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contributing writer at @RollingStone // contributing editor at @Wired // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // noah.shachtman @protonmail .ch

NYC forever
Joined August 2008
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you guys are still here?!?!?!
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NBC and CNN producers say they're through airing Trump's virus pressers. “We might take it from the top and then cut away after the first lie, and return when the lies stop.”
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3.3 million people, suddenly out of work. How many of those jobs could've been saved, if our government had taken this threat seriously in January, even February?
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"Trump is bad luck" -- SpaceX employee to me
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There were 673 murders in New York in 2000, the last year of Rudy Giuliani's reign. There were 319 murders in New York last year.
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rats deserting a sinking ship are still rats
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Congrats to everyone who assured us that Bill Barr was an even-tempered, mild-mannered institutionalist.
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Imagine if Bloomberg had spent that $500 million on ventilators.
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EXCLUSIVE: The president’s niece Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all this summer—and to reveal that she was a primary source for The New York Times’ investigation into Trump’s taxes.
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A member of my family once did business with Jared -- and found him to be the dullest, most mendacious, weak-kneed wannabe bully he'd ever encountered in his many years of work.
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If Trump had seized this moment, his reputation would've been gold, possibly forever. He could've skated to re-election. Impeachment would've been a tiny asterisk. But Trump couldn't help himself. He couldn't rise to meet the crisis. Now he'll go down as the worst of the worst.
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21% of men should quit their fucking jobs, then.
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21% of men say they're afraid to hire women after #MeToo . Megan Rapinoe isn't having it. (via @CNBCMakeIt )
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EXCLUSIVE: Right before he was put in charge of a Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Navy, Sen. David Perdue began buying up stock in a company that made submarine parts.
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what a fucking horrible night on top of a horrible week on top of a horrible year for america
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To all the @OANN staffers applying for jobs at The Beast... no.
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[Kendall Roy voice] It's, y'know, Venmo meets Clubhouse meets Ebay meets ChatGPT.
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NEW: Trump told his Mar-a-Lago buddies to expect ‘big’ Iran action days before the Soleimani hit. In other words, randos at Trump's club knew more about the strike before members of Congress. via @thedailybeast
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I too find that that the best way to show your hatred of America is to get your legs blown off while serving in the United States Army.
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Justin Baragona
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Here's what Tucker said about Tammy Duckworth tonight that prompted her fiery response: "Most people just ignore her. But when Duckworth does speak in public, you're reminded what a deeply silly and unimpressive person she is... These people actually hate America."
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Twenty minutes after leaving his job at a Brooklyn hospital on Saturday night, Rayne Valentine was lying in the fetal position on the sidewalk. He’d been beaten and kicked by New York police officers, his hospital ID smeared with his own blood.
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NEW: financial records reviewed by @RollingStone show three billionaire families -- the DeVoses, the Bradleys and the Scaifes -- funding the braintrust behind the Big Lie, and the plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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NEW: @RepAdamSchiff 's house intelligence committee is hiring money laundering and forensic accounting experts. This is not good news for Donald J. Trump.
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This is despicable. "Julian Assange not only knew that a murdered DNC staffer wasn’t his source for thousands of hacked party emails, he was in active contact with his real sources in Russia’s military intelligence unit months after Seth Rich’s death."
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Fuck right off with your pat answers blaming one party for Afghanistan and exonerating your favorite politician. This is a generational failure, and they're all to blame -- Biden, Bush, Trump, Obama, all of their generals, all of them.
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b-b-b-b-but devin nunes told me this was the greatest scandal of all time
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EXCLUSIVE: It's not just Burr. A second GOP senator dumped millions in stock after an all-senate coronavirus briefing.
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Professional DC is radically underestimating the political impact of this Roe reversal.
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EXCLUSIVE: The value of Sen. Kelly Loeffler's mansion dropped by $6.4 million overnight, saving her a bundle on taxes. And no one—not her campaign, not local experts, no one—can explain why.
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Maybe I'm missing something but... doesn't withholding this Bolton material from Congress essentially prove the obstruction charge?
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Maggie Haberman
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Here’s Bolton’s lawyer’s cover letter transmitting the manuscript to the White House last month
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. @BLACKPINK have been on wishlist since pretty much the day I started at @RollingStone — they're so talented, so influential, so important to global pop culture, so badass. I'm excited to finally have this out in the world. We're in for a fun week. #BLACKPINKxRollingStone
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Rolling Stone
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. @BLACKPINK is Rolling Stone's June cover star. #BLACKPINKxRollingStone The world's biggest girl group give their most revealing interview yet about how they make music, deal with the demands of stardom, became family, and more. Story/Photos:
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NEW: Kushner, fresh off royally screwing up PPE acquisition, has been given a new mission by the president: to get a vaccine by the end of the year. We're fucked, aren't we?
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How we're handling the news
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Never in my lifetime did I think I'd see another fuck-up as bad as the Iraq invasion. Depending in how this breaks, it could be worse -- way, way worse.
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Just so we are clear here: FOX NEWS is calling out FOX NEWS pundits for spreading propaganda on FOX NEWS. I've never seen anything like it.
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Andrew Kirell 🤙🏻
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Exclusive: In leaked documents, Fox News’ in-house research team warns colleagues of “disinformation” from several Fox News regulars like Giuliani and John Solomon.
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So first they downplay the virus. Then, belatedly, they focus -- for 10 days or so. Then they get tired of the hard work of saving lives. So now it's: take a chance, grandma. You might just survive.
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What a statement. What a woman. At a time when Jews are under attack, my wonderful wife said no to hate, no to fear, and yes to God and love. She converted this morning at the mikvah on the Upper West Side.
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NEW: White House official tells The Beast that Trump's problems with New York stem from Cuomo not being "good and respectful" enough to Trump.
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I hope my fellow editors will think hard — really hard, a lot harder than they did in 2016 — before publishing any material hacked by the Russians.
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NYT Politics
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Russians hacked the Ukrainian company at the center of President Trump’s impeachment. Experts suspect they may be seeking information on the Bidens
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Uhhhh why is the LAPD running recruitment ads on Breitbart?!
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It sounds like a gag. But it's real -- and really great. @DollyParton is funding some of the most important, most promising COVID-19 treatment research. That's right. DOLLY PARTON may just save us all.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s White House Was ‘awash in speed’ and Xanax If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump administration and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes. New reporting from me and @swin24 :
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"A source with direct knowledge of the investigation told The Daily Beast that Mueller intended to make a case to Congress, believing that legislators, and not the DOJ, are 'empowered to weigh the lawfulness of a president’s conduct.'"
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Got a chance to adopt a rescue dog. But there's a catch ... because of COVID, we would have to adopt without ever meeting the pooch. She looks adorable, and the rescuers are very thorough. Whadya think?
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Zero percent chance this is used in a campaign commercial. Zero. No way, no how.
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CNN's Dana Bash: You said in 2014 that Obama showed "failed leadership" with Ebola, when only 2 Americans died. Would you say Trump's showed failed leadership with coronavirus as 130,000 Americans have died? Sen. Joni Ernst: "No, I think that the president is stepping forward"
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If history is any guide, the more AOC keeps dunking on Cruz like this, the more he's likely to ... become her most loyal wingman in her run for higher office.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there’s common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out. Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren’t trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump privately frets he could be headed to prison. The ex-president has repeatedly asked his confidants and attorneys if he'd have to wear “one of those jumpsuits” behind bars.
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Some of the most stoic people I know in Ukraine -- people who thought Biden was really overhyping Putin's threat -- are now bracing for an imminent attack.
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I can confirm @MichaelAvenatti 's allegations: Michael Cohen took money from a company controlled by one of Putin's favorite oligarchs.
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Shout out to the ghouls who harassed and threatened journalists for reporting accurately on this film.
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‘Sound of Freedom’ Producer Felt the Naked Breasts of Apparently Underage Trafficking Victim
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Absolutely A+ classic exchange at this Manhattan diner: "I'll take a BLT, extra mayo, no bread." "No bread? On a BLT?" "I don't like the way you asked the question." "You want another waiter?"
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I'm seeing lots of folks on the left and the right who seem absolutely sure that Epstein is going to give up their political enemies. Hot tip: he's just as likely to give up your allies.
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BREAK: Jeffrey Epstein arrested on sex trafficking charges
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The DNC, at times, was like a funeral for the 170,000+ coronavirus victims. The RNC barely seems to have acknowledged that anyone has died at all.
