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Campuses are wrestling with the Israel-Gaza conflict. So are we, as @katzish , Dana @Milbank and @shadihamid discuss on the #ImpromptuPodcast . 🎙️Listen or read the full conversation here:
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From the Washington Post Editorial Board: Trump caused the assault on the Capitol. He must be removed.
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"Impeachment exposed Trump’s corruption, but the confluence of a pandemic, a financial crisis and the stoking of societal divisions has roused the soul of the American people," @AVindman writes in an op-ed.
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From The Post Editorial Board: Enough has been learned about Brett M. Kavanaugh's partisan instincts that we believe senators must vote “no.” We do not say so lightly. We have not opposed a Supreme Court nominee, liberal or conservative, since 1987.
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Trump is a racist president, @gtconway3d writes in an op-ed
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The manner of President Trump’s departure from power has clarified why he must never hold power again, @MJGerson writes
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From the Editorial Board: Trump now plans to cordon off an area for the Fourth of July in front of the Lincoln Memorial reserved just for dignitaries, family and friends. Nothing about reserved seating says “We the people.”
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"We have faith that Biden will surround himself by advisers of competence, expertise and wisdom, not an endless parade of disposable lackeys." An op-ed from @ProjectLincoln ’s @gtconway3d , @reedgalen , @SteveSchmidtSES , @jwgop and @TheRickWilson :
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We can no longer avoid a criminal investigation into Donald Trump, the Editorial Board writes.
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The Texas abortion law is a human rights crisis for American women, Uma Thurman writes in an op-ed
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"I'd vote for a tuna fish sandwich before I'd vote for Donald Trump again." The latest ad from Republican Voters Against Trump just might work, @paulwaldman1 writes:
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"I’m a single-issue voter," @MaxBoot writes. "My issue is the fate of democracy in the United States. Simply put, I have no faith that we will remain a democracy if Republicans win power."
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Three years ago, @ebruenig began investigating a story that had weighed on her since high school: Fellow student Amber Wyatt reported that she was raped in a storage shed off a dirt road in their Texas hometown.
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The contrast between the governors’ level of sophistication and Trump’s abject ignorance manages to still shock and appall us, writes @JRubinBlogger
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Vice President Pence should immediately gather the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. Congress, which would be required to ratify the action if Trump resists, should do so. Pence should serve until President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
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From the Editorial Board: Now Republicans are offended by mean tweets?
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An op-ed from Ukrainian politician Serhiy Leshchenko: Why is Rudy Giuliani trying to drag my country’s president into Trump’s reelection campaign?
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“I don’t expect anybody to give two s--ts about my opinions,” D.C. police officer Michael Fanone told CNN. “But I will say this: Those are lies. And peddling that bulls--t is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol.”
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From the Editorial Board: President Trump deserved impeachment. The Senate must convict him quickly.
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From the Editorial Board: William Barr’s redactions on the Mueller report don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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@realDonaldTrump “To wink at racism or to condone it through silence, or false moral equivalence, is no better and no more acceptable than racism itself."
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Republicans are actively defending a man who stained the history of the presidency with a meeting at which martial law was on the agenda, @MJGerson writes
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From the Editorial Board: No Mr. Trump, the virus is not under control. It is in control.
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The impeachment trial will not result in Trump’s removal, but it could well result in Republicans’ removal from the Senate majority, @JRubinBlogger says
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While Trump’s mind roils in rage, too many Americans are losing their lives. That’s the losing that matters, to everyone but him, @gtconway3d writes
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"The land of Mahatma Gandhi, Abul Kalam Azad and Rabindranath Tagore is being reduced to a caricature of hate on the global stage." The latest from @RanaAyyub :
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Trump is right. We might have to impeach him again, @gtconway3d writes
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A trial will force the nation to look at Trump, now disgraced and stripped of official power, as he really is: a would-be autocrat who tried to cling to power by force, writes @Eugene_Robinson
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From the Editorial Board: It is our view that more than enough proof exists for the House to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Here is a summary of the evidence:
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The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us, @RepLizCheney writes in an op-ed:
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Trump is now an illegitimate president, @maxboot writes
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The president shapes the public character of the nation, writes incoming senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) in an op-ed. Trump’s character falls short.
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From former CIA director @JohnBrennan : The U.S. should never turn a blind eye to this sort of inhumanity
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The closeness of the results underscores the alarming reality that a significant plurality of Americans supports the most disastrous, most dangerous president in our history, @RuthMarcus writes
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In Trump’s world, Syria is a success. In the real world, it’s a humiliation. From the Editorial Board:
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The government we defended last Jan. 6 has a duty to hold all the perpetrators accountable, write @libradunn and @SergeantAqGo , U.S. Capitol Police officers.
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Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans, @HillaryClinton writes in an op-ed. Here’s how to respond:
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"The silence of Republicans today in the face of presidential behavior that is unacceptable by any reasonable standard is both striking and deeply disappointing," former defense secretary William S. Cohen writes
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@realDonaldTrump "Racists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, their sympathizers. They are extremists who fomented violence. All Americans must condemn and reject."
