@jackshafer

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 Washington, DC
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Joined January 2008
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"The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly...
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Azi™️@Azi4h
"when a drunk Nixon phoned Kissinger later that night and pleaded with him not to tell anyone that he had cried, both deputies were silently listening in on the call — and then blabbed about it to Woodward, according to the manuscript" washingtonpost.com/investiga…

Bob Woodward spills his ‘Secrets’

In a new memoir, the legendary reporter names a parade of confidential sources who enabled monumental scoops in The Washington Post and his blockbuster books.

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Kudos to the New York Times wsj.com/opinion/kudos-to-the… via @WSJopinion

Opinion | Kudos to the New York Times

The newspaper acknowledges a source’s criticism.

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Chase Madar@ChaseMadar7h
.@jackshafer’s classic 2012 column on the nature and uses of Washington leaks, essential context for the administration’s pissy indictment of a @DropSiteNews journalist and her source web.archive.org/web/20120628…

Why leaks are good for you

Critics maintain that recent national security leaks damage the country and are designed to enhance the president's reputation in an election year. But as often as not, leaks are a vital way of...

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Bryan Curtis@bryancurtisOct 25
RIP David Moulton, who carved out a helluva career as a spotter. He stood next to Gary Danielson every Saturday and @TroyAikman every Sunday and Monday. When I asked which nuggets were his, Moulton said, “Spotters don’t want to take credit for anything." theringer.com/2020/09/14/nfl…

Meet the Man Who Makes Your Favorite Announcer Sound Smarter

Sports fans have been led to believe that the broadcast booth is typically occupied by just two people—play-by-play announcer and former player analyst. But there’s more happening inside the booth...

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Bryan Curtis@bryancurtis23h
Tom Brady is chasing the Van Gundy Award for working over the refs today.
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Alex Heard@alexheard23h
Would someone pay for me to take the Roadrunner to Albuquerque and pay for me to eat at their Cheesecake Factory? It sounds like America desperately needs me to weigh in definitively on whether the decor is tacky and their food sucks, but we don't have one in Santa Fe.
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jayne@gi_jayneeeOct 25
Being a Jets fan is like having a terminal illness but not ever dying
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Blood and soil nationalism. Literally anti-American.
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@BulwarkClipsOct 25
Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
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God hates Jets fans.
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On Thursday, November 12th at 7 pm, join @matt_pressman as he discusses his new book, THE PEOPLE'S PEOPLE PAPER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS with @jeffjarvis at [words] Bookstore. tinyurl.com/rfyz723e @ColumbiaUP
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Orin Kerr
@OrinKerrOct 25
When the government queries a massive database for a small amount of responsive data, what exactly is "searched," constitutionally speaking? The whole digital haystack? Just the needle? Courts are divided. I offered my take in this recent article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Maya
@Think_idea24Oct 24
Round one of “Hagler vs Hearns” is undoubtedly the greatest opening round in boxing history. This should be posted here once a week. I don’t care how many times I see it, it never gets old.
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Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwaldOct 24
Journalists have the right to publish classified documents from CIA or any other agency. They do so every day. There is nothing illegal about it. It's the basis for many of the most important journalistic exposés. Neocons like this should stop trying to erode core US liberties:
Eitan Fischberger
@EFischbergerOct 24
Did @DropSiteNews knowingly publish illegally obtained classified CIA intelligence? On October 5, the outlet co-published Aída Chávez’s story claiming a secret CIA assessment warned Israel could descend into civil war. That date is now in an FBI leak affidavit🧵
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This is an immensely clear exposition of the relations among compression, prediction, and intelligence made even a bit more lucid by comparing their unification to Noether's linkage of other seemingly disparate notions. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdail…

Prediction, Compression, and Intelligence - 3 Quarks Daily

NOTE: ChatGPT-6 is an AI language model developed by OpenAI. The central intuition and the Noether analogy originated with S. Abbas Raza, founding editor of 3

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Andrew Kaczynski
@KFILEOct 24
The sloppiness here is insane. Call your source right before accessing classified material, they fundraise off publishing it, then group-edit the story in a Google Doc with the source who’s allegedly your romantic partner.
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@KaelanDCOct 24
Replying to @KaelanDC
DOJ says Brinksman worked as a CIA contractor. “As alleged, Brinksman reached far outside his own duties to obtain some of our Nation’s most closely held secrets and handed them to a romantic partner he knew intended to publish them,” said DOJ national security chief John Eisenberg. Brinksman is charged under the Espionage Act. The allegations have not been proven. Full DOJ release and affidavit: justice.gov/opa/pr/us-govern…

U.S. Government Contractor Arrested for Allegedly Leaking National

A U.S. government contractor was arrested by the FBI this morning for allegedly leaking national defense information to another individual who repeatedly posted classified information to an online...

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Turnstile hit capacity on the Mall, they're turning thousands of people away (including me)
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Jason Furman
@jasonfurmanOct 24
I asked Claude how much it would have taken to develop Econvitals pre-coding agents. It's answer: a team of about 50 people working for three years with a budget of $20 million. Is this correct or too high? I'm not sure. econvitals.org/about/before-…

What would it have taken to build Econvitals before AI? — Econvitals

A note from the site's launch: what a company would have needed to build Econvitals with every line of code written by people.

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Aaron Parnas
@AaronParnasOct 24
This is going to create a major issue for Trump if he goes through with it: pardoned staff lose their 5th amendment protections for the pardoned offenses.
Kate Nocera
@KateNoceraOct 24
SCOOP up now @washingtonsun from @JasJWright and @jstein_sun : The White House is weighing mass pardons for junior staff washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…

White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff

Conservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

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Don't blame Citizens United. @adamliptak nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/po…

Is Citizens United to Blame for Everything? (Gift Article)

Plus: The justices’ book deals mean the court can’t rule on cases involving a media conglomerate.

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A rite of DC politics is to promise to do something about rats. It never ends well. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

Rats have long gnawed at D.C. mayors, and its likely next leader says she’s on it

Declaring war on rats is a D.C. political tradition that stretches deep into the recesses of last century. Now presumptive mayor Janeese Lewis George is tapping in.

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