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➡️I recently started a new job at @StraightArrow__ as Senior Politics Reporter.
🗣️The beat: covering how politics stories get built, framed and sold.
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"I’ve paid you for tweets before."
@DrewHarwell & @ScottNover have the story:
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Trump ally Loomer was paid thousands for political tweets, people familiar say
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Loomer announced on her show that she is stepping away roughly one hour after The Washington Post contacted her this, @drewharwell and @ScottNover report.
Trump ally Loomer was paid thousands for political tweets, people familiar say
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New: Gov. Greg Abbott spent years trying to make school vouchers a reality in Texas, even pushing to unseat rural Republicans who stood in the way. Some lawmakers believe the effort contributed to his party's historic demise in the midterms. propub.li/3VbTDPN
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Inside Trump’s decision to replace Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller
It’s a signal that, despite GOP midterms rout, Trump wants to fight
And unlike Wiles, Miller will likely not block Trump’s leaks crackdown - which could mean jailing journalists theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Amazon announced a two-part docu-series focused on first lady Melania Trump’s return to D.C. in 2025, saying the program will provide “unprecedented insight” into her life.
The program, titled “Melania, The Series,” will begin airing Nov. 20 on Prime Video. wapo.st/486ycm3
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Here's an example of what Elon Musk's super PAC did with Donald Trump and AI.
They sent texts to voters that used AI to create personalized videos of Trump using their first names to encourage them to turn out.
"We need voters like you, Kathleen.”
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The White House said Starlink donated its service, but tax dollars are funding it, via @MerylKornfield washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Unfortunate to announce that I’m back on the market as @StraightArrow__ is ceasing operations immediately. myself and so many talented reporters and editors are now without jobs
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RIP
Salon in the 90s and early oughts was so ideologically diverse and fun with voices like Hitchens, Crouch, Paglia, Sullivan, and Labash…. was a joy
Salon, one of the first web publications, is shutting down. It began publishing in 1995. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would list some nonprofit organizations as having terrorist ties, a move that would immediately suspend their tax-exempt status and cripple their operations.
Officials are reviewing an arcane law that would allow President Trump to use an untested part of the tax code and write an executive order declaring groups linked to terrorism. Those groups would then automatically lose their coveted tax-exempt status.
Story w/ @RichardRubinDC
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.@tylerpager @jonathanvswan and I had reached out to the White House to request comment for a story that Trump told many people he planned to replace Wiles, and that Stephen Miller was the likely replacement. Shortly before the deadline we gave, the president posted the news.
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Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., who's been calling for Miller to be fired after Tuesday, says elevating him to chief is a "horrible decision"
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Adding: Straight Arrow News interviewed Wedgewood folks in August and they refused to give their names. The only person who would vouch for Wedgewood was himself accused of deceptive push polls. The whole operation was a giant red flag. It's Idiocracy. 9/
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Also: when Straight Arrow News tried to interview Wedgewood folks in August, they wouldn't give their names. The only person who vouched for them is push-pollster Adam Carlson (who didn't give names). It's not clear that anything we've been told is true.
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News: Straight Arrow News (@StraightArrow__), the online news site focused on “unbiased” coverage and founded by billionaire Joe Ricketts in 2021, is shutting down, staffers were told in a meeting today.
