someone once said i have a track record of ending up in the middle of extraordinary stories. building comella & co. recovering politico.
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“"Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when you get there," Sweeney said”
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Just thinking about tomorrow. This is from twenty years ago, “I Just Called To Say I Love You,”wsj.com/articles/SB115774704… via @WSJ
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Hacks, Heal Thyselves: Graham Platner and the Undoing of the Operative Class. Really interesting piece by @macnyc on the consultant class and the world we now live in: vanityfair.com/story/graham-…
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I’m not sure what possessed me to write about my dad, who’s now been dead a much greater part of my life than alive. This piece forced me to admit that his death was the worst event of my life, but also the catalyst for everything that came after.
nytimes.com/2026/06/20/opini…
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There’s such a thing as true schmaltz, and it’s unendurable. But then there are sincerities so tender and true that C.S. Lewis says we “take our revenge” on them by calling them names like “sentimentalism” and “naïveté.” People do this to It’s A Wonderful Life not because it’s too saccharine but because it’s too profound. It touches deeper, where we hurt more, than we care to admit.
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Great news for people who pretend to have read this book
Matthew Rhys Is In Talks With Netflix Over Adaptation Of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’ deadline.com/2025/12/matthew…
Maria Comella retweeted
‘We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’
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RIP the legendary Tom Stoppard. Among his more famous achievements, he radically rewrote Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (under the pen-name Barry Watson), adding most of the thrilling beats and hilarious gags.
One of my favourites: the cut to Brody, after being hyped up as a master of spycraft, lost and blithering in a Turkish market.
Maria Comella retweeted
“The lessons from the last presidential showed us that being against something isn’t enough, you have to be for something,” said Maria Comella, a former Cuomo adviser. “The harder path is the one that brings people with you, and that is the one that wins” nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyreg…
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May your memory be a blessing, Arco. We spent a lot of time in a half-dozen or so states following the governor around…and you would’ve definitely texted me about this tweet. You were mensch & a true journalist.
And I miss that smile.
Matt Arco was a first class reporter & an even better person. We got to know each other well over the last 15 years & I came to admire him & enjoy the time we spent together. His passing is a tragedy & I will truly miss him. My condolences to his family. nj.com/politics/2025/05/long…
Maria Comella retweeted
Matt Arco was a first class reporter & an even better person. We got to know each other well over the last 15 years & I came to admire him & enjoy the time we spent together. His passing is a tragedy & I will truly miss him. My condolences to his family. nj.com/politics/2025/05/long…
Maria Comella retweeted
Christie on the aftermath - and precursors - to the attempt on Trump's life nytimes.com/2024/07/16/opini…
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Participating in the next GOP debate are, per the RNC:
•Governor Chris Christie
•Governor Ron DeSantis
•Ambassador Nikki Haley
•Vivek Ramaswamy
Maria Comella retweeted
Today, I toured the Kfar Aza Kibbutz in the Gaza envelope with the Speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana.
I came here to see with my own eyes what took place on October 7 and there are few words that can capture the brutality of it — dozens of men, women, and children murdered in their homes by Hamas.
It’s one thing to talk about these atrocities from the comfort of thousands of miles away. It’s another to see them firsthand. To listen to people on the ground, and to see the destruction and despair.
Maria Comella retweeted
It’s a gift to be an American.
You can’t truly say you love America unless you’re ready to open up your heart to every American. I’m going to open up my heart to every American as President, and I’ll return honesty and integrity to the Oval Office. We deserve and should accept nothing less.
Maria Comella retweeted
The Christie camp has stayed lean:
Only about 15 ppl
Top campaign aide Maria Comella has at times assumed the role of driver, taking the wheel of the rental car to shuttle the candidate to events
No physical HQ, all remote
No TV ads or internal polling so far
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Scoop: Christie ends Q3 w/ $3.9 million cash-on-hand, no debt, and all for the primary, his campaign tells Axios.
The low burn-rate gives him runway to make it to the New Hampshire primary where he has staked his candidacy. w/ @erinpdoherty
axios.com/2023/10/15/chris-c…
Maria Comella retweeted
I had a meeting with a member of the Republican Party, former Governor of New Jersey, Christopher Christie. And it is very important that Mr. Christie began his visit to Ukraine with a visit to Bucha to see with his own eyes the threat to freedom and to everyone in the world posed by Russian aggression.
I thanked all Americans, each and every one, for their vital support.
We are confident that we will end this Russian war against freedom with our victory – the victory of the free world, the victory of democracy, the victory of freedom.
