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Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:09pm
@brianros1 @mattyglesias well, except maybe prioritizing democracy preservation and reform
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:08pm
RT @GeoffRBennett: A new Monmouth poll of Virginia's race for governor shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Younkin tied at 46 percent among registered voters. This marks a shift from prior Monmouth polls where McAuliffe held a 5-point lead. https://t.co/cDXa8ufpsu
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:06pm
this was an explicit goal of the Centrist Project 4 years ago when @Joel_Searby & @NickTroiano were involved https://t.co/rCOT8w1CBv https://t.co/KL2pdG305M
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:01pm
@BarbaraComstock @RepLizCheney Barbara, can you explain how congressional oversight is unique from law enforcement investigations and adjudication in the courts? That was something Matt Gaetz skipped over a lot in trying to claim that congressional oversight is essentially tilting at windmills.
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:49pm
Another appeal from Liz Cheney to her fellow Republicans, this time today testifying before the House Rules Committee prior to a full House vote tomorrow on a criminal referral for Bannon https://t.co/UQbkmxjHn1
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Jon Ward
22 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:45pm
RT @MacFarlaneNews: Defying tradition and custom.. at this high-profile House hearing, Republicans have handed over speaking duties to members who do NOT sit on panel. The Rules Committee Republicans declined to speak. They called in Reps. Jordan, Gaetz and Banks to speak for party
Jon Ward
22 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:44pm
RT @KlasfeldReports: Rep. Raskin pressed Gaetz on fact that the pro-Trump post-election lawsuits failed, even among his appointees. Gaetz pushes the talking point about dismissals on procedural grounds. (Some were dismissed on merits.) Raskin, constitutional law prof, isn't having it. WATCH https://t.co/HvrShXvvMt
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Jon Ward
22 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:42pm
RT @MacFarlaneNews: Republicans on panel have stood down at this US House Rules Committee hearing on Contempt of Congress finding against Steve Bannon. Forgoing their allotted speaking time, not using Bannon’s name. Not mounting defense Let’s see what happens at full House floor debate this week
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 11:20am
RT @Kasparov63: Two comments. 1) Not everyone can or should fight every fight all the time. And telling people to care about what you care about, not what they care most about, is harmful to activism. https://t.co/fG2UNa5CVG
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 10:18am
RT @nicholaswu12: Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson says that “our people are still talking” to Kash Patel, Dan Scavino, and Mark Meadows. They’re “somewhat” cooperating, he says
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 10:17am
RT @JakeSherman: >@seungminkim and I just spoke to PELOSI We asked her about a framework this week. “I think it's very possible. We've been on schedule every deadline for the budget and [Sept. 15 deadline] coming out of the budget committee, and we continue to be on schedule.”
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 10:13am
Interesting Raffensperger said even if the warring GOP factions manage to unify before next year's midterm elections, the party is "not at 50%" in Georgia. https://t.co/rBsl0uJthz
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 9:47am
"True freedom involves more than 'being left alone' & 'doing what I want.' That is not freedom. It is idiocy ... The corruption of the American understanding of freedom has taken several forms." - @GorskiPhilip Positive freedom (v. negative) involves our connections w each other https://t.co/eM5SiTORn9
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:17pm
“Mr. Bannon stands alone in his complete defiance of our subpoena,” said committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. “He’s chosen the path toward criminal contempt by taking this position.” https://t.co/ZUyoNbdOlg
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:04pm
of course @mkraju already reported this
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:03pm
NEWS: A vote in the full House of Representatives to refer Steve Bannon to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution is planned for THURSDAY, per a source familiar. The Jan 6 select committee voted unanimously to refer Bannon just now for defying its subpoena
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:52pm
An appeal from Liz Cheney to her Republican colleagues in Congress, at the close of her opening statement at the criminal referral hearing for Bannon https://t.co/uKIaVYQZ1M
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Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:29pm
truly fascinating https://t.co/Phr5d8cWLn
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:28pm
pretty interesting contrast in approach to negotiations that seems colored by deeper philosophical differences https://t.co/JJOzoS7les
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:08pm
RT @GarrettHaake: “It looks like that’s probably going to be out,” @RepJayapal says of the free community college program POTUS had hoped to include in the reconciliation bill. https://t.co/mjmjxj4Jk5
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Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:08pm
RT @mikedebonis: Truly worth 4:14 of your time https://t.co/TFp2NwmpWn
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 5:15pm
RT @StevenTDennis: Where we are, possibly: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO <<YOU ARE HERE👋>> NO NO NO YES TO FRAMEWORK NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 5:13pm
RT @FoxReports: Rep. @RoKhanna who met with Biden earlier today telling @jaketapper that he believes after Biden meeting, the following are still included. -child tax credit expansion -universal Pre-K -vision, dental, hearing coverage in Medicare -money to expand Obamacare -climate investments
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 5:13pm
good historical thread https://t.co/vE3O3KnEho
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 1:36pm
McAuliffe pulls up to a campaign stop in NOVA in the drivers seat. Get it? https://t.co/2YixlDlfRT
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:47am
leadership is kinda rare these days in general https://t.co/m0YOc73BCO https://t.co/TMyhh2e383
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:44am
There is no GIF of Frederick the Great saying “to defend everything is to defend nothing,” but it’s still true. - @mattyglesias https://t.co/m0YOc73BCO
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:37am
RT @ABC: A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn't stop them. https://t.co/u1aY4c6k8h
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:25am
This is a very sharp analysis from @DamonLinker https://t.co/DnsR35nxr6 https://t.co/AMeFCSN0Lf
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:25am
A better use of our time: thinking, reporting, writing, talking about things like: what is being done to prioritize reforming the Electoral Count Act? This is what Jon Stewart is saying, and I think he's right: focus on rebuilding & reforming.
