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“Every day, their intuition contradicted pronouncements by village, state, and federal officials that things were normal. The derailment and the controlled burn had changed people’s lives, in irrevocable and puzzling ways.” newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

“Both UAW and anti-union politicians are aware of the momentum that back-to-back victories could carry, which could make the fight in Alabama even more heated than Chattanooga’s.” politico.com/newsletters/we…

Ben cut half the quote and edited the second part so it wouldn’t point to a longer quote. His activism is well-known.

My real full quote is:

“haven’t you done enough damage to your credibility with the phony Russian collusion dossier? And at what point do you feel enough shame

“Grenell used to be friendly with a range of journalists, including this one, but when I texted him to ask about this story, he asked, ‘At what point do you feel enough shame to stop making up stories to help Democrats?’” semafor.com/article/04/21/…

“There were a screw with 13 anchors in his right shoulder, a plate and screws in his left hand and a plate in his pelvis. He had broken his jaw on both sides, fractured an eye socket, taken five staples in his head above his left ear.” wapo.st/49GFefP

“Before facing these charges, Ajak lived a complicated and at-times tragic life. He’s been a refugee and trained as a child soldier. He’s been a student at Cambridge, an economist for the World Bank and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.” thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim…

Quite the kicker on this excellent Andrew Beaujon piece about the WAMU mess washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…

“Workdays is my favorite book by a politician partly because Graham was probably my favorite politician — nerdy, funny, curious, courteous, compassionate, widely respected and magnificently weird.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

“I started, then scrapped everything and started over in 2016, and then finished in 2021. So I basically wrote it over the course of the Trump presidency. In fact, the day I sent this out to editors hoping they would buy it turned out to be Jan. 6, 2021.” politico.com/newsletters/we…

“After all, the answer to the classic question — are you better off today than you were four years ago? — is: Well, four years ago the entire country was engulfed in a mass trauma.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

“Americans may view the nation’s capital as a vaguely foreign cesspool. But the nation’s universities seem eager to help their students study abroad there — a phenomenon that has almost as much to do with status and money as it does with education.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

“I typically don’t leave lawyers on a panel unless I’m one thousand percent confident that they would lean toward my client, because they will have such a strong leadership position in a jury,’ said Betty Dunkum, a Florida-based trial consultant. politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

“We are living through an era of unchecked Caesar-salad fraud.” theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

“How can you beat down a newsroom when everybody holding down a desk is shouting, ‘I am Spartacus’? It’s impractical to crucify your entire staff.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

NEW: When I told Bo Dietl I was a @POLITICO reporter and asked about his work for Mayor Eric Adams' legal defense trust, he told me: “You like to suck dick? Go suck dick somewhere,” then hung up. Two hours later, the trust fired Dietl. w/ Joe Anuta politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Anticipating Trump’s attack on his record, Bragg’s office tweeted NYPD stats showing a 39% drop in shootings and a 23% drop in murders over the past year in Manhattan. politi.co/3xEwl94 via POLITICO

“Just after his motorcade took off, a group arrived with a sense of humor and a banner advertising, ‘Trump dildos on sale now.’” politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

“I can’t imagine any other defendant posting on social media about a judge’s family and not being very quickly incarcerated,” said Russell Gold, a law professor at University of Alabama. politico.com/news/magazine/…

“When Trump ventures from talking tough on the border to Great Replacement adjacent rhetoric more at home in the 1920s than the 2020s, well, millions of voters are reminded that a vote for him is a vote for a race-baiting demagogue.” politico.com/news/magazine/…