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Brian Rosenwald

5 years

Hi friends, I am thrilled to announce that my book, Talk Radio's America, is now available for pre-order now. As you may know, pre-orders are crucially important to the success of a book, and I'd very much appreciate it if you might consider pre-ordering.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

You know if they told people no SEC football if the vaccine rate wasn’t 70% in all of the SEC states, they’d hit 70% by the end of July.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Stop covering her. She’s a backbencher in the minority. What she proposes is literally meaningless unless we give it attention.

Forbes

@Forbes

3 years

Marjorie Taylor Greene Proposes Making Fauci’s Salary $0 And Requiring Businesses To Serve The Unvaccinated

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

Don’t let this story fall through the cracks in a week of truly alarming news. I really can’t recall a single instance in which any Governor basically just moved to immediately overrule a jury verdict.

Sawyer Hackett

@SawyerHackett

1 year

Less than 24 hours ago Daniel Perry was convicted by a jury of murder—after he shot a protestor point-blank during a BLM rally blocks away from the state Capitol. Greg Abbott says he is working to pardon Perry one day later. Absolutely insane.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

It's incredibly frustrating to see scholars of everything from fascism to America's darkest chapters sounding warning bells, and a lot of mainstream media folks are worried about the president giving a political speech. The media is supposed to be a guardian of democracy.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

16 days

Our profession may be on a suicide mission. It's like a game of how can we alienate everyone but the far left despite having an exceptionally expensive product that needs broad buy in. I can only shake my head.

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@JoshuaPHilll

17 days

The massive faculty walkout at Columbia right now in solidarity with the student protesters is incredible. Faculty everywhere should follow suit.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

My hottest take: just get rid of the AP program. Figure out a way to get kids into classes at local colleges & universities. The stilted, test oriented classes are nowhere near of the same quality/style as college classes & it empowers the College Board monopoly.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 months

It's the most Philadelphia thing ever that arguably the greatest coach of all time was here for 14 years and won 0 titles.

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@LesBowen

3 months

Eagles fans knew all along there would come a time when Andy Reid would become an annual Super Bowl fixture.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Sanjay Gupta on CNN noting that there is rising concern with what’s being reported about the president’s condition.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

I’m a historian. I know a thing or two about historical complexity, but the continued worship of Confederates in the year 2022 baffles me. Like they were traitors AND losers. Hell of a combo.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

I am sort of surprised Biden hasn’t provoked a showdown over this. In so much as he needs to show strong, decisive leadership, it’s a good opportunity.

Jeremy Wallace

@JeremySWallace

2 years

Savage. The American Trucking Association left ZERO doubt about how they feel about Gov. Greg Abbott's "wholly flawed" border-clogging inspection "scheme." In one page statement they called it flawed, senseless and misguided.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

LOL. So J.D. Vance’s selling point in a Senate race is I am friends with Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk. God, our politics is a dumpster fire.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

In short, it’s an election. You think the people who voted for Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry & HRC didn’t feel the same way? Did Ainsley Earnhardt express the same sympathy for Clinton voters after 2016? I bet not.

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

3 years

Ainsley Earnhardt: "There are 75 million people that voted for President Trump and they're scared. They're worried about what the future of this country looks like. They're confused. They're heart-broken that their candidate didn't win. And they don't want to be forgotten."

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 months

This is why I question the utility of debates. Ramaswamy just stood on national TV and told a flat out lie, and neither journalist moderator said wait a second, that's absolutely false. So any viewer probably assumes it's the truth & comes away misinformed.

Zac Weisz

@zac_weisz

6 months

The constitutional amendment that passed in Ohio doesn't allow abortions up to birth (Ramaswamy said it does). The amendment only ensures that abortion is available in the state up to viability (so roughly 23 weeks of pregnancy).

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 months

There. Is. No. Genocide. You people really need to learn basic English. Words have meaning. Fighting a war against terrorists is not a genocide, even if innocent civilians die. By that standard the Civil War involved genocide. World War II as well.

