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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

Most likely historical achievement never to have happened if today's failure of cost-benefit analysis prevailed:

Polio Vaccine

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

Rob Portman getting out of politics and Sarah Sanders getting in is basically the GOP in a nutshell.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

When considering how the Senate might vote in an #impeachment trial, probably best not to lose sight of the fact that they came within 30 seconds of mass casualties and the possible hostage taking of members.

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BMichaelDunn

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THESIS: When Kavanaugh broke up talking about his family and his daughters, 50% of Americans probably did too. But 90% of the DC press covering this smirked.

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6 years

It will also no doubt resonate that your employer breathlessly reported that Kavanaugh was part of a gang rape ring.

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6 years

It will no doubt resonate that each GOP Senator starts his time by apologizing to Kavanaugh for what he is going through, while none took their time to apologize to Dr Ford what she has been through.

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BMichaelDunn

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Alexandria, Virginia is considering postponing the start of winter youth sports due to COVID. Again, the treatment of kids through the pandemic — against all the science, and without concern for their mental health — is a scandal.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

This made my brain leak out of my ears

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

From the woman who called Mary Jo just another broken egg in the Kennedy omelette.

Joyce Carol Oates

@JoyceCarolOates

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traditional Catholic obsession w/ analyzing & confessing "sins"--especially "sins of impurity"--helps to explain outbursts of sexually abusive behavior & need for alcohol to release it.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

Nominee for the least self-aware tweet of the year.

Chris Hayes

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4 years

It’s just extremely gross the degree to which it’s now standard in GOP discourse to spit on half the states in the country. (Also, it’s false, it would go to all states.)

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BMichaelDunn

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6 years

Your weekly reminder that no kid needs a snack after a soccer game...much less bags of cookies at 9:30 am. Literally all people of sound mind agree with this. Youth soccer should establish a firm no snacks policy. The world will thank you.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

5 years

The Catholic Church in the United States should hold a special collection this Easter Sunday for the rebuilding of #NotreDame -- every penny dedicated to construction costs. CC @USCCB @CardinalDolan @BishopBurbidge

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

Turned on cable news tonight to have on in the background while working on the laptop. Just 2 hours of orchestrated anger and manufactured rage. Really jarring. People watch hours of this every night before bed. A horrifying window into our national psychosis.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

Watching people riding bikes with masks on and realizing that the America of today would have just accepted conversion to the metric system.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

Epic moments in modern Senate history.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

As it turns out, Sarah Palin was not the most irresponsible hire of the McCain campaign.

Steve Schmidt

@SteveSchmidtSES

4 years

As a Dad who has looked into the rage and grief stricken eyes of teenagers as I have taken their phones away, I think @realDonaldTrump has no clue about what’s about to happen when he tries to shut down Tik Tok. Teenagers can be cruel and Trump has earned it. This will be great

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BMichaelDunn

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6 years

Let’s be clear...these protests and interruptions of the vote are motivated by a totalitarian, not a democratic, impulse. And those who encouraged this mayhem should be ashamed.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

5 years

Periodic reminder that the most important news article of the decade was @nytimes explaining that most of your recycling is in fact garbage. Truly life altering reporting. A hard slog convincing my kids to throw everything away, but we are getting there.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

So he would have supported McConnell nuking it in January 2017? What a 🤡

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

4 years

The Senate filibuster ... is a direct legacy of segregation and it remains a tool for maintaining systemic racism. In this moment of long-overdue reckoning, it’s time for the filibuster to go, David Litt writes.

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BMichaelDunn

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5 years

I’m old enough to remember the New York Times not being too concerned about selectively edited videos when the target was pro-life high school students.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

Leaving the Senate is hard. Not a week goes by that I don’t receive an email from someone transitioning off the Hill. And they all say it is hard. I understand that now. The Senate is a special place, but I'm excited for Act Two.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

Just create your own Twitter, they said.

