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Senior editor @POLITICOMag Pitch me features (not op-eds!) at pcaldwell @politico .com

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Patrick Caldwell
5 months
Kristi Noem's dog-killing story "wasn’t news to people who worked on her first book, where the tale made it into a draft of the memoir before the publishing team nixed it" @michaelschaffer writes
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
@tcraggs22 "LaRouchies still walk among us, embarrassing undead artifacts of another era’s grotesque folly, like Henry Kissinger or the Bay City Rollers."
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
It’s a tragedy that just 15 percent of the country has gotten the latest iteration of the vaccine. Get your booster!!
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
Some exciting job news for me this morning! Incredibly excited to be joining the amazing team @POLITICOMag
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Patrick Caldwell
3 months
Back at work today. Don’t tell my bosses at @POLITICOMag , but I’m getting a bit of editing help
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Patrick Caldwell
7 months
“Not the other one” Judge Chutkan joked to the pool of jurors after saying the name of today’s case. (I was one of the few jurors who seemed to picked up on the joke.)
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Kyle Cheney
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Donald Trump would likely have gone on trial today were it not for his appeal on presidential immunity. Instead, Judge Chutkan is beginning a trial for Jan. 6 misdemeanor defendant Linwood Nester.
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Patrick Caldwell
11 months
You might have heard about Trump's plans to clean house in the executive branch if he gets a second term. @ianwardreports goes deep on the group that's building the list of young staffers who could fill those jobs
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Patrick Caldwell
4 months
Eliza has entered the field
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
Read it here!
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Ryan J. Reilly
1 year
“The number of dicks I’ve had to see in the name of preserving our democracy, someone should give me a goddamn medal.” 🍆 🍆 🍆 New SEDITION HUNTERS except, in Politico Magazine:
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
Growing up in his Michigan hometown, @Chasten felt alienated. Now it's where he and Pete are raising their kids Great piece by @adamwren
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
Time for a ~ personal news ~ tweet: Today is my last day at @newrepublic . Can’t say quite yet what I’ll be up to next, so in the meantime I’ll just shout about how great TNR has been.
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
As House GOP is about to kick Ilhan Omar off a committee, good time to read @Grace_Segers on how the Squad is planning to fight back in the new Congress
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
This @adamwren piece is a great examination of how smaller Midwest towns have shifted on LGBTQ rights. Also tons of great new reporting on @Chasten , including a health scare and how his hometown high school wouldn't host an event for his young adult memoir
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
Cool to see Michael Jordan donate to the great @MakeAWish , which makes me think back to a story from when I was a kid with leukemia who got an NBA-themed Make A Wish trip...
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
@WritersofColor @newrepublic For @newrepublic 's print magazine, I edit our front of the book, 1500-2000 words. Favor politics & policy stories, but love any compelling narrative w/ character & scene. No set range, fees start around 50 cents, but skew closer to $1 a word, based on extent of reporting required
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Patrick Caldwell
4 months
STAND BY FOR NEWS: This is really going to shake up 2024, at least in my view.
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
Fascinating history of how Ticketmaster consolidated the industry by @moetkacik & @KristaKBrown I recalled the general Pearl Jam stuff, but actual the details are wild
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
Really great and important story here on Trump’s final days in office
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Asawin Suebsaeng
2 years
@RollingStone @Patrick_C_Reis here's "TRUMP'S KILLING SPREE," published online today; available in the upcoming Feb. print issue of @RollingStone as well:
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
It's wild how Katherine Boo's The Marriage Cure remains not only an amazing piece of writing, but also so politically relevant two decades later
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Patrick Caldwell
3 months
"Those behaviors are not symptoms of stuttering." Read @JohnGHendy , who has written so thoughtfully on Biden for years
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
In case you missed it over the weekend, glad the first piece I published for @POLITICOMag somehow perfectly managed to be about my once obscure, now politically important pop culture obsession
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
‘It’s Crazy. It’s Party." Inside the Tricky Politics of Eurovision During War. via @politico
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Patrick Caldwell
7 months
Unsurprisingly I did not make it onto the final jury
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
Meanwhile in the quieter Senate today, Patty Murray became Pro Tem, putting her third in line of presidential succession. 10 (!) years ago, @jbouie & I profiled her as one of the most quietly fascinating and influential members of Congress
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Patrick Caldwell
7 months
Judge Chutkan started off by asking us potential jurors if anyone thought they couldn’t be impartial about a Jan 6 case. About 13 of the 50-60* jurors stood up and were immediately dismissed. *(rough numbers since I was trying to pay attention to my civic duty)
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Patrick Caldwell
7 months
During my voir dire questioning, I noted to Judge Chutkan that her name and decisions on other trials had come up a lot at my work of late. ‘You know there’s a case in New York too,’ she quipped
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Patrick Caldwell
2 months
Incredible true-life spy games story by @zachsdorfman , a never-before-revealed Cold War FBI operation sabotaging computer parts during the early days of Silicon Valley. Detailed, rollicking read
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Patrick Caldwell
4 months
If you’re rooting against the @Timberwolves you’re rooting for a baby to cry
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Patrick Caldwell
5 months
Fun @EliStokols piece exploring the love-hate relationship between the White House and the New York Times, chock full of wild details
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
Given the number of stories about blogrock/bloghaus revival over the past year, think it's officially time we all just started finding music on Hype Machine again
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
The juxtaposition between “paid content” and the headline is something here
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
"Normal people, when they go down a slide, they’re fine." @mtredden knows how to get the killer quotes
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
Great @adamwren profile of @jamestalarico , the millennial Texas Democrat who has a penchant for going viral by mixing faith and politics
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
A new year means I need need pitches for stories! Email in my bio. Particularly looking for more scene/character driven pieces about how politics works in DC, but any narrative magazine style stories are great!
