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  1. Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence
    By Chris Stein

    The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #MitchMcConnell #USSenate #USCongress #Republicans #USnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #ChrisStein

  2. Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence
    By Chris Stein

    The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #MitchMcConnell #USSenate #USCongress #Republicans #USnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #ChrisStein

  3. Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence
    By Chris Stein

    The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #MitchMcConnell #USSenate #USCongress #Republicans #USnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #ChrisStein

  4. Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after months-long absence
    By Chris Stein

    The 84-year-old said he was prepared to cast his first vote after rampant speculation about his health

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #MitchMcConnell #USSenate #USCongress #Republicans #USnews #USpolitics #TheGuardian #ChrisStein

  5. Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?
    By David Smith in Dallas

    President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party’s plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews #Worldnews #Democrats #USCongress #Republicans #Dallas #Texas #TheGuardian #DavidSmithinDallas

  6. Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?
    By David Smith in Dallas

    President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party’s plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews #Worldnews #Democrats #USCongress #Republicans #Dallas #Texas #TheGuardian #DavidSmithinDallas

  7. Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?
    By David Smith in Dallas

    President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party’s plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews #Worldnews #Democrats #USCongress #Republicans #Dallas #Texas #TheGuardian #DavidSmithinDallas

  8. Trump personality cult alive and well in Dallas – will it power Republican midterm success?
    By David Smith in Dallas

    President the star of the show at two-day convention, but party’s plan to treat November elections as referendum on Trump himself poses grave risks

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews #Worldnews #Democrats #USCongress #Republicans #Dallas #Texas #TheGuardian #DavidSmithinDallas

  9. The ‘war on terror’ weakened the first amendment. Now we desperately need it | Jameel Jaffer
    By Jameel Jaffer

    Over the past quarter-century, the US supreme court has repeatedly failed to protect first amendment rights. We are suffering the consequences

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #USsupremecourt #USnews #Trumpadministration #September112001 #USCongress #USpolitics #TheGuardian #JameelJaffer

  10. Leon Black fails to appear for US House deposition about Epstein ties
    By Victoria Bekiempis

    Billionaire financier, who previously walked out of a deposition, instead launches lawsuit against the committee

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #JeffreyEpstein #HouseofRepresentatives #USnews #USCongress #USpolitics #TheGuardian #VictoriaBekiempis

  11. FBI raids Eric Swalwell’s home amid sexual assault claims inquiry – report
    By Victoria Bekiempis

    Federal agents also ‘seized electronic devices’ from former Democratic representative at San Francisco airport

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    #USnews #California #HouseofRepresentatives #USCongress #USpolitics #WestCoast #TheGuardian #VictoriaBekiempis

  12. The Political Fallout of Medicaid Cuts: Why These Two Senate Races Matter Most

    by Winston Wendell Two Senate races could decide the fate of a popular budget that has already taken millions upon millions of healthcare dollars away from Americans. Everything is on the line for both sides: not only healthcare coverage, but also the livelihoods of those affected and their trust in the government. Last Summer, with the guidance of the President himself and the Republican party, legislators pushed through some of the most devastating cuts to healthcare the US has witnessed […]

    bluepress.blog/2026/08/19/the-

  13. Dr Fauci made mistakes. But his persecution is a travesty | Margaret Sullivan
    By Margaret Sullivan

    It’s easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn’t justify the Republicans’ politicized response

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    #AnthonyFauci #Republicans #USCongress #USSenate #USpolitics #USnews #Coronavirus #TheGuardian #MargaretSullivan

  14. Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress over Covid hearing
    By Robert Tait in Washington

    Anthony Fauci invoked fifth amendment dozens of times to parry hostile Republican inquisition over Covid response

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    #AnthonyFauci #USnews #USpolitics #Coronavirus #Republicans #USCongress #USSenate #TheGuardian #RobertTaitinWashington

  15. CW: USPol / US politics

    So six Democratic congresscritters crossed the aisle to pass the latest defence spending bill - not that unusual, given their swing districts and being up for election - but they did so with the "SAVE" act attached to it.

