New poll from UC Berkeley shows 64-28 support for California billionaire tax (via email).
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"A former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer...an unprecedented breach of security protocols."
MARKEY: Do you think Trump's EO promoting glyphosate, which you've said likely causes cancer, will put families' health at risk?
MEANS: These issues around ag & health are extremely complex. My understanding is this has to do with natl security
MARKEY: I'm just trying to help you agree w/ yourself
yeah so the “Stop Insider Trading Act” that Trump just called for Congress to pass...doesn’t stop insider trading. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
Holy shit Alysa Liu just perfect tenned that shit
The People Who Believed that "Pro Worker Republicans" Were a Real Thing Were Massive Suckers, vol. 967:
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CNN analyzed senators’ stock trades. Here’s what we found: https://cnn.it/4aqxO2B
This isn't your fighter, Democrats.
Newsom won't get it done.
He's compromised. Calling it now.
Just a reminder...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
New polling shows that 60% of California voters support the proposed one-time tax on billionaire wealth.
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While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
DOGE isn't really gone, it's just become the way that the Office of Management and Budget operates, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social.
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Opposition party needs a much higher standard than this
Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
I'm so old I remember when various reporters were very critical of the refusal of outlets to devote significant attention to a president’s mental fitness in light of polls showing that the public believed there was an issue.
One of the bravest people in the world. We all owe her an immense debt of gratitude for her service and her courage.
I can promise you that Democratic leadership doesn't need to be in the majority to whip their own caucus; they do it every single day.
Being in the minority didn't stop them from finally supporting this effort today -- it shouldn't have stopped them from whipping this a month (or more!) ago.
Good, but this took WAY too long.
Republicans voted (twice!) to impeach Mayorkas because they didn't like him. But it takes ICE killing not one, but two, innocent civilians to get House Dems to move to impeach.
The asymmetry is a problem.
There's something so perfect about Chris Collins, who was literally convicted of insider trading, running a House comeback bid as "the original Trump conservative."
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absolutely insane that there are Democrats considering voting to send more money to fund this evil
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Many of these trades would be permissible under the Steil/Johnson stock regime. Julia Letlow is the poster child for members who would benefit from a phony ban.
I support legislation to ACTUALLY ban members of Congress and their family from trading stocks, not the watered-down version that Rep. Bryan Steil has introduced with a number of loopholes.
Here’s my full explanation.
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We need to ban Congressional stock trading, but the latest House GOP bill is a smokescreen for real reform. This bill will let Members continue to hold and sell stock!
We must ban members of Congress from buying, owning and selling stocks.
But House Republicans' new bill fails to do that — lawmakers can continue to own and sell stocks.
It’s absurd and an insult to people’s intelligence.
Stop playing games. Ban congressional stock trading.
Johnson is so bad at this. He really thought he could name a bill the "Stop Insider Trading Act" and win political points while doing nothing to actually stop insider trading in Congress.
Looks like it's already backfiring...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
House Republicans’ new legislation on Congressional stock trading falls far short of what the American people want and deserve. The House must move forward on our bipartisan consensus bill, the Restore Trust in Congress Act.
My full statement with @magaziner.house.gov and @ocasio-cortez.house.gov:
This isn't a ban on insider trading; at best, it's an advance warning system. It continues to allow members with inside information to dump stock and profit.
This is Johnson's attempt to cover up corruption, not stop it.
And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”
