Raise your hand if you filed a #FOIA request with FBI for OJ Simpson's file.

' - I made the observation not a declaration - '
' - allow the House to work its will with an up or down vote on the national security bill - '
' - Observation, not a declaration, because we have to have a conversation - '

'I didn't necessarily mean to rhyme there.'

- Jeffries

for years advocates & lawmakers like Mike Bloomberg have called for this:

'Justice Department has finalized rules to close a loophole that allowed people to sell firearms online, at gun shows & at other informal venues w/o conducting background checks'
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More news coming out of Wisconsin ...

via Patrick Marley:

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'RFK Jr. campaign fires staffer who said goal was to prevent Biden victory'

via Mariana Alfaro

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In the 1990s someone made a series of comics called “He Said / She Said,” telling true celebrity crime stories.

One said is his perspective, the other side of the comic is her perspective.

Here is the one they did about OJ and Nicole Simpson.

‘Catastrophic,’ ‘a shock’: Arizona’s abortion ruling threatens to upend 2024 races, via Maegan Vazquez Mariana Alfaro washingtonpost.com/elections/2024…

View from a packed/chaotic MTG gaggle following the hardliner’s meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson. Greene expects Johnson putting FISA and Ukraine aid on the floor for votes would move more members against him (she filed a motion to vacate before recess)

Today is a good day to note this in front of the Texas state Capitol …

Republicans close gap with Democrats on party identification, Pew survey finds, via Scott Clement:

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“The share of Americans overall saying human activity had little to do with climate change has climbed to 26 percent, from 19 percent in 2018.”

'Which Trump lies stick? Republicans believe some falsehoods more than they did six years ago, our poll finds.'

via Glenn Kessler, Scott Clement & @emgusk:

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“When Haiti’s gangs shop for guns, the United States is their store” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Eclipse watchers in Austin, Tx.

I'll be sharing databases KFF Health News has created to help you learn how much money your locality has received & who controls it. I'll suggest questions to ask & records to request. With many local reporters already covering this issue, we'll all get to learn from each other.