Odds and Ends — 6 May 2024

Ron DeSantis, I am sorry to tell you, has signed a law banning lab-grown beef in his state. “Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals,” he said in a statement, gesturing toward the shadowy, unnamed cabal (The UN, perhaps? The World Economic Forum?) that will one day surely force us to eat bugs for its sick satisfaction…
…spring has arrived in much of the U.S. Get out there and grill some meat — real, lab-grown, plant-based, or made-from-bugs. Whatever you want.

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1787117727179489681

The Wolves Of K Street

Trump’s victory would touch off the most dramatic reshuffling of K Street’s pecking order since the conservative revolution of 1980. The Democratic lobbyists who’d expected to flourish under a Hillary Clinton administration were now out in the cold, and the Republican lobbying establishment had almost no relationship with Trump.
Suddenly every wheeler-dealer in the city was racing to make friends in Trump’s orbit, portraying themselves as longtime backers of the MAGA movement, even if they weren’t, and creating new strategies for getting what they wanted out of the president-elect. Washington’s entire lobbying industry, it seemed, was reinventing itself overnight.

https://twitter.com/berlin_bridge/status/1787091982759706674

Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn

https://twitter.com/DanielMillerEsq/status/1786496714494316974

Trump Team Says Minnesota and Virginia Are In Play

Top officials for former President Donald Trump’s campaign believe they can flip Democratic strongholds Minnesota and Virginia into his column in November, they told donors behind closed doors at a Republican National Committee retreat Saturday.

Both beliefs seem delusional to me. In 2020, Biden topped Trump by 7% in Minnesota and 10% in Virginia. In both states, Democrats did well in recent legislative elections, Minnesota in 2022 and Virginia in 2023. If either state’s experiencing a Republican groundswell, it’s well hidden.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1787181521226379440

GOP: Noem up in smoke; Scott, Burgum rise in Trump VP race

https://twitter.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/1786905989343564168

Candidates Can Raise Unlimited Funds for Ballot Measures

The Federal Election Commission quietly issued an advisory opinion last week allowing candidates to raise unlimited money for issue-advocacy groups working on ballot measures in elections in which those candidates are on the ballot.
The opinion, issued in response to a request from a Nevada-based abortion rights group, could significantly alter the landscape in the fall in terms of the capacity that candidates aligned with these groups have to help them raise money.
The decision applies to all federal candidates, but with a presidential election taking place in six months, the biggest attention will fall to that race. If Mr. Biden can solicit money for abortion-rights ballot measures, he can add to an already-existing fund-raising advantage that his team currently has over Mr. Trump.

https://twitter.com/pietrospina/status/1787133659570401425

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Houston area’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate

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