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Sam Stein
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Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨🚨The president appears to be saying he will NOT abide by the court order to release SNAP benefits even though the WH said they would partially release them Image an hour ago Trump's own Ag Sec was explaining that they'd given guidance to states about how to administer SNAP benefits from the emergency fund. Now Trump is saying he won't pay those benefits until the government is reopened

Oct 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As the dust settles, it's clear that Vought's RIFs amount to a Friday night massacre at the CDC. Lots of confusion as to the total number gone. But several sources tell me top officials and many staff at the center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the center for immunization and respiratory diseases are OUT. Am told the Ebola response team has been hit hard too. Again, there is mass confusion. but it appears the government's chief agencies responding to outbreaks and studying infectious diseases have been gutted. if you know more we have a secure tip line here. I'm also on signal asteinindc.09

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Aug 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
CDC staff and alums gathered outside HQ this afternoon to salute those top four officials who resigned in protest yesterday. the crowd looks fairly massive, per a pic sent to me Image Debra Houry, speaking now, said the four who resigned (her included) had been talking about whether they would need to do so for months. They agreed to do it together. "we need congress to intervene," she stresses.
Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out Image
Image thebulwark.com/p/innocent-bru…
Aug 2, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: In Nov. 23, Democratic Victory PAC sent a fundraising email saying it was struggling to raise cash and asking for $20 donations. That same day, it spent $213k at the ARIA Resorts in Vegas.

This is a story of an alleged “scam-PAC.” A THREAD

thebulwark.com/p/democratic-b…
Image To being: What is Democratic Victory? It’s one of a series of PACs secretly run by Dem operatives and infamous for unscrupulous methods. It’s among those spamming folks in the recent Kamala Harris fundraising boomlet, prompting the campaign to warn donors against giving to it.
Jul 29, 2024 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: If you're like me, you've probably been receiving a barrage of text messages this past week from random, generic sounding groups like Democratic Victory and Democratic Power that say they're raising money for Harris. These are scam-ish PACs. They spend a small portion of the money they raise on the causes they claim to support and a lot on.... raising more money, often by enlisting firms they're tied to.
Jun 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
WHAT TRUMP TOOK Image there were TWO disclosures of classified materials Image
Aug 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Stuck in traffic and my kids are demanding we replay Lady Gaga's hold my hand. On listen number 8. Five hours in the car to go, at least. On listen 11 a major fight has broken out as one brother is pissed that the other is singing it. Not yet at the GW bridge!
Apr 19, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Twitter seemed pretty helacious today. more so than usual. Seems increasingly like this is a place to post journalism and to absolutely rip on journalism and there is just very little in between. It used to be a bit more fun here.
Jul 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
If you read one piece today, make it @natashakorecki’s dispatch from the Lake of the Ozarks, where vaccines are shunned, masks are mocked, and the long-term consequences take a back seat to the good time at hand.

politico.com/news/magazine/… @natashakorecki there is so much in here, it’s hard to know what to choose. The artwork alone is worth the click
May 29, 2021 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
Finding it tough to contain my excitement over the prospect of having a three day memorial weekend with two small kids and rain every day. The 1.5 yr old has already climbed up every chair, laughed at me as I frantically run over to make sure he doesn't kill himself. And then crawled back off. So I guess that activity is down with for now. Only 2.9 more days to go!
May 25, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
As I watch Marjorie Taylor Greene equate Covid vaccination efforts to the Holocaust, I can’t escape the memory of going to Yad Vashem and seeing the exhibit of shoes, preserved from Holocaust victims. (a thread, if you’ll oblige me) Like so much of the museum, it grips you to a point of near paralysis. The sheer quantity of those shoes—piles and piles— is haunting. Human beings wore them at some point in time.
Jan 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
On inauguration day '17, Obama briefed Trump on a natl security matter.

“Trump,” Mosteller recalled, “says, ‘Well what would *you* do in this situation?’”

Mosteller exchanged a glance with Pete Souza. “We had this realization that this was really bad”

politico.com/news/magazine/… “Jesus that day sucked,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s longtime adviser, who was with him that day.

politico.com/news/magazine/…
Dec 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW — During the campaign, a top Dem group secretly did a study to see if the most viral Lincoln Project ads were persuading persuadable swing state voters. It turns out, they weren’t.

thedailybeast.com/the-hottest-ca… The ads were proving motivational. But "the correlation of Twitter metrics—likes and retweets—and persuasion was -0.3, 'meaning that the better the ad did on Twitter, the less it persuaded battleground state voters.’"
Nov 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW—Joe Biden made a bet: the majority of voters didn’t want the Democratic version of Trump but, rather, the polar opposite of him. On Tuesday, we’ll see if it works.

thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-bet-…

A detailed look at how we got her, with @HCTrudo @HCTrudo A few campaign moments that get overlooked that Biden’s team points to as important.

1. The Zelensky phone call. It allowed Biden to say: here’s proof Trump himself believes Biden is his toughest re-election opponent, at a time when defeating Trump was the top primary issue.
Oct 26, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Back when I did Candidate Confessional, we interviewed @stuartpstevens about Romney-Obama ’12. One thing that stuck with me is how confident he said the campaign felt that they would win. One of the reasons they were confident? Because Obama was flailing. (cont…) @stuartpstevens Stu chuckled at one attack line in particular: a riff Obama did in mid Oct. about Romney suffering from “Romneysia.” It was cheap and silly. And for the Romney campaign it was a sign that Obama was still scrambling for a message.

theguardian.com/world/us-news-…

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Dec 30, 2017 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
i sincerely don’t care that Trump plays golf. god speed. but the sheer amount he plays does spotlight how insincere Obama’s critics were about his golfing habits. here’s a little sampling of people who’ve gone suddenly quiet on the topic Mark Levin