    Apparently, they have all the self-preservation instinct of the mythical #lemmings from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Fabrication. Because the entire point of the #SAVE act is to disenfranchise as many Democratic-leaning voters as possible. This isn't speculation; it's easy to read in the measures that it calls for, but more than that, #Trump has explicitly described it that way over the last few months.

    The #Democrats frequently do not need the #GOP to ratf*ck them [1]; as here, they're quite capable of doing it to themselves.

    Everyone who cares about preserving #US democracy, such as it is, needs to yell at their #senators to ensure this monstrosity doesn't pass in the Senate. There's been lots of talk of it not having the votes there, but that was said about other things that (eventually) got passed as well.

    [1] Don't blame me for the language. A US president brought the term into wide use.

    #USPol #USCongress #DemocraticParty #SAVE #USSenate #ElectionStealing #elections #disenfranchise #voters #MutualOfOmaha #MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom #fabrication #SAVEAct

  16. Watchman Reporters @watchmanreporterscom.wordpress.com@watchmanreporterscom.wordpress.com ·

    “We’re Going to Monitor Nigerian Election”: U.S. Republican Congressman Riley Moore Opens Up to Media.

    Publisher: Okpeaye Theophilus Date: Sun, 5 July 2026 U.S Republican Congressman,Riley Moore United States Republican Congressman Riley Moore has opened up during a press interview that the United States is going to monitor the forthcoming election in Nigeria in 2027. He made the remark while responding to a question as to how, domestically, there have been a lot of questions about how elections are run and processed, and whether there is anything more that the United States can do in […]

    watchmanreporterscom.wordpress

  17. US Senate advances measure curbing Trump’s Iran war powers, nearly along party lines

    The US Senate advanced a war powers resolution on Tuesday that would end the Iran war unless President…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #2026US-IsraelwarwithIran #BillCassidy #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Iran #JohnFetterman #LisaMurkowski #RandPaul #SusanCollins #USCongress #USSenate
    newsbeep.com/548099/

  18. Oh. Great. 😖

    "The House Agriculture Committee passed the legislation without a two-year delay on the forthcoming federal ban, as proposed in separate legislation."

    Intoxicating Hemp Ban Unchanged in 2026 Farm Bill’s Advancement
    cannabisbusinesstimes.com/hemp

    #USpol #Hemp #HempBan #USFarmBill #FarmBill #Weed #Pot #THCa #Marijuana #USCongress #Congress #IAmDB

  19. Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files – GovTrack.us

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    Legislative Recap Jan. 30, 2026: Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files »

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    Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files

    Jan. 30, 2026 · by Amy West

    Shutdown? Shutdown

    By midday on Friday, January 30 the Senate had not passed the remaining appropriations bills and the current continuing resolution funding parts of the federal government ended Saturday night at midnight. The House is not in session this weekend, so there will definitely be a brief partial weekend shutdown, but the government is expected to be funded again, for a time, by later in the week.

    As a recap, Congress is supposed to pass appropriations bills before the fiscal year begins on October 1, and last year’s failure to do so led to the long October-November shutdown. In November, Congress reached a deal to fund some federal entities through the rest of this fiscal year (Agriculture, VA, and Congress itself) and then in mid-January reached a deal to fund others (Commerce, DOJ, Interior, and more), but that still left out a lot. Now, Congress is working to fund Defense, Homeland Security (DHS), Labor, HHS, Education, Transportation, HUD, State, and more). It looked like a deal had been reached until CBP killed Minnesotan Alex Pretti.

    Friday night, the Senate passed 71-29 a revised version of H.R. 7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026. While it has the same bill number as the one passed in the House last Friday, the content is different. The Senate changed DHS funding to a two-week continuing resolution, after which point DHS would face another potential shutdown, and attached that to the other five appropriations bills to fund those remaining parts of the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

    So now, in order to keep this shutdown short, the House must vote again on H.R. 7148. Given that the White House has signaled support for this plan, the expectation was that things would go smoothly in the House on Monday. But as of February 1, House Democrats are blocking fast-track rules, which will add a few extra days to the process at most.