Tom London

@TomLondon6

6 months

I am Jewish I don't claim to be any kind of expert on the Jewish religion But in my 62 years I have picked up a bit Seems to me that the correct Jewish position right now is to oppose the ongoing GENOCIDE by all means possible I will go on the march today along with MANY Jews

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 months

There was a time when this would have cost Tuberville his seat. You'd have seen Sullivan's quote end up in a campaign ad & he'd have lost. We're so polarized now that he knows he can act with impunity.

Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

6 months

Sullivan is seething with anger. Calls Tuberville’s blockade “a national security suicide mission”

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

10 months

Prager U is propaganda. Its namesake is conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager. In no way, shape, or form should it be in America's classrooms as anything but a conservative primary source studied to study conservative perspectives.

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@KevinMKruse

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Were I Judge Sullivan, DeJoy would be spending some time in a cell. You don’t get to turn down judicial orders.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

4 years

“Turned down”?

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

I wonder if the Biden campaign has sent @FrancisBrennan a thank you gift for allowing everyone to see that their candidate is a church going family man who spends his Sunday visiting his son’s grave?

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

I’m pretty sure @kaitlancollins has been on my television for like the last 23 hours straight. And she’s still doing good reporting and making lots of sense. I bow down.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Imagine where the Eagles might be had Howie not tried to be smarter than everyone else and had drafted Justin Jefferson and Jeremy Chin instead of Jalen Reagor and Jalen Hurts.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

@asatarbair @RadioFreeTom Yo, buddy. Professional historian here. Literally none of the historiography by credible historians matches your overly generous take on a brutal dictator. So you should probably pipe down since you’re not a historian and you’re wrong.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

This might be the biggest put down imaginable. And it’s true.

Stuart Rothenberg

@StuPolitics

2 years

Watching Kevin McCarthy “speech,” I’m struck by the fact that he lacks Mitch McConnell’s charisma.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Worth noting, every single Republican I’ve heard touted as a different kind of Republican with the exception of Will Hurd and Mitt Romney is up there vouching for Donald Trump this week. Lending credence to @RadioFreeTom point that they’ve all gotta go.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Someone is going to have to explain why black protestors are getting maced but armed white protestors across the country got treated with kid gloves.

Omar Jimenez

@OmarJimenez

4 years

Protesters running from police in Minneapolis as they spray what appears to be mace into those approaching the line. #GeorgeFloyd

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

It’s just absurd how many purportedly straight news people are echoing this kind of historically ignorant thinking. Like it’s just flat out wrong.

MRC NewsBusters

@newsbusters

3 years

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel called Biden surrender in Afghanistan "the worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes."

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

I try to offer objective analysis on here & and not to be a blind partisan. But it is very hard not to look at the current situation & say the GOP is a grave threat to our country if Republicans in Congress won’t put an end to the president’s banana republic nonsense.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 months

Him cracking Lindsey Graham up is a good moment for Biden.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

24 days

If Biden fell asleep in the middle of anything, it would be a major story. But this guy is on trial and falling asleep and I'm sure the headlines tomorrow won't be "Snoozing Trump Raises Questions about Mental Fitness"

Acyn

@Acyn

24 days

Haberman: Trump appeared to be asleep. His head would fall down… He didn’t pay attention to a note his lawyer passed him. His jaw kept falling on his chest and his mouth kept going slack.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

The media should not aid or abet this kind of lying. It was 1 folder with 10 documents that no one even noticed for 6 years & they turned it over the day they found it. If you're going to quote Comer, make sure to point out that he's lying.

Kadia Goba

@kadiagoba

1 year

“So now we find out that Biden did the same thing for six years, for six years!And I wonder, is the White House gonna be raided today by national archives or the FBI?”— Oversight Chair Comer responding to this report

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

There is a sickness in police departments. Congress absolutely should pass protections for police whistleblowers. They work for us, not vice-versa.

Scott Hechinger

@ScottHech

2 years

A cop slapped a handcuffed man dying of a drug overdose. Called him a “bitch.” Shoved a baton in his mouth. That cop got suspended 6 days. But the cop who revealed the cruelty was expelled from the cop union. Now faces 20 years prison for whistleblowing.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Then the legislature should expel this guy. He’s a terrorist. He belongs in jail, not government.

