Reporter, @nytimes. ''Rob Thomas, circa 1998''-@NYTFridge
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Deeply unsettled by the realization that Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg ended their 2020 bids *last month* and not 14 years ago as I'd ballparked.
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Just heard from Stormy’s HS principal. He thought she “handled herself well” on TV. “Please tell her Principal Williams gives his regards.”
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I so miss riding the 4 train, reading the paper, overhearing fellow NYers trying to fire their special counsels.
Here's a new one: Trump trying to fire Robert Mueller was just "New York talk," Sen. Joe Manchin tells @MeetThePress nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/m…
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“I’m, like, a person that has a good you-know-what,” Trump said, pointing at his skull.
He did not sound like a person with a good you-know-what.
On an emerging 2020 theme -- basic intelligence -- and how it might affect a president long consumed w/ it:
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Senate to House: That was cute. Let the adults have a look. nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/po…
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Pelosi on Trump: "He has proven to be one of the best organizers the Democratic Party has ever had."
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Greetings from the WH Rose Garden, where a pair of turkeys are about to be pardoned for the crime of being born turkeys.
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After a lifetime spent saying what he pleased and paying little penalty, President Trump is encountering something unfamiliar on his way out: consequences.
A final memo w/ @maggieNYT on the “it’s just words” presidency catching up to its author: nytimes.com/2021/01/16/us/po…
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In VF, Beto objects to NYT story on NY years, which he says depicts him as "aimless & depressed." Words he used w/ me: "rootless," "sad case," "in the dumps." Anyway. Will be interesting to watch him process coverage as POTUS contender, not TX underdog. nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us/po…
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"I'm not a paid protester," first questioner says, to cheers, at Sanford/Scott town hall.
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I read WSJ for the articles. wsj.com/articles/trump-lawye…
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Trump has defied precedent, decorum, political gravity. Why not the sun? nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/po…
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Mark Cuban begins his remarks at Clinton rally by saying hello to Donald Trump...in Russian.
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Aaaand back to Trump... Attendee: "Ever since the election, I have felt like a passenger in a car that’s being driven by a drunk driver."
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"The senator will take her seat." An extraordinary confrontation in the Capitol: nytimes.com/2017/02/07/us/po…
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Self-deprecation from Trump? Not so much. But plenty of boos. A wild Al Smith dinner, w/ @AshleyRParker & @maggieNYT:nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/po…
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“For the man who will see, time heals,” Biden once said. “Time changes.”
As he prepares to lead a divided Washington, he will confront the ultimate test of how much times have changed, and how much he has.
NYT analysis on what awaits the president-elect: nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/po…
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After 2016 loss, Cruz's staff liked to talk about a "Cruz 2.0," a semi-humbled version back in the Senate. Not sure what number we're on now.
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Okay, I profiled Guy Fieri. nytimes.com/2022/05/23/dinin…
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On the side of the road in Greenville, a strip club and a presidency meet after dark. One night only. nytimes.com/2018/01/21/us/po…
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Young Joe Biden, teetotaling senator of his own bachelor party.
“We got kind of sloppy drunk,” one groomsman recalled. “I remember him giving us a lecture: ‘You guys are a disgrace.’”
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To tell the Stormy story right, we spoke to Judd Apatow, Nina Hartley, Ron Jeremy, the Penthouse Baton Rouge and a Maryland-based horseman named Packy McGaughan. Your move, @60Minutes. nytimes.com/2018/03/24/style…
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Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat, calling for Gov. Cuomo's resignation in light of NYT story tonight:
The time has come. The Governor must resign. nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyreg…
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What, exactly, was he holding onto? Why fight so hard, and put the country through so much, to keep a position he has often not seemed to want?
NYT analysis w/ @maggieNYT as #ascertainment takes hold (aka "what turkey pardons can teach us about Trump") nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/po…
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As good a time as any to remind you that a pre-scandal Richard Burr once climbed out of an office window -- while carrying his dry-cleaning -- to avoid reporters. nytimes.com/2017/05/13/us/po…
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"Just like any other damn president." Dispatch from PA, where many would like to be tired of all the winning by now. nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/po…
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Today, @RosaGoldensohn & I published “The Secrets Ed Koch Carried” — exploring the private strain of a mayor laboring to conceal his sexual orientation, and how it shaped him & NYC. Several friends have decided it's time to complete the record of his life.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/nyreg…
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Spent a delightful afternoon with Mayor Dinkins last year for an interview at his office at Columbia, surrounded by his pictures and trinkets. “There’s nothing like flying back into LaGuardia and seeing the lights,” he said, “and you’re mayor of New York.” RIP.
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Our look at Amy Klobuchar's treatment of staff, w/ @melbournecoal. Keep reading past the comb! nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/po…
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Beto O'Rourke, adrift maybe-presidential-candidate, was once Beto O'Rourke, adrift New Yorker. On the quarter-life search that presaged his midlife crossoards: nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us/po…
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A rickety ironing board. An overstuffed Filofax. An instinct for the political jugular.
“She had to be savvy to find a way,” said @CoryBooker, her old friend & rival.
Our look at how Kamala Harris got here and what it means that she did, w/ *the* @llerer:nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/po…
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Jim Dwyer was, among so much else, the most compelling possible argument for the essential alchemy of a physical newsroom -- perpetual idea-floater, nugget-sharer, spirit-lifter. We could use a proper newsroom today at the NYT.
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John Kelly is not who they thought he was. John Kelly has not especially changed. My debut for @NYTmag: nytimes.com/2018/02/26/magaz…
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A dispatch from Hart Senate Office Building 216: Lordy. nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/po…
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Sen. Graham on press access: "Y'all are kind of a pain in the ass but I don't mind you hanging around."
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Well. I profiled Joe Rogan. nytimes.com/2021/07/01/busin…
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Have been thinking all morning about Robert Pear’s deadline ritual: whispering the story aloud to himself, word by word, just loud enough for us to hear nearby. He was making sure it was calibrated just right. Relentlessly fair, endlessly kind. We will miss him so much.
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Oprah: "What’s it gonna take? What’s it gonna take for you to say yes?"
Beto: "You know, for me, it will really be family."
Oprah: "Where's Amy?" (scans crowd for Beto's wife)
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"I marched with tens of thousands of others to change attitudes," Biden said of the civil rights movement in his '88 race.
He did not march. Aides kept reminding him of this. And the story kept slipping back into his stump speech anyway. nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/po…
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It was the Trump age in bleak, exhausting miniature, a presidency stripped to its studs: a furious bid to fill the minutes with as much chaos, volume and outright fiction as necessary to impose his will on the proceedings.
NYT analysis w/ *the* @maggieNYT:nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/po…
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“There will be a time when the light doesn’t shine as bright on the golden locks,” Guy Fieri told me.
That day is not today.
An NYT profile: nytimes.com/2022/05/23/dinin…
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"So many people think they know me," Cynthia Nixon says. She thinks otherwise. Our deep look at her long-shot challenge to Andrew Cuomo: nytimes.com/2018/07/29/us/po…
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Well, @nytpolitics left the evening newsletter in my custody tonight so obviously the phrase "turducken of misery" has made its NYT debut: nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/po…
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“Funerals are for the living,” Joe Biden once said. This much he knows.
What his decades as eulogist -- captured in a private collection of notes, specked w/ his scribbles -- tell us about the president he aspires to be.
A deep look w/ @katieglueck:
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Hear the one about the Russians paying off the future POTUS? It seems House Rs have. (cc @maggieNYT @EricDKoch) mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/1…
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"Every vote counts," Clinton says in FL. "Just ask my friend, former vice president Al Gore." Two weeks ago: nytimes.com/2016/10/12/us/po…
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The view from the chamber during Trump's address -- the congressional equivalent of a high school cafeteria. nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/po…
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All through the campaign, Joe Biden insisted this is "not who we are."
And all through this campaign, an anxious, quarrelsome country seemed to be replying: Are you sure?
On the questions to be answered -- and already answered -- about America in 2020: nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/po…
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"He could have been the guy." Instead he became...this guy. What happened with Bill de Blasio? My piece for @NYTmag: nytimes.com/2019/08/06/magaz…
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Today: Rubio accuses Trump of urinating himself. Dennis Rodman zings Cruz. Christie endorses Trump. It's 1 o'clock.
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“They say there’s something wrong with our president!” Trump said at his Tulsa rally in June. “I’ll let you know if there’s something wrong.”
There’s something wrong.
NYT memo on Trump's test and the year that won't quit: nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/po…
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On deep background, not-for-attribution and definitely without fingerprints...I wrote about the often-absurd conversations journalists and sources have about the conversations journalists and sources have. nytimes.com/2018/08/02/reade…
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"I’ve had a lot of conversations with humans over the years." James Comey talks up his credentials.
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The streets of Manhattan right now can only be described as a rolling pride parade — champagne, honking, banging on kitchenware with a percussive closet hanger — dedicated to the defeat of one man.
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Tammy Duckworth's winding, painful, occasionally yuk-filled path to the VP shortlist -- and what she and Joe Biden understand about each other: nytimes.com/2020/08/01/us/po…
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The Khmer Rouge. A senatorial “icing.” Bob Dole.
Tammy Duckworth’s heady journey to the veepstakes: nytimes.com/2020/08/01/us/po…
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The latest in our “Rebound” series on Dems and the midterms: a dive on dead armadillos, the meaning of BBQ and a Senate race you’ve maybe heard about in Texas. nytimes.com/2018/08/31/us/po…
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For two hours, Michael Bloomberg will be separated from the most powerful asset of his campaign: his campaign.
Ahead of his debate debut, a preview of Bloomberg w/o a net, as aides faux-attack his record in a warehouse prep space stocked w/ peanut butter. nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/po…
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"Can I kiss you?"
