@mbaram

Journalist: Capital & Main, Crain Currency + Author: Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man + Skeptic + Dad. (The views expressed here are personal.)

 Brooklyn, NY
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Joined March 2009
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Matthew Luxmoore@mjluxmooreOct 16
"The Defector" - a 5,500-word espionage tale in today's WSJ that I can guarantee is worth your time. I spent months speaking to one of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history, a Russian officer who helped Kyiv kill hundreds of his fellow troops wsj.com/world/russian-defect…

The Defector: A Russian Officer Turned Against His Country and Helped Ukraine Kill Hundreds

One of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history, Lt. Lev Stupnikov fed troop locations and battle plans to the enemy before making a daring escape.

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“These are not serious people.” A line that many Democrats could find useful to repeat in interviews and campaign rallies and everywhere else, for that matter.
CUBS WORLD@CubsWorld80Oct 24
Barack Obama decided to hit Pete Hegseth with the elbow from the top rope. Absolutely brutal takedown.
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Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 25
wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!
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Jay Nordlinger
@jaynordlingerOct 24
"Donald Trump and his family are executing corruption at a scale never previously contemplated in the American experiment. If we are to ever graduate from this era of brazen graft, the first step is to notice." A service, from @MattWelch. reason.com/2026/07/09/the-mo…

The most corrupt presidency in American history, by the numbers

Looking back through the biggest scandals in American history through the lens of Trump 2.0.

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Barton Gellman@bartongellmanOct 25
"Never before, not even when Trump tried to nullify his defeat by Joe Biden, six years ago, has an American President marshalled the coercive authority of the executive branch to reshape an election for his benefit." My latest: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President

Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way.

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Andrew Perez@andrewperezdcOct 24
Undisclosed here: Katie Miller was paid up to $250,000 last year as a consultant for Elon Musk's xAI (Twitter), and owns over $1 million worth of stock in xAI (now part of SpaceX)
Katie Miller
@KatieMillerOct 24
Undisclosed, paid, coordinated talking points. What leftist dark money group is paying for this?
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“Four days into early voting, malfunctioning equipment and missing voter registrations are worsening already long wait times at some Bexar County polling sites….Some frustrated voters have been leaving polling places without casting ballots” expressnews.com/news/article…

Long lines, glitches, voter registration problems plague Bexar County voting

Bexar County voters have faced hours-long waits, voting machine glitches, and missing registrations during early voting.

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“Every other manufacturing industry combined lost 16,000 jobs, offsetting part of those gains.” axios.com/newsletters/axios-…

Axios AM - ⚙️ Manufacturing's lopsided comeback

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Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinsonOct 22
Today in @thenation: a jaw-dropping investigation from Emmet Frazier (@moresycamore) on the damage that corporate and political interference caused to Scientific American. The stuff that Emmet uncovered from inside the magazine is NUTS. A must-read. thenation.com/article/societ…

The Fall of “Scientific American”

When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

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The biggest scandal today in one headline: kenklippenstein.com/p/this-h…

The Biggest Scandal Today in One Headline

How “national security” is covering up the worst corporate heist in years

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Mike Young
@micyoung75Oct 22
In 2020, Tommy Tuberville promised to donate “every dime” of his $174,000 Senate salary to Alabama veterans and their families. A June investigation found no evidence he followed through, a pledge now worth roughly $1 million. Tuesday night, after a reporter asked about it, Tuberville told staff to remove him. Then he called the media “socialists” and “communists.”
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeastOct 21
The MAGA senator had a reporter thrown out of a campaign dinner after being confronted with an embarrassing question. thedailybeast.com/maga-senat…

MAGA Senator Loses It Over Embarrassing Question

It’s a touchy subject for the senator.

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Ben Swasey@benswaseyOct 23
1 person, $442 MILLION in one election cycle politico.com/live-updates/20…

Elon Musk pours another $76 million into boosting Republicans

The additional funds bring his total spending this cycle to $442 million.

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Katherine Eban@KatherineEbanOct 22
NEW: how a global ethics outcry, @EnergyCommerce demand for answers, resignations from a Danish ethics board, sustained reporting from @RollingStone + other news outlets, ended @SecKennedy's plan to fund 1 of most controversial clinical trials in memory rollingstone.com/politics/po…

A Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study Championed by RFK Jr. Is Axed After Widespread Backlash

After months of reporting by Rolling Stone, a trial declared ‘unethical’ by WHO will not move forward

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Ten of the industry’s biggest corporate and individual donors gave more than $13.6 million between July and September alone. For the industry’s executives, the money is less about winning new favors than about protecting a historic run of them. capitalandmain.com/big-oils-…

Big Oil’s Midterm Playbook: Spend Big, Say Little

Fossil fuel companies and wealthy industry backers spend millions pushing for looser regulations and protections from climate lawsuits. Their ads barely say the word “oil.”

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Daniel Lippman@dlippmanOct 22
SCOOP: Jill Buria, who’s married to Pete Hegseth chief of staff Ricky Buria, on Sunday registered to lobby the Pentagon as part of her new K Street job. After I asked her, her firm told me she will no longer work to influence the Defense Department. politico.com/newsletters/pol…
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrimOct 22
Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews): Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use. Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
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Unsealed in NM’s landmark $25b Cambridge Analytica case against Meta/Facebook was an urgent plea from Sacha Baron Cohen to Sheryl Sandberg. The email exchange that followed is revealing—and an opportunity to survey all the wreckage fastcompany.com/91613679/fak…

'Except perhaps for Mark': Internal emails show Facebook split over fake news plea from Sacha Baron...

Newly released emails show the comedian pressed the tech giant in 2016 to label falsehoods and crack down on Holocaust denial.

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My latest “Heat” column: Big Oil’s Midterm Playbook: Spend Big, Say Little via @capitalandmain - capitalandmain.com/big-oils-…

Big Oil’s Midterm Playbook: Spend Big, Say Little

Fossil fuel companies and wealthy industry backers spend millions pushing for looser regulations and protections from climate lawsuits. Their ads barely say the word “oil.”

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JD Vance with a straight face: “There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government than Donald J. Trump.” Let that sink in.
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