A very strong addition to our muscular editing team. Welcome, Miguel Gonzalez!

The Jess Bidgood era is about to begin.

News: Trump met with Elon Musk on Sunday. Comes as Musk has been attacking Biden's immigration policies and signaling privately that Biden must be defeated in November. Not yet clear whether he'll write a big check for Trump. w Maggie Haberman Ryan Mac 🙃 nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/…

Scoop by Reid J. Epstein

Biden White House aide takes reins of re-election campaign
nytimes.com/2024/01/23/us/…

The Emasculation of Ron DeSantis by the Bully Donald Trump

⁦Michael C. Bender⁩ ⁦Nicholas Nehamas⁩

A last look back at a yearlong humiliation. nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/…

Tim Scott is traveling to Florida today so he can fly with former President Donald Trump to New Hampshire for the rally, where he will endorse him. nytimes.com/2024/01/19/us/…

With this homepage headline, the The New York Times perfectly summarizes the night in televised politics: 'DeSantis and Haley Tear Into Each Other. Trump Enjoys Himself.'

Haley and DeSantis 'called each other liars, while elsewhere Donald Trump faced a friendly town hall crowd.'

Next in our reported-out 2025 Trump policy stakes series went up this a.m. and will be Sunday NYT front: the prospect of withdrawing the USA from or gutting NATO, abandoning Ukraine and a retreat from Europe. w/ Jonathan Swan & Maggie Haberman
Gift link: nyti.ms/3uSNafa

The most deeply reported story so far on Trump's second term immigration plans. w Charlie Savage & Maggie Haberman. Here's a gift link so you can read it without an NYT subscription: nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/…

How Dem establishment used midterm results to clear field for Biden over evidence the public wasn't enthused about re-election was massively undercovered. It was also undercovered bc moves like the state order change were done under guise of affirming racial representation

Here is a gift link for those who are not yet NYT subscribers nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/…

NEW: One year out, Trump beats Biden in 5 of 6 key battlegrounds in NYT/Siena polls

NV 52-41 Trump
GA 49-43
AZ 49-44
MI 48-43
PA 48-44
WI 47-45 Biden

My piece on a survey showing Biden’s multiracial and multigenerational coalition fraying:
nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/…

Big gust of energy coming to our team. Chris Cameron gets a richly deserved promotion.

nytco.com/press/promotio…

When we mess up, we own it. nytimes.com/2023/10/23/pag…

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'dimwit'
'sanctimonious, severe and strange'

Mitt Romney had some things to say: nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/…

“I really don’t know where our state was,” said Shay Lee Atari, whose partner — now missing — helped her escape with their infant. She hid in a neighbor’s safe room for 27 hours.
“They abandoned us. They were on Twitter,” she added bitterly.
Isabel Kershner
nytimes.com/2023/10/09/wor…

Important piece.

timesofisrael.com/a-wounded-weak…

The details coming out about massacre at the rave near Netivot are too much to take. In the ~100 years of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, there have been few incidents like this. Deir Yassin and Hebron massacres come closest. It’s a war crime of the very highest order

Notice that no one in Israel is blaming what has happened over the past 48 hours on “Biden funding the Iranians”

Nor is anyone in Israel claiming that this is good for Netanyahu politically.

These takes from abroad are way off.

one thought about Netanyahu. He’s not a war PM. He didn’t go to war against Hezbollah and Iran and in Gaza he was usually dragged-in. He doesn’t trust the “big' IDF, prefers air-power and special-forces and is averse to major ground offensives where the IDF can get bogged-down >