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:15am
The former president's cheap shot at Powell is the kind of thing I think it's better for us in the media to ignore, but I don't know anything
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:14am
RT @kyledcheney: Good news for the Jan. 6 Committee: The Trump executive privilege lawsuit has been assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has expressed horror about the Jan. 6 attack and extended sentences beyond what prosecutors have asked for in a couple cases.
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:14am
RT @kyledcheney: When CHUTKAN sentenced Matthew Mazzocco, she referenced Trump: "He went to the Capitol in support of one man, not in support of our country.: https://t.co/C1KGxIU7F4
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:13am
RT @DavidMDrucker: There are wonderful books about what happened. #InTrumpsShadow is about what’s NEXT. Excited that it is now available. https://t.co/VJNPUmWX1d & @indiebound https://t.co/9f1a2n3vdG
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:13am
The fact that Bannon wasn't in government on Jan 6 is NOT the reason his executive privilege claim is weak, by me with lots of insight from @jshaub https://t.co/mWxSn4Mlx9
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:16am
@JunksRadio this is "not a Sputnik moment," Joshua Pollack, a leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, told Axios. "The point about Sputnik is that the Soviets had beaten us to the punch ... Weapons payload aside, this is old hat for the United States."
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 8:34pm
RT @Jomboy_: just needs to know what time it is https://t.co/DrJlWDdbcW
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 7:23pm
Shaub also wrote in greater detail about the way the Jan 6 committee should approach the Bannon subpoena https://t.co/1rjvLVLbkN
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 7:22pm
RT @jshaub: Have been waiting for this to clear the way for contempt... See @jonward11 story https://t.co/bnN2UbXGVv and my write up on @lawfareblog https://t.co/39z95Od2rB https://t.co/J2AwaDiyab
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 7:22pm
This appears to answer the question I wrote about today with the help of @shaub https://t.co/mWxSn4Mlx9 https://t.co/ShYYcghRL7
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 2:05pm
RT @kyledcheney: NEW: DOJ says those “lionizing” Jan. 6 rioters or calling them “political prisoners” are fueling the likelihood of future political violence. https://t.co/ogJbKm7LBl
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 11:14am
RT @1a: "They are essentially buying newspapers, gutting the staff...and turning out a steadily worse product year after year," says @mckaycoppins on the hedge fund, Alden Global Capital.
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 11:12am
RT @timrequarth: Yes, Colin Powell was vaccinated. But he also had blood cancer, which devastates the immune system. What his tragic death illustrates isn't the futility of vaccines but the importance of everyone else getting vaccinated to protect society's most vulnerable.
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 10:50am
"I don't know that autocracy is purely the domain of Donald Trump. We all have a bit of a tendency to grant amnesty to people who are doing things that we would prefer, even if they are slightly undemocratic." - Jon Stewart
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 10:50am
Stewart's takeaway point: don't focus on personalities or individuals (such as the former president obv). Focus on systems and incentive structures. Take action. Rebuild. And don't lose hope. https://t.co/PrMBNZjJ3f
Jon Ward
4 days ago: Saturday Oct 16 - 11:14pm
Blake Treinen strikes again
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 3:19pm
RT @TimAlberta: If you want to understand the @CNN / @joerogan situation, think of the media as a clique-obsessed high school. A brief thread:
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 12:46pm
Not even really all that close to a swing https://t.co/hqM4DJdD6V
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 12:14pm
Dylan is throwing down! some real upper cuts here at THE MEDIA™️ https://t.co/wDpihMDWYk
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 12:07pm
RT @fmanjoo: I wrote about Instagram and moral panics. Maybe Instagram is terrible for teens. But we have little evidence that it is — like with video games, television, rap music, rock music and a lot of other things grown ups once swore would harm children. https://t.co/83MuMj04tx
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 11:27am
RT @germanrlopez: A common question I get about policing is whether there’s evidence that police actually reduce crime. There actually is quite a bit of evidence. I broke it down in this article: https://t.co/ronV0muyXN. But I want to do a thread highlighting some of the studies.