James Todaro, MD

@JamesTodaroMD

3 years

WOW, that was quick. Apple and Google threaten to remove Parler from app stores unless Parler starts censoring content.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

2 years

@JohnAshbrook Everyone knows you can’t catch COVID at SXSW. It’s basically the Cafe Milano of Texas.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

Notre Dame 2020 1) Saves college football 2) Gives us Amy Coney Barrett Not a bad year. Go ☘️

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

Now ask every candidate what they think of the Caravan.

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Phil Bredesen just said the illegal alien mob approaching our border is “not a threat." This demonstrates how wrong he is on immigration. Phil would like to roll out the welcome mat, hand them state-issued, taxpayer funded driving certificates, & put them to work on his campaign.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

Google execs watching that video on Drudge today are basically the Trump team when Omarosa dropped her tape. You have no idea what comes next. Per the Breitbart article, these pow-wows are WEEKLY meetings.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

5 years

Spot on analysis. All ambitious DC staffers should consider her example. Work hard, know the issues, know the principals, don’t worry about being a principal yourself. Forget the limelight and the faux-Machiavellian bravado. Your counsel will be rewarded

Trump's Chief Shutdown Negotiator Is Unknown to Most Americans

Shahira Knight is one of the most important policy staffers in the White House. The shutdown is proving to be her greatest challenge yet.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

I was wondering how to square Build Back Better’s progressivism on spending with its regressive tax policy, so I called Bono.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

As it turns out, he was right. One day, COVID would just magically go away.

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4 years

The scene at Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th and I Streets NW, where a man is currently sitting atop a traffic light, occasionally taking a swig from a flask and drawing cheers from the crowd with yells of “(expletive) Trump!”

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BMichaelDunn

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Hey @AlexandriaVAGov @justindotnet just got an email from the city stating COVID "hospitalizations and deaths are increasing in Alexandria." VDH data seems to show that the 7 day averages for daily new deaths and hospitalizations are 0 and 1 respectively. Could you clarify?

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

2 years

Now apply “there is no federal solution” to 99% of the things the federal government tries to do, and we are getting somewhere.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

I am completely disgusted at the President's encouraging of a violent attack on Congress. I fear for the life of myself and my children. This is an assault on the very foundations of republican government. On the matter of impeachment, I vote..... No?

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

They left an empty chair for Google.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

Apples to Apples I'm old enough to remember the treatment by the commentariat/press of Republicans who tanked the TARP vote in 2008.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

They are going to name Chipotle a hate group.

Southern Poverty Law Center

@splcenter

6 years

Most of the festivities surrounding #CincodeMayo in the US are textbook examples of cultural appropriation, relegating the history and culture of Mexican people to novelty items. Mexican culture cannot be reduced to tacos, oversized sombreros and piñatas.

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BMichaelDunn

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In 1986 Dems felt confident enough about Brennanism that they attacked Bork on the merits of his judicial philosophy. 30 years later they have lost that debate so decisively they instead resort to political theatrics and straight-up policy arguments.

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BMichaelDunn

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5 years

Strong language from the Times. "To a large degree, the gap between perception and reality on the tax cuts appears to flow from a sustained — and misleading — effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand it as a broad middle-class tax increase."

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BMichaelDunn

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5 years

Saint Catherine Laboure, Saint Denis, Saint Joan of Arc, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Jane de Chantal, Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Ignatius and Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Louis de Montfort, Saint Bernard pray for us and the people of France. #NotreDame

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

How on earth can you get away with this as an answer? Is there a functioning press in Arizona?

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In the #AZSENDebate , @CaptMarkKelly declines to take a position on eliminating the filibuster: "When I make that decision I will let Arizonans know."

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

I’ve seen a lot of disarray in my day, but as God is my witness, this is peak disarray.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

3 years

Man....such a bold headline with literally zero evidence supporting the claim.

