Joe Perticone
@cheetah
Reporting on Congress and sometimes clothes for The Bulwark. Perticone@thebulwark.com 📍 D.C.
I planned my paternity leave quite well, so that congress was mostly out in order to not miss too much important stuff, but there’s some serious Mike Lee brain melt happening now that I can’t write about. It’s upsetting
A miracle happened today (my daughter didn’t cry during the application of holy water or holy oil)
Portugal has won every game I’ve ever watched while wearing my 2014 jersey. I couldn’t disturb the nap to put it on and Spain took advantage.
The Lord works in mysterious ways but he can also be extremely obvious at times www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...
I often get pitches along these lines "how would the founders react to X in 2026?" And the answer is they'd be so fascinated with the microwave that they wouldn't be able to focus on anything else. Every attempt to ask them about governance, they'd revert back to "let's use the microwave again"
Like almost every senator I spoke to about this deal was like “it’s just this war and that lyin son of a bitch Vance”
Bill Cassidy saying “Reagan is rolling over in his grave” is a huge deal, mainly because Trump-skeptical Republicans usually imply Reagan is still alive when they write in his name every four years.
I've lost count how many times I've thought of this 'The Dark Knight Rises' line over the past decade
These quizzes are stupid but fun to do anyway. This also isn't entirely accurate but it's what I got www.pewresearch.org/politics/qui...
Punchbowl knows their demographics: hill staffers with zero taste. So we can let this slide.
The quality and style choices of news publication merch is a big difference between new and old media. WaPo selling overpriced old man socks and ties vs. new media's hats. (not much of a dispatch reader, but this is an objectively tasteful hat)
I thought this was a valid excuse given his age but then looked up his age and realized we're only 5 years apart so actually this another thing where he should've known better. Add it to the list. www.theargumentmag.com/p/americans-...