John Light

I am an editor at @TPM. Formerly @BillMoyers, @Grist, @WNYC, some other places.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

come on people

[Seth Hettena @seth_hettena]

Working for @FBIDirectorKash means @_WilliamsonBen has to spend his time explaining why the @FBI should not respond to a post by @ifindretards.

Found in the FBI vault: https://t.co/ikrrNjt7Ge

[John Light @john_a_light]

"Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx is looking at more than $50,000 in fines in what the Elections Division of the Office of the Secretary of State calls 'unprecedented' campaign finance violations." https://t.co/Wy83aovoXO

[John Light @john_a_light]

"Prosecutors in Miami closed the Betancourt investigation on orders from the office of then-DAG Todd Blanche ... part of an effort by White House officials and Marco Rubio to enlist Betancourt to engineer a massive new oil deal with Venezuela’s govt" https://t.co/5X9ejK4yyA

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

Bari Weiss personally directed this morning’s CBS News headline about Abdul El-Sayed to be tweaked to specifically mention deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attacks

New from @oliverdarcy

https://t.co/vR0sNlaIZP

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

This is unusual: a Washington Post columnist is calling for the prosecution of the newspaper’s sources

[Talking Points Memo @TPM]

DHS allegedly used a sneaky, highly unusual maneuver to access a Minnesota reporter's phone records, and to seek information about YouTube videos posted by other journalists and commentators. https://t.co/WPpmzITxCZ

[Josh Kovensky @JoshKovensky]

W/@bae_lay: We're exclusively publishing Trump admin plans to alter the 2030 Census in a way that, critics say, will systematically undercount the population of blue states, diminishing their Congressional delegations

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

>> @tonydokoupil: "So much is going on in the country, with prices, with war in Iran, with wildfire smoke — people can hardly breathe across multiple states at this hour — and the president is drawing the nation's attention once again to this subject. Why?"

[Ben Pershing @benpershing]

Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.

https://t.co/KypBxbT9XI

[John Light @john_a_light]

This (extremely wrong) story caused a major freakout.

[Washington Reporter @DC_Reporter]

NEWS:

President Trump is planning to announce that Georgia's two senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, are illegitimate because of fraud, a well-placed source in Georgia tells us. Announcement could come as soon as tonight.

[Mike Sisak @mikesisak]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — AP Exclusive: ICE officer who shot Maine migrant has history of threatening behavior, family and court documents say.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Reminder:

To create thousands of fake voters, you'd need to first create thousands of fake social security entries.

And you'd need to create fake residences, where the mail wouldn't go undeliverable.

Then you'd need to create fake identification for these people to show up and vote.

AND

There would be a record of all of these fake voters, with full name, DOB, and address. You'd be able to point to specific entries.

Because whether or not you registered, and whether or not you voted, is a public record.

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

There’s a lot to this alleged claim. Former officials claim, as Reuters reported today, that at there were previous debates about China and voter data. The thinking was that China likely purchased the voter data, which is publicly available online. There was no evidence China changed details of that data at scale or that it changed the vote, officials say.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

So the guy in charge of prosecuting antifa “domestic terrorists” is himself one of the j6 boys …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 https://t.co/pTRoa8uNkN via @TPM

[Josh Kovensky @JoshKovensky]

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6

https://t.co/ujJUH0JaqP

[Noah Goldberg @Noah__Goldberg]

Washington Post editorial board weighs in on LA mayoral race and inaccurately asserts a talking point that has been bandied about X over the last week: that Nithya Raman conceded on election night. That didn’t happen.

https://t.co/6QZ7PvC1VS

[Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias]

New for @TPM: My look at how a recently-retired top immigration official getting celebrity treatment at a conference of outright fascists, and admitting to a friendship with a Nazi like Martin Sellner, should be a giant giant giant scandal https://t.co/V0zf1Xz0iJ

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

In a new court filing, the Southern Poverty Law Center says DOJ inappropriately sent a draft grand jury indictment of SPLC to reporters, with even the prosecutor in the case unaware of what was going on. https://t.co/Ij4WbXV2ut