Dmitri Mendeleev was born #OTD (8 Feb) in 1834. He's known for recognising periodic patterns in the properties of elements, using these to predict the properties of undiscovered elements. And, of course, the periodic table! wp.me/p4aPLT-8UU#OTD #ChemSky 🧪

Since December, per Fulton Co suit, DOJ has sued to recover unredacted voter rolls from 24 states + DC. (Don't think I understood the extent of this operation before.)

TODAY'S QUESTION: Is it a bad idea for a senator to use a side door entrance to his office while on camera? #SRules

TIL: There is a member of Congress who was born in a state that no longer exists. 😳

This is what I am interested in. Does he really thing his naming spree is going to last past the next 3 years?

Even the Post’s AI bot still thinks Will Lewis is still in charge Probably because its “answers are AI generated from Washington Post reporting.”

Cold, but fair.

Contra Foucault, the modern West did not invent long-term incarceration: Adam Gopnik in the @newyorker.com reviews a book by Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney on prisons in the ancient Mediterranean

The House will be structuring the SAVE Act as an amendment to a Senate bill, so that the Senate doesn’t have to deal with a debatable motion to proceed. But you can filibuster a motion to proceed even if it’s nondebatable, such that it becomes necessary to use cloture:

Getting a sense that regular people are starting to pay attention to politics in a way I haven't seen in a non-presidential year.

Reading a bit between the lines Marty Baron details here…Bezos stopped caring about the Post when he and McKenzie Scott got divorced and he was surrounded by shallow and red-pilled people. Really wish she had gotten it in the divorce. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh5TAVkq/

We laugh, but…

NEWS: Massive "VOTER FRAUD!"* detected in the collection of signatures for a Republican-sponsored ballot initiative to (again) empower the Republican-majority Utah legislature to gerrymander – a power voters took away by passing Prop 4 in 2018. (* – allegedly) 1/ www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

"Department of War" 😅

Note: Over on Xitter Laura Rozen wonders if the person is Ric Grenell, which would like up with a bunch of things (including current urgency).

STUMBLED UPON: A "quote" from the decision of a CA8 panel in US v McCoy. #appellatesky #appellatebluesky www.moed.uscourts.gov/sites/moed/f...

Howard lied. By the time Epstein and Lutnick agreed to buy stakes in Adfin, it had been more than four years since Epstein agreed to enter a guilty plea to Florida state charges of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute. www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

Let's say the average Post journalist made $200k, including fringe. (Probably generous, but let's go with that.) The $7.8 billion would have paid for 39,000 journalists. You could cover a lot of zoning meetings in Anacostia and Chevy Chase with that staff. Plus all 162 baseball games.

"In a year in which she was nominated for one". But @maxkennerly.bsky.social is totally right when he notes that Blackburn is really stupid.

Hillary Clinton went to the Winter Olympics and never caused anything like this.

Worst-performing large-cap cryptocurrency this week: World Liberty Financial's token WLFI. Down 31% in 7 days, per Coinmarketcap. You may have heard of World Liberty Financial, which is one of the Trump family crypto projects.

I think they just add an unnecessary “u” and say “Streisaund Effect”

embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

The movie Casablanca would not have been improved by the singing of "Oh Canada."

Prosecutors: “and his fingerprints were found on that gun that was splattered with the victims blood” Me: “so now it’s a crime to touch a gun?”

$1 billion from Harvard $10 billion from US taxpayers (his IRS suit) $230 million from DOJ (to cover legal fees when he was a private citizen) $15 million from ABC $16 million from CBS and the list goes on and on and on...

Just to make Trump's position clear, it's that he can unilaterally claim a private organization is acting criminally, and on the basis of that judgement unilaterally demand they pay a $1 billion fine and make other restitution, without due process or any involvement from the court system.

I agree, but for "a paper trail". Wyden has long made a point of letting the public know something is going on in the intel world that (as he sees things) is wrong… while properly not revealing classified details. At a hearing, on the Senate floor, and here by releasing his letter to Ratcliffe.

I agree, but for "a paper trail". Wyden has long made a point of letting the public know something is going on in the intel world that (as he sees things) is wrong… while properly not revealing classified details. At a hearing, on the Senate floor, and here by releasing his letter to Ratcliffe.

We should also be clear that Republicans made defunding IRS anti-cheating enforcement literally their number one legislative priority when they retook the House in 2023. Since then they've gotten rid of nearly all the enforcement money from the IRA. Their goal is making it easier to cheat on taxes.

I don't buy any fast food unless it's the $5 meal deal or something similar. Any regularly priced item at every restaurant is through the roof, now. The plus side is that I'm cooking everything at home?🤷‍♂️

It was Chipotle’s first annual decline in comps since 2016. 👀 @cnbc.com #$CMG www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/c...

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Also worth pointing out Schumer isn't speaking as the public face of the Democratic Party setting forth the party's platform. He's speaking as a legislative caucus leader, using public statements as one tool in a negotiation over legislation. Those are different things with different constraints.

Apparently Trump's plan for his ballroom includes relocating the Treasury Building some distance to the east. 1/

Lol

When it's a bad marriage, you bury your wife at the 1st hole. When it's a good marriage, you bury her on the 18th.

Trump adds "Sleazebag 'influencer' and lawyer Leonard Leo" to Bondi's list of people who maybe "should be thoroughly looked into."

It wasn't pretty, but they got there. #HRules

This would be slightly more exciting if Congress followed the parliamentary rule that rejecting a motion to concur is equivalent to disagreeing to the amendments.

It’s possible to set this up so that all the motions involved are privileged, no rule/suspension needed: 1. The House disagrees to the Senate amendments and requests a conference. 2. The Senate tables the House message. 3. The House recedes from its disagreement and concurs in the Senate amendments.

Ah, like old times. #HRules

@j-gut.bsky.social Starting at about 1:40. 🇩🇰

Speaker Mike Johnson starring in "An Inconvenient Constitution"

The bill outlines punishments and remedies if anyone allows you to register or vote without an ID. But it doesn’t say what happens if election officials just declare they don’t believe your documents, like ICE/CBP is doing to people right now.

Massie, in particular, is very experienced in these things.