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Conservative ‘News’ Site’s Secret: It’s Run by Trump’s Super PAC
Lachlan Markay - The Daily Beast 3d 2 tweets
The American Herald calls itself “a conservative news platform.” It’s actually just an extension of the Trump political machine.
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Alex Thompson Trump’s Super Pac has launched its own “news” site: The American Herald via ⁦⁩ 3d
QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
NBC News 4d 18 tweets
The investigation’s preliminary results shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on Facebook.
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Alex Thompson QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show 4d
Trump’s path to winning Pa. runs through small rustbelt towns — like one near Biden’s hometown Scranton
The Philadelphia Inquirer - https://www.inquirer.com 6d 2 tweets
If Trump rebounds from a slide in the polls to win Pennsylvania again, it will be partly thanks to smaller cities like Carbondale scattered all across the state.
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Alex Thompson “I’m just sorry I didn’t wake up soon enough to vote for [Trump] the first time” Good ⁦⁩ piece from PA that’s a reminder that some places have become even more Republican since 2016, even if the suburbs have become more liberal. 6d
How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own
Tripp Mickle - WSJ 6d 10 tweets
The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs’s creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history.
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Alex Thompson WSJ works on big Tim Cook profile. Apple says no interviews w/ executives but comms gives them 4 outside ppl in do-goody ventures to talk to. None said they knew him well. 1 had never even met him. 6d
Justice Democrats candidate accused of inappropriate sexual behavior
POLITICO 6d 4 tweets
Three different groups of Massachusetts College Democrats have disinvited Holyoke, Mass., Mayor Alex Morse from future events.
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Alex Thompson NEWS w/ : Justice Dems candidate Alex Morse accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by three MA College Dems groups most serious allegation is "sexual contact" w/ students at UMass Amherst, where he is a lecturer Story: His statement: 6d
Progressives alarmed by Rice's vast financial investments
POLITICO 7d 5 tweets
The multimillionaire VP finalist bought into the company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline project — and many other Democratic Party villains.
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Alex Thompson Progressives alarmed by Rice's vast financial investments from ⁦⁩ and ⁦⁩ 7d
American Bridge posts 1,043-page Trump oppo book online
POLITICO 7d 3 tweets
It wants other Democratic groups to have at it.
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Alex Thompson Scooplet: American Bridge sold its Trump oppo file to Hillary during 16 campaign. In 2020, it's posting 1,043-page Trump oppo book online. It's not for voters, but for operatives and continues trend of groups posting oppo books online to skirt FEC rules 7d
EDITORIAL | Fifth District endorsement: Melton-Meaux, for integrity and progress
Star Tribune 8d 6 tweets
Challenger's desire to find common ground sets him apart from incumbent Omar.
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Alex Thompson Star Tribune endorses Ilhan Omar’s primary opponent Speaking w/ ed board, “Omar took little responsibility for her rocky start, instead largely blaming her critics & saying her failing was perhaps in not realizing what a “special unicorn” she would be” 8d
Susan Rice Has More Corporate Experience Than Others on Biden Running Mate List
John McCormick - WSJ 9d 2 tweets
Susan Rice is an Oxford-educated foreign policy specialist who—unlike the rest of those believed to be on Joe Biden’s running mate shortlist—has never held elected office. But she does have experience in an area most of those in the group don’t:...
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Alex Thompson Like Mayor Pete, Susan Rice also worked at McKinsey in Toronto. Also she was worth b/t $23.5 million and $43.5 million as of 2009. 9d
Trump's campaign knocks on a million doors a week. Biden's knocks on 0.
POLITICO 9d 8 tweets
The diverging responses to Covid-19 could be a wild card in November — especially in close races up and down the ballot.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Last week, Trump/RNC say they knocked > 1 million doors. Biden/DNC says they knocked 0. Biden camp believes they'll get credit for being careful amid COVID and can make up difference on phones & new digital programs Inside the 2020 field battle. 9d
Dose of Reality: How David Zuckerman Has Spun His Record on Vaccine Mandates
Paul Heintz - Seven Days 10d 1 tweets
During a debate last month with his rivals for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, Gov. Phil Scott did something a little unusual. Given the chance to...
