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@leahmcelrath @HeerJeet @joshtpm A relaxing thought: one day nobody will care where donald trump is, what he is doing or why. That will be a blessed day. And the sooner it arrives, the better.

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@sahilkapur Holy moly. Did he really say this? That is f**king hilarious.

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@KeithOlbermann @realDonaldTrump Trump is openly siding with a hostile foreign killer against more than half the American electorate.

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@neeratanden @KFILE Trump's dad gave him 440 million dollars for doing no work at all. Lol that we are even talking about this.

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@Tzipshmil @atrupar She heard that "many people are saying" enough times from trump to know bad faith bulls**t when she hears it.

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@atrupar He makes George W Bush sound like a poet laureate. A brain like swiss cheese.

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@OlgaNYC1211 @HawleyMO The protesters literally never even got on his lawn, let alone "pounded down his door". Ridiculous. And I thought we were supposed to be the snowflakes?

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@DennisPerkins5 @JuddLegum The funny thing is not that Rush turned out to be a drug addict. The funny thing is how he condemned drug addicts before he was one.

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Do journalists understand what they’re dealing with? Time to stop treating this administration with restraint and civility. These are dangerous people.

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The Justice Department removed from its manual a section about the need for a free press.

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@Mikel_Jollett Kaepernick was protesting the use of deadly force against unarmed americans. The fact that millions of Americans purposely overlook this fact is very revealing. Trump is the one who does not even know the anthem's words, got 5 deferments, and avoids visiting troops in war zones.

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@DennisPerkins5 @JuddLegum Remember When Rush Limbaugh was arrested on drug charges?

Rush Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges

Conservative Radio Commentator Turns Himself In But Claims Innocence

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@JudiciaryGOP Reported for covid misinformation. Tnx.

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@krassenstein We are slowly assembling a trump to human translator. Examples: Nazis: some very fine people. A full schedule as president: golf.

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@abbydphillip Oddly the Native American army vet who they taunted and mocked was not invited. Strange oversight.

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@JuddLegum The fact that mainstream democrats are not calling on trump to resign or be removed is embarrassing. I mean come ON.

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@mikememoli @CBSSunday This is called bringing the country together: Cat people AND rescue dog people. I approve.

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I'm personally WAY more liberal than Lamb but I am still for him winning. Because it is WAY better than him losing. See how that works? Politics in the real world.

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@dacheteur @neeratanden @KFILE @ewarren Having recently hired a lawyer I think she was charging decent to generous market rate for services. Go to Manhattan, you can hire a lawyer for 1000 an hour no problem, depending on the specific area, more if dealing with a partner. The whole topic is ridiculous.

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@JuddLegum Trump's nonstop horror show has shifted the entire frame of reference. Numbness has set in. Republicans are just holding desperately onto power. Democrats tho are sadly over cautious.

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@Mikel_Jollett And the saddest thing? They don't even want forgiveness. They are doubling down. Tripling down. Abhorrent.

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@th3j35t3r In case nobody knew: New Yorkers fucking HATE Donald Trump. Because we know him.

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@AdrianWapcapIet @ArthurDelaneyHP There was no follow up. Because that would mean doing journalism. That might mean losing access to horrible people. Stenography and careerism is the only job here.

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@BernieSanders Wrong tweet. Sorry man.

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Biden is a very good example of being a normal sane president. But “the discourse” is so deranged now that he is demonized for saying the most anodyne things. This is just a normal centrist presidency here, folks:

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Biden: "There's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos ... there is no place for hate speech or violence or any kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans."

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@PGourevitch @NewYorker What does that even mean? Engaging with Bannon is pointless. Do some investigative pieces or something. No platforming this miscreant.

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@SarahKSilverman @nycsouthpaw @jdickerson Laziness in headline writing is a staple now. @CBS : folks, the players are protesting against *the police killings of unarmed black men*. Ok? Got it? They are not protesting the anthem. They are protesting DURING the anthem. Got it? Ok then WRITE THAT.

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I know nothing matters but this is objectively insane. Forget partisan politics just for a second. No decent country can function like this. Having an American president* who repeatedly sides with hostile foreign despots against other Americans.

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US president and North Korean dictator are in agreement on their shared criticism of former US vice president, White House says. - @MeetThePress

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People are really underestimating what Trump is capable of in the next year. NOTHING is out of bounds for a cornered sociopath with massive wealth and power and EVERY reason to prevent his own defeat. NOTHING is off limits.

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@crampell Secret service was actively part of the GOP coup. Unavoidable conclusion. Someone better clean house at the Secret Service or else no non GOP politician is safe.

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It’s astounding how quickly this type of behavior has become normalized. A society in denial of obvious peril.

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"Trump has threatened to imprison his political opponent (Joe Biden), his opponent's family (Hunter Biden), his predecessor (Obama), and his former opponent (HRC). Trump is the only POTUS to ever threaten these actions." -- @gaslitnation

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Holy. S**t. The end of this paragraph...

