Mike Dana

Teacher, lawyer, hiker, skier, music maker, karaokier. Bay Area transplant with deep Arizona roots 🌵🌁🇺🇸

[Mike Dana @MikeDana]

@Bluwatersail95 @MeghanMcCain @BarackObama Obama delivered a eulogy at McCain's funeral, at McCain's request! They have always shown mutual respect for each other.

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

1/ The chief budget writer for Republicans in AZ Senate, John Kavanagh, recently described to us an ESA program from an imaginary world. No fraud tracking issues. No claw back concerns. No need for more oversite staff. I provided him pages of facts Saturday. He changed his mind.

[Mike Dana @MikeDana]

@pitdesi "If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this [SF] bay will be the centre of its prosperity." - Richard Henry Dana, 1840

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: Here's the first sign that you have an indefensible idea. You have to pervasively put out false information to defend that idea. The critics of the January 6th prosecutions have alleged it was a Biden launched weaponization. It was Donald Trump's first term in which those prosecutions were launched. It was Trump's department of justice that did so. They called themselves victims of weaponized prosecutions. That assumes that every single grand juror and every single trial juror, hundreds of people were all in on this, which is a preposterous notion.

[Andy Duehren @aduehren]

Scoop: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department suddenly stepped down on Monday.

Comes in the wake of the Trump admin's $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund."

[Santa Clara University @SantaClaraUniv]

We’re collaborating with @SutterHealth to launch the first new #MedSchool granting Doctor of Medicine degrees in the San Francisco Bay Area in over a century!

A $175M gift from Mary Stevens '84 & Mark Stevens marks the largest-ever cash gift to Catholic #HigherEd.

[Mike Dana @MikeDana]

@markprasek @mattyglesias I don't have bluecheck bandwidth to flesh out details, but actual historians & experts across three recent surveys rank him from #7-11. 2022 Siena College Research institute, 2021 C-SPAN Historians, & 2024 Presidential Greatness Project. Feel free to search the details

[Mike Dana @MikeDana]

@markprasek @mattyglesias Yeah, you remember the same handful of gripes raised by most reasonable critics. No President is without criticism. But contrast that with today's mess of corruption & incompetence. On the whole, Obama is among U.S. history's best, & his reputation only strengthens with hindsight

[Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus @CAPAC]

CAPAC Members Condemn Trump’s Racist Post Against Indian and Chinese Immigrants:

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump doubled tariffs on foreign steel and told American steelworkers he had their backs.

Then he turned around and is now using foreign steel to build his $400 million White House ballroom.

Two days after accepting the donation, the White House issued a proclamation that cut tariffs in half for the exact type of steel producer that donated it.

The hypocrisy here isn’t subtle.
https://t.co/EYRI0G1c6S

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

The last two times @JoeDanaReports tried to ask @votewarren about ESAs, the Senate president either literally hustled away from him and hid behind a locked door or refused to come out of his office.

I know Joe is a dogged reporter, but he's really a sweet guy.

[Mike Dana @MikeDana]

@CraigHarrisNews @Conscience4 @JoeDanaReports @votewarren Having known Joe since the day he was born, I can confirm that your character descriptions are spot on (admittedly, I’m biased 🙂). You’ve both done outstanding work reporting on these issues.

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

1/ NEW: We cross-referenced purchases of individual ESA accounts to the data analysis that Superintendent Tom Horne recently declared is proof of low misspending rates. Turns out, Horne's analysis categorized many banned taxpayer purchases as "Allowed."
https://t.co/XhdOZiy8RG

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

EXCLUSIVE. ADE official: 12News was accurate in reporting that 20 percent of parents had misspent $10 million in the education voucher program https://t.co/UNWXpK4Q7S https://t.co/UNWXpK4Q7S

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

Just going to keep posting this to counter the ridiculous bullshit until someone makes me stop.

The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity
•The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.
•Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.
•A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.

Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016
•Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1]
•Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3]
•Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]

The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton” 
•In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5]Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent.
•Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6]
•Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8]
•The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
•The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election.
•The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

This appears an attempt to scapegoat. We've been reporting on GOP leaders' inaction on ClassWallet woes since '23. Not new. "Parents are also concerned over problems in ClassWallet, a vendor the state uses to administer ESA funds."
https://t.co/VYEI2pFeON

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Here is what’s really going on with regard to the funding stalemate in Congress.

ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis.

Democrats then said: before we write you another check, agree to the same rules every police department in America already follows. Judicial warrants before entering homes. Visible ID. Body cameras. No raids at schools and hospitals.

We immediately pushed for votes to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA.

Republicans blocked it.

We tried to fund FEMA alone.

Republicans blocked that too. Their position was to fund ICE with no strings attached, or shut the whole thing down.

So DHS shut down.

Then yesterday, the White House sent a letter admitting we were right. But they still won’t agree to judicial warrants or to take the masks off, which means agents can still break down your door without a judge’s approval and you still can’t see their faces when they do it.

We’ve been ready to fund your airport security since day one, not to mention Coast Guard, FEMA and the rest. Republicans chose to protect ICE from accountability instead.

#FundDHSFreezeICE

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Santa Clara is back in the Big Dance for the first time in 30 years 👏

Steve Nash was a senior on the team the last time the Broncos made the NCAA tournament (1996) 😯

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Imagine believing immigrants are the reason you can't afford groceries while the federal government uses $220,000,000 of your tax dollars to make an ad to convince you that immigrants are the reason you can't afford groceries.

[Mike Dana @MikeDana]

@JuliaEMcCoy The gist of your post has some truth, but it is too simplistic. Thinking necessarily requires some level of memorizing. Writing requires thinking. Education incorporates all three to assess learning. We've been testing math skills for decades despite calculators and spreadsheets