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Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Polk Award winner. Hand tool woodworker. ✡️ (Sign up for The Backchannel )

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Josh Marshall
1 year
Let's review. Musk went on a bender and offered to buy Twitter at a price based on a weed meme. Then he agreed to a binding agreement to purchase it. Apparently he didn't fully grasp how binding it was. Then he tried to get out of the deal. Twitter sued to force him to ...
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Don't forget. The Trump administration literally had no plan to vaccinate anyone other than nursing home residents. The "plan" quite literally was to deliver vaccines to airports in each state and let states figure it out with no plan or funding. This is a fact.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
A good illustration of why the surgical hand washing technique is really very important
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Josh Marshall
6 years
You're in New Jersey, dipshit.
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Kaitlin Bennett
6 years
Thank you New York for being so awful that I can't even protect myself with my handgun in your crime-ridden city 🙃 At least your pizza is good though
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Josh Marshall
2 years
If you think the leak is bad wait till you hear about the justice and his spouse who were party to a conspiracy to overthrow the government.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Good lord this video. Like a thoroughbred making a late break in a horse race
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Josh Marshall
1 year
So if I'm understanding this right, in tonight's episode of Elon, he high-five tweeted a quote from a neo-nazi pedophile and then later deleted the tweet.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
I don't know this reporter's name. But man, she would not let up even in the face of President Trump's attacks.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
October 19th, 2016
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Las Vegas Mayor offers city as "control group", "we offer to be a control group" to see how many people die without social distancing.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
We need to start understanding that these are quite literally crimes. If you call up the vote counter and tell him to change the numbers or throw away a bunch of ballots, that’s a crime. The person saying no doesn’t make it not a crime.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
One of the funniest, most shade-throwing things about these hearings is Schiff's just total refusal to even pay attention to Nunes batshittery. Just the same whatever dude, "thank the gentleman". Ice cold.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
The DC US attorney said today that people will be shocked when they learn what happened in the Capitol. Keep in mind, top congressional leaders have quite likely been briefed what they've found.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
It's very important to remember. What's being fought over right now in Florida isn't a recount. It's the count.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
I don’t know a lot about Amy Coney Barrett. But I know she’s accepting nomination from a President actively trying to subvert a national election and threatening to hold on to power by force, an attack on the constitution unparalleled in American history. Do I need to know more?
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Josh Marshall
4 years
So to review, based on his own accounts, the President has taken multiple cognition tests for dementia during his presidency, finds them "very hard" and says doctors have professed "great surprise" he was able to answer all the questions.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
i suspect this drive through is going to haunt Trump. not because he needlessly exposed a lot of people but because for someone so image conscious he looked ridiculous. a slow speed drive by by sick old man needing a boost from a small crowd of fans. not a good look.
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1 year
2/ purchase the company. He was losing in court and decided to give up. He was forced to buy the company. Today he's firing half the company's employees. Advertisers are leaving in droves after one week. He's spent the last three days posting passive aggressive ...
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Josh Marshall
7 years
Don’t forget this moment of national disgrace.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
What happened here when President Trump tried twice to pronounce "anonymous"?
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Josh Marshall
6 years
This photograph of Ivanka hurling a refugee child over the border wall is chilling. But it shows how far we've fallen.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
This - FINALLY - is the point. Very, very clear that the White House finally released the aid only when the whistleblower report was coming to light and the Intel committee was already starting its investigation! They relented because they finally got caught.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
So many terrible things have happened this week. But I have to say this spectacle of the President of the United States rushing from account to account trying and failing to get back on Twitter is just deeply pitiful.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
who's gonna tell'em?
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Sarah Matthews
5 years
Dallas, Texas crowd is getting ready for @realDonaldTrump with a little YMCA ‼️
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Holy Shit. Florida GOPer caught on tape telling fellow FL GOPers to make false voter registrations in Georgia so they could vote to save Loeffler and Perdue. He in fact DID register in Georgia and is now under investigation.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Let's say it. The President intentionally and explicitly demanded a violent mob storm the center of government to force legislators to keep him in office in defiance of the constitution and the will of the country's voters.