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North Korean state media is saying that Trump explicitly agreed to lift sanctions on NK and halt "war games" (joint military exercises with South Korea) — and that North Korea doesn't have to move toward denuclearizing **until the US does**

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@DavidCornDC They want to blame Clinton's loss 100% on her and how she was mean to Bernie. Russia story disrupts that narrative so it must be destroyed.

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@BudrykZack @MarlowNYC Time to do some reporting on the OBSESSION that right wingers have with demonizing cities. The visceral hatred, fear, etc. It really is an obsession. There's a deeper story here.

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@kim @RexChapman And only one of them receives unconditional love from their father.

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@Mikel_Jollett The irony is that journalism is supposed to be the pursuit of truth. But when truth showed up about themselves the journalists couldn't handle it. Actually sad.

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@MollyJongFast As usual the cruelty is the point. Sadism is what they love more than anything.

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People are going to start working back from consequences rather than forward from crimes. They'll just figure "well if he's not in jail then I guess he's ok." or "well if he wasn't impeached I guess he didn't do anything that bad." That is how a dangerous precedent gets set.

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In addition to this, Flynn tried to kidnap a cleric, make illegal nuke deals, worked illegally as an agent for Russia and Turkey, etc. The judge in his case was appalled and wanted him locked up for public safety. Mueller insisted Flynn not go to prison, to the judge's horror.

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@kurteichenwald @JeffKasten @SusanSarandon Anyone who spent the last year saying Hillary + Trump were equally bad: zero credibility now.

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@Mikel_Jollett Exactly this. Trump did not invent the virus. He just unleashed it on the American population. Failing at every turn, to do what is required. You'd almost think he did it on purpose. His reaction was THAT bad.

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@chrislhayes There's no upside here. This is a message to every crook on team trump. A promise that you can do crimes and at WORST end up getting 1/6th the sentence you deserve. Poor people will still get the same harsh sentences they've always gotten.

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@btenoire8 @adamdavidson Exactly. Instead of looking at reality and reporting it they look at the politics and work backward from there to achieve political “neutrality”. And Koch bros pay their bills all the while.

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@abughazalehkat @oneunderscore__ We're going to keep doing this until Florida is 100% under water. And then we're going to keep doing it. Because that's our style.

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@HoarseWisperer @RandyRRQuaid Good lord. Mr. Quaid is unrecognizable. As...a person.

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@Mikel_Jollett Spoiler: they’re all Republicans.

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@DougJBalloon They are literally stealing your material now. That’s pretty ruthless.

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@Rschooley When it became likely that it was Ginni Thomas the search was quickly cancelled.

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@joncoopertweets I certainly hope this is true. I hope that every hostile tweet is a thorn in his side. He deserves every single one and then some.

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@PGourevitch I hope people even remember this. Before ANY sexual assault allegations came to light he had lied repeatedly under oath. That should have been disqualified him immediately.

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@jaketapper The face of an American hero. No confusion about that.

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@DougJBalloon So, really....does anything exist? It depends who you ask.

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@Mikel_Jollett And in our response to his behavior let us consider past tragedies: Benghazi (4 dead, YEARS of investigations) 9/11 (3,000 dead. we blew up an entire country) And now this? 40 f**king thousand dead and counting. The people who let this happen must be held to account. They MUST be

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@JeffreyGuterman @BernieSanders She's a loose cannon. And supported by all kinds of the wrong folks. Sorry to say. I really wish Bernie had kept out of this toxic mess. Too late now....

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@oneunderscore__ @portraitse It’s not as cave-y as I expected from Budweiser tbh.

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What in the actual f***?

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Oh. Wow. Jared Kushner apparently failed to disclosed $1 billion in loans on federal forms. Billion. With a B.

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@DanRather A preemptive pardon: a magic wand for all criminal activities past or future. VERY handy. For crooks.

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@BraddJaffy Ok. That's it for me tonight. That was the straw. See ya'll on the flippity flop.

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Tell me again how women come forward with untrue accounts so they can gain financially? This woman is a hero.

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Christine Blasey Ford is still being harassed, her lawyers say. She's reportedly had to move four times. She's had to pay for a private security detail. And she hasn't been able to return to her job at Palo Alto University.

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@Mikel_Jollett I really REALLY miss these guys right about now.

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Never forget. Never forgive.

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BREAKING: U.S. reports more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in one day for the first time

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@kylegriffin1 The infiltration of the police and military by extremists MUST be dealt with. Too dangerous to just let this go.

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@kylegriffin1 DO THIS ALL NOW. Every hour trump remains in power and not in a jail cell is actively dangerous.

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@atrupar The projection on this guy is off the charts. Adam Schiff is a demonstrably calm individual. And Trump is demonstrably exactly what he is calling Schiff. It's uncanny.

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Zuckerberg makes billions spreading lies. So of course fact checking is his worst nightmare.

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Talking to Fox News, Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn't be “the arbiter of truth”

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Remember: Mueller didn't fail. He never even tried to do the right thing in the first place. He worked very hard at AVOIDING doing the right thing tho. He was focused on that from day one.

