#Presidency

The biggest, really the only truly significant part of this story is the one we still don’t have an answer to: what was so pressing, important and urgent that Barr
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A THREAD CONTAINING THE CONTENTS OF A LETTER I SENT IN 2015 TO MY GUY, @joebiden:Dear Vice President Biden,When I was about 12 years old, my 5th grade class in
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Ugly but informative plot: Trump's approval rating is much higher than the poor state of the economy would suggest, fitting with theories that economic perceptions/actual conditions have limited influence over
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Obama/Bi-den forced to shut down they're very specific "gain of function" research in 2015-2016, because Candidate Trump looked like he was going to win.Fauci moves the most promising research to
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Starting a thread on some timely bedside table reading: This reminded me of how we are learning that many people are being infected with Coronavirus by people who are not
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I really mean it when I say the figure to compare Trump with isn't Nixon or mad King George or Nero. It's John Gotti. Every single thing Trump does is
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#GameChanger: Happening Now.I will be tweeting live about the proceedings. Drop the handles, let's follow each other. The court is now session. Presiding Judge Monica Mugenyi calls for representationFor Uganda:AG
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The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was designed to address a fundamental problem of governance: what happens when the American President is unable to discharge the duties of the
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People keep asking me if the Kremlin abandoned Trump. They still support him but are indifferent & mock him. He was just one of their weapons used to attack America
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Trump to Biden:First Trump: In January 2017, Trump inherited a multi-year Obama-Biden recovery that was on track to become, by July 2019, the longest U.S. economic expansion in history. (1/x)
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Worth remembering that Irish Presidency is largely ceremonial in nature except when it comes to laws and dissolving governments. Even then powers are limited and have to be used astutely.This
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this is the most fucking black and white view of politics possible. "voting the way you feel is right is bad, actually" is the most anti-democracy sentiment ive seen in
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Legitimacy is critical to SCOTUS. The SCOTUS has no enforcement power. It's decisions are not self executing. See the massive backlash and rioting in southern states after the Court's Brown
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Yeah, what’s important is that these briefings be about the presshttps://twitter.com/samstein/status/1247295050943549442 A whole room full of Jim Acostas, that’s what we need. Incidentally, we had @jonkarl on @LRCkcrw last week
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1/In Buba Galadima’s voice, is it not the Editi Effiong that I know? In 2018, he wrote an article on http://Medium.com , where he expressed his feelings about the govt and
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Spent some time this morning thinking about the 7 Deadly Sins - lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. As I read, it occurred to me that, in effect,
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