Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona
Senior reporter @independent Past: @zeteo_news media columnist, senior media reporter @thedailybeast Send tips/hate mail to [email protected]
Some professional news: I am excited to announce that I will be joining @Independent as a senior reporter later this month. So if you have some juicy tips, make sure you hit me up at the email in my bio. I also want to thank @mehdirhasan for my time at @zeteo_news. I truly…
"If the United Nations continues its antisemitism, the US must withdraw support" By Rep. Elise Stefanik September 25, 2024 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/316571…
Trump says in a statement: “I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter."
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North Carolina GOP Senate Polling: Lara Trump: 65% Thom Tillis: 11% Undecided: 24% Victory Insights / Nov 29, 2024 / n=800
Former Daily Beast journalist Allison Quinn’s 8-year-old son Aedrik is in a fight for his life. If you can spare something to help these great humans, the GoFundMe is here. gofund.me/c493aaaa
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What this party needs is someone who left office in disgrace after covering up the police killing of a teenager.
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You can’t make this shit up. Trump spent the entire end of his campaign attacking Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney and their war record and yet his pick for national security adviser is… wait for it… the former counterterrorism adviser to VP Dick Cheney. 🤦🏽♂️ politico.com/news/2024/11/1…
According to what Chris Wallace is telling The Daily Beast, he's leaving CNN to try out podcasting. Of course, as The Ankler reported last month, Wallace was recently offered significantly less than his original $8.5 million contract to stay at CNN. theankler.com/p/cnn-star-sal…
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Wallace is quitting CNN after three years as one of its biggest stars, he told the Daily Beast. trib.al/iwfx0p4
Lee Zeldin, Trump's appointee to head up the EPA, has a 14% lifetime score on the League of Conservation Voters environmental scorecard. scorecard.lcv.org/moc/lee-zeldin

The Atlantic just announced that it has hired Jonathan Chait as a staff writer.


The national average price of gasoline has *just* fallen to its lowest level in 1,281 days, since May 2021, according to GasBuddy data. #gasprices
Kamala Harris's campaign has said no such thing. She's conceded the race. The election is over and Trump will become president on 20 January. 18 million views for this clickbait nonsense.
The “15 million missing Biden voters” tweets are useful — everyone tweeting that last week has a rudimentary misunderstanding of how votes are counted, and you can just ignore the rest of their takes.
You might remember Sen. Markwayne Mullin as the guy who, just about a year ago, challenged Teamsters president Sean O’Brien to a physical fight on live TV. Trump is now considering him as a cabinet secretary. The latest from @reesejgorman @NOTUSreports: notus.org/trump-2024/mar…
Let's check out what kind of ads are currently running on Trump's Truth Social feed.

Obviously this is a very serious and truthful list, considering it has John Thune voting for Cornyn rather than himself.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A GOP Senate Source has leaked the internal whip-count for the Leadership Vote. The final votes will be on a secret ballot Wednesday. Here is where the race stands now… Cornyn (18) Scott (11) Thune (24) Banks - Thune Barrasso - Thune Blackburn - Thune Boozman -…