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Trump lost the election. He lost the recounts. He lost 59 of 60 court cases. He lost the vote certifications. But @SenRonJohnson forges ahead with his fraudulent attempt to undermine the election, Dana @Milbank writes:
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An op-ed from @IlhanMN : I've seen firsthand the devastating toll of war. We need an inclusive foreign policy.
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Dear President @realdonaldtrump , this is what a presidential president would've said ...
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@washingtonpost "I fully understood that there could be legal consequences — but I wanted to make sure that Texas didn’t get away with its bid to prevent this blatantly unconstitutional law from being tested." Read and listen to Alan Braid's op-ed:
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India’s Supreme Court ruling of the Babri Masjid site endorses the right-wing vision relegating Muslims to second-class citizens, @RanaAyyub writes
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From the Editorial Board: The Saudi “investigation” of the disappearance of #JamalKhashoggi does not exist. Rather, President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are conspiring with the Saudi leadership, buying time for them to build a cover story.
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"It was Pelosi who did what the media has not done — interject, fact-check to his face and refuse to allow him to operate in a parallel reality," @JRubinBlogger writes
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No president was ever so obsessed with loyalty — precisely because he didn't deserve it and couldn't earn it, @paulwaldman1 writes
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The president’s inhumanity is deeper than we knew, @gtconway3d writes
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We Asian Americans are not the virus, but we can be part of the cure, @AndrewYang writes
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@realDonaldTrump “The violence in Charlottesville is a tragedy and an unacceptable, impermissible assault on American values." - a presidential president
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Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was not born here, but he is a far better American than the Trump toadies who question his loyalty, writes @maxboot
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Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants who celebrate his offenses or people who lack the courage to speak up. Gen. Milley’s forthright apology is a welcome departure from that norm, the Editorial Board writes
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Confronted by a skilled examiner, Trump would melt down in minutes, @gtconway3d writes. "He’d be humiliated, and he knows it — which is why he’s too terrified to give testimony under oath, and why it won’t happen."
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The flood of disinformation shows what we already knew: The president is the problem, the Editorial Board writes
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Kelly, Mattis and McMaster need to mount an "Unfit to Serve" tour targeting early-primary states and general-election swing states, @MaxBoot writes.
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Trump’s lawyers had no defense because there is none, the Editorial Board writes
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Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency with the country on the verge of civil war, but no president in history has inherited the array of challenges facing President Biden, @RuthMarcus writes
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I gave the University of Alabama $26.5 million. They gave it back when I spoke out about abortion, Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr writes
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In our system, Texas isn’t the boss of Pennsylvania, @gtconway3d writes. "Allowing such suits would invite a multistate free-for-all every time a presidential election is held."
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It’s time to entertain the possibility that President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually know what they’re doing and are really good at their jobs, @Eugene_Robinson writes
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The very fact that Kushner has any job at all in the government is deeply inappropriate, writes @paulwaldman1 . The fact that he has seized such sweeping authority over so many policy areas is abominable.
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"Whatever Mueller found (and we still know very little) will not change the fact that Trump simply lacks the intellect and integrity — the gravitas — for the most important job in the world," @MaxBoot writes
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Trump is outside the Presidents Club because he has placed himself outside the bounds of presidential behavior, @RuthMarcus writes
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. @LulaOficial : Quero limpar meu nome para que o brasileiro volte a confiar em seu governo
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@realDonaldTrump “The events were triggered by individuals who embrace and extol hatred." - a presidential president
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Trump, Hawley and Cruz will each wear the scarlet "S" of a seditionist, @GeorgeWill writes
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Trump’s repeated insistence that he can lose only if there is fraud must be called out for what it is: unAmerican, antidemocratic hogwash, the Editorial Board writes
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Every voter should know that, at a time when hospitals, cities and states cried out for help with the pandemic, the president’s allies in Congress tossed a $170 billion lifeline in the direction of Trump, Kushner and other rich people, Dana @Milbank writes
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William McRaven oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden. He writes in an op-ed: If good men like Joe Maguire can’t speak the truth, we should be deeply afraid.
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Enough with the excuses, @helaineolen says. It’s time for Bernie Sanders to release his tax returns.
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"This is a circus," @JoyceWhiteVance tells @JRubinBlogger . "It’s Trump making a mockery of our system of government, and its checks and balances, because he is afraid of what will happen if the American people ever hear the truth."
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@realDonaldTrump "While they have deep and noxious roots in our history, they mustn't be given any quarter nor any license today." - a presidential president
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@realDonaldTrump "Americans should not excuse, and I as president will not countenance, fringe elements in our society who peddle such anti-American ideas."
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Trump’s narcissism deadens any ability he might otherwise have had to carry out the duties of a president in the manner the Constitution requires, @gtconway3d writes. "He’s so self-obsessed, he can only act for himself, not for the nation."
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