Michael Scherer
@michaelscherer
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Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Ex. WaPo. "You must be or you wouldn’t have come here.” Signal: michaelscherer.11 Also: @michaelscherer.bsky.social
Joined December 2008
Freeze the rent? More than 70 metro areas have actually done it, and more. Annual rents are down in Austin, Denver, Phoenix, and other places that built a ton of supply—plus other places like DC that are dealing with iffy demand.
Apartment rents are falling in more U.S. markets today than at the height of COVID lockdowns in 2020. Half of the nation's 150 largest metro areas cut rents year-over-year through October. Most of those are high-supplied markets dealing with the biggest supply wave in a
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Call of Duty ®: Black Ops 7 is pushing the franchise into bold new territory, delivering three epic game modes. Jump into 18 explosive multiplayer maps with exciting, fast-paced movement or fight through hordes of zombies in the round-based Zombies mode. Powered by @callofduty
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How’s the economy doing? Corporations: Better than ever! Workers/consumers: I’m in hell, thanks. Corporate confidence in the economy is running close to a 20 year high. Unemployment expectations are closing in on a 40 year high.
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Maxwell can be prosecuted if she lied to Todd Blanche.
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I believe a number of White House journalists follow me. If one of you could ask the President if he plans to fix the kerning between the "T" and "h" on "The Presidential Walk of Fame," I would consider it a personal favor. Thank you.
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🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
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The email that’s most newsworthy in my mind is the one that Epstein sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011. 1. This was years before Trump ran for office. 2. It appears that Ghislaine Maxwell lied to DOJ officials during her meeting with them a couple months ago.
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Read it and weep Timothee Chalamet Jack Schlossberg, Social Media Provocateur, Gives Politics a Try https://t.co/pKEre0lhT3 via @NYTimes
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As he prepares a congressional run, J.F.K.’s grandson admits, “I’m not for everybody.”
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FBI Director Kash Patel had a whirlwind week during the government shutdown, including a trip on the bureau jet to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ in Texas.
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In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
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A clearer video: Trump spraying Jolani with cologne and asking, “How many wives do you have? Just one? You never know….” Never a dull moment.
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Breaking WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to people familiar with the
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FHFA’s acting inspector general handed probe report to U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James
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Trump’s Secretary of ‘Loyalty and Money.' Howard Lutnick frustrates the president and top officials, but he remains because Trump doesn't want shake-ups and values his longtime friend's embrace of tariffs, @vmsalama @AshleyRParker @michaelscherer write.
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Why Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remains in his position, despite missteps
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It seemed like everywhere we went in Washington, people were voluntarily ready to talk smack about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Me @AshleyRParker & @michaelscherer set out to understand why…. And why he’s hanging on, despite Trump’s own frustrations
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Why Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remains in his position, despite missteps
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Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
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We're hiring... If you're a full-stack engineer with experience building early product, we’d love to hear from you. Success Criteria A) You helped take a product from zero to one. B) You're maniacally opinionated and OCD — you care deeply about how things work and how they
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Truth Social has a new AI function. And, well... it tells the truth https://t.co/5p6K75cmM8
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@espiers @ddayen @MaxRivlinNadler @hellgatenyc @sunraysunray @jacobin @hamiltonnolan @anamariecox @MarisaKabas @KELLYWEILL @AurinSquire @emptywheel @EricMGarcia @AndrewJParsons @HeerJeet @jawnita @AdamLMahoney @Jon_Allsop Thanks to Elon Musk's changes to X, no one shares links to stories anymore. Instead, they're more likely to post pictures of headlines or exciting paragraphs from articles — creating "a far stupider discourse," @daveweigel argues. https://t.co/AMBZyf0o3I
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We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
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NEW: A distinguished female Navy captain within Naval Special Warfare — a Purple Heart recipient with experience w/ SEAL Team Six — was expected to take command this summer, when it was abruptly cancelled just days before. The impression within the NSW community: Secretary
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Active service women and men who spoke to CNN say that goals Hegseth laid out often don’t make sense and will damage the military.
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Between OH, KS, CA, VA and now this huge win in UT, Democrats have quietly strung together an impressive streak of victories over the past few weeks that have, surprisingly, pushed the mid-decade redistricting war closer to a draw.
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