Molly Reynolds

This is a near perfect article whose only defect is the fact that it refers to them as Dan Sullivans rather than the correct Dans Sullivan. www.washingtonsun.com/national/dan...

You say the ghost of the chief justice, I say the Thundering Herd.

Real ones are holding out for a return by @ringwiss.bsky.social for a joint appearance with Wick.

If they do this, I'm going to have to find a new name for my band because no one will know what Intervening Day refers to www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

"As time goes on, this will all pass away into memory, into a story with a beginning and a middle and finally an end. And that transition from the real into fable will bring its own kind of comfort and pain... I am only humbled: to be here, to be alive." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wel...

For Alaska primary day, a reminder on the Dans Sullivan situation.

Can you say "jurisdictional foot faults" eight times fast?

every primary night has at least one true Kornacki cam delight and tonight's may well be "I don't want to leave out Eastern Michigan University!" in his discussion of Washtenaw County.

wherein Tom Edsall just goes and tells the world one of my greatest secrets: what happens when you ask @sarahbinder.bsky.social a question via email. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

"Getting as far as to get disqualified from the ballot by an election official" definitely still counts as "running" for the purposes of my "Are you required to run for Senate at some point if you live in Alaska and are named Dan Sullivan?" line of inquiry, for the record.

Add in former Anchorage mayor Dan A. Sullivan's short-lived 2016 run and one has to ask: are you *required* to run for Senate at some point if you live in Alaska and are named Dan Sullivan?

"discharge petitions successfully forcing action" is to the 119th congress as "suspension bills aren't just for post offices any more" was to the 118th.

Find yourself someone who wants to pay as much attention to you as Steve Kornacki wants to "just go back to NJ-12 for a minute" on this livestream.

"What in the world does 'merely incidental' mean?" gets all the attention but it's the jurisdictional foot faults that will get you every time.

Yes, this is a typo but for the record, I absolutely do consider GAO Appropriations Law Volume III to be revolving fun.

You would think this would mean there are no more ads re the referendum running during the Nationals game. You would be wrong.

I have been shouting with only moderate degrees of coherence about this very point so you should all read @mattglassman312.bsky.social's cogent written version. The erosion of the division between mandatory and discretionary $$ is, in short, an extremely big deal.

If hours staring at lists of members of Congress is good for anything, it's that it allows me to remind you of this: Tony Gonzales: GOP congressman from Texas, resigning now Anthony Gonzalez: *different* Republican congressman, served from Ohio until 2023

An imperfect solution to something that should never have been a problem. But there's something fitting about the fact that this went up at the hands of AOC employees who simply showed up to do their jobs today, just as the folks it honors did on Jan. 6. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For all the reasons you are thinking of (and maybe some you're not), this has been a HARD year for many people who live in Washington. That's making the decision to gut the parts of the Post (metro, sports) that cover the region as a place that people *live* extra hard to take.

Per Judge Cobb's order granting the congressional plaintiffs' TRO in the case involving access for oversight of ICE facilities, turns out I was not the only one with questions about the plausibility of the government's claim. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since @bbkogan.bsky.social solved my longstanding linguistic problem of how to describe when a funding measure expires last fall ("midnight as Saturday begins"), I can now focus all of my pedantic energy on the difference between a lapse in appropriations and a shutdown.

We lost one of our most treasured colleagues in Governance Studies at @brookings.edu, Steve Hess, this past weekend. His work over five decades was wide-ranging and sharp, and he was relentlessly kind, demonstrating care for every member of our team. We will miss him. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

The placeholder bill + rule + related discharge petition remains one of the more interesting procedural innovations of last two congresses.

It's the first legislative week of the year, and the House AND the Senate have both seen successful motions to discharge a committee. The 119th Congress, everyone.

Five years ago today, many people simply woke up on January 6, 2021 and went to work in and around the Capitol to serve their country in ways big and small, only to be met with violence. Their stories are many, and they are still with me.

Given that David Valadao, the only other remaining House Republican to vote for impeachment in 2021, is sitting in one of the seats targeted by California's redistricting efforts, there may be zero such members come 2027.

I'd also note that one lesson from 2025 vs. 2017 is that the politics of a narrower (in this case, health-focused) reconciliation bill are potentially trickier than a big (beautiful or otherwise) one. There's just one hill on which you win or lose, not a bunch of different hills you can choose from.

If you are a person who judges the quality of a book by how many random historical documents and rabbit holes it involves (and why would you judge a book in any other way?), I can personally attest, based on watching Vanessa write it, that this is the book for you.