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Writer, journalist, editor, filmmaker, prof. Author of Gunman & His Mother. Publisher .

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What kind of country are we if the man who occupied the most powerful office in the land could commit crime after crime, attempt to stay in power illegally, destroy evidence compulsively day after day, and he is not held accountable and tens of millions want him back in power?
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Any time Mitch McConnell—no longer Senate majority leader—asserts how the Democrats should follow the rules and do what’s right, Democrats should visualize his refusal to hold hearings for Merrick Garland and his ramrodding through Amy Coney Barrett in 8 days.
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I still want to know who Trump owes $421 million.
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Yes, Sen. Collins, Trump learned his lesson. He learned that Senators like you would let him get away with anything.
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If Trump drives Dr. Fauci out, Dr. Fauci should be doing televised briefings every day describing exactly what is going on. He owes nothing to Trump. He has a duty to America
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No, Ivanka, people don’t attack Daddy because he’s as you say “unconventional.” We attack your daddy because he’s a sociopathic authoritarian trying his hardest to destroy our democracy.
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When this is over, when we’ve finally gotten this sociopath out of our White House, can we please take a hard look at the 25th amendment, the electoral college, and a system that doesn’t require presidential nominees for a major political party to release their tax returns?
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In a sane world, when an occupant of the White House is talking about a military coup to stay in power, claiming he won an election by “a lot” when he lost by over 7M votes & ignoring a raging pandemic, there’d be a real conversation about the use of the 25th amendment.
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The idea that Trump is able to hold a rally is such a nasty slap in the face to anyone who believes in the rule of law.
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Media friends: If you watched Trump’s hospital video and imagine he has been humbled by this experience and will be a changed man, you have not been paying attention to the truth of his sociopathy.
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I don’t like Joe Manchin singlehandedly deciding how the majority of Americans should live.
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I still want to know who Trump owes $421 million.
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For the record, this despicable mockery should have been enough to end it. We have a lot of work ahead to rebuild a healthy society.
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For the record, @staceyabrams ? She could have responded to her loss as Governor and turn away in frustration. Instead, she doubled down to confront voter suppression and drive voter registration and turnout. We all owe her a big debt of gratitude.
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I hope Joe Scarborough sues Trump for defamation.
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If Trump loses in a crushing defeat, I’m beginning to think less about how he might incite violence and more about how he might slip quietly out of the country to save himself from the inevitability of criminal prosecution.
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If we don’t hold Trump accountable once he’s no longer protected by presumed immunity, we will be dealing with another version of Trump one day, but a smarter and ultimately more dangerous one.
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If he was legally required to show his tax returns before the 2016 election, maybe we wouldn’t be in this continuing mess.
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We don’t know if he’s been blackmailed by Trump, if there’s Russian kompromat, compromising video surreptitiously shot by an American “friend,” or the death of the honorable John McCain triggered his worst instincts, but the story of Lindsey Graham is a story of moral collapse.
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Four Blackwater contractors who murdered 17 Iraqi civilians were pardoned by this sub-human occupying our White House. Words cannot describe how repulsive this is.
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I think we’re reaching the point in this horror story when female reporters are standing up to the monster, refusing to be scared or abused, fighting back on behalf of all of us who are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore.
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Sign of a broken society: They think it’s necessary to ban books, but not AR-15 rifles.
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If Republican Senators still think it's too risky to acknowledge that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States, how can we assume they'd ever have the courage to protect us against enemies, foreign or domestic? For that matter, why oh why are they US Senators?
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I get there are people—good people—who worry that prosecuting Trump will lead to civil unrest and violence. But not prosecuting him will hasten the demise of democracy. Prosecute the guilty.
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To be clear, when a criminal can pardon other criminals in an obvious effort to minimize his criminal liability, something in the system is terribly rotten.
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Pence thinks Trump should get credit for not getting America into another war. Did he not notice Trump spent four years waging war on America?
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It should have ended here.
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I reiterate: Healing is not an option if the country just moves on and justice is not served. The wound will continue to fester and grow if Trump’s criminality is not probed, proved, prosecuted.
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One of the saddest, most staggering, most infuriating parts of this whole tragic affair is that Trump’s derangement is visible to everyone—and yet the people in a position to put this madness to a stop have done nothing. Worse, they’ve urged him on. I’ll never get over this.
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What concerns me is that too many Democrats are behaving normally, as if our democracy is not facing an existential threat.
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Can we agree when this is over to take a hard look at how to put teeth in the 25th, ensure no one can gain a major part nomination without releasing their taxes, rethink the limits on presidential pardons, and require some basic criminal background checks?
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The Republican motto now: If I win, I win. If you win, it’s a lie. I really won.
