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@VeraMBergen

National Security Correspondent . Former . Loudly speaking in Spanglish behind you on the metro. DM me for Signal/WhatsApp.

Washington, DC via       & Miami.
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    13 Oct 2015

    Reporter: "What's the word we use for 'asshole' again?" Editor: "Unpredictable." Reporter: "Thanks."

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  2. 2 hours ago

    15 reasons you should be reading ' world and national security coverage What. A. Year. ⬇️ 

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    2 hours ago

    I can’t believe you guys are so stressed that you need words from other languages and cultures to tell you to chill

    is over. It’s time to embrace coorie, the Scottish lifestyle trend you need to know about.
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  4. 3 hours ago

    I still can't believe this is real.

    I could not believe this OPM thing is real or at least as bad as it sounded— but it is!
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    6 hours ago

    Mollie Tibbetts’ mom has taken the son of Mexican farmworkers — who fled when their coworker, Mollie’s alleged killer, was arrested — into her home.

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  6. 23 hours ago

    Iraqi lawmakers demand US withdrawal after Trump visit

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    Dec 27

    “Visiting a military base in Iraq and not meeting any Iraqi officials is a good way to increase the risks that we don’t have much of a military presence at all in Iraq for very long," said a senior anti-ISIS coalition official, who did not want to be named

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    Dec 27

    The Trump administration in two years has gotten 30 judges confirmed to federal appeals courts. That's how many appeals judges Obama got confirmed in his entire first term. Who these judges are, and what they've done so far:

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    Dec 27

    Bad news, folks: Troops aren't getting a 10 percent pay raise next year, no matter what Trump said in Iraq

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  10. Dec 27

    “Jim Mattis’s resignation from the Trump administration, and his subsequent accelerated dismissal, prompted responses that bordered on the hagiographic”

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    Dec 25

    This is one of the best stories of 2018 😭

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  12. Dec 26

    Trump about "his generals" advising against a hasty withdrawal from Syria - “They said again, recently, can we have more time? I said, ‘Nope.’ You can’t have any more time. You’ve had enough time. We’ve knocked them out. We’ve knocked them silly." (per WH pool)

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  13. Dec 26

    President Trump is in Iraq, his first visit to troops in a war zone

    President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas.
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    Dec 25

    The results of surveys of over 1,100 undocumented Mexican immigrants who were deported, published in light of Jakelin Caal's death in CBP custody, found that of those who needed and asked for medical care 37 % were denied

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    Dec 25

    People who speak an indigenous language, like Jakelin Caal and her father, are less likely to receive care than Spanish-speakers. While nearly 36% of non-indigenous language speakers received care, only 24% of indigenous language speakers did.

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  16. Dec 25

    Defense Secretary Mattis’ (last) holiday letter to the troops: “In a world awash in change, you hold the line.”

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    Dec 25

    Simply not credible. WH should provide evidence of such communications.

    Trump claims that “many” federal workers want the government to stay closed: "Many of those workers have said to me, communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. These federal workers want the wall."
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    Dec 25

    Trump, during his Christmas Day video conference with U.S. troops: “We have a little bit of a shutdown because we believe in walls."

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    Dec 24

    "... As many as 3,000 soldiers and Marines will be posted on the southwest border over Christmas the New Year." Via

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    Dec 24

    A government source confirms to me that McGurk never briefed or talked to President Trump -- he was never asked to. Does that make the president look better or worse that he didn't interact with his top diplomat to the anti-ISIS coalition?

    Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!
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    Dec 24

    “Alone In The White House For Christmas (Poor Me)” is a great Christmas song though.

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