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1	Sep 18, '24	"We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race," @SpeakerPelosi tells @kadiagoba.	160×	1.9M	2.6k	805	774
2	Jul 7, '25	🟡 NEW: The New York Times pushed ahead with its story about Zohran Mamdani’s application to Columbia University to avoid being scooped by Christopher Rufo, @maxwelltani reports.	155×	1.8M	2k	242	227
3	Jan 2, '23	"Holy shit, this kid is like nine years old, who's telling him these things?" Andrew Callaghan spoke to @daveweigel about his new documentary "This Place Rules"	114×	1.3M	4.2k	755	668
4	Feb 18, '24	🟡 SCOOP: Pro-Israel groups, deeply critical of American news outlets such as the Washington Post over their coverage of the war in Gaza, have been working to discredit specific jo	100×	1.2M	928	408	185
5	Aug 5, '24	🟡 SCOOP: In January, The Wall Street Journal made an explosive claim about UNRWA. Months later, the top editor overseeing standards privately made an admission: The paper didn’t k	96.6×	1.1M	3.3k	1.6k	636
6	May 19, '25	🟡 SCOOP: Bill Maher’s uncancellable podcast studio has been cancelled. Club Random Studios, a podcast company built around his show of the same name, has ceased operations after l	91.4×	1.1M	782	50	78
7	Apr 23, '25	Luigi Mangione “has been treated like a hero,” Steve Bannon tells @semaforben. “That should scare you to the marrow of your bones because that’s the alternative if the system keeps	79.7×	933k	1.5k	313	302
8	Oct 6, '23	🟡 NEW: Members of Trump’s team are quietly preparing to go on offense against RFK Jr. as internal campaign polling suggests his expected third party bid could draw more votes from	79×	926k	839	245	50
9	Nov 30, '23	MSNBC is canceling Mehdi Hasan’s weekend program and show on the streaming service Peacock. Two people familiar with the move tell @maxwelltani that Hasan will become an on-camera	57.3×	671k	527	142	50
10	Jul 7, '24	Foreign reporters witnessed widespread devastation in Rafah, two months after the Israeli military launched a ground offensive there. The city was described as a “flattened wastela	56.6×	663k	476	215	81
11	Apr 24, '23	🟡 NEW: Tucker Carlson's executive producer Justin Wells is also out at Fox News, @maxwelltani reports	56.2×	658k	4k	986	31
12	Dec 20, '24	"I’m for a dramatic increase in corporate taxes," Steve Bannon tells @daveweigel. "We have to increase taxes on the wealthy."	49.1×	576k	716	182	161
13	Jul 16, '24	The pick of J.D. Vance as former President Trump’s running mate is raising fears in corporate America that populist, anti-business Trumponomics will truly take hold in a second ter	35.7×	419k	246	83	40
14	Oct 13, '23	🟡 SCOOP: MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim broadcasters out of the anchor’s chair since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday amid America’s wave of sympathy for Israel	⚡ 34×	8.6M	4.3k	1.8k	597
15	Oct 30, '25	🟡 NEW: The man at the heart of a mixup that rippled through global political journalism in the final days of the New York mayoral campaign was neither “falsely claiming” to be for	30.2×	354k	422	51	79
16	Sep 11, '23	Since late July, engagement on posts linking to the New York Times has dropped dramatically. The drop is not reflected in links to similar news organizations including CNN, the Was	28.9×	338k	251	61	12
17	Aug 11, '25	"ESPN, legitimately, let over a billion dollars walk out the door. They missed, I would argue, the future of sports podcasting that was already in-house." @PabloTorre discusses the	27.7×	324k	1.4k	128	434
18	Oct 13, '23	Some staff at MSNBC have been concerned by the moves, feeling the hosts — Mehdi Hasan, Ayman Mohyeldin, and Ali Velshi — have some of the deepest knowledge of the conflict.	25.2×	296k	1.9k	354	49
19	Jul 3, '24	Disney CEO Bob Iger and his wife Willow Bay are close to purchasing control of Angel City FC, the Los Angeles women’s soccer franchise that is the most valuable women’s sports fran	24.9×	292k	244	48	33
