Husband of Betty, the love of my life. Father of two great kids. USAF veteran. Member of Congress. In that order. Also, empathy is good.

Joined February 2009
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Well, at least @SecRubio didn’t fall asleep like trump.
Fans at SoFi Stadium including MAGA Booed & Heckled Marco Rubio for attending the first match by Americans while FIFA President Gianni Infantino sat next to him obviously embarrassed by the look on his face.Game goers said he should be trying to end the War instead!
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Wait till you see all the ballots for Spencer Pratt that were found in Atlantis. The MAGA conspiracies get stupider every day.
BREAKING: 675 ballots for Spencer Pratt found in a dumpster in San Recto. Federal authorities are on scene.Let the games begin H/T Christian Cole
Community note
No city named San Recto exists in California, making the claim of ballots found there impossible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m…
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MATH: tough to beat.
"There was no imaginable way that Spencer Pratt was ever going to top maybe a quarter of the vote in Los Angeles" – @HaroldMeyerson @TheProspect explains – on @thenation podcast bit.ly/4v8xnDa
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There must have been a vast, secret network of voters who communicated telepathically to vote for Measure ER to fund emergency rooms. No way Measure ER could have spiked like that. Republican Spencer Pratt was just collateral damage to the Measure ER super secret vote rigging.
I charted election results between Karen Bass, @spencerpratt, Nithya Raman and Measure ER (approving a sales tax increase up to 10.25%, some of the highest in the nation). The totals come from LA County's official results (results.lavote.gov). Notice the significant increase in support for Measure ER coincides with the biggest jumps for Nithya Raman. Thoughts?
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I hate it when the Browns are ahead at halftime but then flatline and lose in the fourth quarter. The game should keep going until the Browns are ahead.
California governor’s race On June 3 Hilton was 27.6% and Steyer was 19.7%, a 7.9 point gap. By June 8 Steyer was 22.4% and Hilton was 25.0%, a 2.6 point gap. The formula needed roughly 3 more days of counting to get Steyer past Hilton. The pattern stopped the same day Steyer conceded. The numbers flatlined. The bottom panel shows the gap closing in a perfect straight line and exactly where it would have crossed zero if the pattern had continued.
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It is mathematically impossible for a MAGA Republican candidate to lose in deep blue LA. Just like it’s mathematically impossible for the Browns to lose the Super Bowl.
💥NEW: @chamath on LA Mayor Election: “I’m for mathematical and statistical literacy. And what happened here is mathematically and statistically IMPOSSIBLE … I can tell you the statistical odds that this would have happened — and it’s one in a trillion!”
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Ted Lieu retweeted
This is from a MAGA livestream today. The Reflecting Pool is VERY green and VERY disgusting 🤮🤮 Even on the worst days, I never saw it look this bad before.
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How is it possible that the Spurs are ahead by 29 points earlier in game 4, but then lose later in game 4 to the Knicks? Just statistically impossible. Baskets at the beginning should be worth more than baskets at the end right? Game must have been rigged.
The continued insistence that early mail-in ballots - which made up only about a third of all ballots - are somehow more legitimate than mail-in ballots cast close to or on Election Day is absurd. There is no reason to believe the first group of ballots is somehow more "real" than the later, larger group of ballots. Raman did well with people who voted later (and there were more of them), while Pratt did well with people who voted earlier. There is nothing any more suspicious about the first fact than about than the second.
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Gas prices are soaring. Grocery prices are skyrocketing. Utility prices are increasing. What are Republicans and trump focused on? Tax breaks for private jets. November is coming.
Republicans are trying to exempt private jet owners from paying taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, right-wing populism! politico.com/news/2026/06/08…
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Dear @DavidSacks: Anthropic states the capability at issue is used by cyber defenders. Anthropic also states other models such as ChatGPT 5.5 have the same capability. Do you agree? anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
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Dear @ICEgov: Your out of control agency has killed people. Your personnel will be investigated. And if the facts warrant it, a future Administration will prosecute your personnel who violated the law. November is coming.
Oh my god. A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after being released by DHS in the middle of the winter and far away from where they lived.
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trump is rapidly becoming a lame duck President. His name has already been removed from the Kennedy Center. And his name will be removed from everything in due time. He will go down as the worst President in American history with very little permanent changes he can point to.
Breaking news: President Trump’s name is off the Kennedy Center. The building’s exterior reads “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts” once more. wapo.st/4fDvtWg
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And in 2 years it will be removed from everything.
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The trump Administration and @WHOSTP47 have no idea what they are doing on AI. They first let the AI companies run wild. Then they did a weak EO that is voluntary. Then today they went Oh Shit and took an action that caused Anthropic to take Mythos 5 and Fable 5 offline.
life comes at you fast I guess
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Democrats massively outnumber Republicans in LA by nearly 4 to 1. Republican Spencer Pratt ran an in-your-face MAGA campaign in deep blue LA. If you’re screaming fraud because Pratt lost, then what you’re really saying is you hate democracy. Or you don’t get math. Or both.
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Spencer Pratt said he’d leave L.A. if he lost the mayor’s race. Now he’s calling anyone who believed him a ‘dim-witted jerk.’ In his concession video, he also calls his opponents, two women of color, ‘commie animals.’ vulture.com/article/spencer-…
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Trump is all over the Epstein Files. cc: @CGasparino
"It is so fucking obvious that it was and continues to be in real time a cover-up. Because if you didn't do anything wrong, Donald Trump, if you didn't commit crimes, Donald Trump, then why are people scrambling to protect your ass?" Katie Phang reacts to the NY Times' bombshell reporting on the Epstein files.
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Dear @WhiteHouse: FYI below. Have a nice weekend.
#BREAKING: MSNOW: “If you could talk to President Trump directly right now, what would you tell him?” Super MAGA voter in OH: “Sh&t, you want me to really say it on air? I’d say F-YOU. And I don’t mean to be disrespectful to any leader but he’s disrespectful to us and he doesn’t care, so…”😳
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Ted Lieu retweeted
Play is not just fun, it is essential. CA-36 boasts many outstanding California toy companies, including Mattel, MGA Entertainment, and Crazy Aaron’s. As Co-Chair of the Toy Caucus, supporting play means supporting childhood development, innovation, and jobs right here at home.
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