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Paul Demko

@pauldemko

weed and The Fifty editor @politico @politicopro; chief philanthropic adviser, Bunky County

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“There’s no past tense to our trauma, and it comes unexpectedly. When we are together, you hear it in our temperament. I mean, it’s not anger. It’s raw rage.” newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

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"In the last 72 hours, otherwise smart writers and reputable media companies have made broad, sweeping, and baseless statements about Bari and The Free Press that evince a sort of paranoid psychosis" puck.news/not-everyone-a…

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“China pushed more than 1 million people out of their homes a quarter century ago for the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam. This year, China has been installing enough solar panels every three weeks to match the power generation capacity of that dam.” …saging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render…

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“For fear of inducing an aneurysm in The Times liable lawyer, I will not share the result.” nytimes.com/2025/10/10/opi…

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For those hoping Bari Weiss would just be a figurehead, her memo to staff today a source sent me suggest otherwise (for some there this is a good thing!)

For those hoping Bari Weiss would just be a figurehead, her memo to staff today a source sent me suggest otherwise  (for some there this is a good thing!)
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“NextEra was among the companies that donated at least $5 million to fund the construction of Mr. Trump’s $200 million ballroom in the East Wing of the White House.” nytimes.com/2025/10/10/cli…

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“Prudent, temperate messaging disappears into the ether. It is one reason Mikie Sherrill, the cautiously centrist Dem candidate for gov in NJ, is in even a remotely close race with a Republican who is running in part on bringing back plastic shopping bags” nytimes.com/2025/10/11/opi…

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“He sentenced Ruiz to the maximum possible punishment, longer even than the 50 years requested by prosecutors: 99 years. The court went quiet. Even the prosecutor was shocked.” propublica.org/article/jorge-…

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“Last fall, only 28% of Louisiana kindergartners read at or above grade level. But as they finished the year this spring, 61% of kindergartners reached that mark.” thelensnola.org/2025/06/04/k-3…

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“Jim Justice predicted that tens of thousands of farmers ‘won’t have any choice’ but to give up their operations or sell their land to avoid another year of emerging from the harvest season in the red. A bailout, he added, would be a ‘Band-Aid on cancer.’” politico.com/news/2025/10/1…

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"Texas is seeing such rapid data-center, crypto and industrial growth that its grid operator expects peak electricity demand to increase 62% by the end of the decade—roughly the equivalent of adding all of California." wsj.com/business/energ…

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“[Adams] accomplishments will linger longer than his embarrassments, and I actually think he’ll look like a pretty good mayor in retrospect. All three candidates on the stage would likely be worse than him.” nytimes.com/2025/10/17/opi…

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“Fran Lebowitz said she couldn’t care less about Mamdani’s views on Israel & snickers at mention of his cost-cutting plans. ‘The city can’t even run the city — how will they run grocery stores?’ she said. Still, Lebowitz said she plans to vote for Mamdani” wapo.st/46YA5BG