20	Jun 10, '24	Fox News edited an interview with Trump to remove a section in which he appeared to back off a promise to declassify federal files related to Jeffrey Epstein.	23.7×	278k	781	276	92
21	May 29, '24	🟡 SCOOP: Republican lawmakers investigating the suspension of Biden’s Iran envoy uncovered evidence he downloaded sensitive and classified documents and may have shared them with	23.2×	272k	516	276	78
22	Mar 28, '25	Elon Musk has "fallen for audience capture," Gawker founder Nick Denton says. "Rubio, Musk, Vance, Trump — they're all competing for the applause from these 500 nuts on X," he tell	20.5×	240k	616	131	173
23	Mar 18, '24	The Cook Political Report will put its entire archive online, offering a remarkable and nonpartisan window into modern American political history.	20.4×	239k	567	129	83
24	Sep 11, '23	🟡 SCOOP: X, Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter, appears to be attempting to limit its users’ access to The New York Times, @maxwelltani reports.	20.3×	238k	452	234	30
25	Sep 15, '25	🟡 NEW: Nika Soon-Shiong, the daughter of LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, will become the publisher of Drop Site News, @maxwelltani reports.	20.1×	235k	399	96	89
26	Jul 17, '24	🟡 SCOOP: Joe Biden met in Las Vegas with Jeffrey Katzenberg who conveyed a warning: The president’s donors’ patience is wearing thin, and their cash soon will, too.	20×	234k	444	179	53
27	Jun 17, '24	Honduras announced plans for a megaprison that could host up to 20,000 inmates, doubling the country’s current prison capacity.	18.9×	221k	203	20	17
28	Dec 16, '22	🟡 SCOOP: Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee, and debt payments loom, @lizrhoffman and @ReedAlbergotti report	18.3×	215k	231	110	17
29	May 16, '23	JUST IN: The Secret Service is investigating how an intruder walked into National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan's home in the middle of the night. Sullivan has around-the-clock se	18.3×	214k	371	164	20
30	Mar 29, '24	Immigration is now the number one issue that comes up unprompted in Gallup’s annual survey of the U.S.'s top policy concerns when survey takers are asked to list the issue that con	17.4×	204k	204	74	13
31	Oct 13, '23	NBC says the shifts are coincidental, and the three continue to appear on air to report and provide analysis.	17.3×	203k	580	105	12
32	Oct 28, '25	How do you navigate lobbying the Trump administration? "You don't need $2 million in TV spend anymore to manipulate a conversation. You need the right few influencers and the right	16.7×	196k	206	64	99
33	Feb 21, '24	🟡 SCOOP: Mehdi Hasan is joining The Guardian following his abrupt departure from MSNBC, @maxwelltani reports.	16.1×	189k	390	80	15
34	May 31, '25	🟡 SCOOP: The White House is likely to pull the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, just days before he was set to receive a confirmation vote in the Se	15.2×	178k	264	67	11
35	May 5, '25	🟡 SCOOP: Executives at Paramount decided to delay and significantly alter a Daily Show-branded civic participation initiative, out of fear that the Trump administration could use	14.2×	167k	273	166	64
36	Apr 23, '25	The US was "an aspiration for most of the world. And we're eroding that brand right now," Citadel CEO Ken Griffin tells @GinaChon. The president, Treasury secretary, and Commerce s	13.7×	161k	711	192	231
37	Aug 7, '24	Tim Walz’s personal ties to China have turned him into an overnight sensation on Chinese social media.	13.7×	160k	267	134	38
38	Jan 31, '23	Republicans have a plan B if the U.S. breaches the debt ceiling. It'd still be a disaster. New from @josephzeballos in Principals:	13.6×	159k	177	73	4
39	Jul 18, '25	"I feel like I shouldn't say. Should I?" @maxwelltani asks director Ari Aster about a rumor that he was asked to do a Marvel movie on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:	13.2×	155k	216	14	51
