Joshua Green
@joshuagreen.bsky.social
Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent, #1 NYT bestselling author of THE REBELS and DEVIL'S BARGAIN: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586025/the-rebels-by-joshua-green/
It's hard for 30-second campaign ads to breakthrough these days. But what about an ad that's more like a true-crime drama miniseries? Pennsylvania voters are about to get one. Today's Businessweek Daily from @joshuagreen.bsky.social:
This Drama Miniseries Is Also a Campaign Ad
One political strategist aims to entertain voters while raising questions about the opponent
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Thomas Massie says he represents half of MAGA. Trump wants him out. Now voters in Kentucky will decide. Characteristically awesome, must-read profile by @joshuagreen.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
‘I Have Half of MAGA’: The Republican Challenging Trump From Within
GOP Representative Thomas Massie’s spats with the president have him fighting for his political life.
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@drewmagary.bsky.social such a great piece, and wow does this hit home for a fellow disillusioned NESCAC alum navigating the same thing: "trying to live vicariously through his own college experience … to make sure that he corrects the mistakes I made." Gotta be a book in there, no?
From @joshuagreen.bsky.social: Monday’s press conference was meant to convey Trump’s single-minded resolve. Instead, it highlighted his ambivalence. “We won, OK? They were militarily defeated,” he declared. Moments later he described a plan that suggested the war may just be getting started. (🎁)
Trump’s Iran Deadline Nears, But His Aims Remain Unclear
The president’s frustration is evident, but his claims of success are contradictory.
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Today's Businessweek Daily features @joshuagreen.bsky.social on Trump trying an Iranian TACO (gift link)
Trump Hears the Markets’ Fears About Iran War
The president says fighting will be over soon, in a repeat of his reaction to tariff panic.
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That cheap gas Trump boasted about in last week's SOTU? Long gone -- average U.S. gas prices are spiking:
Not saying this is why DOJ failed to indict the six Dem lawmakers it targeted...but one of Pirro's prosecutors is a dance photographer specializing in "Dance Puppetry" and circus performers.🤔 Via Bloomberg: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Pirro Taps Photographer-Lawyer in Lawmaker Video Case (Correct)
Washington’s US Attorney Jeanine Pirro tapped a dance photographer who worked for her decades ago as one of the prosecutors who tried—and failed—to convince a grand jury to indict six Democratic lawma...
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*SUPREME COURT ALLOWS NEW CALIFORNIA VOTING MAP FOR MIDTERMS
NEW: Blackrock's Rick Reider emerging as top contender for Fed Chair, thanks to his Wall Street bona fides, Davos feedback and Trump's sense that he isn't an institutionalist. W/@nancook & @SalehaMohsin (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rieder’s Market Support, Fed Plans Seen as Boon for Chair Job
Rick Rieder’s Wall Street bona fides and openness to making changes at the Federal Reserve have bolstered his candidacy for the central bank’s top job, according to people familiar with the White Hous...
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NEW: Greenland's PM Tells People to Prepare for Possible Military Invasion (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Greenland Leader Tells People to Prepare for Possible Invasion
Greenland’s prime minister said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as President Donal...
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New: How the shocking Jerome Powell subpoena came to be -->
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 7mo agoFederal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte was a driving force behind the Trump administration’s decision to subpoena the Federal Reserve, sources say, intensifying pressure on the central bank as President Trump prepares to pick a new Fed chief
Messing around with Bloomberg's vessel mapping function and....not a lot of ships cruising the placid waters of Venezuela! I count two oil tankers and a chemical ship. Every other trackable vessel appears crammed into the port of Caracas (the light blue clump)
Down goes another Trump nominee
Joshua Green@joshuagreen.bsky.social · 9mo ago👀 Trump lame duck watch
Excited to see what bonkers thing Trump will do to push tonight's blue wave out of the headlines
Tonight's results suggest "Orange Man Bad" is a message every Dem can win with next year.
In this political environment the winning Democratic campaign message is Donald Trump. It's not about whether or not a candidate moderates or is a progressive. If someone is willing to do the hard work of running for office get out of the kitchen with your nonsense and let them cook
Great story on the Midcoast Villager, @aseitzwald.bsky.social-and-team's super cool effort to revive local journalism in Maine: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/s...
Running a Local Paper? In This Economy?
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Current news cycle is really driving home the evolution of the Bannon-brokered gamer-MAGA political marriage I wrote about in DEVIL'S BARGAIN: www.amazon.com/Devils-Barga...
I did not realize Cracker Barrel (despite restoring old-guy logo) went ahead and modernized its restaurants. Also didn't realize the old decor was...raccoon traps: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Cracker Barrel's business really did take a measurable hit after the right-wing logo drama, per new Bloomberg data:
Good piece on how Trump’s DC surge is where crime isn’t, and isn’t where crime is👇👇
Joshua Green@joshuagreen.bsky.social · 12mo agofwiw, Jim, I did the opposite piece -- spent a day walking across Anacostia and Hillsdale, where added law enforcement would generally be welcomed...but was nowhere to be seen (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
For today's Businessweek Daily, @joshuagreen.bsky.social walked the length of Marion Barry Avenue SE to see what DC residents thought of the National Guard crime fighters
Trump’s Made-for-TV Police Takeover Doesn’t Help DC Crime
“Come and help us,” say residents of neighborhoods struggling with violence.
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Guess the abundance folks didn’t see fit to give a press pass to a left-wing rag like…Businessweek 😢
