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sean illing

@seanilling

7 months

I swear to god that you do not, in fact, have to post a take

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sean illing

@seanilling

2 years

I don't always agree with @JamesCarville but this is spot on

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The collapse of trust in authority is maybe the single biggest civilizational problem we face and absolutely no one has any idea what to do about it

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I sat down with Jill Stein during the campaign. Interviewed her. Trust me when I tell you: her campaign was a sham. She was a sham. The whole damn thing was a sham.

The Senate’s Russia Investigation Is Now Looking Into Jill Stein, A Former Campaign Staffer Says

The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s campaign to turn over documents, which Stein is expected to release publicly in the future. Committee chair Richard Burr...

www.buzzfeednews.com

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This is why the media is just hopelessly hackable. Any story or claim, no matter how dumb, has to be covered, has to be debunked and therefore dignified. It’s a broken model that’s been weaponized by bad faith actors. And it just keeps going.

Kaitlan Collins

@kaitlancollins

4 years

Vice President Pence says the “impeachment hearings reached a new low” when a witness called by Democrats used “the president and first lady's 13 year old son to justify their partisan impeachment.” “Democrats should be ashamed. Enough is enough,” he says.

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4 years

This is what reform looks like

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4 years

This is the only pertinent question a reporter can ask at this point. Any question that assumes this is a normal president and not a performance artist looking to flood the zone with shit can only make things worse. Ask this over and over again or ask nothing at all.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Wow. A reporter (I'm not sure who he is) asks Trump, "after three and a half years, do you regret all the lying you've done to the American people?" Trump quickly moves on to the next question.

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3 years

It’s amazing how incredibly stupid almost everything is now

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2 years

It remains - and I cannot stress this enough - totally fucking insane that this person was elected president president

Acyn

@Acyn

2 years

Trump says you can declassify documents by just thinking about it

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

Telling voters they’re racist if they’re not into “socialism” and “defunding the police” is extremely unwise and also wrong

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

4 years

So the whole “progressivism is bad” argument just doesn’t have any compelling evidence that I’ve seen. When it comes to “Defund” & “Socialism” attacks, people need to realize these are racial resentment attacks. You’re not gonna make that go away. You can make it less effective.

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4 years

The most powerful person in the country is 100 percent invested in making and keeping things as bad as they can possibly be. Just can't overstate how catastrophic that is.

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4 years

I don't co-sign everything James says in this conversation, but I'll say this: politics IS about power. And sometimes there's a choice between winning an argument and losing an election or abandoning an argument in order to win an election.

"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

www.vox.com

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4 years

“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And with such a people you can then do what you please.” - Arendt

"Flood the zone with shit": How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy

The impeachment trial didn’t change any minds. Here’s why.

www.vox.com

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@seanilling

4 years

This whole situation - and I cannot stress this enough - is totally fucking insane

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

4 years

Trump: CDC "doctors say how do you know so much about this? Maybe I have a natural ability."

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6 years

Newt has always been objectively unlikable, but openly admitting that a murdered 20 year-old girl is a superb political prop is obscene beyond measure.

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Newt Gingrich says slain Iowa student could help GOP in midterms

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3 years

Question for my fellow Pfizerians: I’m getting my second shot tomorrow. How quickly should I expect to feel like shit? How long?

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3 years

Future generations will look back at this era and be mystified by the misapplication of moral outrage

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5 years

I still think a lot of people simply aren’t willing to see what’s right in front of our noses here. This is beyond reprehensible rhetoric. It’s positively dangerous.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

COHEN: “I fear that if he loses the election in 2020 there will never be a peaceful transition” TRUMP DAYS LATER: “I have the support of the police, military, bikers – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point”

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

Used to tell my students that every liberal democracy is basically an institutional house of cards but hoo boy this moment would’ve really clarified that

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

Trump admits he's sabotaging the Postal Service so universal mail voting will be impossible during an election that will be conducted amid a pandemic this November

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4 years

I'll just keep saying it: the impulse for neutrality, a relic of 20th century journalism, is totally incapable of dealing with propaganda in the digital age

Adam Serwer 🍝

@AdamSerwer

4 years

We’re now just doing Trump propaganda as headlines I guess.

