Ryan Berger

Berger like merger. Midwest native. Proud uncle. Cyclist. Card Player. Principal @NavGlobal Fmr: @NRSC. @JoniErnst

[Team Husted @TeamHusted]

CNN: "Do you support abolishing ICE?"

Brown: "I don't -- I'm not close enough to make those decisions."

Sherrod Brown spent 32 years in Washington, and suddenly he’s not close enough to have an opinion?

Sherrod wants Ohioans to forget his open border failures. We won't.

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

I’m glad Lyndsey detailed this -

-The NYT found HER
-They got her agreement to go on the record based on the understanding that they weren’t hanging her out to dry
-They connected her with other victims with vivid stories - that didn’t even get included
-They spent more of the story explaining why she might not be credible
-They gave Platner pushback more validity than Lyndsey’s account - and continued to press her to relive and re-prove everything she had about the most toxic point in her life
-Editors seem more interested in killing a story than getting facts right or shining a light on horrific behavior from a major candidate for office

Journalists made themselves the heroes of the #MeToo movement - they even made movies about it. But the lesson from this is journalists role in exposing bad behavior is different if the accuser is an (R) and the powerful person being accused is a (D).

[James Blair @JamesBlairUSA]

Platner is getting the Swalwell treatment for a reason.

The call is coming from inside the house.

The lobbyist-owned octogenarian DEM establishment is trying to strangle the upstart progressives / liberals.

We’ll see if the lobbyists or the voters run their party.

[Ashley Hinson @hinsonashley]

Happy Election Day! Polling places are open from 7 AM to 8 PM today. Join the fight to keep Iowa RED up and down the ballot!

Find your polling place here: https://t.co/n72kc1tMQW

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This captures my mood well.

[Ryan Berger @RyanBergerDC]

@tonyhanagan @SenateCloakroom @Kalshi Great job and more to come!

[Ashley Hinson @hinsonashley]

Here’s what I believe: our veterans deserve a hell of a lot better, healthcare companies are ripping you off, and Members of Congress should not trade stocks.

Watch our first ad, “Believe.”

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Celebrating America’s 250th birthday in Front Royal! 🇺🇸

It was a joy to join the town at their community block party – and to take part in the ‘potluck’. Their Majesties contribution was none other than… a Coronation Quiche! 🥧

‘America’s Potluck’ is a 250th celebration initiative, which aims to bring neighbours together across the country to share a communal meal and build a sense of connection in their community.

Thank you for having us! 👋

[Nathan Brand @nathanbrand]

I don’t ever share ads from Democrats…

But this is a great and relevant ad today from Maine’s Janet Mills

[Mike Rogers War Room @RFSWarRoom]

🚨BREAKING: New statement from “Team Normal”

[Jeff Davis @JDwithTW]

Had I been invited to the lunch with King Charles, I would have brought along the copy of the Senate Manual that he was given during his 1970 visit to the Capitol, which he must have accidentally misplaced because I found it in a used book store for $20

[Ryan Berger @RyanBergerDC]

@zackroday @amyewalter @SeanTrende And spent a small fortune in trying to sell it.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The date is April 8, 1974, and this is your all-time major league home run leaderboard:

Babe Ruth 714
Hank Aaron 714

Take it away, Vin Scully …

[HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△ @HotSotin]

Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

During a blowout game, Greg Maddux decided to throw a meatball to Jeff Bagwell for a homer. Why? To set him up for a strikeout when they met again in the playoffs.

Absolute genius he was. The Professor.

[Nick Puglia @nickpuglia]

NEW: Fired and cash-strapped Mary Peltola used her House Committee as a personal slush fund — spending nearly $200k on DC hotels and restaurants while she wasn't campaigning.

That’s more than DOUBLE the average salary in Alaska.

[PoPville @PoPville]

This whole ‘there are cherry blossoms’ in neighborhoods and not just the tidal basin always cracks me up. YES! The awesome Casey Trees even has a map!

[Kevin Hern @krhern]

Today I’m announcing my campaign for the United States Senate.

I grew up on an Air Force base, worked my way through school, built businesses, and served Oklahoma in Congress.

Now I’m ready to fight for Oklahoma in the Senate.

Watch my launch video!

[Nathan Brand @nathanbrand]

Democrat Sherrod Brown getting the Biden treatment from staffers 😳