Writer, journalist, adventurer. @msnownews columnist. Author: Manly While Stimming. @dailytarheel forever. Six-stringer. He/Him. EMGarcia2009@gmail.com

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Some ~personal news~ After five amazing years, I've been let go from @Independent. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com
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Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
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Eric Michael Garcia retweeted
Why Democrats should fight for Mississippi. Yes, they have more opportunities than resources this year. But the chance to revolutionize the country’s political map doesn’t come along very often. My column on Scott Colom’s campaign to forge a new coalition. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/opini…
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Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy for featuring Acton's estranged mother in an ad.
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Ivan the GOAT of Alaska polling is back
BREAKING: New AK Governor survey! Alaska Survey Research October 15-18, 2026 N=2,149 Alaska registered voters (1,568 likely voters) MOE: +/- 2.5% (+/- 3.0%) Fielding: Text-to-online and ASR Survey Panel Now why, you might ask, is Donald Trump the front page pic here? 🧵1/14
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Hot take: straight dudes also need a lesbian friend to give them unvarnished advice. My lesbian or queer friends (to say nothing of my transmasc friends) have been some of my favorite friends.
Every straight woman needs a lesbian bestie to be so appalled at how straight men are moving in 2026 that she actually raises said straight friend’s standards. vogue.com/article/i-want-wha…
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One of the funniest parts of @TimAlberta’s American Carnage is when Trump tells Joe Crowley to get off his ass and campaign or else he’ll lose to AOC.
Trump: I like AOC better, you know, she's doing her thing.
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Eric Michael Garcia retweeted
At 7:30 PM Central Time, Dallas County has recorded 75,834 votes, which is 232.6% of its 2022 first-day total and 134.6% of its 2024 first-day total. Dallas has surpassed Presidential-year turnout on the first day of early voting in a midterm year.
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Eric Michael Garcia retweeted
these brochures, which build on the text campaign last week, are clearly part of a GOP GOTV operation. the folks who did this are smart. less smart are the angry Rs on here who are not asking how the "transgender student union" got the addresses of them and all their friends
I just checked my messages. No less than 100 parents have messaged me, enraged over the mailers. Is this an op? If it is, it’s not okay. It even gives tips on how to get emancipated.
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MARIST POLL OHIO: #OHSen Sherrod Brown 48% Jon Husted 44% #OHGov Amy Acton 50% Vivek Ramaswamy 43% 10/15-10/18 MOE ±4.5
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Kid who went to an artsy college in Maine and the son of an intellectual and director versus a jock from the Midwest
Two different cultural backgrounds. Zohrans family Indian strivers, learned to people please to get ahead. AES Egyptian American, captain of football team more sarcastic and cocky.
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I guess now is a good time to promote my book: Manly While Stimming: Autism and the Myth of the Masculine Ideal, which dives into how RFK Jr. and Elon Musk represent two signs of the coin when it comes to talking about #ActuallyAutistic people as subhuman. In stores March 30.
Gasps in the crowd as RFK jr reveals he’s just seen data that puts the autism rate near 20% @TMZ
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The reason Robert F. Kennedy Jr. never saw anybody with autism is because A) they were not classified as being autistic because the DSM didn't create a separate diagnosis until 1980. B) They were likely institutionalized with other disabled people like his aunt Rosemary.
Gasps in the crowd as RFK jr reveals he’s just seen data that puts the autism rate near 20% @TMZ
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Eric Michael Garcia retweeted
That is Jasmine Crockett making good on her promise to help Democrats down ballot in Texas. @JasmineForUS is making 8 stop around Houston area today pushing people to vote for people like @letitiaplummer I caught up with her at Acres Homes Multi-Services Center (1/3)
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Huge dumps in the Rio Grande Valley
Cameron County! 9,424 votes cast 85% of 2024 Day 1 EV 135% of 2022 Day 1 EV 11% of 2024 Total EV 18% of 2022 Total EV
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Ready to flip Texas blue!
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Unless you are @RalstonReports, don't try and extrapolate any trends from early voter data.
I think now is a good time to say that if anybody is saying anything about the partisan implications of Texas turnout right now, they are entirely unserious.
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Some awesome news: The Political Spectrum Substack has not even been around for two weeks and we have already hit 100 paid subscribers. Also, I’ll be in Greensboro this weekend and will be covering early voting on Sunday. #NCSen #NCPol
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Oh, Ted Nugent? The guy who wrote a song called "Jailbait" and who supposedly became the legal guardian of a 17-year-old so he could have sex with her? That Ted Nugent?
Nugent: We could eliminate the Democrat Party. That's the goal. They're not Democrats, they're Communists! I want them out of here!
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Now why y'all gonna reignite my crush on this woman after the Ted Lasso season ended?
📷 | hannah waddingham getting ready for the academy museum gala
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