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Reporter for @NYTimes , staff writer at @NYTmag , @MSNBC political analyst.

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1 year
EXCLUSIVE w/ @katie_robertson : Blown-up pictures of Pelosi in a bathing suit. Debates about which gubernatorial candidate was more “fuckable.” Calling women “cunts.” In new lawsuits, a Tucker Carlson producer describes an atmosphere of rampant misogyny:
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NEW: Elise Stefanik thought Trump was a “whack job,” as she once wrote in a message obtained by The Times. After the 2018 midterms, she considered quitting Congress. What happened next is a case study – and perhaps a cautionary tale.
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👀CNN: "a top political aide for Stefanik was involved in campaigning for Santos. Multiple sources told CNN that aide was closely advising Santos’ campaign and involved in hiring people."
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The suits, from a former Maria Bartiromo and current Carlson producer, alleges discrimination and retaliation against women at the network -- and says Fox lawyers coached her testimony in the Dominion lawsuit to exculpate high-ranking Fox men at Bartiromo's expense, and her own.
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In 2019, while defending Trump from impeachment, Stefanik sounded out a friend working on the campaign of Pete Buttigieg — a college friend — about whether he might consider her for a cabinet job if he won. (The idea did not get passed up the chain.)
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“His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht.”
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Josh Kaplan
1 year
NEW: For over 20 years, Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury travel from a TX billionaire. This is him, his wife and the billionaire in Indonesia. Thomas flew there on the tycoon's private jet and spent days island-hopping on his superyacht.
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This is a good story -- made possible because Sotomayor did, in fact, disclose these sources of income.
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Our story traces the political incentives of the Trump era how they drew a promising young congresswoman into conspiracy theories and election denialism. Private texts, e-mails, and more reveal how she grappled with Trump’s rise.
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In a crucial sense, Stefanik hasn’t changed at all. Always a certain kind of millennial striver, she tried on neoconservatism, Thatcherism, and Ryanism before Trumpism. Her conception of policymaking has long been deeply tactical.
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On Monday, Fox filed its own suit against Ms. Grossberg. Fox spox says company "engaged an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns...which were made following a critical performance review. We will vigorously defend these claims.”
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As an editor on the 2013 GOP “autopsy,” she helped fend off efforts to water down its call for immigration reform. To run for congress in rural NY, she reinvented herself as a North Country small businesswoman, trading her BMW for a Ford F-150.
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We found that Stefanik has accepted the inevitable compromises of being in Trump’s circle. She once criticized his demeaning comments about women. But on a trip with Trump aboard AF1 in 2020, she said nothing when he made a derogatory remark about the sex life of a female aide.
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Will her choices pay off? It depends in part on Trump himself – at once the GOP’s most potent force and its greatest liability. Stefanik, more than almost any other Republican leader, has bet her career on him.
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Stefanik declined to be interviewed for this story. In statements this week, her staff denied many aspects of our reporting. We’ve included their comments and perspectives throughout.
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She struggled under Trump. Fox attacked her as a squish. Friends demanded that she stand up to Trump more. “As long as I happen to be a Republican today,” she wrote one in 2019, “that is unacceptable and immoral in your mind.” Then she turned to Trump.
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In 2015, at a friend’s wedding, she made Trump the butt of an elaborate wedding toast, featuring a MAGA hat. After “Access Hollywood,” she drafted a statement calling on Trump to drop out – but never sent it.
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After she first won in 2014, she positioned herself as a head-down workhorse.” Meanwhile, we found, days after her first primary, Stefanik consultants registered dozens of Web domains suggesting plans to run for president or Senate.
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An audience member holding a "union members for Trump" sign "acknowledged that she wasn't a union member when approached by a Detroit News reporter ...Another person with a sign that read 'auto workers for Trump' said he wasn't an auto worker."
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A Gaza health ministry spokesman said that head of Al-Shifa Hospital refused to accept fuel because “taking this fuel would give Israel credit for allowing fuel into Gaza.”
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Putin lured Carlson to Moscow for a softball interview, mocked his questions after the fact, and then, shortly after, the country’s most prominent Putin critic died in state custody.