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1 year
3/ tweets about his new subscription program that if successful would raise maybe 5% of current revenue? Also, he's loaded the company with a billion dollars of annual debt service. Musk needs to sign up 10 million subscribers to Twitter Blue just cover the debt service fees.
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Josh Marshall
1 year
4/ This morning, one week in, he's reduced to this.
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Elon Musk
1 year
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
“Madame Speaker, I have constituents outside this building right now ...” Rep Boebert just before storming of the Capitol.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
@SenTedCruz Sir, generous of you to help put the water @aoc bought into cars.
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Josh Marshall
2 years
The more that comes out, the more it's clear Chuck Grassley really needs to explain what he was talking about when he said he'd be filling in for Mike Pence on Jan 6th. Who put him up to it? Where'd he get the idea?
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Josh Marshall
6 years
One female celebrity calling another female celebrity a vulgar epithet is not the same as a white person calling a black person an ape. This has been today’s episode of things that are obvious and we don’t have to pretend aren’t obvious.
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Josh Marshall
1 year
You've now got new fake accounts spoofing the apology of the real account for the behavior of the other fake accounts.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
Watch Trump's body language as Gov of Washington Jay Inslee explains to him how stupid his arming teachers idea is and asks him to lay off Twitter.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
The Republicans established their principle. If they don’t follow it now Democrats must promise to add two new justices to the court if they take the senate, for a total of 11. Republican corruption can only be met with the strongest means.
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Josh Marshall
2 years
People aren’t figuring in the full implications of the last 48 hrs. The ex president is making a false claim of authority (in pectore declassification) and packaging it in a demonstrable lie (the standing order). He appears not to be getting any legal advice at all.
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Josh Marshall
2 years
my understanding is that if the jury cannot reach a verdict tonight the judge will allow Mr. Rittenhouse to join the deliberations as the 13th juror.
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Josh Marshall
2 years
Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share and it's currently trading at about $36 a share.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
Wow
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Decent chance McConnell suckered Trump into pulling the plug on stimulus. Party is in bust out mode. McC likely sees that Trump is finished, probably senate majority too. Get the Court seat and leave the economy as wrecked as possible to ensure a Biden admin is stillborn.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
It’s ironic that Kavanaugh, who pushed so hard to impeach Bill Clinton over a debatable claim of perjury, so clearly perjured. Repeatedly.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
It is remarkable, scarcely plausible in cinematic terms that little more than a month ago Adam Schiff was on the floor of the Senate saying you know in a crisis Donald Trump will think of himself and not the national interest and that that made him a danger to the country.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
This is how people talk when they’re getting ready to kill people.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
We need to remind ourselves and everyone else again and again and again that this whole horrible episode happened entirely because most of the Republican party spent ten weeks backing a campaign of what they KNEW were lies abt the 2020 election. 100%. They knew. And here we are.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
You got booted from the Christian college you ran for adultery. Then you got convicted of fraud &became a felon. Then whatever dignity you had left got leeched out of you like a wine press by a group of historians unwinding your crank bullshit. What job should you be doing?
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Dinesh D'Souza
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No one is saying you shouldn’t have a job. Go work at Costco or a tattoo parlor or wherever. But should you be TEACHING in the very area where you proved yourself a fraud?
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Josh Marshall
4 years
This is a critical, critical portion of testimony.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Any Democrat who uses the term “court packing” to describe expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court should be smacked upside the head. This is not only idiotic politics. More importantly it is wrong, incorrect, not what anyone is proposing.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
The future is FLA Gov. DeSantis today. The governor who left the beaches and almost all commerce open as the virus spread like wildfire across the country is now blaming his state's outbreak on New York and New Yorkers fleeing to Florida. This is the new political message.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
Important to note what happened yesterday. A voter noticed a security flaw in Brian Kemp's computer system, immediately notified his office. Kemp turned around and launched criminal probe into state Dems for "hacking" to turn attn from his screwup.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
Folks, the whole collusion story over three and a half years. All in 140 seconds. We watched it unfold. Remind yourself what we all saw. Watch/Retweet.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Folks, I'm not feeling optimistic about the Suez situation.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
So today Trump threatened a whistleblower, accused one or more of his top nat sec aides of being spies, demanded a House Chair be interrogated on suspicion of treason and threatened to foment a civil war if he is removed from office.
