Regina Schrambling Profile
Regina Schrambling

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Hate sharing IRL. Overshare here. Ranting, too infrequently, at Also & .

Base: center of the universe
Joined August 2008
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Regina Schrambling
21 days
Hunter Biden is getting more shit for buying a gun than Kyle Rittenhouse has for using his to kill two human beings.
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2 years
Wonder why reporters don’t routinely point out that the Pentagon “never turns a profit.” Making money is not the reason we have the USPS. FFS.
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11 months
@VeryBadLlama Every time we get in a car I’m amazed freedumb Americans obey traffic laws as much as they do. Safety can’t be the boss of them.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
Need to put @chefjoseandres in charge of all federal food programs. No one better understands both need and logistics.
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4 years
Thankful for our farm workers and food bank staff whose hard work has put food on the tables for millions of families across our country.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@H_MitchellPhoto Unbecoming?
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
If it were Hillary out holding weekly “rallies” two years after losing media would surely be investigating the costs to taxpayers (Secret Service, travel). Crook ain’t spending his own money.
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Regina Schrambling
5 months
Reminder that Saint Ronnie ripped Jimmy Carter's solar panels off the WH. & here we are.
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I wish we had invested in more of the development of renewable energy sources than invaded countries and importing more oil over the last fifty years.
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2 years
Dear NPR: Abortion is most assuredly a pocketbook issue, and this is not a horse race. And dear NYT: The leak is not the big story. Loss of rights is.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@MairavZ If they had any dignity, they wouldn't participate in the reality shitshow. Zero journalistic value to his sick performance art.
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3 years
@kristine_kenyon @Lilylive000Lily @ElieNYC If this were happening in another country, the heds would all read: Religious hard-liners attempting to undermine democratically elected leader.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
As always, excellent @HC_Richardson explainer of what Republicans are really doing, taking America back before the New Deal to white male dominance. Gonna be a long two years, if we make it…
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
@librarycongress @bikemamadelphia More concern about the flute than about top-secret documents spirited away from the national archive. Just a mystery why.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@revrrlewis Active shooter drills are gonna be quite something this school year. How do you socially distance in the cloakroom?
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
Not just the MAGAts. MSM.
@Archimedes2020
Archimedes Persists 🦉Ω
5 years
Do the MAGAts are circulating a story that Melania is the first #FLOTUS to visit troops in a combat zone. To that I give them this picture of @HillaryClinton in Bosnia in 1996
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@MattLaslo @NativePalate The trauma has to be endlessly relived under this monster in chief. (And who did pay off Kavanaugh's debts?)
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Not a peep in the print paper about @vp ’s hugely successful trip to Africa. Five stories about the guy who lost the last election. Same assholes insisted Hillary go off and knit after she won the popular vote.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Is it bullshit? Who cares? It’s going on Page One.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Brave. And correct.
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Cox Farms VA
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Roadside PSA from your local farm
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Look at this shit. P1. @DougJBalloon could not make it up.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@HelenKennedy Good thing he didn't get a blowjob. Or newspapers around the country would be calling for him to resign. #GOPdidthis
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@RubenGallego I know someone who hired Jared's Harvard roommate and always said: I can't believe he was not the dumbest guy in that room.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
So much progress in one state
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1 year
"Last year's election in November changed everything" -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz talks on CNN about how Dems winning the trifecta led to new gun control laws, including universal background checks
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Reminder that the story of the 10-year-old who no one wanted to believe had to travel out of state for an abortion is actually even worse: She was 9 when she was raped.
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Regina Schrambling
3 years
@TheTNHoller @LauraChapin About at the point where you feel worse for the medical team who had to care for him. And even worse for the vaccinated who were deprived of care while he was hogging resources.
