Jennifer Bendery

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Senior politics reporter for HuffPost. On Bluesky: @jbendery.bsky.social. Tips: jen.bendery@huffpost.com. Signal: jbendery.41

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1Nov 14, '25This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate. Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,6109×6.7M54k16k9.1k
2Mar 6, '24NEW: Newly unearthed video of N.C. GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson in 2020: "I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote."83.8×5.1M10k4k868
3Feb 11, '25Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today. "They are in t83.6×5.1M25k5.7k1.3k
4Oct 6, '23Here is Glenn Beck's media outlet openly apparently trying to bully a government employee, for no real reason, who is one of the friendliest, most helpful people I've worked with o45.8×2.8M15k1k129
5Aug 6, '24The Trump campaign is attacking Tim Walz for restoring voting rights to convicted felons. Who... wants to tell them.42.1×2.6M32k3.1k801
6Oct 30, '24A reader in Philly has flagged another mysterious new monument that has magically appeared in a public park to "honor" Trump. It looks a lot like the ones popping up in DC. Titled 37.7×2.3M49k9k2.5k
7Oct 30, '23NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife has taken down the website for her business, Onward Christian Counseling Services, a day after HuffPost reported on documents on the site com30.5×1.9M10k4.4k265
8Aug 14, '25Situation in DC, on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no agency ID'd -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd shouting at poli29.6×1.8M13k2.9k1.3k
9Oct 2, '24My god did JD Vance lie and gaslight his way through last night's VP debate. About big things. So casually. Things that are so easy to call out. Like.... (1/x)29.6×1.8M22k3.2k1.4k
10Nov 17, '23This is incredible. A 38-year-old woman who died Sunday from cancer has posthumously helped to erase $14 million in medical debt for other people.24.3×1.5M18k2.3k541
11Feb 22, '24Asked Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for his take on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are children. In the span of 3 mins, he said he was “all for it,” didn’t agree wi20.4×1.3M9.7k2k328
12May 8, '25Kristi Noem testifying on DHS budget today, and Sen. Chris Murphy begins by eviscerating her record thus far. "You are illegally refusing to spend funds appropriated by this Congre20.3×1.2M31k3.9k1.2k
13Jun 17, '25Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has deleted all three of his tweets from his personal account that mocked and fanned conspiracies about the assassination of Minnesota Democrat state Rep. Me17.5×1.1M9.1k1.1k268
14Feb 5, '25Asked a seasoned State Dept employee how Marco Rubio has been received so far. "He has a minder, like a Trump campaign minder." A what? "Someone in his office, not of his choosing.16.6×1M13k2.9k1.2k
15Jul 25, '24Latest Harris campaign email: "Trump is old and quite weird?" 😂15.9×976k8.8k1.3k303
16Nov 8, '20quite a legacy13.8×098k20k1.4k
17Jul 5, '24All three of the guys behind Project 2025 worked in the White House for Trump when he was president.13.7×840k23k6.7k603
18Apr 26, '25NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it t13.6×835k19k3.7k1.7k
19Nov 14, '19This massive video of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony is playing on repeat in front of Brett Kavanaugh's dinner guests as they wait outside.12.4×095k15k574
20Feb 7, '25Everyone doing okay out there?9.6×589k13k1.3k322
21Feb 1, '23Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) just formally testified to the Republican-led House Rules Committee that the real threat to democracy is House Republicans. 😂9.6×587k9.9k1.7k98
22Oct 12, '24Hundreds of Indigenous voters and allies are walking miles together -- many in traditional Native attire -- to cast early votes in Navajo Nation today. Among the allies here: Mark 9.1×558k33k5.2k263
24Nov 28, '23Robert DeNiro notices mid-speech, on stage, that someone cut some of his prepared remarks off the teleprompter that ripped Trump for his lies and John Wayne for being terrible to N8.5×522k9.3k1.4k174
