Yui likened Beijing’s leadership to a notoriously aggressive alien species from Star Trek: “The Borg are like the Chinese Communist Party. All they say is ‘resistance is futile.'" https://t.co/U8qKHkDBuA
“When London is distracted, it defaults to you to get on with it.” My look inside the impossible job of Britain’s new ambassador to the U.S. https://t.co/nxjMo1dsw5
“And so usually, one of my first interventions is: Turn off the TV and watch it for one hour a week and watch headline news at the most. You don’t need to hear all the details over and over. … That’s what increases anxiety.” https://t.co/YixkDeTRvR
I wrote about the growing fight over who controls the data in your brain — and how that's dovetailing with broader conversations about what it means to be human: https://t.co/O8q2MjmZrw
“I don’t do ‘diplomatic speak’ very well ... they may disagree with it, but at least they understand where I’m coming from and where the United States of America is coming from.”
What Canadians Are Grudgingly Learning From Trump’s Undiplomatic Ambassador
https://t.co/F6CNP99qaC
NEW for @POLITICOMag: Our deep dive into Eric Swalwell's political rise and fall, a man whose boundary-pushing tendencies seemed to give him a sense of invincibility -- until he wasn't. With @JeremyBWhite@dlippman@riley_rogerson@dustingardiner + more
https://t.co/xIU8ylvp07
🚨 AMAZING JOB ALERT 🚨 Politico Magazine is hiring a senior staff writer! Looking for someone who can write epic profiles, engaging narratives, deep dive investigations, and loves reporting on all things politics! https://t.co/fm5fkYergr
Politico convened a roundtable of some of the best SCOTUS reporters in the game-- @joshgerstein, @jodikantor, @jamesromoser, @NinaTotenberg -- to talk about how they infiltrate the most secretive branch of government: https://t.co/1LNhV4UbW5
“And in the meantime,” I said, “you got a compliment from your dad.”
“I did get a compliment from my dad,” she said.
“First one in a long time,” she said. “Felt good.”
@michaelkruse goes deep into the world of Nancy Mace https://t.co/bJlTUg7oUI
People said the University of Austin was a right-wing project from the start. The truth is way more complicated...and interesting...
https://t.co/Ivt3cTmu6m
What’s Really Driving Trump’s Moves in Venezuela and Greenland
Smart convo on the political theory that explains Trump’s motivations, via @michaelschaffer, @ANewman_forward and @segoddard
https://t.co/GaBYQPcQjd
As Ankush just said on @MSNOW_Reports, the release of the Epstein files is more likely to amplify false conspiracy theories than to reveal hidden truths. Just because something is in an FBI 302 doesn’t mean it’s true. But good luck putting that genie back in the bottle.
For @POLITICOMag, I profiled the cohort of conservatives who are pushing MAGA to break with Israel — and re-igniting the debate about antisemitism on the right.
Just read @michaelkruse and this is easily the best profile written about Graham Platner so far. Lots of new details about his past, which has so far been mostly understood only in broad strokes, as well as the specifics on his recruitment and much more. https://t.co/qYzCpaC7EY
NEW: Steve Bannon has a warning for Republicans gloating about Mamdani’s win.
"There should be flashing red lights all over," Bannon told me. "Tonight should be a wake-up call to the populist nationalist movement."
My full Q&A with Bannon here ⬇️ https://t.co/BfUT4x2jAA