David Weigel
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Covering politics for @semafor. Alum: @washingtonpost, @business, @slate. [email protected]. Buy my book: https://t.co/6sWfZ4MNgH
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The Lt. Governor of Indiana deleted this post confirming Heritage Action’s commentary about Trump threatening to withhold federal funding from Indiana if the State Senate voted against redistricting:
Wow, Lt .Gov. said the Trump admin *did* threaten federal funding.
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Indiana Republican State Senator Mike Bohacek tells @kaitlancollins why he rejected President Trump's pressure campaign for a new congressional map
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Republican State Senator Mike Bohacek tells Kaitlan Collins he rejected President Trump’s pressure campaign for a new congressional map in Indiana because he doesn’t want to redistrict “at the whim...
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NEW: Ron DeSantis’ administration took millions in taxpayer dollars intended to assist needy Floridians, including children, to defeat last year’s marijuana and abortion amendments. His officials bent state procurement laws in the process. https://t.co/5pgdOqfvxx
tampabay.com
During the fight to defeat amendments 3 and 4 last year, Gov. DeSantis’ administration spent at least $36.2 million in taxpayer funds.
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By using AI for writing, you’re robbing yourself of the authentic writer’s experience of not writing
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Uwe Boll Reboots 'Alone in the Dark' (Exclusive)
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I just had an AI Instagram influencer ask me to collab and when I asked how that works they said they just need a photo of me with blank space.. 😬
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NEW: Inside the Indiana State capital as Senate Republicans delivered the most remarkable, and i think important, rebuke to Trump yet in his 2nd term. A convo with @adamwren
https://t.co/JycObq0x4k
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Identity-pilled Democrats keep flipping around in circles and sometimes deciding that all it takes to be electable is to find a white man — should actually select from the wide range of proven swing state winners. https://t.co/Ih9I5oWvue
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Plus the SPEED Act, the Pope’s pricing strategy, and some Dutch politics takes
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Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime
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The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
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@Timcast .. anything or everything, but the attacks she's been getting do not match the possibility of some things she could have wrong. What they DO match, however, is the motive behind the things she's drawing lines between.... Did you get your check this week, timmi?
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NEW: Colo. Gov Jared Polis (D) on Pres. Trump claiming he's pardoned Tina Peters on state charges: "No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders."
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That’s crazy. Lt. Gov. of Indiana confirming that Trump threatened Indiana Republicans with federal funding being withheld if they did not rig their electoral maps
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Easily the funniest FBI testimony I've ever seen. He's full of shit, knows it, and knows that we know https://t.co/dirL8UXXjq
FBI OPS DIRECTOR: Antifa - that's our primary concern right now. CONGRESS: Where is Antifa headquartered? FBI: [Pauses] ... We are building out the infrastructure right now. CONGRESS: What does that mean? FBI: Well, that's very fluid. It's ongoing for us to understand that.
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Okay but can they still mention Pollard’s solo albums in the Fading Captain series?
According to a new court filing, the Trump admin has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs. Among censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." (Short 🧵)
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The city was broke—but not broken. Drop Dead City, the 2025 documentary about NYC’s 1975 fiscal crisis, is out now. Don’t miss this smart, gripping and unexpectedly poignant story of urban survival, now streaming on all major platforms!
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Trump's DOJ has now failed to indict Letitia James 3 separate times. In FY 2013, federal grand juries rejected indictments just 5 times nationwide in an entire year. That's out of 165,000 cases.
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This Pritzker/O'Brien headlined fundraiser has raised more than $1 million for the DNC, per three people familiar with the event's haul. Comes during DNC's winter meeting.
JB Pritzker is headlining a DNC fundraiser with Conan O'Brien later this week coinciding with the DNC's winter meeting. Co-hosts include Rob Reiner, Shonda Rhimes and Jane Fonda
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It’s hard to overstate how much this post was unhelpful to the president’s cause among Indiana Republicans in the final hours when some were still persuadable.
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to
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i blogged about the #EllaMcCayChallenge & spoke to its ingenious creator @michaelsroberts 👠 https://t.co/auUbjnTIub
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But the meme’s creator will still be at the movie theater opening weekend.
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I loved my time at Heritage Action and was proud to be a co-founder of what was such an important part of the conservative movement. So I say this with respect and sadness: There is nothing conservative about backing threats to a state’s federal funding because it declines to
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to
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Jesse Jackson Jr. is running again for Congress. He was convicted of stealing $750,000 in campaign $$ for personal use, buying gold-plated Rolexes & Michael Jackson's hat. He says he's a new man, but FB posts show him making excuses & hinting at a pardon. https://t.co/VG6tOZ9BU9
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