Blake Hounshell

Trump elevated media-bashing into a high art for Republicans. But ahead of the next presidential race, DeSantis and others are taking a more radical approach: not just attacking nonpartisan news outlets, but ignoring them altogether. ⁦@grynbaum⁩ nytimes.com/2023/01/10/bus…

New House Rules Make It Easier to Dump Speaker, and Harder to Spend or Raise Taxes ⁦@hillhulse⁩ nytimes.com/2023/01/05/us/…

.⁦@JamesComer⁩ said in an interview House Oversight would be investigating the matter, pledging to send out letters demanding information about Biden’s handling of classified documents within 48 hours. nytimes.com/2023/01/09/us/…

CNBC: A Santos campaign fundraiser impersonated Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff to help raise campaign cash cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/09…

NEW: Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz resigns floridaphoenix.com/2023/01/09/flo… via @FLPhoenixNews #FlaPol

Statement from White House Counsel's Office on cooperation with the National Archives:

I learned a new term in today’s DealBook: “green hushing”:

Nothing is going to replace the "full 20th century life" obit. nytimes.com/2023/01/08/bus…

Amazed at how quickly this got put together nytimes.com/2023/01/08/wor…

Striking finding in the new @CBSNews national poll: Republicans split evenly on how the House majority should use its power: 48% say work with Biden/Democrats, 52% say focus on opposition. (Among self-ID’d MAGA Republicans, over 2-to-1 say oppose.) cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-…

.@RepMattGaetz and I have a long and productive working relationship, that I am sure will continue. I regret that I briefly lost my temper on the House Floor Friday evening and appreciate Matt’s kind understanding.

Some ⁦@hillhulse⁩ wisdom nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/…

An opinion piece from Farah Stockman on the border visit, with some faint optimism about the administration’s proposed new app: nytimes.com/2023/01/08/opi…

The ⁦@shearm⁩, who wrote a great book on immigration, on Biden’s border visit: nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/…

.@charlie_savage and @lukebroadwater on the significant escalation of investigating the investigators (another reason why Trump cared about wrapping up the speaker’s race) nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/…

Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Drama Raises New Fears on Debt Limit - The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/01/07/us/…

NEW: A proposed GOP select committee — negotiated as part of a deal between McCarthy and his GOP detractors — would be explicitly empowered to probe “ongoing criminal investigations.” politico.com/news/2023/01/0…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, waves it off during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Friday. #SpeakerVote

Here’s what I don’t understand: Gaetz and Boebert switched to present. Did either of them promise to flip all the way? Or did someone else vote differently than they promised?