David Weigel
@daveweigel
Covering politics for @semafor. Alum: @washingtonpost, @business, @slate. [email protected]. Buy my book: http://tinyurl.com/h7wyg2c
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Pleased to announce @blowbackpod SEASON 6, coming fall 2025 from me and @nkulw Teaser:
Comedian Tim Dillion says he had dinner with VP JD Vance last week and they discussed the Epstein files Dillion says Vance told him Trump admin does not have videos of “any powerful person in a comprising position”
Jones: Trump admin’s heavily implicated. Dillon: I had dinner last week with @VP. He told me it was just commercial porn and no videos of powerful ppl in compromising positions. But if that’s true, why would Bondi say it’s evidence? It just feels like they’re covering something.…
Massie with a binder of this Epstein bill. “We’re going to do this.”
Hi, flood plain expert here — good place to found a city, especially if there’s a natural wonder nearby. But you do risk flooding when sea levels rise, if you create too many industrial zones.
speaking as an actuary, i simply love the "you're on a 1-100 flood plain" and her asking "what year are we on?" just fantastic. you understand, intellectually, that basically no one can think statistically but seeing it in action like this is <chef's kiss>
Sorry but he’s not very good
Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia
In which @CathyYoung63 does the work -- again. Thank you, Cathy. thebulwark.com/p/gabbard-garb…
The plan is for Trump to be able to blame the courts for not making more information public. slate.trib.al/E9rqmRM
Well, I'll give it this: That's an original creation, not cribbed from anyone or anything at all. There's nothing else on the Internet or in all of human existence that looks quite like this.
Jasmeet Bains, a highly-touted Dem recruit against Valadao, suggests in a launch interview that she voted for him in 2020 - she "wasn't going to vote for TJ Cox," the Dem who lost that year, bc of corruption allegations.
Some battle lines being drawn in #CA22 -> Working Families Party endorsing Randy Villegas not long after Reps. Adam Gray, Rivas, Chu, Friedman, Min, Brownley, Norma Torres endorse Jasmeet Bains
New Jersey's constitution explicitly bans mid-decade redistricting
#NEW: Gov. Phil Murphy says that there are currently no plans to redraw New Jersey's congressional map, but that he doesn't rule out the possibility. newjerseyglobe.com/redistricing/m…
"We watched Joe Biden turn 80, and then 81, and then 82. We watched him get old in front of our eyes. And that does not mean he was incapacitated."
Another Hunter Biden interview up today - with @harrisonjaime. That's 4+ hours of Hunter for you. youtube.com/watch?v=HVqiWu…