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 9:19am
RT @TylerHuckabee: Babylon Bee guy just not even trying. https://t.co/mSE7x2hly8 https://t.co/NbFuwpRk7i
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Jon Ward
6 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 9:16am
RT @bethallisonbarr: For all of you waiting for my response, I posted part 2 yesterday: Deconstructing the ESV: A Historian’s Response to Kevin DeYoung, et. al. - https://t.co/K3LcMHYI2q
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 5:07pm
New Youngkin statement "It is weird and wrong to pledge allegiance to a flag connected to January 6. As I have said many times before, the violence that occurred on January 6 was sickening and wrong." https://t.co/Bpwrr7mUjE
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Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 3:50pm
i call for a debate between @jon_rauch & @ggreenwald on this topic - @IQ2US? @munkdebate? my podcast? https://t.co/9qWiUCwCHi
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 3:46pm
One day after this announcement, Trump inserted himself into the race by calling into the Bannon rally https://t.co/YJfenFYqD1
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 3:00pm
Implicit but not explicit rebuke of January 6 insurrection - and a vague condemnation of any and all violence rather than a focus on the specific attempt to gaslight the country and violently overthrow an election & destroy democracy https://t.co/8gZJ7tvFC3
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 2:15pm
a detail from Laura's piece that stood out -- Youngkin has begun to campaign with Amanda Chase at his side! In Dec. 2020, Chase called for Trump to stage a coup by declaring martial law to keep himself in office! https://t.co/7aAGGPCIl3 https://t.co/y8XLDjH4t0
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 2:12pm
RT @LVozzella: .@AmandaChaseVA, urging crowd to vote for @GlennYoungkin, says Virginia should put Confederate monuments back up. "We need to gold-plate those things." (Youngkin, btw, has said he agreed w/ removal.)
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 12:46pm
RT @dougherty_jesse: To absolutely zero surprise, @kentbabb’s Across The River is excellent from start to finish. Now do the smart thing and get your copy here: https://t.co/xkhG3FWHPP https://t.co/BGId5xob3G
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Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 10:55am
Terry McAuliffe jumping on the Trump/Bannon event yesterday: "Glenn Youngkin needs to disavow the insurrection ... I would love to hear my opponent say what they did on the Capitol grounds on January 6 is unacceptable. How hard is that..Say the January 6 insurrection was wrong."
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 9:07am
RT @ec_schneider: NEW - The Virginia Redistricting Commission hearing on Friday ended with 3 members storming out & literal tears. How independent redistricting commissions are & are not living up to their good-governance pitches to avoid partisanship. w/ @allymutnick: https://t.co/sd6beYSkPO
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 9:03am
RT @jackmjenkins: Technically the speaker specifies this flag was carried at the Jan 6 rally that *preceded* the insurrection, but genuinely curious if reverence (broadly speaking) for Jan 6 objects (particularly ones designated as used during the insurrection) becomes a thing in some circles. https://t.co/F5wfgqeJaH
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 9:03am
“Critical race theory is exactly what it says,” Joyce Brown, a local farmer and grandmother of eight, said when asked how to define the term. “They’re trying to make blacks against the whites.” https://t.co/82n5ENEsK9
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 1:51pm
A valiant effort by @VaughnHillyard to get Youngkin to answer a question in Culpeper https://t.co/xz4dabRSkg
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Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 10:11am
@JoshSchwerin The press, myself included in the past, focused too much on presidential year #'s and on the stat that no R has won statewide since 2009
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 10:10am
RT @JoshSchwerin: People watching on both sides have known this for a long time https://t.co/nwQ2UOyTGW
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 9:23am
"The press persists in describing us as 'deeply polarized' over vaccination, but that’s not really accurate," says The Press, ie @AndrewRomano https://t.co/Br1t2dgeJH
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 3:24pm
"[Shor] is right to insist that the Democratic Party is an institution that is composed, at the top, of a narrow group of people and that is afflicted by many of their blind spots." - @ezraklein https://t.co/V0ItSHwFTY
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 3:02pm
Voddie Baucham has popularized the term "ethnic gnosticism" to discredit conversations around systemic racism But this is what historical gnosticism actually resulted in, an elevation of the spiritual over and against the physical and material, right? https://t.co/6xPtChJ4ks
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 2:56pm
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/Lloh4onLXq
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 1:26pm
RT @peterbakernyt: A 2020 survey of 1,000 people ages 18 to 39 in the United States found that nearly two-thirds of them did not know what Auschwitz is. @adampopescu https://t.co/fSTc6Q0yY4
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 11:19am
RT @leedrutman: Anybody hoping independent redistricting commissions are going to improve partisan competition is hoping against experience and evidence. https://t.co/G0J9yJesLw https://t.co/5Yq9QSKBm9
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Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 11:19am
RT @leedrutman: Presidents over-promise to get elected. A year later, many voters are frustrated and disappointed that America is more or less the same. This is the sad logic of winner-take-all elections in polarized times. https://t.co/MKJdBxKO5s
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:59am
RT @dhopkins1776: But I also think political elites shouldn't overstate their capacity to move public opinion through policy. The principal lens through which to evaluate most policies: does it accomplish its goal as a policy? 10/ https://t.co/KKHNIYR64C
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:58am
RT @jennifernvictor: Many people have asked what they can do to help the troubled state of American government and politics. Here are three simple answers @MisOfFact https://t.co/nRKVIfiG7J
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:58am
Read or die -your mind -your soul -your community -your nation -your world @nicco @bradjenkins @roughtype https://t.co/x97SzZ2rU9
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:28am
RT @DavidMDrucker: NEW: https://t.co/KNeeXomYCr … My latest excerpt from #InTrumpsShadow in @VanityFair’s @VFHIVE
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:27am
"There are good ideas all over the left and in the Democratic Party. There is not a coherent worldview at work connecting those ideas in a way that animates people’s souls." - @slaby https://t.co/Uemja4NNPO
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 9:58am
@myballsitch1115 all about margins
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 9:45am
Dems announcing very far in advance that Obama will campaign for McAuliffe in VA, still almost 2 weeks from now. One potential reason for this: more time for Dems to hope they can draw Trump into the race, try to put Youngkin on defensive in NoVa
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 9:35am
RT @CarolynMcCulley: "He tells you to sleep with your boots on, but he will leave you on the field." This rings true. Not w/Mars Hill (I avoided Driscoll) but I too have been deemed expendable on a ministry trip--so very sick but left behind to get myself to an ER. https://t.co/lGYbiycmIx
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 7:09am
RT @MaxKennerly: @AllenWest Monoclonal antibodies aren't grown on trees, they're made by Big Pharma, specifically Regeneron, a $57 billion company. They charge the government $2,100 for each dose of it, including yours. The mRNA vaccines cost $20 per dose.
