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John Bowden

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DC correspondent for The Independent. Co-author of Inside Washington. Orioles fan, Elon University alum.

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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Scoop (from ysd that I forgot to post here): Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller told me his op-ed attacking Bessent was written by AI “There’s a reason I moved from an English major to being an economics major ... I'm not embarrassed," he says WSJ standing behind it www.notus.org/media/stanle...
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Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s WSJ Op-Ed Criticizing Bessent Was Written With AI
“I write everything using AI now,” Druckenmiller, who questioned the treasury secretary’s bond market interventions, said.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 17/08/2026
Trump puts 10-year-old on the spot as he berates female CNN reporter: ‘Very disrespectful in front of this young man’
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Trump puts 10-year-old on the spot as he berates female CNN reporter
President has history of losing his temper when questioned by female journalists who are not sufficiently sycophantic
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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
literally watergate
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Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 07/06/2026
Trump still hopes to revive $1.8B ‘weaponization fund’ and will be ‘disappointed’ if Republicans fail to approve it
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Trump says he will be ‘disappointed’ if Republicans fail to approve DOJ ‘slush fund’
Trump urges lawmakers to pass payouts for allies after demand nearly derailed ICE funding legislation
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 13/05/2026
Hard to pick a favorite line but this one is pretty damn good: "If quarterly reporting is crushing American capitalism, American capitalism is hiding it well. We have looked." techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/r...
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r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC's proposal to weaken quarterly reporting | TechCrunch
The retail trading subreddit submitted the sharpest criticism yet in response to the financial regulator's idea of letting companies report twice per year.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#MISen news: More than a third of Michigan Senate candidate Rep. Haley Stevens' Q4 2025 fundraising total came from three AIPAC-aligned entities. via @jbowden.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Key swing state’s must-win race is now a mudslinging showdown over ICE and Israel
Three candidates brawl over corporate money and Israel’s influence as a seat that could swing control of the US Senate hangs in the balance, reports John Bowden
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New: Our look at the war over dark money between the three Democrats running for office in Michigan, where Haley Stevens is being boosted by a massive surge of PAC money. More than a third of Stevens' Q4 2025 fundraising total came from three AIPAC-aligned entities.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Janet Mills to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
WHOA! This is actually huge. Warren endorsed Platner. #MESen. So far he's been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Gallego and Martin Heinrich
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
SCOOP: DOJ has waived policy requiring newly hired prosecutors to have least a year (more often 3 years) experience practicing law. As DOJ struggles to replace mass departures w/ qualified applicants, this move allows hiring straight out of law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School
The Justice Department has waived a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to possess at least one year of experience practicing law, as US attorney’s offices struggle to find qualified repl...
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our Inside Washington newsletter is closely watching seats like Iowa as the Senate map continues to worsen for Republicans. @ericmgarcia.bsky.social sat down with @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social, one of the two Democrats in the winnowing primary field: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Can this former paralympian and tariffs flip a Senate seat in deep-red Iowa?
Josh Turek, a Democrat running for Senate in Iowa, talks to The Independent about why Democrats might finally have a shot at winning in Iowa.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Some news: Anderson Cooper decided to walk away from “60 Minutes” after Bari Weiss offered an expanded role at CBS News and “a crazy amount” of money. Now, Weiss is taking a hard look at Norah O’Donnell. The details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/norah-o-do...
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Bari's Nod to Norah
With Anderson Cooper opting to walk away from an expanded role at “60 Minutes,” Bari Weiss is now eyeing a different anchor for a bigger presence on the storied broadcast.
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The race between Crockett and Talarico is growing toxic, something that Democrats in the state is being fueled by the pundit-influencer class. One Democratic operative in the state told me that they "cannot over-emphasize how stupid" the discourse has become. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Stephen Colbert and CBS just upended Jasmine Crockett’s Senate race in Texas
The congresswoman’s high-profile supporters are seething, writes John Bowden, as her opponent basks in the national limelight — and rakes in donations after Colbert takes their interview to YouTube
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My dispatch from the @uaw.org candidate forum yesterday:
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
All three Democratic candidates for Michigan's Senate seat–Abdul El-Sayed, Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens–agree that Democrats should dig their heels in on DHS funding. But as, @jbowden.bsky.social reports, they're split on what comes next. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Michigan Senate candidates tell Washington Democrats: Show some spine
Three Senate candidates in Michigan are unified around demand for Democrats to stand their ground on shutdown fight
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
".. Bezos has remained silent, and did not respond to a series of letters sent by staffers .. On Monday, though, he was there in person to warmly greet Pete Hegseth .." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Washington Post undergoing significant layoffs as part of ‘strategic reset’
Employees were told Wednesday that the paper’s sports desk would close among other cuts and restructurings
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Inevitably, given the fact Trump is pushing 80 years old and his love of cheeseburgers, along with the fact this is his second term, attention will turn to whether JD Vance can carry the MAGA torch. @jbowden.bsky.social breaks down his pros and cons. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Is JD Vance ready to take over the MAGA mantle from Donald Trump?