The Hill

@thehill

4 years

GOP state lawmaker invokes Trump impeachment, refuses to resign after report finds he participated in armed standoff

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

@HotlineJosh Their problem is their voters like Trump. It’s a whole lot harder to do. Especially with people like Hawley and Cruz competing for his favor.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

The failure of the Senate to vote to bar him from ever holding office again already looks bad, and it’s going to look even worse as more comes out.

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

3 years

“Trump’s coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge”

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

Btw, it’s impossible to overstate what a bad faith actor Sam Alito is.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 years

I can see myself getting in trouble as I type these words, but we might want to consider how we use the word mansplain. If a man is rude or tries to bully a woman, he deserves it. But the term also seems to be used to brand men who simply disagrees w/ or criticizes a woman

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Crazy to think that 20 years later Gore is younger than BOTH parties’ nominees.

David Chalian

@DavidChalian

4 years

The bookends to a generation of Democratic presidential nominees - 20 years between them.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

100,000 deaths would be in the ballpark of WWI. It would exceed Korea + Vietnam + Iraq + Afghanistan combined if my quick math is right.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

9 months

This is a no brainer: absolutely not. PragerU is conservative propaganda. Dennis Prager is not an objective, rigorous source. Nor is anyone else affiliated w/it. It belong in classrooms solely as a primary source on conservative thought and political efforts.

Jennifer Berkshire

@BisforBerkshire

9 months

New Hampshire's State Board of Education is voting tomorrow on whether to allow PragerU to offer public school classes in NH

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Why on earth is the New York Times giving a platform to a guy with his ethical record in addition to working for Trump and showing 0 remorse over stirring up an insurrection?

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

3 years

On today’s episode of Sway, @karaswisher asks @JasonMillerinDC about his conservative-backed social media platform Gettr. “I want to be bigger than Twitter,” he says.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

5 years

What happens when Republicans lose? They ignore the rebuke of the voters & try to game the system on their way out the door. Becoming more & more of a problem. Highly anti-democratic & bad for faith in our system of governance.

Sam Levine

@srl

5 years

Wisconsin Republicans will introduce sweeping legislation to limit early voting and strip power from the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general in a lame duck session via @patrickdmarley & @MollyBeck

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

5 years

Um hi. We publish an entire historian driven section in the same paper as your column. The bigger issue is the lack of available funding and academic institutional support for it. The issue is one of $$, not desire anymore.

Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@MaxBoot

5 years

Historians bear some blame for the increasing irrelevance of their discipline. They have retreated from public debate into their own esoteric pursuits. They neglect political, diplomatic, and military history—subjects that students want and need. Me:

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Every time I read another first person take from the Capitol or see video, I get angrier that many conservatives are more upset about a Twitter ban or the potential divisiveness of impeachment. How bout you stand up for our country?

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

Reading @JaneMayerNYer on Virginia Thomas, and honestly, I’m not even sure recusal is enough for the Justice. He should step down. The entanglements and appearance of impropriety is just too great. This is almost Tom Clark-Ramsey Clark type stuff.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

WTAF. You don’t take an oath to the president. You take it to the Constitution.

Sarah Mimms

@mimms

4 years

Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, on Trump firing officials who testified against him in the impeachment inquiry (Vindman/Sondland): "I think he did the right thing. People were supposed to have loyalty. Obviously they didn’t."

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Chuck Todd just said Democrats told him they need a 17 million vote turnout in Texas to win. I can’t even fathom that is possible. That’s almost 200% of 2016 turnout.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

This is an important point: the problem with Trump wasn’t leaving DC. It was a that he went to properties he owned where he ended up making a lot of $$ off of the Secret Service and other aides paying for rooms.

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

@AdamKinzinger

1 year

Biden is from Delaware. It’s home. Every member of congress goes home every weekend. The cheap shots take away from when you have legit criticism, but you gotta keep feeding the dopamine machine!! More and more outrage, faster and faster!

