SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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Incredible headline. Look at what it does in a single sentence — strips a powerful and relevant exchange of its emotional & moral substance, makes the denial news, rather than the gross and growing prejudice that made that denial necessary, and continues the slow erosion of trust in journalism.

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Neil Richards from the top rope.

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very odd to me that a lot of these guys think that because they got some numbers right they have therefore unlocked the door to understanding all political outcomes

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Vice President JD Vance likes to cite food stamp recipients who he says drive Lamborghinis. But the White House ignores a far more prevalent form of fraud: transnational gangs stealing money from SNAP recipients.

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