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I'm so old-fashioned that I thought when you commit a crime and everyone sees it, law enforcement charges and prosecutes you.
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“No person shall…hold any office, civil or military, under the US, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath…to support the Constitution…shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” —14th Am.
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I don’t know about you, but I’m still quite angry about the insurrectionist attack on our Capitol and the people inside. And if my colleagues were fine with what happened and just wanted to move on, I’d be thinking hard how to get them out of my workplace.
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If you think during 19 months, Trump only stored classified documents and didn’t share them with anyone else, I have a bridge to sell you.
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How many crimes must a man commit before it’s time to be indicted?
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If Merrick Garland hides behind the institutional concern about not appearing partisan and lets Trump slip away by declaring himself a presidential candidate, he will do serious harm to rule of law and the principle no one is above the law.
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For the record, releasing Trump’s tax returns in 2016 might have saved our democracy six years of trouble. Every presidential nominee should be required by law to make their returns public.
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If Donald Trump had a family who truly loved him, they would intervene and stop this. If Donald Trump had a party and cabinet that cared about America, they would intervene and stop this.
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The public has a right to know what is physically wrong with Trump—the constant sniffing, the labored breathing, the slurring & mangled reading of words. This is not a superficial thing. This man holds immense power & should be questioned & examined for the safety of the nation.
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I lost my mother this week, a strong and loving person who did not like the spotlight. I’m grateful she’s no longer in pain. I’ve more fully come to understand what “rest in peace” means. Hold your loved ones close.
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When Marco Rubio calls the Senate trial a “waste of time” and “vengeance from the radical left,” he’s telling us what he thinks about the rule of law and his responsibility to protect democracy.
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Impeachment can’t wait until next week.
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At 18, you can’t buy alcohol. You can’t rent a car. You can’t go to a casino, book a hotel room or drive for Uber. But you can legally buy an AR-15 rifle.
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When nurses won’t get a vaccination, it tells me that health care is not really their thing.
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I’m old enough to remember when we could assume the Secret Service was non-partisan and supported democracy.
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Hmm. A president attempts a coup to dissolve the Congress and seize power. That same day he’s arrested. That’s how they handle such criminality in Peru.
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I will never grasp how Trump’s mockery of a disabled reporter was not the end of him.
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I suspect many of those determined to vote against Democrats in the midterms because of inflation don’t realize it’s a global phenomenon — and the Republicans have no real plan to address it.
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He called it a Democrat hoax and said that it would magically disappear when he knew it was a highly contagious and deadly virus. He will never be forgiven for his homicidal recklessness.
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Merrick Garland: Donald Trump is not a presidential candidate. The 2024 election is more than two years away. Please do your job. Your highest duty is not protecting the appearance of partisanship.
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For the record: Trump, a clear and present danger, already should have been removed from office. Mike Pence abdicated his duty.
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More than incompetent, Judge Cannon has shown herself to be corrupt.
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I’m not going to talk about space lasers because what really needs to be talked about is removing Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress.
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Trump is not trying to win the election. He’s trying to crash the system and hold onto power.
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I think it's worth asking again--and seriously--what exactly do we have a 25th amendment for if not for this?
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I don’t want retribution. I don’t hunger for blood. I want the corrupt and criminal to be held accountable. I yearn for justice.
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The day will come when Joe Biden will be recognized for his substantial achievements.
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Trump golfs, Pence skis, Americans suffer. That’s the whole tweet about leadership amid a deadly pandemic.
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It might be the right time to ask again why the Saudis give Jared Kushner $2B.
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A nation’s weary eyes now turn to Jack Smith, Merrick Garland and the DOJ. Are we not a nation of laws?
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I try not to relish another man’s misfortune, but I’ll make an exception for Rudy Giuliani.
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Merrick Garland: Maybe you want to tell the public that you still believe in the rule of law and no one is above it. Maybe you want to do so by indicting Donald J. Trump.
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One day I’d like to wake up, scroll through Twitter, realize nothing much is happening, no need to say anything, no reason for outrage, then go read a book.
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Never forget how he looked at the Butcher of Moscow.
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He can try & stop mail-in voting. He can try & kill USPS. He can organize Obama show trials. He can lie about testing. He can minimize the death count. He can rely on his buddies in Moscow. But I'd walk barefoot over broken glass w/o a mask to vote him out. I hope you agree.
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When they put Giuliani on a “fun” music show and merely call him “controversial,” they are normalizing his dangerous criminality.
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You may be a Democrat. You may be a Republican. But the utter disrespect, the dishonesty and the contemptuousness Corey Lewandowski showed in the halls of our US Congress before duly elected members of that body was an insult to us all.
