Johnson Wins Speaker Battle, but Proves GOP Has Little Room for Error His tenuous victory to retain the gavel points to bigger tests ahead.

Mike Johnson Wins Speaker Battle, but Proves GOP Has Little Room for Error.
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Thursday Morning Politics: 2025 Congress, Holiday Attack, More | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Molly Ball, senior political correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, discusses the latest in national political news.

ICYMI, @mollyesque.bsky.social talks about the new year in national politics, and the still-developing stories from New Orleans and Las Vegas:
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Matt Gaetz Tore the House GOP Apart. He Isn’t Sorry. ‘Chaos doesn’t scare me,’ says Floridian reviled by colleagues for ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy

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Grisham's produced 48 consecutive NY Times bestsellers -- insane!

Humans of New York © •. • X 3h. © "He doesn't love me, that's for sure. You can project human qualities onto these things until they bite your ass cheek. He bit my ass cheek. Middle of the night, wife asleep in the bed, I bend over to pick something up, and he bites me right on the ass. He's very dangerous if he doesn't get his way. If you aren't accommodating his wishes, he can screech you right into the ground. He won't go in his cage. Our entire apartment is filled with driftwood from the Hudson. He likes to sit on the driftwood when he watches TV. He'll take food off our plates. If anyone is talking, he has to be there. He wants to be part of everything. And the worst part is they won't die. They live to be 80 or 100. You know the saying: 'This too shall pass'? Not the umbrella cockatoo. This too, shall not pass. There's no hope. That's the horror of it. I told this to a nine-year old girl in the park. This girl was a genius. She says: 'You'll never have to say goodbye. You have an infinite pet.' It was the darkest thing l've ever heard."

remember the lady from New York who was cursed forever by ass-biting cockatoo ownership

The Enduring Charm of John Grisham The author, who has 48 consecutive No. 1 bestsellers, is out this month with a long-awaited sequel to "The Firm."

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Meet the Hollywood extra who stormed the Capitol and ended up on the FBI wanted list An excerpt from the upcoming book "Sedition Hunters" by NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly tells the tale of one of the more mysterious figures of the Capitol riot.

First except from SEDITION HUNTERS, out Oct. 17:

Once again thinking about this dog from 1908, who kept pushing children into the river so he could get steaks for rescuing them.

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