Haley Byrd Wilt
@byrdinator
Christ-follower. Usually reading, writing, and/or making crafts with my kids. Wife to @EvanWilt_. Covering Congress and stuff @NOTUSreports.
A full PDF of our story about the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is now available for everyone here: thedispatch.com/p/forcedlaborp…
one of the best parts of being an adult is being able to look at your toddler and say: we're going for ice cream. right now. let's go! you feel like rl willy wonka
small (random) joys of being a dad: - buying ice cream for your kids on a hot day - watching star wars, pokemon, harry potter together for the 1st time - watching as they go "mmm" eating a burger you just grilled - helping them ride a bike / swim / ski for the 1st time - singing…
Once again the Nobel Prize is slipping between my fingers. Falling away into the abyss. I was so close. The world is so unfair
Nearly all of them voted to scale up Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Some are quietly working to protect select immigrants from it. House Republicans are grappling with the administration’s hardline enforcement policies playing out in their districts: notus.org/immigration/re…
Good one from @emilyykennard and @byrdinator on constituent work/advocacy Republicans are doing on behalf of some immigrants in their districts: notus.org/immigration/re…
I talked to Republican lawmakers about deaths since USAID’s withdrawal from the world. Most brushed off the reports, and some insisted that people couldn’t be dying as a result. “I don’t believe that. No.” Read more: notus.org/foreign-policy…
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says at least 161 people are still missing after the state's catastrophic floods.
Search teams scour Texas flood zone for dozens missing; 78 confirmed dead - reuters.com/sustainability…
“I just want to have a normal, boring Congress, but no one knows what that looks like anymore,” Johnson told NOTUS today when asked about breaking the record for the longest vote. “I’m tired of making history.” notus.org/congress/mike-…
I went to sleep at 💃7:30 PM💃 because I was not feeling well and now I’m awake at 🕺2:00 AM 🕺 and apparently 💃the House of Representatives is awake too💃
You know it's getting late when the milk precedent---which isn't actually a precedent, folks---is being brought up on the Senate floor.
Thune was drinking some sort of red liquid out of a water glass. Dems called it a rules violation — senators can only drink water or milk on the Senate floor. Rosen joked he set a new precedent allowing coffee in the chamber
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…
Masked agents arrested Iranian Christian asylum seekers in LA. They throw a sobbing woman on the ground. Their pastor tries to intervene, & is threatened with arrest. "We fled because of our faith" Good coverage from @AndyROlsen in @CTmagazine: christianitytoday.com/2025/06/ice-ar…
having a fortified burh nearby that you and your livestock can go to when the vikings raid once again (the vikings are bad at siege warfare, you see)
We all know what the American Dream is but what's the British Dream?
From my interview with Rep. Massie right after January 6, 2021:
Ask Mike Pence about his last month.
“In interviews, members of both parties responded to the weekend’s events as spectators rather than participants in the government’s decisions about war.” notus.org/congress/war-p…
This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…
California Dems are calling for committee hearings & an investigation into how Sen. Alex Padilla was treated by federal agents when he was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference. w/ @samuellarreal_ & @byrdinator notus.org/california/cal…
“Play stupid games, get stupid prizes,” one congressman said. Republicans said they had no concerns about police wrestling Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground or handcuffing him. notus.org/congress/repub…