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Dept of Education is embracing the "malfoid" meme, a right-wing fan fiction idea about a female Draco Malfoy who Harry Potter could fall in love with. xitter.cf/usedgov/status/2115069…
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Besides being nakedly racist and bigoted, this is just hilariously wrong on all levels.
I mean, Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, and he won the Wolf Prize in 2018. And that's just one example.
He also said Arabs don't produce any literature. Last year's winner of the National Book Award was Lebanese writer and painter Rabih Alameddine. The winner in non-fiction? Egyptian-American journalist Omar El Akkad.
🇺🇸🗳️ For the launch of @VanityFair’s countdown to the midterms, I wrote about our first short-form election, and the candidate who has mastered the format better than any other.
Jon Ossoff knows his audience.
Over the course of his campaign for reelection to the Senate in the battleground state of Georgia, the 39-year-old Democrat has vaulted to national stardom thanks in no small part to the power of short-form video. His pervasive presence on social feeds everywhere from Berkeley to Boston is a consequence of the clip-centered nature of his campaign, which churns out atomized video from his rallies and debates, and it has established Ossoff in the common liberal imagination as a great Democratic hope of 2028.
Read more from @aidnmclaughlin: vanityfair.visitlink.me/omd7…
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NEW: Nicki Minaj for press sec has a chance of actually happening, but the timeline is unclear.
However, the way my sources are talking about it gave me the impression that this is a genuine live ball. straightfromthehut.substack.…
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From afar, Lula winning and Vucic losing on the same day is hard to ignore. A crystallization of a kind of global anti-nationalist wave that's as real as the steady far-right march we've all spoken and written about for the past decade. And it's cresting a week before US midterms
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Thread from a reporter for a conservative (and news-breaking) NH outlet, kept out of the Kamala event
🧵I report for @NewHampJournal, New Hampshire's only right-of-center political news publication. I've covered @AndyBeshearKY, @ReverendWarnock, @MikieSherrill and @GavinNewsom, who happily answered my question.
And here's what it's like covering @KamalaHarris in New Hampshire
One week until the midterms
Trump: here’s 1,300 words on why Bill Maher sucks
Lots to unpack here but Trump says Bill Maher is an unfunny loser pothead/drunk and the recent dinner was a waste of time.
TRUMP: Let's talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher.
When I became President, I agreed to meet, after the first one, and the last one, but never agreed to do his show, which he wants me to do, DESPARATELY
I believe he lied to me when I asked him, with all the applause and laughter he gets after almost everything he says, about thing that aren't funny or even any good, what Laughter Machine does he use? People can't think he's funny.
Bill was very nervous. He asked for a drink. He was very insecure, and he had a seriously bruised eye and nose area, as though somebody had just beaten him up — But it wasn't me!
No sooner had we had that first dinner at the White House, which is a very seductive and beautiful place, especially now that I have fully renovated and fixed it in the style which it deserves, Bill wanted to come back.
Also, I wanted to tell Bill that he's a major POTHEAD. He's got to stop, it's very bad for his health. He looked like hell this time. Bill was drunk and had alcohol in his hand as he walked through the White House. Stephen A. Smith and Kid Rock came along with him.
I learned nothing, and felt it was a waste of time. After the first dinner, Bill Maher was friendly, I guess, everyone walked away pleased.
After the second dinner, Bill's "show" was far worse than the first. He went crazy! He's gutless, because he enjoyed every minute.
Also, I am not a building a swimming pool in the White House Briefing Room, and never had any intention of doing so.
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“He will excoriate you like you’re Satan himself and then, three seconds later, act like he’s your best friend,” @TomOliverson tells @lmcgaughy. “I like James on a personal level. But there is a lot of performative theater that is @JamesTalarico.” nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/ja…
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MAGA data guru Data Republican says the early vote data is so depressing for the GOP, she can’t share it with her audience.
I've been asked about early voting analysis.
The dilemma I have is that my platform is big enough such that being too blunt can have an effect on morale. I'll push out new states and tools out to my website soon, but won't announce them here on 𝕏.
I will be giving @realJeremyCarl my predictions a week in advance so he can hold me accountable after Election Day.
You MUST turn out and bring their friends, and brace yourself on election night. Even TX is going to be a fight.
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💥NEW: Dem Senate Candidate *PRAISES TRUMP* on CNN for "GOOD JOB OF SECURING THE BORDER"👏🇺🇸
Mississippi Senate Candidate Scott Colom called himself a "common sense Democrat" before offering the well-deserved credit to the president.
There have been 17 straight months of 0 releases at the border under Trump.
It's a remarkable achievement that Democrats and the corporate media don't discuss enough.
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith is leading Colom by over 3 points, according to the Poliwave polling average.
And Mississippi has not elected a Democrat Senator since 1982.
But major props to Colom for highlighting Trump's border success on CNN.
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Pete Hegseth got married at Trump National Golf Club while he still worked at Fox, but I think this is the first Fox wedding at Mar-a-Lago?
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🚨 White House is weighing mass pardons for junior staff, reports @JasJWright and @jstein_sun of @washingtonsun washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
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The CEO of the biggest drone company in Israel says that his objective is to recreate Ender's Game, the book where the main character thinks he's playing a video game but actually commits genocide
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(Bloomberg) -- With a fresh infusion of cash to his super political action committee in the first two weeks of October, Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle and become one of the biggest-ever contributors to such groups.
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“When Trump spoke of eliminating the national debt, total debt stood at nearly $35 trillion. On the current trajectory, total debt could reach $45 trillion by 2028.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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“To the best of my knowledge — and I knew Reagan pretty well — he was not an ass man,” Newt Gingrich said, adding, “at least not about guys.” huffpost.com/entry/newt-ging…
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The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
