Alex Thompson
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“I Flew Too Close to the Sun”: Inside the Epic Fall of Michael Avenatti
Emily Jane Fox - The Hive 54h 14 tweets
Stormy Daniels’s former attorney is a hyper-aggressive narcissist with shadows in his past—which made him a perfect adversary for Donald Trump. For a few months, the #Resistance hero even thought he could be president. Then the past caught up with...
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Alex Thompson “One such client was a paraplegic man who had reached a $4 mil agreement to settle a case related to his injuries but had not received the $. Avenatti allegedly deposited some of the settlement into a personal account associated with his car-racing team.” 26h
Elizabeth Warren raises the pressure on the military to take climate change seriously
Mother Jones 9d 2 tweets
The Pentagon's response cannot just be "piecemeal action," the 2020 candidate wrote in a letter to Trump's top military adviser.
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Alex Thompson Inbox: and to formally introduce legislation this week to make the DoD prepare for the consequences of climate change and cut its own emissions. Follows letter warren sent to General Dunford on this topic. 9d
'A hate-for-profit racket': Warren refuses Fox town hall invite
POLITICO 10d 6 tweets
The Massachusetts senator sets herself apart from Bernie Sanders and other Democrats who've played ball with the network.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Warren rejects invite to Fox News town hall and denounced the network as a “hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists.” 10d
Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country
POLITICO 12d 20 tweets
The liberal firebrand draws nods and even a few cheers on a trip through rural West Virginia.
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Alex Thompson Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country my dispatch from the small town of Kermit, WV. 12d
Warren to donate campaign money she previously took from opioid titan
POLITICO 16d 2 tweets
The Sackler family is facing numerous lawsuits alleging fraudulent and negligent behavior that exacerbated the opioid crisis.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Warren will be donating campaign $ from Sackler family to charity. In a new Medium post laying out her updated opioid plan, she calls for imprisoning families like the Sacklers for their role in the addiction epidemic. 16d
‘Lock her up’ redux? Biden’s son becomes the right’s new target
POLITICO 21d 2 tweets
Clinton veterans say the attacks on Hunter Biden are giving them painful flashbacks to 2016.
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Alex Thompson ‘Lock her up’ redux? Biden’s son becomes the right’s new target w/ pushes for the DoJ to open an investigation that could ensnare the former VP. Clinton vets say it's a re-run of the 2016 playbook. My latest w/ assists from + 21d
Nominate a woman? Some Democratic women aren't so sure
AP NEWS 26d 1 tweets
TIPTON, Iowa (AP) — Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year's midterms. Women won two of the state's most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was...
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Alex Thompson “Across Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina...dozens of women told the AP that they are worried about whether the country was ready to elect a woman as president.” From and 26d
Warren proposes $640 billion student debt cancellation
POLITICO 32d 5 tweets
She argues that student loan debt is a drag on the entire economy.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Warren proposes $640 billion student debt cancellation. Would eliminate 50k of student debt for every person w/household income below 100k. 32d
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
TIME.com 37d 1 tweets
The year 2008 was a reckoning. While millions of Americans lost their livelihoods to Wall Street’s greed, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost her dad to lung cancer,…
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Alex Thompson . writes up ’s Time 100. “She reminds all of us that even while greed and corruption slow our progress, even while armies of lobbyists swarm Washington, in our democracy, true power still rests with the people. And she’s just getting started” 37d
Top Gillibrand aide to leave amid questions over sexual harassment investigation
POLITICO 65d 6 tweets
Anne Bradley has been with Gillibrand since 2007 and had been planning to retire later this year.
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Alex Thompson Scoop: Gillibrand's longtime deputy chief of staff Anne Bradley to leave next month amid questions over last summer's sexual harassment investigation, according to someone familiar with her plans. 65d
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Alex Thompson the move comes after CNN's and reported last week that the office restructured Bradley's role to no longer handle such investigations. Bradley was set to retire later this year but moved up her plans. 65d
Sanders aide apologizes for questioning American Jews’ 'dual allegiance' to Israel
POLITICO 72d 17 tweets
The 2020 candidate's deputy press secretary later deleted her Facebook post after POLITICO began asking about it.