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 7:09am
A $2100 cost versus $20, and a far bigger drain on nurses and doctors than just taking the vaccine. “It’s clogging up resources, it’s hard to give, and a vaccine is $20 and could prevent almost all of that." https://t.co/uZiX7B6HeL https://t.co/gUNIO0mX7a
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Sunday Oct 10 - 11:33am
so dark https://t.co/DZu8TMTKld
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Sunday Oct 10 - 11:33am
RT @ianbassin: Grassley is embracing a man who incited a violent coup to overthrow the Republic. It should be scandalously disqualifying to be on stage with the man, let alone embrace his endorsement. He should be hounded by press to explain himself. We normalize this at our peril. https://t.co/JgBYSrSDhY
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 2:53pm
RT @badler: Bannon trying to ‘hide’ from January 6 committee, chairs say https://t.co/teyP5G2SVR via @jonward11
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 2:21pm
RT @mikememoli: NEWS: Biden has waived executive privilege on initial set of documents produced at request of Jan 6 Select Cmte. Trump legal team sought to block some, but Biden WH counsel says in letter to National Archives obtained by NBC: “These are unique and extraordinary circumstances.”
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 1:29pm
RT @jeremyherb: New: Democracy and election experts are issuing dire warnings Trump could try to subvert the next election. But the seven Senate GOPers who voted to convict Trump are largely responding with a collective shrug, saying they see no reason yet to be alarmed https://t.co/JuQWdWQfPo
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 1:28pm
RT @AccountableGOP: Ohio US Senate Candidate @JoshMandelOhio: “I’m the only one in this race for US Senate…saying we should abolish the Jan. 6 commission…and replace it with a Nov. 3 commission to really investigate what happened when the Democrats stole the election.” https://t.co/vCgcX8hdew
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Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 4:27pm
RT @briandabbs: My newest on a reconciliation tug of war between labor and wind/solar https://t.co/u9kwJtlpTU
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 1:44pm
RT @woodruffbets: NEW: I viewed a letter from Trump's legal team to a person who the 1/6 committee subpoenaed. It says not to comply with the subpoena -- including to withhold documents and testimony https://t.co/nfTz8xQkub
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 12:32pm
RT @ChadPergram: Graham on debt ceiling: I don't understand why we're folding..This is a complete capitulation. And the argument made yesterday was, well, this may be more pressure than two Democratic senators can stand regarding changing the filibuster rules. That to me is not a very good reason
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 12:32pm
RT @ChadPergram: A) Graham on debt ceiling: I'm upset with us because we had a strategy to make them (Dems) pay a price to raise the debt ceiling..we blinked and why because two people are normally made more or threatening to change the rules of the Senate, we make it hard.
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 11:46am
RT @ChadPergram: From Colleague Hillary Vaughn. Barrasso on if McConnell caved: He didn’t. Democrats had two things they wanted. One of them is they wanted unlimited borrowing capacity through the 2022 election. And they didn’t want to put a number on it.
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 11:36am
RT @ChadPergram: 3) Fox is told the $480 billion is really just to make sure that Treasury has the necessary money to pay the bills which will come due between now and December 3. Treasury started to exhaust other accounts to keep payments going out the door in July.
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 10:15am
RT @kyledcheney: NEW: Senate investigators have placed Rep. Scott PERRY at the center of Trump's effort to overturn the election. They want the Jan. 6 committee to delve even further into his role. w/ @nicholaswu12 https://t.co/LdxqbyBa6d
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 10:14am
RT @heatherscope: Mr. @burgessev did such a good job with this story that there’s no tweet I can write that can do it justice. Just read it. (The headline is pretty good too @eschor) https://t.co/qMgcGIqalu
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 10:13am
RT @alextdaugherty: In contrast to this, I'm the only reporter sitting in @JoseJavierJJR's Senate confirmation hearing this morning. (local reporters are still vital on Capitol Hill) https://t.co/HBNKYpBbME
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 6:39am
Scherzer: "When you win a World Series, you develop a friendship and bond that’s going to last a lifetime. For those two guys, Soto and Klong to be there, that shows you the kind of love that it takes to win a World Series" https://t.co/SUil45hTBH https://t.co/1WwWZp6gAm
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:09pm
@brianros1 @mattyglesias well, except maybe prioritizing democracy preservation and reform
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:08pm
RT @GeoffRBennett: A new Monmouth poll of Virginia's race for governor shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Younkin tied at 46 percent among registered voters. This marks a shift from prior Monmouth polls where McAuliffe held a 5-point lead. https://t.co/cDXa8ufpsu
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:06pm
this was an explicit goal of the Centrist Project 4 years ago when @Joel_Searby & @NickTroiano were involved https://t.co/rCOT8w1CBv https://t.co/KL2pdG305M
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 2:01pm
@BarbaraComstock @RepLizCheney Barbara, can you explain how congressional oversight is unique from law enforcement investigations and adjudication in the courts? That was something Matt Gaetz skipped over a lot in trying to claim that congressional oversight is essentially tilting at windmills.