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sean illing

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3 years

This is dumb on a few levels but also reflective of a complete loss of perspective that’s really only possible when you’ve lived in an extraordinarily privileged life and don’t appreciate it

Michael Moore

@MMFlint

3 years

Their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody’s got a Taliban. They’re at their best when they confiscate the halls of power.

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sean illing

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4 years

My wife may have COVID and that means I might have it. She had a rough few days but is getting better. I'm fine. But she just took a test and it might be 2 weeks - TWO WEEKS! - before we hear anything. What even is the point of testing with a system this dysfunctional?

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

It’s old axiom in politics, if your defense requires shitting all over the unimpeachable character of an active duty military officer, you’re losing #ImpeachmentHearings

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

. @RepChrisStewart talks about of both sides of his mouth by praising Vindman's military service while simultaneously questioning him about why he is wearing his military uniform and corrected Nunes when he didn't refer to him by his military title

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

Me: Die Hard is a perfectly appropriate Christmas movie for a 6 month old. My wife: .... Me: Elf it is.

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

The virtues of 20th century journalism have become outright pathologies in a 21st century media environment. Thus the zone is perpetually flooded with shit. Some thoughts:

The fake "Obamagate" scandal shows how Trump hacks the media

He is "flooding the zone with shit." And it’s working.

www.vox.com

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sean illing

@seanilling

8 years

President Obama just called Donald Trump stupid. In very clear terms. And it was fantastic. And presidential. #NuclearSecuritySummit

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2 years

This is just staggering

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5 years

In which @benshapiro and I respectfully disagree about basically everything.

What’s wrong with America? A debate with Ben Shapiro.

Shapiro blames our woes on our retreat from Judeo-Christian principles. But history presents a more complicated picture.

www.vox.com

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3 years

I’d argue one of the things made 20th century fascism so successful is how utterly ridiculous it initially appeared to the establishment

Ezra Klein

@ezraklein

3 years

One thing I would like the political system to learn from Trump, and all of history, is that political catastrophe often comes wrapped in farcical packages. The ridiculousness is a feature, not a bug. It keeps people from taking the threat seriously till too late.

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sean illing

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7 years

I'm a liberal. Make no effort to hide that. But what's happening on college campuses right now is both illiberal and embarrassing.

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@seanilling

3 years

It's now impossible to accurately describe the GOP in non-alarmist terms. A two-party system in which one of those parties cannot survive without destroying the legitimacy of that system is an emergency. No other word for it.

The Big Lie is the GOP’s one and only truth

Liz Cheney’s downfall shows the GOP threat to democracy is getting worse.

www.vox.com

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sean illing

@seanilling

6 years

Who’s gonna tell him?

Tim Graham

@TimJGraham

6 years

On a show bizarrely titled "I Love You America," Sarah Silverman praises Colin Kaepernick, "a man who risked everything to expose injustice." Psst -- He argues America was founded on slavery and the "genocide of native Americans."

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5 years

I got a hug, an atta boy, and an unemployable skill set.

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sean illing

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4 years

To the extent that he’s even mentionable, future historians will struggle to articulate the sad, sterile gutlessness of Mike Pence

Mike Pence

@Mike_Pence

4 years

I Stand With President @realDonaldTrump . We must count every LEGAL vote.

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8 months

The absolute worst part about this guy isn’t that he’s so confidently full of shit, it’s that he’s just an exquisite creature of our whole media and political ecosystem

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

9 months

LMAO -- Ramaswamy says Mike Pence should've used the opportunity on January 6 to unilaterally implement universal single-day voting and voter ID. Beyond parody.

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2 years

I think we wildly underestimate how dumb and bad things have always been

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1 year

This is not - and I cannot stress this enough - a serious country

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@atrupar

1 year

"They were one of the most woke banks" -- James Comer on SVB Bank

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5 years

I don’t say this lightly: Chris Cillizza is basically everything wrong with journalism.

