After years of targeting legal drugs & abortion rights, GOP meddling with DC focuses on…. “No turn on red” rules. (It’s actually a culture-war milestone.) politico.com/news/magazine/…

.⁦John F. Harris⁩ on replacing “the dagger at the throat of democracy” for the irritating, grievance-obsessed buffoon — like “the neighbor who keeps running his leaf blower outside your window every minute of every day” politico.com/news/magazine/…

Newt, to Jonathan Martin , still trolling Bill Clinton politi.co/3MfWXBq

How desperate is Trump to avoid anti-abortion talk? His campaign now tells me Congress should respect DC’s rights instead of exercising their power to ban it in Washington. Given his rhetoric on other DC local-government issues, that’s jaw-dropping. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Another illustration of how Trump is running from the abortion issue, but an especially notable one given the history of Congress-DC relations via ⁦Michael Schaffer⁩ politico.com/news/magazine/…

Mario Cuomo said you campaign in poetry but govern in prose. These guys managed to staple Republicans to 920 pages of toxic prose right in the middle of a campaign. It feels almost like a biblical parable about chasing power. And now the knives are out. politi.co/47sSLIs

First Taylor Swift, now this

Great article. Knives out for #Project2025 by POLITICO Magazine's Michael Schaffer. In a note Schaffer sent, I think he gets it right that regarding the Heritage Foundation, "it feels like a biblical tale, a Washington parable about the perils of chasing power."

This is a tour-de-force from Michael Schaffer on all that went wrong at Project 2025 politico.com/news/magazine/…

RIP washingtonian.com/2024/09/19/jac…

Sometimes it takes a deep-pocketed ally to get your cause on the radar. And then the ally cuts a deal... politi.co/47xMLOo

Today's POLITICO Weekend features a banger of a story from Adam Wren, a sharp column from Michael Schaffer, unique insights on JD Vance from Ian Ward and much more: politico.com/newsletters/po…

It’s a season of weird stories about pols and pets. I have a theory of the case. politi.co/3MWlVG7

>> Michael Schaffer interviewed Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica about his company's defamation lawsuit against Fox & the charges against Smartmatic

“I think his story is, in a strange way, not very remarkable.” tinyurl.com/473ryf8m

Election week, DC, in an age of anxiety: “We’re already getting requests from businesses, should they board up?” politico.com/news/magazine/…

"There is nothing quite so frustrating as an act of cowardice presented as an act of principle," writes Michael Schaffer politi.co/3YBUEPT

On the Post's sad non-endorsement. politi.co/3YBUEPT