loreleikelly

@loreleikelly.bsky.social

Progressive Institutionalist. Blue highways + 🐶

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

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This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

Screenshots of posts from Burgess Everett on X:

“The Senate's CR deal is out from Sens. Collins and Murray. Funds government through Dec. 11

Bill blocks a new rule that would allow the admin to cancel grants to, for example, blue states 

Collins says the bill "prevents the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s proposed rule regarding federal financial assistance from taking effect"

Murray: "his bill blocks implementation of OMB’s corrupt new grants rule for the duration of the CR. The proposed rule would systematically politicize federal funding and allow Trump officials to cancel grants at any time for any reason."

“Bill also extends surface transportation programs through Dec. 11 (was set to expire Sept. 30 

Also has health care extenders 

Bottom line is this is going to kick a ton of stuff to Congress's lame duck”

DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks. Thankfully, our experts in Minnesota were able to identify the vulnerability quickly and work with local communities to stop it.

Profanity spewing GOP senators berating Dr. Fauci is so 🥱. Attack public service to spur privatization (to your cronies), But it is also a story of purposeful institutional memory destruction. CDC in China went from 47 to 14 staff during Trump's first adm. www.tbsnews.net/coronavirus-...

US slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak

The CDC’s China headcount has shrunk to around 14 staffers, down from approximately 47 people since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the documents show

tbsnews.net

It was great to join Alex Noyes and Dafna Rand from the Brookings Institution to talk about how we can build an incentive-based U.S. security assistance system that promotes transparency, accountability, and oversight, strengthens our partnerships, and protects our reputation.

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