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Every one who is dunking on Jacob Wohl RN... Do it again.
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EXCLUSIVE: How Joe Machin double-crossed Democrats -- and torched plans to protect your vote. Multiple senators tell @RollingStone how Manchin again and again appeared to agree to measures to get a voting rights bill passed -- only to walk away.
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Not at all!
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Nothing says 'corruption fighter' quite like pardoning a slew of politicians and public officials convicted of corruption.
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The bad blood between Trump and his niece dates back 20 years, to when Trump cut off financial and medical support for her brother’s ill child. “My aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,” Mary Trump said in 2000. “I'm sure they are not.”
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NATO official tells me: "I expected bad, and I kept telling people to expect bad, but it is still surreal to see."
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Let me make sure I understand the pro-Flynn argument... The general -- who prides himself on seeing through others' bullshit and who literally served as a master spy -- was tricked into lying by a couple of FBI agents. That's the assertion here?
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"So, no, I’m not at all offended by Greene comparing having to wear a mask to my great-grandparents starving naked in the snow, desperately clinging to their children as they were shot dead by their own former neighbors. That totally makes sense."
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I edited this piece. It had nothing to do with Brennan, who was at the CIA at the time. These complaints were about the handling of U.S. Central Command, a military branch. Totally different part of the government. Try harder.
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Mark R. Levin
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Here’s a letter from former intelligence personnel damning Brennan, about which the media didn’t care much
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1. Trumpworld talks up massive WSJ story on Hunter. 2. Turns out it's a pretty weak op-ed. 3. News side then stomps on it.
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Noah Shachtman
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WHOA. Wall Street Journal's news side just released a debunking of WSJ opinion side.
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You were spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories as recently as last week.
@RudyGiuliani
Rudy W. Giuliani
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The rise in anti-Semitic violence in NYC is something that could have been stopped at a much earlier stage if the City had a Mayor who embraced the Broken Windows Theory, or at the least, a Mayor who worked full time & paid attention to what was going on.
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Noah Shachtman
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You morons. You selfish morons.
@JakeWittich
Jake Wittich
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St. Patrick’s Day partiers hit the town over officials’ pleas amid coronavirus outbreak
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Bernie Sanders is the Democratic front-runner. Full stop.
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I'm sorry, this is so gross. This White-House-to-TV pipeline has to be shut down.
@sarafischer
Sara Fischer
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Scoop: White @PressSec Jen Psaki planning to leave @WhiteHouse this spring for @MSNBC gig — Papers not signed yet, but plan is she'll host a show on Peacock & appear as a voice on dif shows on cable — She’s not replacing Maddow, which has been speculated
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Pray for me. I'm about to take ten 4th graders to Dave + Buster's.
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It's been three days since this story came out. No member of the Trump team, current or former, has denied any aspect of it. And they push back on *everything*.
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Noah Shachtman
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s White House Was ‘awash in speed’ and Xanax If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump administration and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’ — the answer was, in some cases, yes. Absolutely, yes. New reporting from me and @swin24 :
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Republican activists in Texas, Nebraska, and Louisiana have a new way to turn the clock back to the 1950s -- and rob women of their autonomy. They're pushing for an end to no-fault divorce.
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i legit feel bad for the attorneys at DOJ who were forced to sue the president's wife's former bestie instead of doing their real jobs
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Paul Manafort spent a lifetime working for some of the most evil people on the planet. He grew very rich. But it wasn't enough. He needed one last score, one final shot at relevance. And that is poised to cost him the rest of his life.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump and his team are actively planning to pull the United States out of NATO — or, barring that, kneecap the collective defense provisions at the heart of the alliance. 🔗
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I must admit, this website still has its moments.
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NEW: Parnas is begging the court to let him spill to Schiff & co.
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NEW: Trump admin officials are FURIOUS at the boss for botching his #Covid_19 speech. “We're wasting time playing mop-up... And it goes without say[ing] that we aren’t allowed to admit that any of it is the fault of the president.”
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I miss the good ol' days when you could enjoy an unseasonably warm autumn afternoon without an impending sense of ecological and civilizational collpase.
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Noah Shachtman
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is there anything funnier than @elonmusk complaining about how mean the media is?
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