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3 years

It's almost like you're trying to get people killed

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sean illing

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5 years

Stay in school, kids

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of “legal” at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt...

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sean illing

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4 years

An under-appreciated tragedy is that white Americans are suddenly interested in reading about race and they’ve chosen Robin DiAngelo instead of Cornel West or a hundred other non-grifting authors with something important to say

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4 years

Two things seem obviously true to me: 1. Biden is an inexcusably flawed candidate. 2. The case for voting for him is incontestably strong. It's ok to acknowledge the first and defend the second.

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3 years

I still can’t quite express what a profoundly stupid and impoverished perspective on human life this is

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@seanilling

3 years

My favorite book to teach was always Plato’s Republic. It opens with this annoying sophist who insists that law is just a prop for power. Students always objected to it but deep down we all knew it was basically true.

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3 years

To be clear, I say maybe the biggest problem because no solution to any other civilizational problem can be implemented at scale without sufficient trust in authority

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sean illing

@seanilling

1 year

Can’t be said enough: no one has a lower opinion of conservative voters than conservative media

Justin Hendrix

@justinhendrix

1 year

Maria Bartiromo, a disgrace to journalism.

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sean illing

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2 years

We’re going to annoy a lot of people when the book drops but the core argument is really that media ecology is often the master variable in a truly open society and that upends a lot of our models about how politics actually works

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn

2 years

There is more immigration in the UK than there was pre-Brexit but people are no longer worried about it. What happened? Media and political framing of immigration as a problem to be solved disappeared post-Brexit, and so did public opposition.

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4 years

The biggest mistake philosophers made in the 18th and 19th centuries was thinking History had a direction and that progress was inevitable. The good news is that no one is dumb enough to believe this now.

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@seanilling

4 years

The collapse of local news and the consequent nationalization of politics is arguably the least understood crisis in this country

The New York Times

@nytimes

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Local newspapers are vanishing across the country. Popping up in their place: A network of nearly 1,300 local websites publishing articles ordered up by Republican groups and PR firms.

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2 years

It’s borderline cringey to say this but it honestly stings to see what’s become of the American political experiment

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Ted Cruz throws a huge, grandstanding fit. Look for clips of this tonight on Hannity.

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sean illing

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1 year

This is what's so irksome about the CNN thing: Networks can no longer pretend not to understand what's happening here. Trump's political existence is a rejection of liberal democratic norms. The spectacle is the point. Every single person at CNN knows this. So does the audience.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

In light of the CNN disaster, I thought I'd leave these two paragraphs here for you:

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sean illing

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5 years

It's got a Washington Generals vs the Globetrotters vibe, but Kevin Kruse dunking on Dinesh D'souza has become my favorite genre of literature.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

5 years

Oh my God. We didn't start calling them conservative in response to your flopsweat tweets this week. We've been calling them conservative for decades. You'd know that if you ever read anything. Fine, let's dig in.

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sean illing

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7 years

I disagree with @benshapiro about almost everything politically, but this kind of illiberal madness on campuses has to end. Right now.

Twitchy Team

@TwitchyTeam

7 years

Oh good grief! Ben Shapiro BANNED from speaking at DePaul University; topic is campus tolerance (seriously)

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sean illing

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4 years

No one would have any problem calling this fascist if it was another country. And this is the unquestioned leader of the Republican Party.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 years

"At stake in our present battle is the survival of the American nation itself. We will destroy our country if these people get in" -- Trump threatens the apocalypse if he doesn't win next year

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@kojishiromoto @DavidAFrench @benshapiro Calling a Catholic building part of “Judeo-Christian heritage” is just a banal fact, not an invocation of religious war. Jesus, man, this isn’t complicated. I disagree with Ben about virtually everything, but this is the kind of overreaching that undercuts legitimate criticisms.