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 months

The fundamental problem is if Biden said this, we'd have 50 stories on his mental fitness. Do we have even 1 tomorrow? Does anyone even see this clip?

Acyn

@Acyn

3 months

Tonight’s speech from Trump did him no favors. A incoherent speech where he claims he made Israel the capital of Israel won’t help him in November. More:

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1 month

1. The follow up should be did it bother you when Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes did the same thing? 2. Tell me you’re a worthless partisan without telling me.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 month

GOP Rep. Mike Turner on Trump selling $60 bibles: "You know, I haven't really seen that. I think I'm more concerned about the White House restricting the ability of children to put religious symbols on Easter eggs."

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

Holy shit. I don’t think I EVER recall a draft opinion leaking like this. Never. Signals how upset and angry someone — be it a clerk, a justice, etc — is. And rightfully so.

Natasha Bertrand

@NatashaBertrand

2 years

Major scoop from @joshgerstein @alexbward : An initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated inside the Supreme Court shows the court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade via @politico

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

7 years

Every journalist is going to need to be more like @jaketapper for the next 4 years. Been a shining star this year at pushing people.

Mediaite

@Mediaite

7 years

Tapper Presses Priebus on 'Cauldron of Potential Conflicts' with Trump Businesses (VIDEO)

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

For fuck’s sake. This is a terroristic threat against an elected official. This guy should have the FBI at his door ASAP. Hey @JohnCornyn you cool with this guy on your party executive committee threatening the life of your colleague?

Scott Braddock

@scottbraddock

3 years

State Republican Executive Committee @TexasGOP member Terry Harper reacts to Sen Romney, saying he "should be introduced to our friend Mr Guillotine" #txlege

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Again, if someone didn’t think Ronald Reagan should resign over Lebanon, anything they say about Joe Biden should be ignored or greeted with an eye roll. It’s partisan nonsense designed to inflate how big of a blunder this is.

Philip Melanchthon Wegmann

@PhilipWegmann

3 years

And Sen. Josh Hawley calls on Biden to resign.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

They’ve literally dreamed up a worst case scenario that has never happened.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

2 years

Here @RepMikeJohnson asserts that there have been cases in which healthy women, “seconds away from birthing a healthy child,” suddenly decided to have an abortion. The doctor calls this a bizarre hypothetical she’s never seen, but he insists “it happens.” Citations please.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 months

You have to be a special kind of stupid to have your state vote for a constitutional amendment with massive turnout & then openly plot to ignore it. Like do you want to enrage people & have them show up in 2024 & beyond?

Rachel Coyle

@RachelCoyleOhio

6 months

This is an actual press release from the Ohio House Republican Caucus. They're claiming Ohio's new constitutional right to abortion access doesn't repeal the abortion bans passed by the legislature

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

13 days

What's incredible here is that with any other president, this would have led every newscast tonight & been above the fold in every paper.

Kaitlan Collins

@kaitlancollins

14 days

Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. "Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea," Pecker said.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

Why is the GOP getting more and more extreme? Because guys like this endorse guys like JD Vance - who are authoritarians and extremists. Party over all else, the Rob Portman way.

Rob Portman

@robportman

2 years

This evening I spoke w @JDVance1 to congratulate him on winning the primary. I offered my support & look forward to helping keep this seat Republican. I believe we need a #GOP majority in the U.S. Senate as a check & balance on the Biden admin, & Ohio will be key to that effort.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

A reminder: these people were terrorists. They did this, they killed a Capitol police officer, there were bombs found. This is a monstrous act of terrorism stoked by politicians. Which is why Trump should resign or be removed, & the same for the House & Senate ringleaders.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

7 years

@sarahmquinlan @yashar the problem w/the pro-Trump people is that they sure seem to misspeak more than others in politics. People shouldn't

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

If you drank every time he lied, you might die during this speech.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 months

You know the fundamental problem with this guy is he’s built good models and that apparently convinced himself that he knows something about politics. But he actually has no clue. Presidents facing serious primary challenges lose in November.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

3 months

You don't demonstrate your seriousness that Trump is an existential threat to democracy by going through the motions to renominate an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who 75% of voters think is too old without giving anyone a choice because that's just how things are done.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

14 days

Well now this is a hell of a point.

