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HuffPost reporter. Author of The Beltway Bible (St. Martin's), a cheeky political guide out now (link below). eliot [at] huffpost [dot] com

Washington, D.C.
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Dec 2017

    **Shameless plug** If you’re holiday shopping for a political junkie, night I suggest my book, "The Beltway Bible: A Totally Serious A-Z Guide to Our No-Good, Corrupt, Incompetent, Terrible, Depressing, and Sometimes Hilarious Government”? **END PLUG**

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Project Aloe Veritas update: Project Aloe Veritas is not doing great

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  3. 12 hours ago

    cool cool

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president says if negotiations fail, Islamic Republic will enrich uranium 'more than before ... in next weeks'
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  4. 13 hours ago

    what

    Uber just announced signed agreement with the US Army to develop and test "flying cars" for urban air mobility service. It's a $1M deal, with Uber and Army splitting costs 50-50
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    14 hours ago

    Giuliani on Trump’s prior lawyers: “They didn’t know him for 30 years like I do. They didn’t help him get elected."

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  6. 14 hours ago

    Do they only see each other in libraries and sensory deprivation tanks?

    EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk is quietly dating musician Grimes
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    15 hours ago

    Ian McEwan tutored his son about his own novel for a high school essay and it got a C+

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  8. 15 hours ago

    Q: Should I make this my new Twitter banner, or should I stick with Dillery Clump

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  9. 16 hours ago

    tfw all you ever wanted was to voice strong opinions about Sugar Ray and suddenly you’re in the dark web

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  10. 16 hours ago

    For the modern press secretary who likes hiding in bushes but wants to take the bushes with him:

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    May 7

    OH in the office: "That WAS a nice piece. When I heard about it I was like 'Why are these fucking guys writing about ACORN again?'" But it turned out great:

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    May 7

    It's official: the GOP's 2019 defense spending bill explicitly approves Trump's military parade.

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    May 7

    Go live in Paris for seven months on the advance commission for a 250-word Vogue article on the pants I wore to a lunch party near Gramercy.

    You wake up to discover it is 1975. What is the first thing you do?
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  14. May 7

    Calling it now: Dan Snyder is going to run for statewide office in Maryland.

    Weekly Standard has two new internals: Blankenship 31 Jenkins 28 Morrissey 27 Blankenship 28 Morrissey 27 Jenkins 14
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  15. May 7

    The only time I would ever think of buying a $22 bottle of wine would be if I were worth $300 million.

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  16. May 3

    There’s been a women’s march, an immigrants’ march, the March for Our Lives and a Black Lives Matter march. So where is the nationwide seniors’ march? # via

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  17. May 2

    I just wrote, “Vermont Senator Burner Sanders” I need to stop working.

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    May 2

    A note on dystopia, from :

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  19. May 2

    For example: scoops about Nick Baumann. Please send those.

    Semi-regular reminder to please pitch me reported scoops. My email is nick.baumann@huffpost.com. We're looking for stories we can't do in-house — either because you have special access, you're in a place we're not, or you've done reporting we can't. We pay, of course.
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  20. May 2

    “Listen, my Great Aunt Mable sent me numerous birthday cards containing five dollar bills throughout my childhood. What women are going through right now sickens me.”

    Good news, fellas. You don't even need a daughter anymore to exonerate yourself from harassment claims. We can thank Redskins suite holder William Teel for this.
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    May 2

    As a soccer fan, I appreciate that it’s reached a level of relevance in the United States that rooting for the wrong MLS team can be a political gaffe -->

    Washington Walz Strikes Again – Caught Rooting For , not Minnesota's
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