Jon Ward
21 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:49pm
Another appeal from Liz Cheney to her fellow Republicans, this time today testifying before the House Rules Committee prior to a full House vote tomorrow on a criminal referral for Bannon https://t.co/UQbkmxjHn1
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22 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:45pm
RT @MacFarlaneNews: Defying tradition and custom.. at this high-profile House hearing, Republicans have handed over speaking duties to members who do NOT sit on panel. The Rules Committee Republicans declined to speak. They called in Reps. Jordan, Gaetz and Banks to speak for party
Jon Ward
22 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:44pm
RT @KlasfeldReports: Rep. Raskin pressed Gaetz on fact that the pro-Trump post-election lawsuits failed, even among his appointees. Gaetz pushes the talking point about dismissals on procedural grounds. (Some were dismissed on merits.) Raskin, constitutional law prof, isn't having it. WATCH https://t.co/HvrShXvvMt
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22 hours ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 1:42pm
RT @MacFarlaneNews: Republicans on panel have stood down at this US House Rules Committee hearing on Contempt of Congress finding against Steve Bannon. Forgoing their allotted speaking time, not using Bannon’s name. Not mounting defense Let’s see what happens at full House floor debate this week
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 11:20am
RT @Kasparov63: Two comments. 1) Not everyone can or should fight every fight all the time. And telling people to care about what you care about, not what they care most about, is harmful to activism. https://t.co/fG2UNa5CVG
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 10:18am
RT @nicholaswu12: Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson says that “our people are still talking” to Kash Patel, Dan Scavino, and Mark Meadows. They’re “somewhat” cooperating, he says
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 10:17am
RT @JakeSherman: >@seungminkim and I just spoke to PELOSI We asked her about a framework this week. “I think it's very possible. We've been on schedule every deadline for the budget and [Sept. 15 deadline] coming out of the budget committee, and we continue to be on schedule.”
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 10:13am
Interesting Raffensperger said even if the warring GOP factions manage to unify before next year's midterm elections, the party is "not at 50%" in Georgia. https://t.co/rBsl0uJthz
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Wednesday Oct 20 - 9:47am
"True freedom involves more than 'being left alone' & 'doing what I want.' That is not freedom. It is idiocy ... The corruption of the American understanding of freedom has taken several forms." - @GorskiPhilip Positive freedom (v. negative) involves our connections w each other https://t.co/eM5SiTORn9
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:17pm
“Mr. Bannon stands alone in his complete defiance of our subpoena,” said committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. “He’s chosen the path toward criminal contempt by taking this position.” https://t.co/ZUyoNbdOlg
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:04pm
of course @mkraju already reported this
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:03pm
NEWS: A vote in the full House of Representatives to refer Steve Bannon to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution is planned for THURSDAY, per a source familiar. The Jan 6 select committee voted unanimously to refer Bannon just now for defying its subpoena
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:52pm
An appeal from Liz Cheney to her Republican colleagues in Congress, at the close of her opening statement at the criminal referral hearing for Bannon https://t.co/uKIaVYQZ1M
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Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:29pm
truly fascinating https://t.co/Phr5d8cWLn
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:28pm
pretty interesting contrast in approach to negotiations that seems colored by deeper philosophical differences https://t.co/JJOzoS7les
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:08pm
RT @GarrettHaake: “It looks like that’s probably going to be out,” @RepJayapal says of the free community college program POTUS had hoped to include in the reconciliation bill. https://t.co/mjmjxj4Jk5
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1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 7:08pm
RT @mikedebonis: Truly worth 4:14 of your time https://t.co/TFp2NwmpWn
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 5:15pm
RT @StevenTDennis: Where we are, possibly: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO <<YOU ARE HERE👋>> NO NO NO YES TO FRAMEWORK NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 5:13pm
RT @FoxReports: Rep. @RoKhanna who met with Biden earlier today telling @jaketapper that he believes after Biden meeting, the following are still included. -child tax credit expansion -universal Pre-K -vision, dental, hearing coverage in Medicare -money to expand Obamacare -climate investments
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 5:13pm
good historical thread https://t.co/vE3O3KnEho
Jon Ward
1 day ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 1:36pm
McAuliffe pulls up to a campaign stop in NOVA in the drivers seat. Get it? https://t.co/2YixlDlfRT
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:47am
leadership is kinda rare these days in general https://t.co/m0YOc73BCO https://t.co/TMyhh2e383
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:44am
There is no GIF of Frederick the Great saying “to defend everything is to defend nothing,” but it’s still true. - @mattyglesias https://t.co/m0YOc73BCO
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:37am
RT @ABC: A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn't stop them. https://t.co/u1aY4c6k8h
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:25am
This is a very sharp analysis from @DamonLinker https://t.co/DnsR35nxr6 https://t.co/AMeFCSN0Lf
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:25am
A better use of our time: thinking, reporting, writing, talking about things like: what is being done to prioritize reforming the Electoral Count Act? This is what Jon Stewart is saying, and I think he's right: focus on rebuilding & reforming.
