Kevin Madden
@KevinMaddenDC
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I help lead @PentaGrp | Strategic advisory/advocacy/comms pro | American aquarium drinker | "Hope is not a strategy."
Washington, DC
Joined February 2009
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Crazy stat: Penn State is the first team to lose as a 20-point favorite in back-to-back weeks since 2000. That's 25 years!
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Entering last week, Penn State was 34-0 since 2022 against teams ranked outside the Top 11. Now, the Nittany Lions have lost back-to-back games to UCLA & Northwestern with a team built to win a national title. PSU is the most disappointing team of the season. It's not close.
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Ohio State, Miami and Indiana are the three best teams in the country halfway through the season. Just like we all predicted!
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Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning actor of 'Annie Hall,' has died at 79. https://t.co/INJKQSTFQ4
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Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘The Godfather’ films and ‘Father of the Bride,’ whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation…
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Hollywood has no idea what to do about AI | The Verge
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OpenAI is speedrunning the entertainment industry.
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.@TMZ_Sports caught up with Allen Iverson out in New York City this week just after he announced his six-month sobriety milestone -- and he made it clear, he's committed to a no-alcohol lifestyle from here. https://t.co/zGssrT4ei2
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This thread from @JoshKraushaar, quoting @sullydish. Legacy media can be fixed if it simply returns to objectivity about “news” about what is “left” and “right,” and by balancing its commentators/analysts from those camps while purging those with broken brands —the allegedly
Andrew Sullivan: “It cannot be stressed enough how a huge number of institutions critical to liberal democracy did most of the damage to themselves. Not that they are able to admit it.”
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On a very personal note, I’ve recently had a brush with a word that no one ever wants to hear — cancer. Thank God, I noticed something & we caught it very early. It’s now been physically excised from my body and the doctor says no further treatment is needed. It looks like I’m
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RT @DavidMDrucker: NEW: In striking reversal from TRUMP’s 1st term, Republicans are cautiously optimistic abt looming midterms, content w/…
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Party operatives point to the president’s resilience and the Democrats’ struggles as reasons to be optimistic about the 2026 midterms.
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Starting now: @RepRichHudson joins Punchbowl News CEO @apalmerdc for a conversation on 5G and spectrum and news of the day.
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unpopular opinion: The staffer really shouldn't have interrupted the shot. 😁
Exclusive from @melmason on Katie Porter, who berates a staffer and tells her to “get out of my fucking shot!” while recording a video with the Biden administration. The video + story — scooped by @politico👇🏼 https://t.co/WENFsRlkwC
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Patrick Henry is often treated as a second-string Founding Father. But, @DrewFaust28 argues, he made the Revolution possible with words that rendered it both desirable and inevitable:
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How he roused a nation to war
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amaaaaaaaaaazing. just amazing
The Leading CA Democrat attempts to implode her own campaign in one single interview
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For an intra-division rival to throw a lifeline like that, just underscores how bad the front office is.
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