Zack Stanton
@zackstanton
I edit @playbookdc at @politico. Macomb County native. Signal: zstanton.01 Email: [email protected]
In 1967, a Black man and white woman bought a home. American politics would never be the same. My magnum opus on Macomb County, racism, George Romney, why America's suburbs stayed so white for so long — and what's happening now that they aren't: politico.com/news/magazine/…
From @DouthatNYT, a good case for changing your mind when the facts change. nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opi…
Breaking News: Hulk Hogan has died at age 71 Story developing tmz.com/2025/07/24/hul…
Trump administration chooses Darren Beattie — a man who, in 2024, wrote “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work” — to lead the U.S. Institute of Peace politi.co/4f88aRW
I’m told Ghislaine Maxwell was granted a limited form of immunity in exchange for speaking with the DOJ, confirming @KFaulders. The immunity (proffer agreement) is often offered to people whom prosecutors want to cooperate (and Maxwell has already been tried and found guilty) +…
Healthy?
Blue Bell is making ice cream healthy again by removing all artificial dyes. Proud to have a distribution location in KCK🍦
NEW: In a sign of what could be in store for other targets of Trump & his allies, Media Matters (@mmfa) is struggling to survive. The Dem-aligned group has racked up $15m in legal bills, dialed back its criticism of Trump & Musk & contemplated closing. nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/…
“Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.” washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
A new precedent has been set for corporate dealmaking in America. Hard to see how this type of pressure campaign won’t extend to all types of regulatory approval processes across sectors, as well as government contract deals. axios.com/2025/07/24/sky…
ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors, from @dmac1 @SilviaElenaFF washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…
Scoop: RNC Chair Michael Whatley will run for Senate in North Carolina — with Trump's support politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
Trump, Xi, Modi, Putin, Erdoğan, Netanyahu, Ramaphosa, Lula — all of them are in their 70s. In fact, more than half of the world’s population, and much of its military capacity, is in the hands of men who are older than Reagan when he entered the WH ft.com/content/1d41a5…
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
🚨 NEWS: Bill Huizenga passes on U.S. Senate bid for open seat in Michigan #MISen detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @detroitnews
“I don’t suppose that this is the number-one issue for voters in America by any stretch, but it may be the number-one issue for the *loudest* voters,” @BrendanBuck tells @adamwren politico.com/newsletters/pl…
Read @DashaBurns on the sour, frustrated mood at the White House politico.com/news/2025/07/2…
US-funded contraceptives to be burned rather than distributed to poor nations reuters.com/legal/litigati…
Sarah Longwell had a good take on this. Everyone who cared about Epstein knew about his friendship with Trump. Trump overcame that by vowing to release all the documents. It’s his decision to go back on that vow — not any new information — that has rocked MAGA.
cannot emphasize enough how crazy it is that none of this oppo was done and turned into ads ahead of the election
I had brief phone call with President Trump this morning. When asked about the wedding photos showing Epstein attended, he responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up. cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…
.@KFILE found lots more of Trump and Epstein together — Epstein as a guest at Trump’s second wedding, the two “laughing and chatting” at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion event, the two in 2000 at Mar-a-Lago w/Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…