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@PuckNews partner, @MSNOWNews analyst, @HacksOnTap cohost, @SHO_TheCircus creator, Game Change/Double Down coauthor, Great Dane valet. #WuTang4Life 👐

Joined March 2008
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Rubbing it in ... hard.
The voters have spoken, and I want to extend my congratulations to James Talarico on his election to the U.S. Senate. I look forward to meeting him and offering my assistance with his transition as he prepares to serve Texans in the U.S. Senate.
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Two new #ImpoliticJH midterm election episodes to keep you distracted while waiting for polls to close. From Monday, @Timodc talks Cheesecake (and his feud with @ClayTravis), Beefcake (and Trump’s obsession with it), “high-tech penis rings,” and why @VP, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @MikeRogersForMI are pissing him off. open.spotify.com/episode/6Tr…
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And piping hot from the oven this morning: @NicolleDWallace on Trump no longer giving a crap abt politics or the fate of his party's leaders (except for @JonHusted rock-hard Heine), why Dems need to stop handwringin and overthinking, and the 'whiny wimps" of MAGA and the manosphere. (And yes, she does drop f-bombs in the process!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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John Heilemann retweeted
We discussed this yesterday on @HacksOnTap … both my and @jheil named SC as the new huge potential Senate upset… double Spider Sense tingling… (Amazing that TX and KS D wins assumed likely now. We’ll see…) What Our New Senate Polls Tell Us nytimes.com/2026/10/28/upsho… via @NYTimes
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Adam Hamilton, a former Republican and a Methodist minister who runs its largest megachurch, thinks the charge that he is "too woke for Kansas" is laughable—and that he’s going to turn the state blue. More from his conversation with @jheil: puck.news/the-megachurch-pas…
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Cc @RZA
Replying to @jheil
@jheil you have one of the best intro theme tunes in podcasting. The first few seconds of every episode is a masterpiece.
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I heard the ref in real time and was (grudgingly) impressed.
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🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! As week 2 of the Iran war unfolds, 2 eps on the topic with 2 tip top guests: @SenMarkKelly and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Kelly: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Sulllivan: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Murder was the case.
She was quite clearly turning away from the officer. If she wanted to hit him, she would've driven straight into him.
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Cc @oh_anderson (though he's no longer active here, you can find him at @andersonphoto.bsky.social).
Picked up a copy of Christopher Anderson’s Stump and Richard Avedon’s Portraits of Power after listening to @jheil interview Chris for @PuckNews Impolitic Pod. Took a minute for Stump to come from Spain b/c the pod apparently already moved all the copies in the U.S.!
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Was a great pleasure to talk to my old friend @jheil all about The Traitors Circle - and the team behind his fab Impolitic podcast did a brilliant job drawing from the archives to illustrate our conversation open.spotify.com/episode/3Ut…
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John Heilemann retweeted
Congressman Pat Ryan thinks the Dems have a lot of work to do despite off-year election wins. In an interview with @jheil, he makes the case for a broad Democratic coalition, praises the pugnacity of A.O.C., and explains why Trump isn’t a lame duck—yet: puck.news/pat-ryans-blueprin…
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"The further they go down this path, the more they're going to build Mark Kelly up as a national figure." @jheil joined @Morning_Joe to discuss the potential consequences of Trump's retribution campaign against Senator Mark Kelly.
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John Heilemann retweeted
Congressman Pat Ryan thinks the Dems have a lot of work to do despite off-year election wins. In an interview with @jheil, he makes the case for a broad Democratic coalition, praises the pugnacity of A.O.C., and explains why Trump isn’t a lame duck—yet: puck.news/pat-ryans-blueprin…
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i think you mean what the fuck?!?!?!
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John Heilemann retweeted
Congressman Pat Ryan thinks the Dems have a lot of work to do despite off-year election wins. In an interview with @jheil, he makes the case for a broad Democratic coalition, praises the pugnacity of A.O.C., and explains why Trump isn’t a lame duck—yet: puck.news/pat-ryans-blueprin…
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Superb in @PuckNews @PatRyanUC @jheil “Of all the dangerous things Trump has talked about doing, this is by far the most dangerous. The idea of US troops against US citizens in American cities is un-American. That is not what any Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine joined to do.”
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