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2 years

Some personal news -- I am going to supplement my regular column and feature writing with a new newsletter, which will be more informal and hopefully a lot of fun. Sign up:

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Sign up for Jonathan Chait’s newsletter for New York Magazine, featuring Chait’s musing on news and politics from the center-left.

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We're in that short, golden period when anti-anti-Trumpers disappear from Twitter, awaiting their new talking points.

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If you haven't watched Schiff argue for impeachment, you're missing something historic.

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The song is a condemnation of a rich person who shirks military service and reduces his tax burden by misleading the government

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“Fortunate Son” plays as Trump de-planes, an entry for the “nobody listened to the lyrics” hall of fame.

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The Flynn transcript shows the incoming Trump administration colluding with Russia against the U.S. government

Transcript Shows Trump Adviser Colluding With Russia in 2016

Michael Flynn had good reason to lie to the FBI about his conversation with Russia’s ambassador.

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Obamacare was passed into law by 218 House members and 60 Senators. The wall did not pass Congress.

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True story.

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Ukraine has drawn the admiration and awe of the entire world in a way I can't recall any nation ever doing before.

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Cops threatening to quit over vaccine mandates is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform police departments

How Vaccine Mandates Can Promote Police Reform

Cops want to quit rather than get jabbed? Great!

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Remember how Bloomberg was going to spend a billion dollars to defeat Trump even if he didn't win the nomination? What happened to that?

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This clip is an incredible illustration of partisan bias operating in real time.

Republicans against Trump

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Joe Rogan mocks President Biden (”You’re done.”) for saying “We didn't have enough airports” during the Revolutionary War, then realizes Trump is the one who said it. Biden just quoted Trump to mock him. Oops.

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This is devastating report. The federal government could have mobilized the military and other branches to contain the coronavirus and it's done almost nothing until now.

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Axios has some spectacular reporting on Trump's plan to steal the election. Read it all, but this bit was especially incriminating:

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"Are you worried about reports of starvation, your highness?" "Not at all, the palace is well stocked with food."

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CNN's @AlisynCamerota : "Hospitals in WI are near capacity. Does that give you any pause about going there and holding a big rally?" Trump 2020 Press Sec. Hogan Gidley: “No, it doesn’t … the VP has the best doctors in the world around him."

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THAT WAS THE IRAN DEAL HE CANCELLED

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Trump wants at 'some point' to 'sit down and work out a fair deal' with #Iran . 'We just don't want them to have nuclear weapons, that's all we want.'

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I can't believe they followed Bondi's anti-nepotism remarks with Tiffany Trump, not bothering to insert a speaker between them.

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Trump is extremely mad his tax returns are coming out

Trump Is Extremely Mad Prosecutors Will See His Tax Returns

Former president releases statement that’s angry even by his standards.

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Republicans outsourced Ukraine policy to a private lawyer being paid by Russian mobsters. An Army vet objected to their extortion racket. Republicans are calling him disloyal.

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Au contraire: it's the authoritarianism we should worry about, it's the incompetence we should be grateful for

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It’s the incompetence, not the authoritarianism we should be worried about.

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I have questions about Rep. Greene's theory that the California wildfires were started by the Rothschilds using a space laser in order to clear land for high-speed rail

MTG Blamed Wildfires on Jewish Space Laser

She is even nuttier than previously believed.

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The only lockdowns are happening in China, a country that has massive economic leverage over Musk, and which Musk won't criticize.

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The Ukraine scandal is not a phone call. It's Trump spending months corrupting US foreign policy into a weapon against Biden

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Why I think this is quite seriously the worst day of Donald Trump's life

Biden, Tom Brady Mock Trump in Trump Nightmare Come to Life

It’s the sum of all Trump fears.

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4 years

I give McConnell credit. It's rare for a Republican to admit error and acknowledge reality. Much more common response to being proven wrong is to dig in and attack the liberal media.

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Mitch McConnell is backed into a corner and forced to admit he lied about the Obama administration not leaving a pandemic plan, on Fox.

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4 years

Remember, we need to keep the Electoral College, because under a national popular vote, candidates would IGNORE RURAL AREAS

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NPR says it has written proof Pompeo is lying about his interview with @NPRKelly

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Apparently the "Devin Nunes' Mom" account is not his actual mother, nor is "Devin Nunes' Cow" account written by his cow. Probably not even a cow at all.

