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[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

@maustermuhle @CMZParker5 I know her from when she came to an ANC SMD meeting in a neighborhood she did not live, on a small zoning issue unrelated to bikes, to complain about how it's unsafe for parents to bike with their kids. This is unsurprising.

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

There's some conflation of issues around RCV and vote counting. Elections offices don't call races the night of, that's the press. The problem is that elections offices don't make counts of any choice other than first publicly available

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

@markskovorodko @JohnGonzalesLA1 Wouldn't this have more to do with the CRI than the temp anyhow?

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

@CleanMlk At least for anyone with a light source, the retroreflective paint we use should be even better. The real problem is that (and presumably this new paint) degrade over time

[Christina Henderson @chenderson]

These Governors pulling their National Guard troops away from their full-time jobs and their families, just to have them standing around being hot and bored for a photo-op is wild.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.

He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.

It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

Elon just told us he spent hundreds of millions of dollars in support of someone he believed at the time to be a pedophile.

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

Orange catholic Bible when?

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name:

"... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour."

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

A liveable mars is also dependent on a stable sun you doofus

[Acyn @Acyn]

Musk: And eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun. It's gradually expanding, we do at some point have to be multi-planetary civilization because Earth will be incinerated…

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

@mattyglesias @pegobry_en And what if the president tells them not to reissue you anything?

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

Are you still paying bukele to illegally hold him? Don't you think that should stop?

[JD Vance @JDVance]

@Mikel_Jollett Are you proposing that we invade El Salvador to retrieve a gang member with no legal right to be in our country?

Where in the Supreme Court’s decision does it require us to do that?

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

Hmm today I will re-read the Declaration of Independence

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

Separated bike infrastructure is better for everyone

[Randy Scott @RandyScottESPN]

These monsters must be stopped 🚲 ❌

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

Just taking the implication here: if a journalist can somehow insert themselves into their signal conversation, why are they using that app to plan military strikes? Couldn't any of our adversaries do the same thing?

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Ingraham: "I don't mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number get in the chat?"

Waltz: "Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else's number there? Right? You've got somebody else's number on someone else's contact."

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

@DCTrikeMom @311DCgov I haven't been able to login ever but have had success sending tickets as a guest through the app. It also somehow preserves the link between my phone and the tickets I file

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

They're a coequal branch of government. You're arguing against the constitution.

[Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins]

I don’t remember voting for any federal judges last November.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

I'm starting to think that Chuck Schumer might not be a strategic genius.

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

Hoping the House changes its mind is not an affirmative course of action. Voting for cloture on the bill that causes the problem is abandoning DC.

[Meagan Flynn @Meagan_Flynn]

HUGE update for DC: Schumer says Senate will vote on a standalone bill to resolve DC's problem -- anticipated $1B in cuts due to omitted provision -- immediately following CR.

***Critical: Told no filibuster required, only simple majority****

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Putting aside for a second whether the shutdown is the correct or incorrect call for Dems, just worth noting that Trump will get more *legal* power over the federal budget under the CR, at least per numerous appropriators/approps experts I've interviewed

Sen. Patty Murray (Washington) published a list of dozens of examples of programs that the House-passed measure could allow Trump to change w/o Congress

For instance, Trump would have “near-absolute” authority over specific Army Corps of Engineers projects. More authority to pick which health-care or mental health programs to implement. “Broad discretion” over Centers for Disease Control and Prevention programs, per Murray’s office.

[Michael Lambright @mlambright]

If that was all the bill did, it wouldn't be 99 pages. This makes significant changes to current spending, and was written without bothering to negotiate with Democrats, whose votes they need for passage.

[Galen Druke @galendruke]

Getting request for comment on the "should Democrats shut down the government?" question in the family & friends group chats (and the new podcast isn't up yet), so I'll just post my response here: