Nick Field
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@PennCapitalStar Correspondent. Former @DecisionDeskHQ Contributor, @PoliticsPA Managing Editor and @WHYY film columnist. Die-hard Philadelphia sports fan
Joined July 2012
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders." - George Carlin.
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He was keeping every plane in the air with his bare hands apparently.
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One last gift from Jimmy Carter, all flags will be at half-staff on Inauguration Day
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Vance gets a softball down the middle and charges the mound.
Fox 2’s Charlie Langton to Republican VP nominee JD Vance: “What makes you smile? What makes you happy?”
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I can't see this photo without thinking of the tweet from that day which basically went 'Imagine being the photographer, looking down at your screen and seeing that you captured the image that will end democracy'.
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@savbrads @HaleyOSomething A perfect short film, we have a third generation of Coppola directors.
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Further proof of my theory that cigarettes absolutely wrecked the generation born in the early 20th Century.
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Apparently the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie Escape from Alcatraz is on Netflix right now, so I'd bet good money that's what sparked this.
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Joe Biden was the first sitting Senator to endorse Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Carter lived to see Biden become President 44 years later
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Coca-Cola's tweet condemning January 6th .
Tonight, President Trump received the first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke bottle from the Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company, James Quincey 🇺🇸
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'Courts shouldn't decide who the President is' is quite the argument for Republicans to make
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ProPublica found four women now who've died because of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, exposing two central problems with the press: 1. ProPublica found them and not the New York Times 2. Joe Biden's 'garbage' comment can lead the evening news but not these women's deaths.
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The Democratic Establishment is acting like Trump just beat Bernie, instead of Biden and Harris, two mainstream Dems.
Centrist group to Dems: reject radical staff, embrace patriotism
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The gap between how cool Hakeem Jeffries thinks he is, and how cool he actually is, is simply too wide to measure accurately.
We don’t need paid protestors bro. The American people are with us.
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"But then you what happens? People forget. They don't remember. They don't care"
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Politico's report about Trump's "exhaustion" on the campaign trail led the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts tonight.
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“We shouldn’t have been playing this thing so safe,” the Minnesota governor said in an interview with POLITICO. “in football parlance, we were in a prevent defense to not lose when we never had anything to lose because I don’t think we were ever ahead”
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My party peaked in 1865 is quite the statement.
Asked how he would’ve answered the initial voter Q Haley got, about what the cause of the Civil War was, DeSantis replied, “of course, you have the issue of slavery”. He then said the “abolition of slavery— to this day, remains the [Republican] party’s top achievement.”
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“I did tell Ms. Nuzzi,” Lizza writes, “that I thought she should be responsible for paying back our book advance since this is the second presidential cycle in a row where Ms. Nuzzi's personal indiscretions have sabotaged our book project.”.Second time?.
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Never underestimate Philadelphia's desire to tell New York to go fuck itself.
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Warner Bros. asked Trump's orbit how to improve their relationship. Trump's people pointed to the $40 million Bezos paid for Melania's doc and suggested giving Don Jr a Discovery hunting show and more pro-Trump voices on CNN
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The Walz pick is a fantastic example of a common media phenomenon. They were so enamored of him in the summer; he was such a great interview and could do no wrong. Then, by the fall, he could do no right and was an obvious mistake.
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"Several Hollywood publicists and agents told CNN the DNC will be star-studded with one source sharing that conversations with an A-list pop star are currently underway about a possible performance"
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Trump threatening to jail Mark Zuckerberg is just Trump being Trump. The Biden Administration trying to curb health misinformation during a pandemic is potential tyranny.
"Democracy is threatened unless we're allowed to control the flow of information on social media" is among the worst ideas in the discourse from being naive about how persuasion works to kind of lowkey authoritarian.
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The day before the New York Mag piece went online, Fetterman lost it in a meeting with a teachers union: "Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk"
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Whichever consultant came up with the idea to play Trump clips at Harris rallies really earned their pay.
"Listen to his words" -- Kamala Harris at her event in Lansing plays clips of Trump talking about stiffing workers and crapping on organized labor and talks about how he had everything handed to him
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Sucks that I can never listen to Beyoncé's Freedom again. It's officially Fight Song'd.
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"Ocasio-Cortez, an insider says, is deeply reluctant to launch a presidential campaign. She enjoys the work of the legislative process and, after six tumultuous years in office, is increasingly confident about how to effectively navigate Congress"
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"One Democratic senator granted anonymity to share private discussions said conversations are starting about whether Schumer should be their leader going forward"
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Gee, I wonder why Joni Ernst dropped her opposition to Pete Hegseth's DoD nomination. Good thing there wasn't an embarrassing story that someone could use to threaten her.
"Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate romantic relationships with 5 women . one woman whose relationship w/ Finerty was scrutinized by the inspector general was Joni Ernst"
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The Charli XCX/Chappell Roan divide on endorsing Kamala Harris perfectly epitomizes the Millennial/Zoomer divide on the Democratic Party. In this essay, I will.
Charli xcx to Zane Lowe on the Kamala Harris campaign team adopting her ‘BRAT’ aesthetic:. “They picked it up and ran with it. That was cool. I think that was a young gay man on that campaign who said, ‘let’s go.’ I’m happy to be on the right side of history.”
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"Walz says now he should have been doing events all through last fall. He says he offered, but was told no, and in his bewildered daze, he decided to be a team player"
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I wonder what life's like in this timeline.
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One day I hope to write a lede half as devastating as this
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"I'm glad Trump sold nuclear secrets to the Saudis, it just shows how he's a great businessman" - Lindsey Graham, within the next 36 hours.
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Roger Goodell's father lost his Senate seat standing up to Richard Nixon over Vietnam. Goodell, of course, learned to never stand up for anything.
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Kids today may not know this but, before Joe Wilson shouted at Barack Obama in 2009, Presidential addresses weren't an embarrassing spectacle.
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Biden visiting Sheetz and Wawa within 24 hours, Pennsylvania's 19 Electoral Votes secured.
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Since the dawn of the 20th Century, these are the only four men to win two U.S. Presidential terms with a majority of the popular vote both times
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There were nearly 32,000 voters in Pennsylvania who voted for Kamala Harris but split their ballot and voted for the Green Party's Senate candidate. Bob Casey ended up losing by 16,349 votes.
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"In an unexpected twist, events that feature Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden’s likely successor should he step aside, have started to sell out"
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A great example of why Vance was a terrible VP pick. Instead of making up a story about how seeing Trump get up and pump his fight inspired him, Vance creates a story that centers himself as the protagonist in a dystopian movie.
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The first reporting on the DNC speaking schedule.Monday: Joe Biden.Tuesday: Bill Clinton; Barack Obama.Wednesday: VP Nominee.Thursday: Kamala Harris.Unknown: Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Doug Emhoff.
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Trump got booed during the national anthem during the Super Bowl.
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REPORTER: Madam President, what's your favorite sixth generation Video Game Console?.HARRIS: What kind of question is --.[Walz grabs podium].WALZ: SEGA DREAMCAST.
walz confirmed Dreamcast owner. hugely energising for the narrowest voter segment in world history
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Dems immediately back to overperforming in special elections.
Dems only lost Goochland in Richmond suburbs by about 6. Trump won it by 19!. Part of it in HD-57 currently held by GOP Del. David Own
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I read in the NYT recently that Harris is the one who can't answer a simple question and talk in circles.
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Morgan Wallen is the first musical guest or host on SNL that I can recall who just walked off stage during 'goodnights' before the credits even started to roll.
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Two-thirds of Hamilton County, Indiana in. Harris up 1.2 point. Trump won this county by 6.8.
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Suddenly Harris' edge in Michigan looks to be the strongest for either candidate in the seven swing states. Anybody have any theories on why that would be?.
MICHIGAN poll by Michigan State University (B+). 🔵 Kamala Harris 52.2%.🔴 Donald Trump 47.7%.
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Biden's approval rises to 46%, his highest rating since February 2023.
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Puck's Julia Ioffe saw the Zoom video of Saturday's confrontation between Biden and Rep. Crow: "Tell me who the hell that is! Tell me who put NATO back together! Tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son"
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2020 Super Bowl.Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers.2020 Presidential Election.Joe Biden vs Donald Trump.2024 Super Bowl.Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers.2024 Presidential Election.Joe Biden vs Donald Trump.
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"I am bullish on North Carolina, and I don’t fuck around in saying that—because I was bullish on Arizona [four years ago] and that’s because we looked at it very closely" - Biden Campaign Chair Jen O'Malley-Dillon
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"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks"
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"[Jen O'Malley-Dillon] called the vice president. “We’re down in the blue wall states, and we’re not going to be able to make it up,” she said. “Oh, my God,” said Harris. “What is going to happen to this country?”
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What is with CNN and Oregon? I'm not mad, I just want to know what's going on
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OK, he's definitely been watching Netflix today.
The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by.
