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[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

There really should be two separate Wikipedia pages: one for plain old George Santos, and the other for “George Santos” — volleyball champion, Goldman Sachs banker, grandson of Holocaust survivors, and so on. I want to see all the lies in one place, and the bio it adds up to.

[Katherine Clark @WhipKClark]

We're less than 1 week into the House Republican Majority, and here is today's agenda:

Gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics
Protecting their billionaire buddies from paying taxes
Assaulting abortion rights

New Congress, New day, Same Extreme GOP.

[Patrick Wardle @patrickwardle]

Here's a (non exhaustive) list of research that should be cited in their writeup, if nothing else out of professional courtesy:

https://t.co/zWPbNZuqGq

https://t.co/5mY1Kwrp07

https://t.co/o3hKc6CiZ7

https://t.co/VdLzEeGFli

https://t.co/GxyNHU1DQB

https://t.co/vZbXyPxlfY

[Patrick Wardle @patrickwardle]

Microsoft's latest ~5000 word "research" blog on Mac ransomware contain zero new research ...yet contains no citations / credit to existing research 😢

See: https://t.co/nhmeniUuLC

Worst, seems pretty close to ripping off "The Art of Mac Malware" book. 😳

What y'all think?

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Only 1 Republican out of 222 showed up to a ceremony today with the families of police who were violently beaten by MAGA terrorists on January 6.

Don’t ever let them tell you they support law enforcement again.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

when you need 15 votes to become speaker, the gavel is replaced by a foam finger

[Lucas Kunce @LucasKunceMO]

On January 6, 2021, Josh Hawley showed us he’s a fraud and a coward.

Missourians deserve a U.S. Senator who’s willing to stand and fight. That’s why I’ve decided to take him on.

[Lindy Li @lindyli]

Kevin McCarthy agreed to shut down the government to cut Social Security & Medicare for Americans

Ted Cruz shut down the government to stop affordable healthcare for Americans

Trump shut down the govt to stop fair elections for Americans

These guys are motherfucking terrorists

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Kevin McCarthy just agreed to hold the entire US economy hostage to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. That’s what he’s agreeing to.

Republicans are economic terrorists coming for seniors. The media needs to report it as such.

[Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler]

Oops! I did again, @washingtonpost:

I created a Twitter account pretending to be @SenMarkey (with his permission) and applied for Blue “verification.”

And once again, Twitter took my $8, asked zero questions and gave the fake account a blue checkmark.

https://t.co/zD3k7JIX2P

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

-The House literally doesn't have the votes to adjourn
-As long as it doesn't adjourn, the House is required to take endless speaker votes
-No one can win those votes
-So Kevin McCarthy is stuck in endless repeating, inescapable loop of failing to become Speaker over and over

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

On the left, the original speaker’s gavel

On the right, the gavel you should get after six failed attempts

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today's #vatnik soup I'll introduce an ex-Army man and conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn. His tenure as the National Security Advisor is the shortest in history, as he had misled VP Pence and lied to the FBI about his dealings with the Russians.

1/17

[Katherine Clark @WhipKClark]

A day that should have been spent working for the American people has ended without the new Congress even being sworn in.

Americans deserve better, and @HouseDemocrats stand unified and ready to deliver on their behalf. 2/2

[Katherine Clark @WhipKClark]

The @HouseGOP has been in the majority for less than 8 hrs & already their tenure is defined by dysfunction.

Years of blindly pursuing power, currying favor for special interests & bowing to election deniers has left them in shambles — with no shared vision & no leader. 1/2

[Natasha B 🚫🧊 @natasha367b]

@KevinFreyTV Thought it needed more info:

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

With Santos set to be sworn in tomorrow, curious to learn who’s staffing him. Who’s his comms director? His chief of staff? And are they prepared for what’s coming?

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

So with Santos’ health claims — as with so much else — what was true and what’s fiction?

I sent questions to Santos’ campaign this morning but haven’t heard back. (But if he does end up in Congress, I hope to ask him about all this myself.)

https://t.co/G8gjcWAfAa

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

In interviews and tweets, Santos also repeatedly revised the date he tested positive. Initially he said he went to Elmhurst Hospital on March 11. Later it became March 7 or even March 4.

For context: fewer than 500 Americans had tested positive for covid on March 7, 2020.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Insulin out-of-pocket costs are now capped at $35 a month for Americans on Medicare.

Every Republican voted against this life-changing policy.

Democrats are making government work for the people.