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Health care editor + some SCOTUS , native Kentuckian, alum, pedestrian. Subscribe to VITALS:

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    5 hours ago

    Beto O'Rourke famously didn't help out Will Hurd's opponent in 2018. Hurd famously separated himself from Trump. And so, on CNN today, Hurd said he'd vote for Trump for president over Beto.

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  2. 20 hours ago

    I watched MY COUSIN VINNY on a long flight in January, for the first time in maybe 10 years. I’ve since watched the scene with the red tuxedo on YouTube a couple of times, and now am about to watch the whole thing again. This is not necessarily a bad place but it is a weird place

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    Mar 9

    A few minutes after Schultz said this about the Green New Deal, he said this about his own chances: “How many entrepreneurs are in the room today and people told you your dream cannot come true? Don't let anyone tell you your dreams can't come true.”

    Schultz criticizing Green New Deal for the provision about making every building energy efficient. "That's a well-intentioned idea, but it's never gonna happen." Crowd is dead silent.
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  4. Retweeted
    Feb 18

    when someone sniffs the milk in the fridge and says “hey come smell this I think it’s gone bad” there are two types of ppl: ones who go over and smell it and ones who say “just throw it away”. I’m the second type which is why I don’t ever need to watch the newsroom

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  5. Mar 9

    Maybe next year.

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    Mar 8

    I don’t know who needs to see this but you’re welcome

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    Mar 8

    I've seen some needlessly anonymised sources in my time but "senior political observer" takes the cake

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  8. Mar 8

    Today I learned that drinking grapefruit juice can bring out severe side effects in about 100 medicines.

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    Mar 8

    Fellas, honor a woman in your life by making her listen to a song you like, and saying "here comes the good part" right before the good part.

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  10. Mar 8

    Bernie’s adding long-term-care to his Medicare for All bill, erasing the biggest difference between his version and the one in the House.

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  11. Mar 8

    One of the most revealing red flags in a job interview is when the interviewer wants to throw you a curveball to see how you react, which is normal, but can’t figure out how to do it without also forcing an innocent third party into some arbitrary lose-lose situation.

    One of the most revealing interview techniques is to take a job candidate out for lunch. The hiring manager asks the waiter to deliberately screw up the candidate’s order. It’s easy to say how you would handle when things go wrong, hard to fake your reaction as it happens.
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    Mar 8

    Bored Iowa Town Trying To Convince Kirsten Gillibrand It Local Tradition To Eat Live Tarantula

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  13. Mar 8

    My guess (just a guess) is that the left can probably pull Democratic voters pretty far along on aspirational policy ideas, but will lose them immediately by trying to cross the “Obama was bad” threshold.

    "Was Obama good?" is among the biggest splits between the rising left vanguard and the vast majority of Democratic voters, this is all pretty much stuff I see on Twitter daily
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    Mar 8

    I had first seen Jared’s personnel doc when I reported last February that John Kelly had downgraded his security clearance Now we know Oversight Committee has those same personnel docs for Jared & Ivanka thx to a leaky WH source

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  15. Mar 8

    Some people train for a marathon just to show themselves they can do it. I, on the other hand, would really feel like a champion just for leaving the house early enough on a Saturday morning to be inconvenienced by the marathon’s road closures.

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    Mar 8

    At some point in this “are you a socialist or a capitalist” 2020 hat-sorting process, exactly no one across the entire political spectrum is going to agree on what anyone else means when any of us use the term “socialist.”

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  17. Mar 8

    Seems only fair. Theranos’ science was famously very good and worked very well, and was largely unrelated to the underlying fraud, which was more an issue of ... [checks notes] ... claiming that the science worked

    Bloomberg’s asked if he’d back Elizabeth Holmes again: “I’d back her as chief science officer, not CEO. Good question.”
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  18. Mar 8

    Other counties’ health care systems are ... health care systems. They’re designed to get care for people. Ours is a primarily a big tax break for employers, with a ton of public programs tacked on for the poor, the elderly, etc. It’s a big difference.

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  19. Mar 7

    Miranda was the best one by far

    Unpopular opinion: Sex and the City edition
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  20. Mar 7

    New England is so much weirder than we give it credit for.

    Vermont town elects goat as honorary mayor
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