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Hmmmm…
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Carlson, though not a House member, has his own list of demands for backing McCarthy —>
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Tucker: If Kevin McCarthy wants to be the speaker, he's going to have to do things he would never do otherwise.
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Nick Confessore
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This piece by ⁦ @anniekarni ⁩ gets at why the House radicals seem enamored of process fights over substantive outcomes: Policy is boring and intractable; process fights offer the prospect of bankable theater.
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Nick Confessore
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“More wholesome policies like prison” for gays “the low IQ 3rd world” “a healthy society requires patriarchy” Thousands of e-mails obtained by the @nytimes reveal the playbook – and grievances – behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. crusade. My report here:
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Nick Confessore
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10/10 local news voiceover copy. No notes.
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Kyle Clark
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NEW: GOP Rep Lauren Boebert denied vaping during a Denver Center for the Performing Arts musical before being kicked out Sunday. @Marshall9News got the video. Take a look. #copolitics
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Santos indictment suggests that his bid for Congress was, among other things, a kind of a get-rich-quick scheme:
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As supplies of virtually every basic human necessity dwindle in Gaza, one group in the besieged enclave remains well-stocked: Hamas. Not just fuel, ammunition, and explosives -- but stockpiles of food, water and medicine. @AllMattNYT & @Abihabib report:
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On camera, Carlson told Trump backers — his audience — that they had been taken for fools and suckered by the American election system. Behind the scenes, new documents show, Carlson and his producers were the ones scoffing.
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NEW: Carlson is now among the very few television talents to have been canceled by all three major cable news networks. But what does he leave behind as he's shown the door? A look at Carlson's influence & power -- and why both failed him.
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How many more of these are we gonna find in the freshman class?
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Jacqueline Alemany
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Inventing Anna…. Paulina Luna. Our dive on the GOP darling who some old friends & family say has cherry picked & embellished parts of her past to craft her political persona. With @alice_crites :
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When Ken and I reported the story of how Weinstein got pardoned by Trump, a person involved in the original case told me it was a virtual certainty Weinstein would commit more fraud — and rack up for victims — once released.
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Kenneth P. Vogel
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On Trump's last day in office, he commuted the sentence of Eliyahu Weinstein, who was serving 20+ years for a $200M Ponzi scheme targeting his own N.J. Orthodox Jewish community. Today, @USAO_NJ & @FBINewark will announce charges against Weinstein for a new fraud, per tweet.
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Majority Whip Hannity.
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Moderates are growing increasingly irritated with the tactics Jordan allies are using to pressure them into voting for him, with one member noting the Hannity show has gotten involved in the efforts sending potential defectors the email below. One lawmaker said the push is…
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Clarence Thomas’s RV is a key part of the justice’s well-honed, just-folks public persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money. @Jo_Becker & @JulieATate report:
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“While McCormick does own a home in Pittsburgh, a review of public records, real estate listings and footage from recent interviews indicates he still lives on Connecticut’s “Gold Coast,” one of the densest concentrations of wealth in America.”
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Biggs, too.
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Jake Sherman
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> @mattgaetz is raising money off of opposing McCarthy.
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“The judge presiding over the civil fraud case against the former president tried to do what Hillary Clinton, a star-studded lineup of debate moderators and even Mr. Trump’s own lawyers could not: make Mr. Trump stop talking.” @Jonesieman from the trial:
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Interesting report from @brianstelter : As Dominion case settles, Fox is negotiating hard for a big jump in carriage fees from cable providers -- using its intense audience loyalty as leverage to keep revenues high as the cable audience declines.
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Backing up my reporting, in the Dominion lawsuit, we see example after example of Carlson and his colleagues obsessing over ratings -- his ratings, other people's ratings, Fox's ratings.
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This earnings report is a testament to the value that @nytimesguild workers create. But instead of agreeing to a contract with reasonable cost-of-living raises and a 65K salary floor, my company is heaping hundreds of millions on shareholders and fighting to cut our health care.
