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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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Yeah, it's very unusual. Normally the candidate hides out at least until late Weds night after the VP speech
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deleted this bc it was ruder than I wanted to be. I'm fed up with the rude and personal attacks on this but that post was too dismissive. Rest of posts make the point
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Someone said “God BLESS you” as I walked toward the RNC… forgot I was wearing this hat
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Gotta bump those numbers up
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America: where infrastructure maybe works sometimes
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Essential pre-convention reading, if you end up having to do a TV debate
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Don Jr selling his dad on VP Vance
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Mom and dad are fighting
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Eight years of this one-joke "angry journalist tells the truth" character, time to hang it up
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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.
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Oh, you “raw dogged” your flight? Damn, that’s wild. I finished another book on mine
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One thing I love about my company is that we put the news/scoop/interesting stuff right at the top of the piece. I’m a Puck subscriber but their habit of writing longass Thackeray ledes before the paywalled news drives me nuts.
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There were two stories about this same thing a year ago... that was pre-Gaza, which shook stuff up, but this is kind of old news
I think being constantly and directly exposed to high-volume bigotry has probably given her a certain amount of perspective and I’m grateful she seems to have weathered it without losing her mind
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It's important to be polite when someone sends you a garbage pitch.
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You don't have to obey them to love them.
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Saw this in an empty theater, remembered as the weakest Baumbach/Gerwig collab, easily my favorite. Gerwig had one more Cool Girl role ("20th Century Women") but she really put that archetype to bed here. If you've ever modeled yourself after somebody then realized that somebody's a fuck-up...
Quote skeet with one of your fav films that isn't a hit
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Facebook sucks. It is also the only place where the music critic who introduced you to King Missile can have a filthy colloquy with the singer from King Missile.
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Battle for "worst Trump-era cultural artifact" is intense, but I vote for this. Utterly mirthless show, Oscar-winning talent wasted on nothing, the "joke" is that Trump had a dumb idea.
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Canada was so hard-up for actors at one point that the same guy played Glenn Gould and Pierre Trudeau.
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Drinking the coffee I got at the Libertarian convention
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Listening to every album my friend Mark Prindle gave a 10/10. I am the first person to listen to this in at least 13 years.
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