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Theater historian. Little League coach. Cruciverbalist.
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(From today's Times updates.)
The language of the bill states that “any senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Federal department or agency.” Because the provision is retroactive to 2022, it would appear to make eligible the eight lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed by investigators for Mr. Smith as he examined efforts by Donald J. Trump to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential election. Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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How about the folks whose neighbors are being kidnapped by armed agents of the state? Or the families of people murdered in the Caribbean? Or the millions of Americans whose health care costs are about to explode?
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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do the highest reaches of literary studies know about this, for instance www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners
First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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@schumer.senate.gov

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Somehow or other we must get into the Government men who can match our enemies in fighting spirit, in daring, in resolution and in thirst for victory. Some 300 years ago, when this House found that its troops were being beaten again and again by the dash and daring of the Cavaliers, by Prince Rupert's Cavalry, Oliver Cromwell spoke to John Hampden. In one of his speeches he recounted what he said. It was this: I said to him, 'Your troops are most of them old, decayed serving men and tapsters and such kind of fellows.'…You must get men of a spirit that are likely to go as far as they will go, or you will be beaten still. It may not be easy to find these men. They can be found only by trial and by ruthlessly discarding all who fail and have their failings discovered. We are fighting to-day for our life, for our liberty, for our all; we cannot go on being led as we are. I have quoted certain words of Oliver Cromwell. I will quote certain other words. I do it with great reluctance, because I am speaking of those who are old friends and associates of mine, but they are words which, I think, are applicable to the present situation. This is what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Resign.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Nope. Totally incorrect. This gives the country NOTHING except a reminder that none of you should be in office even one more day.

Unbelievable political malpractice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Congresswoman, call your senatorial colleagues!!!
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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The only value Schumer has added recently is keeping the caucus in line. Now that he can't do that ...
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM