Gen X extremist, meatloaf expert, Paper Plane proponent, journalist. Author of "The Firsts," two cookbooks and a novel. Building leaders at UC IOP.
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Two wows from Redfield at the CDC hearing 1. He thinks universal mask use would bring us back to normal before a vaccine. 2. He confirmed CDC funds are being moved to DC to run a messaging campaign they will have no input on.
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If @seanspicer is going to lie in your faces fellow reporters, you don't need to go to his briefings. You don't need to talk to him at all.
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Frustrated by a lack of federally supplied covid tests, Maryland Gov Larry Hogan got thousands Saturday from South Korea, thanks to his wife's negotiations with companies from her native country. (It was first Korea Air flight to event land at BWI)
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The byline of @maggieNYT is on four stories today, three written long after midnight. Hardest working person in the business.
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8 AM: POTUS threatens to veto a veto-proof bill, staffer calls public document a leaked item and cab. official menaces US senator over vote
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You do not have to go to a fancy school - or even graduate college - to be a great reporter. That is all.
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Reporters all over the world have lost scores of friends, colleagues to covering terrorism. So tell us more about their failures to report.
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Trump ran as a populist, filled his cabinet like a conservative, has a budget that is neither nyti.ms/2nwC6gI
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Trump Pentagon Purge Could Accelerate His Goal to Pull Troops From Afghanistan nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/po…
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Woke up thinking of the thousands of people who lost their mothers this spring. Will be thinking about that all day.
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If you’ve ever worked in the Capitol, or spent significant time it it’s majesty, this is like rewatching a horrific home invasion.
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This Trump in 5th Ave exile piece by @maggieNYT is such a treat. Best thing I've read today nyti.ms/2dOXJqi
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A damning report detailing catastrophic mistake after mistake by @lukebroadwater nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/po…
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Position of @SpeakerRyan and @SenateMajLdr seems to now be "We disagree with almost every word Trump says but we still support him." #SCOTUS
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The FDA approved the tests as the plane was in the air. Had they not done so, Hogan was prepared to distribute them anyway. He and his wife personally greeted the flight and gave state coins to the crew. (There were no passengers)
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Saying he can't risk veteran's lives, Sec V.A. Issues Employee Vaccine Mandate, a First for a Federal Agency nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/po…
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A lot has been gleaned about prep school culture, but we could talk more about what this reminds us about the teenage life of Generation X. Public schools kids from that era recognize the culture; there were just fewer high end off ramps later in life.
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Forget the Cuomo drama, West Coast govs saved their residents, and maybe yours too nyti.ms/2VCf6yL
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Last month, @johnismay & I wrote about veterans trying to get their interpreters out of Afghanistan before withdrawal. We can now report that work paid off and Zak has left Kabul w/his family. nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/po…
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Lots of member of Congress in both parties weighing in on #Afghanishtan have declined for years to exercise their own power to authorize (and decline) the use of force.
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The Times is chronicling myriad American lives lost to covid19. I wrote an obit for Mary Roman, senior shot put champion. nyti.ms/2JEs09w
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We even fail at failing!
.@nytimes subscribers just passed 3MM, doubling in ‘16. Thanks to all #factsmatter #presson bit.ly/2kZSVOX
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At NY Times Talk DC, @deanbaquet makes compelling point: newspapers used to be beholden to advertisers, now they are beholden to readers
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I think y'all call this "some personal news." I loved every day of being a reporter, but can't wait to get started at the IOP, which is dedicated to propelling the next generation toward public service. Send Chicago food recs, please!
We are thrilled to announce Jennifer Steinhauer as the IOP’s new Director of Speaker Series & Strategic Initiatives! The journalist and author joins us Feb. 28 after a 25-year career at the @nytimes.
Welcome, @jestei!
ALT Portrait of Jennifer Steinhauer on a background image of the IOP, but faded and blurred.
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Cancelling your @washingtonpost subscription hurts its reporters, not Bezos, and is not the democracy flex you think it is.
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Wonder why you’re still sitting home on a Saturday night scrolling Twitter, your vacation was ruined and your kids can’t go to school this fall? It seems to stem from a person with many scarves who told Trump what he wanted to hear: nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/po…
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Recap: House tomorrow to try and pass health care bill opposed by doctors, nurses, every disease group and w/ 17 percent approval rating.
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Last thing I wanna say about the ACHA:While there is much process blame to go around, the ultimate problem for the bill was the bill itself.
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It took Twitter SIX YEARS to suspend the account of this Sandy Hook truther who ceaselessly harassed families of dead children for years nyti.ms/2TJCjfc
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Still trying to absorb that a 7 year vow to undo Obamacare, the foundation of GOP House & Senate takeovers, imploded in a matter of weeks
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You all keep doing your live shots and zoom meetings in front of your fancy shelves of books and brick walls. Come on people, let’s see your kitchens! Show us your Dutch ovens, your booze collection, your interestingly stacked salad plates. Variety!
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The question isn't whether Congress will accept Trump's budget (it won't) but can it pass its own (quite likely not).
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Shocking and depressing. Hate Crime Is Feared as 2 Indian Engineers Are Shot in Kansas nyti.ms/2lCnzzi
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"Why was it historically hard for female lawmakers to find their way on the Hill," said no woman, ever.
Joe Biden says when he first arrived in Senate he didn't know many people. Met them in the gym where, he says, "everybody walks around in their birthday suit." With Ted Kennedy, he met William Fulbright and Jennings Randolph.
"The first time I met these guys, I saw all of them.”
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If you woke up hating everyone and everything don’t worry, as that is perfectly reasonable.
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On this day 28 years ago, I started my job as a clerk in the NYT Washington bureau. Main qualifications: calling a messenger service (Robert Pear used one 3 x a day), fax machine skills (once faxed a reporter entire contents of her notebook to Israel) and procuring Burger King.
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One could argue the best way to help your party pass an imperiled health care bill MIGHT not be spending time advocating for govt shutdown
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White House spox seems to have two messages here; Tweets are the way that POTUS gets directly to voters, but the media ought to ignore them.
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My socially-distanced morning with @LarryHogan in Maryland where covid is marching in. A secret weapon: his wife. nyti.ms/2R7MlZa
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You can read more on this and lots more breaking covid news on the Times homepage briefing.
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This may be the week that people start waking up to @KatieHill4CA and @katieporteroc and @AngieCraigMN -- all powerfully smart, majority maker women in the House who have not gotten the Rolling Stone treatment. More like them will be revealed as hearings move along.
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Gillibrand has always lacked votes to change military law on sexual assault. She may finally have the lift she needs from @SenJoniErnst nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/po…
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Hyper local reporting nitter.app/sashapsmith/status/829…
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Today in our Covid19 obituary series, the life of Laneeka Barksdale, Detroit ballroom Queen. nyti.ms/39WK8q2
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Tammy Duckworth, the never mentioned vp contender is also the one with no primary baggage. nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/po…
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I need more menu details please
What a wonderful bipartisan women Senators dinner at our @VP’s residence! Thank you Kamala! I am so proud of you!
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At this point, the challenge is to find any Senate Republican who is not in leadership giving unqualified support to House healthcare bill.
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Younger Military Personnel Reject Vaccine, in Warning for Commanders and the Nation nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/po…
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We are having quite the quarter at @UChiPolitics
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NYT executive editor @deanbaquet says Times will institute tougher social media rules for employees
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Went on a Twitter fast this weekend, lost 10 pounds of bile. Maintenance diet: treat Twitter like carbs; none after 6 pm.
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Former congressman seems confused how separation of powers works
Trump budget director: It's White House policy that nothing gets a vote in Congress before healthcare hill.cm/bwLKico
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So to recap: Sen Rand Paul tossing some cold water, now Cotton. Collins and Murkowski iffy due to Planned Parenthood provision. Drip drip?
Tom Cotton tells @chucktodd he doesn't want to vote for O-care repeal w/out specifying replacement plan. calls repeal/delay "kick the can"
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Protesters hanging from rafters, carrying long guns, invading Pelosi's office, causing members to cower in their offices and there were 13 arrests? That many women used to be tossed from the speaker's lobby each summer for bare shoulders. What an amazing lack of accountability.
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I recommend skepticism re: the claim "If the Obamacare repeal fails we will just mosey on down the road to the easier lift of tax reform!"
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Your weekly reminder that every Republican leader in Congress has endorsed Donald Trump, largely with enthusiasm.
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Would be an interesting world if journalists declined to talk off the record to ANYONE save nat. security sources nyti.ms/2fjBkhB
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Senator McConnell when asked if he was concerned about Trump handling intelligence information: Loooong pause then, "no."
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I met some fun seniors who have two shots.....nytimes.com/2021/03/21/healt…
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Now officially have more press releases in my inbox from Congressional Republicans than Dems complaining about cuts to domestic programs.
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My heart goes out to all the congressional staff members and service workers in the Capitol, where their safety has been so disregarded.
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You may have heard otherwise but Americans are scrambling to welcome Afghans. With the great @mirjordan nytimes.com/2021/09/06/us/af…
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First female VEEP. New Mexico House delegation all women of color. Powerful LA county board of supervisors now: all women. DC city council: majority female. GOP women made House gains. Never say women can’t win again.