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Devin Nunes files bonkers $250 million lawsuit over mean tweets

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6 years

Poll: Americans consider Barack Obama the greatest president of their lifetimes

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4 years

Gabbard is falsely characterizing Clinton's comments -- she said Republicans, not Russians were grooming her for a 3rd party bid. Ironic Gabbard is framing her case around a demand for a correction while herself spreading misinformation.

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The Gabbard campaign’s demand for an apology from Hillary Clinton includes the text they want her to deliver, including "I support and admire the work that Congresswoman Gabbard has done and will continue to do."

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Josh Hawley Believes Disliking Josh Hawley Is Censorship

The senator’s new pose is an American Mandela.

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Bernie's refusal to let Bloomberg help him if nominated is a sign he's not just pretending to be crazy

Bernie: I’d Rather Lose Than Let Bloomberg Spend Money on Me

So much for Bernie’s secret pragmatism.

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"you can curse the darkness or you can light a candle. I’m getting a fucking welding torch. Okay?" Carville at his finest:

"We’re losing our damn minds": James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

Why the longtime Democratic strategist is "scared to death" of the 2020 election

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The single worst practice in political journalism is attributing decisions by one party to “congress.”

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pls carry this comment through the doc thx

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I have this crazy theory that Trump's campaign is colluding with Russia right now

The Trump Campaign and Russia Are Colluding Right Now

People who are certain there was No Collusion also pretty sure Russia didn’t hack Hunter Biden.

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3 years

FYI, in contrast to the dour tone of the news coverage of last night, my read is that Democrats are closer than ever to a deal to pass both bills and that the last 24 hours was positive, not negative.

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The look on Cruz's face when he realizes the woman is a complete lunatic who believes everything he has been saying

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I think the biggest story of the night by far is Trump overruling the FDA scientists to rush a vaccine before the election

Trump Determined to Get Preelection Vaccine, Overrules FDA

It’s becoming abundantly clear that Trump’s political team is overruling the science to rush through the approval of a vaccine before the election.

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I've been following Trump's new Fed nominee for more than twenty years. He is not a smart person.

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As little respect as I had for the Republican base, I never thought somebody could convince them Kim Jong-Un is a good dude and Mitt Romney is a scumbag. But here we are.

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I, for one, am glad to see he is back, and well!

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3 years

I don't see any principled distinction between the 50s Hollywood blacklist and what just happened to Gina Carano

Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Blacklist

What is the principled difference between barring communists and barring conservatives?

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7 years

Very similar situations, except 1) He's not your friend 2) He is a reporter 3) Rather than manipulate you into talking, you called him up

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. @RyanLizza is the Linda Tripp of 2017. People know. And he is up at night not being able to live with himself.

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"Binary" is so grating. What about something softer, like "Sophie's"?

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White House is considering a new separation policy called "binary choice" that would gives migrant parents the option of remaining detained as a family or agreeing to a separation so that the child would not remain in immigration custody.

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The president is a rapist.

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This is the story behind E. Jean Carroll's account of her alleged encounter with Donald Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room more than two decades ago

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Last night, Klobuchar guts Buttigieg, and now Biden does it in an ad. They're going to let Bernie run away with the state. Amazing.

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The Biden campaign dropping a nuclear bomb on Mayor Pete today. This is the most brutal ad I've seen in a long time.🔥😂

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Is it going to be Judaism? …It’s not going to be Judaism, is it?

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Michael Flynn tonight: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.”

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Trump repeatedly said he released a complete, word-for-word transcription of his call with Zelensky. He lied.

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He is not a smart man

Trump Says Coronavirus Will Help Economy by Stopping Travel

A line-by-line analysis of an almost incomprehensibly ignorant statement.

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Time does some digging and produces more evidence Paul Manafort was working for Russia during the 2016 campaign

Exclusive: Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch

A TIME investigation reveals a Russian ex-spy was a key link between Paul Manafort and a Putin ally

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Many Democrats fear Bernie Sanders would be an extremely weak candidate against Trump. They are right.

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To be "the people's president" I think at minimum you should have to win the popular vote.

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Unfortunately for Biden, Trump has already claimed Pennsylvania's electoral votes, using the term "hereby."

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When conservatives say police shootings are rare, they're usually overlooking the fact that infuriating incidents like this happen routinely and have a profoundly corrosive effect.

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Was the slam necessary?

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After the Capitol siege, Republicans were shaken and open to self-reflection. That window has closed.

Republicans Have Decided Not to Rethink Anything

What if they held a GOP civil war and nobody came?

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The cover-up will backfire by legitimizing a continued House investigation.

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This is the presidential campaign, right here, in 30 seconds.

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what an ad.

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Moody's Analytics forecasts a Biden presidency would mean 7 million more jobs than a 2nd Trump term

Economist: Biden Plan Creates 7 Million More Jobs Than Trump

Average household incomes will also increase nearly $5,000.

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McClatchy's reporting that Michael Cohen did indeed visit Prague during the campaign is very solidly sourced. And it indicates direct collusion between Trump and Russia.

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Republicans claim Biden's plan raises taxes on the middle class. It's not a defensible claim. It's utterly false.

Republicans Say Biden Taxes the Middle Class. That’s False.

Biden’s plan fulfills his campaign promise.

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Confused Trump tricked by Fox News into opposing his own surveillance bill

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He's calling her like a dog, and then she scampers to him, it's one of the most humiliating things i have ever seen in politics.

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Martha McSally has done everything she can to appeal to Trump & his base This is how he introduced her: "Just come up fast. Fast. Fast. Come on. Quick. You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don’t want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick. Come on"

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In the long history of Jewish intrafamily smackdowns, this smackdown of Stephen Miller by his uncle might be the greatest ever

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Biden today proposed using the military to set up mobile field hospitals. This is why:

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The United States has only 2.8 hospital beds per 1,000 people. Italy has 3.2 beds per 1,000. We are moving rapidly towards a massive shortage: expanding hospitals, getting more beds, and figuring out how to make some mobile to handle local outbreaks is critical.

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Trump said so many crazy things to Jonathan Swan, hardly anybody noticed he said the 1964 Civil Rights Act didn't work out well

9 Wildest Answers in Trump’s Jonathan Swan Interview, Ranked

The 1964 Civil Rights Act hasn’t worked out?

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Firing a person because Mike Cernovich wildly misread a 2009 tweet and ran a smear campaign. Surreal.

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Exclusive: @MSNBC to Cut Ties With @SamSeder After Roman Polanski Rape Joke

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"There is not a Republican alive who would find it acceptable for a Democratic president to press a foreign country to work with his personal lawyer to investigate a domestic political rival."

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There’s an Obvious Problem with Rudy Giuliani’s Spin on Ukraine via @DavidAFrench

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Democratic voters were very clear that they wanted a center-left nominee. Biden's nomination was neither a fluke nor a plot.

Why Can’t Bernie Accept Democratic Voters Didn’t Want Him?

Democrats wanted to nominate a moderate. They got one. No conspiracy required.

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“Harris accepted donations from money-laundering swindler with history of racial discrimination”— next Trump attack

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Donald Trump donated twice to Kamala Harris when she was running for reelection as California attorney general, according to state records. Ivanka Trump donated as well.

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A "news organization" that gets exclusive rights to cover official government business is the definition of state television

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NEW: News media is barred from entry at Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of controversial elections bill, SB 90. DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske says bill signing is a “Fox exclusive”

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As a feat of political rhetoric I have never seen anything close to what Schiff has done in the impeachment trial. He's crafted hundreds of thousands of well-wrought words in a short period of time, and delivered them in highly compelling form.

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On MSNBC, @neal_katyal just said the NY grand jury could indict Trump before the election and thinks everybody is getting this wrong. (I have no idea if that's true, just noting one important dissent to the fast-forming consensus.)

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The news media isn't biased against Trump. It's biased in his favor.

The Media Isn’t Biased Against Trump. It’s Biased for Him.

The coverage is hostile, but he is held to a more forgiving standard than any modern president has been.

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Can't impeach Trump before an election. Can't impeach him after he leaves office. In between, the Senate was on recess. Oh well.

McConnell: Trump’s Impeachment Was Too Soon, Now Too Late

And there was a perfect moment, but they were on vacation.

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Notable fact here: 3 days after the meeting, Assange announced he would be publishing Clinton emails.

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Donald Trump Jr.'s 'denials' on Russia collusion are all actually confessions

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The real scandal here is that Trump's lawyer is apparently colluding with Russia on another hack-and-leak campaign operation

Rudy Found Biden Emails, Totally Weren’t Stolen by Russia

Unless Trump’s lawyer is cooperating with a Russian hack-and-leak October surprise? Nah.

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Did Trump just respond to Biden citing 525 kids separated from their parents with "Good"?

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Keeping Trump's tax returns secret is a massive national security risk

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Two! Two whistleblowers!

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What's weird is that Jordan's allies keep going out of their way to bring up his wrestling history, when it's connected to his complicity in a horrific sex abuse scandal

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Listen Hellboy. You talk good game when you’ve got Hollywood makeup & stuntmen. But I’ll bet $10k—to the nonpolitical charity of your choice—that you couldn’t last 5 min in the wrestling ring w/ @Jim_Jordan w/o getting pinned. You up for it? Or does your publicist say too risky?

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It sounded better in the original German

C.S. Blennerhassett 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇧🇦🇦🇲

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"Sacrifice the Weak" – imagine not just thinking of this but actually writing it out AND taking it out on the street in Nashville, Tennessee.

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"By the early 2000s, a third of the buyers of Trump Tower’s most expensive condos were Russia-linked shell companies or individuals from the former Soviet Union," notes @NatashaBertrand

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This @Milbank report from Nevada is one of the most horrifying things I have ever read

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One of the most important structural asymmetries in American politics is that Republicans have a mass media ecosystem that always supports them, while Democrats don't

Why the Media Is Worse for Biden Than Trump

The last week has been more brutal for Biden than any week of Trump’s presidency.

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FBI has info indicating Trump campaign coordinated with Russian hackers. Holy. Cow.

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Asking Jane Goodall about Trump, was a stroke of genius, @JamesFallows

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Kamala Harris is using a lot of her time to set up investigation of Sessions.

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I'm trying to avoid alarmism, but the elements here -- competent officials fleeing, insurgents moving in -- looks like a system in an advanced level of disintegration.

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This @Milbank report from Nevada is one of the most horrifying things I have ever read

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We're losing track of the big picture in all these small, disconnected stories: Trump is destroying the entire the ethos of good government

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Gee, do you think maybe he got some bad news from his lawyers this morning?

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Trump is fomenting anarchy because he cannot competently manage the pandemic

Trump Plans to Contain the Coronavirus by Unleashing Anarchy

If you can’t send out high-quality tests, what about sending angry mobs?

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"Ms. Sinema of Arizona has privately told colleagues she will not accept any corporate or income tax rate increases." What? How is this buried in the 27th paragraph?

For Schumer and Pelosi, the Challenge of a Career With No Margin for Error (Published 2021)

The top two Democrats in Congress face a daunting pile of legislative imperatives. With President Biden’s agenda hanging in the balance and few votes to spare, can they get it done?

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This is a terrific speech by McConnell denouncing the filibuster as a Jim Crow relic, and it's a shame he abandoned this sensible position.

@hayesbrown.bsky.social

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Anyway, please enjoy this video from 2005 of Mitch McConnell extolling how the Senate is totally within its rights to invoke cloture with just a majority of votes and how the filibuster was used to block civil rights bills

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The GOP is evolving into an authoritarian party. Trump accelerated it, but it will continue after he is gone

Republican Senator Blurts Out That He Hates Democracy

Mike Lee loves Trump because they’re both authoritarian.

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Trump campaign now referring all questions about alleged plagiarism to its staff attorney

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3 years

Trump is going to try to discredit the legal system the way he discredited the election system. Prosecutors need to prepare for that now.

Prosecutors Need to Prepare the Country for Trump’s Trial

The more shocked we are, the easier it will be for Trump to discredit the system.

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Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

8 years

Trump vindicated about one thing: Cruz HAS been photographed with a guy who plotted a presidential assassination:

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Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

3 years

I've never seen a campaign before with such a sharp contrast in neck lengths

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Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

5 years

Yup. That's the whole dynamic right there.

ABC News Politics

@ABCPolitics

5 years

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “We cannot have the president, every time he has an objection, to say I’ll shut down the government until you come to my way of thinking…If we hold the employees hostage now, they’re hostage forever.”

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Jonathan Chait

@jonathanchait

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"That so many are complaining about the situation is not a sign that something is wrong with the American economy. It is a sign that corporate executives have grown so accustomed to a low-wage economy that many believe anything else is unnatural"