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Katie Robertson
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The New York Times added more than 1 million new subscribers last year and — with the ~1 million it gained with The Athletic — now has 9.6 million paid subs
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A @nytimes investigation documents beyond doubt that Hamas conducted a broad campaign of rape and sexual violence on 10/7. One victim had “dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin.” Others “appeared to have been shot directly in their vaginas.”
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The recusal issue, also a meaningful one for the court, has also come up for Thomas and other justices in recent years. The question of disclosure seems like the main one operating in the Thomas/Crow stories broken by ProPublica.
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You may never have heard of him, but Charlie Peters’s ideas about journalism and government have influenced American newsrooms for over a half century. R.I.P. to one of the greats, who passed on Thanksgiving.
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NEW: My deep dive into how Ron DeSantis, the combative Florida governor, deftly climbed into the American elite—and then turned against it, molding his entire political persona around a vengeful war against the “ruling class” and educational establishment.
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What turned Carlson around? In a word, ratings. Funny story there. Last May, my colleagues and I published a lengthy series about how Carlson had risen to the top at Fox. You can read Part 2 here. (cont'd)
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Today, @nytimes published my story looking at one particular group of anti-D.E.I. academics and activists, centered around a California-based think tank called the Claremont Institute. A thread on our reporting and findings. /1
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There’s no way to get “following” as my default instead of this “for you” stuff twitter is pushing at me, is there?
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Not so long ago, Stefanik stood to nominate Liz Cheney for a leadership job -- then, when the moment came, knocked Cheney out of the job and took it for herself.
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Sahil Kapur
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Elise Stefanik has the mic, nominating "the gentleman from California" Kevin McCarthy to be the next House Speaker as he looks on.
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"Advisers working for Mr. Trump’s opponents are facing what some consider an infuriating task: trying to persuade Republican primary voters...that being criminally charged for holding onto classified documents is a bad thing." @jonathanvswan reports:
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One way to look at the Fox settlement: Dominion’s owners just got 10x what the company was worth when they bought a majority interest in 2018.
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“Koch-backed” is thrown around on the left quite a bit for donor relationships that are about as proximate.
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David Weigel
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People sincerely arguing that "financially supporting his campaign doesn't mean he 'backed' him" is how I'll spend my Last Verified Day. Let's go
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One angle coming out of today: As 2023 begins and McCarthy bid falters, Trump’s power to ruin a Republican’s career is greater than his power to make it. And the populism he harnessed seems to be evolving beyond him.
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Carlson and a producer then spent a night and day trying to figure out how to get back into the "voter fraud" story, and into viewers' graces. They seized on "dead people voting" and pumped Trump campaign to spoon-feed them examples they could put on air.
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When it came out, Carlson seemed particularly perturbed by our reporting that he was among Fox's most avid consumers of ratings data. He told @mikeallen "I've never read the ratings a single day in my life." He told @semaforben "I never look at the ratings."
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In part owing to @semaforben there is a lot of talk in my industry now about BuzzFeed and Gawker and what went wrong about their businesses. But for my money not enough talk about a place like, say, @TPM and what they did *right,* what other media startups could learn.
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“Tucker wrote me and Laura and said last nights numbers were a disaster,” Sean Hannity wrote to Fox producers in late November 2020. (His producer noted that the previous week’s most highly rated programming minutes “were on the voting irregularities.”)
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It took a total of five co-authors to produce the fissile material needed for this hot take.
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Courier Journal
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Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to remember more than one atrocity
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Pattern for Carlson, who has a history of using his perch at Fox to bully less powerful colleagues, as we reported last year.
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Oliver Darcy
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Fox's top stars wanted @JacquiHeinrich fired for fact-checking a tweet about election lies. Carlson told Hannity: "Please get her fired. Seriously ... what the fuck?"
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“All this is just a big show,” Gregory Williams, a 57-year-old Bronx resident, told @nateschweber . “I got the popcorn. This is American theater at its best.”
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Nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers say the state has "done enough for new migrants and must now work to slow the flow of migrants," per @SienaResearch . "58% agree with Mayor Eric Adams that the migrant issue ‘will destroy New York City.'"
