John Vodrey

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Watch this to the end, you won’t regret it. This is what happens when you’re at happy hour and are reminded you agreed to do an interview about your race.

[John Vodrey @John_Vodrey]

@npchristman Congrats, Nathan! 🎉🎉🎉

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government https://t.co/qe16k9ucsf

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

I'm sorry, but if you fell for the Hunter rebrand, I want to sell you a reverse mortgage.

[Kaitlin Durbin @njKaitlinDurbin]

Trying to understand how this story published with my byline last week while I was on my honeymoon. I did not write or review a word of it and it does not pull info from past reporting. Does https://t.co/HnBcPb1J5r think they just own my name now?
https://t.co/VIknsdUEkm

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by.

Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it.

(And, yes, more to come.)

https://t.co/xi8BD3MCzv

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi, prominent cable news anchors who have spent recent weeks asking every Dem guest about a Twitch streamer, maybe you could ask your Republican guests about their top donor engaging with Nazi sympathizers, backing a far-right Germany party, and asking Jews to take DNA tests?

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Irony dies

[Holly Otterbein @hollyotterbein]

Scoop from @axiosalex: "Allies of Mike Rogers, Michigan's GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, have asked AIPAC not to advertise on his behalf, triggering a rupture with the powerful but polarizing pro-Israel group.

Rogers spoke with AIPAC chair Michael Tuchin in Los Angeles last week. The next day, AIPAC shelved an already-cut video ad targeting Rogers' Democratic rival, outspoken Israel critic Abdul El-Sayed.

The extraordinary tension underscores how far AIPAC's political standing has fallen amid voters' anger over the war in Gaza. Even Rogers — a staunchly pro-Israel Republican — fears the group's public support could be a liability in the Nov. 3 election." https://t.co/rwmup1OkZp

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is hilarious. Gayle King tells Angie Nixon -- who won the Dem Senate primary in Florida last night -- that she campaigned with Hasan Piker, and CBS has a huge package of Hasan pictures ready to run over her face. Except she never did campaign with Hasan, as she quickly says.

Then Gayle asks her: "will you?" And when Craig says: I'm focused on Florida voters and don't really know him, Gayle King looks shocked and incredulous. How can you not know him? It's the only thing we in the media ever talk about. You must be fixated on what we're fixated on. So revealing of the insular media mindset.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Angie Nixon was outspent 36 to 1 on the airwaves. In fact she spent $0 on broadcast or cable. I'm truly floored.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

When you were put on the spot with the fate of the world on the line you didn’t have the guts to break from an 82 year old man everyone hated

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

If a progressive outspent a centrist 9-to-1 in the midwest and still lost the conventional wisdom would be that their ideology was electoral deadweight the party needs to cut loose but because the opposite happened it’ll just be that college kids are too radicalized or something.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

continues to boggle the mind that this gets like 1/50th the coverage as the accusations against Platner.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 “It’s been very hard for me to reckon with the extent of killing I was involved in,” former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes said.

🔹Rhodes spoke to Peter Beinart about Biden officials who are failing to fully reckon with their role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, saying many remain inside a Washington feedback loop where AIPAC and FDD figures reassure them they did the right thing, while their careers still benefit from not breaking with Israel.

🔹He said his own reckoning with the Obama years has involved recognizing that he had been “operating machinery that was often inhumane” and “participating in a supremacy that was baked into the entire wiring of the machinery.”

🔹“It’s uncomfortable for them to face up to the genocide they’re a part of,” Rhodes explained, discussing their possible thinking. “But I’m actually not sorry relative to the harm that was done and could be done in the future. People’s feet do need to be held to the fire.”

🔗 Full discussion on “Beinart Notebook” includes guest Yousef Munayyer, Palestinian American political analyst and scholar at Arab Center Washington DC. It is linked below.

@PeterBeinart | @brhodes

[Astead @AsteadWH]

!! Congressman Jim Clyburn of South Carolina says he’s never heard of ChatGPT until last week

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

"Eventually, almost everyone claims they opposed apartheid...But justice is not measured by where we stand after history has issued its verdict. It is measured by where we stand when the verdict is still being rendered." -@NYCMayor on Nelson Mandela and Palestinian human rights

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I have read this three times now. You could write an entire PhD thesis on this one tweet and every line of it.

[Christina Henderson @chenderson]

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell is essentially on paid sick & medical leave.

The same employment protection he has spent his career blocking other Americans from having.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

New AP polling of Jewish Americans—
Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable; 39% Unfavorable
Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable; 59% Unfavorable
Trump (-42): 29% Favorable; 71% Unfavorable

Where's all the breathless wall-to-wall coverage on Netanyahu & Trump making Jewish people feel unsafe?