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Sam Brodey
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National politics reporter for the Boston Globe. Go Dodgers. Get in touch: [email protected]
CBC election night liveblog is already COOKING
April 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
January 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
30 rock predicted so much about our current moment
December 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
when Dems pushed last year to eliminate the debt ceiling (the idea Trump just endorsed) House Rs slammed the idea as "insane" and the NRCC adopted it as an attack line on Dems
December 19, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Dem candidates for state legislatures on average over-performed Harris in 2024, according to a new report from the DLCC

In PA, AZ, and MI, Dem state leg candidates went from underperforming Biden in '20 to pacing ahead of Harris, which DLCC says helped limit losses at the state level
December 10, 2024 at 11:19 PM
shoe leather reporting being done by the students at Penn's 34th Street Magazine
December 9, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Kudos to Penn's student-run blog for quickly getting in on the local angle
December 9, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Timmy Chalamet being wrong about Texas winning the SEC championship after calling the Ohio upset
December 8, 2024 at 2:07 AM
the Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see
December 7, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Just in: the Trump transition team says "several" of his Cabinet nominees and other administration appointees were targeted with violent threats last night and this morning, specifically mentioning bomb threats and "swatting"
November 27, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Gov Tim Walz (in what looks like his first detailed post-election comments) says he will not convene a special session of the MN legislature to prepare for Trump return, like Gavin Newsom has in CA

via @startribune.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Trump has begun referring to the University of Pennsylvania as "my powerful alma mater"
November 19, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Inbox: Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota's Democratic Party (aka the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) has launched his bid for national DNC chairman

Hard to match Martin's win streak: Minnesota Democrats haven't lost a statewide election in his 14 years as party chair
November 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Now official: the New England states have sent an all-Democratic delegation to the US House for the fourth election in a row, with Rep Jared Golden's victory confirmed
November 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Trump II has barely started and the remembering some guys energy is already powerful. Madison Cawthorn in the mix for a House seat? Chris Collins, the Trump White House lawn insider trading guy? It's all possible
November 15, 2024 at 8:20 PM
There are two House Republicans left in office out of the 10 who voted to impeach Trump after Jan 6: Reps Dan Newhouse and David Valadao

They've both officially won re-election and will be back next year
November 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I don't hate the new Minnesota state flag but it looks like it wants to talk to me about the 1991 Halloween blizzard
December 21, 2023 at 7:25 PM
out: Barbenheimer

in: Natrolleon
November 13, 2023 at 6:36 PM
We truly don't deserve the citizen-submitted redesigns for the Minnesota state flag
November 8, 2023 at 4:52 PM
doing some historical archival research. crazy that people once lived like this!
July 21, 2023 at 7:19 PM