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:15am
The former president's cheap shot at Powell is the kind of thing I think it's better for us in the media to ignore, but I don't know anything
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:14am
RT @kyledcheney: Good news for the Jan. 6 Committee: The Trump executive privilege lawsuit has been assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has expressed horror about the Jan. 6 attack and extended sentences beyond what prosecutors have asked for in a couple cases.
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:14am
RT @kyledcheney: When CHUTKAN sentenced Matthew Mazzocco, she referenced Trump: "He went to the Capitol in support of one man, not in support of our country.: https://t.co/C1KGxIU7F4
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:13am
RT @DavidMDrucker: There are wonderful books about what happened. #InTrumpsShadow is about what’s NEXT. Excited that it is now available. https://t.co/VJNPUmWX1d & @indiebound https://t.co/9f1a2n3vdG
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 10:13am
The fact that Bannon wasn't in government on Jan 6 is NOT the reason his executive privilege claim is weak, by me with lots of insight from @jshaub https://t.co/mWxSn4Mlx9
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Tuesday Oct 19 - 8:16am
@JunksRadio this is "not a Sputnik moment," Joshua Pollack, a leading expert on nuclear and missile proliferation, told Axios. "The point about Sputnik is that the Soviets had beaten us to the punch ... Weapons payload aside, this is old hat for the United States."
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 8:34pm
RT @Jomboy_: just needs to know what time it is https://t.co/DrJlWDdbcW
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Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 7:23pm
Shaub also wrote in greater detail about the way the Jan 6 committee should approach the Bannon subpoena https://t.co/1rjvLVLbkN
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 7:22pm
RT @jshaub: Have been waiting for this to clear the way for contempt... See @jonward11 story https://t.co/bnN2UbXGVv and my write up on @lawfareblog https://t.co/39z95Od2rB https://t.co/J2AwaDiyab
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 7:22pm
This appears to answer the question I wrote about today with the help of @shaub https://t.co/mWxSn4Mlx9 https://t.co/ShYYcghRL7
Jon Ward
2 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 2:05pm
RT @kyledcheney: NEW: DOJ says those “lionizing” Jan. 6 rioters or calling them “political prisoners” are fueling the likelihood of future political violence. https://t.co/ogJbKm7LBl
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 11:14am
RT @1a: "They are essentially buying newspapers, gutting the staff...and turning out a steadily worse product year after year," says @mckaycoppins on the hedge fund, Alden Global Capital.
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 11:12am
RT @timrequarth: Yes, Colin Powell was vaccinated. But he also had blood cancer, which devastates the immune system. What his tragic death illustrates isn't the futility of vaccines but the importance of everyone else getting vaccinated to protect society's most vulnerable.
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 10:50am
"I don't know that autocracy is purely the domain of Donald Trump. We all have a bit of a tendency to grant amnesty to people who are doing things that we would prefer, even if they are slightly undemocratic." - Jon Stewart
Jon Ward
3 days ago: Monday Oct 18 - 10:50am
Stewart's takeaway point: don't focus on personalities or individuals (such as the former president obv). Focus on systems and incentive structures. Take action. Rebuild. And don't lose hope. https://t.co/PrMBNZjJ3f
Jon Ward
4 days ago: Saturday Oct 16 - 11:14pm
Blake Treinen strikes again
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 3:19pm
RT @TimAlberta: If you want to understand the @CNN / @joerogan situation, think of the media as a clique-obsessed high school. A brief thread:
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 12:46pm
Not even really all that close to a swing https://t.co/hqM4DJdD6V
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 12:14pm
Dylan is throwing down! some real upper cuts here at THE MEDIA™️ https://t.co/wDpihMDWYk
Jon Ward
5 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 12:07pm
RT @fmanjoo: I wrote about Instagram and moral panics. Maybe Instagram is terrible for teens. But we have little evidence that it is — like with video games, television, rap music, rock music and a lot of other things grown ups once swore would harm children. https://t.co/83MuMj04tx
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 11:27am
RT @germanrlopez: A common question I get about policing is whether there’s evidence that police actually reduce crime. There actually is quite a bit of evidence. I broke it down in this article: https://t.co/ronV0muyXN. But I want to do a thread highlighting some of the studies.
