Chicago-based political correspondent for The New York Times, author, (((Semitism))) - Being Jewish in the Age of Trump, and the novel No. 4 Imperial Lane
Just to be clear, the president is thanking
@MarshaBlackburn
for blocking a unanimous consent request to pass legislation that would have required a candidate who is approached by a foreign entity offering opposition research to contact for FBI.
Thank you Senator
@MarshaBlackburn
for fighting obstructionist Democrats led by Cryin' Chuck Schumer. Democrats continue to look for a do-over on the Mueller Report and will stop at nothing to distract the American people from the great accomplishments of this Administration!
After white supremacists declared their comeback, Virginia has an African American lieutenant governor, Charlotte has its 1st black mayor, & the Va. House of Delegates has a transgender member.
Howard Schultz says Ronald Reagan is the best Republican prez of the past 50 years, in part because “he never took his jacket off in the Oval Office” due to his respect for the office.
Oh wow, watch this. Pete Hoekstra, former representative, now ambassador, asked about something he said, accuses journalist of “fake news.” Then shown the clip and says it’s fake news that he denied saying it. We live in the Post-Truth era.
As someone who edited a story on his comments, I listened to them live. I read the transcript. Occam’s Razor: don’t overthink this. The real problem was that our president speaks in non-sequitur gibberish. There was no direct linguistic link btwn MS-13 and his “animal” remarks.
Awful lot of reporters screwed up re: Trump’s “animals” remark. It’s the result of a media climate that feeds on outrage and speed and re-tweets. But it’s also the result of Trump’s own history of using racially-charged language and the total erosion of any benefit of the doubt.
Outrageous. If you want to see how the neo-Nazis use the term "shekels" take a quick glance at The Daily Stormer. Eric Trump’s ‘three extra shekels’ attack on Bob Woodward is not some accident any more than Hillary Clinton's image over a Star of David.
A blockbuster story from
@NYTLiz
. New depositions show how Alex Jones promoted Newtown conspiracy theories, including one that baselessly claimed Avielle Richman, a first-grader killed at Sandy Hook, was still alive. Her father killed himself this week.
This is a remarkably false statement,
@mschlapp
. The Senate twice passed comprehensive immigration reform, once under Bush, once under Obama. Twice, the House let it die. Can’t we at least recognize the same history?
#FactsMatter
Remember when Steve Mnuchin told us the Harriet Tubman $20 would be delayed for 6 years for technical reasons and may never have her likeness? Well, here it is. We got a peek at the design, done in 2016!
So unsettling to read that Manafort coordinated with a senior Israeli official to concoct charges of anti-Semitism against Ukraine's opposition leader, then to use those charges to turn Jewish opinion against the Obama administration.
This Israeli involvement in Manafort's effort to trade on the idea that Obama wasn't sufficiently anti-anti-Semitism is a big deal. "MANAFORT coordinated privately with a senior Israeli government official to issue a written statement publicizing this story."
Honestly I would like to hear one prominent Republican leader speak on what is happening in Wisconsin, Michigan & North Carolina — for the future of representative democracy. This need not be a partisan debate but it requires statesmanship.
An amazing story detailing how the Mercers and Cambridge Analytica duped Facebook, mined our personal information, and just maybe colluded with Russia to try to sway the election for Trump. Kudos
@nytimes
team.
Remember when a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers said they would ban bump stocks after Las Vegas and fix the instant background check system after Texas? Neither happened.
Boom: Those secret Kavanaugh emails that the Judiciary Committee won't let out? We've got them: Abortion, affirmative action, surveillance. Now the committee has something to talk about.
Pete Strzok goes there. Wow. “I have the utmost respect for Congress’s oversight role, but I truly believe that today’s hearing is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.”
Rep. Blake Farenthold used $84,000 of taxpayer money from a secret House fund to settle a suit from an employee who said he told her he has sexual fantasies about her. If for no other reason than misuse of tax dollars, you'd think Republicans would be upset.
Brett Kavanaugh and his football buddies bragged in their yearbooks they were “Renate Alumni.” Well, we found Renate and she called them horrible and hateful. Read and wow.