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4 years

The purists hate it but I love Obama’s “achieving our country” energy. It’s the best of progressivism because it acknowledges the horrors of the past and present but moves beyond the cultural pessimism it invokes.

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4 years

That debate clarified what was already painfully clear: our process cannot deal with a truly nihilistic actor

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3 years

A thousand dissertations on performative conservatism could never capture its essence like this one image

Glenn Beck

@glennbeck

3 years

Hey CNN I got your vaccine selfie right here

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

Trump is the least masculine figure I’ve encountered in real life or fiction. You could fill a library with psych books about all this projecting from the pseudo tough guy right.

David French

@DavidAFrench

4 years

One of the cultural consequences of Trumpism is the truly wild idea that Trump represents any form of acceptable masculinity. Thin skinned? Hot-tempered? Unfaithful? Draft-dodging? Ignorant? Impulsive? That's every dad's dream for his son.

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sean illing

@seanilling

9 months

Watching the commercial interests of mass media align perfectly with the political interests of Trump continues to be an utterly deflating experience

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sean illing

@seanilling

6 years

Your daddy admitted to a federal judge that he lied to the FBI. So either he perjured himself or you’re a dipshit.

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@seanilling

4 years

I'm not saying this is my finest moment as a journalist, but I'm also not not saying that.

It’s time to take UFOs seriously. Seriously.

Alexander Wendt is one of the most influential political scientists alive. Here’s his case for taking UFOs seriously.

www.vox.com

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sean illing

@seanilling

5 years

Some personal news: very excited to say that I just inked a book deal with University of Chicago Press. If you love reading about how free societies have always been upended by novel media technologies, hoo boy you're in luck!

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@seanilling

4 years

It’d be extremely cool if the cable news anchors fulminating against Trump’s Mussolini impression had the self-awareness to realize they don’t have to broadcast it on a loop for 30 minutes

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@seanilling

2 years

An important point buried in this interview is that Sinema is actually much worse than Manchin

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@seanilling

7 years

"This game is not over. Period." #SuperBowl

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2 years

Get vaccinated. Get the booster. Live your life for god’s sake. This despair porn is ridiculous.

I’m Starting to Give Up on Post-pandemic Life

Despair is not a mild symptom.

www.theatlantic.com

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@seanilling

5 years

"This guy cheats like a mafia accountant"

How golf explains Trump. Seriously.

"This guy cheats like a mafia accountant."

www.vox.com

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@seanilling

8 years

Bernie Sanders challenged the gospel of libertarianism yesterday, and Democrats should listen to him: @Salon

Bernie Sanders just gave the most powerful speech of his campaign: Why his socialism address was a...

Situating socialism within the larger American experience, Sanders forcefully challenged free market dogma

www.salon.com

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@seanilling

5 years

I'm sorry but I won't stop producing anti-baby boomer content. Deal with it.

How the baby boomers wrecked the economy for millennials

A Wall Street Journal columnist and I disagree about what went wrong.

www.vox.com

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1 year

If CNN wants to broadcast a fascist spectacle, that’s their business. But don’t pretend like there’s a public service in fact-checking a lie machine. Trump isn’t playing a liberal democratic game. Truth’s an irrelevant category. Everyone involved knows it. It’s a goddamn TV show.

Brian Stelter

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CNN's @VanJones68 says @kaitlancollins "did a masterful job of fact-checking a lie machine in real time"

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3 years

So the worst thing you can do when something is broken is ... fix it? Amazing

Ben Pershing

@benpershing

3 years

Kyrsten Sinema tells @elizacollins1 why she won't budge on scrapping or even changing the filibuster rule: “When you have a place that’s broken and not working, and many would say that’s the Senate today, I don’t think the solution is to erode the rules.”

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I really don’t like Tucker Carlson. In fact, I think he’s a terrible person and a cancer on the discourse. But there is a bad faith element to this ritual of digging up old comments and using them to purge people that makes me uncomfortable.