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 9:19am
RT @TylerHuckabee: Babylon Bee guy just not even trying. https://t.co/mSE7x2hly8 https://t.co/NbFuwpRk7i
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Jon Ward
6 days ago: Friday Oct 15 - 9:16am
RT @bethallisonbarr: For all of you waiting for my response, I posted part 2 yesterday: Deconstructing the ESV: A Historian’s Response to Kevin DeYoung, et. al. - https://t.co/K3LcMHYI2q
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 5:07pm
New Youngkin statement "It is weird and wrong to pledge allegiance to a flag connected to January 6. As I have said many times before, the violence that occurred on January 6 was sickening and wrong." https://t.co/Bpwrr7mUjE
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Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 3:50pm
i call for a debate between @jon_rauch & @ggreenwald on this topic - @IQ2US? @munkdebate? my podcast? https://t.co/9qWiUCwCHi
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 3:46pm
One day after this announcement, Trump inserted himself into the race by calling into the Bannon rally https://t.co/YJfenFYqD1
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 3:00pm
Implicit but not explicit rebuke of January 6 insurrection - and a vague condemnation of any and all violence rather than a focus on the specific attempt to gaslight the country and violently overthrow an election & destroy democracy https://t.co/8gZJ7tvFC3
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 2:15pm
a detail from Laura's piece that stood out -- Youngkin has begun to campaign with Amanda Chase at his side! In Dec. 2020, Chase called for Trump to stage a coup by declaring martial law to keep himself in office! https://t.co/7aAGGPCIl3 https://t.co/y8XLDjH4t0
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 2:12pm
RT @LVozzella: .@AmandaChaseVA, urging crowd to vote for @GlennYoungkin, says Virginia should put Confederate monuments back up. "We need to gold-plate those things." (Youngkin, btw, has said he agreed w/ removal.)
Jon Ward
6 days ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 12:46pm
RT @dougherty_jesse: To absolutely zero surprise, @kentbabb’s Across The River is excellent from start to finish. Now do the smart thing and get your copy here: https://t.co/xkhG3FWHPP https://t.co/BGId5xob3G
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Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 10:55am
Terry McAuliffe jumping on the Trump/Bannon event yesterday: "Glenn Youngkin needs to disavow the insurrection ... I would love to hear my opponent say what they did on the Capitol grounds on January 6 is unacceptable. How hard is that..Say the January 6 insurrection was wrong."
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 9:07am
RT @ec_schneider: NEW - The Virginia Redistricting Commission hearing on Friday ended with 3 members storming out & literal tears. How independent redistricting commissions are & are not living up to their good-governance pitches to avoid partisanship. w/ @allymutnick: https://t.co/sd6beYSkPO
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 9:03am
RT @jackmjenkins: Technically the speaker specifies this flag was carried at the Jan 6 rally that *preceded* the insurrection, but genuinely curious if reverence (broadly speaking) for Jan 6 objects (particularly ones designated as used during the insurrection) becomes a thing in some circles. https://t.co/F5wfgqeJaH
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 14 - 9:03am
“Critical race theory is exactly what it says,” Joyce Brown, a local farmer and grandmother of eight, said when asked how to define the term. “They’re trying to make blacks against the whites.” https://t.co/82n5ENEsK9
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 1:51pm
A valiant effort by @VaughnHillyard to get Youngkin to answer a question in Culpeper https://t.co/xz4dabRSkg
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Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 10:11am
@JoshSchwerin The press, myself included in the past, focused too much on presidential year #'s and on the stat that no R has won statewide since 2009
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 10:10am
RT @JoshSchwerin: People watching on both sides have known this for a long time https://t.co/nwQ2UOyTGW
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Wednesday Oct 13 - 9:23am
"The press persists in describing us as 'deeply polarized' over vaccination, but that’s not really accurate," says The Press, ie @AndrewRomano https://t.co/Br1t2dgeJH
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 3:24pm
"[Shor] is right to insist that the Democratic Party is an institution that is composed, at the top, of a narrow group of people and that is afflicted by many of their blind spots." - @ezraklein https://t.co/V0ItSHwFTY
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 3:02pm
Voddie Baucham has popularized the term "ethnic gnosticism" to discredit conversations around systemic racism But this is what historical gnosticism actually resulted in, an elevation of the spiritual over and against the physical and material, right? https://t.co/6xPtChJ4ks
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 2:56pm
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/Lloh4onLXq
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 1:26pm
RT @peterbakernyt: A 2020 survey of 1,000 people ages 18 to 39 in the United States found that nearly two-thirds of them did not know what Auschwitz is. @adampopescu https://t.co/fSTc6Q0yY4
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 11:19am
RT @leedrutman: Anybody hoping independent redistricting commissions are going to improve partisan competition is hoping against experience and evidence. https://t.co/G0J9yJesLw https://t.co/5Yq9QSKBm9
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1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 11:19am
RT @leedrutman: Presidents over-promise to get elected. A year later, many voters are frustrated and disappointed that America is more or less the same. This is the sad logic of winner-take-all elections in polarized times. https://t.co/MKJdBxKO5s
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:59am
RT @dhopkins1776: But I also think political elites shouldn't overstate their capacity to move public opinion through policy. The principal lens through which to evaluate most policies: does it accomplish its goal as a policy? 10/ https://t.co/KKHNIYR64C
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:58am
RT @jennifernvictor: Many people have asked what they can do to help the troubled state of American government and politics. Here are three simple answers @MisOfFact https://t.co/nRKVIfiG7J
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:58am
Read or die -your mind -your soul -your community -your nation -your world @nicco @bradjenkins @roughtype https://t.co/x97SzZ2rU9
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:28am
RT @DavidMDrucker: NEW: https://t.co/KNeeXomYCr … My latest excerpt from #InTrumpsShadow in @VanityFair’s @VFHIVE
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 10:27am
"There are good ideas all over the left and in the Democratic Party. There is not a coherent worldview at work connecting those ideas in a way that animates people’s souls." - @slaby https://t.co/Uemja4NNPO
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 9:58am
@myballsitch1115 all about margins
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 9:45am
Dems announcing very far in advance that Obama will campaign for McAuliffe in VA, still almost 2 weeks from now. One potential reason for this: more time for Dems to hope they can draw Trump into the race, try to put Youngkin on defensive in NoVa
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 9:35am
RT @CarolynMcCulley: "He tells you to sleep with your boots on, but he will leave you on the field." This rings true. Not w/Mars Hill (I avoided Driscoll) but I too have been deemed expendable on a ministry trip--so very sick but left behind to get myself to an ER. https://t.co/lGYbiycmIx
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 7:09am
RT @MaxKennerly: @AllenWest Monoclonal antibodies aren't grown on trees, they're made by Big Pharma, specifically Regeneron, a $57 billion company. They charge the government $2,100 for each dose of it, including yours. The mRNA vaccines cost $20 per dose.
