David Weigel

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Covering politics for @semafor. Alum: @washingtonpost, @business, @slate. daveweigel@gmail.com. Buy my book:

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1Sep 2, '25View post on X60.1×9M235k12k5.3k
2Nov 3, '25“My focus is on the cost of living crisis, bro”44.2×6.6M240k11k8.3k
3Mar 18, '25Tim Walz in Wisconsin: “I’m having the most unsatisfying I Told You So tour in the history of politics.”43.9×6.6M102k7.2k2.9k
4Sep 19, '25Once you learn about those weird flag cones they’re all you can see.34.3×5.1M79k1.7k6.7k
5Oct 16, '25"I know some of you have expressed concerns about my age. You are worried about a 33 year becoming mayor of New York City. "And I want you to know, I hear you. That’s why this week33×4.9M225k11k6.4k
6Jan 16, '23When you've never interacted with a leftist but are pretty sure you have a banger tweet29.5×4.4M36k1.6k392
7Mar 28, '25Asking AI to turn you into a cartoon.22.4×3.3M141k15k1.1k
8Jan 30, '25The context here: Kennedy accused Sanders of being bought by pharma bc "you were the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money" in 2020. Sanders responded: He took zero from 18.4×2.7M48k2.6k4k
9Feb 21, '24We learned to read and write.16.3×2.4M78k8.5k657
10Aug 24, '25"Who was president in 2020," the hardest question in politics.15.4×2.3M39k2.6k933
11Dec 17, '24View post on X14.2×2.1M37k2.2k724
12Nov 5, '25Where did Dems get the idea that they should support their candidates even if they say awful, offensive things? I hope someone gets to the bottom of this mystery.12.9×1.9M33k2.1k828
13Aug 22, '25Linking Biden to a corporate rebrand eight months after he left office… peak12×1.8M63k1.8k706
14Mar 8, '24The line she's applauding here is "and now it’s my goal to cut the federal deficit $3 trillion more by making big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their fair share."11.8×1.8M23k1.1k497
15Oct 18, '24Have never quite figured out how Trump was photographed and filmed hanging out w Epstein, but it's the other guys who must secretly be on his list.10.4×1.6M35k2.7k862
16Oct 9, '25Her baby in her where now8.8×1.3M52k3.1k1.6k
17Oct 27, '25Turns out you can do a career-ending interview even after your career is over.8.7×1.3M21k9451.3k
18Aug 3, '25Mamdani at 37%, the account just cut him out7.5×1.1M40k2.4k409
19Sep 27, '25ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN7.4×1.1M66k3.2k1.2k
20Jul 15, '23View post on X7.4×1.1M23k1.1k154
21Aug 7, '25He's probably in Venezuela.7.3×1.1M29k1.3k462
22Dec 2, '24Sanders keeps daring Trump to actually do something populist that Rs will probably kill in the crib (credit card fee caps, slashing defense budget) and the coverage is like "Bernie7.2×1.1M26k1.7k1.1k
23Aug 7, '25The people's Hampton Inn.6.9×1M25k1.6k190
24Mar 14, '22What happened in 10 days?6.4×0106k5.5k1.3k
25Jul 16, '21“Disco sucks” is the biggest lie the boomers ever told us.6.4×094k11k529
26Aug 15, '24The DA was Kamala Harris!6.2×924k14k2.5k274
27Nov 21, '24I'm sorry, the old Nancy can't come to the phone right now.6.1×907k22k1k350
28Sep 10, '20“Fortunate Son” plays as Trump de-planes, an entry for the “nobody listened to the lyrics” hall of fame.5.5×068k12k812
29Sep 30, '17There's a Trump tweet for everything.5.2×056k21k0
30Sep 27, '24With the right attitude, any movie screening can feature a live person talking to the screen.5.1×763k19k623431
31Oct 24, '21Only two unread emails? Who’s this ad for, Mennonites?4.2×070k3.7k371
32Feb 18, '21View post on X4.0×058k7.6k626
33Aug 4, '25I’ve figured out a hack for this: Writing my own sentences.3.9×590k22k1.2k145
34Aug 24, '17That is literally how the law works, yes.3.9×048k12k0
35Mar 16, '17Yeah, what does Hawaii know about being attacked, anyway3.8×042k15k1
36Aug 4, '19There are no mass shootings in Japan because there are no video games there3.4×042k9.6k172
37Oct 2, '24It's real3.4×507k19k1k770
38Apr 24, '25Very subtle, not sure I get it3.3×487k24k570223
39Jan 9, '17Did you write this tweet between shifts at the steel mill3.2×037k12k0
