Folks, your event is not a press conference if you don't take questions from the press.

in case you were wondering how the Libertarian Party ended up inviting an authoritarian Republican to speak at its convention motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

NEW: The Bradley Impact Fund has given millions of dollars to groups building the new right-wing infrastructure and fanning the flames of the culture wars, from Stephen Miller’s America First Legal to Project Veritas. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

The Post is hiring a Congress editor. Come work with us! washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpost…

Great kicker on this one from Maura Judkis Kara Voght Ben Terris Jesús Rodríguez: washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…

When you’re 16 months in to an election cycle & realize there’s still six more months:

“Tony P!” Doug Emhoff says. “Finally.”

Tony P is astounded. The second gentleman not only knows Tony P’s name, but has dispatched a staffer to follow up.

via Maura Judkis Kara Voght Jesús Rodríguez Ben Terris washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…

The Stare.

It isn't particular to DC, but it *is* particularly vulgar here.

Come for Jesús Rodríguez's sharp observations. Stay for the Sally Quinn kicker:
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You know this has happened to you.

And, if you're being honest, you've done it, too.

So email Jesús:

We love to see it. Happy pub week, Isaac Arnsdorf! Everyone go buy his book right now! 👇🏽
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Scene report from last night's Biden-Obama-Clinton megafundraiser at Radio City Music Hall:

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New story from me:

Ian Eagle was raised in nightclubs by a singer and a comedian. Now he's the voice of the Final Four. theringer.com/college-basket…

In the Long Before Times (before Lieberman endorsed McCain for president in '08, for example) a newly elected Senator Obama had asked Lieberman to be his mentor in the chamber.

Joe Lieberman and I spent a morning together last fall to look back on his career and work with No Labels. (I think this may be the last profile of him?)

He knew his politics frustrated so many colleagues. He really, really believed in what he was doing.
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Congrats to the great Greg Jaffe and Patrick Marley who won the Toner Prize tonight for their terrific series on Michigan. resources.newhouse.syr.edu/awards/wp-cont…

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today is the one day each year on which I learn (and promptly forget) how to pronounce 'taoiseach'

such a fun conversation with Bryan Curtis! I could have talked about “Girls On The Bus” all afternoon:

I plan to show this to my husband whenever he skips one of my bylines:

I wrote about how if the Democrats want to win in November, they should genuinely consider branding themselves as the party that believes sex to be fun and normal, especially considering how *cosmically weird* the right has gotten about intimacy recently.

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“If you gave me two options and you said, ‘Do you want a Muslim ban, or do you want your family killed?’ I’ll choose the Muslim ban.”

A Listen to Michigan organizer campaigned for Biden, and now he wants to make him lose in November. How did he get here? washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…