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Benjy Sarlin

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Editorial director at @voxdotcom. Formerly: Washington Post, NBC News, Semafor. Email me at benjy.sarlin at voxmedia dot com.

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1Nov 6, '24Jon Stewart’s 2-minute history lesson here is worth everyone’s time before we start confidently breaking out our theories of what happened108×7.4M62k9.1k28k
2Aug 27, '25Uh oh53.6×3.7M140k13k4k
3Jan 18, '23In all seriousness, this is (if true) the likely tipping point in the House. "Kevin McCarthy sent a dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans to look after your small business" is 38.1×2.6M18k4.7k308
4Nov 6, '24The overall story, so far: Nothing here looks like a story of various campaign decisions or a VP choice or big set piece speeches. It's an electorate mad at the incumbent WH's reco35.2×2.4M7.8k914857
5May 29, '24“Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.”26.9×1.8M4.4k1.1k629
6Apr 3, '25Literally doing the Chappelle bit23.6×1.6M15k2.4k3k
7Mar 24, '25View post on X19.7×1.4M36k1.9k1.4k
8Aug 23, '23Lot of Dark Brandon in Dem debate counter-programming, these are on billboard screens around Milwaukee18.8×1.3M6.1k926272
9Jun 10, '22Have we had the great Remote Work Catfishing story yet, is there like a 12 year old who made middle management at a Fortune 500 company pretending to be their dad17.5×067k3.5k1.1k
10Jan 13, '23When you hear people say they should mint the $1 trillion coin to solve the debt ceiling issue, you assume it's a comically large coin, right, this isn't just me17.2×1.2M7.6k25577
11Aug 4, '24RFK Jr.: I should drive past that dead bear The worm in RFK Jr’s brain: Stage a bike accident17×1.2M28k1.9k802
12Aug 15, '24Some might say this means he can’t go on Hot Ones, I would argue it means it’s even more important17×1.2M8.4k326119
13Apr 2, '23I admire a businessman who’s fearless enough to tweet “Why won’t someone buy MY product when they ask people to buy THEIR product” when most others would consider it humiliating lo16.1×1.1M11k1.1k102
14Jul 1, '25"Please don't pass the bill I just voted for" is one of the most maddening recurring features of Congress15.3×1.1M33k4k586
15May 24, '23Fox homepage.11.8×809k6.5k69473
16Feb 2, '23🟡SCOOP: George Santos tells @kadiagoba a prospective staffer recorded their office conversations. “He's violated the trust that we had in him,” Santos said. They expect audio to b10.6×732k2.8k60754
17Nov 30, '23View post on X10.4×714k7.6k65297
18Jul 24, '23X is so far like old Twitter: Blue checks being fooled by parody accounts because they are also blue checks9.7×666k17k96586
19Jan 29, '25Ann Selzer rn9.6×657k20k570390
20Dec 19, '23And yet when two people improbably find each other, the Senate spends all week shaming them9.4×644k5.6k234108
21Oct 6, '24Listening to the All The Smoke and Call Her Daddy episodes with Harris, it’s notable that the childless cat ladies/biological children talk comes up very prominently in both — this9.3×639k3.9k373175
22Oct 10, '23Holy shit.9.1×626k3.3k632491
23Aug 23, '24View post on X8.8×608k11k1k197
24May 19, '24Knicks have a lot of work to do in the summer. Need to find an all-NBA scorer to take pressure off Brunson, an elite wing defender who can shoot, an S-tier rebounding big to split 7.9×542k4k357175
25Mar 27, '23Twitter in a breaking shooting or disaster is always a minefield, but Twitter without verified local news outlets/reporters, police/fire departments, and politicians is going to be7.1×490k3.4k83323
26Mar 23, '20Dr. Fauci, meet Steph930656.9×024k2.7k100
27Jan 29, '24Meanwhile, Dean Phillips is feuding with the NYT pitch bot6.2×429k5.1k46575
28Mar 20, '20One of @ewarren's plans was banning individual stock ownership by members of Congress. Could see that one gaining momentum amid this sudden bipartisan explosion of coronavirus legi6.0×020k3k49
29Jul 26, '24A “Barack Hussein Obama” in the wild in 20246.0×414k8.8k337120
