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@ProPublica . Author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC.

Baltimore via Pittsfield, Mass
Joined December 2011
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Alec MacGillis
3 years
Here we are: publication day for FULFILLMENT: Winning & Losing in One-Click America. I've been working on the book for 3 yrs, but it stretches much further back. It grew out of years of reporting across the country and being overwhelmed by the regional disparities on display.🧵
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1) This picture is from four years ago. 2) I took the photo. Where's my credit??
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Donald J. Trump
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WOW — THANK YOU! #MAGA
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Whoa. Baltimore Sun responds: "We would tell the most dishonest man to occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Putin & the guy who insisted there are 'good people'..."
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Remember the local TV correspondent fatally shot on air? Her boyfriend decided to run for office in honor of her memory, and won an upset.
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Dave Wasserman
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BREAKING: Chris Hurst (D) has unseated Del. Joseph Yost (R) in Blacksburg's #HD12 . Dem pickup. Brings Dems to +12, need 5 more for control.
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These are all over south-central PA.
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"...among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one."
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How one small town at the center of the outbreak has cut infections virtually to zero: test all 3,300 in town, isolate the 3 percent who tested positive. Infection rate 10 days later down to .3 percent.
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6 years
The biggest story you’ve read almost nothing about this week in the national media:
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For those just waking up, here's what happened in Baltimore: the city's dead-of-night removal of all four of its Confederate monuments.
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Yowza.
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"A country that turned out eight combat aircraft every hour at the peak of World War II could not even produce enough 75-cent masks or simple cotton nasal swabs for testing in this pandemic."
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"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell." Provocative essay by major historian of Third Reich:
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This tax bill has had very low public support, but that'll surely change once people find out that while their local taxes to support their kids' public schools are no longer fully deductible, wealthy families can now get huge tax breaks for private school tuition.
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Remember in 2009 when the Dems kept the stimulus package below what was really needed to jumpstart the economy, because Susan Collins insisted on limiting the deficit, even amidst a true crisis, and how the Dems then paid dearly for the slow recovery in 2010? Good times.
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Stunning new stat out of Ohio: We already knew that Republicans got 12 of OH's 16 US House seats despite winning only 52% of total congressional vote. But get this: Republicans also managed to hold supermajorities in the Ohio legislature despite LOSING the total state leg vote.
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Revealing scene. Black woman trying to restrain young white men from mayhem outside Baltimore City Hall. She says they're placing African Americans at greater risk. White guy's response: "They're going to kill you anyway!"
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Never forget: when Obama leaned toward disclosing Russian meddling pre-election, it was McConnell who told him doing so would be partisan.
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Reminder: when the CIA told Obama just how extreme the Russian intervention was, two months before the election, it was Mitch McConnell who threatened to decry the sharing of that information with the public as a divisive partisan act. More here:
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"In 2017, Kentucky received $40 billion more from the federal government than it paid in taxes. That’s about one-fifth of the state’s G.D.P.; if Kentucky were a country, we’d say that it was receiving foreign aid on an almost inconceivable scale."
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Actual language from the State of Massachusetts' lawsuit against Purdue Pharma: “Eight people in a single family made the choices that caused much of the opioid epidemic." Stunning.
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One still shudders to think how bad the Bowling Green massacre would've been if not for the heroic intervention of Fred Douglass.
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4 years
Powerful new ad campaign from the Baltimore City Health Department.
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7 years
Can't overstate how many of the swing-state voters I spoke with who had the wildest anti-Hillary notions relied on Facebook for their news.
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Kyle Griffin
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WaPo: Facebook told investigators that it sold ads during the election to a Russian biz seeking to target voters.
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All, I am very sorry to report the death of my father, newspaper journalist Donald MacGillis, after a hiking accident on Mt Katahdin in Maine. He was the consummate local/metro newsman in his career as an editor at the Berkshire Eagle & Boston Globe, and he was my ultimate model.
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Quite a headline in the Wall Street paper.
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Your occasional reminder, as we are debating the intricacies of Donald Trump's pulmonary condition, that half the children in America did not actually attend school today.
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FACT: Toyota's Georgetown, KY plant is its largest in the world. It employs 8,000--more than the total # of coal miners left in that state.
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Mark Knoller
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Pres Trump asks Japanese auto makers if they could build their cars in the US and not just ship them over.
