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Jim VandeHei

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Axios CEO, co-founder; former Politico CEO, co-founder

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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We've entered the post-news era. Your reality — how you see the world — is no longer defined by "the news." Instead, it's shaped by the videos you watch, the podcasts you listen to, the people you follow on social media and know in person, and the reporting you consume. www.axios.com/2025/12/16/a...
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Jim VandeHei: How Axios is navigating a post-news era
America's information ecosystem is badly broken, deeply polluted and increasingly dangerous.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/24/d... 🚨Dems' dark, deep hole - worst numbers in 50 years…Rahm calls for emergency meeting of mayors, govs…youth conservative spike alarms liberals….⬇️
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Behind the Curtain: Dems' dark, deep hole
Both parties suffer and search for salvation. But rarely does healing seem so hard and redemption so distant.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t... To fully appreciate President Trump's mesmerizing control over Republicans, consider their scant public dissent over ideas many of them privately disdain
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Behind the Curtain: Trump's vise grip silences appalled Republicans
Most elected Republicans are staying silent on issues they find dubious, dumb or destructive.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/19/c... Scoop: Schumer faces growing House Dem calls to step down
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Scoop: Chuck Schumer faces growing calls from House Democrats to step down
"There was desire for generational change before this ... Schumer is just fueling it," said one senior House Democrat.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/19/t... 🚨🚨Mega-Scoop via @marcACaputo: Trump purposely pushing Supreme Court to vastly expand deportation power…5 questions he wants answered…🚨🚨🚨Next up: MAY target US citizens too. ⬇️
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Inside Trump's Supreme plot on immigration
Trump's plan revolves around two cases and obscure laws that have ignited lawsuits and sent shockwaves through the immigration system.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/11/t... Behind the Curtain: Trump plays with fire — by choice
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Behind the Curtain: Trump plays with fire — by choice
"The market isn't great, not gonna lie."
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/10/t... Trump's secret power protection plan
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Trump's secret power protection plan: A $500 million war chest
The cash is just one piece of a bigger power play that's arguably the most powerful, well-funded political apparatus ever.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/05/u... 🚨🚨🚨Exclusive: U.S. holding secret talks with Hamas on Gaza hostages
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Exclusive: U.S. holding direct talks with Hamas on Gaza hostages
Netanyahu is concerned about the lack of coordination with Israel
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/05/t... 🚨🚨Trump, on steroids: In this city of little political agreement, there's consensus on one big thing: President Trump is picking more fights, with more action than mere words, with more lasting consequences than anyone expected.
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Behind the Curtain: Trump, on steroids
In most cases, he's taking a more extreme approach than promised or expected.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t... Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves
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Trump's stunning string of Putin-friendly moves
Trump's latest moves could have been plucked from Putin's personal wishlist.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/04/t... 🚨🚨Scoop: Some Dems plot to disrupt Trump's speech to Congress
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Scoop: Some Democrats are plotting to disrupt Trump's speech to Congress
Lawmakers are discussing walkouts, props and color coordination among other forms of in-the-room demonstration.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/t... Exclusive: How Congress' "Crazy Cubans" pushed Trump to kill oil deal
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Exclusive: How Congress' "Crazy Cubans" got Trump to kill oil deal
To get their way, three Cuban-American House members suggested — but never explicitly threatened — to withhold votes Trump needed for the House GOP budget deal.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/g... Why government spending counts in GDP
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Why government spending counts in GDP, as Trump admin considers excluding it
If you exclude government spending from GDP, you aren't getting a full picture of U.S. output.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/t... 🚨🚨Trump to hold Ukraine meeting on next steps including possible aid freeze, ⁦‪@BarakRavid‬⁩ reports…
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Trump to hold Ukraine meeting on next steps including possible aid freeze
The meeting will take place Monday afternoon at the White House.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🚨🚨Exclusive: Mary Meeker's warning for "USA Inc." www.axios.com/2025/03/03/u...
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Exclusive: Mary Meeker's serious warning for "USA Inc."
Meeker warns of a "buildup in structural weakness that can jeopardize our country's standing in the world."
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🚨🚨Colleges have been a conservative target for years. Under President Trump, it's total warfare on all aspects of higher education — from student life to hiring to athletics. www.axios.com/2025/03/02/t...
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America's college chaos
It's total warfare on all aspects of higher education
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
MAGA world erupts over Andrew Tate release, Epstein stunt www.axios.com/2025/03/01/t...
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MAGA world erupts over Andrew Tate release, Epstein stunt
Trump's online base is splintering over two major news stories related to sex trafficking.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Privately, Trump sees Zelensky as a pro-Biden, ungrateful lightweight destined to lose to Russia. And Trump advisers believe Zelensky sees Trump as a pro-Putin, delusional fool destined to make him lose to Russia, Axios' Marc Caputo and Alex Isenstadt report. www.axios.com/2025/03/01/t...
