David Freedlander
@freedlander
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Features Writer, @NYMag
Joined June 2010
In 1987, the federal government banned metal-tipped lawn darts because a single child died from one.
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Just got a text from @AOC’s campaign (she is my member of Congress) asking if everything is ok after last night’s storm
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SCOOP: Biden camp denies Trump campaign request to cut him open and see if he is cake.
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Specialized high school parents heckle @aoc at an education town hall and you won’t believe what happens next
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Email from my doctor’s office this am: “At this time, despite what you hear from the White House, we are not able to test our patients.”.
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In the last ten minutes Donald Trump has said that all inspector generals should be fired because "they may be Obama people," revealed that he is taking hydroxychloroquine and that the doctors who warn against it should be ignored because they are probably Democrats.
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It’s been a really short trip from “We won’t vote to confirm the other sides judges” to “We won’t vote to confirm the other sides cabinet” to “We won’t vote to confirm the other sides election victory”.
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Haven’t followed the news much today, but seems like one side is mad that a staffer called Republicans a bunch of fuckers, and that a First Lady with a PhD calls herself doctor, and the other side is mad that the president is ignoring the pandemic and overturning the election.
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I know we’ve all lost our capacity for shock, but the president of the United States in the middle of a war asking a NATO adversary to help him politically is really something.
Trump calls for Putin to release dirt on the Biden family right now since now "he's not exactly a fan of our country" during new interview with Real America's Voice
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Mitt Romney yelled “This is what you’ve gotten” to Ted Cruz and his fellow Senate colleagues as protesters swarmed the building.
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Active shooter drills in schools have become a $2.7 billion industry, and new research shows they have almost no value in keeping kids safe and are responsible for an increase in mental health problems for kids, especially younger ones
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It is very weird that one political party in the United States has made combatting sex with minors a major part of their identity and that all of these people are in that party
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Moments like this I’m just glad there are people who recognize the importance of forging bipartisan compromise in the Senate
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.@aoc defeating Crowley was 8.5 on the Richter scale. A 31-year-old public defender who favors decriminalizing all sex work and wants achieve “population zero” in the city’s prisons winning across the whole borough is a 47.
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Free sitcom idea: A couple of 60-something Italian-American dudes, once great friends turned bitter rivals, find themselves both newly single in New York City
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It is remarkable how much more comfortable, fluid and articulate Bernie is on stage compared to Biden.
Watch this man! Just now on Fox. Get this in front of your Michigan aunt or coach. Amazing.
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The former president has an envoy ambassador and is conducting foreign policy
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In 1987, the federal government banned metal-tipped lawn darts because three children died from them while playing outside.
It really is wild to consider the level of safety regulation we encounter in daily life basically every single place you look, except for guns.
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By my rough count, if Democrats win every seat where they currently have a lead in the count, and the Republicans win every seat where they have a lead, the House ends up with 218 Democrats, and 217 Republicans.
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Mitt Romney just strapped Josh Hawley to the roof of his car and drove to Canada.
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“Trump advisers said their best hope was if the president wins Ohio and Florida is too close to call early in the night, depriving Mr. Biden a swift victory and giving Mr. Trump the room to undermine the validity of uncounted mail-in ballots”.
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This is bad folks. Right outside my apartment tons of New Yorkers lining up, many with bags. Which is to say that it is Farmers Market Sunday and unless this situation changes soon the goat milk will soon be sold out
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Ann Romney will join Michelle Obama on TV to encourage people to vote this fall
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Watching Fetterman run against a really rich guy who flaunts his wealth and had a long career on trashy TV really makes you wonder what Democrats were doing in '16 and '20.
My opponent claims there's no difference between $50,000 and $50 MILLION. Like, how out of touch from reality do you have to be to literally say something like that???
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New Yorkers pay this man’s $250,000 a year salary for a position that did not exist before he held it.
Deputy mayor for public safety Phil Banks really doesn’t want to discuss the federal raid at his home!
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“We cannot allow this to have credibility, because if people saw that she did it, then maybe others will come—and we cannot let other people like her run for office. We need to make an example out of her”
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A teenager has managed to get himself stuck outside a second floor window and the entire neighborhood has gathered to see if the police can figure this one out
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From yesterday, @aoc had a Green New Deal for public housing townhall in the Bronx. “I don’t want to hear the term free stuff ever again. I am already hearing from some of these neoliberal folks who are trying to flip the script on us.”
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One of the absolute finest photo choices here in the history of newspapering
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People say Trump is undisciplined, but here he has known about the Baghdadi raid for three days, and cooly just went about his business live-tweeting Fox and Friends, attacking the Washington Post and making fun of Tim Ryan.
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If this were a bit it could not possibly have gone better
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Then why did his office a) not just say that and b) put out after the fact schedules showing that he was meeting with staff?
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Two months ago Musk tried to get a 19-year-old to shut down an account that used publicly available data to track down his private jet.
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.
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After dropping out of an official Commission on Presidential Debates sanctioned town hall—the first President ever to do so—Trump gets 90 minutes of free air time without his opponent.
JUST IN: NBC News to host town hall with Trump on Thursday via @nbcnews.
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Rick Snyder, GOP gov of Michigan from 2011-2019 days he is voting for Biden: “Donald Trump is a bully who lacks a moral compass”
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“Stop the Steal,” 1/6, Dobbs, terminate the Constitution, 88 criminal charges, guilty on 34, “she happened to turn Black,” entire first term cabinet says he is unfit, no outreach to Haley, the floating island of garbage, childless cat ladies and on track to win the pop. vote.
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Apparently Trump has intel that DeSantis cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn star, asking her to spank him with a magazine with his face on the cover, then asked his lawyer to cover it up.
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This story from Warren, connecting personal hardship, a warm anecdote and public policy is some rather remarkable politics
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The ability of the Trump campaign to take a minor Biden gaffe and kick up a whole day's worth of coverage on it (so far) at least with Biden apologizing and write-ups in the NYT and elsewhere should scare the hell out of Democrats.
Fast work. Trump campaign is already selling "You ain't black" shirts for $30.
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AOC made the front page of the Guardian for liking a Scottish soda
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More: “We have to triage you and then get permission from the Department of Health based on an algorithm.”.
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Eric Adams calls those who are questioning why he eats fish if he says he eats a plant-based diet "the food police".
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James McCloughan ran through VietCong gunfire for 2 days, saving 10 men, taking shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire into his head and arm, refusing a superior's order to evacuate. Today he was replaced by a picture of a dog
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We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately. He’s a demonic force, a destroyer. —Tucker Carlson in private text messages, January 2021, talking about Donald Trump
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It would be fun to tell someone in 1990 that thirty years later the NYC murder rate will have dropped by 75 percent and yet the mayoral election will be all about crime.
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Remarkable that McConnell could have probably single-handedly ended Trumps political career after 1/6 and chose not to.
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Today, October 15, it was 85 degrees in New York.
Breaking News: The heart of President Biden's climate agenda — a push to replace coal- and gas-fired power plants — is said to likely be cut from the budget bill because Senator Joe Manchin opposes it.
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Eric Adams finger is in a splint, says he got it from shaking a police officers hand.
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What is fascinating about this is that in 2020 @aoc reoriented the workings of her district office for a massive, massive census push, relying on the network of activists and organizers who campaigned for her to knock on doors. Looks like it worked.
Large U.S. counties w/ stronger than expected Census counts (vs. estimates):. 1. Queens, NY +8%.2. Brooklyn, NY +8%.3. Honolulu, HI +5%.4. Bronx, NY +5%.5. Manhattan, NY +5%.6. Westchester, NY +4%.7. Suffolk, NY +4%.8. Nassau, NY +3%.9. Cook, IL +3%.10. Allegheny, PA +3%.
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Kelly Loeffler’s house “has nine antique fireplaces, parquet from Versailles and fossilized dinosaur footprints in the kitchen floor.”
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Dr. Oz has gotten the name of his hometown wrong in his official statement of candidacy.
Have to admit, as someone who grew up in "Huntingdon" and had to explain that it wasn't "Huntingdon Valley," this bugs me. There is no "Huntington Valley, Pa.". There is only "Huntingdon Valley, Pa."
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In the short term, the GOP base is very Trumpy. The problem for the party is as it ever was: that base is too small for a nat’l party. Weds. events provided visuals that have been missing the past 4 years. Every Dem ad now can put this on screen and say, “Is this what you want?”
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Worth remembering that in January, Republican lawmakers--including Kevin McCarthy--argued against impeaching Trump because a bipartisan investigative commission on the events of 1/6 would be more appropriate
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And once again let’s go to Diane from Brooklyn for the weather report
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The phrase “all of us” sticks out.
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One of the main takeaways in @CarolLeonnig/ @PhilipRucker book on the Trump WH is he can't do long-term planning, that he just tries to get out of the 24-hour, or even hour-by-hour news cycle as best he can until the next crisis arrives. Just something to think about these days.
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So here’s a fun fact: thanks to this article I wrote for @NYMag I have been kicked out of the Eric Adams election night party
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If history is any guide, Republicans in red states will respond to this SCOTUS ruling by gerrymandering Democrats to a fare-thee-well, and Democrats in blue states will respond by setting up a nonpartisan redistricting commission.
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Honest question: What is a tax cut of any size or type supposed to do right now? People aren't staying home, avoiding travel etc because they don't have pocket money; it's because they don't want to get sick.
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If the metric is pure political talent, Pete Buttigieg is astonishingly good.
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After Kellyanne Conway not knowing that her phone call with the Examiner was on the record yesterday and Rudy's butt calling NBC News today it's really anyone's guess what tomorrow will bring.
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Kerik, you may recall, commandeered an apartment near Ground Zero that had been set aside for exhausted rescue workers to get some rest so that he continue his affair with Judith Regan.
The Trump Campaign’s statement honoring 9/11 was provided by campaign advisor & former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerick, who was convicted on 8 felony counts of tax fraud & false statements in 2009, went away for 3 1/2 yrs, & was granted a full pardon by Pres Trump earlier this yr
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In 2013, @PeteButtigieg took piano lessons until he was able to sit in w/ the South Bend orchestra: "Buttigieg admitted to being a little nervous about playing with the symphony but said he is willing to do whatever he can to support the arts"
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Incredible story: Barr and DOJ are outing informants to discredit the Russia investigation.
The declasssification of an FBI interview transcript (and public release by Sen. Graham) has outed the identity of a researcher STEELE used to collect info for his Trump dossier. Now he and his sources could be at personal risk.
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Coming soon: AOC in conversation with Noam Chomsky
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Collins/Murkowski coming out against Hegseth this way, with statements and floor speeches, instead of a group of 4+ senators quietly going to Thune and saying he doesn't have the votes, means Hegseth is more likely to be confirmed, not less.
“I’ll be releasing a statement shortly,” Susan Collins says of her position on Hegseth.
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A former mayor was raided by the FBI, a frontrunner to be the next mayor is about to give a hastily-scheduled press conference to ward off allegations of sexual harassment, a City Councilman was expelled for federal tax fraud. Or, as we call it in New York, "Wednesday".
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That’s because those voters actually died in the time between submitting their ballot and the vote count. The fact that they were discovered would seemingly argue against widespread fraud.
Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead‘ via @BreitbartNews.
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Remarkable to consider how often on the trail in 2016 Trump would fire up his base by saying that the leaders of other countries were mocking the U.S. behind our backs.
.@JustinTrudeau, @EmmanuelMacron, @BorisJohnson and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions @realDonaldTrump by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool)
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An underrated aspect of a potential Bloomberg nomination is that he could blitz Trump in spending in states outside of the traditional battleground states. And without the GOP spending in turn, surprises could happen.
Tonight, we’re in Salt Lake City, UT. It’s a state that Trump needs to win, so it’s a state where we need to be. To save our planet and help all Americans, first we need to win. I want to thank all of our supporters who came out to help us defeat Trump and turn UT blue.
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The electoral college being forced to meet in secure undisclosed locations because of threats of violence encouraged by the president seems like the kind of thing that should be a bigger news story.
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Initial take: Donald Trump is a very difficult person to debate but Kamala Harris did a better job than anyone else who has debated him has and it's not particularly close.
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How cool I feel when traveling How cool I actually look
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So the guy who caught the subway terrorist is a young middle eastern immigrant who works at a bodega.
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It’s just very odd the way in which the Tea Party etc fetishized the whole Revolution-era aesthetic and speak of the blood of tyrants watering the tree of liberty and on and on and here a guy just straight up saying he should be installed as sovereign over the will of voters.
"Our Supreme Court and our courts didn't have the courage to overturn elections" -- Trump
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Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl
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"I'm not gonna get into a back-and-forth with Donald Trump. But what I will say is this: When I ran for reelection in 2013, I got 60% of the vote. When he ran for reelection, he lost to Joe Biden."
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Over the weekend the president’s son accused Joe Biden of being a pedophile.
"It is so unseemly for a former president to take the virtual commencement ceremony for a series of historically black colleges and universities and turn it into a political drive-by shooting" -- Karl Rove on Obama's commencement speech in which he indirectly criticized Trump
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Andrew Giuliani: The raid on my dad is an example of the politicalization of the Justice Department!. The Justice Department: We wanted to execute the raid sooner but Trump wouldn’t let us
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2021 will mark the first time in 74 years that a Kennedy has not served in federal or state office.
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Word of RBG’s death emerged at this exact hour only two weeks ago.
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If your uncle talked like this at Thanksgiving you’d start watering down his cocktails and suggest everyone go outside “just for a little air”
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Am at the RNC sitting next to some German and Italian reporters who are furiously googling who are these people speaking are and seem incredibly confused.
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“We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do,” Mr. Giuliani said. “There’s nothing illegal about it. Somebody could say it’s improper.”
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I think I am confused as to why congestion pricing would destroy the fragile pandemic recovery but raising taxes would be just fine.
Upshot of @CarlHeastie update:. -Lawmakers are still discussing how to fund MTA, says “only choice” is to “raise revenue” - AKA tax. Admits there’s not many places to get $ from. So all options are on table.-Could come back anytime btwn now and January to act on a plan
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Blue cupcakes mean collusion, pink cupcakes mean no collusion.
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So I understand this correctly Eric Adams favorite concert he ever went to was a Curtis Mayfield show in which Mayfield ended up paralyzed, crushed under the weight of a fallen lighting rig during a storm, before he could even play a note.
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“So the Democratic Party has a role to play in this problem, and it’s like we’re not allowed to talk about it. We’re not allowed to talk about anything wrong the Democratic Party does”
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“I don’t know if it is this year or next year but I am going to get my nose pierced” the mayor just told a nose-pierced NYer
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