Philip Gourevitch

@PGourevitch

14 days

So Texas allows students to carry guns on campus but not to carry out non-violent protest?

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 months

The irony is Biden is the one who takes care of himself. He exercises, he's not obese.

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

3 months

“When people say Biden is ‘old’ what they mean is ‘frail.’ Trump is functionally the same age as Biden, with much worse BMI & cognitive functioning. But because Trump can yell at the moon like a mad dog, people see him as ‘vigorous’ & age isn’t a problem.”

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

No White House should have this power.

Erica Werner

@ericawerner

4 years

NEWS w @mikedebonis : White House blocked Fauci from testifying in House next week

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

5 years

@KevinMKruse @SecretaryZinke This administration truly nails the perfect combination of stupidity and lack of ethics.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

And 8 of the justices get this.

Miranda Yaver, PhD

@mirandayaver

2 years

Sitting Supreme Court justices should not be making appearances with candidates running for congressional office. This isn't hard.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

It goes without saying that a) a guy calling for a coup doesn’t belong as a speaker for any party. b) No sitting judge on any court should be taking part in a partisan event.

Vaughn Hillyard

@VaughnHillyard

3 years

Michael Flynn was honored at an Alabama county GOP dinner in Birmingham over the weekend. He was the event's keynote speaker & received a "certificate of recognition" from Gov. Kay Ivey. To Flynn's left is current Alabama Supreme Court Justice Mike Bolin.

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Brian Rosenwald

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3 years

Best news of the day.

Dana Perino

@DanaPerino

3 years

Word just in from the vet - Jasper is cancer-free after the surgery. Thank you for your prayers and support. And for loving this silly, athletic, affectionate dog so much! 🙏🏻❤️🍾

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Penn announced a vaccine requirement for all staff and faculty today, and kudos to my university for caring about people’s health and safety. Every business should follow suit.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

9 months

Something the CNN panel isn’t saying as they wonder why Georgia: it was controlled by conservative Republicans. PA, Mich, etc had Democratic governors and secretaries of states.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

5 years

It does amaze me that a 78 year old presidential candidate had a heart attack this week & there has been no chatter as to whether he should drop out. In the past, that would have been almost unthinkable.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

To be clear, this is a deep, deep perversion of democracy. It oversteps on the authority of the executive branch and Congress. They will stop at NOTHING until they completely & totally disregard public opinion on abortion.

Leah Litman

@LeahLitman

1 year

expected but still insane: Judge Kacsmaryk stays (ie, puts on hold/renders without effect) the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, one of the medication abortion drugs, finding the agency’s action violated the law

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Want a reform that could boost democracy, but also has a shot to be broadly bipartisan? It’s time to dramatically enlarge the House. Hasn’t been done in a century as the American population has skyrocketed.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

5 years

People can have fears based not at all in reality. I know an awful lot of academics. Not one of them would factor a student’s ideology into grades. Not one.

George P. Bush

@georgepbush

5 years

Unacceptable that conservative students are so alienated in classrooms that they feel the need to hide their beliefs.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

This guy actively roots for America's enemies, while trying to rip us apart. There is a time not all that long ago that him having a nationally televised platform would've been unthinkable. @SykesCharlie & I got into why he's like this here:

Acyn

@Acyn

1 year

Tucker: It is galling to be lectured about democracy by a man who took power in an election so sketchy that many Americans don't believe it was real. Biden is far less popular in the US than Putin is in Russia.. And it says everything about Joe Biden's tenuous legitimacy

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

This is appallingly inappropriate from the chair of the FEC. He should resign immediately. Lawyers are trained that what matters is evidence & there is NONE to support these allegations. Has the entire right half of the political spectrum just gone nuts?