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Alex Thompson Sanders aide apologizes for questioning American Jews’ 'dual allegiance' to Israel from and 72d
Gillibrand defends office investigation into sexual harassment claims
POLITICO 73d 1 tweets
Gillibrand said that the investigation was “thorough and professional.”
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Alex Thompson “thorough and professional,” “thorough and complete,” “professional and thorough,” and also done “thoroughly and appropriately.” Gillibrand defended her office's investigation on Monday evening. 73d
Former Gillibrand aide resigned in protest over handling of sex harassment claims
POLITICO 74d 16 tweets
What happened when #MeToo hit the office of one of its leaders, 2020 candidate Kirsten Gillibrand.
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Alex Thompson Exclusive w/ : Last summer, a young female staffer to Gillibrand resigned in protest over the office's handling of sexual harassment allegations, sending the below letter on her last day. Gillibrand defends her office's handling of it. 74d
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Alex Thompson “When I had the courage to speak up about my harasser, I was belittled by her office and treated like an inconvenience,” the woman said of Gillibrand in an interview. “She kept a harasser on her staff until it proved politically untenable for her to do so” 74d
Just What Does Beto Believe?
POLITICO Magazine 81d 2 tweets
The former Texas congressman seems unwilling to place himself on his party’s conventional political spectrum.
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Alex Thompson Beto's Dad had an interesting political journey: "He co-chaired Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign in Texas in 1984 and 1988 before abandoning the Democratic Party to run for Congress as a Republican in 1992." lots of great reporting from 80d
Progressive activists push 2020 Dems to pack Supreme Court
POLITICO 88d 2 tweets
They want more justices in order to dilute the conservative majority.
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Alex Thompson NEW: progressive activists are teaming up to push 2020 Dems to commit to packing SCOTUS. "we strongly believe that reforming the Court — especially by expanding it — is the cornerstone for re-building American democracy,” said . 88d
Sanders campaign takes aim at doubters who say he's too extreme to win
POLITICO 94d 3 tweets
Critics argue the democratic socialist can't possibly win a general election. His aides counter he could upend the electoral map.
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Alex Thompson "Some in the Sanders camp envision possibly making a play for Iowa, Ohio, and Indiana, as well as states such as Kansas, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Montana" from 94d
Bullock steps closer to White House run with Iowa visit
POLITICO 100d 1 tweets
Democrats are rushing into the presidential race, but the two-term governor has said that he probably won’t make any public announcements until this spring
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Alex Thompson Scoop: MT Governor Steve Bullock headed to Iowa at the end of the week as he steps toward a WH run. State AG Tom Miller (who just won his 10th term) will escort him at all his events. 100d
‘A Nightmare’: Inside the Brooklyn Jail With Little Heat or Electricity
Nytimes.com 110d 6 tweets
Officials say power will not be fully restored inside the jail until Monday, leaving hundreds of inmates confined to cells without electricity or heat.
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Alex Thompson Protesters Try to Storm Federal Jail in Brooklyn With Little Heat or Electricity via 109d
'Wrong and naïve': Bullock apologizes for handling of harassment
POLITICO 111d 2 tweets
“Four years ago I fell short in my role preventing sexual harassment,” the Montana governor wrote.
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Alex Thompson NEW: Montana Gov. apologizes for the handling of the sexual harassment allegations against former top aide Kevin O’Brien who was later dismissed by de Blasio in 2018. “I was wrong and naïve to think I did enough.” 111d
The 2020 Democrat with a full-fledged Republican fan club
POLITICO 112d 1 tweets
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock delivers his final state of the state speech with digs at Washington and plaudits from state GOP lawmakers.
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Alex Thompson NEW from Montana: potential 2020er Gov. Bullock often talks about his ability to get stuff done in a red state. So I asked the Republican legislators what they thought of him running for potus. “I’d go so far as to say he wouldn’t suck.” 112d