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Host/editorial director @vox.com / Vox Media; Political analyst @cnn.com; Former @nytimes.com @bostonglobe.com; Full time Cristian Romero + Giselle Bryant enthusiast
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Bulls up Bears up and The Pope eats Aurelio’s. Perfect time for @HacksOnTap @davidaxelrod.bsky.social

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@murphymike: New @HacksOnTap is up! @davidaxelrod and I discuss the Senate Dem's Greatest Retreat of All Time vith Special Guest Hack @AsteadWH
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Timezone in the tweet is insane
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks and owner Patrick Dumont are expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison at a 10 am central time meeting on Tuesday, sources tell me and Tim MacMahon. BREAKING NEWS FROM SHAMS CHARANIA
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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From Today Explained @vox.com www.vox.com/podcasts/467...
Vox Voters signed up to deport criminals, not grandmas Vox's Astead Herndon and immigration reporter Molly O'Toole unpack the latest (confusing) polls. By Astead Herndon While American disapproval of immigration was key to Trump winning two presidential elections, polls today show a growing divide. Gallup found 30 percent of Americans want immigration decreased, which is down from 55 percent a year ago. In a New York Times/Siena national poll, a majority of voters still disapproved of immigration but also said Trump's actions on enforcement have gone too far. Vox® Recently, I've been curious about how the public is reacting to Trump's immigration raids. Because, on the one hand, he promised all this, and you could argue voters knew what they were signing up for. But now that they're seeing it in real life, are they having buyer's remorse?" Astead Herndon, HOST AND EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Vox What Trump has done very effectively is shift the American public's perception on immigration to the right. If you look at the polling, there actually is much more bipartisan support for immigration and broadly positive views on immigration writ large than you would think based on the rhetoric that we've heard and the electoral successes. Molly O'Toole, IMMIGRATION REPORTER Vox®
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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…The DSA “left” didn’t drive the Dems embrace identity politics wokeness etc. It was really the establishment class, where things like DEI and representation began to displace policies with tangible impact. That’s what electorate resented

On @cnn.com Elex Night coverage with @abbydphillip (2/2)
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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You spent a lot of time with him for a big profile that came out last month. You're on the ground now. What are your impressions of him personally, or your takeaways leaving this campaign season? Sometimes people use "politician" as an insult, but I mean it as a compliment. He's not a random person out of nowhere. He's someone who has worked to fit his beliefs into the political structure, has taken some L's and has grown, and it's basically workshopped the version of himself that is ready to step into this mayoral moment. The other thing is that he is serious about the job at hand. This isn't a stepping stone, or at least he's not viewing it in that way. This is a person who ran to be mayor and wants to be mayor. And so that's really what struck me, and I think it's the reason he's been successful, is because he put that level of intention into the world.
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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[quoting @lydiadepillis.bsky.social]

Great graphic. Would often tell the ppl most confused about Mamdani's rise to ask themselves three questions

-- do you take public transit
-- do you rent
-- do you use tik tok

that's more or less the coalition
The new political map of NYC shows some stark divides: Very wealthy, very white and very Hasidic parts of the city went for Cuomo. Young, Black and Hispanic voters went for Mamdani. But the biggest divide? Transit vs. cars. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/04/us/elections/nyc-mayor-results-precinct-map.html By commute type: Mostly public transport commuters Mamdani +29 Mostly car commuters Cuomo +23
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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“Convention has held us back.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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[quoting @preetbharara.bsky.social]

To clarify we are not literal family members !! @nypost.com
My @voxmedia cousin @AsteadWH joins me this week to talk about Mamdani, the NYC mayoral race, and more. Listen: cafe.visitlink.me/d_17l5 Elections: From Mamdani to Trump (with Astead Herndon Listen to the latest episode of the Stay Tuned with Preet podcast
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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It’s horrible. The food version of the pickleball takeover. Sorry I’m an adult and enjoy tennis
Smash burgers have ruined burger culture.
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Woo! Still talking Mamdani profile. Thanks for having me @FareedZakaria @cnn.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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ESPN promoting its sportsbook while covering the arrests of three NBA figures in a gambling scandal perfectly captures how much sports media has been captured by betting. The industry can't even talk about what gambling is doing to fans without selling it at the same time.
October 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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There's always a Stake ad at the scene of the crime X.com [video of Aaron Ross telling Andrew Tate that Drake is a fan, logo wall behind feature Stake, Kick, and Brandrisk]
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Bring back bookies
Sports betting has become extremely bad and it might be too late to curtail it.
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Mag form www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...
With their silence, they reveal the left's ultimate advantage in this period of upheaval. Political triangulation runs dangerously close to inauthenticity, but it has been the model for most mainstream Democratic candidates since Obama made the Clintonian posture his own in 2008. But separated from its unique candidate, and the myth that Trump was an aberration, Obama-ism has been exposed, leaving the Democratic establishment in a frantic search for a Plan B. It's a place that is all too reminiscent of where Republicans were about a decade earlier, after Obama's re-election revealed a chasm between the interests of party leaders and its working-class base. The 2016 election was approaching. We all know what happened next.
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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In print all week! Be like @mkraju.bsky.social 😂🙏🏾
Still from Inside Politics, Manu holding up NYT magazine with Zohran on cover
October 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Thankful for @cnn.com Inside Politics for having me on today — talking takeaways from this week’s profile of Zohran Mamdani for NYT Magazine.
October 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Collect the set
October 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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We’re going to Vox
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Thanks to all the editors and fact checkers who helped make the piece happen. And a special s/o to @nytimes.com Mag designers on an iconic cover. In print next week

📸: Pari Dukovic
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Reupping this story from @majorityreport.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social !

Tensions between West Wing/VP are normal, but the Biden White House went out of its way to minimize Kamala Harris. So much so it was weird.

I don’t know the political purpose this memoir serves, but… (1/2)
September 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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