NEW: The House Ethics Committee investigation into Matt Gaetz has hit a wall: the DOJ.

The Justice Department has refused to turn over info from their investigation to the Ethics Committee. Now, the committee is strongly considering subpoenaing the DOJ.

thedailybeast.com/doj-stonewalli…

Full list of the 11 House Rs who voted against the motion to table Rep. MTG’s motion to vacate:

Biggs
Burlison
Crane
Davidson
Gosar
Greene
Massie
Mooney
Moore (AL)
Roy
Spartz

“It must be okay to say true things.”

A Brendan Buck jam session on how much alternative reality drives the House GOP, with a couple simple ideas to steer them back to the real world.

politico.com/news/magazine/…

Why conservative media is suddenly turning on Kristi Noem

washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

So he *literally* has brain worms??

I know one former member of Congress who must be FURIOUS. #iykyk

Kristi Noem’s autobiography is gonna be a hit in the New Fiction section.

It’s not Coldplay, it’s not “Fix You.”

My takeaway from my first week of a two week staycation is that I would crush retirement.

Go to breakfast. Golf. Get a coffee. Read the paper. Do one (1) errand. Go to dinner. Sleep for 10 hours.

The 70-year-olds really figured this shit out.

This is a sitting US congressman congratulating students at a state school for mocking a black woman as a monkey

I have 11 days until I start at NOTUS.org and I’m basically just driving around, popping into Dick’s Sporting Goods, listening to Bright Eyes.

It’s 2006 and I am alive.

In a sense...Democrats saying they will help Johnson might ACTUALLY FREE UP HFC members to oppose tabling the motion to oust him ...in a potentially Machiavellian way...might Jeffries have schemed a way to further divide the GOP?

Tim Sheehy was asked about my report that a campaign aide promoted racist, far-right content.

Sheehy refused to comment, saying, 'If The Daily Beast writes it. I wouldn't believe it.'

But we have the receipts. Read the story for yourself here.
thedailybeast.com/tim-sheehy-gop…

“I decided what I did.”

Kind of a tautology. Vague but decisive. A little lyrical, a little gangster. 8/10.

(Two point deduction because…you know, it’s about murdering a dog.)

A deeply spiritual playlist, for people who say things like “I’m not religious but I’m spiritual.”

open.spotify.com/playlist/3js21…

New Twitter bio just dropped.

Can’t remember the last time I was this motivated to give to a media company.

SCOOP: As Ronna McDaniel collected six-figure severance from the RNC, her successor claimed an apparently larger salary paycheck—he had also reportedly argued *against* cutting the next chair's salary just before he took her place. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/inside-ronna-m…

Just saw Tony P.

Big DC moment for your boy.

This story is a lot of fun.