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Can Threads replace Twitter as Washington’s political watercooler?

WASHINGTON -- A week after Meta launched Threads, a Twitter doppelgänger disguised as Instagram-but-for-text, Washington’s professional posters are watching it closely, curious to see whether it will knit together a viable online community or soon unravel like so many other hopes to replace the original microblogging platform.

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House Republicans push through defense bill limiting abortion access and halting diversity efforts

The House has passed a sweeping defense bill that provides a pay raise for service members but strays from traditional military policy with Republicans add-ons blocking abortion coverage, diversity initiatives at the Pentagon and transgender care

The Independent UK

House passes defense bill mostly along party lines with culture war measures attached

What's normally a bipartisan piece of legislation has turned into a culture war battleground.

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Biden Raised $72 Million in Second-Quarter to Open Campaign

President Joe Biden kicked off his 2024 reelection effort with a $72 million haul in the second quarter, allaying the fears of some big donors that the campaign was off to a slow start.

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The FTC chair taking on Big Tech

Republicans smeared Khan as a "bully" who is "misleading" the FTC. Here's why an FTC chair is enraging the right

Salon

Biden campaign raised twice as much as Trump in 2nd quarter of 2023

Mr Biden’s campaign has raised $72m since launching in April

The Independent UK

DeSantis to become 1st GOP candidate to file for South Carolina primary during visit next week

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to file his 2024 candidacy for South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary when he visits the first-in-the-South voting state next week

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Can Threads replace Twitter as Washington’s political watercooler? - Roll Call

Communications staffers weigh the risks of scaling back on Twitter in favor of Mark Zuckerberg's latest social media venture.

Roll Call

Roots of right-wing poison trace back to Timothy McVeigh

In his new book on Timothy McVeigh and right-wing extremism, Toobin writes that after Trump became president, “the wolf pack had a new leader.”

Chicago Sun-Times

The GOP is Timothy McVeigh's party now

Being a "good" Republican means embracing the anti-government ideology that led to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

Salon

Editorial: Corporations are evolving with the times. Their former Republican allies aren't

Remember when Republicans would boldly stand up to any attempts to tell capitalists how to run their businesses? The GOP still claims to be the pro-business party, but you wouldn’t know it from the way many in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail are harassing corporations for the sin…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Francis Wilkinson: Harassing good Samaritans is on brand for GOP

The Republican war on migrants and asylum seekers has been one of the more successful GOP campaigns of recent years if you measure success by volume of vitriol.

Tribune News Service

How Marc Molinaro went from teenage mayor to key vote in Congress

WASHINGTON -- Like a lot of other members of Congress, Rep. Marc Molinaro got his start running for a local office. But unlike most, he had to get his mother’s permission first.

Tribune News Service

Republican sparks outrage with ‘coloured people’ remark on House floor: ‘Racist and repugnant’

‘I will not tolerate such racist and repugnant words in the House Chamber or anywhere in the Congress’

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Americans are widely pessimistic about democracy in the United States, an AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll finds that only about 1 in 10 U.S. adults give high ratings to the way democracy is working in the United States or how well it represents the interests of most Americans

The Independent UK

GOP White House hopefuls face mounting pressure to stop Trump in Iowa

As the six-month sprint to the Iowa caucuses begins, the sprawling field of Republican presidential candidates is facing growing pressure to prove they can emerge as serious challengers to former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Arizona prosecutors probing GOP efforts to overturn 2020 election, report says

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is overseeing a team of prosecutors examining Republican efforts to allegedly overturn the 2020 election

Roll Call

At the Races: Donate now, shop later - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a Clarence Thomas benefactor, is a big GOP donor

WASHINGTON — Ongoing scrutiny of Justice Clarence Thomas has drawn yet another Dallas billionaire into the spotlight — though unlike real estate magnate Harlan Crow, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is hardly averse to publicity.

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‘We had no money.’ In MO governor’s race, candidates highlight their childhood challenges

After Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade launched her Democratic campaign for governor this week by emphasizing a humble early life that included becoming the first person in her family to graduate high school, Republican Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe took to social media to highlight his own upbringing by a…

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Georgia Republicans try to embrace early voting after long maligning it

ATLANTA -- When Josh McKoon traveled the state campaigning to become the next state GOP chairman, he didn’t mince words about the early-voting advantage that Democrats have painstakingly built in Georgia.

The Independent UK

Biden calls out GOP senator’s ‘ridiculous’ block on military promotions: ‘It jeopardises US security’

As many as 650 top military positions could be vacant if Republican senator Tommy Tuberville continues to block approval of needed promotions and other nominations

Orlando Sentinel

Special election gives Florida Democrats a shot at swing district

An upcoming special election for a House seat in Central Florida could be a major test for whether state Democrats can bounce back from the drubbing they took last year.

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump: Arizona attorney general investigating attempts to overturn 2020 vote, reports say – as it happened

Kris Mayes reportedly moving forward with investigation into election tampering

Tribune News Service

House GOP anti-spending fervor may not apply to member pay raise

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans would give lawmakers their first pay increase in nearly 15 years under a spending bill for the upcoming fiscal year that the Appropriations Committee approved last month.

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