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Alex Thompson Vermont's Dem gubernatorial primary is increasingly all about anti-vaxxers. Will be an interesting test of the issue amid covid w/ vote on August 11 really thorough reporting from 10d
'I'm not a communist': Potential Biden running mate Rep. Bass reassures Cuban American voters
NBC News 11d 3 tweets
In an interview with NBC News, California Rep. Karen Bass touted her decades-long work alongside Latinos in community work and in Congress.
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Alex Thompson "I’m not a communist," Bass says 10d
Trump campaign nears point of no return
POLITICO 11d 3 tweets
Early voting begins in several key swing states next month, leaving a ‘dwindling window of time’ for the president to turn the race around.
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Alex Thompson In NC, ballots go to voters starting Sept. 4. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and Minnesota begin mailing ballots or start early voting by the end of September. on why Election Day is closer than you think and Trump's clock is running out. 11d
Joe Biden narrows down his VP list, with Karen Bass emerging as one of several key contenders
MJ Lee - CNN 14d 10 tweets
Joe Biden heads into the weekend weighing the biggest decision of his presidential campaign so far, and people close to the process tell CNN that the former vice president is believed to have now begun to narrow his personal shortlist of potential...
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Alex Thompson More Kamala incoming from Biden allies, this time from Ed Rendell. "Kamala can rub some people the wrong way. Karen Bass is not likely to do that" 14d
The nastiest Republican primary in the country
POLITICO 16d 5 tweets
The race for retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander's seat in Tennessee has devolved into a vicious back-and-forth between two GOP candidates rushing to the right.
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Alex Thompson NEW w/ The TN GOP Senate primary has turned nasty spurious super PACs Romney is now a slur Trump v. Cruz And the Trump-backed candidate keeps mispronouncing his Indian-American opponent's last name as "Set-ee" instead of "Seth-ee" an ad ex: 16d
Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci
CNN 20d 26 tweets
Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top expert on infectious diseases, was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus.
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Alex Thompson Local Sinclair stations are set to air a conspiracy theory over the weekend that suggests Fauci was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus. This is one of the graphics. 20d
Head Cases: The Psychology Behind the Cancel Culture Debate
POLITICO 20d 2 tweets
A generation of journalists and intellectuals faces a fight-or-flight moment.
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Alex Thompson loling at 's piece on THE LETTER and "cancel culture." The letter "had the sonorous tones of something written for the ages, a courageous expression of universal ideals, to be read and appreciated even years from now" stay for the kicker 20d
Robert E. Lee high school in Virginia to be renamed for late Rep. John Lewis
NBC News 21d 6 tweets
Fairfax School Board Chair Ricardy Anderson said the board "strongly believes this is an appropriate tribute to an individual who is a true American hero."
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Alex Thompson Robert E. Lee high school in Virginia to be renamed for John Lewis 21d
Lincoln Project founders have ties to Russia and tax troubles, docs reveal
New York Post 24d 15 tweets
The founders of the Lincoln Project, a headline-grabbing new anti-Trump political action committee formed by GOP operatives have their own checkered dealings with Russia and the tax man, documents …
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Alex Thompson Per IRS docs, Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson has an outstanding $389,420 federal tax lien against his FL home, and his bank moved to foreclose on the property in '16 plus American Express had taken Wilson to court for his own unpaid $25,729 credit card bill 23d
Out of Portland tear gas, an apparition emerges, capturing the imagination of protesters
Richard Read - Los Angeles Times 25d 19 tweets
An iconic image has emerged on Twitter since early Saturday morning in Portland, when a woman wearing nothing but a mask and cap strode toward federal agents as they fired tear gas at protesters — a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face...
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Alex Thompson Out of Portland tear gas, an apparition emerges 25d