A woman, Anna Ruch, details an unsettling encounter with Gov. Cuomo at a 2019 wedding. w/ @jessemckinley nytimes.com/2021/03/01/nyreg…
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In 2018, I spent some time with the Romneys in Utah, curious why he’d want to be a senator. His wife Ann, who seemed a bit ambivalent about it all, offered this:
“Everyone is running out of a burning building, Mitt’s running in. This is Mitt, runs into burning buildings.”
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The president's mandate was clear: Be less like Donald Trump.
It can be said that he tried, in his way. And it is far from certain that he helped himself much anyway.
NYT analysis with @maggieNYT: nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/po…
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A relentless man, relenting: how Cuomo decided to give up.
w/ @maggieNYT @WRashbaum @dannyhakim et al: nytimes.com/2021/08/10/us/po…
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Some news out of Park Slope. nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyreg…
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Cruz, asked about Palin attacks on his campaign: "If you spend too much time with Donald Trump, strange things happen to people."
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He tells funny stories at funerals and sad ones at campaign stops.
He lost as a hard-charging 40-something and won as the septuagenarian who knows how to mourn.
NYT Man-in-the-News on Biden's arc, where the bitter and the sweet tend to find each other.
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It was conceivable a year ago, unthinkable a week ago.
How Joe Biden became the safe choice again -- and why there's some risk in that for Democrats.
NYT analysis of his big night: nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/po…
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Chris Christie called Cruz a hurricane hypocrite for Sandy aid vote. Cruz: "Chris should go back to the beach." nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/po…
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DeSantis 2024 began with a moment of silence. And then several more.
How a zeitgeisty gambit devolved into a conference call from hell:
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Is that...is that how it works?
Gianforte was never detained because "he left the scene and deputies were busy talking to witnesses and the victim." #MTAL
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Q: Are you proud Trump is president? Scott: "Given the two choices I had, I am thankful." Sanford: "I think we’re all struggling with it"
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Misdirection. Scorched earth. "I love it."
What 2016's "Access Hollywood" weekend -- the last time Trump's chances appeared so dire -- says about his campaign crisis playbook (and what the next few months might look like).
Latest in NYT "Long Run" series:nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/po…
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"Moore has a monopoly on press firestorms; Jones has home-made yard signs." Read @alexis_levinson on Alabama: buzzfeed.com/alexislevinson/…
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Stephen Miller, son of Southern California. They're not thrilled. nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/po…
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Feinstein mentions Gorsuch truck driver case, outlined here. In keeping w/ Dem theme: Gorsuch sides w/ corporations. nytimes.com/2017/03/13/us/po…
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Reminders: Cruz delivered the speech as written and told Trump what was coming himself two days ago, per top aide.
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"We were a 10-year opposition party," Ryan says. GOP has to become a governing party, he says, "but we weren't there today."
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You know when you read a story and instantly realize it'll stay with you for a long time? This, by the incredible @caseysjournal, is one of those. nytimes.com/2021/06/15/magaz…
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Comey keeps a quote-of-the-day calendar page on his desk: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
“It reminds me so much of the F.B.I.,” he said. nytimes.com/2019/10/12/us/po…
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“I’m delighted they’re wasting their money here.” GOP giddy, and Dems conflicted, as Beto $$$ surges and Beto...maybe doesn’t so much. A look w/ @jmartNYT: nytimes.com/2018/10/12/us/po…
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“At first I thought I wanted to be a journalist," Stormy told us. Didn't break that way. How Stephanie Gregory became Stormy Daniels: nytimes.com/2018/03/24/style…
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Two Trump voters came to watch their government in action on Friday. It was not like Schoolhouse Rock. nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/po…
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Comey on why he documented Trump meeting: "I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting."
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Hello from a gentlemen’s club in Greenville, where I just spoke w/ Stephanie Clifford/Stormy Daniels. Declined to address reports directly.
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If you read one 6K-word story about a departed presidential candidate who never polled outside the margin of error... nytimes.com/2019/08/06/magaz…
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A fantastic, affecting, deeply revealing piece from @JohnGHendy. Make the time. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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McCain says, despite voting to proceed just now, "I will not vote for this bill as it is today. It’s a shell of a bill right now."
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The operative and the governor looked miserable.
"Shake hands," Trump instructed. They did not.
How Susie Wiles, banished by DeSantis, became the unwitting embodiment of the Trump-DeSantis conflict.
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Why did David Paterson pick Gillibrand in '09? “Andrew Cuomo was destined to go beyond where he was. Kirsten Gillibrand, not necessarily.” Times have changed, and so has KG, w/ @ShaneGoldmacher nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/po…
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People have not historically hustled to spontaneous outdoor dance parties for Joe Biden.
But beating Trump can do strange things for a man’s reputation.
One more deadline whirl w/ @katieglueck, NYT’s reigning conqueror of whirling Biden deadlines: nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/po…
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