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
@WritersofColor @newrepublic For @newrepublic 's print magazine, I edit our front of the book, 1500-2000 words. Favor politics & policy stories, but love any compelling narrative w/ character & scene. No set range, fees start around 50 cents, but skew closer to $1 a word, based on extent of reporting required
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
@AshForkStudios The evidence is the first two paragraphs of the story if you click through
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Patrick Caldwell
3 months
Very normal reporter job announcement, they all include questions about relationship statuses
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Vogue Magazine
3 months
Jack Schlossberg is Vogue's political correspondent. The new role will see him combine his background in law and business with the self-described “silly goose” tendencies he displays online. Here, see how John F. Kennedy’s only grandson, is taking over:
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
We published the latest @newrepublic cover story today, an amazing piece of reporting and riveting storytelling by @LauraJedeed , who spent a week at a right-wing gun training course and reported on the group's ties to a wider post-Tea Party movement
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
For those of you who are about to learn about Sacks, this @SilvermanJacob profile is a great read on his larger political projects
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Matt Dixon
1 year
Musk and DeSantis will host an event on Twitter Spaces, the site’s platform for audio chats, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET. It will be moderated by David Sacks, a tech entrepreneur who is a Musk confidant and DeSantis supporter. w/ @DashaBurns
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Patrick Caldwell
3 months
“Biden sits for fewer interviews than any other recent president. He gives fewer news conferences than any other recent president. The idea that this is all just coincidence, that none of it reflects capacity, isn’t plausible. Not anymore.”
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Patrick Caldwell
8 months
What a terrible decision by LAT. Nick is one of the most brilliant editors out there, and a truly great person. Hire him!
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Nick Baumann
8 months
Last year, @meridak asked me to lead the @latimes ' coverage of the 2024 election cycle. The Times laid me off today, so someone else will have to take on that task. But I'm proud of the plan we put together and the work we've done. I will be rooting for LAT in the months ahead.
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1 year
@KFILE They named it Superior for a reason.
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Patrick Caldwell
8 months
Hunter Biden's Sliding Doors Moment After law school, he was planning to move to his wife's hometown. But then he met with the CEO of his home state bank (his dad's biggest campaign funder), which put him the path of a career defined by his last name
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Patrick Caldwell
8 months
Fear and Self-Loathing on the Pizza Ranch Circuit Great piece by @adamwren exploring how our partisan divide runs down the buffet line of an Iowa pizza chain
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Patrick Caldwell
2 months
Kamala gets the coveted xkcd endorsement
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Patrick Caldwell
3 months
David Barton is perhaps the most interesting inclusion on that list. Worth reading these pieces by @TimAlberta & @LauraJedeed
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Tyler Kingkade
3 months
JUST IN: Okla.'s top edu official Ryan Walters says the state's social studies standards are going to be overhauled by a committee that includes Dennis Prager, David Barton, Steve Deace and Kevin Roberts Roberts leads the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 25
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
Well this is terrifying
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
"From Father Coughlin to Donald Trump, demagogues have long commingled racist and anti-Semitic appeals with fears of economic decline. Fuentes’ power comes from layering on a generational critique" Great @alibreland piece on the rise of Nick Fuentes
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Patrick Caldwell
1 year
"Say what you want about TPUSA: The conservative youth organization knows how to throw a party." @LauraJedeed checks in on how the conservative group is struggling with the gender wars
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
“I think there are certain aspects here where we can flex our muscles even more sometimes than under a Democratic majority,” @AOC tells @Grace_Segers in this great piece on where the Squad goes next under a GOP House majority
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Patrick Caldwell
5 months
Looks like a cool job, and Nick is an incredible boss. (He might even end up being the best man at your wedding a decade after trashing your story ideas!)
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Nick Baumann
5 months
The Washington Post is hiring a Congress editor. This is a good team and the people here are great. Please apply!
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Patrick Caldwell
6 months
He's a much whispered-about heir to Trump’s political movement. And as he himself says: “Trump will, at most, serve four years in the White House. There is a big question about what comes after him.” Read @ianwardreports ' excellent profile of J.D. Vance
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Patrick Caldwell
2 years
It's been weird to see any journalist complain about a shoddy investigation into a leak. It's great!
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