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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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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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I'm told no official withdrawal notice has been received from Graham Platner.
He needs to formally withdraw to the Maine elections office in writing with a signature.
Deadline is 5pm on Monday, July 13th.
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Other than a joke post about the launch of Threads, first time he’s said something on here in over a decade
Mark Zuckerberg@finkd
(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.
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Some Democrats — burnt by the 2024 presidential election — are worried that any process to replace Platner that does not allow ordinary voters to have a say could dampen enthusiasm.
“What the Platner campaign built was organic," national progressive strategist Andrew Feldman told Axios. "It is going to be extremely challenging to pick a new nominee through a convention, not an open caucus, and create the energy needed to win — let's not kid ourselves." axios.com/2026/07/09/gra…
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New: A senior Graham Platner campaign aide told his team at a 1 p.m. meeting today that Platner would speak later tonight, ostensibly to them, according to a person on the call. The person described the call as “odd” and “stilted.”
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