Andy Hirschfeld
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It’s really something to hear a Harvard law alum in a midtown manhattan studio for a major media company refer to someone else as an “ivy tower elite”
"This is infuriating in so many ways" -- Kayleigh McEnany is big mad about Trump being ranked as the worst president in history
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Hot take: Taylor Swift’s new album is amazing. Don’t @ me... unless you’re
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For
@tytinvestigates
we dug into a few of the companies that restarted political donations to GOP lawmakers who voted against the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Here's what we found:
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The irony of a ‘media malpractice’ graphic next Sean’s face as he says “I don’t vet the information on this program”....
Hannity:
“I don’t vet the information on this program”.
And there you have it...
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"It is going to take every single thing we got. It is not going to be solved with an election. It is going to be solved with the fight of a lifetime,"
@AOC
said to supporters at a protest in Union Square amid today's SCOTUS decision
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@JamaalBowmanNY
As a reporter I am well sourced in this district in particular, the voters that I spoke to across the political spectrum say they voted against Bowman for reasons that had nothing to do with AIPAC or its interests.
Many of the voters I spoke to are upset that he voted against
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I hope that Heidi Gardner and Kate McKinnon (as a cameo guest) will do a bit on this on SNL this week.
i'll say it -- it's astounding that this person is a member of Congress. Voters just have to do better.
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@RonDeSantisFL
The fear mongering about NYC’s crime rate is misguided at best. Here are the facts:
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@JoeBiden
What about re-entering the Paris Climate Accord, Revoking the Permits for the Keystone XL pipeline, announcing a plan to phase out private prisons?
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@aoc
also called on supporters to get out to vote "when people want to say vote harder, that means primaries too. We cannot have a party that doesn't know how to deal with the present moment anymore."
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@NicoleShanahan
Seems like you don’t quite understand how reporting works. If you’re running for public office reporters will look in to you so we have an informed electorate.
Giving you a chance to comment is journalistic standard. Framing journalism that’s not blatant PR as a hit piece is
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@ninaturner
We need a better metric to measure underemployment. Most of the jobs added in yesterday’s report were in a notoriously low paying sector.
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Quite the non answer
KUDLOW: Are you backing Mitch McConnell?
RICK SCOTT: Well, look, I think we outta have to figure out, Larry, I think what we have to do is say, what do we do going forward? And that's what I want to do. I want to focus on how do we go forward.
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@JamaalBowmanNY
For a lot of people it’s not and this is about the will of the voters. I actually talk with the actual voters in the district which is in the region I actually live in, work in and cover on a regular basis. I take this responsibility very seriously.
I don’t know much about your
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In my latest for
@CityAndStateNY
I fact checked Lee Zeldin's (and much of the GOP) claims about NYC crime.
The talking point is misleading at best.
Here's the story:
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@mehdirhasan
I don't know what you're sourcing looks like for on the ground voices in this district but I have a lot. Overwhelmingly I hear from them and their peers that they voted against Bowman for issues that have nothing to do with AIPAC's purview or interests.
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@NYGovCuomo
,
@NYCMayor
, NY needs a rent freeze as well as a mortgage suspension. The minimum salary to be able to afford to buy in NYC is more than 100k. The avg salary is significantly less. People who are in need are renters and do not have protections
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Working on a story for Al Jazeera English about the SCOTUS decision on student loan forgiveness and how it impacts the greater economy. If last year's decision vs. today's call impacted your spending habits, please get in touch DM or andy
@andyreports
.com
#StudentLoanForgiveness
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@JessicaLBurbank
As a reporter I am pretty well sourced in NY-16 and can tell you from speaking with people across the political spectrum there are a lot of voters that did not vote for him based on issues that have nothing to do with AIPAC or its interests.
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@mehdirhasan
Tricked into is a quite the assertion by Peterson. Trump, like any well known person has a team that’s supposed to vet anyone he meets or talks with. He’s not just some random guy that got duped. Advisors are supposed to catch things like this so it was obviously deliberate.