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Josh Marshall
2 years
Hypothetical: Can a Supreme Court Justice credibly carry on in office if it is revealed that his spouse was involved in a coup to overthrow the government?
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Josh Marshall
6 years
Worth noting the obvious. Trump and his associates are going bonkers because Trudeau humiliated Trump simply by not giving in to his demands and his threats. That's the entirety of this story. Full stop.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Big shout out to the election workers in Arizona being threatened/intimidated by armed Trumpers while they’re doing their job.
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Josh Marshall
7 years
Bro that was yesterday, hardly anybody turned out
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Piers Morgan
7 years
I'm planning a 'Men's March' to protest at the creeping global emasculation of my gender by rabid feminists. Who's with me?
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Josh Marshall
4 years
He used extortion to get a foreign country to sabotage a US election in his favor. What else is there to say?
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Josh Marshall
5 years
How on earth did the RNC get put in charge of handing out tickets to President Trumps July 4th event, which is funded by the federal govt and the us military?
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Kyle Griffin
5 years
The RNC is giving out tickets to Trump's July 4 celebration, HuffPost reports. What had been a nonpolitical, nonpartisan celebration on the National Mall will now likely be a multimillion-dollar, taxpayer-financed political rally, critics worry.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Curious which of Nunes colleagues knew he was part of the plot.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Mini-Scoop: NJ US Attorney Craig Carpenito held a conference call Saturday morning with his entire staff and told them he'd only agreed to take over SDNY because Barr had told him Geoff Berman had resigned of his own volition. The first he'd heard about the whole thing ...
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Still not clear why @TuckerCarlson won’t admit he was one of the first to get vaccinated. Front of the line.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
The most generous reading of Kavanaugh’s repeated deceptions is that under normal circumstances he tells the truth but feels entitled to lie when he believes he is being treated unfairly or when a lot is on the line. In other words, a liar.
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Josh Marshall
2 years
this is like pre-genocide talk
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Ron Filipkowski
2 years
Marge Greene tonight: “The Democrats are the party of pedophiles .. the party of princess predators from Disney .. the party of teachers .. trying to transition their elementary school age children.”
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Josh Marshall
4 years
this is basically the most profound insult to christianity i have ever heard
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Jason S. Campbell
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Fox's Pastor Robert Jeffress: "The effort to impeach President Trump is really an effort to impeach our own deeply held faith values"
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Josh Marshall
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Pentagon says Chinese surveillance balloons crossed through US airspace at least three times under President Trump, who opted to take no action … (like a dog).
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Josh Marshall
2 years
It comes back to the simplest matter. An ex-President cannot invoke executive privilege because he's not the executive. Period. Few things are that simple. This is one of them. Trump stole highly secret documents from the federal govt. Given that he was a former President ...
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Folks, it's over. And the truth is that it wasn't close. The illusion of a nail-biter process was simply an artifact of counting most of Biden's votes after Trump's because of mail in voting. And that delay was part of Trump's effort to cue up bogus claims of fraud to steal it.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
I wish all these quarantined officials the best. But the turnabout of this year's CPAC from a multi-day COVID-19 trolling event to a vector of the contagion is something that would scarcely be believable in a movie script.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
How much campaign money was funneled to Trump family members as consulting fees?
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9 months
Maybe the reason he’s been indicted for so many felonies is that he’s a lifelong criminal and breaks the law constantly.
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Josh Marshall
10 months
Alito's excuse here (the private jet seat would have gone unused otherwise) is for the ages. But you start to see the bigger picture which is that Leonard Leo basically pairs each new Justice w a billionaire sponsor family when they arrive.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Unless Sen Burr can come out and explain that he buys and sells a million dollars of stocks every day, not really sure how this isn't an immense scandal. And frankly, do we think he's the only one?
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Josh Marshall
5 years
Nancy catching up on paperwork like a boss.
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6 years
omg this is amazing
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Josh Marshall
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um... WHAT?
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Josh Marshall
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No. The civil war was abt slavery and permanence of the union. But hey I'm only a US history phd. Let's go with 'Jon The Deplorable's' take.
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Just so we’re clear this is a complete lie. None of them did anything like this. Also, lol “assassination coordinates” …. Good lord what a whiny little bitch.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
So Jerry Falwell Jr claimed the pics of him and his son clubbing in Miami were photoshopped. The photographer was pissed and came forward with a bunch more pictures including ones of Jerry’s wife Becki. Now Jerry says he’s turning the leakers into the FBI.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Doc: It was 94 blood/ox. Reporter: Did it ever go down to 90? Doc: No, no there was never a time when it was in the low 80s. Me: 😬
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Josh Marshall
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He caught Sen. Britt in an out and out lie. amazing work. and just sitting there in plain site. really worth your taking a few minutes to watch this video Sen. Britt, not only an emotionally disregulated freak, also a big fat liar.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
So trump considering giving Iran $15 billion line of credit if they’re come back into compliance with the deal Obama negotiated and which they were complying with until he tore up the dealing. I can’t stand the winning.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
Trump crawling back to Fox News like a Dog!
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Josh Marshall
6 years
You're part of the majority party in the Senate. You can put a stop to this. Your words are meaningless.
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Sen. Susan Collins
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Many border communities are truly intertwined. Canadian nurses, for example, cross the border every day to work in Maine hospitals. A Madawaska, Maine, mill pumps pulp from the Canadian side of the border to be made into paper on the US side. We must preserve this friendship. 2/2
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Josh Marshall
4 years
I’m sure others have thought of this. But it seems not implausible now that next January a Democratic President & possibly a Democratic Congress come into power just in time to inherit an ongoing pandemic and a wrecked economy and face the job of fixing everything Trump broke ..
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Loeffler is clearly a first class sleazeball - light insider trading, you might say. But man, Perdue is a legit crook. He's basically a day trader who got a senate gig to turbocharge his investment research.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
Good lord, you have to watch this hardcore Jake ownage
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Wow, one of Trump's great accomplishments will be to take whatever remains of Ken Starr's reputation, douse it in gasoline and just light it on fire. And I'm totally here for that.
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Josh Marshall
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Chris Cuomo has the Trump Tower Moscow letter of intent with Trump's signature.
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Josh Marshall
4 years
lol. does anyone give a shit?
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Reuters
4 years
President Trump said he will not watch @NFL games or U.S. soccer matches if players do not stand for the national anthem
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Josh Marshall
4 years
Based on the last 20 minutes or so of Schiff's opening arguments it would appear that the President is not only guilty but guilty to an almost comical degree.
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BREAKING: Albuquerque Police have arrested a failed GOP state house candidate, Solomon Pena, for the rash of shootings on Dem officials homes and offices over the course of December. via @TPM
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Josh Marshall
5 years
Obvious: The only reason we're seeing even one line of the Mueller Report is because Democrats won control of the House in 2018. Period. Zero question about this.
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Josh Marshall
3 years
School board Trustee who bashed LGBT curriculum takes a dump during zoom school board meeting, accidentally broadcasts it to all 150 attendees, resigns.
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Trump: "Antibiotics used to solve every problem and now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten to brilliant that the anti-antibiotic can't keep up with it."
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The idea that Ds should have bailed out McCarthy is a codicil of the larger logic of DC punditry in which R bad behavior/destruction is assumed, a baseline like weather, and Ds managing the consequences of that behavior is a given. It’s part of DC being hardwired for the GOP.
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Josh Marshall
6 years
Between 5pm last night and mid day today a group of clerks made contact with at least 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school 35 years ago and got them to sign a letter attesting to his character. I don’t find that plausible.
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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
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Judge Kavanaugh's former law clerks started organizing the 65 female high-school classmates' letter after 5 pm yesterday. Grassley's office released the letter today right after we received it. Impressive work.
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Brutal lesson, but people were saying this loud and clear three months ago. It’s not health vs the economy. Choose the economy over health and you’ll have neither.
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Josh Marshall
5 years
Biggest takeaway from this visit is that these were the visuals White House wanted. Note, only men.
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NBC News
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@MSNBC BREAKING: New video shows shows severe overcrowding of men in cages at Texas detainment facility during VP Pence's visit Friday.
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