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"Those on the left, the extreme left, have shown themselves to be horrendously willing to absorb and promulgate antisemitism in a way that, if it weren’t so dangerous, would be laughable," says Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden's special envoy to combat global antisemitism. My…

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Iranian women are braver than Russian men.

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The most powerful sign of the #WomensMarch .

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Just lit my Shabbat candles with our space laser, like a total boss.

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If a football player kneeling during the national anthem is an act of appalling disrespect to the men and women who serve, what is it when the Commander in Chief refuses to go to the cemetery to honor fallen soldiers because of a little rain?

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To think we spent 20 years fighting violent religious extremists—abroad.

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Serious question: why is Louis DeJoy still Post Master General?

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That moment when you slow down for a minute and are hit, overwhelmed, once again by the rage and the grief, by how bone-crushingly unfair and monstrous this all is, for this small, insecure men to destroy so many lives for absolutely nothing.

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I didn't speak English when I immigrated to the United States. Now, I get paid to write in it. Just saying.

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Eighteen months into this pandemic, so many people I know are still feeling so down (myself included). One friend put it this way: the bad things are disproportionately destabilizing and the good things are insufficiently fortifying. Anyone else feeling this way?

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Last night when I was in the ER, I asked the absolutely wonderful doctor taking care of me if, five weeks into #COVID19 , I were still contagious. He said he didn't know, adding, "The CDC has guidelines for this, but I don't trust the CDC anymore." That's where we are, folks.

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And now we know what September 1, 1939 would have looked like if we had social media.

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What galls me most about the spike in #Covid19 cases in the U.S. is that all the economic, psychological, physical pain we went through in the spring was all for naught. All our sacrifice was nullified by a handful of states who, like Trump, just hoped the virus would go away.

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A friend from Moscow is racing toward the border with the Baltics, has been driving all night—no plane tickets left. "We're trying to get there before the president's address to the nation," friend says, referring to widespread rumors that Putin is about to declare martial law.

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I don't know, maybe it's a crazy idea, but if you're a big company and you use the roads and the bridges and the tunnels and the other amenities of America's infrastructure, maybe you could help pay for it along with the rest of us?

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Instead, the President is getting cutting-edge therapies, paid for by our tax dollars, that none of us can get because the President, who paid nothing in taxes for 10 years, has willfully downplayed the virus and who is trying to kick people off their health insurance.

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Not taking hydroxychloroquine.

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4 years

When the President of the United States praises "bloodlines" on national TV, I feel the same kind of existential dread and fatigue, the same kind of chest pain as I do when I read accounts of the Holocaust (of which I've been doing a lot for my book). It's...awful.

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2 months

Hey Tucker, will you cover this aspect of life in Russia?

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@navalny Police have detained several people at a makeshift gathering in memory of @Navalny in Moscow, as others throw snow & shout "shame!"

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Spoke to a friend still in Moscow who described the mood in the city as "funereal." "It's a catastrophe for the country," she said.

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Listen, there are some of us on here for whom both the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism are very real, non-metaphorical things, and it would be nice if people stopped invoking them in bad faith to describe losing Twitter followers and having to walk through metal detectors.

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The United Kingdom said it would freeze and seize the assets of Russian oligarchs in the U.K. if Putin invaded Ukraine. Your move, London.

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We are a country where two presidents who both lost the popular vote have now placed four justices on the Supreme Court. Democracy in action.

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A photo of a man secure in his manhood.

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3 years

I am looking for Joseph Epstein's essay debunking Melania Trump's claim to speak five languages and to have [checks notes] graduated college, but am not having any luck.

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Today is the beginning of week 5 of my having #COVID19 . This time last week, I was nearly hospitalized. I am now on the up and up now, but seriously, be careful out there. This thing is no joke.

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2 months

Even in death, Navalny can bring out more people naturally than Putin ever could. And that’s why Putin killed him.

Команда Навального

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Спасибо ❤️‍🩹

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BTW, expect to see a massive exodus...from Russia. Anyone with means and a passport is trying to get out right now. Many urban, educated Russians are horrified and terrified, and they know that it won't just face economic hardship at home but political repression, too.