Washington Post Opinions

@PostOpinions

3 years

Parents claim they have the right to shape their kids’ school curriculum. They don’t, write @Edu_Historian and @BisforBerkshire in @PostOutlook

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BMichaelDunn

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2 months

The House is now a body that cannot function or pass anything without minority party participation in lawmaking. Just like the Senate. You effectively need a bipartisan supermajority to pass anything of consequence.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

6 years

@JustinBrannan @NRA There was a time the left embraced Freedom of Association.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

Another reminder that the end result of all of this will be the Catholic Church losing its tax status and access to the internet. But no worry. James Madison believed in free markets.

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BMichaelDunn

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4 years

If you don’t see the role the Bork nomination played in the last 30 years of judicial nominations, you aren’t serious.

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Bork got a hearing and a vote and was defeated resoundingly on a bipartisan basis (and not filibustered) because the views he expressed were extreme. (Also that was 33 years ago!)

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BMichaelDunn

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Assuming that the “no” vote on #Jordan is growing, there is only one reason for going through with it… It provides additional targets against whom outside professional conservatives can instigate primaries… Which will lead to unelectable candidates and a House GOP minority.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

5 years

The fact that this hackish clown teaches the nation’s ruling class should give everyone pause.

Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️

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5 years

The resemblance to days before Tiananmen Square is chilling.

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BMichaelDunn

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2 years

This is a demonic sentiment.

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BMichaelDunn

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4 years

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Ora pro Nobis.

Cardinal Dolan

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Today is the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe – a Catholic priest who gave his life on behalf of another in the Auschwitz concentration camp. We are reminded that truth and love will always conquer hatred!

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BMichaelDunn

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To be clear, parents and kids being turned away from school will be suspended for obeying the law. Let that sink in. I’m hoping there are opportunities for damages against the school district when they get sued.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

Listening to the Bari Weiss podcast (you should too), hearing David French debate Chris Rufo, and listening to him conclude that the problem is @Vermeullarmine is certainly something.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

5 years

A reminder of the deeply inegalitarian impact of #ShutDownDC — wealthy kids ruining commutes of working class people who can’t just “work from home,” while the parents of these kids do just that.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

2 months

So they have succeeded in making the House look more like the Senate. But remember where this all started. They believed that this process would lead to more conservative lawmaking. In reality, it has led to less. A conservative majority can't function.

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BMichaelDunn

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4 years

Saw it coming a mile away. Teacher unions worked to make this happen. No question they pushed this b/c they don't like the contrast of schools that open with no problems. Question is whether @WashArchdiocese will fight this on behalf of parents and underprivileged students.

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Now Maryland is trying to shut down PRIVATE schools. ⁦ @GovLarryHogan ⁩ and Dr. Travis Gayles get ready to be deposed. Montgomery County Maryland

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BMichaelDunn

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Second, it does not matter who the GOP elects as Speaker...in this environment (Dem POTUS, Dem Senate, and 50/50 House), the core goals of the Freedom Caucus (radical changes on spending and immigration policy) cannot be achieved.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

@iowahawkblog He went head to head with a meat sandwich and lost.

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BMichaelDunn

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2 months

A few thoughts on what the Freedom Caucus has wrought.... The intellectual backbone of the House Freedom Caucus (at both a staff and member level) comes from Senate refugees, in particular associates of former Senator Jim DeMint.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

I have no words for the absurdity of @playbookdc this AM. "But the process is grindingly slow...MITCH MCCONNELL seems intent on drawing out the process." The bill was finished late Sunday. It's 3,000 pages and spends over $1 trillion. It is Tuesday.

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BMichaelDunn

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4 years

Good day for @Vermeullarmine and @SohrabAhmari theory of the case re. originalism / proceduralism. Bad day for Frenchism.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

Fundamentally disagree $ is the primary reason for Hill brain drain. Instead, look to the shift from legislating to messaging as the core business of Congress. Long hours/low pay are fine if you mark up your bill, pass it, and go to a signing ceremony.

Congress wakes up to its staff retention problems after Covid, bomb threats and riots

While lawmakers raise the cap on employee salaries and try to increase office budgets, some staffers say this year's strain on their mental health may still push them to leave.

www.politico.com

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

@Bakari_Sellers @mattdizwhitlock 1) The Democratic operative who pitched it to Kessler. 2) Kessler.