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Ask @peterbakernyt about the time his son purchased a high end TV AND the warranty package
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Personal news rubric: I'm writing a new book, "THE FIRSTS," which will chronicle the early days of the historic class of House freshwomen. It's set for publication fall 2019 with @AlgonquinBooks and @betsygleick. Looking forward to see you all in Longworth Dunkin' Donuts!
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Gonna host a happy hour for all my fellow lady journalists who don't sleep with their sources (i.e. all of them) in lieu of going to the DC opening of Richard Jewell. Who's in?
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Best line: "I don't do tweet." cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9… via @Cosmopolitan
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Some background on the other squad, the national security freshmen, who consult carefully on most legislation and big moves. nyti.ms/2G3K6Rs
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Would love to hear from restaurant industry folks as to the single MOST helpful thing people can do right now to support them.
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Freedom Caucus, which once shut down the government over the health care law, didn't have the mettle to repeal it nyti.ms/2nOpl3X
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Health care workers have had it the worst, but restaurant workers have suffered a lot and customers have gotten sick eating indoors too nytimes.com/2020/08/12/healt…
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Tom Price just put down a marker worth keeping in your ACA google doc. "We believe strongly that we will see a decrease in premiums."
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She will never brag in his space about herself so allow me please: @abbygoodnough is one of the finest journalists out there, at the heart of so much of our vaccine coverage this year & part of Pulitzer team. Now she is lifting up others as an editor. Lucky team, hers.
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Put another way, proposal that did not go through a single committee that can't pass House or Senate would remove one thing everyone likes
Republican Health Proposal Would Undermine Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions via @sangerkatz nyti.ms/2nRCiHH
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The best thing anyone can do for journalism and our discourse is to invest in local newspapers.
James Murdoch, a Buttigieg donor, has $1bn to spend and is considering investing in a left-leaning news outlet ft.com/content/dd557542-6065… via @financialtimes
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Lots of moms w/ little kids beating themselves up here over their covid parenting. As Gen X mom who spent an entire childhood watching Gilligan’s Island while eating cheese toast and later raised nice girls: your kids love you because you’re you. You’re fine. So are they. Chill.
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I don't know a teenager lucky enough to have a summer job who hasn't faced a mask enforcement moment, but this is beyond appalling. Imagine how kids will remember this era. levittownnow.com/2020/08/19/…
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Proud to tell these painful (and sometimes hopeful) stories of Afghan interpreters with the veterans they served with w/ @johnismay & @erinschaff (who i think qualifies as a @kimseverson #sisterfire™
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Leaks often come from places you’re not thinking of, and in weird ways you would not have guessed.
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Thanks @AlecMacGillis for seeing the pain of our older, and often forgotten kids over this shitty year propublica.org/article/the-l…
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Today in ruh roh:Portman Capito Gardner Murkowski sent letter to McConnell: they'd be a No on a repeal bill dumping Medicaid expansion folks
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It is impossible to overstate how much American adults have failed children nytimes.com/2020/07/23/sunda…
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Not sure team Trump understands how many parents can relate to having a kid with drug issues. The opioid crisis has ravaged myriad communities over the last decade, a great many of them where his base lives.
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The recent @mckaycoppins piece in the Atlantic explains this phenomenon quite elegantly. Strongly recommend.
Mitt Romney has had a wild 24 hours. Getting screamed at in an airport, sitting aboard a crowded plane as MAGA passengers chanted "traitor" at him, sheltering in the capitol, and then calling for elected leaders to tell the truth. Strength of character personified.
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Meet the new director of the National Museum of African Art, who I recently chatted with: nyti.ms/2JeIjsF
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Today in ruh roh: When asked twice if the White House supports every element of the bill,Tom Price said, "This has been a work in progress."
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Your perfunctory reminder that Jeff Sessions was Trump's earliest and most vocal supporter, even when the rest of the Senate GOP, largely now Trump supporters (See Gardner, Cory) were openly dissing Trump.
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Maryland gov Hogan just said the country would be "better off" if Trump were removed from office.
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I have lived in Washington for an extremely long decade where I’ve consumed 6,357 cocktails and attended a number of parties, but have yet to go to an actual “cocktail party.”
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If you are a House Republican who voted for the repeal bill under great pressure from the White House, well, today is not your day.
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The extent of GOP members encouraging rioters is amazingly detailed here by @CatieEdmondson
and @lukebroadwater
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We are hitting tipping point with open season on reporters, a disturbing and profoundly un-American trend that can't go unanswered.
Hoping @Bencjacobs is ok. Follow along @alexis_levinson for on-scene details. And it comes week after FCC did this:
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Peak 2017
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So unafraid he wouldn't give his name saying he is unaffraid!
GOP senator tells @GlennThrush/@maggieNYT that Trump doesn't scare anybody in the Senate, not even the pages nyti.ms/2tsURIi
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