Ted Cruz on heated Texas GOP primary for US Senate:
“I’m continuing to stay out of it,” Sen. Ted Cruz exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics founder @mattlaslo.bsky.social
Full post at Ask a Pol Politics on Substack: www.askapolpolitics.com/p/sen-ted-cr...
JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
somewhere, Bill Clinton studies the definition of the word “is”
💯
Live by a SCOTUS ruling, die by the same bench the following week…
Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.
Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.
As well as everyone else who stepped up.
NEWS: Nathan Peternel stepping aside after investigation deems sex videos wrong
Head of powerful Life Church announces brother-in-law taking over while he enters “restorative process”, one week after son sentenced in child porn case
www.24sight.news/p/nathan-pet...
NEW: ICE finds Cuban man’s homicide at El Paso camp result of 'spontaneous use of force,' after initially claiming 'medical distress'
DHS responded: 'No lawbreakers in the history of human civilization have been treated better than illegal aliens in the US'
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/20/t...
Another wild week really got the going panel today: Jason Dick, Editor-in-chief of CQ-Roll Call, @svdate.bsky.social, Sr. White House Correspondent @huffpost.com and @cameronjoseph.bsky.social, Senior Washington Reporter for the Christian Science Monitor.
bit.ly/Click-2-Listen
youtu.be/9Q7peudRywk
Read? So 90s…
Question for the room, testing how much the normal information flow has changed:
Are you following the congressional GOP's push for the SAVE Act? The effort to blow up the Senate filibuster to pass it? This is top of every hour on Fox, all over X, but I check newspapers and it's a small story.
Trump withdrawing his endorsement from Jeff Hurd, the Republican who won the competitive district in Colorado abandoned by Lauren Boebert, and backing a primary opponent. This comes after Hurd voted against Trump's tariffs on Canada
Woot woot!
So much fun talking tariffs last night with @skyeperryman.bsky.social! And it was a GULC mini-reunion with @michaelsteele.bsky.social too😀
NEW EXCLUSIVE
Ask a Pol founder @mattlaslo.bsky.social asks:
What’d you do to crypto? Heard you Dems derailed it, partly b/c of Trump conflicts of interest?
Key Booker:
”I swear I didn’t break it,” @corybooker.com laughs. “There’s still a very good bipartisan glidepath to get something done.”
Preach.
Schumer’s gonna shank this guy one of these days…
Fetterman shrugs off Epstein scandal
“If they release it, fine, but it’s a strange argument when we were in absolute control for four years, we didn't release it or say anything with it,” Sen. @johnfetterman.com tells me.
My latest 🔥 just went live www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...
Was just asking him about PA polls showing he’s more popular with R’s and I’s than D’s.
He deflected before turning to a Fox News reporter.
Oof.
“Well, I mean, I have a great relationship with my parents,” Sen. Fetterman told me — exact quote — when I asked about him polling better with Republicans and Independents than with his own party of late. @askapol.bsky.social
NEW EXCLUSIVE:
US Senate Ag. Chair John Boozman says, “We've got an excellent chance" to pass a bipartisan market structure bill — after stablecoin…
LISTEN to the Chair yourself here (for FREE! But it’s Substack so click through their hurdles): www.askapolcrypto.com/p/market-str...
🍿 (& a lil fear and trepidation…)
Stay tuned: first ever crypto Congress full steam ahead on digital assets —>
Oops.
@Axios. www.axios.com/2025/02/12/h...
