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DOJ pushes FBI to review, release more Epstein files amid mounting pressure from Trump supporters abcnews.go.com/US/doj-pushe...

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Congressional appropriators, the lawmakers with jurisdiction over government funding, were once among the most powerful figures on Capitol Hill. Those days might be over.

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TFW you don't bother to check the Otter transcription before you file your copy

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Archaeology dig at St. John’s, Western Run Episcopal Church uncovers Stone Age scraping tool.

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Chief Justice John Roberts, in a rare statement, is pushing back against Trump’s calls to impeach judges who rule against him ⬇️

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Before this year, the last time a member of the House introduced a resolution to impeach a lower court judge solely because of legal disagreements was Ron Paul in 1981. (Paul has since forgotten what motivated him to do so)

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Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania has introduced a bill to make St. Patrick's Day a federal holiday www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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An assemblywoman who leads the Brooklyn Democratic Party and who has been a key backer of Mayor Eric Adams endorsed his main rival in the upcoming mayoral election, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on Sunday.

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POLITICO Weekend.

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Not since LBJ lost Walter Cronkite . . .

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This IS coherent. Let me try: For decades, the globalists and laptop class benefited from free trade and outsourcing, and now they're going to have to pay to rebalance jobs and trade for the working class. I get it. But Trump didn't run on pain. He ran on making everything cost what it did in 2019.

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wild

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Trump is pressing a small group of Republican holdouts to fall in line with the GOP stopgap spending bill ahead of Friday's shutdown deadline. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders are whipping all their members to vote against it.

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New: HFC Rep. Eric Burlison tells me he’s closer to a yes on the CR after convos & assurances from Trump’s team/Russ Vought over weekend. “By passing the CR, we are kind of unlocking some things the Trump administration can use to reduce spending whether it’s through impoundment or rescissions.”

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The shorter Camden Yards left field wall is popular with righties. But don’t discount the impact on lefties. “It’ll free you up to hit the ball all over the yard.” On the return of an all-field approach: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/oriol...

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tesla has lost around $100bn in market value but no one can tweet about it

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Republicans in Congress are quietly getting Elon Musk’s cuts to their districts reversed. Democrats are not getting their calls returned: www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...

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NEW: NASA eliminates Office of Chief Scientist, DEI and other offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/10/n...

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🚨Initial Inside Elections House ratings are live! The House will be the main event in the 2026 midterms — we see 10 races starting as toss-ups.

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Humans Have Been Perfecting Avocados for 7,500 Years www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/s...

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Never Is a Long, Long Time: Permanent Ineligibility and the Hall of Fame

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King Charles III apparently listens to Beyonce www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/a...

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Twitter Jerry Jones 🤝 Not planning to be active during free agency

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I pair what Vance is doing with the timidity of modern Dem coms. Politico's Elena Schneider did an interview w Walz and a Harris source demanded anonymity for a totally bland quote on it. They are just terrified of stepping out of the box. Vance doesn't even know where the box is.

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If the idea of more and more NYPD surveillance kind of creeps you out, I have bad news for you. The new police commissioner is ready to double down. 🧵 nymag.com/intelligence...

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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

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NEW on CNN: Darren Beattie, the acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy —one of Trump’s most senior State Department appointees — deleted tweets spreading unfounded rumors that Rubio attended gay foam parties and calling him “low IQ.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...

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Tough on high bread prices, tough on the causes of high bread prices.

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Exclusive: Former Vice President Kamala Harris is seriously considering a run for governor of California. And she's given herself a deadline to decide.

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The Trump administration on Friday forced out a handful of senior Justice Department officials, further thinning the ranks of career officials who help guide the agency, according to several people familiar with the actions.

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You won't be able to apologize to them because they will be too busy greeting you as a liberator

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Fun Friday Read!

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To get an inside look at what it’s like to serve in Congress, we sat down with 25 lawmakers who were ready to dish. Here’s what they told us👇

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Trump is now saying "any Farmer" from South Africa can come to the US and rapidly become a citizen

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I wrote about the drama today in the House with Al Green's censure and the singing that accompanied it for @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/s...

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I had an item in @politico.com Playbook this morning: A plate commemorating Miles Taylor's service as Chief of staff at DHS has been removed. Taylor famously was Trump admin appointee who wrote a 2018 NYT op-ed describing himself as part of the internal resistance to Trump

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A text from a White House advisor to me:

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With Wayne Gretzky maintaining a public silence so far about criticism from fellow Canadians upset over his support for President Trump, his wife Janet Gretzky wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, “I have never met anyone who is more Proud to be a Canadian.”

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NEW: Sources tell me that US Attorney for DC Ed Martin just demoted multiple senior attorneys who oversaw the January 6th prosecutions. The lawyers were told they would now handle low-level crime cases usually given to junior AUSAs. Martin sent the demotion email himself, per a msg I saw. 1/

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I wrote about the Epstein files influencer 'clusterfuck'

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NEW: Trump’s Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia had begun demoting top officials in the office, several sources tell NBC News.

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Scoop: In a tense off-the-record meeting with reporters that went off-the rails, the Pentagon's new press chief indicated they'll do away with the travel pool. He also scolded reporters for their coverage. "It was bleak and horrible," I'm told. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/pressed-at...

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I went over to X to see if this post linked out to anything. Nope. It's just citing a reporter who frequently does "NEW" or "BREAKING" posts about widely-known info, like Indivisible being liberal and funded by Soros. (Third image is an 8-year old story about that.)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says going through ‘Russia hoax’ with Putin gives him confidence he could trust Russian leader in Ukraine talks.

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I will never stop respecting gene hackman having Welcome To Mooseport as his last film and being completely ok with that and then just retiring and staying retired

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Among the names floated for the Florida House seat that Byron Donalds is vacating to run for Governor are Madison Cawthorn, Chris Collins and Jim Oberweis floridapolitics.com/archives/723...

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