Michael Scherer
@michaelscherer
Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Ex. WaPo. "You must be or you wouldn’t have come here.” Signal: michaelscherer.11 Also: @michaelscherer.bsky.social
When a new baseball manager comes in and tells the clubhouse that the team's future will be built on innovative hot dog toppings and premium seat cushions--only to find out that the fans like winning ball games.
Dave Jorgenson, star of The Washington Post’s YouTube channel, said that Will Lewis rolled “out the red carpet” for him to quit this month with a memo encouraging staff to consider a buyout. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
Thrilled about my new role @newrepublic, joining Michael and his excellent team of writers and editors.
I'm very excited to announce that @perrybaconjr will be joining the @newrepublic as a staff writer next month. Perry is one of the sharpest analysts of American politics out there, and we're thrilled to have him aboard!
“After she was arrested by ICE in Lenoir City, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus ended up at the Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana, where she experienced the unimaginable. After pleading for medical help for days, she lost her mid-term pregnancy.”
Some redistricting news: MISSOURI Republicans are discussing a new 7R-1D map that would crack Dem Rep Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City district The WH, which pushed TX to redistrict, is on board, per sources familiar The current map is 6R-2D punchbowl.news/article/campai…
foreign ministers of 25 us allies release statement calling for immediate ceasefire in gaza: “the israeli govt's aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives gazans of human dignity. we condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians.”
Anyone have a revenue score lying around on options for changing the capital-gains home sale exclusion?
This amendment has been accepted
New: House Republicans are trying to rename part of the Kennedy Center for Melania Trump. A GOP amendment on the Interior spending bill states “That the Opera House located in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts shall be known and designated as the ‘First Lady…
Link to @JoeBudden's full article done by the @nytimes nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…
On Casablancas: theguardian.com/fashion/2013/j…
UNEARTHED: Donald Trump judges the 1991 Look of the Year modeling competition organized by Elite Model Management, featuring participants as young at 14-years-old. A 2020 Guardian investigation into Elite's Look of the Year competition uncovered allegations from former…
How do you explain Gallup?
Well, it finally happened. Donald Trump's job performance is better than Obama's was.... On this date in 2009!
One year ago today, the @washingtonpost's recap of a monumentally historic decision: "Biden dropped out. This is how it happened," by @michaelscherer @tylerpager @jdawsey1 @AshleyRParker @yabutaleb7 washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
DNI TUSLI GABBARD: "It's worse than even politicization of intelligence… It was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama's and his team's objective, which was undermining President Trump."
DNI TUSLI GABBARD: "It's worse than even politicization of intelligence… It was manufactured intelligence that sought to achieve President Obama's and his team's objective, which was undermining President Trump."
1. Here's a very unfortunate chart from an otherwise extremely interesting op-ed
San Francisco’s weather is famously unpredictable, a city where conditions can shift drastically from block to block. Chronicle meteorologist Anthony Edwards has curated a list of six neighborhoods representing S.F.'s major microclimates. sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/…
Disputes over the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein-files investigation may reveal splits in the president’s base. @LACaldwellDC, @stephenfhayes, @meridithmcgraw, and @michaelscherer join @jeffreygoldberg to discuss on @washingtonweek: theatln.tc/Uye453Hb
The timing and optics are terrible, but Stephen Colbert’s show costs more than $100M a year to produce and is losing more than $40M a year. CBS execs had been mulling for a long time whether to pull the plug. Details ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/was-colberts-c…
🚨Israel just bombed the very Gazan church Pope Francis used to call daily during the genocide They injured the very priest, Gabriele Romanelli, who used to update the Pope on the situation. 2 church goers were killed, 6 wounded.
@JuddLegum, and there's Reuters on a Trump doodle of the Empire State Building: reuters.com/article/lifest… #TrumpEpsteinBestBuddies #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
Trump told the WSJ that it was impossible he wrote a 2003 birthday message to Epstein, which featured a bawdy line drawing of a woman, because "I never wrote a picture in my life." This is a lie In 2005, Trump drew picture of the NYC skyline for a charity auction. It was…