Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Ex. WaPo. "You must be or you wouldn’t have come here.” Signal: michaelscherer.11 Also: @michaelscherer.bsky.social
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The U.S. Dollar has lost 30% of its purchasing power over the last six years, per NYT
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Last week, at a Best Western in Sioux Falls, Joe Biden kissed a woman who wasn’t his wife on the mouth.
That, and other observations about the return of the Bidens.
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EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot filed safety reports after nearly being blinded by lights from Donald Trump's UFC structure when flying into Washington, D.C.'s Reagan airport.
My latest with @MeidasTouch: meidasnews.com/news/white-ho…
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I'm blown away by this EXCELLENT piece of @CNN reporting. This journalist @katie_polglase demonstrates how to conduct interviews with Epstein associates. She had this guy sweating, because she did her homework. Bravo. (Worth getting through the ad to watch.)...cnn.com/2026/06/11/world/vid…
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Jimmy Kimmel appears to have absorbed a sizable portion of Stephen Colbert’s late night audience, while Fallon lags even further behind. It’s a further signal that we’re in a post-Johnny Carson media environment and that partisanship can be a smart business strategy.
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ER Doc, Pediatrician, Derm, Radiologist.
They are all 35.
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Ladies and gentleman, @hillhulse.
The head writer of the first draft of history.
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scoop: Michael Gavshon, a "60 Minutes" producer who worked this season with Anderson Cooper and Jon Wertheim, is leaving the show at the end of June.
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News you can use.
A D.C.-based attorney spent three years fighting a $100 ticket he got from a speed camera in the city. He eventually won in D.C.'s highest court on a novel legal technicality, and thousands of other drivers could end up benefitting from it: notus.org/metro/dc-lawyer-sp…
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Good story. Is the delay explained somewhere?
Jun 11
I flew w the FBI director on his gov jet a few weeks ago. We talked about lots of things. Here’s the first story from that inflight interview. Exclusive: Kash Patel on the FBI's defining test: securing the World Cup @Reuters. reuters.com/world/kash-patel…
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Jun 11
I found it striking that so many journalists covered the Scott Pelley interview -- Lulu Garcia-Navarro did a *fantastic* job -- without noticing or mentioning the inconsistencies in his narrative of events theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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NEW: Interior signed papers promising America250 $50 million, delivered $25 and attacked the group as "frivolous," as they sent $68 million to other Trump 250 priorities. One official compared situation to "when Henry Potter steals George Bailey’s money." theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Jun 11
NEW/BREAKING: MLB investigators plan to question Dodgers head doc Neal ElAttrache in wake of disclosure he supported Conor McGregor's use of performance-enhancing drugs as he recovered from injury. ElAttrache is LA Rams team doc. NFL didn't return message seeking comment on what NFL plans to do.
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NEW/EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: The UFC star Conor McGregor took powerful performance-enhancing drugs after he broke his leg in 2021. McGregor did so with the support of Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the Dodgers and Rams team doctor and one of the most high profile sports doctors in the world. McGregor then engaged in an active effort to evade scrutiny from antidoping officials. nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/po…
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I misheard her and assumed she meant Pulte, since the conversation was about news that had broken minutes before.
This is not my position on Clayton.
Jun 11
CASSIDY on Trump DNI pick Jay Clayton: “I think he's a very poor choice. He has been shown that he'll weaponize personal information to attack an American citizen. I'm a conservative. That should not be what government does. So I strongly disagree.”
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Senator Bill Cassidy clarified that he misheard the reporter's question and was referring to acting DNI Bill Pulte, not Trump's DNI nominee Jay Clayton, when making these critical comments. Cassidy stated, "This is not my position on Clayton."
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Documents and interviews reveal growing disarray about celebrations of America’s 250th birthday, @michaelscherer reports. He examines the fractures between Trump’s advisers and bipartisan organizers over money, sponsorships, control, and tone. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump is nominating former Securities and Exchange Commission head Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence.
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US authorities were responding to what appeared to be a large tracing of '8647' into the grounds of the National Mall in Washington, DC. A Reuters photographer atop the Washington Monument saw the apparent tracing shortly before officials arrived reut.rs/4vBTB06
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