Tori Otten

Half-n-half. Deputy breaking news editor for @newrepublic. Previously English desk for @AFP. Thoughts my own. She/her.

[. @GregTSargent]

SCOOP --> I talked to Paulina Mangubat, who was doxed by Stephen Miller's wife over the "ugly f--k" tweet. She stands by it 100 percent.

“What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated," she says:

https://t.co/fDu8XJRzWo

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

Spain’s Prime Minister, on the ceasefire, says Spain 'will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

[Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani @AdrienneMahsa]

Haven't talked to most of my family in Iran in weeks and now I'm about to throw up wondering how we're expected to just sit here and wait to see what Trump means by "a whole civilization will die tonight"

[Tori Otten @teotten1]

Anyway, if you need me, I'll be losing my mind

[Tori Otten @teotten1]

Is he doing this so he can stay within his initial 4-6 week timeframe?

We're currently at 5 weeks. It doesn't get more than that

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump to declare Iran war is winding down and others need to resolve Hormuz https://t.co/ehuEIRpIVr

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Good points here

But I’ll add: Hegseth is still trying to kick journalists out of the Pentagon press office … into an “annex” outside

At a time of war

[Violet @JiraViolet]

NEW: TMZ has decided to up their presence in the political space — they’ve even added a Hill team.

“Our DC presence will be sometimes fun, sometimes intensely serious,” Harvey Levin told @NOTUSreports

Comes as TMZ blasts lawmakers for leaving D.C.
https://t.co/Sl8icAw3ZF

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

NEW: CBS will eliminate its century-old CBS News Radio service and cut more newsroom jobs as new top editor Bari Weiss's rocky tenure gets rockier.

[Shaun Tandon @shauntandon]

Certainly not allusion Japanese want to hear. Trump, asked about Iran strategy as he meets PM Takaichi: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan, OK? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I really hate that so many people are attacking Kat Abughazaleh for finishing in second yesterday. She came out of nowhere, built an impressive campaign, and if she sticks with it, she’s gonna have a bright future in whatever she decides to do next. Let’s stop tearing people down when they fall short—it’s not necessary.

[edie olmsted @edieocre]

In his first year in office, Trump disrupted at least $12 billion toward K-12 education. Rather than fund schools, the U.S. bombed them.

[Tori Otten @teotten1]

@dannyctkemp DC baby!

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

🚨ALERT: ICE HAS DISAPPEARED NASHVILLE NOTICIAS REPORTER ESTEFANY RODRÍGUEZ

"We don't know where she is," her husband Alejandro told me, though the ICE detainee locator had put her in Alabama. Now it shows zero results for her.

Last he heard from his wife was 10am Wednesday in the hours after ICE abducted her outside their gym off the Murfreesboro Pike in South Nashville where her clearly marked press vehicle was surrounded by unmarked vehicles full of masked agents. This is a developing story.

[. @GregTSargent]

Trump's Iran quagmire is worsening. Note this pattern:

*Leavitt/Hegseth berating media for making Trump "look bad"
*Rs privately say they don't want ownership of Iran attack
*GOP avoiding using word "war"

On the pod @teotten1 and I dig into all of it:
https://t.co/tjGq5Szaz2

[BrandGully @BrandGully]

Wow.

NPR.

This one deserves a big out-of-home push.

[Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid @hafiz_rashid]

People are noticing

[amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17]

The reality is that most of you do not need to have your doorbell be a 24 hour surveillance camera. It is lunacy to pretend the mass adoption of an Amazon owned home monitoring system is necessary.

[JP Finlay @JPFinlayNBCS]

Commanders leave 3 seats open for The Washington Post and Dan Quinn says what a loss it is to not have them covering the team

[Hometown Virginia 🏗️ @arlvabikelanes]

DC is cursed to have great reporters and terrible publishers (bezos, whoever ran WAMU).

So sad to give up on once-great newsrooms.