Reporter for The New York Times Greg.Jaffe@nytimes.com Signal: GregJaffe.89
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One helluva lede:
In his first interview as a senator-elect, Tommy Tuberville misidentified the 3 branches of government, claimed erroneously that WW2 was a battle against socialism and wrongly asserted that Al Gore was president-elect for 30 days.
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Seb Gorka: “I’m not a Marine, but I know the Marines....Jim Mattis is no Marine.”
@MarineCorpsU hired Gorka to teach Marine officers. Hope this article produces some soul searching.
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The aftermath of impeachment: “Unfortunately, the impeachment will make the president hellbent on the destruction of the civil service if he wins a second term,” said one former White House. “It’s terrifying.” washingtonpost.com/national-…
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The CIA analyst who triggered the inquiry still works on Russia and Ukraine issues, but when threats against him spike — often seemingly spurred by presidential tweets — he is driven to and from work by armed security officers. washingtonpost.com/national-…
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This is crazytown: Bolton asked for a copy of the agreement the US is trying to strike with the Taliban, but the request was denied. Instead he was told he could read it in the presence of a sr. official but not leave with it. via @john_hudson @jdawsey1 wapo.st/30SGytu?tid=ss_tw
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Clint Lorance was pardoned by Trump and became a hero on Fox News. His troops suffered a very different fate. Today, they call themselves “the cursed platoon.”
A team of us worked on this for many months.
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Ret. Col. Richard Hooker: “I recruited Alex based on his brilliance, language skills and remarkable military record.”
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Remember when we were earnestly told that electing veterans to Congress would help curb rabid partisanship? They'd put country over party.
Rep. Michael Waltz and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (and their impressive service records) are making me seriously rethink that proposition.
We apologize for endorsing U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, who wants to overturn the election | Editorial bit.ly/3n986G5
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“Now, in Biden, we finally have a president who won’t be cowed into inaction by the threat of political damage… Because he is unwilling to simply say “more,” he is being unfairly vilified.”
Dan Berschinski eloquently lays out a view common to many vets.
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What struck me most in spending time with @IlhanMN is her view of America. She sees the U.S. as the world often sees us, rather than how we see ourselves. It's a valuable, and at times infuriating, perspective. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This is the kind of rhetoric I came to expect from Sunnis and Shia in Iraq. Hearing it from @hughhewitt (whose radio show and columns I've enjoyed over the years) is shocking.
This is wrong, reactionary and irresponsible.
Every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else. Catholics should vote accordingly, whether or not a Democrat is Catholic. The left controls the party.
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Howard Schultz always believed he was a good, compassionate CEO. Then his workers started to unionize. I spent three months on this profile. 🧵
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I feel like the Lincoln Project didn't have quite the impact with the electorate that it did on Twitter, 60 Minutes and the New Yorker.
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Disney laid off 32,000 workers as its stock price was soaring to an all time high on Friday. This is the story of one of those workers, who spent 14 years with the company, and her struggle to provide for her daughters and stay afloat.
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Remarkable to see Adm. Mullen speak this directly from retirement: “I think the firing was a really bad decision, because it undermines the authority of the military commanders who are trying to take care of their troops...”
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A Rhodes Scholar barista and the fight to unionize Starbucks. It started with one store in December, now it's 78... and counting.
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This attack by the president’s son on LTC Vindman is a complete misreading of his testimony and also the Breitbart story that the president’s son cites as evidence.
It’s unfortunate and shameful. If anything, it shows Vindman trying to protect the president.
You’d think that someone would be criminally charged for making up things that lead to an impeachment based on false premises. But I guess that would only happen if they did it to a liberal!
Alexander Vindman Admits Making up Parts of Trump Call Summary breitbart.com/politics/2019/…
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Why it sucks that the Pentagon has ordered Stars & Stripes to shut down.
“As a publication that’s underwritten by the military but not answerable to the brass, Stars and Stripes embodies that most American of values: the right to speak truth to power.”
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When @Martin_Dempsey writes something like this it is a big deal. He’s been monkish in his commitment to staying out of politics. We’re moving into new territory these last 10 days.
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Every awkward, demeaning interaction President Trump has had with the US military or families of deceased troops catalogued by @jameshohmann.
It’s something to see them all in one place. washingtonpost.com/news/powe…
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LTG Flynn could've been our national security adviser for four years. He was one of our top military intel officials. I do hope DoD does some thinking about what it missed and why as it promoted him up the ranks.
During the meeting, the president asked about Flynn’s suggestion of deploying the military, those briefed said. That was also shot down.