40Jan 25, '19"He’s not going to sign a bill that doesn’t have money for the wall... if he gives in now, that’s the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president. That’s probably the 3.0×039k7.5k107
41Jul 17, '21View post on X3.0×051k1.8k362
42Aug 21, '25What’s with the all-caps post? Is he trying to copy Gavin Newsom?2.9×427k18k68451
43Nov 8, '17My brain keeps returning to the sentence “a transgender heavy metal singer defeated the author of Virginia’s anti-trans bathroom bill."2.8×036k8k0
44Jan 15, '20Not many people know this, but Medicare-for-all is the only thing that costs money. Keeping a military presence in central Asia is actually free, thanks to a bunch of coupons the P2.8×038k6.8k175
45Aug 2, '24RIP to a real one2.7×406k18k1.1k846
46Jan 7, '21A West Virginia legislator streamed, then deleted, video of himself storming the capitol2.7×020k12k544
47Aug 13, '17Attn trolls: It's not "doxxing" to identify people who appeared in public at a rally and have given media interviews about their beliefs.2.6×034k7.9k0
48Jun 20, '20Secret Service has moved crowd back from the overflow stage so it can be broken down.2.6×030k5.7k352
49Nov 28, '17They. Don't. Run. Either. Branch. Of. Congress.2.6×029k9.7k1
50May 2, '21Why watch someone attempt a Soulsborne no-hit run when you can watch the 10,000th tv panel about cancel culture2.2×036k2.4k269
51Jun 29, '17If Trump doesn't watch out, key Republicans may pronounce his comments "disappointing" before donating to his re-elect and voting for him.2.1×024k7.9k0
52Nov 4, '20The "blue shift" in Pennsylvania is going to launch 10 million conspiracy theories and it was 100% avoidable had legislators just copied Ohio's notes and let them process ballots e2.1×032k3.5k172
53Dec 7, '17It's uhhhh unfortunate that John Lewis won't honor the sacrifices made by ... [looks down at notes] ... John Lewis.2.1×024k7.9k1
54Nov 20, '20I am once again asking you to finish the movie before tweeting about it2.1×031k3.4k250
55Sep 17, '21Thinking about the guy who half-assed a Buffalo Wild Wings chicken sandwich, forgetting all the toppings, not realizing it would be delivered to this guy2.1×034k2.2k437
56Oct 30, '17Yes, the DEEP STATE tipped off CNN about... the location of the FBI office in Washington.2.0×026k5.4k1
57Jul 28, '17"If the people who wrote this bill were proud of it, they wouldn’t be forcing this vote in the dead of night." -- Mitch McConnell, 20092.0×020k8.2k0
58Apr 20, '21That's Liz Cheney behind her on the left. She represents Wyoming, which has around 150,000 fewer residents than D.C.2.0×026k5k203
59Aug 23, '19View post on X1.9×026k5.1k144
60Nov 8, '17Danica Roem (D) has defeated Bob Marshall (R) in HD13. She will be America's first transgender state legislator.1.8×021k5.5k0
61Aug 6, '17Last month, Flake joined every Senate R to confirm John Bush, who wrote birther blog posts, as a federal judge.1.7×015k8k0
62Dec 2, '17Advice from an Obama admin econ policy vet: "Democats should never again allow Republicans to complain that we can’t afford a particular social program because of its deficit impli1.7×019k6.2k0
63Nov 8, '17Democrats will have veto power over Virginia's next post-census electoral map for the first time since 1991.1.7×021k5k1
64Feb 4, '19Netflix has endless data on what content Americans want to see, and its answer is nonstop serial killer and apocalypse shows. Cool, cool1.6×024k3k79
65Feb 15, '22wow imagine if Martin Luther King got arrested1.6×025k2.2k237
66Sep 23, '21What do you even say here? This covers the period when she was the spokesman for Donald Trump, who was president last year.1.6×022k2.6k199
67Aug 8, '18It's official: Missouri voters have STRUCK DOWN the state's right-to-work law, by a landslide.1.6×021k3.9k15
68Dec 23, '16Photo was taken while he talked about Sandy Hook massacre. Merry Christmas and stop letting people die in your jail.1.6×016k7k0
69Aug 26, '19New national Monmouth poll: Sanders: 20% (+6) Warren: 20% (+5) Biden: 19% (-13)! Harris: 8% (-) Booker: 4% (+2) Buttigieg: 4% (-1) Yang: 3% (+1) Castro: 2% (+2) O’Rourke: 2% (-1) W1.6×018k3.4k92