    There was a hiccup on Thursday when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said he was objecting to this plan unless a repealed-in-the-House provision was reinstated. That provision would allow a small number of senators to sue the government for exorbitant monetary damages as the result of searches in Operation Arctic Frost. (This article is about the first unanimous House vote to repeal that provision, but they again voted unanimously last week and attached the repeal to the appropriations bills.) As of this morning, Sen. Graham also says he objects to the plan because he wants a vote on banning sanctuary cities.

    Graham agreed to let the vote go forward once Majority Leader Thune agreed to separate votes later on reinstating the monetary damages provision as well as a vote on legislation against sanctuary cities.

    What Effect Will the Two Week Continuing Resolution Have on ICE?

    Very little. As Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) noted on X about just ICE, an agency within DHS:

    In 2025, ICE received $10 billion in appropriations. The 2026 bill holds ICE at $10 billion — but last year Congress gave them $75 billion in advance funding. So even if ICE appropriations were eliminated, ICE would still have a 750% increase over last year.

    Two articles this week have noted how ICE has been spending its vast sums of money: The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters from the Washington Post and ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US from Bloomberg. A shutdown or continuing resolution would have no effect on these expenditures. Heck, even if ICE received no new funding at all this year, it would have no effect because these are expenditures based on appropriations already made.

    Other parts of DHS do need funding to continue full normal operations, such as TSA, FEMA, and CISA.

    Epstein Files

    According to Ryan Nobles, an NBC reporter:

    JUST IN: Deputy AG Todd Blanche says the Department of Justice has now released every file connected to the Epstein investigation that they are legally allowed and/or forced to release.

    The files are posted on the Department of Justice website.

    Today marks six weeks since the files were supposed to be released, if the administration felt compelled to follow the law. Is it all of the files? Definitely not since many have been redacted to prevent identifying Epstein survivors and because an unknown amount of legal activity remains in place. Is it all of the files that are required by the law that Congress passed? Also unclear. It just happened Friday morning and there’s a lot of files, so more information will doubtless come out in the near future.

    Updated on February 1 to add some context and update the status of the bill.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Shutdown? Shutdown. Also More Epstein Files – GovTrack.us

    Tags: Defunding ICE, Democrats, Epstein Files, Epstein Files Transparency Act, Funding, Ghislaine Maxwell, GovTrack, GovTrack.us, ICE, Jeffrey Epstein, Shutdown, U.S. Congress, U.S. Government
    #DefundingICE #Democrats #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #Funding #GhislaineMaxwell #GovTrack #GovTrackUs #ICE #JeffreyEpstein #Shutdown #USCongress #USGovernment
  20. #KristiNoem has been an abject failure leading the #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity for the last year — and the abuses of power we’re seeing from #ICE are the latest proof that she has lost control over her own department and staff[... she] must be #impeached and removed from office immediately.”
    ___
    Moderate Sen. #JackyRosen urges Noem’s impeachment as Dem fury grows over #Minneapolis #shooting - apnews.com/article/hooting-min

    #uspol #USsenate #UScongress #TrumpGestapo #Trump

  21. The "TRUMP AMIERICA [𝘴𝘪𝘤] AI Act" (or The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act). You can't make this up.

    reason.com/2025/12/29/the-trum

    #AI #Amierica #copyright #freeMarket #freeSpeech #internet #legislation #MarshaBlackburn #section230 #socialMedia #technology #USCongress #USSenate #wordSalad

  22. The "TRUMP AMIERICA [𝘴𝘪𝘤] AI Act" (or The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American Industry Act). You can't make this up.

    reason.com/2025/12/29/the-trum

    #AI #Amierica #copyright #freeMarket #freeSpeech #internet #legislation #MarshaBlackburn #section230 #socialMedia #technology #USCongress #USSenate #wordSalad

  23. Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance – IPWatchdog.com -Patents & Intellectual Property Law

    By Eileen McDermott, 7 hours ago

    Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance

    “The question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an ‘Executive agency’”.