25Sep 29, '17WOW. San Juan mayor: "I am going to do what I never thought I would do. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying.8.4×041k21k0
26Apr 9, '19Oh man. Rep. Ted Lieu now playing a tape of Candace Owens, who is sitting right there, saying it would have been fine if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great.8.1×053k12k506
27Mar 19, '24JUST IN: The Senate just confirmed Nicole Berner, a longtime SEIU lawyer and former Planned Parenthood litigator, to a lifetime federal judgeship on a U.S. appeals court.7.6×467k7.6k1.2k65
28Jul 7, '19she ain't comin over man7.3×066k4.7k52
29Oct 29, '24Sen. Mark Kelly told me he's feeling "really good" about Harris winning Arizona, in part because of her massive ground operation -- 120,000 volunteers -- vs. Trump's pretty invisib7.1×436k7.9k1.2k162
30Jul 7, '25JUST IN: The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and other major national public health groups just filed a lawsuit against RFK Jr. to defend science6.9×423k18k4.1k311
31Sep 1, '25Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.6.9×421k13k1.7k808
32Oct 26, '24Latest VP pool report says Harris just hit a McDonalds with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. "They went to a table of young women who looked like they had just come from the rally. 6.8×419k11k987152
33Jun 20, '19Anyway, Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 20185.8×023k14k346
34Nov 10, '16DNC held its first staff meeting today since Clinton's loss. This happened.5.3×021k13k3
35Oct 20, '25This doesn't... help Karoline's case at all.4.9×303k9.6k330170
36Jan 8, '25Hawaii Gov. Josh Green met with Dem and GOP senators today, warning them not to confirm RFK as HHS secretary and describing RFK's role in spreading anti-vax misinformation in 2019 4.8×296k13k3.9k277
37Sep 27, '23Wild to watch Mitch McConnell absolutely throwing Kevin McCarthy under the bus as we hurtle toward a (stupid and unnecessary) government shutdown. Everyone (Schumer, McConnell and 4.7×291k7.5k90030
38Oct 24, '19A thing that happened today that won't get much attention: Senate Republicans confirmed *another* lifetime federal judge who earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating b3.9×015k11k191
39Sep 15, '19Just a reminder of all the lies Brett Kavanaugh told, under oath, in his Senate confirmation hearing. These were just the ones we could track at the time.3.6×020k7.4k367
40Apr 11, '17MSNBC with the winning chyron.3.5×017k8.9k0
41Sep 23, '22NEW: House Republicans just rolled out their official "Commitment to America” plan for 2023 with an inspirational video chock full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of Ame3.3×014k6.9k526
42Feb 21, '19Sean Spicer is now a TV reporter. AG Jeff Sessions' former spokeswoman will be CNN's political editor overseeing 2020 coverage. Actual journalists are being laid off everywhere. I.3.1×021k4.8k59
43Nov 20, '20Just an incredible milestone for the United States Senate: more Republicans have tested positive for COVID-19 than have accepted Joe Biden as the president-elect.3.1×021k4.4k149
44Jan 12, '18I see a total of four Republicans in Congress -- Mia Love, Carlos Curbelo, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Erik Paulsen -- have condemned Trump calling Haiti and Africa "shitholes." Zero GOPe3.0×017k6k0
45Dec 22, '19Trump's Mar-A-Lago winter vacation pushes his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million. That amount is equivalent to 296 years of the $400,000 presidential salary that his suppor3.0×013k7.7k247
46Jul 7, '22Here is Megan Rapinoe getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House right now. 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸3.0×026k1.4k44
47Oct 6, '25Democracy Forward is suing the Trump admin for failing to release an audio recording of Tom Homan accepting a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents2.9×175k12k3.3k182
48Jul 9, '19Little exclusive: Sen. Manchin is about to introduce a bill to prevent any federal funding for the 2026 World Cup -- which is being hosted by the U.S. -- until U.S. Soccer agrees t2.8×020k3.3k49
49Sep 10, '21WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today denying responsibility for letting loose the six zebras that have been on the run in the D.C.2.7×015k2.1k363
