Olivier Knox
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Senior national political correspondent, U.S. News & World Report. Something retweets something something. Views here are my own, not my employer's. Duh.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2008
My favorite Halloween costume: The year Nibbles, having read Calvin & Hobbes, asked me to be Hobbes to his Calvin.
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Totally agree with Trump here: we should actively and eagerly look to outsource the production of critical goods to friendly nations with a comparative advantage in the production of said goods, and then freely trade them for dollars and/or US goods & services
🚨 BREAKING: In yet another instance of President Trump working nonstop, he has just struck a deal to utilize FINLAND experts to construct up to four Arctic US Coast Guard icebreakers "We need these ships very badly because we have a lot of territory...it's going to be a great
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I cannot remember a time in my life when Cash was seen as "uncool."
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Some of you have heard me say "everything is becoming an airline" and, well...
WTF @Toyota Is this true?
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On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial
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Drought levels creeping up in western parts of the area and west. Small zone of severe drought has returned to portions of Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William counties. Weekend storm could be helpful, but least rain expected over worst drought. Details at https://t.co/O5ePGELT71.
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TIL there’s a bus from Cannon very nearly all the way to my office
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there are worse influence ops I guess
👀 WILD (literally) story here: Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes spending $50 million on Greenland’s polar bears. One State Dept. person said "it would translate to about $100,000 per polar bear."🐻❄️ By @mradamtaylor @noahjrobertson @hannah_natanson
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Bondi wouldn’t even share with the Senate the legal justification they’ve supposedly designed.
If the “intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics,” why can’t you show that intelligence to Congress?
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SCOOPLET: New internal three way poll of Texas Senate primary has Cornyn in the lead now that Wesley Hunt is in the race
politico.com
New survey finds the incumbent would prevail in a three-way GOP primary.
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Good Morning from #Germany, where industrial production slumped 4.3% in Aug MoM, far worse than any forecast. The sharp decline was primarily driven by a collapse in the country’s largest industrial sector, the automotive industry, where output fell a staggering 18.5% MoM, adj
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“Trump, eager to boost his odds, phoned an influential Norwegian friend, former NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, to float the topic as Stoltenberg, now Norway’s finance minister, walked along an Oslo street this summer, according to two officials familiar with the call”
Donald Trump has craved a Nobel Prize — arguing his work to end wars is unprecedented — and his allies have stepped up their efforts to get him one. He’ll learn tomorrow if the campaign paid off. With the golden @michaelbirnbaum. https://t.co/maggV3bPbb
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As with direct messages on Twitter, a @potus’ direct messages on other social media platforms are public records & should be memorialized & archived to @USNatArchives at the end of each term. But @POTUS45 & @WhiteHouse45 staff didn’t do so in 2021, & acting AOTUS @SecRubio
Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.
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Days before the president announced the new TrumpRx website, a BlinkRx rep told one drug company that BlinkRx could be involved w/ running the site on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services BlinkRx also put Don Jr. on its board in Feb. https://t.co/GuXCJi2w22
wsj.com
The family members of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to benefit from efforts to remake the pharmaceutical industry.
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Rand Paul railing against the strikes on alleged drug boats off coast of Venezuela. He's going to vote for the Kaine/Schiff resolution tonight "Since we're blowing them to smithereens ... Maybe someone should take the time to explain the evidence of their terrorism?"
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Why the hell are these guys shooting pepper balls at Friggin presbyterian pastors?
The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing anything remotely illegal, and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball.
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Senators Kaine and Schiff are making the Senate vote on a resolution regarding Trump's strikes on boats off the Venezuelan coast. (I expect GOP will block.) Summary here provided by Kaine's office:
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BREAKING - fed workers to be repaid, per @SpeakerJohnson. I asked if he expects workers to be paid, how he sees current law, as the WH/ OMB has floated the threat of not paying them. Johnson was clear: workers should be repaid. He acknowledged there is other analysis.
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well I felt alarm thanks for nuthin
After asking for prayers for Dolly Parton, the singer’s sister is now saying she didn’t mean to sound the alarm on the “9 to 5” star’s health. https://t.co/NntUFyYKRu
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