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This story took many months of work. It's a story about war and PTSD, but also about our noxious, partisan political climate and how it hurts real people who deserve so much better.
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William Taylor is home from Kyiv, done testifying and, like all of us, trying to make sense of Trump’s Washington. My story.
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"The generals would love to do it," says President @realDonaldTrump on the military parade. Hmmm...I haven't met any of those generals yet.
President @realDonaldTrump on military parade: "I think it's great for spirit, the military loves it, they love the idea...we have a great country and we should be celebrating it."
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George H.W. Bush was a World War II Navy pilot when he was shot down near Chichi Jima, Japan in 1944. This archival footage, released by his presidential library, shows a crew rescuing the future president. cbsn.ws/2Rqvvmj
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Sec. Mattis interview with his high school paper. Kudos to the young journo. He asks some great, tough questions. mihsislander.org/2017/06/ful…
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“He was really happy to tell people he had lived long enough to vote,” David remembered.
He died eight days later. @jdelreal
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Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of Trump
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He chose not to talk about his Holocaust experience for 36 years. “I kept these experiences locked up inside,” he said. “But those who are attempting to deny the Holocaust, my suffering and the suffering of millions of others have forced me to speak out.”
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Bolton locked out of key Afghanistan meeting bc of concern that his team would oppose the agenda and leak the details later, several officials said. wapo.st/30SGytu?tid=ss_tw
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This beauty is supposed to be torn down this summer. Snapped a last picture of one of the country’s few gas station churches ⛽️ ⛪️.
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Now the motels outside Disney World were fast becoming places where it was possible to glimpse what a complete social and economic collapse might look like in America.
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"The new Russia adviser at the White House — the third in just six months — has no meaningful background on the subject."
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One of the most troubling things about the Capitol riot is that it seems to have drawn in people from all walks of life who have become completely unmoored from reality. These are not just members of armed militia groups. These are also your neighbors.
ARRESTED: Christine Priola, a school therapist who stormed the Capitol & got to @VP’s chair. She quit her job the day after the riot saying: I will be switching paths to expose the global evil of human trafficking & pedophilia, including in our govt & children’s services agencies
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“I don’t think any president has taken it as seriously as me,” Trump said of protecting religious freedoms abroad.
A Rohingya man asks Trump whether there is a plan to help them survive religious violence in Myanmar.
Trump: “and where is that exactly?”
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An epidemic of conspiracy tearing apart families:
“I feel like I’m in a twisted black mirror episode,” said a woman in TN.
“I grieve for my mom as if she's dead,” a Fla. woman said.
“I’ve come to the breaking point," said a 17-year-old in Md. of her dad.
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“My husband fought and died for all of our rights. He came from a place (Cuba) with no rights. That’s what his American Dream was,” said @SeanaArrechaga. “He loved being in the Army..." wapo.st/2m6nhlK?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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The only expert on Ukraine has never spoken with President Trump, only been mocked by him publicly.
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Why it matters: These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of power.
NEW: Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an effort to overturn the clear result of the election. axios.com/trump-officials-al…
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I watched all 10 hours of impeachment testimony and I can’t imagine that made sense to anyone who hasn’t followed it religiously. I’ve followed it religiously and until Schiff’s closing remarks at 8:25 pm it felt like an incomprehensible fog of meetings, texts, dates and times.
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Well...This is pretty worrisome. I don't always agree with @EliotACohen on policy, but he's almost always thoughtful and measured.
After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They're angry, arrogant, screaming "you LOST!" Will be ugly.
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H.R. McMaster on Russia: “We have failed to impose sufficient costs.” wapo.st/2GA6l3a?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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From the day Jim Mattis took over the Pentagon, he was seen by Washington and the world as a safeguard against a president addicted to chaos and animated by a different moral code. via @karoun and me wapo.st/2EDOEyF?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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"We all quit!" Another low-wage worker rebellion in a season full of them.
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“We need far more aggressive action...to identify and stop the spread of false information, because more is coming. But I can’t do that on my own. Every letter I’m typing here is difficult, each sentence its own hurdle, and my words aren’t enough.”
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Some remarkable detail here: "Aides fretted that Trump did not recognize the massive diplomatic and security implications of turning Americans over to a regime that jails and kills dissidents." via @ashleyrparker @philiprucker @jdawsey1 @carolleonnig wapo.st/2zYGMGi?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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In 3,000 pages of impeachment testimony Trump often seems like a supporting character in someone else’s drama-- unseen, mercurial impossible to please. The key impeachment question: What exactly did he do?
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Today marked the end of Trump's "400-pound couch potato theory." smart piece via @philiprucker wapo.st/2C2OPSx?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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I've had 15 great years at the Washington Post -- and loved almost every minute -- writing about soldiers, presidents, theme park workers, baristas, county commissioners, a civics teacher.