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
Extra credit for "Freedom Caucasians"
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Charles P. Pierce
5 years
The Republican Party completely and utterly disgraced itself at Michael Cohen's hearing:
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
How you can tell a Dem is president
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
NPR with a reminder that “pro-lifers” murdered Tiller.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Superb @HC_Richardson : “the reason we have so many diaries from Confederates in the early 1860s is that they imagined they were founders of a new nation.” And here Republicans are again.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Trickle-down was always a golden shower.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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Regina Schrambling
6 months
@torriangray Apartheid guy buying the joint was always gonna feature this.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
White lady tip: Just got a reminder that anytime a friend sez @vp is not electable you need to push the fuck back. IRL friend is now totally onboard, not least cuz of @acyn 's clips I keep forwarding:
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VP: You know, there's something happening in our country where some people would suggest that the measure of strength is based on who you beat down. That's perverse. The true measure of strength is based on who you lift up.
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@chunkled She's not the cousin who was Rudy's first wife, is she?
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Regina Schrambling
11 months
One of my first memories is of hiding under the table when the parish priest came to "visit." One of my angriest memories is of seeing all the gold in the Vatican while thinking of my mom dropping dollars she didn't have in the collection basket.
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There are ppl who are still more angry that Sinead O’Connor disrespected John Paul II… …than they’re angry at jP2 for covering up child rape. My fellow Catholics, Sinead doesn't need your forgiveness; she deserves your thanks.
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Regina Schrambling
3 years
Dixie Chicks got canceled for less.
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Sarah Reese Jones
3 years
Ted Cruz calls Joe Biden a terrorist who paid for the rocket attack on Israel. Cruz said that Biden stands with terrorists. (Biden has a 60% approval rating and Republicans are getting pathetically desperate to villainize him.)
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
And which side gets more corporate media coverage?
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1 year
Biden and Democrats are out here creating jobs and lowering the price of drugs while Republicans are at CPAC screaming at empty chairs.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Every report on the "convoy" in Ottawa should start by noting that 90% of Canadian truckers are vaxed.
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Regina Schrambling
6 years
@GoldWomyn Sounds racist now but: Brit friend in late 80s marveled that "New Yorkers will turn their children over to people they would not have at a cocktail party."
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@MattLaslo @NativePalate Always remember the dinner party we had after the pussy tape came out. Every. Single. Woman. Had. A. Horror. Story. Trauma all had to be relived.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
@HC_Richardson really laying out what a dangerous game Trump & Republicans are playing. Which is somehow not news fit to print in a paper that kept Whitewater/Yellowcake/Emails on the front page for years.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
As @HC_Richardson reminded everyone this a.m. Trump accepted his second nomination using the WH as a stage. (Covered as "news.")
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Lis Power
2 years
The network that brought you hours upon hours upon hours of Trump speeches and rallies now thinks networks shouldn't air Biden's speech on Thursday if it's political h/t @noah_dowe
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Regina Schrambling
4 months
More outreach to Black voters.
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4 months
Trump on immigration: "We have prisons in the Congo, in Africa, coming." Whole prisons?
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Regina Schrambling
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@IAmSophiaNelson @djrothkopf Wasn’t so pleasant for Muslims (or Sikhs or)
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@russchoma Isn't this the seller the sister who just stepped down as a judge rather than have investigators poking around in her finances? #crimefamily
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@ObsoleteDogma We walked for nearly 4 hours in NYC today. 95% masked, even at sidewalk cafes. Libs believe in science.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Plagiarizing @DougJBalloon
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Failed land deal in Arkansas was relentlessly pursued right to the blue dress, tho.
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Will Stancil
1 year
Doesn’t inspire a lot confidence for the future that a sitting Supreme Court justice was caught in a bonkers series of corruption scandals and seemingly nothing has come of it; even the opposing party was like “Well, wouldn’t want to impair the dignity of the Court too much”
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Regina Schrambling
4 months
Smart piece, bringing all the receipts:
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Aaron Rupar
4 months
"Biden apparently suffers from the rare form of dementia that makes him more focused and disciplined as president than he ever was as vice president." -- @SER1897
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@RedTRaccoon How's about two of his three wives?