30Jul 19, '23A recurring story as a political reporter is every GOP presidential candidate announcing their campaign, playing their favorite song that they dreamed of using since they were a te6.0×412k6.7k33691
31May 19, '25I don’t say this often about a vote like this, but that’s probably a wrap for 20285.8×402k3.9k248240
32Feb 7, '25Political quantum mechanics posits that a 25 year old is both a delicate child who must be protected from their own views and also an important adult who needs to manage the most p5.7×394k9.8k1.3k294
33May 29, '19You know that scene in The Incredibles where Mr. Incredible tells an old lady how he can't possibly help her with her insurance claim and she definitely shouldn't fill out this spe5.7×017k3.6k119
34May 17, '24This is understandable, when people are rude to me I also signal support for a coup attempt5.6×385k4k62656
35Jun 30, '24This is a 50-year political veteran in his fourth presidential campaign after also debating in two VP races. Perhaps nobody alive has more debate experience than him at this level,5.4×374k3.5k454105
36Aug 4, '24By land, by air, by sea, the D M V4.9×338k7.7k1.1k259
37Aug 20, '24People will say this ran way too long, but what are you supposed to do, not give Kathy Hochul a speech4.7×324k3.8k24165
38Nov 9, '22MAGA candidates in key races conceding so far is notable and something not to be taken for granted4.6×017k1.2k81
39Aug 9, '21Sure was fun doing normal stuff for like six weeks4.5×017k1.2k58
40Sep 26, '24I forgot who, but saw someone tweet "congrats to the US Attorney for the SDNY" the exact moment the Eric Adams primary was called and man have I thought about it a lot since then4.5×308k6.6k333228
41Aug 2, '24Bethesda needs to build a statue of Katie Ledecky and then a statue of the other swimmers three blocks away4.3×296k7.3k41375
42Aug 5, '19I am extremely loathe to publicize his words, but the president’s tweet today and the racist creed the shooter posted overlap to the point that they’re hard to distinguish with the4.0×08.5k3.9k142
44Sep 3, '25The only media I saw this in was an algorithmic feed on a website owned by Elon Musk3.6×249k5.3k36060
45Nov 20, '20The MI GOP leaders told Trump they desperately need coronavirus relief money and that they’re not going to mess with the election result. Seems like the pretty blunt implication he3.5×09.1k2k181
46May 29, '24I can't stop reading this as a dril tweet: "i was not even aware of the upside-down flag until it was called to my attention. as soon as i saw it i asked my wife to take it down bu3.5×240k3.4k34981
47Jan 10, '21Wow, the line here went overnight from “It’s deeply offensive to suggest Trump or his supporters are violent” to “You can’t punish Trump, his supporters will get even more violent”3.5×010k2.3k107
48Dec 23, '20“The president vetoed away people’s last unemployment check on Christmas week in a pandemic” seems like a bad thing to have to take into two runoff elections, but who knows how pol3.4×011k1.5k52
49Dec 8, '20If nothing else, Trump's provided a big boost for the 6-3 conservative court who now get to show off their independence by setting the bar at "won't overturn election"3.3×012k1k45
50Apr 2, '20An update: My dad tested positive for coronavirus tonight, but is doing well at the hospital. He appreciates any prayers.3.2×011k95426
51Nov 10, '22That MAGA candidates everywhere are largely graciously conceding underscores just how much Stop The Steal was a one-man, top-down phenomenon in 2020. If Trump had conceded, even be3.1×010k1.4k139
52Oct 14, '19Some of the targets in this video were sent bombs by a Trump superfan last year and the president responded by attacking the press. Saudi Arabia killed a Washington Post columnist 3.1×07.7k2.8k66
53Nov 14, '24Operation Warp Speed was the one near-universal "Well, you have to give him that" achievement among Trump critics and four years later we're looking at RFK Jr running all health po3.1×211k4.2k483125