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The wife of Chief Justice John Roberts "has been paid millions of dollars in commissions for placing lawyers at firms — some of which have business before the Supreme Court," according to a former colleague at a recruiting firm. @SteveEder reports:
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“Yass is a major investor in ByteDance and may be behind Trump’s flip flopping on a TikTok ban. He also happens to be the single biggest political donor in the U.S. this cycle.”
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Citizens for Ethics
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BREAKING: The biggest institutional investor in the SPAC that’s merging with Truth Social is Susquehanna International Group LLP, which was co-founded by GOP megadonor Jeffrey Yass. The deal is poised to give Donald Trump a massive financial lifeline.
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Applies more broadly too -- Trump-stoked denialism around 2020 has short-circuited the usual process by which a party evaluates why it lost a presidential race and the political markets grope towards an attempted correction.
This guy just lost in the very same district by 13 points in 2022. Trump has created a real problem for the GOP where losing isn’t seen as the candidate’s fault so they keep running. GOP is in real danger of being blown out in 2024 if they run a full slate of repeat losers.
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On Nov. 11, as the next evening’s broadcast approached, the staff member texted Mr. Carlson again. “Have you seen last night’s numbers?” the staff member wrote, adding, “It’s a stupid story but this is all the viewers are into right now.” Mr. Carlson's reply? “I noticed.”
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"America seems to have developed an exceptional kind of pessimism, afflicting us with an immutable belief in economic decline that no real-world statistical improvement can dislodge." Sharp @jonathanchait analysis of the exhaustion of American politics.
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The Dominion lawsuit, which yielded copious evidence that Fox hosts and executives knew their on-air programming was false, seems to be emboldening other potential plaintiffs who have been lied about on-air. @alanfeuer reports on a new retraction demand:
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A Hamas terrorist told interrogators that "he and his men had received religious permission to kill children 'because they’ll grow up to be soldiers' and to decapitate 'to sow fear among the Israelis,'" according to @haaretzcom .
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Carlson's producers and network were also attuned to Twitter attacks on the star. In November, a Fox staffer warned Carlson that he was being attacked on Twitter for not covering allegations of voter fraud. “It’s all our viewers care about right now,” the staff member wrote.
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Pretty much every time I open Twitter there's some new Santos revelation from one outlet or another. I've never seen anything quite like it.
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Andy Kaczynski
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NEW: We uncovered many more falsehoods from George Santos — including giving a fake Jewish name he appeared to do GoFundMes under, claims he was removed from a fancy NYC private school, and claims he repped Goldman Sachs at a finance conference (and more).
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Carlson also texted Hannity and Ingraham about ratings earlier that month, warning Hannity that “the 7:00 was third last night,” referring to the time slot immediately preceding his own.
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Nick Confessore
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Generally this is something a reputable news outlet would have in place already, rather than a thing the staff has to use its collective bargaining agreement to create and enforce.
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Forbes Union
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We want to keep our journalism independent from outside interests #FedUpWithForbes
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Ratings matter at every tv Chanel. But at Fox, especially post-Ailes, they were *everything,* staffers told me. Fox executives pitched it as “Moneyball” for television.
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“Are he and other boys consuming this content together? Who tipped him off to the Bulwark in the first place?”
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Tim Miller
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LOL omg @bendreyfuss I have an advice column that requires your counsel. This mom is upset her 16-yo son discovered the problematic Bulwark and now wants to control his internet use. Dylan if you are out there happy to comp you brother.
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Dem state senator in Tennessee, now under threat of expulsion, notes that the TN leg allowed an accused child molester to remain in the job, but are seeking to boot her and two Dem colleagues for "talk[ing] on the floor without permission."
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NEW: Conservative ed activists say Gay’s ouster could boost their broader campaign to remake higher education — a victory won not at a red-state public university but at the country’s most storied private institution, in the heart of blue America.
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"In 2020, Skull and Bones had its first entirely nonwhite class... Many of the Societies now have only one or two students each year who aren’t from historically marginalized groups." @rosehorowitch on students' politics vs. their own staggering privilege.
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“The Energy Department now joins the FBI in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission…”
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Nick Confessore
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Many thanks to @SykesCharlie & his team for having me on today to talk about the leadership race and what it may tell us about the GOP’s future.
