It’s a temporary hold where Congress gets to ask for more info. You’re right that it’s informal and Trump doesn’t need their approval anyways.

Perhaps it’s enough to make him back off before the midterms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theory

And no, the CIA failing is not a good thing. Grok making targeting decisions with satellite photos and twitter consensus would be worse for a start.

The next democrat president is going to be left at most with just satellite photos and the depleted goodwill of allies that haven’t demolished their intelligence agencies.

My worry about algorithms is that if they are insufficiently abstract/hidden/complicated then humans will start to game them. Especially with AI assistance. Is my worry legit or am I too dumb?

At best it’s only a single seat if the vote goes their way. (citation needed)

Ignoring the top education democrat too:

Bobby Scott, the top Democrat on the education committee, criticized the bill as unnecessary and potentially in conflict with first amendment protections of protest.

“No college or university has embraced the BDS movement anyway. So, we should combat antisemitism wherever it occurs, but we should not do so by punishing protected speech or conflating a student’s view with university policies,” he said. (The Guardian US House passes bill penalizing universities that participate in boycott of Israel)

The fact that Putin is at 14% favorable is a joke. (pg 13)

It does affect them, but the pain is a “test of faith”.

Bets on Blanche investigating every election that doesn’t go their way instead.