Now I'm headed the NYT to help cover the Defense Department.
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Every sr. military officer who blames civilian leadership for our defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan should have to watch this video (repeatedly).
Michael Flynn says that covid was intentionally released on the world by “Global Elites,” but “their little plan with covid didn’t work” because “digital warriors” exposed the truth. Now he says the “elites” are about to unleash another virus to control the population.
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The rough part is that Biden’s speech was very good. But we’re going to spend the next week debating this one line.
Biden's line tonight saying Putin "cannot remain in power" was NOT planned and a surprise to U.S. officials, per people familiar.
Still, officials say no change in policy. Instead, the line was an example of Biden's sometimes inarticulate rhetoric.
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Reporting this story on Richard Ojeda's campaign in WV made me feel hope for our democracy.
-A top aide's last job was Family Dollar cashier.
-The guy who made his key ad is a laid off coal miner.
Agree or disagree w/ his politics...inspiring to see.
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This is exactly how I imagined it:
Kelly: “Why is Jared calling Mexicans?”
Trump: “Because I asked him to. How else are we going to stop the caravans?”
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Smart @RonBrownstein take on Biden: “At his core, he remains something like a pre-1970s Democrat, who is most comfortable with a party focused less on cultural crusades than on delivering kitchen-table benefits to people who work with their hands.”
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This is an excellent story from an Iraq vet (now @washingtonpost reporter) who asleep in his apartment when he was tackled and handcuffed on zero evidence. It show how deep and systemic a problem we have with policing in America.
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An insight that more Dems should heed:
Hill went into the White House worried about what Russia was doing and “came out, having realized fully watching all of this, that actually the problem was the US...the Russians were just exploiting everything.”
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"There is no, no situation where you go to the media, because the media has an agenda," SecNav tells the TR crew.
*In 2007, SecDef Bob Gates thanked @USATODAY for stories that exposed problems with armored vehicles in Iraq. Gates fixed the problem. That's leadership.
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All three Starbucks in Ithaca unionized. Then Starbucks shut them all down. Cornell responded by telling Starbucks that it’s no longer welcome on campus.
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Was there a single day in which something bizarre didn’t happen? (Significant is another matter). The most remarkable thing to me isn’t any one incident or even any 100 incidents. It’s the ceaselessness of it all; it’s Sisyphean.
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This is so really, really bad: Cost to taxpayers: $122,334. via @reinlwapo and @alexhortontx who helped break the initial story. wapo.st/2C13nlC?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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When that orange glow on the horizon ins't a sunset over a foreign land... It's a Whataburger sign. Mattis said this isn't a "political stunt," but I would like someone to explain what exactly it is. No one in the Pentagon seems willing to even try. nyti.ms/2DbN2dO
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First time I can recall a president encouraging the news media to publish confidential information about his own government.
The Fake News Media is working hard so that information about the Whistleblower’s identity, which may be very bad for them and their Democrat partners, never reaches the Public.
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Afghanistan's last finance minister, now supports his family as an Uber driver in DC.
The job has given Khalid Payenda a fascinating perspective on the U.S., which promised to help save and rebuild his homeland until it didn't.
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So many journalists loved John Prine b/c he did what we try to do —document America. He just did it much better than us.
This @washingtonpost obit is beautifully done. It was written by a true admirer and fan.
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The White House is talking with workers from @amazonlabor and @SBWorkersUnited about a potential visit. The offer would amount to one of the most significant pro-labor gestures in recent presidential history. w/ @JStein_WaPo washingtonpost.com/us-policy…
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A Rhodes Scholar quietly became a Starbucks barista hoping to unionize the coffee giant and change America.
How one of the biggest victories for unions in a decade began at the Starbucks on Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo.
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Feeling lost? Do you keep confusing your Sondlands and your Vindmans? Whose that Lev guy again? Wait, there's an Igor? For real?!
Here's the full Trump-Ukraine timeline to help you keep it all straight! washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This a big reason why Sunday shows matter. They get top officials and lawmakers on the record, on camera.
Amid revelations Trump admitted to downplaying #COVID19 here's what @robertcobrien told @margbrennan in February
"There's no reason for Americans to panic. This is something that's a low risk"
Days before, O'Brien reportedly warned Trump it'd be the "roughest thing you face"
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It’s not every day that you see a former Secretary of Defense call out a president for lies.
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This seems self-destructive on the part of an administration that is less and less willing to explain its foreign policy. Most journalists including @jaketapper are willing and eager to listen.