In a huge escalation, the House Judiciary Committee will sue for Mueller grand jury documents, explicitly citing its efforts to decide whether to impeach President Trump.
As Democrats try to nail down the final details of their climate and social policy bill,
@SenatorSinema
will hold a 45-minute fundraiser on Tuesday afternoon with five business PACs, representing organizations fiercely opposing the bill.
I'm at the Herschel Walker victory party and President Biden's address is being broadcast. As he asked, "When is God's name are we going to do something about the gun laws in this country," moans and boos rise from the crowd.
Hats off to
@SimonWDC
who told me on Friday that Democrat Donna Deegan would flip the largest city with a Republican mayor to the Democrats, the latest data point that shows the Democratic grassroots still has momentum.
Eva Mireles, a 4th grade teacher of 17 years, was killed while trying to protect her students. Ms. Mireles—married with a child—was “very loved” was an avid hiker & took pride in teaching mostly students of Latino heritage. “She was the fun of the party.”
Guy on my Atlanta plane: “George Soros has already put millions in an offshore account for that woman, Christine Blasey Ford. When this all comes out, you’ll find out this whole thing was a plant. I don’t know why they don’t kick him out of the country. He’s not an American”
A text from Ga. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s wife to then-Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in the fiery days after the 2020 election but before the Ga. runoffs.
I covered 3 failed immig bills. Formula was always a swap: GOP got border security; Dems got pathway to citizenship or legalization. Senate Dems were prepared to give away the store, a border-security only bill that would sacrifice all leverage for legalization. GOP rejected it.
The Supreme Court once again devalued Trump's offer on his DACA-for-wall deal by not taking up the DACA review. That means the lower court's decision to keep DACA in place extends without Trump's deal.
Reminder: Before it was hijacked the term "fake news" referred to the real, insidious phenomenon of a hostile power planting fabricated stories into the media, not news stories one side doesn't like.
Meanwhile, back on Russia, the FBI told Rep. Dana Rohrabacher back in 2012 that the Kremlin considered him such a valuable asset that they assigned him a code name. Wow.
Mr. President, I have been standing next to
@maggieNYT
when you called her cell phone. She has one B in her last name and a newly minted Pulitzer Prize.
As part of the team that brought you coverage of the Jackson nomination, I can assure readers that
@nytimes
did not go with Jon Tester’s word alone. We had numerous, credible sources, mainly uniformed or retired military who could not speak on the record because of their status.
Allegations made by Senator Jon Tester against Admiral/Doctor Ron Jackson are proving false. The Secret Service is unable to confirm (in fact they deny) any of the phony Democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful Jackson family. Tester should resign. The.....
Whoa, a WOW story -- the Trump Admin has a new definition of sex that would render 1.4 million transgendered people legally nonexistent: sex is "a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.”
So the FBI starts a live press conference about the prevention of a possible mass murder of political leaders and media figures in the nation's capital and CNN cuts away to file footage of old Jussie Smollett news? C'mon. CNN figures were on the target list, for God's sake!
This story was meant to start a serious conversation about the strength of AIPAC and the stifling of policy debate. Given the number of people calling me an anti-Semite for raising it, I think we have work to do.
As a reporter in Ill., please
@RepMTG
, tell me where to find the elementary school in this state that got $5.1 b. For "CRT" or anything else. I'd like to pay a visit. The entire school-level budget for Chicago Public Schools last year was $4.4 billion.
Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT?
Dodaro: CRT?
Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things
The Senate is not decided. Collins is below 50% and slipping, so Maine’s ranked choice system could still cost her. Georgia already has one runoff & Perdue is just barely over 50%. If he slips, Ga. runoffs will decide Senate control no matter Maine’s outcome.
People, the difference between a 52-48 Senate and a 53-47 Senate is really and truly not worth undermining confidence in our democracy. Or maybe that’s just me.
To those saying the media is elevating
#QAnon
by writing about it, I get it. But when hundreds of conspiracy theorists show up at a rally for the president in Q T-shirts with Seth Rich signs, a free press owes readers an explanation.
“The conduct is bad,”
@ChrisChristie
said of actions described in the indictment. “And it is bad for anybody in this country to do it, but it’s particularly awful for someone who has been president and who aspires to be president again.”
