Founder, @UChiPolitics; Chief Political Analyst for @CNN. Author, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Host of The Axe Files & Hacks on Tap podcasts.
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In the name of the USA, Witkoff honors Putin as a "humanitarian," even as Putin continues his slaughter of civilians in Ukraine and oppresses his own people.
Putin is as much a humanitarian as @POTUS is a ballet dancer.
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po… via @NYTimes
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I'm not going to share this ad, in which forces apparently aligned with @VivekGRamaswamy unconscionably mines @amyactonoh's family tragedy to advance his unquenchable ambition to become governor of OH.
I've been around politics longer than he's been alive, and I don't think I've ever seen anything uglier. The ad and Vivek's failure to repudiate it tells us so much more about him than his opponent.
The NYT has a full account of the attack ad using Amy Acton's mother, her brother's response, and the 1978 indictment of her stepfather on rape charges when she was a child
nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
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"Hope built this place...and hope still lives here."
This is a beautiful, impactful message and video from @JamesTalarico.
He is playing against the hateful tenor of our times, and betting on Texans to reject an onslaught of hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads, paid for by @ElonMusk, @MAGA Inc. and others on behalf of Ken Paxton.
BREAKING: James Talarico just released an incredible video reminding every American what hope feels like. This is the best political ad we've seen in a long time.
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.@MLB is probably less than thrilled to have two small market teams, the @Brewers and @RaysBaseball, in the World Series.
But it's fun to see quality rewarded over the extravagant spenders!
For the first time in over 45 years, the World Series will feature two teams both in search of their first World Series championship
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Will Republicans in Congress be willing to stand up AFTER the midterms to @POTUS's flagrant and impardonable betrayal of Ukraine on Putin's behalf?
And get to the bottom of the business deals Witkoff and Kushner are negotiating w/him?
nytimes.com/2026/10/19/us/po… via @NYTimes
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David Axelrod retweeted
A couple of things about this @UHouston poll:
1) The Libertarian is getting 3% and I think that holds because Paxton is disliked by 1-5 Republicans
2) @jamestalarico is consolidating 98% of Democrats, while Paxton is only getting 88% of Republicans. Again, the Libertarian candidate is becoming a weigh station for disgruntled GOPers.
3) Talerico is cleaning up with Independents -- leading by a 60% to 32% margin.
4) Paxton's favorability is - 16 compared to only -3 for Talerico.
More from the poll here. bit.ly/4zHe6uf
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.@amanpour is a legend in broadcast journalism. Fearless. Incisive. aa master storyteller and interviewer.
She has shone a light on wars and held the powerful to account. What a great legacy!
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If the @GOP takes a drubbing, the House will blame the Senate. The Senate will blame the House.
And, in unnamed quotes, they'll all blame the @POTUS who started a costly unwise war of choice, a foolish trade war with our closest neighbor & who exploited his position for personal gain, while inflation reigned.
Republicans already know who they want to blame if they suffer big midterm losses politi.co/3UBTOUa
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When you're the Richest Man in the World, you may think you can buy ANYTHING.
Even a U.S. Senate seat!
@ElonMusk has plunged at least $156 million into the operation to try and save the tarnished and freighted Ken Paxton in Texas.
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Easy to be snarky about the warp speed hiring-to-firing of @KatieZacharia but it really calls into question the process by which she was hired to speak for the @POTUS, apparently without the most basic vetting.
Seems like the Casting Director-in-Chief liked her on Fox News, valued her unswerving loyalty and picked her.
BREAKING NYT:
Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter. nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…
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Congrats to the @Brewers on sweeping the @Dodgers to make the World Series.
As a @Cubs fan, they aggravate the hell out of me.
As a baseball fan, I admire the team and organization.
A small market team, with limited funds, they're great year-after-year.
Good luck in the Series!
The Final Out of the 2026 NLCS, to send the Brewers to the World Series for the first time in 44 years, called by Brewers radio announcer Jeff Levering
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.@POTUS says of Paxton, "Everyone admits he was the best AG in the history of Texas."
Who says THAT?!
The man was impeached by an overwhelming vote of the Republican-dominated state legislature!
NEWSMAX: If Talarico does win, will you have any regrets about endorsing Ken Paxton?
TRUMP: No, because I think Cornyn would've lost
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On @HacksOnTap, Midterm Madness continues w/a couple of Hall of Fame Hacks--@KarlRove and @Robt_Gibbs!podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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There's no more pretense.
The shameful truth is now clear.
By withholding critical Intel and Internet services, and lifting sanctions on Russia to replenish Putin's war machine, @realDonaldTrump & @elonmusk are now fully complicit. They're on Putin's side.
nytimes.com/2026/10/14/world… via @NYTimes
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Pulling for @Pontifex, the most thoughtful and impactful moral leader on the planet today. The world, not just Catholics, need his voice, his kindness, his decency and his wisdom.
Pope Leo XIV's surgery confirmed that he has lung cancer and he had the lower lobe of his right lung removed, the Vatican said Tuesday.
The tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery. It said the diagnosis had been suspected by preoperative tests and was confirmed during surgery.
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