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The way Trump is handling these meetings with his top lieutenants “definitely gives off Dear Leader vibes, like what you would see with Kim Jong Un or [Vladimir] Putin."

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No One Was Sweating It at Curtis Sliwa's Boozy Election Night Party Attendees at Republican Curtis Sliwa's election were unbothered that their candidate lost the New York City mayoral election to Zohran Mamdani.

It was clear Sliwa would not be delivering his victory speech, and perhaps that’s why there didn’t seem to be even an ounce of anxiety amid the revelry.

A dispatch from my night at Curtis Sliwa's election watch party:

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To be fair, he explicitly and publicly campaigned on this and then won

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Roy Wood Jr.: 'Logic Isn't the Weapon. It Might Need to Be Love' Roy Wood Jr. talks about his book, 'The Man of Many Fathers,' doing comedy in a polarized country and what he learned in radio and on 'The Daily Show'

"Logic isn’t necessarily going to be the weapon, it might need to be love. And then from that, you hope that they find some logic. But just yelling and berating people, done that for eight years."

Read @nikkimcr.bsky.social's fantastic Q+A with Roy Wood Jr.:

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NEW: Deputy Secretary of State Landau has created a meme superhero persona for himself, as he teams up with fringe anonymous X accounts to target foreign visa holders for Charlie Kirk speech.

Meet: El Quitavisas.

Me @rollingstone.com

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Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

Please read this heartbreaking story from @timdickinson.bsky.social about a mom and her four kids who were taken by CBP and disappeared, and how a lawmaker and a friend mobilized to track them down

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My latest for @rollingstone.com digs into Trump's $30 Billion in shutdown cuts targeting Democratic states and cities with painful cuts to public transit, energy, and fundamental civil rights protections.
The pain will reverberate throughout the economy.
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Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress Justin J. Pearson, a member of the "Tennessee Three," has announced a campaign to primary Democrat Steve Cohen and join the U.S. House.

“Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal. There is no playbook that we are using from the past that could work in the present, and so we’ve got to stand up."

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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

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'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent.

Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

Welcome to Portland, Where Trump's Fever Dream Is America's New Nightmare Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.

Portland is obviously personal to me. The president's fever dream of a 'War Zone' by the Willamette might be darkly funny, if the stakes for this city -- and the rest of the nation -- were not dead serious:

Trump has set his sights on #Alaska as a test case for his disastrous “National Energy Dominance” agenda.

For @rollingstone.com, I went to Alaska and met people organizing to resist Trump’s plans.

“No one is throwing up their hands and saying 'he’s won.'”

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ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

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Robert Redford Was the Definition of a Movie Star Redford, who died at 89, was a groundbreaking environmentalist, the patron saint of independent film, an Oscar-winning director — in short, an icon.

"He was the movies, in all of their escapist and ennobling glory."

Read @davidlfear.bsky.social on Redford:

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Lisa is the best and you should hire her (and Quincy and Lou) immediately

Incredible get for @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @zeteo.com. I cannot express how much I am going to miss working with @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social, two of the smartest and most compassionate colleagues I've ever had

Graphic announcing the publication date of January 13, 2026 of a biography of Justin Townes Earle called 'What Do You Do When You're Lonesome'

My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday.

It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’

If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here:
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gonna just keep reposting this from @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me

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Typically excellent from @swin24.bsky.social and the gang

"President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States"

It should be noted that @rollingstone.com is as much corporate media as @nytimes.com yet is able to write in plain and clear language about what's happening. No euphemisms. No laundering bad-faith morons & weirdos

Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary' Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.

Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him

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Trump Fires Labor Stats Chief Following Weak Jobs Report Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, following the release of a weak jobs report on Thursday.

Concerning!

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Tax dollars at work, baby!!!!!
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Team Trump Was on 'F-cking Warpath' to Kill Story About Salacious Letter to Epstein Donald Trump's team was desperate to kill a Wall Street Journal story about Trump writing a salacious letter to Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.

Hoo boy, from me and @swin24.bsky.social

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Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime is forcing human rights defenders like the nonprofit Cristosal to flee the nation.

“They created conditions where there were really no better options. Hundreds of people left the country in the last month.”

Great reporting from @nikkimcr.bsky.social on how Trump's BFF in El Salvador has been forcing human rights advocates to flee the nation

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Inside Trump's Frantic, Failing Mission to Crush the Epstein 'MAGA Rebellion' President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.

New from me and @swin24.bsky.social:

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The DOJ's Epstein Memo Is Tearing the Trump Administration Apart The Justice Department's memo on Jeffrey Epstein is causing a bitter rift among some of the most prominent figures in Donald Trump's administration.

“Those two do not like each other,” one of the Trump administration officials adds. “It surprises me that there hasn’t been more reporting on that.”

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Trump's Government Is a Den of Snitches, 'Freaks,' and Paranoid Tyrants The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.

Latest for @rollingstone.com from @ryanbort.bsky.social and me:

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The Worst Parts of Trump and the GOP's Disastrous Tax Bill Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is a disaster for immigrants, the environment, and the health care of millions of Americans.

Among it's myriad harms Trump's #BigBadBill adds $30 billion for ICE, enough to deploy 10,000 agents + $45 billion for construction and expansion of detention facilities and transportation.
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