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6 years

So now we know: Paul Ryan and Gary Cohn draw the line not at neo-Nazis, or sexual assault, or climate change, or Russia, but trade. That is, money.

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A friend, a Russian journalist, just wrote to say he safely crossed into Estonia last night—on foot. With his dog.

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What I will never understand is how the time between 1 pm and 4 pm is seven hours and the time between 8pm and 11 pm is seventeen minutes.

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Hearing from several friends that there are now limits in Moscow grocery stores on how many items a person can buy at a time. Back in the U.S.S.R.

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This won’t change anything, just as Sandy Hook didn’t. In America, women are less important than babies, and babies are less important than guns, and money is more important than all of it combined.

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You know, it's almost like there's a different standard for the white guy that "speaks his mind," and for women, who are immediately labeled "vulgar" and "insulting." (Trust me, there is.)

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4 years

This is Kellyanne Conway’s daughter

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"What's the point of the vaccine if you still get #COVID19 ?" Well, I had it once before the vaccine and was sick for 2 months, ended up in the ER with partially collapsed lungs, was left with asthma. I had it once post-vaxx, and it was a mild flu. Was feeling fine after a week.

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Look, I'm from the former Soviet Union. One of the reasons Putin, an alumnus of the KGB, the agency that committed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, came to power in 2000 and stayed is that people wanted unity rather than accountability. Chew on that.

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2 years

My periodic reminder: two presidents who lost the popular vote appointed five Supreme Court justices to lifetime appointments.

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6 years

Ran into an old source from Moscow here in Brussels and asked him how Moscow sees Trump. “As a total idiot, a useful battering ram who goes after the American elite and NATO.”

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Am I the only one who thought it was weird that President Trump used the White House—federal property—for the private funeral of his brother?

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I'm old enough to remember when a conversation between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch on a tarmac made Republicans scream bloody murder.

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The EU just closed its airspace to Russian planes. FedEx and UPS suspended service in Russia. BP is getting out. Russian banks are running out of dollars. The ruble is crashing. Putin is finally getting his dream of taking Russia back to the USSR, an impoverished, hermit kingdom.

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That thing where you believe in free markets—until you have to actually live by its rules.

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Jim Cramer says Boeing 'will run out of money' if it is not 'saved'

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Last night, I was talking to my dad and telling him I was concerned that 2021 would make us miss 2020. He responded with a Russian saying I’d never heard before: “On average, we live pretty well: worse than last year, but definitely better than next year.”

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Maybe Boeing should’ve thought of that before having all that avocado toast.

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Jim Cramer says Boeing 'will run out of money' if it is not 'saved'

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Real journalists are losing their jobs, but the handmaids of American fascism are getting plum spots in legacy American media organizations. Shame on you, @NBCNews

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Ronna McDaniel to join NBC News as political analyst

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5 years

Can we publicize the fact that he cited your father and your friend, Candace Owens, as inspiration?

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Don’t give the POS NZ shooter what he wants. Don’t speak his name don’t show the footage. Seems that most agree on that. The questions is can the media do what’s right and pass up the ratings they’ll get by doing the opposite? I fear we all know the answer unfortunately.

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Yo-Yo Ma, along with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos, begins his performance at Washington’s Kennedy Center with a performance of Ukraine’s national anthem. A full, standing house.

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In the span of exactly one week, Russia went from an authoritarian country to a totalitarian one. The distance between the two is always short, and one prepares the ground for the other.

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I love this silent movie

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I think I'm gonna buy the movie rights to this #Kisscam GIF. Who's in?

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2 years

fired some shots earlier this evening

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Ioffe: Every time I’m asked by Americans do Russians really believe this stuff… as if we don’t have the same thing happening here. You have 40% of the American population that was convinced in just one year that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election…

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I really love that, after everything that’s happened over the last six years, there is a vocal contingent on this website that really believes that Clarence Thomas will resign. God bless you, every one.

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I swear to god, if another interviewer asks me another question where the premise is “Putin is a master strategist,” I will well and truly lose it.

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6 years

The gunman shot three cops.

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President Trump, asked about gun laws, says the Pittsburgh synagogue should have had armed security at the bris and the gunman wouldn’t be able to do what he did

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I don’t think Melania is going to be able to deliver this speech.

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SCOOP: Turns out Donald Trump, Jr. corresponded with Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. My latest.

The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

The transparency organization asked the president��s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s...

www.theatlantic.com

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Childhood friend called from St. Petersburg. She and her husband are in shock, disgust, despair. "We'll never live down this infamy. The way the Germans are still apologizing for what they did 80 years ago, that's going to be us and our grandkids."

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FDR: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." DJT: "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."

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So Republicans in Congress are pushing to ban Russian oil and gas imports—and to push Europe to do the same—which would send gas prices skyrocketing, which Republicans would then hang around Democrats’ necks in the midterms, am I reading that right?

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Ukrainian parliamentarian Kira Rudik tells @JoyAnnReid that she is impressed with how Zelensky is handling this. “He is acting in Ukraine’s best interests. He didn’t flee. He isn’t scared.” She is from the *opposition party.* “I normally criticize the hell out of him.”

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Has Joe Biden been tested for #COVID19 after standing indoors with a confirmed covid patient who spent nearly two hours screaming at him?

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During the campaign, people kept asking: Why does Putin favor Trump? Today, Putin met with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran to discuss the future of Syria, just as Trump announced a pull-out. That's why.

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Can someone please explain to me why Trump et al are so hung up on hydroxychloroquine? Because I really don't get it.

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My New Year’s resolution is to continue stubbornly saying “small,” “medium” or “large” at Starbucks instead of succumbing to their tyranny of weird, illogical terms.

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So after this week, we can all agree, right, that Richard Nixon was a more moral president than Donald Trump?

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One of my least favorite things about the patriarchy is partly what Serena Williams talked about: there is this fiction that women are emotional and irrational, compared to rational, cool-as-a-cucumber men. Except when women get upset, we don’t shoot up schools and churches.

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Months after Ahmaud Arbery was lynched, @washingtonpost released police incident of the video, which showed Arbery lying on the ground, bleeding and gasping for air, and the police officers completely ignoring him while attending the McMichaels. I hope we see justice there, too.

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What is the point of all these pardons? Is it to own the libs or to show that rule of law is not something the United States is really interested in pursuing anymore? Or that the President likes bad boys? Maybe I’m naive, but I don’t really get it.

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A friend just reminded me of this: Alexey @Navalny came to my going away part when I was moving back to the U.S. in 2012. He tried to convince me not to move, Russia was just getting interesting, he said. Then we took a photo, I told him to look gangster. 💔

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To be clear, Sen Loeffler not only dumped stock, illegally using non-public information (allegedly), she used the proceeds to buys stock in a TELEWORKING SOFTWARE company, profiting off the #COVID19 -induced collapse of the economy.

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"Stop texting me," friend asks, "I'm trying to clean out my phone. They're searching everyone's phone at the border. I'll write to you once I'm on the other side."

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This is what I don't understand: the job of being President is to deal with crises like this one. Trump hates doing this job. Why does he want to keep it for a second term, when things are going to be even worse?

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New: Some of Trump’s advisers described him as glum and shell-shocked by his declining popularity. He has struggled to process...believing he was on a glide path to reelection to realizing that he is losing. Via ⁦ @jdawsey1 ⁩ ⁦⁦et al

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I spend all day trying to stay on top of developments in Ukraine, to answer TV anchors' questions as rationally and analytically as I can, and then I stop to talk to a friend in Moscow or in Kyiv and I'm crushed all over again, wanting to weep and vomit at the same time.

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Two thoughts: 1) This is what Putin does. 2) This is why Trump talks about protesters being fake and for hire. (And why Putin does, too.) Elementary projection.

Shell Workers Had To Attend Trump Speech To Be Paid, Were Ordered Not To Protest: Report

They were instructed: "No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance," according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Everyone’s asking if the US government has a plan. Trump spent the last 3 years hollowing out our diplomatic corps, undermining military commanders, and denigrating intelligence agencies. His supporters like it. They believe he was sent by god. They don’t need him to have a plan.

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Marie Yovanovich gets a looooong standing ovation at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service

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“I wrote a book about how big tech is evil. Buy it now on Amazon,” he wrote on Twitter for iPhone.

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What I don’t get is, if it wasn’t the Ukrainians who sank your ship, then why would you retaliate for it?

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Almost exactly a year ago, Trump told black voters: "What the hell do you have to lose?"

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Spent an evening watching Kremlin TV. To call it lies would be an insult to lies.

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I still don’t understand why wearing a mask is such a problem?

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Finland and Sweden know what we all know now: If Ukraine had been in NATO, Putin would have never invaded.

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I would just like to remind everyone that when Matt Taibbi was based in Moscow, he ran a magazine called "The Exile," where he and its co-founder wrote that Russian women liked to be raped.

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Putin is said to have been deeply affected by the way Muammar Qaddafi was killed. He watched the video of a bloodied Qaddafi dragged from his bunker, sodomized, and shot—over and over and over again.He thinks he is doing everything to avoid a similar fate. He's doing the opposite

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Hitler stage a failed coup, went to jail, and was released a little while later in 1924. Nine years later, he took power and the rest is history.

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There it is. He paid $44 billion and destroyed Twitter to reinstate Trump.

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Elon Musk, you see, is for freedom of speech.

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Way to go, Twitter. The network has suspended the account, launched yesterday, of Alexey Navalny's widow.

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Wow. A woman with a poster that says "No war, stop the war, don't believe the propaganda, they're lying to you" runs out behind the famous anchor on Channel 1, the Kremlin's flagship TV channel.

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На Первом канале в прямом эфире выбежала жен��ина с плакатом

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The mothers of Alexey and Yulia at Alexey’s funeral today. 💔

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I’m genuinely puzzled as to why the use of chemical weapons in Syria makes Trump criticize Russia, but not the use of chemical weapons in London.

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I have one question for Bill Barr: was it worth it?

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I love seeing the same people who were like “omg why do these hicks insist on going to church in the middle of a pandemic?!” now posting pictures from their tropical vacations to poor countries that don’t have the health infrastructure to take care of the resort staff they infect

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People are rightly giving @jonathanvswan his due for a stellar interview. He did a great effin job. But I wonder if Trump would have tolerated this kind of pushback with facts from, say, @Yamiche or @kaitlancollins . Or if would've even sat down with them for this long.

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I would just like to point out that if a Republican ever won the popular vote but lost White House in the Electoral College, the Electoral College would be gone faster than you can say "constitutional amendment."

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I think I speak for pretty much everyone who follows Russia for a living, Dr. Fiona Hill is pretty much the best of the best and everything she says is worth listening to. #ImpeachmentHearings

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I repeat: the only people who were fully prepared to cover the Trump presidency properly were people who knew how authoritarian regimes worked. The Washington press corps, which treats politics as something between a baseball game and a Broadway show, was woefully unprepared.

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Can you imagine if firefighters were like, "We didn't go into the burning building because we might get killed?" Or if doctors were like, "We didn't go into the covid ICU because we were afraid to get infected with covid?"

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Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer who defected from the USSR to the US, apparently always checked the flight path before buying plane tickets: he never took a flight if it flew over Soviet territory.

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Михаил Барышников в своих интервью не раз рассказывал, что всегда при покупке авиабилетов его директор или он сам смотрели маршрут полёта, и если был хоть малейший шанс пролёта над СССР, такой билет не рассматривался.

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We've now updated the story with @ByronTau 's great catch: @realDonaldTrump tweeted about the release of Podesta's emails *15 minutes* after @Wikileaks wrote to @DonaldJTrumpJr about it.

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

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Imagining the coverage if he were Muslim.

NPR

@NPR

4 years

A new report concluded that Washington state Rep. Matt Shea was involved in training young people to fight a "holy war." He created a pamphlet that advocated replacing the government with a theocracy and "the killing of all males who do not agree."

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

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The Russian government is already denouncing the clear evidence of war crimes we’re seeing come out of Bucha as “fake.” It’s as cynical as it is lazy. Everything is fake. Everything is an elaborate conspiracy to discredit Russia. But the simple answer is Russia discredits itself.

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