Jack Vetterli

[Jeff Zients Archived @WHCOS46Archive]

This bill wipes out all income tax on billionaires and imposes a 25% sales tax on the every day goods working families buy.

It would be the largest tax cut for the rich in history, and the largest increase on middle class families EVER.

[Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 @AWeissmann_]

Lets remember that what we are (correctly) asking the current WH to do - be as transparent as possible about what happened and when - is something Trump has not done at all, to this day, with respect to the MAL docs, other than put out a series of lies.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Arizona voter and self-proclaimed “civil rights” lawyer sues the judge who dismissed Kari Lake's election contest. The lawsuit demands that the judge vacate his order dismissing Lake's case and issue an order removing Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) from office.
https://t.co/GhZgvznfqd

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

It’s not illegal to accidentally have classified documents. It’s illegal to take them and refuse to give them back. (via MaddowBlog) https://t.co/3BdGAaREFT

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

The debt ceiling is a misnomer: it does nothing to cap spending but just creates an illusory threat to stiff our creditors — illusory because Sec 4 of 14th Amendment forbids defaulting on the nation’s debts, but still reckless: it terrifies lenders, who then spike interest rates.

[Mr. Keynes @TyKeynes]

Wow! What a great video edit by https://t.co/GiBzhxAChj, featuring @ProfSteveKeen. Very impressive stuff right here.
https://t.co/Li3CDE8hLY

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Kevin McCarthy has two problems:

1) He stands for nothing.

2) There's no nice way to say this: He's stupid. He's famously stupid. He's an affable doofus. He's lived on his affability in a party that reveres doofus-ery.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

2/ off a chain of events in which Biden can't remain in office because there's no House to confirm the election of the President. It's the new debt ceiling hostage taking.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

The other thing to remember is once the Freedom Caucus team finds a new form of parliamentary terrorism it then becomes permanent and mostly accepted in DC conventional wisdom. So if Biden wins in 2024 and GOP holds the House they can just refuse to choose a Speaker which sets...

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *sixth ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

This is worse than ugly: it’s pure racism 
https://t.co/RM7MAJftIi

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The House has adjourned until noon ET on Jan. 4. No one has enough votes to be speaker at the moment.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Members of the 118th Congress can't be sworn in, and the House can't set rules to govern itself, until there’s a new Speaker.

So how can the 434 who’ve been casting votes do so? They’re not the 117th Congress, which ended today and can’t choose the Speaker of the 118th anyway.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Brazilian law enforcement has been searching for George Santos for years with an embezzlement charge.

They intend to revive the case after he’s sworn-in with a formal request to the DOJ. https://t.co/znmWZOjsY0

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

This once-in-a-century humiliation of a party’s nominee for Speaker is chickens coming home to roost for McCarthy, who whitewashed right-wing insurrectionism on the House floor. Nobody’s getting killed now, but the House GOP now sleeps in the bed they made with Trump and Bannon.

[. @GregTSargent]

Kevin McCarthy's disastrous implosion confirms that MAGA extremists will control the House. So Dems will now focus heavily on making the 18 Republicans from Biden districts pay a heavy price for the MAGA chaos that's unleashed, aides and lawmakers tell me:
https://t.co/7wd3xukIW2

[briankrebs @briankrebs]

This made my day: Brazilian Authorities Will Revive Fraud Case Against George Santos. A 2008 court case had been suspended because Brazilian law enforcement officials could not find Mr. Santos. https://t.co/4DEjG6V3ao

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

normal stuff

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Longtime Trump aide Hope Hicks on the afternoon of Jan. 6:

"All of us that didn’t have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I’m so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now.”

https://t.co/S8EmEzd4SZ

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Democrats better figure out real quick that if they don't prosecute Republicans for their real crimes, Republicans will happily prosecute them for fake ones.

https://t.co/KYmUAb3v3d