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27 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
On almost every map I have seen, Trump giving up on Florida would mean him giving up on the race.
The president has a tough enough path with Florida staying red. It was initially identified as *the* pivotal state by his campaign last year.
Here's a glass half full argument from a Trump campaign ally.
Part of what makes Florida so crucial is that it looks like a far more realistic win for Trump than Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota

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30 Oct
Glenn Greenwald repeatedly misspelled both Tony Bobulinski and Lesley Stahl's names in the column that he was so upset to have edited. greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-j…
There are many, many other problems with this piece that are more serious (though less amusing) than that typo.
A big issue is that it completely ignores the major issues with the New York Post's reporting including that Rudy Giuliani contradicted himself in his explanation of what happened with the alleged laptop.
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30 Oct
The other day I saw one of our great neighborhood restaurants, an Indian spot named Rajaji, had put fliers all over the block letting people know they were open again and doing takeout.
It really got me because it was just so clear that this was a business working to get their customers back and survive this awful moment.
I ordered from them tonight and the food was delivered by someone from the restaurant. He thanked me and told me to enjoy the meal.
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29 Oct
Buzzfeed's decision to publish the Steele dossier was always questionable from a journalistic standpoint.
All of the news value in it that they claimed as a justification - that it was making its way around DC - could have been reported on by alluding to the document and broadly detailing it rather than running it in full.
In the end, we were left with a situation that is similar to the Posts questionable laptop. You had unverified info, obtained through questionable means, and a news org not doing the traditional journalistic role of vetting or filtering
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14 Oct
This is important context to today's news. You have a questionable story published by a paper funded by a right wing billionaire. And some of the people making the most noise arguing the story is legit are also possibly being funded by a right wing billionaire.
Based on my mentions, a lot of folks are confusing the Federalist Society and the Federalist. It's an easy mistake to make! Both are backed by, as @SenWhitehouse put it yesterday, "big anonymous money." google.com/amp/s/slate.co…
And that gets to one of the most important things I realized after moving to DC from Brooklyn in 2017. There is a whole ecosystem of ideological organizations and media outlets here that aren't funded through commercial means or grassroots support.
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14 Oct
A lot of folks are curious about who funds the Federalist right?
I have some answers for you! Let me just pull up my old Google doc ...
OK. Here goes ...
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14 Oct
I was too crass here. I think they made the wrong calls but these things are not simple.
The reality is no journalist should be having to deal with potential misinformation and foreign intervention. The people ultimately to blame here are dirty tricksters, not solid reporters trying to figure out how to fairly deal with this stuff.
I have the luxury of not having to write a newsletter multiple times a day and also have spent a lot of time thinking about things like the dossier and hacked emails. I don't know what call I'd make in a different situation.
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