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Trumpworld and Elon Musk reporter. Contributor for WIRED & CJR. Author of Straight from the Hut, a campaign/comms strategy newsletter: https://straightfromthehut.substack.com/ (Signal: Leak2Lahut.26)
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Testament to The Apprentice in pure film craft terms that Roger Stone has re-plugged it after already calling for Strong to get an Oscar. Not happy with his own character’s portrayal, but a willing participant in the Oscar campaign nonetheless..

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At one point in the speech, Trump told Bolsonaro’s son (who was in attendance bc of course) to “say hi to your father,” who may be heading to prison

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Okay running back the tape — Matt Schlapp’s brief remarks before Trump sounded kinda like a final speech??

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One of those times where I'm reminded of the Mayor of Las Vegas going on Fox during covid to propose the casinos become a live non-placebo double blind trial for the virus by reopening in like March-April 2020

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I've seen enough, we need David Raya on the wing.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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I would love to get inside the mind of someone who sets their Signal timer for like 5 minutes

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Me, watching the title race slip from this Arsenal team’s hands

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This might finally be the morning when I have my Arsenal premier league title race crashout

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Trying to sell journalism on a smartphone and smushing it into the same category of “content” — all entertainment in human history, plus other stuff — is like trying to run a library in a casino. Could work, but tough atmosphere

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yo what

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Donald Trump just credited a statement from, of all people, Trey Gowdy as effectively securing Kash Patel’s nomination as FBI director. Adds Patel may go down “as the best ever.”

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Oh boy, Trump answering questions after the Lutnick swearing-in. Currently talking about the US Postal Service — "a tremendous loser for our country" — merging with the Dpt of Commerce

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Every once in a while I think back to this quote I got from a Trump adviser about Corey Lewandowski rejoining the campaign (remember that?) which might be instructive re Elon Musk:

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It’s like the tech bros can only conceptualize of employment as “writing code on a beach in Bali” and not as “actually have to be in an office, or a lab, or a depot, or on a beat, or on a train or on a truck, and delivering services people depend on — every day.”

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I did not think I could see this type of graph get any crazier until I saw this. And check the dip with the young men

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Quite literally the worst guy you know — not the meme, just this:

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The Vivek campaign may have just entered “chat, are we cooked?” territory before it even began. Jim Tressel, the legendary Ohio State coach, just dropped a campaign website with a countdown ticker. He’s a Republican. (h/t @adamwren.bsky.social) t.co/1gPu4MbKKU

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I’ve got a fevah, and the only cure is more Dave Gilbert

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Really, really good occasion to re-up this highly prescient @ursulaperano.bsky.social story on Big Jim and the logistical challenges of getting him to & from the chamber floor www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

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My sweet Tomi 😢

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NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

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I know a number of people who were at this event (Tonko is my hometown Congressman)

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Had a great time joining Pivot to talk DOGE, Elon, and the amazing team @wired.com that’s been covering the chaos.

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