Nick Baumann
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Politics + Government at @WashingtonPost | Pats fan. Eagle Scout. Beer pong aficionado. | signal: NickBaumann.97 | Usual disclaimers
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Joined December 2008
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RT @WorkMJ: "I just saw the headline, like, ‘Chain-Saw Torture in New York Penthouse,’ and I assumed it was Will. That’s how on brand it wa….
nymag.com
How two men charged with an outrageous kidnapping scheme introduced a new kind of crime to the city.
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RT @JillFilipovic: The moment I read about this story I started counting down the days until it got the @NYMag treatment. Does not disappoi….
nymag.com
How two men charged with an outrageous kidnapping scheme introduced a new kind of crime to the city.
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The midterm map fight favors the GOP — and could help them stay in power
washingtonpost.com
Democrats have vowed to counter President Donald Trump’s push for more red House seats, but they may struggle to match it.
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Cocoa smuggling!
ft.com
Surging global prices have fuelled an illicit bean trade ‘like cocaine in Colombia’
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This one is good too:
slate.com
Scientist, surfer, and survivor of a torturous Senate hearing.
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Missed this when it came out but saw it's a finalist for the Kukula Award and boy is it a fun one:
slate.com
The former New York Times book critic was known for her devastating pans. Now she’s up to something very different.
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Trump Attacks on Law Firms Make It Harder to Challenge the Administration
propublica.org
Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights...
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The kicker on this piece is really great.
Have to confess that I'm a huge sucker for the Joan of Arc discourse.
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Have to confess that I'm a huge sucker for the Joan of Arc discourse.
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"The Washington Ned’s is a joint venture with Michael Milken, the financier who was convicted in 1990 of securities fraud and pardoned in 2020 by Trump."
newyorker.com
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.
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"The share of mothers ages 25 to 44 with young children in the workforce has fallen nearly every month this year, dropping by nearly 3 percentage points between January and June, to the lowest level in more than three years."
washingtonpost.com
Working mothers are leaving the workforce in large numbers due to return-to-office policies and caregiving responsibilities.
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RT @samstein: NEW: Dems are making some of their most aggressive moves to date to kill of the scam PACs that are plaguing the party. Fres….
thebulwark.com
As evidence mounts that scammers and spammers are hurting the party.
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RT @PatrickRuffini: There’s a decent chance that Newsom’s referendum fails fwiw. It only has a single digit lead in the Emerson survey wit….
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IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted.
washingtonpost.com
The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.
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RT @boreskes: After emigrating from Sicily, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s grandfather, Andrea Cuomo, opened a grocery store in Jamaica, Queens….
nytimes.com
President Trump has urged Andrew Cuomo to stay in the New York City mayor’s race. Here are seven moments when their paths crossed over the years.
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"People usually think of investigative reporting as relying on obscure documents and dry financial data. But Hersey. showed that to truly affect readers such reporting must be paired with literary craft and be propelled by a sense of urgency.".
newyorker.com
His monumental report changed history, journalism, and me.
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Great story. Imagine @hamiltonnolan will find it interesting.
When Oregon mapped wildfire risks to properties, some insurance brokers and homeowners blamed the map, without evidence, for policy cancellations and price hikes. Others called it part of a big plan to “depopulate rural areas.”.
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RT @bencasselman: Here's our story about it from the time. The revision also got lots of coverage in conservative media, as evidence that t….
nytimes.com
The Labor Department issued revised figures for the 12 months through March that point to greater economic fragility.
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