#Politico

Joe Biden has reached 270 electoral votes for the first time since POLITICO’s Election Forecast debuted late last year https://politi.co/2GINTHf  In addition to a double-digit national lead, Biden has built
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Biden accuser Tara Reade (aka Alexandra McCabe) appears to have lied under oath about her educational background as an expert witness. Defense lawyers seek to get convictions overturned in cases
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Polls close in an hour! If you're watching the Massachusetts primary tonight, here's a thread of POLITICO coverage of the blockbuster U.S. Senate race between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy.
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Reminder: Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is advising Trump's administration on how to rid departments of "disloyal" officials. She is affiliated with far right groups
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NEW: Why are right-wing FB pages so popular?A Facebook exec argues the msg is just more visceral: "Right wing populism is always more engaging...Nation, protection, the other, anger, fear. That
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BREAKING: Pelosi requests an all-House briefing on the intel that Russia paid Afghan militants to assassinate U.S. soldiers. https://www.speaker.gov/sites/speaker.house.gov/files/20200629_LettertoRatcliffeandHaspel.pdf Congressional aides s
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A long but good read. i grew up in Wayne, PA - named for the same person whose home was (and is) just about 3 miles away and whose grave
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Thread about the dark logic of “pro-life” advocacyhttps://twitter.com/amandamarcotte/status/1252927327094353921 Remember, “pro-life” advocacy was invented in living memory as a rationalization for racist politicshttps://www.politico.com/magazine/stor
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Democrats should take a cue from the generation of Northern Republicans that governed in the 1860s. Expand SCOTUS, kill the filibuster, admit new states, refuse to seat congressmen elected in
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USPS Inspector General “concluded that a sweeping series of operational changes ... by President Donald Trump’s postmaster general ‘negatively impacted the quality and timeliness of mail delivery’ across the country.”
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Who’s on the other side of the #MedicareForAll debate? Meet relentless advocate for medical profiteering @chipkahn https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2019/11/25/medicare-for-all-lobbying-072110 My dude has been working against affordable healthcare
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Remember on March 15th, when Chris Hayes talked with Dan Diamond how the Trump administration rejected test kits from the WHO, having the CDC create their own kits which initially
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This is a very poorly assembled set of disparate claims, some mildly worrisome, others not at all so. Amusingly, it is an open advancement of a conspiracy theory that people
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The people who "unmasked" Flynn are top national security aides. It's literally their job to understand intel to help make informed decisions. If the DNI is suggesting unmasking is wrong,
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On the same day that the White House announces a half-ass initiative to "fight" anti-white critical race theory in the fedgov, DHS declares "white supremacy" the biggest terror threat we
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Today, Joe Biden told a primarily Black audience, if you don’t vote for him #YouAintBlack , ironically, it is his own campaign staff that “ain’t Black”. Although Biden’s campaign is
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