What a fascinating Dan Merica story on Pete Buttigieg before and after having kids: notus.org/democrats/pete…

In which current and former Biden admin officials tell Jasmine Wright and I that Musk gets treated like a 'nation-state' by the govt and they have to be sure to 'diversify' what could become over-dependencies on his businesses: notus.org/biden-2024/joe…

The Co-Dependent Relationship of Joe Biden and Elon Musk notus.org/biden-2024/joe…

In the Biden-Musk saga, it's a tale of reliance and resentment.

New from Maggie Severns and Jasmine Wright.

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TREND ALERT! new one NOTUS:

'Posting Everything Reporters Ask Is the Hot New Campaign Strategy'

by me and Katherine Swartz

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Rep. Chip Roy on his former boss Ted Cruz's efforts to highlight his bipartisan bonafides:

'He's, you know, in cycle.'

via Casey Murray

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I think it's odd that a number of progressive philanthropies have decided to pump money into the intellectual arm of Trumpism for the sake of getting over on center-left economists.

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smart piece notus.org/money/american…

“The notion that basic reporting is a smoking gun of some kind is moving out of the political fringes and into the mainstream Republican campaign strategy.” notus.org/2024-election/…

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Why Foundations That Back Progressives Are Funding a Leading Conservative Think Tank. Nice story from NOTUS:
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“Trump himself hasn’t really fallen in any kind of new programmatic intellectual orientation . . . . But the kind of wounds that he ripped open and the debates that he proposed are still very live.” notus.org/money/american…

In which Alex Roarty audits one of Marc Short's lectures at Georgetown: notus.org/trump-2024/mar…

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“Trump himself hasn’t really fallen in any kind of new programmatic intellectual orientation or really been consistent in advancing this agenda or showing much interest in that. But the kind of wounds that he ripped open and the debates that he proposed…

New: Why would a major progressive foundation give millions to a GOP think tank that hosted a Mike Johnson aide for one recent retreat?

Left-right alliances on antitrust policy have helped forge a new, highly unusual advocacy ecosystem in Washington: notus.org/money/american…

The left-right alliance on antitrust marches on with ex-Elizabeth Warren aides working along former Marco Rubio and Donald Trump staffers and liberal foundations funding conservative groups.

Great Maggie Severns and Claire Heddles piece
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“Access to information is power, and they want to maintain their information advantage'

Great working with Byron Tau on this.

'We Don’t Have the Full Picture’: Lawmakers Feel Left in the Dark Over FISA Reform notus.org/congress/lawma…

Congress — the House in particular — remains in the dark when it legislates on intelligence issues, frozen out by intelligence agencies who don’t fully trust rank-and-file legislators and deprived of staff with high level clearances. w/John T. Seward
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This is incredible. The ultra-rich do things like fly their private jets out of the state right after midnight, and time their returns until just after midnight, so they can escape NY taxes, but stay in the city as long as they can bloomberg.com/news/features/…