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"Three strikes": Inside the Trump-Vance fury with Zelensky
Trump advisers said Zelensky had two strikes against him before he sat down with Trump and Vance.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🚨🚨Inside the Oval: How Trump sent Zelensky home with no deal and no meal www.axios.com/2025/02/28/t...
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Inside the Oval: How Trump's team sent Zelensky home with no deal and no meal
Trump reached a decision: Zelensky had to go
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Why it matters: Rs are trying to convince their members, and the American public, that you can take in less money (taxes), spend more on defense — and somehow reduce deficits without touching the programs that cost the most. www.axios.com/2025/02/27/t...
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Behind the Curtain: The hard truths about Trump tax cuts
The solution is always in a future that never comes.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🚨🚨President Trump is setting a new precedent for tight, punitive government control over a free press -> Imagine a Democratic president renaming it the Gulf of Obama — and targeting Fox News for refusing to call it that. www.axios.com/2025/02/26/b...
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Behind the Curtain: Trump's media-control strategy
Trump and his administration are doing this systematically, gleefully and unmistakably. But as we've written before, this unprecedented shift could set the precedent for future Democratic presidents,...
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Why it matters: Republican and Democratic congressional districts alike have been rattled by Musk's tactics for slashing government funding and terminating chunks of the federal workforce. www.axios.com/2025/02/26/e...
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Jolted Republicans beg Elon Musk to ease up with DOGE
One Republican suggested Musk is disliked in Congress because "we have to deal with the ramifications of what he says."
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨🚨 The cuts are but drips of water in our overflowing bucket of debt — $36 trillion and counting. In fact, most days, US racks up more interest on debt — $3 billion per day! — than DOGE can find in savings. That leaky bucket is the reality of US finances www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
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Behind the Curtain: Hard truths about Trump and Musk's budget cuts
This is our attempt to clinically outline the facts about deficits — and efforts to reduce them.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨🚨 The cuts are but drips of water in our overflowing bucket of debt — $36 trillion and counting. In fact, most days, US racks up more interest on debt — $3 billion per day! — than DOGE can find in savings. That leaky bucket is the reality of US finances www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
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Behind the Curtain: Hard truths about Trump and Musk's budget cuts
This is our attempt to clinically outline the facts about deficits — and efforts to reduce them.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨🚨Trump's loyalty-first FBI www.axios.com/2025/02/24/d...
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Trump's loyalty-first FBI
The bureau can function effectively as Trump's private security force.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
🚨🚨 Trump's political operation is profiting from his flurry of executive orders by hawking gear such as "Make Greenland Great Again," "Gulf of America" and "DOGE" T-shirts, along with the black "dark MAGA" caps worn by Elon Musk. www.axios.com/2025/02/23/t...
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Trump uses merch to monetize agenda
Trump's team is capitalizing on his loyalists' support for his early moves to help build a $500 million war chest.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Zelensky's five moves that set off Trump
Trump was so angry he was on the verge of withdrawing American military support from Ukraine.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Axios coverage in Trump era www.axios.com/2025/02/21/j...
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Jim VandeHei: Axios coverage in Trump era
Axios CEO : We'll cover every topic — from Trump to AI — clinically and unemotionally, like a doctor.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨🚨Behind the Curtain: Trump's boundary-busting provocations - a clinical guide to what’s truly unchartered waters… www.axios.com/2025/02/19/t...
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Behind the Curtain: The Trump actions actually busting boundaries
What has Trump done that truly pulls America into uncharted waters?
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨Trump faces growing DOGE revolt from GOP lawmakers www.axios.com/2025/02/19/d...
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Trump faces growing Republican revolt on Capitol Hill over "awful" DOGE cuts
One Republican warned the administration will "get into a constitutional argument or crisis" if it tries to shut down agencies.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🚨🚨Behind the Curtain: America's drone-swarm crisis -> NFL and intelligence sources see it as massive threat www.axios.com/2025/02/18/u...
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America faces hidden drone danger
The future of terrorism and warfare is on vivid display.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
www.axios.com/2025/02/13/t... 🚨🚨 President Trump and Elon Musk, arguably the two most unorthodox and influential American leaders of the 21st century, are practicing and fine-tuning a fused theory of governing power -> Masculine maximalism.
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Behind the Curtain: Trump and Musk's masculine maximalism reshapes government
The biggest shift is the instant imposition of this new power theory across all of government and the Republican Party.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.axios.com/2025/02/12/t... 🚨🚨Every one of President Trump's most sweeping executive orders is now being challenged in court by multiple lawsuits.
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Tests of Trump's power on fast tracks to the Supreme Court
The Justice Department is already defending Trump's agenda in more than 50 lawsuits.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚨🚨🚨On the 15th day, He proclaimed Gaza ours -> EXCLUSIVE details on how Trump’s shocking Middle East plan fuses three private obsessions⬇️ www.axios.com/2025/02/05/t...
