YASHAR ALI: “I realized that @DafnaLinzer, the head of all political coverage for NBC News and MSNBC wasn’t calling to advocate for her network, she was calling to advocate the DNC’s position. She wanted me to wait so they could call state party leaders.”

This is a Twitter thread about how Ali scored a small scoop on the dates of the first Democratic debates (my liver is already groaning at the forthcoming drunkblogs), and how deeply in bed the DNC is with MSNBC.

Or as Karol Markowicz tweeted, “I’ve had a few of these ‘this is how people think it works’ moments in the last week and those people turned out to be right. This is a must-read thread of egregious behavior by an MSNBC staffer helping out the DNC.”

You’ll want to read the whole thing.