Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A & NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.
Washington DC, Pale Blue Dot
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There will be a House vote soon on a new plan to force release of material in the Epstein Files. Two final signatures on a discharge petition from Rep. Thomas Massie R-KY gave it 218 --> sending it to the House floor
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A high-profile vote, and leadership couldn't get 11 people back.
they'll probably impeach Hegseth next Congress -- if he's still in the position.
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1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
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Schumer says he has NOT spoken to Trump yet
Trump last night told Politico he had spoken to Dem leaders
The boast about candidate quality is pretty wild considering Trump personally selected or enabled the GOP Sen candidates who’ve lost or are in danger of losing in NC, SC, GA, TX
A White House official just messaged me this:
The White House mood is defiant.
President Trump was not on the ballot, and it’s proven that Trump voters show up when he is on the ballot.
Also, candidate quality matters, and President Trump did a better job promoting many of the candidates on the ballot than the candidates did themselves.
Also, anyone who voted Democrat today is going to have a serious case of buyers remorse when gas prices come down quickly when the Iran conflict is solved but they’re still stuck with a list of liberal extremist Democrats.
And a final note here: regardless of how today plays out, President Trump’s resolve to stop the Radical Left is only going to become stronger. Buckle up.
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Nonpartisan Center for Election Research and innovation implores: We won’t know all results and projections tonight. That’s a sign the system is functioning properly
(Ignore the lies and conspiracy theories)
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BREAKING: A judge in Alaska has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to delay certification of the Senate election if GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.
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“I feel a higher calling to change this world. I’ve always wanted to.” Highly recommend you watch this OPB interview.
Kaylub Giamanco to OPB: “That’s when I started hearing children pleading for their lives and then I started hearing gunfire and I just started army crawling faster and faster and I told myself this is probably the last thing that I’m ever going to do.”
opb.org/article/2026/10/23/b…
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How this has all unfolded is crazy...
‣ Ohio political blogger The Rooster (@OhioCrawler) publishes a copy of the ad on social media Monday night after reporting the week prior that he heard it was coming
‣ Right-wing influencers, including @DonaldJTrumpJr, share the ad and promote it as a bombshell
‣ @amyactonoh's campaign releases a statement from her brother condemning the ad
‣ Acton condemns the ad in interviews with @SpectrumNews1OH and @wosunews
‣ @VivekGRamaswamy's campaign releases a statement that doesn’t condemn or take ownership of the ad, but raises questions about Acton’s relationship with her estranged mom
‣ The Rooster tells @CNN he was sent the ad by a voter who saw it as part of a poll and recorded it
‣ Acton’s campaign releases an ad in response of her brother condemning it
‣ A growing list of Ohio and national Democrats and Republicans condemn the ad and urge Ramaswamy to distance himself from it
‣ Ramaswamy confirms to @USATODAY's Ohio Statehouse Bureau that his campaign produced the ad
‣ Ramaswamy’s campaign tells @axios it will spend $4 million to air the ad statewide
"A chorus of condemnation from some Ohio politicians is growing against Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy over an attack ad produced by his campaign that featured his opponent's estranged mother criticizing her and questioning the years of abuse she endured as a child."
Via @DispatchAlerts:
dispatch.com/story/news/loca…
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Of course Katie Zacharia was once part of a multi-level-marketing program for "Beachbody," a fitness company with a history of colorful legal woes. She described the program to us as "sort of a pyramid scheme." Scoop from @timmarchman & I
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Ballroom-size scoop from @jocwapo @Blaskey_S and Aaron Schaffer: the secret list of major
donors to Trump’s flagship project
Among the revelations — $25M apiece from Apple and Nvidia, and numerous gifts from people + firms with business before Trump
washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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Shane Jenkins had received seven years and was seen on video smashing a window at the Capitol with a tomahawk ax and throwing projectiles at officers.
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Why Is Kash Patel Planning to Visit Russia?
I’ve spent the last few months reporting on the campaign to urge senior FBI leadership to cancel Patel’s trip to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. @TheAtlantic
Exclusive: A pair of senior House Democrats are taking the unusual step of asking FBI Director Kash Patel to scrap his reported visit to Russia, citing national-security concerns, @S_Fitzpatrick reports. theatln.tc/Uypr2AVE
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SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government.
@JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…
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The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies.
Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud.
Today: Says it can't answer such questions.
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Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!
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NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.
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Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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The U.S. has maintained an arms embargo on China since 1989 following the crackdown on civilians in Tiananmen Square. Also we don’t sell weapons to adversaries, for several obvious reasons Trump seems oblivious to.
Perdue spoke in an interview with @FoxNewsSunday.
“But President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other people around the world. He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point?”
foxnews.com/video/6405700393…
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SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.
The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
