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@StevenJDuffield
Husband, father, lawyer, policy advocate. Former Senate leadership, Exec Dir GOP Platform, SLF/Crossroads. @UChicagoLaw @Georgetown. Alaska. From San Diego.





This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/โฆ

#BastilleDay: On this date in 1789, French revolutionaries stormed Parisโ Bastille. Its governor was decapitated, his head paraded on a pike, โforeshadowing the terrifying bloodshed that would play a large role during and after the French Revolution.โ history.com/topics/france/โฆ

Kagan on caseload: "We have a more than ordinary emergency caseload. I would say we have about an ordinary, regular docket." She notes a "cottage industry" explaining the court's significant decrease in the number of argued cases since the 1980s

If this happened in some other country, we would laugh at their backwardness. Some in Washington would argue they must be bombed...

Dems can jerk around Senator-designate Nordone and thwart Sen. Thune from filling the Graham committee vacancies -- a single Dem can require 60 votes. Unprecedented to do, but Senate rules DO allow for the filibuster of an S.Res. BUT -- it doesn't change the Blanche nom. Judiciary is 11-10 today. HOWEVER... re Budget ... 1 of 3




This has some major Matt Foley Motivational Speaker vibes.



Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office has announced that Senator Designate Darline Graham will be sworn in at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14.



She's not Rosa Parks, she's not Ruby Bridges. She's Bernita Bowlding, a mentally challenged woman who went missing for 5 days after infamous Orange Line ride. Truth is always more complicated than our online images. This @esilverman11 piece is haunting. notus.org/metro/viral-meโฆ


๐จ Dua Lipa opens banned book library after global right-wing book censorship.



They have a two-seat margin, so they don't really *need* to fill it. But it would be nice. And even the Democrats may balk at jerking around LG's sister.

Jon Ossoff is running for re-election this year in Georgia and the President is rumored to be making an in-kind contribution to Ossoff's campaign.