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Revealing @gabrielsherman.bsky.social piece on fear inside the GOP "that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions." As one first-term Trump admin staffer says, “They’re scared shitless” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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We’ve got an exclusive excerpt up this morning from Michael Wolff’s forthcoming Trump book, “All or Nothing” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

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GOP Senators and House members are scared of being murdered by Trump supporters if they don’t support Trump. This is fascism in America. My latest: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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“It actually felt like history is happening in front of our very eyes,” one Polish official tells @jenkirby.bsky.social in her report from Munich on fears the US is disengaging from the continent—or worse, actively working against it www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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"Trump and his allies understand the power of words, and his administration is quickly becoming one that’s obsessed with perverting their meaning," writes @mollyjongfast.bsky.social in an important column up today www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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"The Education—and Anointment—of Barron Trump" Dan Adler reports on the NYU freshman and "Trump child most readily associated with his father’s reelection" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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The fight is also deeply personal. Emil Bove, Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten were all stars together at SDNY at the same time. Bove considered himself to be Sassoon's mentor. Now, they're at war. Me in @vanityfair.com:

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Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.

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"We will see if President Donald Trump is able to buy Gaza and Greenland. But as of Monday, Trump owns Eric Adams." Chris Smith on the Mayor and the President: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

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James Robenalt talks to JFK assassination expert Jefferson Morley about the significance of Trump's order to release JFK records (followed by RFK and MLK.) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...

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In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

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"The Federal Workforce Resistance to Donald Trump Is Here" Latest from @cristianfarias.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

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For the weekend Hive newsletter, I asked Tom Kludt about the significance of Trump attending the Super Bowl

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Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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“One gets the sense that politics has gone off, like a cell phone, in the darkened theater of Pamela Paul’s mind. It is worse than wrong: It is rude.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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“Shortsighted and dangerous.” That's how one legal expert describes media giants settling with Trump rather than fighting for the First Amendment in court. @farhip.bsky.social reports: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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Where the power lies in Trump administrations, via @time.com Feb 2017 and Feb. 2025:

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Not that anything like this can surprise me any more but it is wild that the right has managed to spin government agencies subscribing to news outlets that cover the stuff they work on as some kind of left-wing conspiracy. www.axios.com/2025/02/06/t...

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Inside the Hive is back! On the latest episode, Radhika Jones, Claire Howorth and I discuss RFK Jr. www.vanityfair.com/podcast/insi...

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This just reads as naive, I’m sorry. He’s not hand-drafting these EOs. They were workshopped for a year by Russ Vought. We all covered this!

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"The FBI Is Now the Federal Bureau of…Resistance?" Chris Smith reports on pushback within the bureau: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f...

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"The anxiety arises, the retired officer contends, because 'nobody knows what’s coming next. In the military, we don’t like not knowing what’s coming next. Now it’s from within.'” Marc Wortman reports on fears of what Trump could order the military to do: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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"Donald Trump’s Constitutional Chaos Over Federal Spending Is Only Beginning" @cristianfarias.com breaks it down www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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Project 2025 is here www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

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During the 2024 race, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social was clear-eyed about Project 2025 and the stakes for a second Trump term www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

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Just thinking back to this prescient June 2023 piece: "People I spoke with predicted widespread career resignations under another MAGA presidency" "...president will purge careerists who dare to dissent against the commander in chief." www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06...

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Paramount reportedly in settlement talks with Trump over 60 Minutes case, for “which there is no evidence that the network got facts wrong or damaged the plaintiff’s reputation.” Follows ABC News settling with Trump for $15 million and Meta settling for $25 million: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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"Trump Doesn’t Want to Make Government Better—He Wants to Dismantle It" The goal, Sen. Peter Welch tells Chris Smith, is "about eviscerating [government] and essentially getting out of the way for a private market unfettered by regulations or restraint." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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I talked to @chrislhayes.bsky.social about attention becoming an "endangered resource"—and the affect on our politics and news media today. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Chris Smith asks, “How Low Is Eric Adams Willing to Go?" As Howard Wolfson sees it, “He is completely focused on staying out of jail. Everything else is subsidiary or downstream from that. The idea of being reelected is not at all what animates his activity.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...

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Given all the post-election Dems-need-a-Joe-Rogan discourse, Andrew Fedorov takes a deep look at Chapo Trap House, talking to the hosts about riding the Bernie wave and their frustrations with the party establishment as Trump returns. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Donald Trump’s first day back in office culminated in a sea of executive orders—a zone once again flooded with shit. Some of those orders were ceremonial (“promoting beautiful federal civic architecture”); others were PR stunts more fitting for his reality show www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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With Trump again dominating attention, can Democrats break through? Sweeping James Pogue feature out today on the state of the party—and plotting a way forward. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

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"Society doesn’t allow women of color to be vulnerable at work," Karine Jean-Pierre writes in a revealing first-person piece for @vanityfair.com. "When you’re a first, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/k...

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Welcome to the Next Four Years: @vanityfair.com reporters, editors, and contributors weigh in on Day 1 — and beyond www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Andrew Cuomo is making all the moves to run for NYC mayor in 2025 — though, allies say, "he hasn’t completely let go of the idea of running for governor in 2026." Chris Smith reports: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

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“I don’t think he intends to pack reporters off to Guantánamo,” one cable news vet tells @farhip.bsky.social, “but who the hell knows.” On the state of the White House press corps as Trump returns: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

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"We’d all assumed the Big One would be an earthquake, never imagined that Mother Nature might have a different apocalypse scripted for this city." VF's Joy Press recounts a week in wildfire-torn Los Angeles:

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“We beg our reporters to never go to a White House press briefing…. That’s a good chunk of your day lost.” --@JimVandeHei www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

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I’ve worked with Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen and have a sense of what they want in a reporter—yet still learned quite a bit from this @nataliekorach.bsky.social sitdown with the Axios cofounders on political media and preparing for Trump's return. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a...

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With Tom Brady on the call for today's Eagles/Packers playoff game, Tom Kludt sizes up his rookie season, which will wrap with the Super Bowl, and his future in the booth. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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"How Prince Harry Planted a Ticking Time Bomb Under the Murdoch Empire" Clive Irving reports on the upcoming trial: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

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Latest @newyorker.com cover

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