Christ-follower. Wife to @EvanWilt_. Associate editor @thedispatch. Author of Uphill, a newsletter about Congress. Sci-fi enthusiast.
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Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 retweeted
This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo.
This is Ruth Whitfield, 86. Her son, the former Buffalo Fire Commissioner, said she was on her way from visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to get something to eat.
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Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 retweeted
Pearly Young, 77, was killed today in #Buffalo shopping for groceries.
For 25 years she ran a pantry where every Saturday she fed people in Central Park. Every. Saturday.
She loved singing, dancing, & being with family.
She was mother, grandma, & missionary. Gone too soon 🕊
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Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 retweeted
Glad to flex the Star Wars political science muscles with @byrdinator in our new @HothTakes episode. We covered a lot of ground, from galactic ballot initiatives to Jedi enforcement of Republic laws. Turns out there are no easy answers to some of these Qs! hothtakes.wordpress.com/2022…
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Group of people talking about Star Wars Rebels at the coffee shop and the amount of restraint I am exercising right now
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Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 retweeted
A new @HothTakes episode is out now! @byrdinator and I talk about the structure of the post-TROS Republic and Jedi. hothtakes.wordpress.com/2022…
What do you think, folks? Unicameral legislature or bicameral? Formal ties with the Jedi or informal?
We dive into that and more.
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Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 retweeted
Thanks for plugging the latest episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST with @nuryturkel, @byrdinator & @AudreyFahlberg!
If y’all aren’t subscribed to @thedispatch’s Uphill newsletter, you should be.
uphill.thedispatch.com/p/mcc…
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Just getting around to watching some of the China competition bill conference committee meeting from today, and a couple important comments from lawmakers indicated they are serious about including the House's human rights provisions in the final package. (thread)
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House Foreign Relations Chair Gregory Meeks noted several key differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill: the first one he went out of his way to mention was the House's inclusion of legislation to prioritize Uyghur refugees and help Hong Kongers.
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Rep. Ted Deutch, sponsor of the bipartisan bill granting priority status to those fleeing Xinjiang, also said he is "eager to work with my colleagues on the committee to ensure" it is included in the final bill.
“Competing with China requires a strong defense of our values."
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full video of the conference committee meeting is here invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=KD_pCi9H…
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ah, the House committee Meeks chairs is foreign affairs, not foreign relations. (I'm blaming that slip-up on the fact it is almost 10pm)
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Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 retweeted
.@RepDonBeyer, exiting the office a second ago: "OK I'm heading over to cast 110 votes"
Fact Check: True!
You give the Senate a double digit number of votes and they lose their minds. Over here this is Wednesday
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WASHINGTON—a school bus drives by, filled with children who are waving from the windows and hollering at passersby with instructions to have a great afternoon
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Today's Uphill has an item on @nuryturkel's book, No Escape, which is out today. The book is gut-wrenching. Turkel hopes it will heighten awareness of the genocide in Xinjiang.
"I believe in the power of personal storytelling," he says. Read more here: uphill.thedispatch.com/p/hou…
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