Half-n-half. Deputy breaking news editor for @newrepublic. Previously English desk for @AFP. Thoughts my own. She/her.
Joined September 2013
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TNR Exclusive: Greg Sargent sat down with Abdul El-Sayed to talk about his viral clash with a Republican plant, his fight with Vice President JD Vance, and his theory of how to beat MAGA politics. trib.al/8T6NUIL
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is out after just 5 days on the job
One 14-minute press briefing
Three questions
One answer
One viral clip where she said she passed the bar in China
What a news cycle
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Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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Why isn’t it the “Russia Virus”
Q: Are you concerned about the outbreak in Russia?
Trump: I am. The pneumonia plague, if you call it. That's a disease we used to be able control. But somehow those microbes have gotten stronger and smarter. They're like an army. The germs have really become relatively stronger than they were, and things that used to work on pneumonia don't work as well anymore
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Profiled @minjinlee11 for what turned out to be a soul-enriching conversation—like mining the wisdom of a great literary emo (iykyk!)—and left with a new view into my own time as a teen cramming away at a New Jersey hagwon motherjones.com/media/2026/0…
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My thoughts on Black masculinity, cancellation, and Jonathan Majors' sad return to the silver screen:
newrepublic.com/article/2157…
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Very on brand for the Annandale showing of the Korea World Cup game to be advertised as being at the Presbyterian church but it’s actually at a bar across the street from the church
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SCOOP --> I talked to Paulina Mangubat, who was doxed by Stephen Miller's wife over the "ugly f--k" tweet. She stands by it 100 percent.
“What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated," she says:
newrepublic.com/article/2111…
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Spain’s Prime Minister, on the ceasefire, says Spain 'will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”
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I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.
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Haven't talked to most of my family in Iran in weeks and now I'm about to throw up wondering how we're expected to just sit here and wait to see what Trump means by "a whole civilization will die tonight"
Is he doing this so he can stay within his initial 4-6 week timeframe?
We're currently at 5 weeks. It doesn't get more than that
Trump to declare Iran war is winding down and others need to resolve Hormuz dlvr.it/TRqL0d
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Good points here
But I’ll add: Hegseth is still trying to kick journalists out of the Pentagon press office … into an “annex” outside
At a time of war
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NEW: TMZ has decided to up their presence in the political space — they’ve even added a Hill team.
“Our DC presence will be sometimes fun, sometimes intensely serious,” Harvey Levin told @washingtonsun
Comes as TMZ blasts lawmakers for leaving D.C.
notus.org/congress/tmz-congr…