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NEW for
@tytinvestigates
:
@SBWorkersUnited
filed 200+ complaints w/ the NLRB for the coffee chain's efforts to undermine unionization efforts in Buffalo, NY
We spoke to partners (baristas) about what they were told. These stories are wild.
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Speaking as someone who has covered mental health and someone who knows quite a bit about subject (not some new sudden Twitter expert). The study is flawed and the headlines around it are misleading at best.
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#ICYMI
@holly_4Congress
joined Business Brief to discuss her candidacy. Here are some notable moments:
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@JudiciaryGOP
Tell me you’ve never been to New York without telling me you’ve never been to New York.
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I interviewed
@JasonKander
and
@MixonBrandonn
to learn about The Veterans Community Project and how hope to expand tiny home villages to house homeless veterans nationwide. Here's my latest as part of series on homelessness for OZY: via
@ozy
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@tedcruz
Senator— roadways were used as a way to divide communities and rip apart communities of color. That was by design. It's still going on and in the state you represent. My piece from
@AJEnglish
earlier this year explains the issue.
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@cenkuygur
How can one seriously argue that at the very least a child running around with an assault rifle isn't endangering safety?
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My latest for
@tytinvestigates
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TONIGHT
@SBWorkersUnited
joins to discuss the latest efforts including some new results in Boston. Tune in!
On Today's Business Brief:
It's not just Amazon's union push that is making headlines.
Workers at Starbucks have done the same.
One of the leading organizers in New England joins
@AndyReports
to discuss the movement's momentum.
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@ejdickson
The study has a lot of holes in it as well
Speaking as someone who has covered mental health and someone who knows quite a bit about subject (not some new sudden Twitter expert). The study is flawed and the headlines around it are misleading at best.
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TOMORROW
@ParisHilton
joins Business Brief to discuss her work taking on the troubled teen industry. Be sure to join us.
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@ParisHilton
Thanks
@ParisHilton
for taking on this issue and announcing a release date. Excited to see where this goes!! We wrote about it in
@observer
a few weeks ago. Check it out:
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Very interesting, would love
@andrewyang
to come on Business Brief to discuss
“Yang proposes that the city hire 10,000 recent college graduates to tutor the 100,000 public-school kids suffering most from learning loss due to the pandemic.”
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On Jan. 25, as first reported by Reuters, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced it would suspend all political donations via its PAC. According to FEC filings, the company donated in a different way.
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The study references 17 studies. There are THOUSANDS that say the opposite.
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@JetBlue
A low flying commercial airliner over Manhattan? How was there no one in the room to point out how amazingly stupid that is?
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We also found a discrepancy with Ford. According to their filings, it donated to two PACs that support lawmakers who voted against the certification back in December. That was before it vowed to suspend donations. The PAC's receipts show a different story.
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In a series for
@tytinvestigates
, we looked into the ties between congressional Democrats and financial interests that stand to benefit from evictions. We started with Steny Hoyer. Here are some of the highlights:
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@tedcruz
Senator, the flu and Covid are different illnesses. They transmit differently and require different treatments. They are not the same thing.
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Ford and Alphabet are far from the only companies to either restart donations, show that donations never really ended, or show some kind of discrepancy.
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Depression is widely considered a dynamic disease that is caused a plethora of both internal and external factors.
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I’d love to never hear Rick Santorum say “sexy” again
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Tucker Carlson’s insulting comments aimed at
@brianstelter
only show that Tucker is unable to defend his position with fact and reason. Generally if your only defense is outward projection, you are probably on the wrong side of the debate.
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You can read our story in full here:
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@JordanUhl
There have primaries but they've appeared to be for show and less about the Democratic process. The only one that could have passed as something close to resembling a real challenge was in NH. Dean Phillips took 20% of the vote there.
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I took a look at the study and consulted with psychiatrists about it. First off, the study itself has a lot of holes.
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@SeanJCooksey
@FEC
The assertion that House Dems are trying to "silence" you is quite the take. The document quite literally says the opposite. It asked you clarify and add the full context to your claims if you do decide to make them.
It says: "I would request that you clarify your July 21, 2024,
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We reached out to Ford, Alphabet and the PACs for comment. Only Ford responded:
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For
@tytinvestigates
I looked into Labworq, a COVID-19 testing company that is misleading consumers about testing times and in many cases lost people tests all together including my own. Here's the story:
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@DavidKlion
The weirdest part was when she said she had progressive friends. I have a hard time believing that’s true.
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@kenklippenstein
I feel like Musk’s doing that on purpose. The inevitable lawsuits might be financially cumbersome enough to tank the company that he was forced to buy.
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@WajahatAli
AIPAC had an influence for sure and its role manipulating elections is a valid criticism and might have pushed his challenger over the edge but this particular race it's a bit overstated.
As a reporter this is one of the districts I am well sourced in and can tell you that lots
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@thor_benson
@AOC
He says AOC went to get 'a silly pointless degree at a silly pointless private college' Tucker Carlson has a BA in History from Trinity College (a private college).
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For
@IJNet
I wrote how we need to rethink what objectivity means in journalism. Thanks for the insight
@AliVelshi
@MollyJongFast
@petersterne
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@elonmusk
Didn’t seem like they were doxxing you. I am happy to hear your perspective in an interview.
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TX Gov Greg Abbott moves further towards the fringes (supporting unfounded claims of voter fraud, extreme anti-abortion laws etc)....
YET
Motorola continues to support him financially.
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I am a reporter following a lead about the fireworks in NYC if you have any information please DM or email me andy
@andyreports
.com
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The only person to blame for Twitter's problems is Elon Musk. His divisness is what caused Twitter to lose more than 66% of its value.
To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League … oh the irony!
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@Heritage
The same political party that took issue with people protesting racial injustice by kneeling in front the of flag during the national anthem are now super okay with disrespecting the flag.
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#ICYMI
@ericswalwell
joined
@bizreporttv
last night to discuss everything from efforts to curb retail crime to the student debt crisis. Here are some of the highlights:
@RepSwalwell
speaks to
@AndyReports
about the bipartisan bill aiming to curb organized retail crime and his call for a pause on student debt payments.
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NEW: DuPont CEO Ed Breen is voting on Critical Race Theory on Friday, as chair of a small, Christian college's board.
DuPont has vibrant diversity policies. Grove City College, not so much.
My story for
@TYTInvestigates
:
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@Pixxiemeat
Jennifer, I am a reporter working on a story about this. I have some questions. DMing
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Since Musk took over X he's censored liberal & non-partisan voices but amplified fringe conservative voices. However since Harris became the Democratic nominee, those censorship efforts surged to new heights. My latest for
@AJEnglish
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NEW for
@tytinvestigates
Motorola has backed BIG LIE supporter Sheriff Joe Lombardo in NV Governor's race.
The company is HIS ONLY corporate donor.
AND
He helped the company win several multi-million dollar contracts w/ the police dept.
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@MaxKennerly
Since some of the MAGA people don’t get it: today’s Supreme Court decision, which would provide Trump immunity for his crimes, also means there are no longer repercussions that would stop Biden or any president from doing something extreme like this.
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Musk’s claim is clearly not true
@DavidSacks
As
@bariweiss
clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left
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Elon Musk has increasingly alienated advertisers leaving Twitter in a precarious position. Where's the money coming from?
He does not have to reinvent the wheel. Twitter can take some lessons from the porn industry. Here's my debut piece for
@Slate
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Chuck Schumer is also on the ballot. Here's a piece I wrote about his relationship with institutional investors that played a key role perpetuating the eviction crisis for
@tytinvestigates
cc'
@jtlarsen
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Glad
@AliVelshi
was able sit down with Edward Aguilar who is doing amazing work in GA. At 16, he distributed more PPE than his home state in June than the federal government. Check out
@PParalink
and my story for
@OZY
(which Ali referenced)
via
@msnbc
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