9. If Schneiderman resigns the vacancy will be filled by the state legislature and the election for AG is this year! — Yashar Ali ?? (@yashar) May 7, 2018 pic.twitter.com/KbFv1tp6II — Matt Katz (@mattkatz00) May 8, 2018 I wonder if @PreetBharara will run for NY Attorney General. — Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) May 8, 2018 .@PreetBharara …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Compare & Contrast
Nancy Pelosi makes explicit what has been widely assumed but unstated: If Democrats win the House, “I will run for speaker.” https://t.co/0aEoxmLa43 — Russell Berman (@russellberman) May 1, 2018 “It’s important that it not be five white guys at the table, no offense,” Pelosi said, referring to the top two leadership spots in the House …
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Open Thread: The DC Press Corpse & Its Greasy Thumb on the Political Scales
Amy Chozick’s “sometimes cubicle-mate” at the FTFNYT stands up to defend her, and his employer. One of a long twitter thread: Perhaps not every story we published about the e-mails met the standard of newsworthiness. But I think almost all of them did. Virtually every news organization in America made the judgment we did about …
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Russiagate Open Thread: The DNC’s Lawsuit – Early Reports
#BREAKING: DNC sues Trump campaign and Russian government over alleged conspiracy to help Trump win election https://t.co/pVP4bxrcX1 pic.twitter.com/2H1lSDyBOX — The Hill (@thehill) April 20, 2018 Stock photo shade thrown! — Trump looks like the sweaty district manager trying to convince his skeptical boss those mysterious ‘accounting errors’ have nothing to do with him. Life’s been …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Debating ACTUAL Babies on the Senate Floor
The quotes in this story…. "But what if there are 10 babies on the floor of the Senate?” https://t.co/qgSepOpqTX — Julie Pace (@jpaceDC) April 18, 2018 Feeling the spotlight shift, Richard Cohen heaves a sigh of relief… … Teleworking is not an option in the Senate, which requires members to vote in-person. So Duckworth …
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For A Good Time In Cambridge (Tonight!)
Just a quick heads-up. My colleague Seth Mnookin will be moderating a panel for the MIT Communications Forum on “Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump.” The event goes from 6-8 p.m. in MIT Building 3, room 270. (MIT map.) The speakers are interesting: Stuart Stevens (Romney’s 2012 chief strategist, among other presidential election gigs); Jennifer …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Happy Thoughts
Come for RBG, stay for the awesome Tocqueville quote. https://t.co/l8Ignm9psW — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 11, 2018 … For Perez-Valdez, the day was already special enough: Eight years after marrying Natalie in the Dominican Republic, obtaining his green card and then learning English and studying well over a year for the citizenship test, he …
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