https://t.co/7BYC3UHFbW

4. For decades, institutional capacity in Congress has been extremely weak. Much of this traces back to the Gingrich Revolution, which was effectively the 1995 DOGE-ing of Congress. Republican leadership fired over 600 professional staffers, eliminated the Office of Technology Assessment, and gutted research capacity. None of that capacity was ever meaningfully restored.

As a result, members have way fewer resources to develop serious expertise or go deep on a new topic. Members should start rebuilding that capacity so the institution can fully play its Article I role, where Congress can again do serious policy development and legislating and serve as a real check on the executive and judicial branches.

5. AI markets should be high on the list of investigations. The business decisions of the major AI firms have huge public ramifications, yet the public is at a severe informational disadvantage when it comes to how these markets work and the choices these firms are making. A congressional investigation will help ensure future legislative action is based on a more complete view of what is going on rather than selective and partial corporate disclosures.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

This is required reading for all incoming members of Congress and their staffers.

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Critical state tallies here—just as important as the federal numbers.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Sebastian Matta, a 19-year old student at Arizona State University, just successfully CRUSHED his Republican opponent to become the next clerk of Superior Court in the nation's 4th-largest county. He killed it on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. This is a must watch.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

At least Claude didn’t say, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”

[Doug Emhoff @DouglasEmhoff]

Huge congrats to my former Chief of Staff @killinforco (and her team/family) for an amazing victory in C-05. She is going to be an incredible Representative for her district and for our country. Go Jess!!!! 🇺🇸

[Christina Patterson @queenchristina_]

Wow. This has given me goose flesh.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

They had it all figured out.