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#1 NY Times bestselling author | senior national politics reporter, @nbcnews | retired amateur pitcher | cigar guy

Washington D.C.
Joined May 2009
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If you're black, I have the easiest Halloween costume for you. Wrap an Israeli flag around you, and just start calling everyone you see an antisemite. Voila, you're @VanJones68.
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Talarico was born in May 1989 — about six months after the last time a Democrat (Bentsen) won a Senate seat in Texas.
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Eagles DB Michael Carter II threw a baby shower for 40 Philly moms on Medicaid 🍼 Car seats. Cribs. Diapers. 15,000+ supplies to families this year. Just named NFLPA Week 8 Community MVP. Next up: a shot at $100K for his foundation. Root for this man 🦅
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This morning- our final @NBCNews “Here’s the Scoop” election podcast. Everything we know, think we know, and hope to learn about these midterms as we rocket to Tuesday night. With @ryanobles @jonallendc & @bridgetbhc open.spotify.com/episode/2og…
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How Wikipedia Rewrote Zionism Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced. And work of editors who have been banned from the page remains. quillette.com/2026/10/30/how…
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In August, I traveled across 8 swing districts along I-80. At the time 7 were rated pure tossups and one, NE-2, was Republican-held but leaning D, per Cook. Now, 6 of 7 are rated leaning D. NE-2 is likely D. Only Max Miller's OH-7 is tossup. Read all about it below -->
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Dems haven't won yet, but they're fighting over how to use a measure of power. @GregCasar says he respects Schatz, but "For more than a decade, Democrats have been known primarily as the anti-Trump Party. If we take back Congress, we have to show we're more than anti-Trump."
.@SenBrianSchatz says that if Democrats take the Senate, the party's left wing needs to be strategic about not proposing things "that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto." "If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes... that's for 2028."
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Homage to Fritz Hollings: (with laborious drawl) I’ll take a drug test if my opponent takes an IQ test.
EL-SAYED to TRUMP: I will go through a metal detector if you will sit for a lie detector. My first question, Epstein. Second question, did you win the 2020 election? I will go through a metal detector every day if you sit through a lie detector one time.
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This is what you do to make sure that if the candidate shoots the moon and wins, she can’t say you weren’t there for her.
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As @amieparnes & @jonallendc reported for history’s sake, the super early tell on 2016 was two early counties: Volusia (OH/PA coded) and Pasco (Midwestern coded) Hoping Monday to put together a guide for what to look for in FL on Tuesday
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I keep hearing people marvel at how many Brewers fans are in Tampa. Political analysts know: the west coast of Florida is where people from Wisconsin retire.
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I was there in SC Senate 2020 - the @LindseyGrahamSC vs Jaime Harrison race. Our OWN internal polling showed it being very, very close. Our daily tracking was always 0-3 points and would vary back and forth. NEVER outside the margin of error.
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Yeah, try banking with Roman numerals.
Replying to @BulwarkClips
2 Arabs have won the Nobel Prize for Science 6 Arabs have won for peace 1 for literature 2 won the Wolf Prize Arabs invented: Algebra The Hospital Modern Chemistry The first Flying Machine Universities The Pen And how to brew your coffee Signed, An Arab-American
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This is just disgraceful. By leaving Dan Quinn in place, the Commanders have become the first team in history to lose in the bye week.
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NFL now promoting unsportsmanlike conduct — not as a penalty but as a virtue.
Did we miss somebody? 😅 @Lions
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If you had Nicki Minaj and Jon Husted, you are three names away from shouting BINGO!
Trump says @Nickiminaj, the special guest at today’s rally in Port Huron, has “one hell of an ass”
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Gavin Newsom has something most Democrats don’t have: A powerful contact list that helped raise more than $6.8 million this cycle. He received 305,000 contributions this cycle, with $22.47 being the average donation, his aides say. thehill.com/policy/technolog…
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Most important. It’s the Senate, not the state of Alaska, or the Justice Department or the Supreme Court that decides who is seated as a member. It’s right there in the Constitution under Article I, Section 5.
The Department of Justice does not seek to stop any ballot from being cast or to stop the certification of Alaska's election. This litigation seeks to ensure that after Alaskans cast their ballots, they are preserved in a manner so that only Alaska's governing officials have the information necessary to make a determination as to whether Alaskan voters were confused or mislead. The lawsuit was written by Justice Department attorneys and the Department did not coordinate with any campaign or candidate, but rather relied solely on federal law.
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Let them eat cake —>
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
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