Jonathan Bernstein: Good sign of how little Congress stuff has migrated over here is that no one in my feed has linked to the Congress story of the day so I guess I'll have to do it. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Good sign of how little Congress stuff has migrated over here is that no one in my feed has linked to the Congress story of the day so I guess I'll have to do it. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Mystery Social Media Account Schooling Congress on How to Do Its Jobwww.politico.com Ringwiss, an influential X account, is changing how the public understands Congress, and how members understand their own power.

Lol, the long tradition of brits explaining congressional rules

You guys see “parliamentary” and can’t help yourselves.

(bane voice) Ah you think parliamentary procedure is your ally? You merely adopted the parliament. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see regular order until I was already a man; by then it was nothing to me but blinding

I was lucky. I'm one of the ones that it protects but does not blind

I once saw a man fillibuster a bill for 12 years; he died giving that speech. And you dare to quote the ancient rules at me?

I was up all night cramming just so I could quote the ancient rules. I thought I was being "hep".

The Byrd Rule betrays you because it belongs to me.

Durham's down the road from us. We're going there tomorrow, in fact!

this is fascinating

I know he doesn't want to monetize it, but Dems(or just Congress) should fly him over to do a Congressional Power CEU.

$1 says Elon temporarily blocks that account before November

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing it. I see why he's been mistaken for an AI sometimes. He understands the rules, apparently better than almost anybody, but he doesn't understand how *people* work.

Well, he's a....very young person.

More to the point, I'd bet every dollar I have he's autistic.

😄 Yes. Which seems to have taken everybody by surprise, and I am thoroughly delighted by it.

It's a sign of the times that an account like this with obscure (not necessarily truly arcane) knowledge is helping individual Hill staffers. And, I had a good chuckle that it's a Brit gent hosting it. I wish they had gotten Congressional reactions.

So we're letting a guy in England run our government? I thought we put a stop to that.

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