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Freelance journalist, regular contributor to the Daily Mail and others. Wrote a lot about the Jeffrey Epstein case

New York
Joined October 2009
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When your story gets retweeted by the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump #separatingfamilies @_kareruiz
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Wow
wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Do yourself a favor and read the comments. Seriously, all the comments. Right now. 😂
Folks, I have spent literally the entire day trying to get someone at AOL to unlock my email. For the last eight hours, I have been told that the issue has been escalated to supervisors who would contact me. I haven't heard a thing. You would think that, since I'm one of the last human beings on the face of the Earth still using AOL, they would take care of this. You'd be wrong. So, once this gets resolved, hopefully before the next presidential election, I'm dropping them. (I kept them this long out of convenience, but now I have no reason to keep them.) I'll see you on the radio at 6 p.m., at which time I will address this further.
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Hard agree. Berating journalists when you lose is mind boggling - and self defeating. It only makes them work harder.
I’ve worked with some fantastic journalists in my 29 years on the job. My pride at @Gabriel_Pogrund knows no bounds for example. But what @RosamundUrwin had to go through to get the Brand allegations past the lawyers and over the line is of a different order from anything I’ve ever achieved in this job. She is brave, principled, a great reporter, a beautiful writer and a gutsy human being. I am frankly proud to know her let alone call her a friend. The KC who lost his rag earlier should rot in hell
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If there's one thing that might explain Russell Brand, it's this. Awful for everyone
“I hate myself, Dad. I hate being alive” The rage formed in the space where love should have been has taken victim after victim, as these wounded boys try to assemble their manhood from the scraps of their fathers’ inadequacies.
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Trump's gift and his curse is that the only thing that can undo him is himself
Dave Smith: Trump pulled off the greatest political comeback in American history... and squandered the entire thing for a war on behalf of a foreign country That's it. That's the whole second term. The biggest political realignment thrown in the trash for a pedophile cover-up and a neocon war.
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People really, really, really don't like data centres
So the 41 datacenter moratoria across the country are, I predict, going to go 41-0. In nearly every case it's about 67-80% opposing datacenters. True in California, Ohio, everywhere. Read all the results here: dashboard-production-c2fc.up…
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Would be popular
Democrats shouldn’t demand Trump staffers be investigated. They should pass a huge anti-corruption package: no free planes, no shakedowns for presidential libraries, no no-bid contracts for friends, no paid-for pardons, no foreign gifts, no family on payroll, no insider trading, etc.
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Netanyahu says Texas is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon
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Did they hire the SNL writers for this?
If Mississippi does flip blue for first time since 1982, it will be no small part due to this masterpiece of an election ad.
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Brutal response from a first time Democrat voter in Texas, from the NYT
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'I have no interest in fighting culture wars': this is a large part of why she won
This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
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Aaaaaand the roof has officially been blown off at the news James Talarico won the Senate race in Texas. Chants of USA! USA! People are in absolute shock and joy
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HUGE cheers at the news Vivek Ramaswamy lost the Ohio governor race
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Flip! Flip! Flip! Flip!
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Some people already leaving this party at Union Hall. By 10.30pm there’s a feeling of inevitability about it
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Chants of ‘Flip! Flip! Flip!’ whenever they call a flipped seat
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Holy crap
First county on the US-Mexico border goes from Trump +16 to Talarico +59 🤯
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Pure delight at Union Hall at the news Dems have taken the House
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