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🏳️‍⚧️ Josie Platinum 🪗
@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-nominee authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Judeo-Tranarchist. She/her. neokayfabe.com/ מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק
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Oh my god Ryan Lizza comes from GAMBINO MONEY???!!?!?

The Teflon Reporter And the Teflon Don As the pair headed inside, it was Lizza who harbored his own secret history: his family's. The world he had grown up in, the one no-one in DC seemed to know, was imploding. A local empire made on the roads of Long Island was now embroiled in the courts of New York. Three months earlier, his elder brother Frank Jr. had been charged by federal prosecutors with defrauding a union benefit fund and making false statements, becoming the third Lizza to be investigated by authorities. He would soon become the family's second convicted felon in the space of three years. The Lizza wealth had been built on decades of government contracts agross a web of road, asphalt, and construction businesses. Lizza's grandfather Carlo, the son of an Italian laborer, started the family's first eponymous company in America. It paved much of the Long Island Expressway. Carlo's sons all went on to found construction firms of their own. Some of these firms, and some of the sons, would later be indicted on conspiracy to rig bids on federal contracts, conspiracy to bribe local officials, and in one instance, to be accused of mob ties to John Gotti, the "Teflon Don" and head of the Gambino crime family in late 1980s New York.|
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Ddangbeetle.bsky.social

HAHAHA wow things are a little on the nose lately

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Cberkeleyeve.bsky.social

it's a Soprano's spinoff, "The Next Generation" 😩😩😩

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FAthecynicist.bsky.social

*Tony Soprano heavy breathing*

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ODcaliforniascroll.bsky.social

Le me, asking how American political journalism be like this since who knows when and then one random Saturday scrolling through Josie’s feed …

a gif of a man with his hand on his chin and the words gifsforum.com below him
a gif of a man with his hand on his chin and the words gifsforum.com below him

Alt: Wire guy having an epiphany

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SKsapphixy.bsky.social

ahahaha HAHAHA hahaha

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RBeastsidegadfly.bsky.social

Wild!

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Rrobertus.bsky.social

Take it away, Squirrely Dan

a man in overalls and a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a wooden fence with the word allegedly written on it
a man in overalls and a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a wooden fence with the word allegedly written on it

Alt: Squirrely Dan, from Letterkenny, says "Allegedly"

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Cpilgrimdear.bsky.social

Josie we need you to write the book

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JPjosie.zone

This industry is such a cesspit

He enjoyed it for a decade: signing another deal in "the mid six figures" to write a revised book on 2008 that also went unwritten, appearing on Charlie Rose in 2011, and, in 2017, reporting for The New Yorker a profanity-laced phone call that immortalized Anthony Scaramucci - and got him fired as Trump's communications director 10 days after he took the job. Scaramucci thought the call was off the record. Lizza ran the story. His star was at its peak. (Scaramucci, who later described Lizza as "f---ing dead to me," declined to comment on Lizza's current situation.) Five months later, however, The New Yorker fired him. At the height of the Me Too movement, a woman with whom he had a previous relationship accused him of sexual misconduct, which he denied. Thrown from a great height, he was offered a lifeline by Jay Fielden, then editor of Esquire. He had to meet with Hearst executives to assuage them first. He brought his new girlfriend-Olivia Nuzzi, at 25, 19 years his junior-to one meeting. She offered the air cover of a supportive politician's wife.
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ITnorahwoodsey.bsky.social

Hahaha what a twist!

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josie Platinum 🪗
@josie.zone
NYT-bestselling, Hugo-nominee authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER. Upcoming: HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Judeo-Tranarchist. She/her. neokayfabe.com/ מִדְּבַר־שֶׁ֖קֶר תִּרְחָ֑ק
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