40	Nov 27, '23	The Biden campaign is eagerly planning to make the Affordable Care Act a bigger issue after Trump said that he’s “seriously looking at alternatives” to Obamacare.	12.5×	146k	276	59	5
41	Aug 11, '23	BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked after witness tampering allegations	11.8×	138k	325	76	4
42	Nov 13, '23	🟡 SCOOP: Michael Flynn and family pocketed leftover money from his legal defense fund, filing claims	11.8×	138k	567	333	17
43	Apr 26, '23	JUST IN: Steve Bannon associate Brian Kolfage sentenced to more than 4 years in ‘We Build the Wall’ scam	11.4×	134k	239	88	6
44	Dec 16, '22	EU warns Musk about Twitter sanctions after journalist suspensions	11.2×	131k	909	275	23
45	Aug 2, '24	"I can't get into his head. And quite frankly, I don't care." Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to Elon Musk on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:	⚡ 11.2×	5M	1.9k	376	305
46	Apr 14, '24	🟡 SCOOP: The Intercept is nearly out of money and facing a bitter civil war, with multiple feuding factions battling for power and two star journalists trying to take control, @ma	⚡ 10.8×	2.2M	1.1k	242	540
47	Apr 6, '23	🟡 SCOOP: In a private email thread, major advertising executives expressed concern that Elon Musk's comments about race and the platform's openness to racist speech have made Twit	9.5×	112k	272	136	20
48	Mar 7, '24	BREAKING: President Biden is directing the U.S. military to undertake an emergency mission to open a port on the coast of Gaza to ramp up aid deliveries to starving Palestinians am	9.1×	107k	446	137	15
49	Apr 23, '25	Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul are "out there saying tariffs are bad and are attacks on our people," @GovAndyBeshear tells @SRuhle. "So if Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, and I all agre	9.0×	106k	1.9k	326	43
50	Apr 18, '23	🟡 NEW: Chris Stirewalt, one of two senior political editors forced out at Fox News after the network was first to project Biden's 2020 win over Trump in Arizona, talks to @maxwell	8.8×	103k	202	53	11
51	Dec 11, '23	🟡 SCOOP: NBC News has demanded that Trump’s campaign remove a video that includes audio deceptively edited to seem like it comes from an NBC correspondent after the third presiden	8.7×	102k	345	186	24
52	Aug 8, '25	"Now that I've made this licensing deal with the Times Athletic, I can reveal what I've been doing the entire time, which is actually selling a version of old media to people on th	8.6×	100k	550	62	150
53	Jun 17, '24	Australian authorities likely shelled out more than $100 million of taxpayer money for "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga."	⚡ 8.4×	2.7M	927	38	111
54	Aug 23, '24	JUST IN: Fed Chair Jerome Powell says ‘the time has come’ to cut rates	7.9×	92k	294	78	3
55	Sep 12, '24	She was on the plane with him the day of the debate and on the ground with him the morning after. Some Republicans are worried she had something to do with what happened in between	7.8×	92k	398	93	16
56	Nov 16, '23	🟡 SCOOP: The Los Angeles Times is prohibiting staff from covering the Gaza war for at least three months if they signed a strongly-worded open letter criticizing Israel’s military	7.5×	88k	201	98	22
57	Jul 20, '23	🟡 SCOOP: A Vice documentary on Ron DeSantis’ time as a military lawyer at Guantanamo Bay was quietly shelved by Showtime for fear of political backlash, @maxwelltani reports.	7.2×	85k	307	194	25
58	Jun 7, '23	Licht’s departure is on its surface a management debacle, @semaforben writes. But it’s also a strategic debacle in which cheap talk about shifting CNN from anti-Trump confrontation	6.9×	81k	222	55	12
59	Aug 23, '23	🟡 SCOOP: Fox News viewers tuning in to tonight’s Republican debate will hear from an unexpected voice: Joe Biden. Biden's campaign has purchased airtime on Fox News and plans to r	6.6×	77k	426	118	11
