John Bowden

Politics for the @Independent, with a focus on the Senate and 2026.

Proud @elonuniversity alum

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[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

@Seanfucious @EricMGarcia He's not, trust me

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

BREAKING:

The Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth after Charlie Kirk's killing. I fought back.

I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post.

They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. ✊🏾

https://t.co/TISoTvFFO9

[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

@KarenAttiah HUGE W. Congrats Karen!!!!

[Covie @covie_93]

Jake Lang, seen here holding a sign calling Black parents "failures" while wearing an ankle monitor, has been arrested again.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

One reason I am reflexively skeptical of the AI industry’s claims is that the very people we are supposed to hail as geniuses also completely failed to anticipate that branding their antichrist box the Best-Case-Mass-Layoffs-Worst-Cast-Extinction Machine was a non-savvy PR move.

[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

@EricMGarcia My brain is leaking out of my ears after reading this

[NOTUS @NOTUSreports]

A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.
https://t.co/4klxEBKSPq

[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

[Legal Eagle 🦅 @AllThingsCivil]

In a normal world, the story would be that our State Dept got caught leaking documents to right wing accounts to shape public perceptions on Cuba

Here, the bigger story is that account is so clueless they thought it was a set up and exposed the whole thing to the Internet

[Nick Field @nick_field90]

"A reporter for The New York Times was blocked at the door by Kean’s spokesman, who claimed that the event was private and that the media was not welcome. Hours later he acknowledged that at least one reporter, Liz Elkind of Fox News, had been invited in" https://t.co/JocGpM3tlG

[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

Nice to see this fake thing that's literally been around since I was an undergrad still going strong

[Ad Fontes Media @adfontesmedia]

New flagship Media Bias Chart features 134 web, podcast and TV/video sources. Please, we beg you, read this before asking why a news source you know isn’t on here. https://t.co/l5jThYCKO1

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

A very Bari Weiss-era CBS move to have footage of Hasan Piker cued up like this, only for Angie Nixon to have to correct them.

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

It’s really quite striking that the NRSC isn’t beating around the bush… they are begging for big tech to bring in reinforcements pronto in Ohio.

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

For the third consecutive week, a candidate trading at greater than 90% odds of winning has lost their race.

I have no issue with these markets existing, but I do have an issue with anyone who pretends they have predictive value.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

Back in the day, Sen. Kennedy said of Lindsey Graham "if you want to stump Lindsey, ask him to name a country he wouldn't bomb." The fact his sister didn't know this and just offered a perfunctory line that "I support the military" reveals how out of her depth she is.

[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

"The process on the appropriations committee is not the most exciting necessarily, but we've been able to hold them accountable, and sometimes with our bipartisan Republican House colleagues.”
https://t.co/dTI3tRfmIH

[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

Chatted with @Grace4NY about how a Dem majority would respond to Trump 2.0.

“Oversight and appropriations go hand in hand," she told me.

[Kieran Sheikh Blunnie @KieranBlunnie]

"Oversight and appropriations go hand in hand," @Grace4NY told @j_bowden4 for @Independent.

"The process on the appropriations committee is... not necessarily the most sexy... but this is an effective way that we can hold them accountable."

https://t.co/GfX1w4mxEU

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Flock routinely rewards themselves for being the most transparent company in the industry.

Last week they banned ticket-holding journalists from their Flock Forward event.

Then, they quite literally had an employee contact a hotel on my behalf and cancel my room reservation.

[John Bowden @j_bowden4]

I'm not sure we really need to have the J-school debate for the 15th time on this platform...