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Brian Schatz

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Brian Schatz

@brianschatz

United States Senator from Hawaii. Chief Deputy Whip.

ÜT: 19.72105,-155.087417

Joined June 2009

Brian Schatz
@brianschatz
4h
I had drafted and deleted a couple of posts about this and I’m glad I just waited for this one.
Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer
Jul 17
The Republican mind yearns to impose a carbon tax; denied this desire, it will simply keep proposing it in ever more perverse forms
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Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer
Jul 17
The Republican mind yearns to impose a carbon tax; denied this desire, it will simply keep proposing it in ever more perverse forms
Erik Wasson
@elwasson
Jul 17
Trump says he will increase tariffs on Canada due to wildfires polluting U.S. cities
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Diane Webber
@dwebbNPR
Jul 17
USAID went into "the woodchipper", per @elonmusk who says there are "no names" associated w/ deaths from that action. @SecRubio says no children died on his watch. Here are 3 children, 3 names, 3 deaths. @nprnews
Trump's team says 'no children' died from USAID cuts. Consider these 3 cases
From npr.org
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Manu Raju
@mkraju
Jul 16
Sen. Lisa Murkowski ahead of Trump’s speech: “There's a lot of speculation that he's going to take it back to 2020. I'm one who's always looking forward instead of in the rearview mirror with suspicion and conspiracy theories. So I don't know that that's going to be constructive”
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Geoff Bennett
@GeoffRBennett
Jul 16
Former Trump special counsel Ty Cobb tells me of tonight's Trump speech: "I think tonight's speech is intended to add to the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections. ... Steve Bannon and Todd Blanche have suggested that there will be
PBS News
@NewsHour
Jul 16
For perspective on what the president is trying to achieve with tonight's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, we turn to Ty Cobb, an attorney who served as special counsel during the first Trump administration. @GeoffRBennett
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Acyn
@Acyn
Jul 16
OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.
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Sam Stein
@samstein
Jul 14
It seems, from all reporting, that ICE today - shot someone who was not attempting to run them over but, rather, "flee the scene" - was not the person they were looking for - who had a 3yr old in the car - who they dragged out into the street - all while not wearing body cams
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Jon Ossoff
@ossoff
Jul 14
Donald Trump’s spiral continues. The failed president, pocketing billions as he drives up prices, is afraid to lose the midterms. So he will reheat debunked election conspiracy theories and tell bizarre new lies to deny his 2020 defeat and attack voting rights. This is a disaster
Washington Reporter
@DC_Reporter
Jul 13
NEWS: President Trump is planning to announce that Georgia's two senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, are illegitimate because of fraud, a well-placed source in Georgia tells us. Announcement could come as soon as tonight.
Brian Schatz
@brianschatz
Jul 11
I am voting NO on Monday on the NDAA. We haven’t even had an up or down vote to authorize this war in the first place. Trump wants a 50 percent increase at DOD - they expect money without accountability or strategy. I usually vote yes on NDAA but this is an easy call for me.
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Sam Stein
@samstein
Jul 11
is Trump still scheduled to speak at the re-scheduled WHCA dinner?
Sam Stein
@samstein
Jul 11
Someone wake up Mark Zuckerberg and explain that this first amendment utopia he was imagining hasn't quite worked out nytimes.com/2026/07/11/bus…
Brian Schatz
@brianschatz
Jul 8
My only advice is to not say anything that cannot be unsaid and when in doubt don’t say it here.
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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)
@BrendanNyhan
Jul 5
"[C]ooling is a hot issue on which the populist right has the better side of the argument. That should unsettle American progressives, who assume the far right is consistently irrational while the left is the party of science. On AC, the opposite is closer to the truth."
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Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
Jul 4
God tier goal by Sidny Lopes Cabral for Cape Verde, population ~525,000, putting defending World Cup champs Argentina on their heels through the final minutes of overtime. ARG wins 3-2.
FOX Sports
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Merriam-Webster
@MerriamWebster
Jul 3
Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.