    Photo from article…

    Two weeks after the Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an interlocutory injunction issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in September that allowed Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter to return to her post pending her lawsuit against President Donald Trump for allegedly illegally removing her from office, Perlmutter has responded.

    In her opposition to the application for a stay, filed on Monday, Perlmutter accused the administration of making “an inexcusable mess of Congress’s plans for the governance of its Library.”

    Trump’s application argued that the D.C. appellate court’s injunction represents “another case of improper judicial interference with the President’s power to remove executive officers” and that its “analysis contravenes settled precedent and misconceives the Librarian’s and Register’s legal status.” The powers of the Librarian and Register have been classified as executive by the Supreme Court, said the administration’s brief, “such as the power to issue rules implementing a federal statute, to issue orders in administrative adjudications, and even to conduct foreign relations relating to copyright issues.”

    But Perlmutter argued in her opposition that “the question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an ‘Executive agency’—not just for purposes of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (“FVRA”), 5 U.S.C. § 3345 et seq., but for all of the purposes for which the same definition of “Executive agency” is used in Title 5, 5 U.S.C. § 105.”

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance – IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance

    Tags: "Inexcusable Mess", Copyright, D.C. Circuit, Donald Trump, Intellectual Property, IPWatchdog.com, Library of Congress, Patents, SCOTUS, Shira Perlmutter, Trump, U.S. Congress, U.S. Court of Appeals

    #inexcusableMess #copyright #dCCircuit #donaldTrump #intellectualProperty #ipwatchdogCom #libraryOfCongress #patents #scotus #shiraPerlmutter #trump #uSCongress #uSCourtOfAppeals

  24. Well, one thing I don't have to worry about is #ChelliePingree, since she voted against #BigUglyBill the first time around. And so did #JaredGolden... But I would maybe make sure of that if I lived in #Maine's 2nd congressional district.

    sengov.com/maine/golden-jared/

    #BigBeautifulBill #MedicaidCuts #USPol #USCongress #MainePol #USPol

  25. Duolingo Goes “AI-First” – DTNSB 5008

    US Congress passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act, and Bodie Grimm shares two EV models that you need to know about.

    Starring Jason Howell, Shannon Morse, and Bodie Grimm.

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  26. Duolingo Goes “AI-First” – DTNSB 5008

    US Congress passed the bipartisan Take It Down Act, and Bodie Grimm shares two EV models that you need to know about.

    Starring Jason Howell, Shannon Morse, and Bodie Grimm.

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    Follow us on Bluesky, Mastodon, X Instgram, Threads, YouTube and Twitch

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    #adapters #affiliateLinks #AI #AIExperiment #AIFirst #Amazon #Android #automotiveTrends #bipartisan #BodieGrimm #broadband #carPrices #chargeOnlyCable #ChatGPT #consumerElectronics #contractors #dataEthics #deepfakes #DenmarkStudy #Duolingo #eCommerce #economicImpact #economists #electricVehicles #endOfService #ethics #Europe #EVs #generativeAI #GoogleCompetitor #impersonation #internetAccess #jobAutomation #JuiceJacking #KilowattPodcast #Kuiper #legalAction #legislation #LG #LGBridge #lowEarthOrbit #nonconsensualContent #NorthAmerica #OnePlus #onlineSafety #OpenAI #OTAUpdates #phoneSupport #priceDrop #privacy #productRecommendations #productivity #rChangemyview #Reddit #refunds #revengePorn #ruralAreas #satelliteInternet #security #shopping #smartphones #smartwatch #softwareUpdates #Starlink #TakeItDownAct #tariffs #travelSafety #UniversityOfZurich #USCongress #USPricing #USBCondom #USBC #Watch3 #workplaceAutomation