54Apr 8, '24It was actually going to be a total eclipse in DC until he negotiated it down2.9×196k3.6k16353
55Nov 10, '20The emerging argument of "Yes, the president and his allies want to overturn the results of an election and would do so in a heartbeat if at all possible, but it's not like they ac2.8×08.7k1.5k63
56Jun 26, '21Not even two weeks from visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum, talking about stripping political opponents of their nationality and jailing them in the name of stopping communism2.8×08.7k1.3k100
57Jul 6, '20“I was going to vote for Joe Biden, but then I realized he’s not for the Confederate flag” is a demographic that the president seems really convinced is real and in urgent need of 2.7×09.7k1.1k34
58Nov 11, '20I'm deeply confused, since this is a projection by the AP and not a certified final count. It's almost as if "the media can't call elections" is a new standard invented in bad fait2.7×08.3k1.4k49
59Aug 27, '24The demand for viral Kamala content is rapidly outstripping supply, the strategic reserve built up under Biden can only last so long2.5×174k4.3k124112
60Jan 9, '21Forbes chief content officer @RandallLane: “Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company o2.4×05.4k1.9k93
61Jan 16, '20Politics is in parallel universes now in which a Sanders/Warren argument over a dinner conversation is legit one of the most dramatic moments on the D side, while on the R side the2.3×06.5k1.6k30
62Mar 20, '20For example, you at this exact second with this tweet.2.2×08.2k62115
63Mar 25, '21A good q for Biden today is why isn't he live tweeting suggestions for how to get the boat out while berating foreign engineers for not figuring it out sooner2.1×07.6k59426
64Oct 27, '20This will be mentioned plenty of times on election night, but the reason you won't have quick counts in key swing states (mainly PA) is that R legislators denied requests to proces2.0×05k1.7k64
65Feb 26, '21If I remember my Exodus right, the Golden Calf shows up right after Young Pharoah is gone2.0×06.4k70857
66Aug 18, '24“if Biden loses they’ll think I’m a loser too” - whiny - boring - weak “Our two destinies are tied” - heroic, valiant - they will assume you have a sword1.9×134k4.6k184145
67Nov 15, '20When the banks were failing, it was an emergency every single day a Bill didn’t pass. People are dying by the tens of thousands, millions are unemployed with lapsed benefits, small1.9×05.3k1.3k35
68Jul 14, '19For the 1000th time, “but he just means illegal immigration” isn’t true and was never true1.8×05.4k1.1k16
69Jul 27, '20This is Michael Scott-esque1.8×04.5k1.2k68
70Jan 5, '21Pence spent 4+ years as quietly loyal as possible. As of now, 90% of his obituary will be about his role helping Trump. And he's about to get thrown under the bus on a whim because1.7×05.4k70527
71Mar 15, '20It is genuinely urgent — like life and death — that someone figures out a way to frame staying indoors as owning the libs1.7×04.9k1.1k30
72Aug 10, '21“They’re doing this because they LIKE lockdowns” has led to innumerable bad takes for months; now it’s leading people to miss how angry vaccinated people are at unvaccinated for fo1.6×04.8k54469
73Oct 6, '20This may be almost too obvious to mention, but "The virus is so deadly that it would have killed untold millions without my actions" and "This virus is just like the flu, you'll do1.5×04k1.1k75
74Nov 11, '22Conservative groups spent over $50m on attack ads targeting transgender issues, there’s little evidence it did anything on Tuesday, and now some R’s are pointing fingers1.5×03.6k798138
75Feb 1, '22No main character on Twitter has ever been as vindicated as the 30-50 feral hogs guy1.4×04.8k64158
76Apr 22, '22This is the hardest thing to convey about the Trump era without eyerolling, but it was not nearly as common for politicians to outright lie to one's face pre-2016 and considered a 1.4×03.7k62688
77Jan 12, '21The key to me from Cheney: "None of this would have happened without the president." That's the part few in GOP grappled with. This was NOT a bottom-up grassroots movement. It only1.4×04.5k75638
