Ryan 樹仁 Leou

he/him, 🇺🇸🇹🇼🏳️‍🌈 | Formerly Team @DaveMinCA, @CenterforCities, @reptedlieu crew, + @DailyBruin | @

[Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports]

More than half of Trump's White House ballroom donors have won $50B in new federal contracts since donating to the project, per @Public_Citizen. Many are also facing federal enforcement actions — or have had those actions suspended by the administration.
https://t.co/8ZMtxRIs4Q

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

oh my goodness -- Ted Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange happened:

RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep

LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress

*plays another video of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

[Ryan 樹仁 Leou @rleou]

For all the commotion about EKV's money - she outraised the field several times over and is just barely ahead of her nearest Dem opponent

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

California U.S. House District 40 Nonpartisan Primary

46% Reporting per AP:
🔴 Ken Calvert (Inc.) – 35,573 (35.5%)
🔴 Young Kim (Inc.) – 20,438 (20.4%)
🔵 Esther Kim Varet – 16,410 (16.4%)
🔵 Lisa Ramirez – 13,967 (13.9%)
🔵 Joe Kerr – 8,330 (8.3%)

[Dave Min @DaveMinCA]

The voters of California’s 47th Congressional District have spoken clearly tonight, and I am honored by their tremendous support.

[Emerson College Polling @EmersonPolling]

NEW: CALIFORNIA POLL with @CaliforniaICP

2026 Gubernatorial Primary

Xavier Becerra (D) 28%
Tom Steyer (D) 22%
Steve Hilton (R) 21%
Chad Bianco (R) 12%
Katie Porter (D) 5%
Matt Mahan (D) 5%
Antonio Villaraigosa (D) 2%
5% undecided

https://t.co/Xt2KOcPBtW

[Taniel @Taniel]

Peters, a local election official who responded to Trump's lies about the 2020 election by giving private actors access to election equipment, was convicted in state court, rather than federal court, so she was beyond Trump's reach. Her sentence is commuted by Dem Governor Polis.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

In 2018, North Carolina held an election using congressional maps that had already been ruled unconstitutional. The winners were seated anyway. In 2022, Ohio did the same thing. Georgia and Alabama moved forward with racist maps in 2022 that violated the Voting Rights Act. The winners of those elections were seated anyway. When it’s Republicans disenfranchising Black voters and Democrats, illegal maps are suddenly good enough to keep in place during the election. None of those states even put their maps up for approval by the public like Virginia did. Virginia should proceed with their election under the map their voters just enacted. Anything less would establish an unfair precedent.

[Teddy Roosevelt Voter-Dark Woke Bull Moose @GorillaHpn]

In 2028 I am voting for whichever candidate promises to put the South through a new round of reconstruction

[Cassie Semyon @casssemyon]

It’s hard to miss @CongressMin on Capitol Hill — he’s the one riding the electric scooter.

Now’s he’s turning his love for the speedy method of transportation into bipartisan legislation to create federal standards for e-bikes and other micro-mobility methods.

@SpectrumNewsDC @SpecNews1SoCal

[Max Granger @_maxgranger]

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.

“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

[Jeremy B. White @JeremyBWhite]

NEW: How @ericswalwell went from governor favorite to collapse

“Did people see what they want to see or hear what they want to hear or not ask the questions they didn’t want the answers to? One thousand percent.”

https://t.co/KS4QOiR52q

[Ryan 樹仁 Leou @rleou]

@_eldrinm They already declined to endorse her when she was the front runner last year - my guess is possibly Becerra or just sitting out the primary altogether.

[Alexei Koseff @akoseff]

A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell told the Chronicle she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent. https://t.co/Xx6zg3lxBM

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

This is the play with the five-over-one Costco in LA: the company knew entitlement/permitting a vanilla Costco will be a giant fight, so they turned it into a streamlined, ministerial AB 2011 project. Expect to see more of this. https://t.co/nC5oDJM2pe

[OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @OC_Scanner]

BREAKING 🚨🚨

#OrangeCounty / #California

Close call between a United Airlines Flight and a Military Helicopter at John Wayne Airport

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it "insane" and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of "pallets of cash" even though it was Iran's own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years. Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue--one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding--in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies. No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump's own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

Trump has collapsed cancer research.

—> The National Cancer Institute hasn’t made a single grant this fiscal year

https://t.co/3mKjoMua8Q

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility:

“I guess,” he says

“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.” https://t.co/8l5XEzlGDF

[Metro Los Angeles @metrolosangeles]

The D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega opens...

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: https://t.co/dNBRWAiv0b