Laura Brown

College English instructor. Hiker🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️Political junkie. Topple authoritarians everywhere! America, you had a good run 🇺🇸1776-2016

[Liz Landers @ElizLanders]

Tina Peters’ attorney, Peter Ticktin, has shared an image with reporters of him meeting in the Oval Office with the president earlier this week.

Ticktin told me in the winter that he thinks the president could invoke a national emergency around elections this fall.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Kash Patel's FBI has assigned 260 analysts to search files in Georgia to try to prove Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged. @NYTnickc @alanfeuer @dnvolz @RichardFausset https://t.co/DxbCH57PRh

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump’s profiteering in office was once unimaginable in a democracy, particularly by a sitting American president. The Trump family’s earnings move him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey. @jasondhorowitz https://t.co/GXUa2Bx797

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@SenAdamSchiff To MAGA whose money went in the toilet on Trump crypto, are you finally going to blame the “crypt keeper” or just Obama and Biden again?

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@kylegriffin1 John Brennan is being investigated by Trump’s DOJ.
Did they find seashells that spelled ‘47 Go to Heaven’

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

ODNI, theoretically a serious national security office, keeps filling up with Trumpy political operatives with no national security experience but histories in election meddling and partisan hit work.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Somehow rich folks feel entitled to benefits that they believe struggling families are not. 🤬

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Nerd Alert! 🔥 Ring of Fire Heat Dome punches above its weight with near all-time records! Here’s why… The position of this heat dome / “ring of fire” (real term) will allow winds from the west on the north side of the dome to “downslope”/ flow downhills from the Appalachians & other mountains. This is how the I-95 cities like DC, Philly, NYC and even Boston get their hottest temperatures. That wind sinks, drys and heats, amplifying the heat! So don’t be surprised by some big numbers. #heatwave #ringoffire #heat #hot

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

What I’m hearing from constitutional law experts is amazement that this was a 5-4 decision.

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@RepDonBacon Wise of them to leave all the tough decisions for when they adjourn so no one notices their yacht trips w billionaires

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@jamiedupree SCOTUS shouldn’t even have heard the birth citizen issue. Changing constitution by executive order is like throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@RonFilipkowski Vivek Ramaswamy is on safe ground

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Musk is right that many problems can't be solved just by "throwing money" at them.

But US aid to fight AIDS, child hunger & other global plagues has one of the highest ROIs in government.

The data is clear: cutting this $ means millions will die. The question is how many.

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@LisaDNews The most important is states rights in running elections. Trump knows a big midterms loss could reduce his power, so he’s wants to control voting

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting a challenge led by the Trump administration. https://t.co/7EBOTz1vTt

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@AdamKinzinger Celebration of our 250th is ruined by a raving lying president

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@marceelias @johnboston76 Exercised my right 3 times to vote against lying orange con man. Thankfully he’ll be weakened after the midterms, unless he pulls something

[Michael S. Schmidt @nytmike]

NEW and BREAKING: Yale is in negotiations w/ the Trump admin to end an array of DOJ investigations into its admissions policies for law and medical schools and undergraduate college. A deal with Yale would be a major win for Trump. https://t.co/sI8eogbrrM

[Laura Brown @socalaura]

@WeatherProf Too bad. This might diminish the crowds at president’s “all about me” 250th

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Pulte, who has no national security background and has targeted Trump adversaries, installs a GOP political operative at ODNI, raising concerns that he plans to use the intelligence agencies to promote Trump's election denialism. @julianbarnes @dnvolz https://t.co/itgZBeKd28