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Oh, so the NYT can put subjective judgements in their headlines when they want to.
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"An A+ Democratic Senate source of mine reckons that, of the 51 Ds, no more than half a dozen believe he still has a plausible chance in November and want him to stay in the race. The ratio on the House side, as best as I can tell, is roughly the same"
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60 years old and her political career is over. She went quite far - technically closer than anyone else - on a bad hand. Politics can be really unfair.
Being completely honest: Kamala Harris ran a great campaign. Created a lot of enthusiasm, nailed her convention, won the debate in a landslide. She didn't separate herself from Biden enough but she was put in an impossible situation. The country just simply wasn't ready for her.
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The 450,000 Puerto Ricans who live in Pennsylvania should be interested to see what Trump and his friends think of Puerto Rico.
“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico”
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My theory that Youngkin's victory was a fluke that came from the Delta surge, rapidly rising inflation and a poor opponent is aging quite well I'd say
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Every single Institution failed. Kind of incredible when you think about it, but don't think about it too hard.
ALERT: Special Counsel Jack Smith also files to dismiss his appeal in Trump's classified documents criminal case.
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Hasn't even been two months yet and the argument is 'It's good that the stock market is down'.
Tommy Tuberville: "We were probably over-bloated with the stock market here for a while. We went up quite a bit."
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Two sirens for this?.
🚨🚨scoop - Harris abandons 2019 pledge to ban plastic straws
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“Sadly, it seems like he’s choosing the hard way, but the outcome will be the same,” one veteran Democratic operative told Playbook. “He won’t be the nominee.” The person continued: “We have a mad king.”
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Trump letting Arab-American voters in Michigan know that he'd like to see Netanyahu go further.
Trump says he's about to speak to Netanyahu and says, "Biden is trying to hold him back . he probably should be doing the opposite, actually."
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“I don’t think I will be arrested,” Sam Bankman-Fried said earlier today, per the New York Post.
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Trump, who has always denied the numerous reports of him calling members of the military stupid, now publicly calling members of the military stupid.
Trump in Iowa describes military officials as "some of the dumbest people I've ever met in my life" -- and gets big applause for it
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Marist Poll of Pennsylvania.Senate.Fetterman 51%.Oz 41%.Governor.Shapiro 53%.Mastriano 40%.
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"Some are planning to protest Trump’s rally Tuesday in Allentown, a majority-Latino city with one of the largest Puerto Rican populations in the state. And the arena Trump is speaking at is located in the middle of the city’s Puerto Rican neighborhood"
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Kamala Harris is weighing three options:.1. Run for President again in 2028.2. Run for Governor of California in 2026 instead. Set up a possible 2032/2036 Presidential run.3. Get out of politics altogether and cash in.
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Trump literally caused a binge-drinking bump among young women from 2015-2020
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John Heilemann reporting that the Harris VP pick is - as expected - down to Shapiro or Walz.
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To casual observers, I really can't emphasize enough how election nerds like myself consider this THE POLL. It caught Obama's 2008 caucus rise and Trump's upsets in 2016 and 2020. The results seem too good to prove and yet.
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING. The Des Moines Register’s final Iowa Poll of the election cycle shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points in a state he previously carried twice.
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Nancy Pelosi: "I wasn't asking him to step down, I was asking for a campaign that would win. And I wasn't seeing that on the horizon. Winning an election is a decision. You make a decision to win and you make every decision in favor of winning"
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[Biden told Rep. Jason Crow] "‘Tell me something you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son,’ this member of Congress told me. 'Had the assassination attempt not occurred an hour later, I imagine 50 people on that Zoom were ready to come out publicly against him'"
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Biden has definitely told dozens, if not hundreds, of young staffers "I've got ties older than you. Not a joke".
Biden has had this same St. Patrick’s-themed tie since at least 1990
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@JohnDiLillo 1. Buy Star Wars.2. Push out George Lucas so you can put exciting new voices in charge.3. Fire all exciting new voices.4. Put George's inferior apprentice in charge.
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Trump up 2 points in Fayette County, Georgia with 75% in. He won this by 7 in 2020 and Harris is trying to flip it.
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"Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer have communicated to senior party leaders that they would not be interested in serving as Harris’s running mate, according to a person familiar with the candidates in the mix to join Harris atop the ticket"
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Being completely honest: Kamala Harris ran a great campaign. Created a lot of enthusiasm, nailed her convention, won the debate in a landslide. She didn't separate herself from Biden enough but she was put in an impossible situation. The country just simply wasn't ready for her.
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