60	Apr 25, '25	"Harvard does not have a birthright to future federal grants," @calleymeans tells @ShelbyTalcott. "It is an open question whether it makes sense that our leading universities are 4	6.5×	76k	492	102	85
61	Jun 5, '24	Media is a conspiracy — just not the one everyone thinks it is, @semaforben explains. Listen to Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:	⚡ 6.3×	3.8M	910	183	372
62	Feb 27, '25	“A difficult time to invest.” “Everybody’s paralyzed.” “I’m sorry I can’t be particularly positive.” “The chaos that is reigning right now is causing everyone to sit on their hands	6.3×	73k	330	75	79
63	May 15, '23	🟡 NEW: Linda Yaccarino had a simple pitch for NBC’s advertising business: Platforms like YouTube and Twitter are unsafe for brands. As CEO of Twitter, she’ll have to make the exac	6.0×	70k	200	61	12
64	Apr 5, '23	🟡 NEW: Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform’s own stated policies, @lmat	6.0×	70k	245	196	13
65	Nov 21, '22	"The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It's not a close call." Read @daveweigel and @ShelbyTalcott's interview with Mike Pompeo on his potential 2024 run and	5.5×	0	357	100	46
66	Sep 26, '23	🟡 SCOOP: In 2014, senior Iranian Foreign Ministry officials initiated a quiet effort to bolster Tehran’s image and positions on global security issues by building ties with influe	5.4×	64k	243	155	25
67	Jan 6, '23	Here's why C-SPAN's coverage of the House speaker drama looks so different than the footage we usually see from Congress	5.1×	60k	379	84	33
68	Aug 18, '25	Calls for US to recognize Somaliland grow louder	5.1×	59k	259	90	17
69	Apr 23, '25	.@GinaChon: Is there any space where you see room for optimism or opportunities? Ken Griffin: "If you use the Euro as a reference currency, [the US has] become 20% poorer in four w	5.0×	59k	219	50	84
70	Nov 18, '22	No reason in particular, but you can also follow us on: YouTube TikTok Instagram Flipboard Facebook And sign up for our newsletters:	4.8×	0	950	98	55
71	May 31, '23	NEW: As the debt ceiling deal clears its first major hurdle, its conservative opponents begin to admit defeat	4.6×	54k	206	51	6
72	Apr 23, '25	🟡 SCOOP: Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know which upcoming 60 Minutes stories were about President Donald Trump, @maxwelltani reports — triggering a seri	4.6×	54k	332	228	51
73	Aug 23, '24	What happens to @PodSaveAmerica if Kamala Harris wins and Donald Trump goes away? @TVietor08 talked to @semaforben and @nayeema on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:	⚡ 4.4×	7M	685	69	231
74	Jun 12, '24	🇬🇧 @semaforben breaks down the British invasion of American newsrooms. Listen to Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:	⚡ 4.2×	1.9M	676	138	226
75	Nov 15, '23	JUST IN: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “must go now,” and called for the formation of a new government headed by someone else in	4.0×	46k	207	51	3
76	Apr 23, '25	Pete Hegseth is "deeply out of his depth" as US Secretary of Defense, @jahimes tells @mchalfant16. "It's probably the hardest job in Washington," he adds. "A genius would struggle	3.9×	46k	487	75	45
77	Jun 5, '23	In a survey commissioned by CNN, respondents of all ideological stripes criticized the network’s "overly dramatic and sensational" and "dire" reporting on the pandemic.	3.6×	43k	338	85	4
78	Sep 19, '25	Ramaswamy nabs Teamsters endorsement	⚡ 3.6×	1.1M	213	31	98
79	Jun 2, '25	"I think it's an effect of the internet," @AdamFriedland says of the backlash from Taylor Swift's fans over his Matty Healy interview. "It's politics for these people. Liking a son	3.5×	42k	221	4	78
80	Feb 6, '25	🟡 NEW: Josh Hawley met with United Automobile Workers president Shawn Fain on Wednesday to discuss working together on pro-labor priorities, his latest bid to build the party’s un	3.4×	40k	455	41	10
