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Dave Weigel

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National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”

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Top 5 Most Liked Posts (14 days)

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AOC on the Dem strategy against the trans sports bill today, where they argued it would protect "predators," and ended up losing just 2 Trump-district Dems on it:

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RIP Cecile Richards 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

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Always funny to me when Rs use the language of conciliation -- "I urge my friends to work with me" - but can't break the habit of calling it the "Democrat Party."

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Like the other day I saw wire stories about a "Texas judge" ruling against Biden. Had to reverse-engineer it to 1) confirm that the judge was Kacsmaryk (very relevant) and 2) find the decision. Put that shit in the piece, you're not a pre-Gutenberg priest explaining the word of God.

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Not advising this, but would be interesting to see ADL reaction if Ilhan Omar started doing that salute!

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AOC on the Dem strategy against the trans sports bill today, where they argued it would protect "predators," and ended up losing just 2 Trump-district Dems on it:

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RIP Cecile Richards 19thnews.org/2025/01/ceci...

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Emily Yoffe got a preview of Trump’s gender executive orders: www.thefp.com/p/trumps-day...

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Talked with Rep. Veronica Escobar, who opposed the Laken Riley Act, about why so many Dems caved and supported it. Among the answers...

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One of the true “nothing matters” development in politics was Biden phasing in the new FEMA program that gives new small direct payments to disaster victims, and this constantly being mis-reported on Twitter as “Biden’s just sending people $700 checks while he gives all our money to Ukraine.”

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