Joe Perticone
Reporting on Congress and sometimes clothes for The Bulwark. Perticone@thebulwark.com
📍 D.C.
- The House loses another all-time House Guy™️ name. Up there with Markwayne Mullin, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Swett.
- Susan Collins gets special treatment from Trump because she's so endangered in the Senate. www.thebulwark.com/p/susan-coll...
- A fresco of an angel now looks like Giorgia Meloni after its restoration, causing a major uproar. You simply cannot fathom the hilariousness of the scandals that regularly occur in Italy. Greatest country on earth. www.lastampa.it/politica/202...
- The city cleared Constitution Ave across from the Senate. They did this by creating a 10ft mound of snow in the middle of the crosswalk.
- I get bored with these constant pleas from Dems for their colleagues to follow their conscience. We're on year 10 of this. They've seen the few Rs who have stood up and watched their careers go down in flames, living under constant death threats. It's just not happening.
- Today's hand photo from the WH
- Reposted by Joe PerticoneIn response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
- Someone lost a false nail in the senate basement
- Huberman asking for a show of hands in a presidential primary debate which candidates stare directly into the sun when they wake up
- To see if the Trump admin's $3 meals is possible, @jaredpoland.bsky.social at nothing but chicken, broccoli, and rice for every meal for three days. I have basically been doing that (sometimes sub in salmon) for 90% of my meals for the last 20 years lol. www.thebulwark.com/p/no-joy-in-...
- Taking a $40 million loss on an ego-greasing documentary is worth it to keep tens of billions in govt contracts.
- If someone tells you that Jasmine Crockett is a formidable (or even remotely electable) candidate, they either work for the NRSC or are one of the NRSC’s marks who they are actively trying to convince to make her the nominee.
- The virgin trader joe's panic shopper vs. the chad costco bulk purchaser
- Readers of today's newsletter are demanding the pic of me not being able to handle the extra spicy sauce at a McDonald's in downtown Muscat, Oman. Well, here it is www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
- Surprisingly weird answers on the Hill to this one www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
- Jasmine Crockett says "I get that I’m not a traditional candidate. And that’s exactly why I’m going to win." That's wrong. Her type of candidacy is quite common. It's the type of candidate who lacks statewide appeal and performs poorly in the general. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- 9 dems on the Bill vote, 3 on the Hillary vote I should add. Why they were different despite both having violated the subpoena equally. I have no idea. That's politics or something.
- The House Oversight Committee has voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the bipartisan subpoena. 9 of the committee's Democrats voted with Republicans.
- Mediaite launches a newsletter, which they will charge money for, that’s sole purpose is to aggregate from a list of other newsletters (including mine), which already have paying subscribers. www.mediaite.com/media/news/m...
- Also in the newsletter: toplines on the bipartisan DHS funding agreement. ICE is addressed. I don't think many people will be pleased www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-endo...
- It really do be like that sometimes www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-endo...
- Might need to pop in and grab one
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- This story is never going away www.thebulwark.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
- Susan Collins is that you?
- The House would've held hearings. Every senator would have condemned the president. The guy who flipped him off would've already been given a prime time RNC speaking slot, lost a GOP congressional primary, and become a Fox News contributor.
- Sloppy Steaks with Tony Dokoupil
- Tried to get the pulse of the Hill as it relates to ICE and the coming funding deadline this month. I am not convinced that Dems want to tackle this thing right now. www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-dem...
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- Pro-whale candidate in the Avatar cinematic universe:
- This jacket, which Ventura has clearly had since he was governor of MN in the 90s, is cool as hell.
- “Look, I would have concerns should we decide to bomb London. We don’t have those plans,” he said. “So would I be concerned about NATO if the United States started attacking NATO countries? I mean, that’s obvious, but that’s not what’s happening.” www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...
- Already gone international
- I am begging people to try to have some fun amid the chaos
- It's a secret third thing www.thebulwark.com/p/nicolas-ma...
- the pasta-stained tupperware begging me to scrub it before tossing it into the dishwasher
- It's even worse than that. Bolsonaro fell onto a floor covered in hundreds of mousetraps, which clattered and snipped him all over. He is receiving medical attention.
