Daniel Stublen
@dstublen
Washington-based editor/writer for @AFP. Followers will see a disproporionate amount of tweets about North Carolina and French politics + science and food.
Thanks to @politico Playbook for highlighting @AFP coverage of growing crisis in Nigeria 🇳🇬 Read the story: u.afp.com/SgYi @SusanNjanji @_stopdropnroll_
Joint statement on Gaza from @AFP, @AP, @BBCWorld and @Reuters
Important Epstein context—other presidents would have just said "I don't control the DOJ decision-making" washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
After near-daily posts, @FBIDDBongino has not tweeted in two weeks since the Epstein DOJ memo
I’m a big Big Bird fan. Mr. Snuffleupagus*, too. But my biggest concern w/ the public media cuts is not about either, but rather what the cuts may mean for statehouse reporting— &, by extension, our knowledge of state government. (1/8 🧵)
Kudos to team @Venmo for their longterm dedication to not refining their people search function.
Periodic reminder that the Senate Intel Committee, led at the time by a certain future secretary of state Marco Rubio, concluded this in its comprehensive review of Russian interference in the 2016 election: intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
Top US intel official either does not understand difference b/t foreign influence campaign and attacks on election infrastructure--or is purposefully obfuscating while accusing Americans of "treasonous coup."
🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the…
Pentagon's 5 things it "did this week" leads with withdrawing DOD speakers from Aspen forum, "which is hosted by an organization that promotes the evils of globalism." Ends with AI contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI.
To our warfighters, and the American taxpayers we will continue to deliver on our promise of transparency. This is what we did this week🇺🇸
Trump questioned about his supporters' interest in Jeffrey Epstein case: "I don't understand it... He's dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life."
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I had not seen this Fox News extended interview with Trump from 2024 — where they deliberately edited his Epstein answer — where he won’t commit to releasing the full files because of “phony” stuff in it.
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ICYMI: Abbott’s agenda item on redistricting referenced a DOJ letter calling on TX to redraw maps in light of new precedent on coalition districts. One issue: the state has consistently said it’s never considered race in map-drawing W @eklib texastribune.org/2025/07/11/tex…
Trump has done it: reversed the anti-immigrant sentiment in America news.gallup.com/poll/692522/su…
It is true that there would not be a Medicaid problem if Medicaid did not exist.
We wouldn’t be in this damn mess w Medicaid if Dems had not pushed the Great Society Programs which destroyed the nuclear family and now 52% of the births in NC are born to mothers on Medicaid.
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MURKOWSKI tells reporters she wants the House to send OBBB back to the Senate to continue the work. She voted for it. "My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we're not there yet," Murkowski said
Elon pretty famously had some strong words for people who dared to “blackmail” him
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis won't seek reelection. The news comes a day after the North Carolina lawmaker voted against Trump's domestic policy bill. cnn.it/4kdjRb6