Michael Gold

sometimes it is important to step back and capture the zeitgeist so i wrote about how Congress is behaving more and more like the Real Housewives

@CorbinBolies yayyyyyyy congrats!!

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@oomfmagazine i refuse to believe this many people with amex cards know what tennis is

I do not believe that there are 15k people with amex cards trying to buy US open tickets right now….

Here is a gift link to our investigation of how to the CFTC bowed to the prediction market and crypto industries that are tied to the Trump family. nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/…

Since early March, Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has missed roughly 100 House votes. "I don't find this terribly problematic," one local voter, the president of the Westfield Rotary Club, told me. “It's problematic for Mike Johnson."

Ted Cruz says there will be changes to the DOJ fnud. "They're going to announce it, because if nothing changes, we don't have the votes" for the immigration enforcement bill. Says that in the fiery GOP meeting with Blanche, he thinks there were 20 Republican no votes.

the House's margins are about as bad as they were when Stefanik was up for the UN, and Johnson's control seems to be worse so.....

@ian_mariani I am not ostensibly in control of anything Ian

@migold Michael are you quoting yourself and attributing it to lawmakers again

Virginia Foxx, who is ostensibly in charge of the floor: “All I want is just one normal day. Just give me one normal day.”

Inside Trump's Ken Paxton endorsement. It had a lot more to do with the ballroom than John Cornyn w/ @MariannaReports puck.news/inside-the-sen…

Several Republican senators said that they could not vote to fund the ballroom project. GOP can only afford to lose 3 if Democrats stay unified. nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/…

Senate Republicans appear ready to jettison $1 billion in security funds for President Trump’s White House ballroom project. “My understanding is that the security money has come out, and my understanding is it’s because the votes aren’t there,” said Sen. John Kennedy.

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@anniekarni yes it turns out that is in fact the key to my entire personality

@migold you're left-handed! Now I understand you.

as one of these, i think about this Barney Frank riff a lot

Barney Frank, gay rights icon and architect of bank rules, dies at 86 axios.com/2026/05/20/bar…

Dr Heavenly lost her primary (by quite a bit)

BIG SCOOP: US-Israel goal was to install former President Ahmadinejad as Iran's leader (aka Delcy) An Israeli strike designed to free him from house arrest was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power. w/ @MarkMazzettiNYT @julianbarnes @ronenbergman nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/…

“The Justice Department has granted President Trump, his family and businesses immunity from ongoing inquiries into their taxes, a potentially lucrative arrangement that could shield the president from significant financial liability.” nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/…

@rbeggin exciting!

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bet it feels like Eurosummer now