Sean Cooksey
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Sean Cooksey
@SeanJCooksey
Catholic | husband | dad | former @WhiteHouse lawyer, @FEC Commissioner, and Senate staffer | @NatlParkService fan. A personal account. Posts are my own.

Thank you @JohnHealey_MP and @CaVautrin for convening the call on the Strait of Hormuz. Closure of the Strait is untenable. Reopening the waterway is essential for the global economy. We discussed ways to restore safe passage, protect merchant vessels and undertake de-mining after the war. A reinforced EU Aspides naval mission would be a strong contribution to the work of the Coalition in securing freedom of navigation across the Arabian Sea. Our EU military staff stands ready to engage with the Coalition’s planning to ensure continuity in these efforts.




You all started it and we fucking finished it.

House Speaker Murrell Smith tells us the House will amend the sine die resolution to allow the option for redistricting after session adjourns. It's still not clear whether they have the votes to actually do it, nor what the maps would actually look like if they took them up.


The robbing of the American people and the country’s purse must end. That’s why the Fraud Division is here.



A UChicago student group is currently handing out onions at the Northwestern Arch to protest to the Onion Futures Act of 1958





@norton_tj @SeanJCooksey Unfortunately that’s Virginia.


.@capitalweather all the difference 3 months makes. 1/30 to 5/1






Behind the Lincoln Memorial, The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace statues are being cleaned up to bring back their original golden color. All four statues were a gift from the people of Italy but have suffered from dirt and pollution.