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 years

I disagree with Steve here. There are 51 people. Any Republican could make this call. None will because they care more about dominating the courts than anything else. But to always pin it on Collins and Murkowski ignores that any 2 Republican senators could stop this process.

Steven Dennis

@StevenTDennis

6 years

There are 2 people who could stop, slow, insist on documents, etc re: the Kavanaugh nomination and it would screech to a halt: Collins & Murkowski. Neither have done so. Collins seems borderline enthusiastic after yesterday's 2-hour "settled law" powwow; Murkowski tomorrow.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

As a historian, I can tell you this is normal. Many legislators who haven’t been in office for decades still have their papers sealed.

MJ Lee

@mj_lee

4 years

New: The University of Delaware tells CNN the curation of Joe Biden's papers isn't expected to conclude until at least spring 2021, and that regardless, it has no plans to release them until two years after Biden retires from public life. w/ @Ellieckaufman

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

7 months

He easily could've had Democratic support had he handled the last few days right.

Heather Caygle

@heatherscope

7 months

The interesting thing is I think this was actually a really difficult decision for many Dems over the weekend -- even after GOP jammed them on CR But so many told me today that watching McCarthy bash them on Face the Nation Sunday lit up member chats and changed their minds

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

If I ran a university, I’m pretty sure I’d be looking at postponing the spring semester 2 weeks. Not only will the covid situation be better in May than January, but I’ve never seen faculty and students this worn out.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Yup. This isn’t complicated. @RadioFreeTom has been saying for years that Republicans need to be defeated at all levels for a while. This is why.

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

3 years

If the voters don't eventually punish the Republicans who are calling for a de facto coup, then we have to conclude that a substantial number of Americans no longer believe in our democracy either.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

By lied Guy means exposed the intent behind a bill that had no legitimate reason for enactment. There are consequences to fighting against democracy.

Guy Benson

@guypbenson

3 years

Good work, Georgia Democrats! You’ve lied hard and loud enough while shrieking “Jim Crow” to harm your own constituents!

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 months

Profile in courage over here. God historians are going to be so harsh about this type of guy - the one who knows better & is going to pretend that Trump is better than Biden for pure political expediency.

Senator John Cornyn

@JohnCornyn

4 months

I have seen enough. To beat Biden, Republicans need to unite around a single candidate, and it’s clear that President Trump is Republican voters’ choice. Four more years of failed domestic policies like the Biden Border Crisis and record-high inflation, and failed foreign…

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

I don't think people realize how crucial of an inflection point 2000 was. Dukakis got crushed + still won WV. In 1996, Clinton won: KY, LA, AR, TN, MO, WV. Gore thought these were toss ups going into 2000. He lost them by 3-15 points & Democrats haven't come close since.

Lakshya Jain

@lxeagle17

1 year

The last GOP presidential nominee to do better with college whites than non-college whites was probably Bob Dole in 1996. The realignment's been going on for a lot longer than we think; it just became much more noticeable recently.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 months

We really don't talk enough about how Sarah Palin is almost certainly the only person on a GOP ticket this century who will be supporting Donald Trump in Nov. I can't think of a historical parallel. Pence, Ryan, Romney, McCain, Cheney, & Bush all have been read out of the party.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

This isn’t true. The deficit stems in large measure from Republicans, dating back to 1981, relentlessly cutting taxes without cutting programs — because the programs are popular and the public doesn’t want to cut them.

Dan McLaughlin

@baseballcrank

3 years

Democrats are massively worse on spending, but Trump is the last guy in the GOP to be part of the solution on spending.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 months

I don't want to get on Ryan, b/c he's a good reporter, but this is what the media does that is frustrating: there is nothing in here to indicate that this is a baseless partisan move that has been trashed by legal experts across the political spectrum. For a not-particularly-

Ryan Nobles

@ryanobles

3 months

RIGHT NOW: House Republicans narrowly pass two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The final vote 214-123. He is only the 2nd cabinet secretary to be impeached. The articles now go to the Senate, where a conviction is not expected.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 months

I truly give up. The banner headline on CNN is Protest Vote Against Biden Exceeds Expectations. They got 13.4%. On what planet is that a great success worthy of a banner headline? He got over 80% without campaigning. This is a great example of everything wrong with the media.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

Pretty much writing the Biden ads for them.

