President Donald Trump on Thursday signed off on an agreement on a TikTok sale he said would bring the app into compliance with U.S. law. ✍️ @bueninvierno.bsky.social, @notus.com

After four deadline extensions to force a sale of TikTok, the U.S. is finally close to a sale agreement for the massively popular video platform, a White House official said Monday. ✍️ @bueninvierno.bsky.social, @notus.com

The video of Charlie Kirk’s assassination is all over social media. Republicans are grappling with the content moderation era they helped create. “Shouldn’t we have some kind of rules of the road?” Rep. Chip Roy told NOTUS. www.notus.org/technology/c...

Read the full story below for more reactions from California Democrats to Trump's joint address to Congress. ✍️ @markalfred.bsky.social & @bueninvierno.bsky.social, @notusreports.bsky.social (🧵4/4)

First, they banned TikTok. Then they came for RedNote. Now, lawmakers are trying to ban DeepSeek on all federal devices. “It’s what’s sometimes called whack-a-mole,” Republican Sen. John Cornyn told @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/technology/c...

DOGE put NIH grant funding on the chopping block last week. Not so fast, said some GOP Republicans. New from me and the inimitable @benmause.bsky.social:

WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed in new campaign filings she hasn’t refunded business donations she wasn’t supposed to accept during her failed 2022 congressional campaign. The FEC has questioned the campaign at least 8 times about illegal donations. www.notus.org/whitehouse/w...

NEW: Trump directs U.S. officials not to enforce the TikTok ban for 75 days. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he’d like to negotiate a new deal with ByteDance and threatened to impose tariffs on China if they try to block the sale. www.notus.org/policy/tikto...

Will we get the TikTok decision today, I was asked. No idea. Realized we're living in a jurisprudential Samuel Beckett play.

Biden made his farewell a warning. Read here: www.notus.org/joe-bidens-f...

NEW: Republicans say they want to ban TikTok alternative ‘RedNote’ over its ties to China. “It’s just another way to skirt the idea that they want to influence our children in negative ways,” Rep. Rich McCormick said. “We will legislate against them.” w/ @bueninvierno.bsky.social

Republicans — many of whom were learning what RedNote is in the last couple of hours — now want to ban the Chinese-based TikTok alternative. “We will legislate against them. I mean we have to," Rep. Rich McCormick told NOTUS. www.notus.org/congress/red...

NEW: California Democrats are incensed at Trump’s discussion of adding conditions to disaster relief. Rep. Scott Peters: “It is outrageous, we would never do that to any other state.” @carbajal.house.gov: “It would be precedent-setting and a terrible idea.” www.notus.org/california/s...

NEW: When the 1st Trump admin proposed a rule allowing homeless shelters to turn trans people away, congressional Dems were furious Now, it’s unclear how much Dems would push back if it happens again It’s “a complicated issue,” one senior House Dem told me www.notus.org/policy/trans...

NEW: Trump says he doesn’t want to sign a national abortion ban into law, but his cabinet picks are expected to get rid of several federal policies aimed at protecting abortion rights. Here is how the Trump administration will be restricting access: www.notus.org/trump-transi...

We might not have a CR yet, but we do have the AI task force report. With dozens of recommendations on how Congress should regulate AI, the report’s ideas enjoy some bipartisan support. Still, it is unclear which —if any— of these will make it into law. www.notus.org/policy/house...

Exclusive: Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee are seeking information from the Department of the Health and Human Services about its efforts to engage agricultural workers in containing and monitoring the bird flu outbreak. www.notus.org/house/democr...

Cyberattacks from foreign actors are becoming more far-reaching and sophisticated, but the GOP is still suspicious of the United States’ top cybersecurity agency Here’s my latest for @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/congress/maj...

Immigration was a political loser for Democrats this election, even as the party adopted GOP positions on border security. Now, congressional Democrats are trying to figure out how to move forward on the issue—and if the lesson is to move further right. www.notus.org/congress/dem...

New: Republican lawmakers have vowed to slash federal spending in the next Congress. But unspent Biden-era infrastructure funds are expected to be spared from those cuts. latest for @notusreports.bsky.social www.notus.org/congress/the...

I’m sorry, but 25 degrees Fahrenheit is an ungodly temperature

Thinking about the faces my Miami friends made when I showed them the senator flashcards I’ve been doing

NEW: Almost two decades after the first bill to cut funding for Planned Parenthood was introduced, Republicans hope that under a GOP trifecta they’ll finally be able to get it done It’s “one of the biggest things” Republicans can do, Rep. Kevin Hern told me www.notus.org/congress/pla...

I asked 19 lawmakers about the nation's worst-ever bird flu outbreak. Few said they've been keeping up with it. But increasing human cases and egg shortages might bring it to Congress' attention soon: www.notus.org/congress/con...

Donald Trump was supposed to be sentenced in July for faking business records in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. The case, twice delayed, is now off for the foreseeable future. www.notus.org/trump-transi...

SCOOP: House Dems are brushing off GOP attacks on Sarah McBride That’s because McBride, who will be Congress’ 1st openly trans member, told them to “‘We got work we need to to do, don’t forget that,’ and that’s what she’s telling a lot of members,” one Dem told me www.notus.org/congress/dem...

No senator is going to feel more pressure over Trump’s Cabinet picks than Thom Tillis. two challengers in ‘26 are already said to be eying a run at him— Mark Robinson in a primary, and Roy Cooper in the general. His votes on Gaetz and Co. could tip the scales www.notus.org/congress/sen...

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace is introducing a resolution to ban trans women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol The bill, Mace said, is specifically targeted at Sarah McBride, who will become Congress’ 1st openly trans member next year www.notus.org/congress/sar...