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Jim Swift
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. @nickconfessore : The Theater of Elise Stefanik via @BulwarkOnline
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“He said he questioned a trainer who used the phrasing “so-called United States,” as well as lessons available on the organization’s web site offering “Lil’ Comrade Convos,” or positing a world without police, money or landlords.”
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A really chilling report from @JessGrose : around the country, teachers tell @nytimes that their schools have adopted policies to make it almost impossible for students to fail — even if they simply can’t do the work or don’t show up to class.
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I'm relatively quiet here but I do enjoy Twitter for keeping up with news and opinion. It's hard now to fathom what Musk's real vision for his property is -- the net of his changes seem intended to steadily degrade Twitter and then demand people pay to make it bearable again.
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Update: We’ve now posted a copy of the full NY complaint by Carlson producer Abby Grossberg. It is vivid reading, depicting a hard-driving but fundamentally juvenile — and frankly sexist — culture on Carlson’s team. Fox denies her claims. (Typo fixed)
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Nick Confessore
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EXCLUSIVE w/ @katie_robertson : Blown-up pictures of Pelosi in a bathing suit. Debates about which gubernatorial candidate was more “fuckable.” Calling women “cunts.” In new lawsuits, a Tucker Carlson producer describes an atmosphere of rampant misogyny:
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How pharma games the court & patent system to beat competitors, sucking billions out of taxpayers —>
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A good thread and underlying article that, at a minimum, should help illustrate why reporters do not treat medical association recommendations as biblical commandments -- but instead explore the interplay of judgments, debates, and evidence underlying them.
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No admission of lying for Fox. Company statement points to judge’s earlier ruling — that it broadcast lies — and merely “acknowledges” it. Notably, Dominion lawyers are casting this as an admission, suggesting they got the apology they had wanted but didn’t actually get.
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"Mr. Stewart told members of his staff on Thursday that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives." @BenMullin & co report on the end of Jon Stewart's new show:
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One body “had ‘nails and different objects in her female organs.’ In another house, a person’s genitals were so mutilated that ‘we couldn’t identify if it was a man or a woman.’” @katierosman & @llerer on how women’s rights groups abandoned Israeli women.
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Why does a Long Island candidate for congress need to bill his campaign for travel to Tennessee and Kansas? That and more in a new Santos story by @gr_ashford & @danarubinstein
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I gotta watch this movie but this is now my favorite Oscar acceptance speech ever.
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"Mom, I just won an Oscar" —Ke Huy Quan #oscars
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It is the kind of relationship that women in politics rarely talk about, but can help make the difference between success & failure: a partner willing to take on the supportive role that traditionally fell to political wives. @anniekarni on the Pelosis.
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Headed out for a walk in the neighborhood rn
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Nick Confessore
1 year
My general perspective on this stuff: I want more media, more places, more voices, more models, more people making a living doing journalism, however we get there. I'm always rooting for anyone giving it a go.
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Nick Confessore
1 year
“Instead of telling Ms. Greene that he had no power to order a private company to change its content moderation policies, Mr. McCarthy directed his general counsel, Machalagh Carr, to appeal to Twitter executives.”
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Jonathan Swan
1 year
Inside Kevin McCarthy’s alliance with Marjorie Taylor Greene: how it developed and where its imprint is already visible. w @CatieEdmondson and @kitty_bennett
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Nick Confessore
1 year
No huge valuations, no massive flow of VC money, no starry-eyed profiles. Just an interesting liberal news & reporting site that kept costs down, made good content not quite like anyone else's, didn't get too big but stayed in business all these years.
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Nick Confessore
1 year
If the ambulance takes you to NYU Langone’s emergency room, you may find yourself awaiting lifesaving treatment while a hypochondriac famous actor or a rich board member with a boo-boo cuts the line. Enraging reporting by @sarahkliff and @jbsgreenberg
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Nick Confessore
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“We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm,” a member of Hamas’s top leadership body tells @NYTBen & @Abihabib . Bringing carnage to Gaza was a feature of their plan, not a bug.
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