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Behind the Curtain: Trump's wild Middle East vision
Like everything with Trump, his views and motivations are gray even when expressed in stark black and white.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚨🚨🚨 President Trump announced US plans to take over war-torn Gaza, remove Palestinians, develop it into the “Rivera of the Middle East” and repopulate it with “world’s people,” including some Palestinians. t.co/dVsokwPG3r
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.axios.com/2025/02/03/e... 🚨🚨 Musk and his cost-slashing allies taking a hammer to the massive bureaucracy that staffs the U.S. government — and a scalpel to any senior officials who dare put up a fight,
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Musk's wrecking ball pierces government's inner sanctum
His allies have been tied to several high-profile ousters at the top of federal agencies.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
www.axios.com/2025/02/02/t... There's an unspoken, ugly rule of American politics: Do unto the other what they have done unto you. Simply put: Copy the payback, punishments and precedent-shattering techniques practiced by the other party — if they prove effective.
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Behind the Curtain: The payback precedent
We're in uncharted territory.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
www.axios.com/2025/02/01/t... America has never witnessed so many people purged or punished by an incoming president so quickly. White House sources tell us this is just the beginning.
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Behind the Curtain: Trump's whirlwind streak of purges, punishment and payback
White House sources tell us this is just the beginning.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
🚨🚨Scoop: We've learned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — has scheduled a closed-door briefing for U.S. government officials on Jan. 30 - with people inside and out of gov’t telling us AI insiders believe a big breakthrough on PHD level SuperAgents is coming. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/a...
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Behind the Curtain: Ph.D.-level AI breakthrough expected very soon
Super-agents could make AI a true replacement for human workers.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
🚨🚨Scoop: We've learned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — has scheduled a closed-door briefing for U.S. government officials on Jan. 30 - with people inside and out of gov’t telling us AI insiders believe a big breakthrough on PHD level SuperAgents is coming. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/a...
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Behind the Curtain: Ph.D.-level AI breakthrough expected very soon
Super-agents could make AI a true replacement for human workers.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
🚨 TikTok goes dark and disappears from app stores www.axios.com/2025/01/19/t...
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TikTok goes dark and disappears from app stores
The app's 170 million U.S. users saw an "unavailable" screen as a ban began to take effect.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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Behind the Curtain: Jake Sullivan sends chilling, "catastrophic" warning
The next few years will decide if AI leads to catastrophe — and whether China or the U.S. dominates the AI arms race.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🚨🚨@BarakRavid, the maestro of Middle East coverage, on a political rarity: two Presidents who loathe each other combining to force a potentially historic deal on a global tragedy. A rare moment where both parties/all can feel pride. www.axios.com/2025/01/16/b...
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How two feuding presidents combined to get a Gaza deal
Trump's intervention "was the 10 cents missing for the dollar," one U.S. official told Axios.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨🚨 • "This is Joe Biden literally sinking the Democratic Party in the state of Florida. Big time," Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a moderate Florida Democrat, told Axios' Marc Caputo. www.axios.com/2025/01/15/b...
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Biden's Cuba bombshell shocks Florida Democrats
Florida Democrats fear Biden's move gives Trump a chance to frame their party as beholden to socialists.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨🚨 • "This is Joe Biden literally sinking the Democratic Party in the state of Florida. Big time," Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a moderate Florida Democrat, told Axios' Marc Caputo. www.axios.com/2025/01/15/b...
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Biden's Cuba bombshell shocks Florida Democrats
Florida Democrats fear Biden's move gives Trump a chance to frame their party as beholden to socialists.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Scoop: Trump's $500 million post-election windfall www.axios.com/2025/01/15/t...
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Trump aims for $500 million war chest in post-election windfall
He's signaling he doesn't want to be seen as a lame duck in his second term, and is ready to help political allies, punish opponents and help Republicans keep full control of Congress in 2026.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🚨🚨🚨Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is terminating major DEI programs, effective immediately — including for hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to a new employee memo obtained by @axios www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m...
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Scoop: Meta rolls back DEI programs in latest bow to Trump
The company cut its DEI programs as it pushes to make inroads with the Trump administration days after it ended its fact-checking programs.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🚨🚨 Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child sex-abuse scandal ("grooming gangs") in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight. We no longer need fact-checkers. We need reality-checkers. www.axios.com/2025/01/10/t...
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Behind the Curtain: Reality is now up for grabs
Whole realities — the supposed culprits for the LA inferno, a new MAGA map of the world, a child-abuse scandal in Britain — now sweep the internet overnight.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Biden and Trump teams coordinated push for new Lebanese president www.axios.com/2025/01/09/t...
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Biden and Trump teams coordinated push for new Lebanese president
The election of Aoun, a U.S. ally, broke the political deadlock that left Lebanon without a president for more than two years.
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Jim VandeHei @vandehei.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🚨🚨 Trump’s ever-expanding power -> It's rare, if not unprecedented, for a newly elected leader to have so many world leaders and CEOs shift their policies or posture so blatantly during the transition to curry favor with a new president. www.axios.com/2025/01/09/t...
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Behind the Curtain: Trump's ever-expansive power
Trump has amplified his immense power, drawing tech CEOs with million-dollar donations, prompting surprising media overtures and pressuring liberal allies.
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