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Another day to wonder if the Big Lie would have spread so easily if media had hammered the numbers every damn day. The big loser lost by 7 million votes. More than 10 times the population of the all-important state of Wyoming.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Woke up to see media is still helping the Canadian terrorists by adopting their “freedom convoy” BS for the 10% unvaxed. Sounds ISISy.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
$2 billion in blood money for Jared. All forgotten.
@WajahatAli
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2 years
We've already forgotten about Ginni and Clarence Thomas. We have a right wing extremist on the Supreme Court but look at them woke college kids!
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Too bad he couldn't travel with @vp . Rock star treatment everywhere these days.
@MsWilliamsBlue
Ms.Williams 🧢🌊💙
1 year
An incredible, longer than one minute standing ovation for President Biden from members of the Irish Parliament. America is respected again. Outstanding.👏👏👏
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
“Pro-life party” did this
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The New York Times
2 years
Pregnant women with Covid are more likely to lose their fetuses and babies in the womb or shortly after birth, new research shows. "Quite strikingly, no baby deaths occurred in women who had SARS-CoV-2 and were vaccinated," the paper's first author said.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Yes, I am mad. And staying mad. 2 1/2 years of precautions and then we got sick.
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Regina Schrambling
4 months
@ElieNYC talking in all caps: Expand the court. Cuz Republikans are putting women's lives at risk.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Absolute loon was just on BBC braying the usual Soros/Hunter laptop/witch hunt insanity. And it turned out to be a congressman. Whole world is listening to the last gasp of white supremacy. And it’s gruesome.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
@atrupar Easy to see how Javanka were able to loot and pillage with no press scrutiny.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Reminder that Republicans are coming for everyone’s Social Security.
@RonFilipkowski
Ron Filipkowski
2 years
Peter Navarro tonight: “Help me, please! I’m looking at a half million dollars in legal expenses .. or more! This could go to a million. I’ve got to raise that money. I can’t kill my retirement!”
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Regina Schrambling
7 months
Sequel's gonna be so much worse.
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digby
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I wonder how many people who disapprove of Joe Biden understand what's in store if he loses? #2000dejavu
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
As always, excellent roundup by @HC_Richardson , today on Biden highlighting all the ways Republicans are spelling out how they intend to absolutely screw over everyone but the rich.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
$600 a week is too much for an idled bartender. $50 million overnight is just a start for this guy
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Future historians -- if there are any -- will just be shaking their damn heads.
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Evan Vucci
1 year
As footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is displayed in the background, former President Donald Trump stands while a song, “Justice for All,” is played during a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas.
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1 year
Great column. And they get so mad when you call ‘em white supremacists.
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1 year
New in Public Notice: Daniel Penny shows how much the right loves white vigilante violence
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2 years
Rare props to #NPR , interviewing Black women on #KetanjiBrownJackson 's nomination. "What makes you think she'll face a tough time?" "History." #misogynyandotherism
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
Corruption staring us right in the face & it’s totally normalized. Failed coup leader who installed illegitimate judges is taken seriously as a 2024 candidate. Those emails, tho.
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
Face of the #GOP
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Regina Schrambling
4 months
To quote @HC_Richardson : #democracyawakening . What's essentially minority rule has held back so much progress on social justice.
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Sam Stein
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Sinema and Manchin leaving means the next Dem run Senate gets a bit closer to seriously considering scrapping the filibuster
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
No one tell Manchin
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Regina Schrambling
8 months
Same outlets that kept emails at the top of the "news" every damn day don't even report this stuff.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
#NPR should screen guests to be sure they don't get on and just natter about Dems needing to pander to "blue-collar workers." Biden/Harris admin has been creating jobs like crazy. FFS.
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@B52Malmet Imagine any other undocumented immigrant having the nerve to deface public housing.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
And on January 6, she called that bastard Mike Pence to be sure he stayed safe.
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2 years
Threats made by accused rioters vs Nancy Pelosi on & ahead of Jan 6 "Shoot her in the.. brain" "We're coming for you b***" "Rip her f**ing head off" "I pi**ed in her office" "We're gonna kill her" "I'm gonna go on a killing spree.. Pelosi first" "Putting a bullet in her noggin"
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Regina Schrambling
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None of this gets mentioned off Twitter. Not in NYT or WSJ or on NPR this a.m. #complicitmedia
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scary lawyerguy
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The media questioning Biden's mental acuity while Trump spews word vomit publicly is to 2024 what the media questioning Hillary's fitness for office due to her email habits while Trump was paying hush money and handing poll data to the Russians was in 2016.
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
@MollyJongFast @jaketapper We heard "grab 'em by the pussy." Corporate media clutched pearls over "deplorables."
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
And Flight 93 went down rather than let the capital be attacked…
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The people who committed this unthinkable horror just took control of the House of Representatives.
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Regina Schrambling
4 months
Exit stage wrong
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Scott: He’ll be here in just a little while and when you see him, let’s make sure on Valentines Day we share our love for Donald J. Trump
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
And what is this horseshit? Read the room. Ten-year-olds are being forced to give birth now. And risking getting shot in school.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
No exaggeration. Trickle-down is a torrential golden shower.
@Heidi_Maed_It
🔱 Heidi Maed It 🔱
2 years
@progavalanche They can all go pound sand. I'm so over them!
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Regina Schrambling
6 years
@djlavoie @KFILE Yeah. We know what he did when he was 17. What did he do when he was 14? (Also, too: Wife looks nervous about how they're gonna pay back the $200K if he fails.)
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Great column
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Aaron Rupar
1 year
"It’s a deeply embarrassing document that portrays Trump as a weak and incompetent buffoon rather than the valiant warrior against the deep state his followers have so long believed him to be." -- @davidrlurie
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Regina Schrambling
6 years
@Kat4Obama @JohnJHarwood We're at the "shoot someone on Fifth Avenue" moment.
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Regina Schrambling
2 months
Great piece.
@davidrlurie
davidrlurie
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The publisher of the Times says paper must interview Biden to "verify that ...[he] is still fit to hold the presidency." Meanwhile, Trump can't even stay awake during his own trial.
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Great report:
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Aaron Rupar
1 year
New in Public Notice: Biden is making the federal courts look more like America. But that's not the only way he's diversifying them.
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Regina Schrambling
5 years
@daveweigel @HillaryClinton had a $30 billion plan. Distorted by the media:
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
NYT P1 is a disaster again. No hint in lede story that inflation is global, not just Biden’s problem. Refer both-sides Israel’s murder of an American journalist. And of course there’s a big “Dems in disarray” story.
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Regina Schrambling
8 years
As the Harlem barber quoted in NYT said: "They gave him a car with no engine. And he made it go." Clearly not easy.
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By any measure, an historic presidency.
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WSJ, but worthy of ⁦ @DougJBalloon
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3 years
@AFP No introspection on George Floyd protests here, of course.
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Regina Schrambling
2 years
As always, you can save a lot of time and frustration just by reading @HC_Richardson ’s summary. As NYT describes flushing the people’s documents etc. as “highly irregular practices.”
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Regina Schrambling
1 year
Way to put a neon sign on his fail in the history books.
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Scott MacFarlane
1 year
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy just told us he supports moving forward two Trump Impeachment expungement resolutions. Including for Jan 6
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Regina Schrambling
8 months
Excellent (& glad I tuned out)
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Aaron Rupar
8 months
New in Public Notice: Please get Vivek Ramaswamy off my TV, and other debate thoughts
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Regina Schrambling
4 years
And because he did all that, racists lost their minds.
@metaquest
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President Obama had the confidence to revere science, listen to experts and lead with compassion. He lead with actual plans and details, articulated short- and long-term strategic goals, always had an end-game and always worked in the national interest and the greater good.
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