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🇨🇺🇺🇸 Strategic comms / media relations. Foreign policy nerd + sci-fi geek. Spending a lot of time on AI / tech accountability these days. Signal: parrav.43

[Suzanne Monyak @SuzanneMonyak]

A DC Circuit judge asked DOJ today if any court could stop the White House ballroom project, even if the govt is legally wrong:

"So complete lawlessness by the government couldn’t be stopped?"

"I think that’s right."

New from today's argument: https://t.co/slA4mffSJq

[Jeff Zeleny @jeffzeleny]

In a visit to farm country, Trump extols ‘beautiful fountains’ back in Washington https://t.co/D5vkZn3x65

[Jason Beeferman @JasonBeeferman]

NEW: @Polymarket is spending big money to quietly pay some of the biggest stars on this platform, like @nickshirleyy, @Riley_Gaines_, @dom_lucre, @alx and its coming out of an exec's personal PayPal account.

POLITICO obtained payment records that show @MatthewModabber sent out over $2.5 million to over 800 people in 14 months, and we verified the identities of about two dozen content creators who received money. Most never disclosed the payments. W/ @mayakauf, @Jtblaeser and @declanharty

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

the national immigration debate has really made me realize how every migration debate is fundamentally really stupid

[David Ovalle @DavidOvalle305]

UPDATE: I'm starting a new job Monday as a Florida correspondent for The New York Times. Excited to work with so many talented journalists. Story ideas? Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal: davido.38 https://t.co/lR6beHvr2I

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

I’m pretty sure this was a Black Mirror episode

[Michael J. Kavanagh @mjkcongo]

(Podcast) Bloomberg Economics Africa Economist Yvonne Mhango joins Jennifer Zabasajja to discuss the possible economic impact of Ebola on Congo
https://t.co/CvZSdKQPCM

[VP @ParraV]

Actually

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Dear Scott Pelley: pull the entire 60 Minutes team together and go to MSNow and offer a package deal to recreate the show for Sunday night and call it The Hour

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

If you want proof that our health systems overlook women, just look at menopause.

In The New York Times @nytimes today, I share why I’m directing new funding to improve the standard of care for menopause and perimenopause. https://t.co/8BPLMDwxdI

[Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff]

On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.

Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.

https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI

[VP @ParraV]

Look, no one is perfect.

[Josie Stratman @JosieStratman]

Drizzy mention by Mayor Mamdani at Borough of Manhattan Community College grad 😬:

"I know a thing or two about a nontraditional path... I am a Drake fan, and I can still recognize that 'Not Like Us' is a banger. We exist. Representation matters."

[The City Reporter @THECITYNY]

An investigation by The City Reporter, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.

Full story: https://t.co/M8Yq5FnL5c

[VP @ParraV]

Catholic sisters push Palantir on human rights as faith leaders rally in New York https://t.co/c9azs4MdEo

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[–30– @30newsletter]

HuffPost needs an elections senior politics reporter. https://t.co/R8Lg5tOIpA

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

If you’re curious how this is playing in Texas, it’s on all the local news and my hygienist and dentist spent 15 mins talking about it during my root canal. Everyone’s worried about beef prices.

[VP @ParraV]

I’ve watched too many scifi movies to engage with such foolishness.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Scientists found yeast growing inside the guts of a frozen mummy for thousands of years.

They used it to create a “very, very good” sourdough bread. https://t.co/WmLfBroRIz

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.