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Tuesday Oct 12 - 7:09am
A $2100 cost versus $20, and a far bigger drain on nurses and doctors than just taking the vaccine. “It’s clogging up resources, it’s hard to give, and a vaccine is $20 and could prevent almost all of that." https://t.co/uZiX7B6HeL https://t.co/gUNIO0mX7a
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Sunday Oct 10 - 11:33am
so dark https://t.co/DZu8TMTKld
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Sunday Oct 10 - 11:33am
RT @ianbassin: Grassley is embracing a man who incited a violent coup to overthrow the Republic. It should be scandalously disqualifying to be on stage with the man, let alone embrace his endorsement. He should be hounded by press to explain himself. We normalize this at our peril. https://t.co/JgBYSrSDhY
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 2:53pm
RT @badler: Bannon trying to ‘hide’ from January 6 committee, chairs say https://t.co/teyP5G2SVR via @jonward11
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 2:21pm
RT @mikememoli: NEWS: Biden has waived executive privilege on initial set of documents produced at request of Jan 6 Select Cmte. Trump legal team sought to block some, but Biden WH counsel says in letter to National Archives obtained by NBC: “These are unique and extraordinary circumstances.”
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 1:29pm
RT @jeremyherb: New: Democracy and election experts are issuing dire warnings Trump could try to subvert the next election. But the seven Senate GOPers who voted to convict Trump are largely responding with a collective shrug, saying they see no reason yet to be alarmed https://t.co/JuQWdWQfPo
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Friday Oct 8 - 1:28pm
RT @AccountableGOP: Ohio US Senate Candidate @JoshMandelOhio: “I’m the only one in this race for US Senate…saying we should abolish the Jan. 6 commission…and replace it with a Nov. 3 commission to really investigate what happened when the Democrats stole the election.” https://t.co/vCgcX8hdew
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1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 4:27pm
RT @briandabbs: My newest on a reconciliation tug of war between labor and wind/solar https://t.co/u9kwJtlpTU
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 1:44pm
RT @woodruffbets: NEW: I viewed a letter from Trump's legal team to a person who the 1/6 committee subpoenaed. It says not to comply with the subpoena -- including to withhold documents and testimony https://t.co/nfTz8xQkub
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 12:32pm
RT @ChadPergram: Graham on debt ceiling: I don't understand why we're folding..This is a complete capitulation. And the argument made yesterday was, well, this may be more pressure than two Democratic senators can stand regarding changing the filibuster rules. That to me is not a very good reason
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 12:32pm
RT @ChadPergram: A) Graham on debt ceiling: I'm upset with us because we had a strategy to make them (Dems) pay a price to raise the debt ceiling..we blinked and why because two people are normally made more or threatening to change the rules of the Senate, we make it hard.
Jon Ward
1 week ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 11:46am
RT @ChadPergram: From Colleague Hillary Vaughn. Barrasso on if McConnell caved: He didn’t. Democrats had two things they wanted. One of them is they wanted unlimited borrowing capacity through the 2022 election. And they didn’t want to put a number on it.
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 11:36am
RT @ChadPergram: 3) Fox is told the $480 billion is really just to make sure that Treasury has the necessary money to pay the bills which will come due between now and December 3. Treasury started to exhaust other accounts to keep payments going out the door in July.
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 10:15am
RT @kyledcheney: NEW: Senate investigators have placed Rep. Scott PERRY at the center of Trump's effort to overturn the election. They want the Jan. 6 committee to delve even further into his role. w/ @nicholaswu12 https://t.co/LdxqbyBa6d
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 10:14am
RT @heatherscope: Mr. @burgessev did such a good job with this story that there’s no tweet I can write that can do it justice. Just read it. (The headline is pretty good too @eschor) https://t.co/qMgcGIqalu
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 10:13am
RT @alextdaugherty: In contrast to this, I'm the only reporter sitting in @JoseJavierJJR's Senate confirmation hearing this morning. (local reporters are still vital on Capitol Hill) https://t.co/HBNKYpBbME
Jon Ward
2 weeks ago: Thursday Oct 7 - 6:39am
Scherzer: "When you win a World Series, you develop a friendship and bond that’s going to last a lifetime. For those two guys, Soto and Klong to be there, that shows you the kind of love that it takes to win a World Series" https://t.co/SUil45hTBH https://t.co/1WwWZp6gAm