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Just wondering: How loudly did all those who oppose student loan forgiveness complain when the richest Americans were recipients of the $2.5 trillion tax breaks?
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So Tucker Carlson said point-blank that he supports Russia in its war with Ukraine: “Why shouldn’t I root for Russia?” This is the anti-democratic, morally degraded reality we are up against, smugly delivered to millions of Fox viewers.
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I will never forgive the elected Republicans who are urging Trump to keep his seditious sabotage going.
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The Capitol Police Union reported 140 officers were injured on Jan 6, including severe brain injuries, broken bones, stabbings, a murdered officer and suicides. Yet people like Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and now Kevin McCarthy, going to Palm Beach to kowtow to Trump, want to move on.
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Someday we’ll be able to look back and realize Trump was even worse than we thought he was.
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The idea Trump could exit the White House, skip town and not face prosecution for his myriad violations of federal law is intolerable. Moving on is only possible if justice is served.
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I assume Trump wants to sign the coronavirus checks because he’s always thought writing a check is a way to shut someone up after he screws them.
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It is worth noting how lucky we are to have someone as confident & able as Biden in a time like this. A less experienced & knowing man would likely be dragged in by Trump’s mad, manic pursuit, tossing in counter lawsuits & exacerbating the problem. His cool is very Steve McQueen.
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And to think, John Roberts was concerned before about the reputation of the Supreme Court. He’s got some serious work to do.
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May Black Americans show Mitch McConnell who real Americans are in this year’s midterm elections.
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I want to live in a country where majority rules. That’s not 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. That’s not an electoral college overriding the popular vote. That’s not gerrymandering to rejigger demographic composition. That’s not denying voter rights to falsify the people’s will
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Long after this sordid chapter is over, we will remember the enablers who, cravenly ambitious, were ready and willing to toss aside our values and democracy, our basic decency and respect for human life, to serve Trump.
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Please explain to me how Hunter Biden’s laptop is a big deal, but Jared Kushner’s $2B from the Saudis need not be investigated.
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29 days until Trump is evicted from our house and separated from the levers of power. But honestly, what use is the 25th amendment if it cannot be employed to hasten the removal of a man utterly unable to discharge the duties of his office?
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Christine Blasey Ford is a professor of psychology at Palo Alto University who also teaches at Stanford. Christine Blasey Ford is a wife and mother of two sons. She has gone public at great personal risk and sacrifice. I believe Christine Blasey Ford.
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Really looking forward to Joe Biden tearing down that damned wall around our White House.
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I tire of wearing a mask. But I wear it when I’m in public places, even though I’m vaxxed and boosted. Because I don’t want to get Covid. And I don’t want to spread Covid. That’s not heroic or a political act. It’s just common sense if you care about life and live in society.
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Trump is done. Finished. Kaput. It hit me like a thunderbolt when he held aloft the bible after peaceful protestors were gassed. But the road from here to that end is still sure to be painful, bloody & full of events that will further lower our belief in humanity. Hang in there.
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Trump has reportedly said he was considering not leaving the White House. I’m quite sure there are many Americans who would gladly see him physically removed.
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It remains true: I don’t hunger for retribution, I yearn for justice. If you love America, believe in the rule of law, take seriously the principle no one is above the law and genuinely hope for healing, just moving on is not an option.
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I’m remembering Nov. 7, 2020, after Joe Biden was declared the winner and people in cities around America danced and celebrated in the streets. I’m remembering how lifted, how relieved people felt. I’m imagining that same feeling when Donald Trump is finally prosecuted.
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This second impeachment is only the start of the hammer that needs to descend upon Donald J. Trump.
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When a district judge refuses to accept the credibility of what the DOJ says happened and instead chooses to serve the desires of the autocrat who gave her the job, then democracy and the rule of law is clearly in danger.
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Raphael Warnock winning: What a relief. Herschel Walker getting that many votes: What a sad commentary.
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Can you imagine how nice it will be to have concerts again in the White House? Musicians, artists, authors, innovators, people who seek to contribute joy and beauty and positivity to our world.
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For the record, Donald Trump, who incited and helped fund insurrection, belongs in jail for his crime.
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For the record, the same people who voted for a $2 trillion+ tax cut bill aiding the richest Americans opposed a $1.9 trillion relief bill to buoy everyone struggling to stay afloat.
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Never forget that Donald J. Trump covered up and condoned the vicious murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Think how many Republicans are now wondering why they went all in with Trump. When he finally goes down, when the mountain of lies & crimes makes his exit unavoidable, plenty of Republicans will desperately try to justify why they enabled this. They must be held accountable.
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After watching Don Jr and his girlfriend tonight (and Trump everyday), I think I need to read “Der Totale Rausch” (Total Rush), a book about how many Nazis were high on amphetamines.
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