Matt Fuller

Republicans Made Conflicting Deals on Reconciliation. They’re Counting on Trump to Resolve It. Conservatives insisted they need major spending cuts in the reconciliation bill. Vulnerable Republicans said they couldn’t stomach those cuts. For the bill to pass, both factions have to vote for it.

One interesting wrinkle of reconciliation:

You have two major GOP factions with entirely different ideas of what the final bill will look like.

Both groups are counting on Trump to screw the other guy. And no one knows who will be *the other guy*.

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What a contribution!

If you're helping to fill out that big spreadsheet from OMB, trying to decide whether a federal program has DEI elements or whether it gets in the way of energy production or any of the other qs, I would love to know how it's going. Signal below 👇

Trump's White House Press Secretary Reveals Her Failed Campaign Spent $200K in Illicit Contributions On Thursday, Karoline Leavitt’s failed congressional campaign amended every FEC filing it had ever made to reveal that she failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in excessive contribution...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s 2022 congressional campaign failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of illicit campaign contributions.

To this day, she hasn’t paid back the money.

www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

The day the Starbucks changes from the Christmas cups back to normal is my own personal “nature is healing.”

The days are getting longer. The nights are getting shorter. The Masters is practically here.

On a scale of 1 - “Tiny Vessels”-to-“Transatlanticism,” “Nightswimming”-to-“Brick” is a 9.

And if you can understand what I’m talking about, you are beautiful but you don’t mean a thing to me.

Trump Shows House Republicans the New Template for Governing Trump ultimately pushed the speaker vote in Johnson’s direction. Now, the question is whether he can do that for legislation.

After Donald Trump got the Freedom Caucus to fold, there's some new hope that this may be the way for Republicans to govern: Chart out a path, accept the chaos and resistance, then have Trump twist arms.

Some really interesting reporting in here:

www.notus.org/congress/tru...

House Freedom Caucus Denies Mike Johnson the Speakership on the First Ballot It doesn’t look like Johnson will get the speakership without some more backroom dealing.

Folks, you have to love the United States House of Representatives.

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Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate

He just loves the touch of oak on this fumé blanc

The quick shot of Kevin McCallister shoving fireworks into his backpack in 2 really is some Chekhov’s gun shit.

Just saw a group of 5 teen goths getting their photo taken with a real bearded Santa.

Who said Mall Culture is dead?

Democrats Quietly Signal Openness to a Narrower Spending Deal “Democrats need to stay here to vote and shut the fuck up,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove told NOTUS. “Stop revealing the game plan.”

Important shutdown development here:

Democrats are publicly insisting that they're not coming back to the negotiating table on a spending deal, but if you listen carefully and talk to the right people...

They're open to a narrower deal.

www.notus.org/congress/dem...

Can you imagine the Facebook posts if Barack Obama, a month before he took office, called for eliminating the debt ceiling on George W. Bush’s watch?

WASHINGTON — It feels like 6 p.m.

Democrats Wonder Whether the Lesson of 2024 Is to Shift Further to the Right on Border Security “We saw what happens when we have a broken immigration system and people want to come to this country,” Rep. Salud Carbajal said. “It’s important to keep the asylum system in place, but one that works...

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...

‘Postal-Naming Destruction’: The Least Controversial Thing Congress Does Is Becoming Controversial More and more of what Congress does on a day-to-day basis is naming post offices. Some members want to end the practice.

This should be required reading for all incoming Members and staff. It explains a lot about how Congress actually works (or doesn't) currently.
www.notus.org/congress/pos...

Glut of people viewing my Spotify Wrapped story on Instagram, dearth of people liking my Spotify Wrapped story on Instagram.

You don’t understand: *My* Spotify Wrapped is important.

He died doing what he loved: Requesting edit access.

All Senate Republicans Sound Open to Kash Patel. Many Are Enthusiastic About Him. Kash Patel has said he’d like to “shut down” the FBI headquarters and reopen it as a “museum of the deep state.” But Patel’s vows are hardly sounding disqualifying for the Republican senators who will...

GOP senators aren't just open to Kash Patel leading the FBI, an agency he's said he'd like to shut down and reopen as a "museum to the Deep State"; many are enthusiastic about it.

www.notus.org/congress/all...

My favorite part of Wicked was making everyone in my group discuss the parallels to fascism as we left the theater

Alice's Restaurant Massacree Arlo Guthrie · Alice's Restaurant · Song · 1967

The best Thanksgiving tradition I have:

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🗣️ Be!👏 Regressive!👏
🗣️Be-ee!👏 Regressive!👏

Me, to my 2-year-old nephew: “Stop being so thumotic.”

Literally opened up Twitter, saw this Elon post at the top of my feed (despite never following the guy), and came straight over to Bluesky.

might fuck around and

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And post lyrics to Bon Iver’s seminal album, For Emma, Forever Ago.

It’s literally one of the most poignant words in existence.

Not to go too liberal arts on The Tragedy of Matt Gaetz, but the moment he realized he was not going to be Attorney General — his anagnorisis — he was probably sitting in some senator's office in the Hart building, surrounded by Republican staffers who didn't even vote for Trump.

Matt Gaetz May Have Just Killed the Ethics Report, but Court Filings Paint a Damning Picture Unreported facts referenced in court depositions make it clear that Gaetz sent thousands to young women, attended sex parties where a 17-year-old was present and kept tabs on witnesses throughout the ...

A very damning story about Matt Gaetz: www.notus.org/trump-transi...

(Do people click on links in Bluesky? I don’t know! This is a good story to try!)