50Jan 7, '21The House isn't coming back into session until after the inauguration. The Senate has adjourned until Jan. 19. Surreal cap to yesterday.2.7×09.9k2.3k135
51Apr 15, '19The guy hasn't said a thing about the three historically black churches burned down in Louisiana in 9 days.2.6×017k4.6k36
52Feb 22, '19Someone sent me this image of the latest copy of NRA's magazine, featuring a story with the words "Target Practice" next to a photo of Nancy Pelosi with Gabby Giffords. Maybe don't2.6×011k5k86
54Sep 27, '19Kamala Harris calls for formal impeachment inquiry into Brett Kavanaugh2.5×016k3.6k46
55Jul 16, '20Chuck Woolery -- who accused the CDC, doctors and Democrats of lying about the seriousness of COVID-19 to hurt Trump (and got a Trump RT over it) -- has changed his mind and delete2.5×013k3.8k125
56Nov 6, '19Remember the viral photo of the woman on her bicycle who flipped off Trump's motorcade? That's @julibriskman and she just won a Virginia election.2.4×016k3.6k81
57Jun 24, '22Snipers on the roof of the Supreme Court right now. Upper left.2.3×010k2.8k389
58Mar 18, '19Facebook: I will eat your ad revenue + destroy your business model Newsrooms: Wait, no don't Facebook: Nom nom nom Newsrooms: Stop we're laying off people to survive Facebook: Nom 2.3×014k4.6k92
59Feb 21, '18Everytown took out this 2-page ad in the NYT today listing off members of Congress, their phone numbers and how much NRA money they’ve taken2.2×09.9k6.1k3
60Dec 16, '24Three federal judges appointed by Democratic presidents have now canceled their plans to retire since Trump won the election, ruining his plans to replace them.2.2×134k10k1.7k50
61Oct 11, '19Pool report: Trump was asked about losing in court today. "I've had a great track record. ... within a couple of months, we'll have 182 federal judges." Is he saying that the more 2.2×014k3.3k64
62Sep 19, '19NY Times reporters say Brett Kavanaugh asked them to lie in exchange for an interview2.2×011k4.4k165
63May 8, '19As Jim Jordan complains about this contempt hearing, it reminds me, whatever happened with all this? Remember how former Ohio State wrestlers accused him of turning a blind eye to 2.2×011k4.7k36
64Sep 25, '19Pelosi's shop confirms the White House sent them a copy of their talking points on Trump/Ukraine -- and then followed up with a "recall" email 😂2.2×014k2.7k64
65Feb 7, '17Al Franken, after DeVos narrowly gets confirmed. Yeeowtch.2.1×09k6.1k0
66Mar 21, '19We're at the point where teachers in America, who signed up for a job to teach kids things like math and history, are being led into rooms and shot execution style with pellet guts2.1×08.3k4.7k147
67Nov 6, '17That woman who flipped off Trump's motorcade? I talked to her this weekend. She just got fired.2.1×07.4k4.5k0
68Oct 16, '19Wow-- more details on the White House meeting, via a senior Democratic aide: Pelosi directly to Trump: Russia has always wanted a "foothold in the Middle East" and now it has one. 2.0×014k3.2k97
69Nov 9, '16Not exactly a congratulatory statement from Bernie Sanders1.8×09.1k4.6k0
70Mar 2, '22Chuck Todd: Think Biden's State of the Union address will resonate with Ukrainians? NBC correspondent in Lviv, Ukraine: So its 6am here and people may be a little preoccupied becau1.8×015k1.3k74
71Nov 16, '18Christine Blasey Ford has had to move 4 times since she came forward, pay for a private security detail, she has yet to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University, an1.8×010k4k33
72Jun 6, '18JUST IN: Deb Haaland wins the Dem primary in New Mexico's 1st congressional district, meaning... we're on the verge of getting our first-ever Native American woman in Congress.1.8×012k3.1k14
73Mar 25, '19I see that the pieces of chicken that were on my plate have gone missing and my cat is sitting 15 feet away, licking his chops. While this does not conclude that my cat ate my dinn1.8×012k2.7k32
74Dec 7, '17"Grab 'em by the pussy." -- your dad1.7×012k3k0
75Nov 4, '20INBOX: Sarah McBride Becomes First Trans State Senator in US History; Wins State Senate Seat in Delaware1.7×011k2.6k32
76Mar 5, '18Sam Nunberg's lawyers watching CNN right now.1.6×012k2.2k8
77Jan 8, '21Here is the American Federation of Teachers' official response to Betsy DeVos resigning.1.6×011k2.2k65
