Dave Weigel

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National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”

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This is a great source for information on US elections - particularly for important down ballot races. If you just dropped your NYTimes subscription, consider redirecting your attention (and funds).

For folks who've appreciated my coverage of the French elections... @bolts.bsky.social is quite different—but we cover US politics with such attention to detail. So give us a follow if you've enjoyed this, and care about the US. And our newsletter is free! boltsmag.org/newsletter

Just read Brian Aldiss’s “Billion Year Spree,” a history of sci-fi c. 1971, and he has an aside about how it’s hard to imagine sci-fi movies overtaking westerns. Thought of that reading this “Horizon” pan variety.com/2024/film/ne...

I (Barely) Survived ‘Horizon’: How Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Fails Even His Most Diehard ‘Yellowstone’ Fansvariety.com Will "Yellowstone" fans, thirsty for more Western drama from Kevin Costner, be pleased with "Horizon"? Sadly, no.

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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, has scheduled a virtual meeting on Sunday with senior House Democrats to discuss President Biden’s candidacy and the path forward, according to a senior official familiar with the plan.

Jeffries Plans to Meet Virtually With Top House Democrats on Biden’s Path Aheadwww.nytimes.com The House minority leader scheduled a virtual meeting for Sunday.

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MA Gov Maura Healey becomes the first sitting governor to gently urge Biden towards the exit. “Over the coming days, I urge him to listen to the American people and carefully evaluate whether he remains our best hope to defeat Donald Trump.”

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I wrote about my election envy

A State of Endless Election Campaigns Breaks Our Brainswww.splinter.com Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

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This photo is pure 2024.

Eight years of this one-joke "angry journalist tells the truth" character, time to hang it up

The CW like 10 minutes ago - which I think was correct - was that the best Dem scenario is a "referendum" election about Trump. Focus on his criminal behavior and record. Hard to do that when BIDEN OLD drowns you out. Putting the Dem contenders onstage now to hash out their weaknesses? Insane idea!

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Burst out laughing at this post, nearly dropped my phone

Me and the boys when Labour win back Hartlepool today youtu.be/va6nPu-1auE?...

Fat Les - Vindaloo (Official HD Video)youtu.be Official HD video for Vindaloo by Fat Les.This UK No. 2 hit single is probably the most popular England Football Anthem ever. Watch out for Paul Kaye, Keith...

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boy Nigel Farage drinks *a lot* www.ft.com/content/864c...

Lunch with the FT: Nigel Faragewww.ft.com ‘I am what I am,’ says the Ukip leader over six pints, a bottle of wine and two glasses of port

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You, Mr. Trumbull, are no Rubensyoutu.be John Adams meets John Trumbull

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“The rabbits got the gun now” coming from a lawyer for a crooked Governor going after a newspaper writer is such a telling comment about how much we’ve let powerful people cast themselves as victims and it goes from this to Elon to Trump and everywhere else

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers

the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

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I don't want to sound too patronizing! If you want to create the public support for a future Dem trifecta to term-limit the court or expand it, go ahead. The dream Dem scenario for 2025 is another 51-49 Senate - GOP picks up WV, Allred beats Cruz, no other flips.

scotus is ripping up abortion rights, pre-ordaining a future donald trump a lawless god king, rolling back the new deal and gains of the civil rights movement. nobody has to give a shit what dave weigel thinks is the "right" way to do anything

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this is a brilliant point that I was struggling to articulate.

Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".

In the world where Biden bowed out in June 2023, and VP Harris won a contested primary, how's the party doing rn? Better? Worse? I tend to think better. Rs still running against the admin but the principal is able to do lots of public events/interviews and defend the record/attack Trump.

I haven't watched all the coverage there but I think Keir Starmer has had to answer two questions - would you have served in a Corbyn cabinet, and can women have a penis - at least 1000 times.

If you feel like there's not enough happening in the news right now, you're in luck: polls open in the United Kingdom in roughly 36 hours.

That was Ted Cruz, and I'm the guy he said it to. I noted in that piece that Grassley, the committee chair, had promised to hold a vote if Clinton won. www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-po...

do you think they'd have actually held hearings and approved her nominations? IIRC at least one sitting senator (Graham) was on record as saying they would not.

Cruz says there’s precedent for keeping ninth Supreme Court seat emptywww.washingtonpost.com He appeared to suggest that the blockade on nominee Merrick Garland could last past the election.

Had Trump lost, McConnell's big bet wouldn't have paid off. He got the conference to commit to "let the voters decide," and Flake/Alexander/Corker/Graham/Collins/Murkowski weren't ready for four years of "actually uhhh best two out of three?"

Mitch wouldn't have maintained the blockade anyway?

No offense, but the McConnell mythmaking has convinced a lot of people that a 52-48 R majority would have refused to seat a Dem justice for four years. I am very skeptical of this and did reporting around the time on it - there were enough Rs who were willing to confirm Garland if HRC won.

The republicans controlled the senate after 2016 elections, so in fact, you are wrong in addition to being wrong in the general principle.

Dems were one Comey letter away from a 5-4 liberal court!

“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court

Link to article here. I think a big tell was the Heritage call with reporters (my colleague was on it, I was in transit) where they hurriedly sketched out legal challenges in case the Dems switched out Biden. www.vox.com/politics/358...

This isn't a hypothetical; Dems specifically fund far-right candidates in GOP primaries to give themselves a better chance in the general

5 terrible reasons for Biden to stay in the racewww.vox.com A rebuttal of the bad — but prominent — arguments for the president’s candidacy.

One of those days where I'm getting a text every time I try to write a sentence. Not complaining! There are much harder jobs than reporting, I like doing it. But I never participate in those inbox/text shame games... you are simply dive-bombed all day by stuff you have to triage bc there's no story.

For the first time in decades, the RNC won't allow cameras/media into its platform meeting. Further evolution of the Trump-era RNC's aversion to the press - they see only downsides for transparency, though this hasn't prevented damaging stories when reporters dig in www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

In a shift, the RNC will decide its platform behind closed doorswww.semafor.com The decision to skip the usual cameras comes as the party is in a difficult debate over abortion.

I keep thinking of the medium-info swing voter in 2016 who, at the last minute, decided not to go for Hillary bc she'd be consumed by scandals and investigations. The "actually it's defying the constitution and will of the voter to investigate the president" CW came too late!

well in a second term trump can just drone strike lorne michaels

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Bill Clinton must feel like a real schmuck for doing that plea bargain

Feels like we’ve moved on, as a society, from Japanese Breakfast. Sad but inevitable — unsteady combo of smart, charismatic star, good melodies, and the flattest vocals you’ve ever heard in your life.