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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
SCOOP O'clock: Sen. @Eric_Schmitt was warned texts from Jack Smith's office hadn't been vetted for accuracy.
He used them anyway - to accuse Smith of perjury.
Trump @TheJusticeDept gave Sen. Grassley these texts before Smith testified, but Grassley didn't share with Democrats.
W @mychaelschnell & @KDilanianMSNOW ms.now/news/eric-schmitt-jac…
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
NEW: Eric Schmitt’s general counsel Ethan Harper was expected to join the White House Staff Secretary’s office next week but the move’s now in doubt after yesterday’s Jack Smith hearing. Harper was the one holding up the board behind Schmitt.
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Fox found 12% of those backing Rogers in the Senate race switch parties to back Benson for governor.
Fox News’ first Michigan likely voter poll:
Abdul El-Sayed (D): 50%
Mike Rogers (R): 49%
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Fox News’ first Michigan likely voter poll:
Abdul El-Sayed (D): 50%
Mike Rogers (R): 49%
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NEW — Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is attacking his Democratic opponent in ads that cite local Patch articles.
The stories were penned by an ally of Fitzpatrick who has received money from his campaign and attended his wedding.
The author, Dave Sommers, has a checkered history with law enforcement. He was charged for stealing an opponent’s campaign sign in 2022 and was sentenced for turtle trafficking in 2019.
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
NEW w/ @caseytolan: Casey Askar (R) called Sharia a “growing threat” and vowed to join the Sharia-Free America Caucus. But our investigation found he partnered with a firm to expand his brands in the Middle East, with pizzerias marketed as “100% halal.” bit.ly/4zb7ft8
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028 axios.com/2026/09/29/eric-sc…
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This has layers
New: Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
New: Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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NYC parents worried their kids spend too much time on screens and not playing independently are apparently now sending them to a junkyard playground where kids play with hammers, saws and knives and no parents are allowed to intervene. wsj.com/lifestyle/new-york-p…
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt's trap for Jack Smith backfired after getting a theory about a basketball game wrong. Schmitt then clashed with Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who says her point was "don't call someone a dirtbag when you don't have your own facts right."
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Truly bizarre and weird to keep this going when it was called out as incorrect in real time.
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Gotta give you some flowers. Dang! So you had text messages from Jack Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he sat there acting dumbfounded?
ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on at that time in Atlanta. He claimed later that he was at another game. Here's the thing -- my job is to ask the questions
(All of Schmitt's facts were wrong and were debunked during the hearing in near real time, but The Charlie Kirk Show hosts won't acknowledge that)
Community note
Sen. Eric Schmitt mixed up references to the Iowa Hawkeyes women's college basketball game with the Atlanta Hawks NBA game when questioning Jack Smith. Smith attended the Feb. 3, 2024 Hawkeyes game in Maryland (not Atlanta).
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
When their daughter, Francesca, passed away from ATRT, an infant brain tumor, Andrew Kaczynski and Rachel Ensign made a commitment in her memory to change the future of childhood cancer research.
Inspired by their nickname for Francesca, the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund was created to advance infant brain tumor research at @DanaFarber, where Francesca was treated.
With this critical funding from the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund, researchers have already made important strides in studying how ATRT cells resist current treatments. This has allowed researchers at Dana-Farber to search for new targets that could make existing therapies more effective, bringing new clinical trials and new treatments possible for the children and families who need them most.
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PROUD to say Team Beans has now raised more than $4 million for the Infant Brain Tumor Program at Dana-Farber! More on the Dana-Farber Instagram on this money is being used for critical research into brain cancers in young children.
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Andrew Kaczynski retweeted
A CNN KFile investigation has uncovered since-removed posts from the past six years in which Texas GOP candidate Bo French repeatedly advocated having public executions for political opponents, including former President Barack Obama cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/…
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