Breaking: In a 73-page ruling, a federal judge has denied
@RepMTG
's bid for a restraining order to block legal action to remove her from the November ballot as an "insurrectionist" disqualified from office by the 14th Amendment.
So the tax bill ends deductions for teacher out-of-pocket spending, whacks graduate students and ends student loan deductibility but keeps carried interest and all but eliminates the estate tax.
Trump has completely succeeded in drawing attention away from the conditions at detention centers on the border. On Saturday the nation’s media were aghast at the images that came out of Pence’s visit. One presidential tweet storm later and we have completely changed the subject.
Sheldon Adelson has underwritten the Republican campaign effort this year to the tune of well over $50 million. A single man with multiple interests before the government, $50 million. And thanks to the Supreme Court, it’s perfectly legal.
Robert Pear, truly one of the most decent and kind human beings on the planet and the greatest health care writer of his time, passed last night after a horrific stroke. We at the
@nytimes
are bereft.
This weekend, the White House boasted that Trump was sending Karen Pence go head the Special Olympics delegation. Two days later the budget eliminated the US contribution to the Special Olympics.
I'm sorry but Al Franken wasn't done in by one woman's claims on a USO tour. It was a daily drumbeat of accusations from multiple women of groping. Yes, they weren't awful accusations, but Senate Democratic women had enough. The initial accusation was not the coup de grace.
After the FBI descended in Mar-a-Lago earlier this month it was Fury Road among elected Republicans. Today, when we saw some (not all) of the justification, it was crickets. Could it be that the GOP really is tiring of the Trump show?
Shoutout to the Charlotte Observer for getting on top and staying on top of the vote fraud scandal swirling around Republican House candidate Mark Harris. Local news matters.
Asa Hutchinson, former prosecutor and candidate for president, had choice words for members of his party who are rallying around Trump: “To pejoratively say this is the result of a political prosecution is not in service to our justice system.”
The guy said on one occasion while drunk, Kavanaugh threw a bottle into another guy’s face who had said something semi-hostile, starting a melee that ended with one of his friends in jail.
Events in Pittsburgh and Fla reminded me of when Dept of Homeland Security in 2009 tries to warn of the rising threat of right-wing domestic terrorism. The conservative backlash was so severe, the report was buried and the dept's work all but ended.
As a nation mourns a fallen hero, it needs a president. So it has turned to two ex-presidents while the man in the Oval Office rants on against his enemies.
@juliehdavis
at this sad moment in history.
I listened — to the whole podcast. It was awkwardly phrased, and historically questionable. But she clearly said the calming feeling came from knowing that Palestinians tried to create a safe haven for Jews after the Holocaust.
.
@RashidaTlaib
says the Holocaust gives her “a calming feeling” calling for a 1 state solution putting Jews in the minority & out of power of their own country. This is a heart filled w darkness & how the Holocaust began in 1st place. Listen @ 28 min mark.
A year after Congress launched its investigation into Russian election interference, Judiciary senators have issued their 1st criminal referral -- against Christopher Steele, who blew the whistle on Russia.
I will assume you’re joking.
The NYT currently projects a national popular-vote margin of D+9.2%. The largest popular margin since 2008, larger than waves of 1994, 2006, 2010, 2014.
1994: R+7.1%
2006: D+8.0%
2008: D+10.6%
2010: R+7.2%
2014: R+5.7%
Wow: Governor Bill Walker and Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott on Thursday offered the following statement:
We oppose the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Woah. Roy Moore on George Soros: “No matter how much money he’s got, he’s still going to the same place that people who don’t recognize God and morality and accept his salvation are going. And that’s not a good place.” cc:
@RJC
@AriFleischer
Please Twitter, leave
@maggieNYT
alone. Trump lost the election, for God's sake. If Maggie had told you a little bit more before the election (she told you A LOT, btw), what, you think Trump would have lost ... twice?
I feel like political journalism learned the wrong lesson in 2016. We’re bending over backwards to suggest that just maybe conventional wisdom is wrong and Republicans will hold Congress when I think the lesson of 2016 should be simpler: stop predicting either way.