I love this piece so much -- good one, Jack Shafer!

From the Yay, Us Dept.: We're thrilled that our Water Grab series is a 2024 Pulitzer finalist for explanatory reporting. Congrats to everyone! bloomberg.com/features/2023-… via Bloomberg Green

Congratulations to my ⁦The Washington Post⁩ colleagues for winning the #Pulitzer in National reporting for their AR15 series, American Icon. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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'Trump, who addressed the crowd at his Mar-a-Lago resort Saturday, spoke by phone with Greene this past week to express his disapproval for her efforts to oust Johnson, according to people familiar with the conversation.' via Vivian Salama: wsj.com/politics/elect…

Trump’s Super PAC is running this ad in rural Georgia counties targeting Black men.

The big questions around bird flu: how it's spreading, the risk posed to humans. axios.com/newsletters/ax… Alison Snyder

The Oracle of Omaha was once a Trump critic and reliable Democratic donor. But Warren Buffett has pulled back to shield his companies from backlash.

Now the US election is coming for his backyard, with Omaha a potentially decisive battleground.

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Re-upping my profile of Doug Burgum from October...

I asked Burgum if he trusts Trump with the nuclear codes

“So when you say ‘trust him,’ what does that mean?” he replied.
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NEW: Trump VP list is winnowing down to Gov Burgum, Sens Rubio, Vance + Scott. They will appear w/donors at RNC retreat in Palm Beach this weekend. No formal meetings with Trump yet to talk about the job (tho he speaks to all of them regularly): bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Biden was asked if the protests have caused him to reconsider any of his policy in the Middle East.
'No,' he said.

New: President Biden is expected to address growing protests on college campuses nationwide when he speaks from the Roosevelt Room shortly in previously unscheduled remarks, multiple sources tell Mike Memoli & me

Must-read deep dive on RFK Jr. from Rebecca Ballhaus and Eliza Collins wsj.com/politics/elect…

Yay for Alex Wayne, one of the nicest editors in the biz! 🎉🎉

There are so many *fun lines* in this Marc Caputo piece--

All of Trumps comments to TIME today underscore how much he intends to challenge the restraints of law & custom in any 2nd term & how bright a green light #SCOTUS choice on criminal immunity may provide him to barrel past the boundaries . More here theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Riveting radio reporting from Columbia's student radio station tonight. Recommend listening: cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

🚨Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Biden Sunday to help prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials in connection with the war in Gaza. My story on Axios
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ICYMI: Trump's informal economic advisers are jockeying for influence + floating a wide range of ideas on the dollar, taxes, the Fed. It's infuriating top campaign aides + Trump has yet to sign off on them -- w/Saleha Mohsin, Catarina Saraiva: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: Trump’s economic advisers are considering ways to actively stop nations from shifting away from using the dollar, sources tell me, Nancy Cook
+ Jennifer Jacobs

Penalties being discussed: export controls, currency manipulation charges and tariffs

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Biden says military aid will be shipped to Ukraine in HOURS.

'I'm making sure the shipments start right away. In the next few hours--literally in a few hours--we are going to begin sending equipment to Ukraine for air defense munitions, artillery for rocket systems, and armored…