Update: @AmbJohnBolton had been locked in for tomorrow’s @CNNSOTU. Then the president attacked CNN during his UK presser, and our WH correspondent tried to ask a question. We are told Amb. Bolton remains fully prepared to do the interview but the White House has canceled it.
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The CIA secretly for decades sold encrypted phones to much of the world. This is a holy moley, spit out your coffee, can’t stop talking about it kind of story from @gregpmiller.
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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior and diplo class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project.
My story on the struggle to make sense of it all. washingtonpost.com/national-…
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I wrote the first profile of Jaz Brisack, the Rhodes scholar, union organizer who kicked all this off. Howard and Jaz are two of the smartest and most driven people I've met. They have radically different views of America and capitalism. washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Asked if he had misgivings about the President Trump's parade, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis replied: “I’m not paid for my feelings.”
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I worry the Navy SEAL community has some issues that it doesn’t capable of fixing. The main issue being a contempt for some of the citizens it’s supposed to be serving.
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"When Trump champions war criminals as brave patriots who are simply victims of political correctness, he seems to push for a climate that condones unethical and criminal behavior. He appears to write off war crimes as the cost of doing business." wapo.st/2vMqIm5?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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Top Navy brass found Eric Greitens morally unfit for service then gave him ‘red carpet’ return after pressure from VP Pence.
Compare their actions with @avindman who is retiring today. "I believe that in America, right matters."
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This is a pretty remarkable statement from a former senior PAO for the USMC, @thejointstaff. and DHS. He's most definitely not a partisan and never has been.
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All four-star general nominees must now interview with President Trump. The goal is to "ensure they are war fighters first — not bureaucrats,” says the WH.
Some fear it could politicize the general officer corps.
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It's hard to believe I got assigned this story one year ago and not one decade ago. wapo.st/2jLlXoa?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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This is a helluva piece of history:
“He became the nation’s ninth vice president. She was his enslaved wife.”
Her name was Julia Chinn
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The bin Laden raid was America’s only pure victory in our long wars. Ten years later Obama and McRaven talk about it’s meaning. For McRaven the most emotional moment had nothing to do with the raid. @gregpmiller and me...
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Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver, ponders what went wrong.
“I don’t belong here, and I don’t belong there. It’s a very empty feeling.”
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White House ignores executive order requiring count of civilian casualties in counterterrorism strikes wapo.st/2Ktzs6z?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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It bears repeating this morning amid all the dramatic Gen. Milley narratives:
The military did not save us from autocracy in January.
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Trump revealed highly classified info to Russian foreign minister and ambassador wapo.st/2qlpzQs w/ @gregpmiller
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Instead of “Washington Football Team” they should go with “Washington Team Football” so they could be the WTFs—something theIr fans are already accustomed to screaming on Sunday!
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Very good thread from a former Obama official and mideast expert on why the Tlaib/Omar Israel ban (and Trump's support of it) is a really big deal with potentially far-reaching implications.
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Now Kelly’s stirring controversy instead of imposing order. @agearan and me. wapo.st/2iSbZTh?tid=ss_tw&ut…
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NEW: At least four national security officials raised alarms about Ukraine policy before and after Trump call with Ukrainian president. via @gregpmiller and me. washingtonpost.com/national-…
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How Sondland went from Jeb Bush backer in 2016 to die-hard Trumper at the center of an impeachment scandal. Really revealing profile:
Gordon Sondland, a big donor who coveted an ambassadorship, is now a key figure in impeachment proceedings. A dive into his life, his ascent into Trump world, his interactions in Ukraine & the Oval & more w/@byaaroncdavis, @myhlee, @michaelbirnbaum & team: washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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I spent time with a barista at the unionized store, 5 blocks from Howard Schultz's house who often makes his morning latte. She makes $17.86 an hour. Howard gave raises and new benefits to all the non-union stores. Her store didn't get them. She had a lot to say.
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Credit to @NPRKelly for calm, well researched questions of a top official.
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The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed.
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The most powerful piece of writing as you'll read today: "Tell the Afghan soldiers who fought until they ran out of ammunition and were then slaughtered by the Taliban in Faryab province that they didn’t fight hard enough" via @elliotackerman washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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“John Prine was a raspy-voiced heartland troubadour who wrote and performed songs about faded hopes, failing marriages, flies in the kitchen and the desperation of people just getting by.” Via
@MattSchudel
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This is for Sergine Lucien and her children Phoenix and Jayden who were profiled in The Washington Post. She's overwhelmed by the kindess and generosity.
Please direct donations to this link.
gofundme.com/f/4zsbwk-fighti… via @gofundme
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