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Kevin R Kosar
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Kevin R Kosar
@kevinrkosar
Thinktanker/@aei. Editor of https://t.co/m3iDDhOBUG Last book: Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity & the Prospects for Reform. Tweets & typos = mine.
Washington, DC Katılım Nisan 2010
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Today In 1981: Cleveland Indians pitcher Len Barker hurls a perfect game vs. the Toronto Blue Jays at Municipal Stadium! #MLB #Guardians #History
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The New Yorker corrects its Graham Platner profile which originally stated he bought his home w/ "the aid of a Department of Veterans Affairs low-interest mortgage."
Actually, Platner received a $200,000 loan his Dad.
@FreeBeacon got the mortgage docs.
freebeacon.com/democrats/free…
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@HouseAdmin @RepBice @kevinrkosar An underrated and thankless task that is bringing staffers, members, and visitors up to speed.
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I enjoyed chatting with Chris Deaton of Declare News about voting by mail, the Postal Service's fiscal troubles, and the upcoming election!
youtube.com/watch?v=0__jIa…
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👀"A federal jury ... convicted the founder and owner of HealthSplash yesterday for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ orders and prescriptions to defraud Medicare ... out of more than $1 billion." justice.gov/opa/pr/owner-h…
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One might wonder why a legislator who spent time in prison would be allowed back in the Capitol.
Brown "served about two years in prison. She was back on the House floor this week." jamiedupree.substack.com/p/cracks-start…
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Alternatively, you could agree not to filibuster spending bills.
"Senators move to withhold their own pay during future shutdowns"
washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
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Wow. @jamiedupree caught the office of Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) passing off photos from an event last year as if they were from an event held this week.
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree
Rep. Frederica Wilson D-FL missed all 10 votes on Wednesday in the House. Wilson has now missed 43 straight votes - she last voted on April 17. Wilson's X account this week sent out photos of a Service Academy day - but pictures from the same event were posted last October
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Path dependency/logic if sunk costs: The system bought into tech and doubles down.
The Associated Press@AP
Kids in Lower Merion school district in Pennsylvania get iPads starting in kindergarten, switch to Chromebooks in second grade and get their own MacBooks in eighth grade. Hundreds of parents signed a petition asking to preserve their ability to opt their children out of using digital devices during the school day. The school district has pushed back, saying it’s not feasible to let hundreds of students opt out of technology that is essential to the curriculum.
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"It was not that these conservatives had reached different conclusions than I had. It was that the enterprise of reaching conclusions—of fixing claims to evidence, of reasoning from principles of human action to testable propositions—was itself under suspicion."
Rachel Lu@rclu
This piece from @CRPakaluk @ActonInstitute is very harsh. And I can't pick a single quote, because there are too many "devastating but true" observations. So, look. It's clear to anyone paying attention that the postliberal movement is full of grifters. Lots of unserious people on a joyride, just seizing the moment to claim the political relevance they always thought they deserved. Academics are extremely vulnerable to that temptation, as of course are media people. But I don't think everyone is like that. For instance, there are bright young people who came up through the movement, found positions in various institutions, and now are appreciating some of the problems. Maybe some not-young people who are coming to appreciate how they perhaps got a little overexcited in the heady "down with the rotting-flesh Reaganite" days. This would be a good moment for such people to prove their seriousness by genuinely reckoning with what happened. It's not really enough to "get tired of" the conversation and wander away. Learn from past mistakes. blog.acton.org/archives/12837…
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"A movement that cannot tolerate a Thomas Massie has become exactly what its critics say it is — a personality cult with principles grafted on after the fact."
-@kmanguward, nytimes.com/2026/05/14/opi…
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How stupidos/grifters wrecked a company & increased food waste.
"Robyn Openshaw... who markets herself as GreenSmoothieGirl, published over 60 anti-Apeel posts.... [The] posts drove traffic to Openshaw’s website, where she sells nutrition supplements...." thefp.com/p/this-company…
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HOW INTERESTING: Within the span of a few hours yesterday, three X influencers (~1M total followers) who'd never posted about the Jones Act suddenly came out in support.
One noted she was paid for the post. I'm sure the other two are a coincidence.
We're winning, folks.
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The kids found a young chipmunk shivering in the street. They used a jacket to scoop him up & brought him home. He was very clingy. No obvious wounds or foaming at the mouth/nose. After a few hours, Mr. Chips had his eyes open & was bouncing about. I released him in my backyard.
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Brand new briefing paper w/@AlfredCObregon makes the holistic economic and legal case against the Trump administration's use of Section 122 tariffs. cato.org/briefing-paper… via @CatoInstitute @CatoTrade
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I'm not a sot. You are!
Senator Chris Van Hollen@ChrisVanHollen
Yesterday, @FBIDirectorKash told me he'd take the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test if I did. Well, here's mine. Given all the lies he told yesterday, I imagine he'll fudge the numbers here, but let's see yours, Director Patel.
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Another discharge petition gets 218 signatures.
thehill.com/homenews/house…
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NEWS in @PunchbowlNews AM
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP and top campaign officials have no idea what’s going on w @CongressmanKean
He has told leadership no more than he’s said publicly. He’s been gone two months with basically no explanation.
link.punchbowl.news/click/45701566…
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Life is like a guitar. @ericchurch offers a brillianct commencement address (and guitar lesson) at his alma mater, UNC, that belongs in the pantheon of addresses of this sort with those of Steve Jobs (Stanford) and David Foster Wallace (Kenyon College).
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