78Nov 22, '18Imma help you out, Mr. President. Here's some language from NASA's website for children.1.5×010k2.4k41
79Apr 13, '22NEW: In an incredibly unusual move, the Air Force is making a point to let its hundreds of thousands of personnel know that it will provide families with medical + legal help if th1.5×08.9k2.4k161
80Oct 20, '20Rep. Clyburn, chair of the House S/C on coronavirus crisis, just released 6 weeks of WH Coronavirus Task Force reports obtained by the committee showing the WH was aware of an alar1.5×07.7k3.5k69
81Mar 30, '18Jenny Craig tells HuffPost they're dropping Laura Ingraham's show. That puts it at TEN advertisers that have dropped Ingraham since she mocked Parkland student @davidhogg111 two da1.5×011k1.9k3
82Oct 8, '20"He had a bloody eye and a fly on his head." -- Anderson Cooper on Mike Pence tonight 😂1.5×012k1.6k27
83Jun 28, '18It looks like literally the entire country is protesting family separations on Saturday. Check out this map of planned protests.1.4×06.9k3.1k22
84Jun 23, '18Sarah Sanders on SCOTUS' ruling that a cake baker could turn away a couple wanting a cake for their same-sex wedding: "We are pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision."1.4×09.1k2.7k12
85Nov 14, '20Joe Biden likely wouldn't have won key states without Native American voters turning out in droves for him1.4×011k1.4k100
86Sep 21, '21A thing not getting much attention is that Biden just put another public defender into a lifetime seat on a powerful U.S. appeals court. That makes 4. Huge shift from the corporate1.4×010k1.7k102
87Sep 19, '20Crooked Media says its Get Mitch Or Die Trying Fund, which has been raising money to flip the Senate and replace Mitch McConnell as majority leader, has raised $600K in the last 2 1.3×08.7k2.1k43
88Mar 29, '18And... that's now SEVEN advertisers dropped Laura Ingraham in less than 24 hours.1.3×09.8k1.9k1
89Dec 15, '21Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she now supports adding at least 4 seats to the Supreme Court and will co-sponsor the Judiciary Act, a bill that would do just that.1.3×09.4k1.4k42
90Aug 26, '19Tucker Carlson's show is bleeding advertisers after he said the U.S. doesn't have a white supremacy problem and that it's a "hoax" being pushed by the media. Dell just pulled out t1.3×08.4k2k28
91Sep 21, '21"In the same area that Gabby Petito disappeared, 710 indigenous people— mostly girls—disappeared between the years of 2011 and 2020 but their stories didn’t lead news cycles." via 1.3×07.8k2.5k102
92Oct 18, '20👀 "The next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic. Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to third quarter of next year." 1.3×07.2k2.5k190
93Oct 12, '20"We are politicizing the courts and that is wrong," says Ben Sasse, who is helping to ram through a Supreme Court nominee 3 weeks before a presidential election in an effort to mak1.3×08.4k2.1k33
94Sep 2, '21JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi announces the House will take up legislation to codify Roe v. Wade -- enshrining abortion rights into federal law -- as soon as the House returns from recess.1.2×07.4k1.6k54
95Jul 4, '19"I have tried to refrain from politics for 4.5 billion years. But today I am joining the resistance effective immediately." -- Mother Nature1.2×09.7k1.2k14
96Nov 26, '19The thing about this tweet is that we pay the White House press secretary $183,000 a year to tweet photos of herself with a turkey but not hold a single press conference.1.1×07k2k23
97Feb 15, '19Hi @seanspicer. I see you're on my flight to Kansas City. That means we're on the same plane for 3 hours with no escape. Wanna do an interview? Lemme know. --Jen in Row 111.1×09.7k5048
98Feb 3, '21Schumer just announced that the new Secretary of the Senate will be Ann Berry, a former longtime aide to Sen. Leahy and now the first African American to hold the job since... 17891.0×08.6k1k32
99Feb 19, '21Incredible. AOC is essentially filling the role that Ted Cruz abandoned.1.0×07.9k1.1k24
100Sep 30, '20CNN reporter: Did it bother you that Biden called Trump a clown? Undecided voter in Ohio: "When the shoe fits. When the clown shoe fits." 😂1.0×08k1k35
101Jan 26, '17gaslighting (v.) -- to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.0.8×04k1.3k160

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