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Here it is: March 2016. Nice try, @realDonaldTrump .
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To those who suggested otherwise: no, this is not photo-shopped. I took it today at a home in West Carrrolton, Ohio.
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4 years
Wow. Now that's a letter to the editor.
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Wow: all 750,000 Germans turning 18 this year get 200 euro to spend on any cultural good: concerts, theater, movies, musical instruments, books, records etc. It'll cost 100 million euro and is given in recognition of what young people lost during pandemic.
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I finally read @JaneMayerNYer ’s big Mitch McConnell piece. I waited for the print issue and read it by the firepit, fortified by bourbon and Prine. Since I have familiarity w/ the subject, here are some thoughts on what the piece reveals & brings to fore.
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“I spent years as a foreign correspondent in Latin America. To say we are being governed like a banana republic is an insult to banana republics. It’s that bad, and no one should pretend otherwise.”
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This is why Mitch McConnell has long prioritized the courts over all issues except campaign finance. If you care most about winning the game, you need to control the body that shapes the rules of the game.
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Steve Vladeck
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#BREAKING : 5-4 #SCOTUS , in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, holds that partisan gerrymandering claims are categorically non-justiciable, and cannot be resolved by federal courts. Huge, huge decision:
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@realDonaldTrump Oh, and get this, folks: you know which "human beings" do live in Cummings' district? Several thousand people in the apartment complexes owned by one Jared Kushner, who fails to maintain the units and takes tenants to court to squeeze more $$ out of them.
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BREAKING: Federal judge in Maryland rules with @ProPublica and other news orgs against Kushner Cos.' request to keep secret the identities of its partners in Baltimore rental complexes that are the subject of tenants' class-action lawsuit. Watch this space for more details soon.
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"...the government shutdown halted work on the fix for five weeks." Let that sink in.
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Rebecca Ballhaus
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A software fix to the Boeing 737 MAX was delayed for months as discussions between regulators and Boeing dragged on—and U.S. officials said the government shutdown halted work on the fix for five weeks.
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Where we are at with remote learning: well-off families planning pods, low-income families having child-neglect cases opened against them for kids' failure to log on for virtual classes.
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@realDonaldTrump 1) This picture is from four years ago. 2) I took the photo. Where's my credit??
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Incredible graph. The post-2021 spike in car thefts is almost entirely due to Kia and Hyundai.
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In August, I reported that Ben Carson’s son and daughter in law were playing a prominent role in Carson’s official HUD business. Now the WaPo reports that their involvement set off major alarms at HUD about potential self-dealing:
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Really can’t overstate what a symbolic rebuke it is to all those who hailed Paul Ryan’s self-professed deficit hawkery for him to go out the day after CBO lays bare a rising tide of red ink as far as the eye can see.
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This is correct. Here is the initial 12/16 WaPo report on McConnell threatening Obama against disclosing Russian intervention before the election:
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Never forget that Mitch McConnell knew. And blocked disclosure.
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2 years
President: 79 Possible 2024 GOP nominee: 75 Speaker of House: 81 House Majority Leader: 82 House Whip: 81 Supreme Court Justice: 83 Most influential Covid authority: 80
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Whoa: new report finds that Indiana officials "quietly absolved Amazon of responsibility" for a warehouse worker's death in order to aid state's bid for HQ2. "They deleted every fine levied and accepted the company’s argument—that the worker was to blame."
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Brutal.
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Quick recap: the new ed secretary is anti-public schools, the new HUD sec'y is anti-Fair Housing, and the new AG is anti-Voting Rights Act.
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Hard to overstate the political transformation of Virginia. This is a state that went Republican even in Clinton's easy 1996 win, when Dems won KY, TN & LA. But not VA, land of the NRA and all those Ed Gillespies in the Fairfax suburbs. Now, full Dem control. Just extraordinary.
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In other words, FBI went public w/ fruitless concerns about loose handling of emails while holding back actual conspiring w/ a rival power.
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"The CDC found 45 pct of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost 1 in 5 seriously considered suicide and 9 pct surveyed tried to take their lives during previous 12 months."
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By AARP's estimate, a 64-yr-old making $15K would pay $8,400 more for coverage under Ryan bill. Not a typo. Well over half of annual income.