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BMichaelDunn

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6 years

I have clawed and scratched my way to 500 followers. Yesterday “Roy Moore’s Horse” finished with 16K.

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BMichaelDunn

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5 years

@StevenTDennis Cruz on TPA

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BMichaelDunn

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2 years

What’s going on in NOVA with Youngkin’s mask mandate EO (and endorsed by POTUS’s PressSec) is small scale RESIST circa 2017. And it will only further alienate independents, who understand that for the left it is always ‘heads we win, tails you lose.’

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BMichaelDunn

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Any person watching TikTok videos on full tilt volume with no headphones while on a plane should be permanently banned from U.S. air travel. They clearly don't realize that we live in a society.

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BMichaelDunn

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8 years

This is #statesmanship Watch this; recall the asinine "robot" meme; and consider the media coverage of Trump. #Marco

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6 years

End of an era with @ahrferrier leaving the Senate. She’s one of the best. Happy Trails Ferrier.

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BMichaelDunn

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8 months

Assuming that the Freedom Caucus "argument" against Scalise -- that he is too close to "THE SWAMP" -- is made in good faith, it is worth unpacking in some detail. Because it really makes no sense.

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

Only someone who has no understanding of Catholicism would ever refer to someone as "very Catholic."

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BMichaelDunn

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6 years

This was in my feed. Did this really happen? A “Con” is her participation in a lay Catholic community? For the love of God.

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BMichaelDunn

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5 years

Truest thing you will read all day from @playbookplus ...there were close to 50 people in the room yesterday for the wall negotiations. These deals are usually cut in rooms with a handful of people. There is no way to get a deal like this done in such a big group.

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BMichaelDunn

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@NikkiHaley @IlhanMN You’re a worthy successor to Ambassador Kirkpatrick. Sadly, the tendency to “blame America first” is as widespread today as it was in 1984.

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BMichaelDunn

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4 years

When the book is written on the revolutionary changes likely to unfold in the GOP over the next decade, this week will serve as the introduction. 1) Bostock 2) The media COVID double standard 3) The deplatforming of The Federalist A toxic cocktail for the old regime.

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2 years

At this point, when a journalist writes "experts say," I just assume the journalist is about to provide some BS justification for his preferred ideological outcome. And I am not wrong.

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BMichaelDunn

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5 years

Hard to imagine life in the Senate without @StewSays . A true institution, and a great friend and mentor to countless staff whose station and knowledge were not always deserving of his patience and good humor. One of a kind.

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BMichaelDunn

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When you work in the Capitol, you wake up every day understanding the privilege of working in a museum of our democracy. And these so-called patriots came in and literally crapped on the floors.

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6 years

@StevenTDennis People are crazy

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2 years

Watching NATO hostile conservative twitter reminds me that Fred Boynton truly had the first and last word on NATO. “They’re against OTAN? What are they FOR? Soviet tanks racing across Europe.” #Barcelona @WhitStillman

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@gregorykhillis This is the essential question. I’m not a TLM guy. I have never even been to one. But this action stands in stark contrast to the Pope’s claims to dialogue, openness, synodality, and even ecumenism. Here alone he wants to snuff out diversity with a top-down Rome-centric approach

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The last three days... 1. Senate Ds: We need to have a hearing! Her voice needs to be heard! 2. Senate Rs: OK. Let’s have a hearing. It is important that her voice be heard. 3. Senate Ds: How dare you schedule a hearing!

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The people united can never be defeated... Unless they refuse to run ads in Wisconsin.

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@shannon_last @MassimoFaggioli Alt-right is the new neoconservative or Straussian apparently. Just some moniker thrown around meaning “bad person.” Whatever the critics of the pope are, they don’t strike me as blood and soil racists.

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3 years

Janet Yellen being confirmed, three weeks quicker than her predecessor. But McConnell is obstructing or something.

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As a dad who has looked into the eyes of a tween upset about their phone, or lack thereof, I can honestly tell you I don’t care about their feelings. They are kids. Who cares what they think about their phone, much less national security policy.

Steve Schmidt

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As a Dad who has looked into the rage and grief stricken eyes of teenagers as I have taken their phones away, I think @realDonaldTrump has no clue about what’s about to happen when he tries to shut down Tik Tok. Teenagers can be cruel and Trump has earned it. This will be great

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@BleedBlueshirts @StevenTDennis The tax cuts cost $1.5 trillion.

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@mj_lee A sober and appropriate statement. The school is to be applauded.

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The latest from David French on the Bari Weiss substack (subscribe!) is an even greater disaster than usual. If @SohrabAhmari retired right now, his debate with French highlighting the emptiness and self-contradictions of right-liberal neutrality would be a lasting achievement.

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RIP Charles Grodin. A true master of the art. This weekend's film festival will include: 1) Heaven Can Wait 2) The Great Muppet Caper 3) Midnight Run 4) Catch-22 5) Rosemary's Baby May there be plates full of chorizo and eggs waiting for you on the other side.

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@PatrickMaryOP It was referenced at the end of the homily, tied into the readings, with a reminder that the demand now is not legal or political change but for radical conversion of heart. Spot on.

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WASHINGTON DC CLICHE: That guy doesn't play checkers. He's playing three-dimensional chess. WASHINGTON DC REALITY: That guy thinks he's playing thee-dimensional chess. He's really just playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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Seeing Capitol Hill police on TV that I know and used to see every day. Never forget how on the line they are. And be thankful for their service.

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BMichaelDunn

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To the millennial hipster wearing a Patagonia vest in DC today — I applaud your commitment to your cause and your art. You will not allow the weather to compromise your authentic self.

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3 years

For “the past is a foreign country” file... My kids will never know a day when late night TV was just a couple of funny people half in the bag, a muskrat, and a sidekick riffing for an hour No politics Politicizing of 11:30 is emblematic of our slide into cultural insanity

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I haven’t read the book. Did these women have tenured positions at law schools and get nominated to sit on the Supreme Court?

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Turns out Republicans DO have a platform: The Handmaid’s Tale. #UnderHisEye #BlessedBeTheFruit

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So I just hit 1,000 followers. 1. When do I get my blue check mark? 2. When is AOC’s policy director going to engage me on the intricacies of socialist misery? 3. When is the Post going to accuse me of “pouncing”?

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BMichaelDunn

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3 years

I'm just getting around to the fact that DOJ has proposed charging Annie Kinsella with violating the Patriot Act.

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3 years

What really makes this is the confidence with which she incorrectly instructs her interlocutor.

Acyn

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Question: Have you yourself been vaccinated? Greene: Your first question is a violation of my HIPAA rights

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Very sad. Such a disgrace.

Ali Zaslav

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The ransacked office of the Senate Parliamentarian:

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BMichaelDunn

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2 years

This interview with ⁦ @MarkPMills ⁩ is fascinating Earth Day listening. 20 yrs ago 86% of world energy from hydrocarbon. Today after $5 trillion in spending the number is 84%. Only 3% of energy comes from wind/solar/battery.

‎Conversations with Bill Kristol: Mark Mills: Energy Realism and Geopolitics on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Conversations with Bill Kristol, Ep Mark Mills: Energy Realism and Geopolitics - Apr 18, 2022

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@VolbeckWasRight

4 years

Any time I'm down in the dumps and think I'm up against it, I'm going to watch this video of @SenSusanCollins on her election night.

Emily Cochrane

@ESCochrane

4 years

Susan Collins is dancing to “Still the One” in the middle of the parking lot.

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BMichaelDunn

@VolbeckWasRight

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Maybe a reporter in the DC area.... A SINGLE REPORTER...... Could visit one of the dozens of local Catholic schools in that opened safely without this. Pictures of America: Back to school #axiospm