The Washington Post right-of-center columnist live-blog is underway! washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

This is phenomenal 😂

SCOOP/NEWS: Push for Youngkin 2024 now taking shape as donors and Rs grow alarmed. “Red Vest Retreat” Oct. 17-18 in VA Beach... Billionaire backer Peterffy assures me “money would be there.” Bill Barr telling him to put his “oar in.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Six whole months. That is how long Evan Gershkovich has been imprisoned in Russia, just for doing his job as a journalist. This is outrageous. Please join me in demanding his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan #JournalismisNotaCrime

At one point, Sam Bankman-Fried was worth $22.5 billion. No one but Mark Zuckerberg had become richer faster. Then his crypto empire collapsed. Michael Lewis was there for the rise and fall. Read an exclusive excerpt from his book on SBF's last year: wapo.st/3LIAQ6T

The Jets have scored 20 in regulation for the first time since Dec. 4, 2022.

🚨SOME PRETTY BIG NEWS🚨 My brilliant, amazing wife, Ottavia De Luca, and I are taking over Riffraff Bookstore and Bar in Providence! It is the most beautiful place in the world to find a great, weird book, grab a drink, and hang! Plz share this and come hang with us!

Taylor Swift has had a measurable effect on the US economy, boosting GDP growth by around 5%. Therefore, an idea: when the economy is running too cold, the Fed deploys Taylor on tour to boost spending. And when it's running hot, it makes her go on hiatus. Call this a Taylor Rule

We need the CSpan cameras to be freed up like in January. Cuz there’s some snoozing members who’d be worth getting on TV

Republicans in disarray. Democrats pounce.

A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for the House, Hakeem Jeffries (Hakeem Jeffries), Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, writes in a guest opinion. wapo.st/3toJDVe

There’s a joy that comes from understanding how something works, which is wholly separate from how it makes us feel, and the idea that teaching the formal mechanics of poetry short-circuits an emotional attachment to the poem, rather than super-charging it, is rather dispiriting.

28 Weeks too many - our friend and colleague Evan remains unjustly detained in a Russian prison. #istandwithevan #FreeEvan

A beautiful cold open from Pete Davidson.

Circumstances being what they are, Republicans should quit trying to elect a new Speaker. Washington Post Opinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Join us, or Elephant Mario will be the next House speaker

In the howling wind/comes a stinging rain

So onward. Thank you kindly for reading me both now and over the past 6 years. And, yes, of course: reach out with leads, both pitches and jobs. -30-

I’ve stopped tweeting except for these occasional reminders that I have 5 codes for a Better Place for mutuals. DM me.

Breaking my Twitter fast to pay tribute to Walter Shapiro, one of the nicest people in journalism and an astute observer of politics for decades. I loved his book “One-Car Caravan” and enjoyed overindulging on occasion with him and Meryl. Terrible news.