81	Nov 14, '22	🟡🟡🟡 SCOOP: The Senate will vote to codify same-sex marriage rights this week, @kadiagoba reports	3.2×	0	668	152	11
82	Apr 23, '25	"Rural health care will cease to exist" if Congress makes major Medicaid cuts, @GovAndyBeshear tells @SRuhle. "I'm seeing it on the ground right now, this will cause the American p	3.2×	37k	312	94	28
83	May 22, '24	🟡 SCOOP: A top Washington Post editor instructed editors not to promote a story about a controversy involving the paper’s new CEO Will Lewis, @maxwelltani reports.	3.1×	36k	203	107	18
84	Aug 16, '24	📱 Forget about doomscrolling. It's the summer of the "boomscroll," @nayeema says. Listen to Mixed Signals from Semafor Media:	⚡ 3.0×	5M	652	35	133
85	Jun 22, '22	Hello world! 🧵 We’re a new global news brand and platform, launching this fall with the goal of addressing the crisis of trust in news. Sign up today to be part of our launch.	2.9×	0	457	58	79
86	Nov 9, '22	BREAKING: Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has won reelection as governor of Michigan, surviving a challenge from Republican Tudor Dixon	2.8×	0	717	80	1
87	Sep 28, '23	The Pentagon has launched an investigation into a top-secret security clearance approved for a U.S. defense official who took part in an Iranian government-backed initiative which	2.5×	30k	259	132	14
88	May 22, '23	Democrats have regrets	⚡ 2.0×	599k	232	36	17
89	Oct 30, '25	“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell on Long Island. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never	2.0×	23k	277	26	15
90	Mar 20, '24	“We are not perhaps the most cheerful people in the globe,” @MarinSanna told Semafor. “But of course, we have a good nation and we have a good society.”	1.9×	23k	212	23	7
91	Jul 27, '23	NEW: Chip Roy is reviving a Ron DeSantis bill to make schools pay for bad student loans, @kadiagoba reports.	1.9×	22k	224	64	2
92	Oct 18, '22	🟡🟡🟡 NEWS: A veteran SpaceX technician was left in a coma for months after a routine pressure valve test went wrong, @ReedAlbergotti reports. SpaceX has made no announcement to t	1.6×	0	254	116	12
93	Oct 18, '22	🚩 Alright, now you can see what we've been up to. Welcome to Semafor!	1.5×	0	258	56	17
94	Sep 2, '22	🟡🟡🟡 Exclusive: Biden plans to sign an executive order dramatically limiting U.S. investments in China, @ReedAlbergotti reports. Another order Biden is considering would directly	1.5×	0	253	72	13
95	Sep 11, '23	Earlier this week, Barack Obama shared multiple Times articles, which reached fewer than 900,000 and 800,000 users respectively. The number was far lower than any other post shared	1.4×	17k	177	28	1
96	Oct 21, '22	🟡🟡🟡 SCOOP: Magic Johnson is in talks to buy a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders at a price that could set a new record for sports deals, @lizrhoffman and @ReedAlbergotti report	1.4×	0	256	75	2
97	Jan 17, '25	An influential House US-China subcommittee is calling for the State Department to open a representative office in Somaliland to counter rising Chinese influence in the region.	1.4×	16k	241	87	12
98	Apr 17, '25	Most scientists attribute the rising number of people with autism to wider diagnostic criteria.	⚡ 1.3×	820k	293	14	40
99	Nov 9, '22	Democrat Seth Magaziner is the winner against Republican Alan Fung in Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District, local station WPRI projects. It’s one of the first highly compet	1.2×	0	212	63	6
100	Mar 20, '25	"Stress is the main cause of unhappiness," @Gurudev tells @Justin_B_Smith. "You can't say 'I'm happy when I'm so stressed.' They can't coexist."	0.6×	7.6k	394	153	19
101	Oct 16	New York Times veteran and "AGI Chronicles" author @kevinroose joins Mixed Signals to talk about what it was like to be patient zero for the AI media moment (a Valentine's Day even	0.6×	6.5k	2	2	1

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