MAGA is leaning towards the vice president to take over Trump’s leadership of the right in 2028. But, asks John Bowden, does he have the juice?
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Really cool project that @jbowden.bsky.social , @alicjahagopian.bsky.social and I worked on for the last month: Trump set off a nuclear war on redistricting, with Democrats pledging to fight fire with fire. So how would the map look if both sides go nuclear? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Doomsday scenarios of Texas and California going nuclear over redistricting
A mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps would have implications far beyond the 2026 midterm elections, write John Bowden and Eric Garcia. The Independent illustrates, with interactive maps by Ali...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As Texas House Republicans passed their map, Democrats in California plan to counterstrike. Here's what the congressional map might look like, and what actions Democratic governors can (and can't take). via me and @jbowden.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Doomsday scenarios of Texas and California going nuclear over redistricting
A mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps would have implications far beyond the 2026 midterm elections, write John Bowden and Eric Garcia. The Independent’s interactive maps illustrate the Cold Wa...
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Here's Karoline Leavitt truly not knowing what she is talking about:
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
uhhhhhhhhh
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Ilya Marritz @ilyamarritz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
epic re-frame here
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I talked to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social about the Senate race in Michigan and the lessons 2024 should teach the Democratic Party: "These people made a calculated decision about who they needed and who they didn't. And it turns out that that decision was way off.”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/07/2025
Let’s just take a moment to thank Donald Jr for his clear eyed, and steadfast determination to get answers with Epstein. He says to ask ourselves DAILY what SCUM would be against disclosure and truth? Hmmm….
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Any Democrat who can answer a question without 50 words of focus group-speak stands out rn
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Shane Gillis, hosting the ESPYS: “Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here but I guess it got deleted. Must have probably deleted itself right? Probably never existed, actually. Let’s move on as a country and ignore that.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/07/2025
Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Riley Gaines spinning coming 5th in a college swim meet into a career as a political commentator says a lot about the dynamics of right-wing punditry.
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Trump's dig at Tucker over audience size was very telling. He's leaning back into pro-war Fox News as the "manosphere" and paleoconservatives react with horror to the prospect of another war in the Middle East: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump clings to friendly Fox News as Tucker Carlson and ‘manosphere’ sour on Iran war
New media figures like Joe Rogan and Theo Von are increasingly backing away from Trump as he plots war with Iran. They’re driving him back into the arms of Fox News, writes John Bowden
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
For our next very expensive study we'll be asking those monkeys with the typewriters if they really understood the theme of Macbeth or not
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Does this qualify as waste, fraud, abuse, or all three?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Trump is, by all accounts, inching the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. By doing so, he's "angrily hemorrhaging" his own voting coalition, one of his supporters wrote on Tuesday. www.independent.co.uk/news/trump-i...
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Trump isn’t just burning his MAGA coalition over Iran he’s inspiring a new one
Trump’s sudden re-embrace of the ‘neocons’ he just recently spurned is leaving Democrats a major political opening — if they can seize it, writes John Bowden
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/06/2025
to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago
Democrats Are Wary of Playing Into Trump’s Hands by Supporting ‘No Kings,’ L.A. Protests
Some leaders are feeling the long shadow of 2020 demonstrations that sparked GOP backlash
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I don't think anybody's quite gotten to the full Mike Lee story. He rarely talks in hallways, now posts conspiratorial stuff regularly, went from 2016 warning against Trump to working with members of his team ahead of 1/6/21. Lately a cheerleader for nixing NATO, Fed, impeaching judges, etc.
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
3 months. He's been sitting on this reply for 3 months.
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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
We've got to find better terms than "baseless" for this stuff. Unhinged, Cult belief, there's plenty terms out there the press could use to inform if they didn't think informing you was biased
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors." The man's lawyer plans to demand his return. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys
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John Bowden @jbowden.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
That common thing where you accidentally refer to yourself as divorced on national TV
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 29/05/2025
Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish
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Axios @axios.com · 29/05/2025
JUST IN: Trump's ban on foreign Harvard students halted by judge while lawsuit proceeds
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Trump's ban on foreign Harvard students halted by judge while lawsuit proceeds
The ban has left international students reconsidering their futures at Harvard.
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/05/2025
NEW: According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.
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Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her
According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Also can we stop saying stuff like this? This is not a conflict between Harvard and the government, it is a government attack on Harvard. The article, which is generally not bad, lists 14 actions taken by the government against the school, none in the other direction www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
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