Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind? 🤠

Via Julia Ioffe in Puck:“Netanyahu is already looking for a new confrontation,” said Alon Pinkas, Israel’s former consul gen in NY. “Objectively, it’s a huge opportunity, but he can’t bring himself to do that. He wants to escalate. He wants to drag the US into this war.”

No better sight than a burnt orange Tower, and no bigger honor for a Longhorn than the Tower lit in one’s honor. This one is for you, Scottie Scheffler!

I AM FINE

Paul Ryan made some news (at least, news to me…) in this interview —>

🕷️🕷️“My spidey sense is that [Kuster’s] retirement is on the minds of the folks at Inside Elections, just a day before they release their new round of House ratings.”

From yesterday’s Puck News via Abby Livingston

Also good idea to follow Teddy Schleifer who was ahead of everyone on Kennedy picking Shanahan

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Breaking: Florida Man had some opinions this morning —>

NEW: The Standing Committee of Correspondents has joined the Radio and Television Correspondents Association & Periodical Press Gallery to send a letter to Senate leaders, addressing the situation on March 20th, around reporters limited access during a Senate GOP lunch.

Katie Porter on Pod Save America re: using 'rigged' & money in politics:

'I wish I had chosen a different word...in no way would I ever suggest that there's anything other than a careful, thoughtful, amazing election system that actually should be the model' for the U.S.

If you think Gen Z voters will revolt against Dems over a TikTok ban, well, think twice.

My latest for Puck

puck.news/teenage-riot/

we’re dancin’ y’all 🤘

#HookEm | #MarchMadness

One third of Americans aged 18-29 regularly get their news from TikTok, and two thirds of them have an account.

Biden and Dems desperately need to woo back a lot of those voters... which is why they're doing the most awkward TikTok dance.

cjr.org/the_media_toda…

Even if Katie Britt’s melodramatic SOTU rebuttal has no lingering effects on her trajectory, the sloppiness of the whole debacle speaks to much larger dysfunction within the Republican Party.

Abby Livingston explores. puck.news/bidenmentum-br…

“The combination homerun/cringe-inducing speech is pure, vintage Biden—just not exactly the guy we’ve been observing for the past three years in the White House.”

Abby Livingston sizes up Biden’s SOTU speech. puck.news/bidenmentum-br…

“Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter,” a documentary following the story of proud Texan and UT Austin alumna Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter, feels personal, giving viewers the sense they’re hearing stories about an old family member, especially with…

A readout on how Biden’s SOTU speech is reverberating through the Capitol (and, of course, how Republicans are processing Katie Britt’s whispery, theater-camp response).

New, from Abby Livingston puck.news/bidenmentum-br…

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