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Thanks to everyone for reading the book and putting up with my shameless promotion.
Original Sin by me and @jaketapper is an NYT bestseller:
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Alex Thompson
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national political correspondent for @Axios. @CNN contributor. co-author of #1 NYT bestseller “Original Sin.”
Washington, DC Katılım Eylül 2011
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El-Sayed getting way out-spent on TV.
AdImpact Politics@AdImpact_Pol
Who's on air in the #MISen Democratic primary over the next seven days: -United Democracy Project (Pro-Stevens): $4.6M -Abdul El-Sayed: $489K -A Stronger Michigan (Pro-Stevens): $299K -Fighting for Michigan (Pro-El-Sayed): $65K
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Warren dodges when asked if she regrets supporting Graham Platner:
“We need leaders in Washington who represent our values. I asked Platner to withdraw from the race. He has withdrawn. Now it's time for us to get a candidate in Maine and to take back the majority here in the Senate.”
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Really looking forward to this.
Pre-order here.
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talmon joseph smith@talmonsmith
i revisit this 1977 BBC Series and visit the 80year old Galbraith summer estate in Vermont -- where much of his book collections and personal writings are still guarded by his son Jamie -- in the book 😃 sleeping in your favorite (dead) economist's house was kinda weird tho ngl
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Thune tells @DanaBashCNN he spoke with Darline Graham Nordone yesterday, as well as Henry McMaster.
"I'll let the governor make an announcement about that, but that certainly, in my view, makes a lot of sense. ... If that's what they decide, end up doing, I think there would be a lot of support for it." #SCSEN
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Graham complained that he was feeling unwell. When the person urged him to seek medical attention immediately, Graham said he would do so Sunday morning after his scheduled appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
•Graham then joked: "I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization."
•He passed away several hours later.
axios.com/2026/07/12/lin…
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CENTCOM spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins tells me: "Over the past hour, IRGC forces fired at commercial shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. aircraft have successfully shot down an Iranian cruise missile and one-way attack drone so far"
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El-Sayed to @McCormickJohn: "It’s risky to put up a candidate who does not actually have clear positions on most of the issues that everybody wants...It’s risky to tell people that the best thing we can do with our tax dollars is send them abroad to drop bombs on other people rather than to invest here.”
wsj.com/politics/elect…
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Abdul El-Sayed on #misen
- Dismisses concerns on electability, says of Haley Stevens: “What are you even running on?”
- says he’s not D socialist
- says Israel a “rogue state;” no position on two states
- defends ‘20 comments on defund police
- will release tax returns this week
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇦Senator Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly Saturday, spent his final weeks laying the groundwork for an ambitious new push for Israeli-Saudi normalization, he told me in multiple conversations over the past several weeks. My story on @axios
axios.com/2026/07/12/lin…
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Several @nytimes journalists were subpoenaed by the Trump administration on Friday.
– Reporters covering AF1 security concerns have been compelled to testify before a Manhattan grand jury next week
– Federal agents turned up at some reporters' homes
– NYT calls it a "brazen act"
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New: Graham Platner has officially filed the paperwork to withdraw, following criticism from Democrats that he was dragging his feet after we reported he told staff he was planning to file Monday, the drop-dead deadline.
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Former Michigan governor James Blanchard, a Stevens supporter:
“It’s more anti-incumbent than pro-socialism...They want fighters. They want change, and they think incumbents in Congress have been too complacent.”
@ktumulty reports
washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
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Pew: "Americans now view the Palestinian people nearly as favorably as they view the Israeli people."
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
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As soon as we asked the campaign about what Jenny Racicot told us on the record and on camera Monday, the campaign said that her assertion he had raped her was false.
Morris Katz@katz_morris
As soon as the team became aware of the rape allegations against Graham Platner we advised he suspend his candidacy, and in the following days worked to wind down the campaign. Like so many of his supporters, I’m deeply disappointed.
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The Platner story is also one in which his campaign used the rise of progressive and partisan media and influencers to bolster his profile and present his narrative with limited scrutiny.
Flattering early profiles and interviews helped Platner establish his campaign persona.
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New w/ @hollyotterbein:
Platner was a walking time bomb long before the rape allegation he denied this week.
The cracks in Platner's well-crafted image were evident from the beginning if Dems were willing to see them — especially progressives
axios.com/2026/07/08/tru…
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Scoop: Graham Platner privately told staff that he is planning to officially file paperwork to end his Senate campaign on Monday — the drop-dead deadline for him to exit the race. axios.com/2026/07/09/gra…
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A pro-Haley Stevens group with an ad that ends w/: “if President Obama trusts her, so do I."
Latest example that campaigns know that Obama remains very popular w/ the base (even if he’s not always popular on X w/ the left-wing)
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