70Nov 3, '20Biden is the first presidential candidate to sweep Dixville Notch since Richard Nixon in 1960.1.5×021k2.7k132
71Apr 27, '21To own the libs, you must first learn how to own yourself.1.5×021k3.1k334
72Jul 23, '19One of my biggest peeves is people with extremely easy jobs making light of low-wage labor. Waiting tables is MUCH harder than flapping your jaws on TV.1.5×020k3.5k57
73Sep 12, '17Folks.......the Hillary book.........it's good1.4×017k3.6k0
74Nov 5, '20Come on at least crop out the STOCK IMAGE text1.4×021k2.2k154
75Jun 3, '20You’ve all been asking who the leader of antifa is, and boy have I got a plot twist1.4×020k2.8k230
76Mar 29, '21define "never"1.4×022k1.6k133
77Feb 4, '20A completely sincere thought: Thousands of totally well-meaning people spent a year of their lives working for candidates and their reward was being part of a historic debacle, bec1.3×020k2.1k56
78Feb 26, '21C’mon, man1.3×019k1.7k127
79Sep 15, '20I've memed.1.3×020k1.5k143
80Jul 28, '21"What if you had to pay taxes for a service you don't personally use at that moment" is a dangerous road for a Democrat to go down1.2×019k1.9k175
82May 10, '21"Unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate," McCarthy says in a letter explaining why the party has to purge a member of the leadership team for too much free thought and1.2×015k3.1k153
83Aug 14, '20Why is "flatscreen" still code for "wasteful luxury spending"? Where would you go in 2020 to buy a non-flatscreen TV?1.2×017k1.8k166
84May 18, '22Counting mail-in ballots is good now.1.1×017k1.8k155
85Nov 15, '18Susan Collins is now the *only* Republican member of Congress across New England.1.1×013k2.7k23
86Feb 9, '21This is a "My Cousin Vinny"-level mismatch of opening statements so far1.1×017k1.5k82
87Jul 16, '19Something everyone decided to forget for some reason is that Trump spent the final weeks of the midterms pivoting to an immigration message -- the caravan was coming and Democrats 1.1×015k2.7k50
88Dec 20, '21These CIA budget cuts have been brutal.1.1×017k1.4k187
89Nov 10, '19Sorry, been busy: Did the president actually keep going to sporting events until he found one where the crowd would cheer for him?1.1×017k1.3k29
90May 1, '21Fellas, is it dementia to love your wife?1.1×017k1.1k157
91Jul 19, '20Trump on Fox, asking who the people who want to rename military bases want to rename Fort Bragg after: “Are you going to name it after Rev. Al Sharpton?” That’s kind of a revealing1.1×015k2.2k78
92Mar 31, '21Disneyland *famously* sells passes that let you skip the lines, how did this analogy escape the writers room1.1×017k1.3k104
93Dec 31, '18An interesting quirk of Walker's career is that he first ran for office at age 22 and has never worked in the private sector.1.0×014k2.7k46
94Jul 15, '20Turnout in recent Texas Democratic runoffs: 2012: 236,305 2014: 200,992 2018: 432,180 2020: 955,735 Doesn’t mean Cornyn is vulnerable, but the days of TX Dems just pre-conceding ev1.0×014k2.4k52
95Nov 19, '19Obviously the first thing they'd do with these notes is never take pictures of them and never talk about them for nearly three years.1.0×015k2.1k41
97Oct 20, '19(Warren rally in Indianola, IA) ME: Hey, I haven’t seen a Katie Porter shirt outside of her district. DAN PORTER: Well I guess you’ve never met her dad!1.0×016k1.2k34
98Jun 28, '19One reason that Kamala exchange with Biden matters: Dem voters need to be convinced that a woman can face Trump onstage and take him apart. That moment got her a long way.1.0×015k1.7k28
99Sep 15, '21One dinner at the French Laundry, $276 million.1.0×015k1.1k115
100Jan 21, '21If I heard someone say "racism and lies are bad" in a speech I would simply not say "hey, he's talking about me!"0.9×015k1.5k74
101Oct 7, '22Do you ever miss campaign newsletters? You can subscribe to my new one, Americana, starting soon for @semafor (soon to replace these Twitter ads).0.1×056730370

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