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Yikes: "According to a friend, DeSantis would tell dates he liked Thai food, but pronounced it 'thigh.' If they corrected him, Finch wrote, he would find an excuse to leave. 'He didn’t want a girlfriend who corrected him.'" @JoshuaChaffin :
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It's a sign of how crazy the news cycle is right now that the United States three days ago barred immigration from the largest economy in Africa--a quarter of the continent's population is now barred from the US--and almost nobody is talking about it.
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Oklahoma now has 91 school districts that can only afford to open schools four days per week; drunk drivers in the state can keep their licenses bc there are no bureaucrats to take them away. Remind me about the SW/Sun Belt growth model everyone’s touting?
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Wow. Boeing is arguing that it is not liable for victim suffering claims in Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash because "victims died painlessly because the airplane crashed into the ground so fast that their brains didn’t have time to process pain signals."
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And there they go. Lee and Jackson sailing through air onto flatbed truck in Baltimore at 3:40 AM. An amazing sight.
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@IvankaTrump @benpershing Like this? Are we doing it right?
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Howard U engineering student, 19, is excited about class project, applying for patent for a virtual reality program to help students w/ ADD. School closes bc of Covid. He comes home to Baltimore, gets job at Amazon Is shot dead in a car w/ another man. His name is Aaron Sutton.
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The July 1 entry in Kavanaugh's journal described an evening drinking with the two people Blasey Ford says were at the party. The GOP's hired lawyer skirted up to it--and then backed off. And that's the ballgame. Sharp @pbump analysis:
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In one of the states that has refused to accept the ACA's Medicaid expansion:
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Chris Conte
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Another rural hospital in Tennessee will close tomorrow. The mayor of McKenzie, TN told me “people will die” because of this. The community here is in shock.
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Fascinating @Politico finding that totally affirms what I saw on the ground in 2016: Trump heavily outperformed both Hillary and Romney in places where the presence of local newspapers was weakest.
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One man's response to all the "what should we wear now that we start leaving the house again" stories. (WSJ)
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WaPo, December 9, 2016: "According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the [Obama] White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics."
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Christal Hayes
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McConnell says "it is deeply disturbing" that the Obama administration wasn't prepared for Russian threats in election meddling.
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@MuseZack The Gettysburg Undress
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Your occasional reminder that the Senate Majority Leader of the United States had threatened President Obama against publicizing Russian intervention before the 2016 election, as this December 2016 WaPo article revealed:
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Pence is giving the country a very good preview of how the Republican Party is going to move beyond Trump. Just pretend he never happened.
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Wilbur Ross is worth $2.9 billon and has an art collection worth $250 million. He wears a custom Van Cleef and Arpels timepiece decorated with apples inspired by one of his Magrittes paintings.
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Niels Lesniewski
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"I don't quite understand why" federal workers are needing to go to food banks, says Secretary Wilbur Ross on CNBC.
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Just to be clear: a man who'll be president as result of <100K vote leads in 3 states says a >2 million nationwide margin can't be trusted.
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BREAKING: Kushner Cos. has opted to move the tenants' lawsuit filed against it back to state court, even tho that means facing a Baltimore city jury, after a judge ruled that keeping the case in federal court would require disclosing the Kushner investment partners. More TK soon.
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My @propublica colleagues did something extraordinary: they obtained hundreds of participant videos from the Capitol assault and organized them by time & location so that you can scroll through, fully immersed in the event with never-before seen vantages.
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"Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America."
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Wow: there are now 27,465 Dollar Generals and Dollar Trees in the US--more than CVS, Rite Aid & Walgreens combined.
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Hard to overstate how much Germany has surpassed just about everyone. It has a quarter of the deaths of other major European countries despite having the largest population by far; its schools are now reopening; and 80 percent of its factories stayed open.
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In more ways than one, the country is learning how to make do without a president.
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Matthew Miller
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It is strange that a national tragedy passed today without the president addressing the nation, and even stranger that no one seems to miss or even expect his presence.
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Glorious recent correction in WSJ: "The full names of two Belarusian officials charged with aircraft piracy are not known. An article incorrectly identified them as Andrey Anatolievich Lnu and Fnu Lnu. FNU and LNU are acronyms for 'first name unknown' and 'last name unknown.'"
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Sitting here watching the first German TV debate to replace Merkel as chancellor devote *25 minutes* to climate change, far more even than Afghanistan & pandemic. Fine points of emissions targets, power grid, steel making, electric vehicles, downtown car bans...a different world.