78Jan 3, '21What I can’t stop thinking about reading the transcript is how much time and attention has clearly gone into learning every detail of this stuff to the decimal point versus the cri1.3×03.7k93951
79May 7, '21Trump lost and R's lost the Senate, yet R's near-universally conclude they need him. Why? They're not wrong exactly. Trump's leverage isn't so much his ability to grow the GOP, it'1.3×03.3k71882
80Feb 1, '21I sometimes worry the silliness of Q stuff overshadows the scariness of its core belief, which is our fellow Americans rooting for a military coup followed by the execution of dome1.3×03.7k90946
81Aug 5, '22D’s truly seemed dead in water policy-wise for midterms, now in theory something to sell youth (climate), seniors (drug prices), populists (tax big biz, made in America, take on Ch1.3×04.1k518114
82Feb 14, '22This is a great interview with Art Spiegelman on what the Maus controversy is about (rather than what lots of people are yelling about)1.3×03.4k823170
83Oct 11, '21It’s a near-universal assumption in every corner of politics that the 2024 nomination is now his if he wants it and yet everything he’s saying as presumed nominee is treated as noi1.3×03.5k485182
84Feb 10, '21Regardless of whether the impeachment trial calls witnesses, the House and Senate badly need to reconstruct under oath what the president was doing throughout this day.1.2×04.1k55822
85Jan 28, '21hi kids i'm here to tell you index funds are cool1.2×04.5k30832
86Nov 12, '20We still need to see if the vaccines pan out, but surrendering to mass COVID death *right before a vaccine arrives* is the kind of systemic disaster that should be remembered a cen1.2×04.1k53830
87Oct 10, '19Gardner voted against Trump in 2016 general. Said he "shows a disgust for American character and a dignity unbecoming of the Presidency" His reason for not voting HRC: She "would s1.2×03.2k85736
88Nov 18, '20No rush, just 77,000 COVID patients in the hospital and our largest city's schools shutting down again. Hope you have a nice family dinner.1.2×03.6k7118
89Jan 9, '21Making them legally liable for tweets would make them...less likely to ban accounts after an insurrection?1.2×03.9k53129
90Oct 26, '20Closing message of "People crying after watching a human being slowly killed on camera were faking it for likes" is another interesting move1.2×03.2k67755
91Nov 19, '20In a couple of months, we’ll be hearing impassioned speeches invoking the Founders to argue some executive order on health care is tyranny from people who were sitting quietly whil1.1×03k83771
93Jul 19, '20People mocking the Zuckerberg photo don’t understand the elder millennial worldview, we graduated when there was a hit single that was just some guy telling us to wear sunscreen ov1.1×03.9k28554
94Jan 11, '21I cannot imagine what relations on the Hill are going to look like after this. D's are (not without reason) accusing their R colleagues of threatening their lives directly and indi1.1×03.3k70640
95May 2, '21There’s a parallel Twitter where random wholesome content gets a billion RTs and continues to go viral for years without reaching my feed virtually ever1.1×03.6k41637
96Jul 30, '20It’s been pretty fascinating seeing what people’s individual lines are1.0×03.4k47319
97Nov 15, '22Gov. Doug Ducey won Arizona by 14 points in a terrible year for the GOP. So the state MAGA party spooked him out of a Senate run, got their dream candidate for governor, and then t1.0×03.4k40743
98Feb 9, '21Schumer tried to call an emergency session specifically to avoid this issue and was rejected1.0×03k65615
99Sep 15, '21After 5000 stories asking whether Democrats can govern with the Squad holding veto power, a similarly sized group of centrists is causing the most problems for the White House and 1.0×02.9k59629
100Jan 13, '21Wow imagine trying to overturn an election1.0×03.5k37213

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