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Devin Driscoll

@short_pants

Lawyer | Proud @providencecol, @HHHSchool, & @UofMNLawSchool alum. Lover of baseball and blueberry pie.

 Minneapolis, MN
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Joined November 2008
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I can’t express how amazing this feels.
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Ian Donnis@IanDonnis2h
.@AhernForAG unveils transition team. Other members include Sandra Cano, Dr Philip Chan, Hugh Clements, Janet Coit, Zachary Cunha, Kevin Gallagher, Rebecca Partington, Peter Slom ….
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Would require an amendment to the Ohio Constitution.
Andrew Tobias (@AndrewJTobias) profile pictureAndrew Tobias@AndrewJTobias20h
Last week, Democrats won enough House seats to block the Republican legislature from overriding Gov.-elect Amy Acton's vetoes. Today, GOP Rep. Ron Ferguson has introduced a joint resolution to lower the floor for veto overrides. He proposes allowing them with a simple majority.
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Only six states currently allow veto override with a majority vote: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
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Oregon Football
@oregonfootballNov 8
Duck fans >> #GoDucks
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Dave Wasserman
@RedistrictNov 8
If there's one shift that sums up 2026, it's Kansas's Golden Triangle of meatpacking (Liberal, Dodge City, Garden City, 61% Hispanic), focus of sweeping ICE operations in September: 2024: Trump 15,915 (68%), Harris 7,240 (31%) 2026: Marshall 9,537 (46%), Hamilton 10,411 (51%)
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Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillisNov 7
Really remarkable detail from Kansas election:
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@kyledcheneyNov 7
Congress has the power to conduct traditional — even aggressive — oversight and threaten impeachment. Trump is ordering the Justice Department to criminally probe lawmakers for doing. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…
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@TanielNov 7
The fact that Michigan's two Democratic supreme court justices kept the supreme court there to a 6-1 majority. It also means that the GOP cannot flip that court in 2028 either. They needed to flip at least one seat to have a chance in two years.
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Taniel (@Taniel) profile pictureTaniel
@TanielNov 7
Big: Kris Kobach, the Kansas attorney general, one of the country’s most notorious far-right figures who charted the way for Trump’s election denialism well before Trump got to it, has lost his reelection bid. Democrat Chris Mann will be new Kansas attorney general, AP calls.
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EIGHTY-SEVEN-year-old. Uffda.
Megan Kimble (@megankimble) profile pictureMegan Kimble@megankimbleNov 6
State Rep. Senfronia Thompson announced Friday she has the votes to be the next speaker of the Texas House, putting the 87-year-old Houstonian on the brink of becoming the first woman and the first Black lawmaker to hold the powerful position. houstonchronicle.com/politic…
Houston lawmaker Senfronia Thompson on brink of historic Texas House speakership

Houston lawmaker Senfronia Thompson on brink of historic Texas House speakership

Members won’t vote on the speakership until January. But Thompson said a majority of them, including three Republicans, had already backed her bid.

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Well, someone didn’t learn anything this week. Further empowering the worst West Wing staffer after Tuesday’s historic losses really is perfect Trump.
Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) profile pictureMaggie Haberman
@maggieNYTNov 6
Stephen Miller is the new White House chief of staff, President Trump announces on Truth Social. NYT story coming shortly.
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Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReportsNov 6
“Scott Colom Flips Forrest County, Named for Ku Klux Klan Founder Nathan Bedford Forrest” Via @AshtonPittman buff.ly/HRoPpLO
Scott Colom Flips County Named for Ku Klux Klan Founder Nathan Bedford Forrest

Scott Colom Flips County Named for Ku Klux Klan Founder Nathan Bedford Forrest

Mississippi Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom has flipped Forrest County, named for Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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BIG NEWS: Democrats have officially won the majority of state legislative seats across the country! With state Democrats flipping 500+ seats, this marks a massive shift in political power in our statehouses.
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What a disaster her tenure has been.
Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) profile pictureJosh Gerstein
@joshgersteinNov 5
NEW: Harmeet Dhillon, who upended DOJ's Civil Rights Division to thwart DEI, faced criticism for undercutting voting rights and endured racist attacks from nativists, is 1st DOJ leader to step down following GOP midterm losses. w/ @CheyannaMarie97 politico.com/news/2026/11/05…
DOJ civil rights division chief resigns

DOJ civil rights division chief resigns

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This seems particularly noteworthy, given the Administration’s press stunt there the Friday before.
Jackson McGough (@JacksonMcGough_) profile pictureJackson McGough@JacksonMcGough_Nov 4
St. Cloud was pretty wild too. 18 point swing left.
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Now that these rigged maps have spectacularly backfired, can we all get on board with banning partisan gerrymandering now?
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Jill Hasday@JillHasdayNov 5
OTD in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to Cong. When she reintroduced the ERA in 1969, she argued that women’s “incredible scarcity in upper level jobs” proved that “existing laws are not adequate to secure equal rights for women.” #WeTheMen
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Kyle Kondik@kkondikNov 4
For all of the president’s bluster, we’ve been routinely holding free and fair elections in his second term in which his party’s candidates have often been getting clobbered, all without incident. A great tribute to the professionals who run our decentralized elections
Tony (@realtonysm1th) profile pictureTony
@realtonysm1thNov 4
One thing I absolutely did not have on my bingo card is this year’s post-election discourse being the most civil, least conspiratorial discourse in at least a decade
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Amazing.
Taniel (@Taniel) profile pictureTaniel
@TanielNov 4
Meet the new Chief Justice of Texas. Maggie Ellis, a Democrat. And the first LGBTQ person elected statewide in Texas: kxan.com/news/your-local-ele…
Maggie Ellis becomes 1st out LGBTQ+ person elected to a statewide office in Texas

Maggie Ellis becomes 1st out LGBTQ+ person elected to a statewide office in Texas

“I want every child growing up in this state to know that no door is closed to them because of who they are, where they come from, or who they love.”

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Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittmanNov 4
UPDATE: Scott Colom's lead in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race has grown from 65 votes to 1,138 votes, with 96% of votes in, AP reports. Substantial ballots are outstanding in Democratic-friendly Hinds County, as well as thousands of affidavit votes. mississippifreepress.org/rol…
Colom Lead Over Hyde-Smith Grows to 425 Votes, AP Reports - Mississippi Free Press

Colom Lead Over Hyde-Smith Grows to 425 Votes, AP Reports - Mississippi Free Press

Democrat Scott Colom's lead over incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has grown from 65 to 425 votes with an estimated 96% of votes counted. Significant votes are still outstanding in...

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