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No way Dems can win back a lot of House seats next year if they can't even win a seat that GOP won by 23 points seven months ago. #punditry
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But the last word goes to Mayer, who comes to the same conclusion I did after spending a year reporting and writing "The Cynic." It's a bleak one.
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Yeah, the Garland hearing was such a breeze that it's almost like it never happened.
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Matt Schlapp
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This Kavanaugh confirmation has transformed into a disgrace. How is it when Dems win their SC noms get an easy time, but ours get mauled.
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This graph, my god. (WSJ)
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I don't know if this is how 1968 felt. I wasn't there. But here is how it seems similar: there's too much happening at once. It always boggled the mind: how could you have war and assassinations and riots and election at same time? Well, just swap in pandemic and econ collapse.
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An incredible graphic. Our country is almost literally off the chart.
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The power of print, even in the absence of print. No digital equivalent.
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BREAKING: Jared Kushner's property mgt company has agreed to pay a $3.25 million fine and uncapped restitution on claims of mistreatment filed by any of the 30,000 tenants who lived at the Baltimore-area complexes owned by the company. Where it all began:
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Montana covers more square miles than Germany. There are 83 million people in Germany. There are 1 million people in Montana. 1.7 million people applied for asylum in Germany between 2015 and 2019. That's more than the entire population of Montana.
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Matt Rosendale
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Today I learned that 75 refugees from Afghanistan will be arriving in Montana. I strongly oppose the resettlement of these Afghan nationals in Montana.
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CNN chief and other TV bigs agreed to meet with Trump off the record. NYT did not. Upshot: Subscribe to a paper. Read more.
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Stunning. An estimated ONE in THREE black men are barred from voting in Kentucky, the highest rate in the country. Wild guess which veteran Kentucky politician has been a staunch defender of the state’s disenfranchisement law.
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"A country that sent George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower to crush the Nazis now fights a war against a viral killer with Jared Kushner, a feckless failed real estate speculator who holds power by virtue of his marriage to the president’s daughter."
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"A country that showed the world how to defeat polio now promotes quack remedies involving household disinfectants from the presidential podium."
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Really worth reading @TuckerCarlson 's full exchange w/ Paul Ryan on the huge tax cut for very wealthy in ACA repeal.
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Relatedly, Mayer informs us that McConnell’s first wife, who is very liberal, is working on a tell-all memoir about him.
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We have reached the point where whether you live in a red, blue or swing state determines if the federal government will target you for tax hikes or allow oil rigs on your coastline.
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Secretary Ryan Zinke
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Read my full statement on taking #Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas. Local voice matters.
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Drug ODs are now the leading cause of death for Americans under age 50. Meanwhile, the White House’s drug policy office is now being led by the fellow at right in this photo, a 24-year-old Trump campaign worker who falsely claims to have a masters degree.
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Your occasional reminder that Green Party got nearly 2X more votes in deciding states of MI, WI and PA than Trump's cumulative margin there.
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AP Politics
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BREAKING: EPA Administrator Pruitt says administration will withdraw from Obama-era clean power plan to slow global warming.
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How a Trump admin Interior Dept official explained why the dept had abruptly canceled a study into coal mining’s effects on the health of nearby residents: "Science was a Democrat thing."
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What life is like in the fastest-growing large city in the United States:
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Alec MacGillis
5 years
Seriously, whichever computer program was used by Republicans to gerrymander Ohio back in 2011 deserves a raise, or at least a sheet cake or pat on the head. That's just astonishingly precise work, to hold big majorities even amidst minority of total vote.
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Alec MacGillis
7 years
Celebrating at 4:20 AM on the base of the removed Lee-Jackson monument, Baltimore.
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Alec MacGillis
4 years
"A country that rescued postwar Europe with the Marshall Plan didn’t even bother to show up this week at the teleconference of global leaders pledging contributions for a coronavirus vaccine."
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Alec MacGillis
5 years
Quite the photo with this @DougDonovan story on the soaring OD numbers in Maryland. That's two parents listening to the heart transplanted from their 23-year-old son. ht://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-md-overdose-deaths-2018-story.html
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Alec MacGillis
4 years
People looted the Nordstrom's in Seattle. Company statement: "We can fix the damage to our stores. Windows & merchandise can be replaced. We continue to believe as strongly as ever that tremendous change is needed to address the issues facing Black people in our country today.”
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