Rory Cooper

@rorycooper

4 years

Trump 200+ days and 200,000+ deaths later: “I learned a lot about COVID...I get it and I understand it.”

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 years

@SteveSchmidtSES I’d add something else: it will be a moment for the 5 living ex-presidents to step up and demand Congress act — signaling to the American people that this isn’t a partisan thing, it’s an American thing.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 months

I gotta be honest, I don’t know why you wouldn’t blitz the Eagles on every single play. They cannot pick up blitzes and refuse to adjust to high percentage routes that can develop quickly.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

Honestly, every Republican running should be asked if Joe Biden won. If they won’t give a clear, declarative yes, they’re not fit for office.

David Weigel

@daveweigel

3 years

For example, will a Republican running in 2022 be asked if a new House majority could revisit the 2020 election and declare Trump the winner? That would be a silly thing to ask, but when you've got Trump himself suggesting the election can be overturned...

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 years

I truly don’t remember a SOTU this negative and divisive. Foreshadows a brutal campaign.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

7 months

Lmfao. There is really nothing disqualifying in the GOP anymore.

Igor Bobic

@igorbobic

7 months

Barrasso on why he endorsed election denier Kari Lake for Senate: "She has a lot to offer to the party and a lot to offer to the country. We're working on getting the majority and she'll help us to get us to 51 senators" He called her "competent" and "an excellent communicator"

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

11 months

I've thought a bunch about what @Timodc has said: you have a deeply devoted family man who has lost one daughter to a car accident & one son to cancer. And these people are relentlessly attacking his other son, who has serious issues. Of course, he's not going to criticize him.

11th Hour

@11thHour

11 months

. @Timodc on the GOP's attacks on Hunter Biden and Pres. Biden: "What do they want? They want the president to disavow his surviving son who has drug problems?... There's nothing Joe Biden can do that would make these folks stop."

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

6 years

@KevinAllred You do know that there is more to life than politics right? She has a life, it was a good year for her. Stop holding her to standards we wouldn’t hold other people to.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

5 years

I can’t fathom why anyone would oppose making any donor to any political cause disclose their identity. I’d put the damn politicians in NASCAR driver suits listing all their biggest donors

Chuck Schumer

@SenSchumer

5 years

The dark money @JudicialNetwork has been running $1.1 million in ads for 'greater transparency' in judicial nominations. So why are they concealing their own donors...? These donors have contributed tens of millions to fund advertising for nominees like Kavanaugh & Gorsuch.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

3 years

I love this kind of thing — if you want Congress to work with you must leave in place the executive orders of the last administration.

Lauren Boebert

@laurenboebert

3 years

If Biden wants Congress to work with him, he should work with Congress instead of signing 15 executive orders and 2 executive actions to circumvent us.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

4 months

And we know this is true, because otherwise there's no reason to a) summon the mob to DC especially on 1/6 vs. some other day and b) send them to the Capitol.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

4 months

First, Trump summoned the mob to DC at a time when his plot to subvert the electoral count was fully in motion. As Baude/Paulsen note, an essential thing here is his hope that the mob would intimidate constitutional actors into violating their duty, implementing the scheme. 4/

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

8 months

Btw, the amount of attention showered on this issue really should prompt a lot of thinking from all of us in the world of media and politics. What percentage of Americans know, let alone care, about the Senate dress code? Does it affect their lives at all?

James Hohmann

@jameshohmann

8 months

John Fetterman probably couldn’t wear his signature outfit to work as a teacher in many schools or as an employee in most fast-food chains. And yet he might soon be seen draped in Carhartt on the Senate floor.

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Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

1 year

This is wrong and anti-Semitic. Our party needs to condemn her and if the Squad whines about it, too bad. The Democratic Party cannot and should not accept one of its elected officials falsely accusing our democratic ally, the only Jewish state, of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

@RepRashida

1 year

Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history but the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. 75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.

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