A short thread on the legislative effectiveness of the 8 Republicans legislators who ousted Speaker McCarthy: Andy Biggs of Arizona has been in Congress since 2017. In that time, he has successfully authored and passed 1 law,

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Jim Jordan was a major co-conspirator in Trump's effort to mount a coup. Yet it's not an issue in the speakership race. Dan Friedman & I have all the ugly details. motherjones.com/politics/2023/… Jim Jordan Tried to Help Trump Mount a Coup. Now He Gets To Be Speaker?

Yair Golan and Noam Tibon deserve to enter the pantheon of Jewish heroes. Their stories are a necessary salve to the awfulness nearly everywhere you look.

Westlaw and Lexis are going to have to make a new kind of flag for this so people don't accidentally cite to a mock opinion

Mace's former communications director 👇

Ways to support those impacted by crisis in Israel: jstreet.org/ways-to-suppor…

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evidence and logic from PBS website: pbs.org/newshour/amp/p…

Supreme Court justices are far more likely to interrupt a female attorney during oral arguments than a male attorney, Axios' Will Chase and Kavya Beheraj write from a new study analyzing four decades of court transcripts: axios.com/2023/10/14/sup…

This is a funny tweet.

Ok, now extrapolate these findings across the rest of the city :)

and yet all journalists can do is focus on vote counts.

Sage advice from Joel Benenson, the best pollster in the biz. Biden Has a Critical Advantage for 2024. He Should Make It Known. nytimes.com/2023/10/17/opi…

Yes, he might end the country, but you’ll get an additional tax deduction. 🤷‍♂️

This new study finds that less on-street parking leads to *more* people shopping nearby: "Much on-street parking capacity in the immediate vicinity reduces retail rents." doi.org/10.1016/j.jtra…

Blockbuster GDP report shows real GDP grew at an annual rate of 4.9% in Q3, blowing even optimistic expectations out of the water. This economy is going gangbusters, and it's time for the doomers to apologize for being consistently wrong for two years.

That sucks, I hope the person is ok & gets the help they need. What I’m sure neither they nor the police response needed? A constant helo presence: