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@lowkell

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Founder/editor of Blue Virginia.

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Joined September 2008
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@lowkell
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6 years
@VanityFair Seriously? Trump is destroying the country, and THIS is the crap you're focused on? What next, "her emails?" Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
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@shadihamid Actually, anyone who thinks DeSantis is NOT a fascist should be run out of the room.
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@JRubinBlogger It would be nice if White House correspondents - whose paid profession this is, after all! - would do such research before asking uninformed questions.
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4 years
@realDonaldTrump You were impeached and the stock market hit a record high. Interesting.
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@BloombergUK Utterly bizarre. Why does Britain still have a monarchy, exactly?
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7 years
"Heather Heyer is one of our Paralegals here at Miller Law Group and continues to be an irreplaceable asset"
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2 years
@radleybalko The WaPo lets you go but keeps the odious Hugh Hewitt, Marc Thiessen, etc? Greeeeeaaaaat...
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2 years
@BMeiselas @SenatorSinema It's all up to Manchin and Sinema, and they clearly don't give a crap what we tweet at them. So...we need to elect several more Dem Senators this November and make Manchin and Sinema IRRELEVANT.
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@shadihamid Yeah, except it's not just asserting something, it's voluminous/massive facts and evidence of DeSantis' authoritarian, thuggish behavior.
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7 years
And that's all she wrote in PW County - Dem victory!!!
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2 years
@GlennKesslerWP A broader question is why, out of so many things out there meriting a "fact check," did the WaPo/ @GlennKesslerWP choose to "fact check" one that the far-right was in a frenzy to debunk, and which turned out to be true? Very weird.
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7 years
The press needs to do that too.
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Al Franken to Dem senators: Call Trump ‘racist’ to his face for Elizabeth Warren ‘Pocahontas’ slur
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@DanMartinTalks @NPR @nprpolitics NPR of course would deny it, but the net effect of what they do is to normalize fascism, draw a false equivalence between Democrats and said fascists, amplify anti-Democratic framing/messaging, etc.
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2 years
@elonmusk I'll probably buy an electric vehicle at some point, but for sure it will NOT be a Tesla.
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8 years
Hundreds of Jewish scholars of holocaust history call on Americans to 'mobilise in solidarity' against Trump
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2 years
@brenonade The political media in this country contains a great deal of complete trash "journalism."
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2 years
@maggieNYT Is Trump ever NOT "raging?" LOL
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6 years
@SenSchumer Chuck Schumer goes for "both sides" false equivalency. Yeah, Senate Dems need a new leader. @MarkWarner @timkaine
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1 year
@PressSec "Fox Soul" sounds like an oxymoron, also nightmarish.
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2 years
@michaelkarlik The fact that a lot of people call the Supreme Court illegitimate isn't just the result of its decisions, it's the result of how several Justices got on the Court in the first place, such as the stolen Gorsuch seat, lots of questions about Kavanaugh, etc.
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6 years
@CillizzaCNN The worst political "analyst" in America strikes again!
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7 years
@voxdotcom America to Trump - you are possibly the greatest catastrophe ever to hit America.
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2 years
@CNNPolitics "Proving ground?" You people are unhinged.
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@matthewjdowd Frank Luntz has probably done more damage to America than almost anyone else, yet hardly anyone even knows who the guy is.
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2 years
@JoeNBC @ChrisCillizza If by "great things" you mean more relentless "both sideism," false equivalency, "horse race" coverage of politics, bad takes, being wrong constantly, framing of any news as bad for Dems, etc.
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@maggieNYT @migold @gr_ashford Nope, it was THIS paper, not the NY Times, which paid no attention...because that's how the NY Times rolls (arrogant and lazy, among many other fine qualities).
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8 years
@neiltyson Or Trump could win on November 8th and it will all be moot.
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2 years
@djrothkopf And when the Supreme Court handed the presidency to George W. Bush...
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@NormOrnstein @HillaryClinton Yes, and the @Nytimes , @washingtonpost etc. should also have Trump's election in 2016 on their consciences, if they have any - which is highly doubtful.
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3 years
Why is the press rooting for a Democratic loss in Virginia?, by @EricBoehlert
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3 years
Facebook is responsible for so much damage to this country. Congress needs to break it up, rein it in, etc.
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Wow. Remarkable statement. So much tension between White House and Facebook right now. Heard from a source that WH incredibly frustrated after months of asking FB for data on vaccine misinfo that company, despite saying in public they want to work with WH, isn't sharing
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@DrIbram @nytdavidbrooks @nytimes Why does the @nytimes keeping posting David Brooks' drivel, and why does the @pbsnewshour keep featuring him on their weekly news roundup? It's not like he has anything in particular to offer, so...???
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2 years
@PARISDENNARD So the inflation-adjusted cost has gone DOWN slightly. Got it.
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2 years
Seriously, though, at this point anyone who portrayed Glenn Youngkin as "moderate" in any way, or who predicted that once elected, he'd tack towards the "center," should probably ditch political reporting, prognosticating, etc. as a profession, hobby, whatever...
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@brianstelter @Milbank Your job is NOT to be "negative,"it's to inform the public by reporting factually, accurately, etc, and by digging to find out what's really going on...
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3 years
Virginia should do the same.
@kylegriffin1
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California's universal voting by mail becomes permanent: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a law making California the 8th state in the nation to require every voter to be mailed a ballot.
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@WHCOS So basically, Biden is going to end up extricating us from this unwinnable "forever war" AND get out a large % of the people who helped us. That's not the preferred media narrative, of course...
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4 years
@MaryLTrump @TovaOBrien So why do U.S. networks allow people - the overwhelming % of whom are Republicans - to come on their shows and lie? Why not just do what @TovaOBrien did; tell the guest if they're going to lie, they're outta here?
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2 years
@benyt @sullydish So, appealing to anger, racism, white supremacy, grievance, etc. means "uncannily good political instincts." Got it.
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@NewsHour This is a harmful and false framing that completely ignores what's actually going on - the rise of a far right movement that threatens American democracy.
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@NikkiHaley No, life was never "simple" or "easy," that's just mindless "nostalgia" for a time that never was...and also a time when African Americans, LGBTQ Americans, women, etc, etc. didn't have full rights and freedoms.
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@peterbakernyt @aaronzitner Nope, this is totally wrong; it's not "tribalism," it's one party (the GOP) moving towards extremism, fascism, anti-democracy, anti-science, etc.
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@CBC727 @CillizzaCNN I love Cillizza's election day "analysis" - "Are Democrats blowing it in Virginia," hours before a statewide sweep and pickup of 15 or 16 seats in the House of Delegates. Nailed it! LOL
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5 years
@PressSec Your boss has been encouraging Islamophobia, white nationalism, hate and violence. Any comments on THAT???
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@SteveSchmidtSES Really bad take.
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@shadihamid DeSantis is pretty much the definition of fascism: "a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy...forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests...strong regimentation of society and the economy" etc.
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@davidrkadler @BarbaraComstock This is what should have happened on 1/6/21 in the U.S.
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@Rschooley So, Murphy's win was larger than Youngkin's, but Murphy's was "narrow" and Youngkin's was "crushing" or "decisive" or whatever. Can the political press be any more f'ed up?
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@RepGoodlatte Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, @RepGoodlatte thinks the American people are all idiots.
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@NRA @timkaine And that's a BAD thing....how????
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@imillhiser And the WaPo (particularly Chris Cillizza) and "Morning Joe" and many others.
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3 years
@Timodc The NY Times certainly does some good work, but it's kinda ruined by all the horrendous both-sidesism, false equivalence, normalizing, and...utter trash like this, by Maureen Dowd.
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@brent_peabody And Virginia's moronic, fatally flawed redistricting amendment cost us the seat of @RepElaineLuria (D-VA02).
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8 years
Trump effect: Jewish and Muslim organizations form new alliance - U.S. Election 2016
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@BenFlowersOH @HarvardJLPP Fact check: the Supreme Court's far right justices are thoroughly corrupted.
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@mattyglesias The no-brainer move for the U.S. after 9/11 (note: Osama bin Laden and 15/19 hijackers were Saudis) was to embark on a crash program to get off of oil and switch to clean energy ASAP. Instead, f'ing Bush told us to "go shopping." And here we are...21 years later.
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@brianstelter @kaitlancollins Chris Licht is enabling fascism in America. Period. No matter how many times he pats himself on the back and no matter how much CNN circles the wagons.
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@BillKristol This has been glaringly obvious since at least Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy," Richard Nixon, etc. If you didn't see that, you were willfully blind.
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@kaitlancollins @marcorubio So was Rubio called out immediately for flat-out lying? If not, why wasn't he?!?
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@davidaxelrod It's not "every politician," it's House Republicans who are causing this.
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@realDonaldTrump Also, how did you go to Wharton? As a Penn graduate who studied a lot of economics, your complete lack of understanding re: how international trade works is embarrassing.
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"Could no longer stomach it": VA GOP Leader Abruptly Resigns over Trump's Oval Office Slurs
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@NateSilver538 It wasn't a "blunder" if they didn't have the votes. Also, don't Rs have any agency or responsibility?
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@DanaBashCNN @Mike_Pence @CNN "Looking forward to hosting Former Vice President @Mike_Pence " - Said no one ever? LOL
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@farhip @froomkin @washingtonpost So pandering to right-wing readers, "both sidesing" everything, whitewashing Republican extremism (e.g, Youngkin’s) isn't doing the trick for the WaPo? Lol
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@lindyli They're also MUCH angrier about not being invited to a wedding than that Trump tried to stage a coup and overthrow our democracy. These people are seriously warped.
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@NikkiMcR Why is this horrible person employed by @pennlaw ???
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@tomwatson Definitely fire whichever editor(s) greenlighted this disgusting crap.
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@Jerusalem_Post What is this crap? Bostic defeated a far-right son of a literal Nazi!
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@igorbobic So much for Manchin's magical 10 Republicans who are reasonable. They don't exist.
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@kwelkernbc @SpeakerJohnson @SecMayorkas And your followup questions were...???
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@NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood In fact, the @nytimes does tremendous damage for the very reason that people view it as "the best newspaper in the world." Also, it's simply not true when it comes to US political coverage, where the @nytimes is actually really bad, biased to the right, etc
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@JenKiggans First of all, try corn, not potato. Second, picking one random item from one random store on two random dates proves literally nothing. My god...the ignorance is painful.
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@MarkJacob16 Exactly - paying no (or little) attention to politics won't save you...in fact, quite the contrary.
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@realDonaldTrump You're really worried about this, fascinating how insecure you are, knowing you lost the popular vote by 2.5 million...
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@atrupar Except in this case, Don Lemon was correct.
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@kaitlancollins The big story here is the MASSIVE failure of the "news" media to inform the public as to what's actually happening. In fact, President Biden just had one of the most productive first two years since LBJ.
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@jayrosen_nyu @brianstelter "Constrained" by...what?
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@imillhiser The legitimacy of the Supreme Court at this point is highly shaky at best...
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@JRubinBlogger Why are so many white Democratic senators incapable of doing this?!?
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@CapehartJ @kwelkernbc Nope, she completely blew it with her disgraceful, appalling Trump interview.
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@peterbakernyt @SangerNYT The NY Times is having a helluva day! Actually, a helluva decade, given that you guys helped elect Trump in 2016 with your incessant "BUT HER EMAILS!" crap.
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@JohnCornyn @WSJopinion So you support breaking the law, having no ethics requirements for the Supreme Court, etc. Got it.
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@KaivanShroff @JaneMayerNYer Justice Thomas should be impeached.
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@jk_rowling You could be using your massive platform to do so much good - fighting for democracy, climate action, you name it - but instead *this* is what you use that platform for? Why?
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@AP Wait, our fine "ally" Saudi Arabia again? You mean, the same country from which 15 of 19 hijackers on 9/11 originated, plus of course Bin Laden? Hmmmm...
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The one in five black Floridians being denied their right to vote would have made this election a RUNAWAY VICTORY for the Dems. Same thing in Georgia and Texas, by the way. This voter suppression shit has to end. NOW.
@Taniel
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This is roughly margin you'd expect whatever happened in Broward to be costing Nelson, based on magnitude of the undervote & his countywide lead. Disclaimer: more than one in 5 black FLians were denied their right to vote, an exclusion regime that looms over whole process.
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@JRubinBlogger I'd actually give the press an "F" for this, particularly considering their incessant, pathetic whining the past few weeks that a press conference was SO important. Then, when they get the chance, they completely blow it.
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@michaelscherer @jdawsey1 No mention in the headline that this guy was impeached twice, launched a violent coup attempt, etc? Why not?
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@AP_Politics The "shine of his national star" is 100% a creation by people like @AP_Politics , the WaPo etc. It's utterly without substance.
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The Washington Post headline today calls extremist bigot Flynn "fiery." Looks like the corporate media HAS minimized/normalized/excused it.
@sarahkendzior
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This is exactly what it seems. Authoritarianism in the United States. Do not minimize it. Do not normalize it. Do not excuse it. #Resist
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Impressive "get" for @SusanPlattVA
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So honored to have just received the endorsement of Khizr Khan, an incredible American and proud Virginian.
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@MollyJongFast The endgame for Governor DeSantis is President DeSantis. That's all this is about, right?
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@tbonier Under a Trump presidency - god forbid - EVERYTHING will be worse, certainly for Palestinians (and Muslims, Arabs, etc.). So it should go without saying that there's no serious argument FOR Trump...for a million reasons - and an urgent need to vote for Biden.
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@Dbwagner104 @TramNVM And make sure everyone supports @pohlforvirginia beat Chase in this November's State Senate election!
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@GregTSargent The @washingtonpost and @nytimes don't even appear to have covered Trump's "human scum" comments on Memorial Day. The "mainstream media" is so, so badly broken.
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