Robert Zimmerman (D) whom George Santos beat, tells me:
"This story is not a shock to me. We always knew he was running a scam against the voters & we raised many of these issues but were drowned out in the gov’s race where crime was the focus & the media had other priorities"
Lewinsky, on Bill Clinton:
“If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to answer.”
Rudy Giuliani on his radio show a few minutes ago:
" ... as far as this election is concerned, it's over. Biden's the president, she's the vice president. "
Yesterday
Andrew Giuliani:
"Im the only candidate thats spent parts of 5 different decades of my life in politics or public service..."
Reporter:
How do you get 5 decades? You're only 35.
G:
"Let me clarify. I said parts of 5 decades…my father’s 1st campaign was 1989..."
It appears Twitter has banned the accounts of Aaron Rupar (
@atrupar
) and Washington Post reporter
@drewharwell
. Unclear why, but this seems to be the final tweet from Harwell.
The
@nypost
is an important voice among Rs & conservatives.
Today, they created a potential conversation starter.
They call the
#ElPaso
shooter a "terrorist" — applying a term often used to attack Muslims and people of color. And they identify his (warped) motive.
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight:
@Donie
O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's
@drewharwell
.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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Oct.
" Huge sums are listed with the FEC for personal expenses - like Brooks Brothers, Florida beach resorts, lavish restaurants and limo services - but many hundreds of thousands more disappear into a black hole of dubious 'consulting fees.'"
/6
Zimmerman also tells me:
"An investigation is merited bc of the serious allegations of filing false information on his financial disclosure documents and ...questions about his finances [and] where his funds came from."
Exclusive: we obtained unaired footage from Tucker Carlson's interview with Ye, in which the artist makes numerous inflammatory comments about Jews and describes a bizarre claim that "fake children" were planted in his home to manipulate his own kids.
2008-NYT folds metro section into National section.
2008-NYSun closes.
2011-NYPress closes.
2016-WSJ’s “Greater NY” section closes.
2017-DNA/Gothamist are shut down.
2017-Reporters in NYC City Hall lose access to parts of the building that had been accessible for decades
A1, with a jaw-dropping stat:
In just five weeks, 100,000 more people have died from Covid-19.
Flashback: May 24, 2020:
"U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS"
via
@MariannaReports
:
"When embattled Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) stood up, a Hispanic Democrat yelled 'mentiroso!' which translates to 'liar' in English."
Here's a clip of Santos casting that vote:
via
@ronaldjhansen
:
"One person familiar with the information shared with McConnell, said Masters’ favorability was lower than former Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore’s was after reports that he pursued romantic relations with teen girls when he was in his 30s."
Here's a very inaccurate and offensive way to describe public transportation that millions of people rely on, via Tucker Carlson's show yesterday:
"Take the bus? Yeah, homeless schizophrenics have been doing it for generations. Why shouldn't you."
“Mr. Trump’s aides have been concerned that they will make appearances on other tapes, of which Ms. Manigault Newman is believed to have as many as 200.” —
@maggieNYT
&
@kenvogel
A wild turkey has taken up residence on a Staten Island man's property and has laid 18 eggs. The homeowner wants the creature gone, but believe it or not the law is actually on its side right now.
@HSanchezTV
reports
Imagine commuting in NYC with this map, via
@Guardian
.
They created it in Sept. 2017 showing only the 117 subway stations are fully accessible, out of 472.
-->
@MarkWarner
: "If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.” via
@JakeSherman
&
@apalmerdc
/4
Santos spoke at a rally in D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021 and told the crowd: “Who here is ready to overturn the election for Donald Trump?”
Here's a screen shot from that speech
—> “If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.”
“People say this was unprecedented,” Barr said Friday, “but it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?”
Barr’s comments on Fox News — one of the outlets Trump is known to watch closely — represents an escalation of Barr’s condemnation of his former boss’s behavior.
one quote in this story:
"'The president got bored with it,' David Carney, an adviser to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, a Republican, said of the pandemic."
Brutal
"In early March, as Dow Constantine was asking Microsoft to close its offices and putting scientists in front of news cameras,
@billdeBlasio
&
@NYGovCuomo
, were giving speeches that deëmphasized the risks of the pandemic..."
Trump’s false claims were echoed by Republican lawmakers, including some who — according to the newly released video — were literally in the room when Pelosi and others were calling in reinforcements.
Some Republicans in PA and elsewhere resurfaced a 6-year-old Fetterman ad, apparently not knowing it was an homage to a famous Coke ad from the 70s featuring "Mean" Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Here they are, side-by-side.
Fetterman's is 90 seconds, Greene's is 30.
“Mr. Van Drew saw the results of a poll... a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, showed that the overwhelming majority of Democratic primary voters — 71 percent — would be less likely to support his re-election if he opposed the charges against Mr. Trump.”
Big scoop: Rep. Jeff Van Drew, an anti-impeachment Democrat from NJ, may switch parties.
The high-profile defection would be a coup for Trump.
By
@jmartNYT
@NYTnickc
"Mr. McFadden, who is Black, said the police did not believe his press credentials were real until another photographer vouched for him — a situation that has happened to him and other Black journalists many times, he said."
via
@kellen_browning
:
1/
A former friend told me:
“He hated that we called him George,”
"His whole family called him Anthony. He wanted to be called Anthony. He would use the name Anthony Devolder.”
Scene at Inwood is more like block party than a neighborhood in the 2nd night of a curfew and 4th month of a pandemic.
Why?
Part of the reason is local residents worked w/ police, top priority being to avoid looting.
Locals are using armbands to identify who is from the area.
"Asked what made him vote against a measure that he had co-sponsored, Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, was brief and blunt: 'I don’t know,' he said."
“I get it. If you’re a woman, it stinks” that male-dominated legislatures make abortion laws, GOP Rep. John Curtis said. “I wish it were other than that. I wish as a man I didn’t have to make this decision. ***I wish women could make this decision***.”
“The richest man in America, who’s a direct competitor, has just been handed $3 billion in subsidies. I’m not asking for money or a tax rebate,” Ms. Wyden said. “Just leave me alone.”
Rep. George Santos, just now, on a Twitter Spaces:
"I never said my mom died on 9/11 … those words never came out of my mouth"
fwiw: here is how Santos changed this part of bio on his campaign website:
A California police officer was charged on Wednesday with felony manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man inside a Walmart in April in a swift confrontation that the district attorney said displayed an unreasonable use of deadly force.
#StevenTaylor
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He claimed he helped develop “carbon capture technology.”
He said in one interview " I’ve had a very extensive role in gas and oil in this country.”
He also said , “I’ve been to Moscow many times in my career.”
Barr:
“If in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse and show such recklessness that it’s almost worst than taking the documents,”
/7
Santos asked a former friend to make a Go Fund Me page to raise $ for funeral costs after his mother died in late Dec. 2016. A funeral was held later that month.
Then, on Jan. 7, 2017, this person said Santos reached out to & invited them on a ski trip to the Poconos.
@MaxwellFrostFL
additional context:
in 2018, then-incoming Rep.
@AOC
told me how the cost of living in DC was a challenge for lawmakers.
here is one story that picked up that thread: