David Weigel
@daveweigel
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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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Joined February 2008
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the age divide here is pretty funny, older tv watchers want their MSNBC character, younger folks have seen the preacher guy’s instagram
2026 Texas Senate Democratic Primary 🔵 Jasmine Crocket - 51% 🔵 James Talarico - 43% ⚪ Not sure - 6% —— Name ID Crockett: 94% Talarico: 79% —— • Ages 18-34: Talarico 63-34% • Ages 35-54: Talarico 51-42% • Ages: 55+: Crocket 59-34% • White: Talarico 53-40% • Black:
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Your must-read of today. An absolutely brilliant behind-the-scenes look at Ron Howard's "Grinch." This piece is so good it'll make you want to watch the movie again.
So it turns out the making of Ron Howard's HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS was kind of insane.
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When she paused and expected her team to applaud because she told them the amount of songs that would be on the album… like girl 😭
I know it's a joke but the likelihood that the people around her are telling her it's a skipless masterpiece is high. Everybody else gets fired.
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new krassenstein just dropped
Instead of the Super Bowl, I'd rather watch President Trump and Tom Homan mass deporting illegal aliens!
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Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz
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Woody Allen? The jazz clarinetist?
BREAKING: House Oversight Democrats just release a small batch of 95,000 photos received from the Epstein estate. Images include: Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Woody Allen, Larry Summers, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates. Redactions have been made by the Committee.
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Pro-redistricting Sen. Liz Brown explains why she is resigning from her leadership position after redistricting was voted down.
We who led the conservative effort to redraw our Congressional maps are devastated about yesterday's vote. Myself, Sen. Gaskill and the other 17 senators who voted yes recognize the consequences of what it will mean to have socialists control Congress. Yesterday, we failed our
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A striking thing about the lopsided 31-19 gerrymandering rejection is that several GOP Indiana senators could have pulled the “vote yes, hope no” move but opted not to
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.
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You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.
It would be nice if America took teaching kids to read books one tenth as seriously as it takes youth sports.
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I wrote about St. John's, the private elite Houston school that apparently is a top issue in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in 2026
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Has a prestigious Houston private school gone woke?
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We fight for the governor/ of the state she was born in
We are Ella McCay, we carry the flame
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I really appreciate this piece from @ezraklein (and its amplification by @mattyglesias). But I think the ideas being teased out here would benefit from a prescient piece Alexis Madrigal wrote more than a decade ago.
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I’m in Gilbert standing with Starbucks baristas on the picket line. These workers deserve fair pay, safe shifts, and a real contract. Starbucks needs to get to the table and negotiate.
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"In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading." Via @DanaGoldstein
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When teachers do assign whole books, they often choose from a stagnant list of classics.
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Thrilled to confirm this scoop:
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After more than a decade at Bloomberg News , I am stoked to join Ben Smith and Justin B. Smith as SEMAFOR’s new Deputy Editor-in-Chief! Semafor is redefining journalism for a new era and earning the...
scoop: Shelly Banjo to be named deputy editor in chief at @semafor, reporting to @semaforben
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NEW: Trump's campaign to take over the Fed is far more extensive than what is being publicly discussed. @crampell unpacks it and the reasons why you should be nervous about it https://t.co/aoB0upjumb
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Trump may have stopped threatening Jerome Powell—but he’s still got designs to control the Fed.
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