JUST IN: Prosecutors seek nearly *12 years* for Jan. 6 defendant Leo BOZELL, urging judge to adopt a terrorism enhancement and citing his “outsize” impact on the riot.

Scoop: US is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets, sources told Viktoria Dendrinou Alberto Nardelli and me

It's amazing how many people assert that 'Russiagate' was a hoax as if #2 and #3 were independent events. rather than #3 being a (highly successful!) strategic response to #2

Jaime Harrison Joe Biden Tell this story. Bullet pointing percentages and statistics isn’t moving the needle

the trick the nonprofit sector has played on the world is making people think their competitor is the FOR-profit sector. It’s not. Their competitor is the government and unions

Witnesses cry or get emotional on the stand for a lot of different reasons. But here, given Hope Hick's relationship with Trump, it suggests that because she's under oath, she's had to reveal facts she'd rather have left unsaid & she's concerned she's damaged Trump.

this 1000%
Folks hold onto the simplistic maxim that *facts can change beliefs* despite all the political results which suggest the inverse.
Namely, 'I *believe* and therefore I saw'
You move folks with emotion not numbers. And the best way to engender emotion is a good story.

Yes, it's bizarre. It's like people don't even know how to process it. You have open Nazi accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, going viral with straight endorsements of Hitler and antisemitism, and everyone pretends nothing is happening. twitter.com/SamGR_77/statu…

Just on the level of cold partisan politics, this is ***unbelievably feckless and stupid*** by Chuck Schumer. Netanyahu is an apartheid supporting war criminal who wants Biden to *lose*! Recognizing this, Schumer urges Israel to dump Netanyahu—and now invites him for a big speech!?

THIS right here

New: A testy exchange between Nancy Pelosi and Katy Tur contains some interesting lessons in how Democrats approach persuasion, and how media narratives form. offmessage.net/p/democrats-ne…

Brian Beutler I have complained for years that Democrats have no overarching theory or story to tell that links their policies to economic outcomes, in the way supply-side economics tells a story for Republicans. I once made an effort to construct a Democratic version. newrepublic.com/article/162334…

holy hell washingtonpost.com/investigations…

Biden needs to tell a simple story, says Brian Beutler:

'The story is that he inherited a country that Trump left in shambles, and did the painstaking work of rebuilding an economy that’s now stronger and more equitable than the one Trump wrecked.'

offmessage.net/p/democrats-ne…

Solution: Tell a different, truer, similarly legible story. Don’t just hope steady handed government and good macro metrics will speak for themselves. offmessage.net/p/democrats-ne…

Pelosi wields raw facts: Biden has a much better jobs record than Trump.

But people believe Trump, and reporters echo his spin, because he tells a story: Everything was great until COVID, which can’t be held against me, then Biden did inflation.

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David has spent a career bouncing from punditry to reporting to political hack work and back again, so you know this advice is sincere, at least from the perspective of his Hard-Nosed Reporter persona.