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The @realDonaldTrump and @IvankaTrump tax fraud story confirms the stunning negligence of the Mueller Investigation. Rule #1 : Follow the money.

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@nycjim @WSJ That...is not subtle. Freud would be done with this case study in about .5 seconds.

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@CNN Might be time for Bernie to pipe down. Trump deserves nothing but a complete denial of his entire insane agenda.

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@eilperin @jonswaine So. Are we allowed to call them deplorable yet? Or is that still verboten? Unkind?

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@Popehat @AdamSerwer As soon as we can install mandatory pregnancy tests at the borders of all red states things will calm down and we can all relax. Everything nice and organized.

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@realDonaldTrump Dear Ghost tweet writer, a tip for you: You must make more spelling errors to make people believe trump actually wrote this. You must also get all the numbers completely wrong. Either divide or multiply by 10.

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@BrandyZadrozny They’re doing what they always do. Confederate flags up.

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He said what he meant. And he meant what he said. So f**k @BarRescue .

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@AndreaChalupa @JohnJHarwood And those telling the people who have been robbed of their power to stay quiet and polite are doing the work of the oppressors. The GOP would like nothing better than for us to be polite little church mice while they stomp all over us, cheating to control all the levers of power

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@TimOBrien Time for NY to start looking at ceasing payment into the federal government.

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@Mikel_Jollett @mathewi He just described a terrorist. And now Tucker Carlson is busy making this terrorist a hero. Well done America.

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@PhilipRucker Do you realize how credulous and idiotic you sound? The man is simply reading words he did not write and only half understands. Wake up.

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@SuperShaun80 @Lawrence Getting harder and harder to tell the magas from the bros. The same gleeful trolling tone. Sad to watch.

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@BBCNewsnight @Comey James Comey: The man who truly never knows when to shut the f**k up. It's like a supernatural power.

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@BFriedmanDC @CherylRofer Why isn’t the nation? Why isn’t every editorial page?

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@sbg1 Hard to calculate. Keep Biden and Harris away from him. We're going to need an actual government at some point.

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@kylegriffin1 Mueller needs to cut the s**t and just talk to the public. Past a certain point all this careful protocol is insane.

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By contrast #AdamSchiff is calm, collected, and focused. This is a man who takes his job here seriously. And he is immediately disrupted by a trump attack republican. This is a sign of things to come. Democrats will be focused. Republicans will shamelessly disrupt.

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@michaelluo Democrats passed it. GOP refused to do it.

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@LazlosGhost The Lynch version has much better production design and it’s not even close.

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@Mikel_Jollett @adastralplains They are not big readers. Short note, colorful illustrations.

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Chuck Todd thinks democrats need some "whoa facts". How about this: The president* is a lying traitor who attempted to extort foreign powers into sabotaging Joe Biden? WHOA!!

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@adamcbest MIchelle reveals her arms in a dress? Mass outrage! Obama's brown suit? Unforgivable! Melania does soft porn photo shoot. (crickets from the right). You'd almost think there was some kind of double standard at work.

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@CNN @nikkihaley @DanaBashCNN How many different takes can one administration have on the same thing? Do these people ever talk to each other?

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@BoKnowsNews @RonaldKlain Working those glutes taking two steps at a time. 👍

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@charlesornstein @iarnsdorf Trying to remember the punishment for treason....🤔😯

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@grudging1 @joshtpm And that is the objective truth. Obama welcomed trump into the white house. Clinton conceded immediately, even tho she won the popular vote by millions. This bending over backward for madmen has GOT to stop.

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@Mikel_Jollett Classic trumpist PROJECTION. Those who advocate for a Christian theocracy fear a Muslim theocracy. I'll take NEITHER thanks very much.

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@sahilkapur Translation: Republicans want to lock down red states and make sure pregnant women cannot leave to get abortions. Authoritarians, literally.

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@saletan In addition: Trump is a pathological liar. He lies every single day, about things that are provably wrong.

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@sarahkendzior The most frustrating part of this is that NONE of this crazy s**t would be possible without millions of willing accomplices. Take away Trump's fanatical base and he's nothing special. Just another rich crook.

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@jbendery He's going to need an angry woman to scream this information at him in an elevator before he is willing to do anything about it. Are any women available in the area?

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@DavidCornDC Because a good chunk of Sander's supporters decided a long time ago that trump/Russia was a non thing. Now the narrative disintegrates.

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@atrupar Trump should never have been allowed to be president and should be removed now. Clearly unfit. Can’t be any clearer than this.

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@nhannahjones @Emilylgoodin Being in favor of democracy is now considered “too political” for media brains. They have no preference between fascism or democracy. Either one is ok by them.

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@adamdavidson @marcorubio The connections have never been more obvious than they are this horrifying week. One trump fanatic sending out pipe bombs to Trump's opponents. A mass slaughter perpetrated by a man fixated on the same "caravan" that Trump made the center of the 2018 campaign. Clear as day.

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@atrupar Authoritarianism is creeping right along.

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