David French

@DavidAFrench

5 years

1. I don't like it when people say shocking things to shock jocks. 2. I like it less when we data-mine a person's past to blast them out of the marketplace of ideas. Were people actually outraged by Tucker's comments? Or vengefully gleeful to find them?

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The real problem isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party. It’s always been the Republican Party. And it’s well beyond redemption.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

4 years

Remarkable: Behold what happened to a Republican Congressman who dared to merely raise his concerns about Trump *in private.* It's a cult.

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Jake. Fucking. Tapper.

Scott Dworkin

@funder

6 years

“I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers time” Jake Tapper said to Trump Advisor Stephen Miller This is how it’s done! Don’t let them talk over you. Don’t let them act like they know what they’re talking about when they don’t. Bravo @jaketapper ! #CNNSOTU

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A once-in-a-generation pandemic cannot stop the Republican Party from being what is so clearly is: a device for laundering plutocratic policies through a barely coherent but incredibly effective cultural grievance machine

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

3 years

Amazing: The GOP has nothing real to say about the two biggest crises our country has faced in the modern era. I looked at many TV ads in the Georgia races. Dem ads are all about coronavirus and the economy. GOP ads are all about socialism, riots and @AOC :

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I grew up in Mississippi. I grew up a college football fan. Trust me when I tell you: this is a huge fucking deal.

Southeastern Conference

@SEC

4 years

Statement from @SEC Commissioner @GregSankey on State of Mississippi flag

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This is so incredibly dumb and performative. I enlisted 20 years ago and had to get a boatload of vaccinations. So did everyone else. No one bitched about it. Adding Covid is a no-brainer.

Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

3 years

I’ve been contacted by members of our voluntary military who say they will quit if the COVID vaccine is mandated. I introduced HR 3860 to prohibit any mandatory requirement that a member of the Armed Forces receive a vaccination against COVID-19. It now has 24 sponsors.

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2 years

71 percent of Republicans think American democracy is facing a major threat, compared to 35 percent of Democrats. I don't know how you can look at this gap and not see it as the result of a wildly asymmetric media environment.

Andrew Prokop

@awprokop

2 years

Interesting @michelleinbklyn piece theorizing that liberals are disengaging from politics due to "despair" about democracy. However a recent poll showed only 35% of Dems said they thought democracy was facing a major threat

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3 years

I'll just keep saying it: the contempt the GOP has for its own voters far exceeds the contempt the left has for them

Jay Rosen

@jayrosen_nyu

3 years

Not only did the GOP decline to teach their voters that the election was not stolen from them, but they also passed up the opportunity to say to the base, "We made big gains with new groups of voters. We have nothing to fear from making it easier to vote."

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4 years

This is never an easy choice, but it's real and it's hugely consequential. If you want to reduce more suffering in the world, if you want to protect the most vulnerable people, you have to win. Period.

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If you asked the richest, most powerful people in society to engineer a left wing ideology that was so toxic and dumb that it could never actually threaten your interests, this is what you’d get

Isaac Chotiner

@IChotiner

3 years

New Interview: I talked to SF Board of Education head Gabriela Lopez about the decision to rename schools named for Lincoln and Washington, the fight over reopening, and how to view the legacies of historical figures.

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sean illing

@seanilling

5 years

Just as the Founders intended

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

Trump seeks assurances from his staff that he's not a lunatic. Completely beyond parody.

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

This is so incomprehensibly stupid that it really does feel like some kind of Koch Brothers PSYOP

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

San Francisco schools named for historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, as well as current ones, like Senator Dianne Feinstein, are set to be renamed.

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

Not sure there’s a clearer way to say I’m losing the base

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

No fucking shit

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

3 years

>> @Acosta : "I talked to an adviser earlier today who was saying that what the president really wanted throughout all this was just coverage. He just wanted attention."

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

Cling to a story about the world long enough and eventually something has to go: the story or reality. Most of the time it’s reality.

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

This is amazing. Thank you! And the best part: none of the Moderna scum defiled this thread.

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

And it will do absolutely nothing to make the world less racist

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

I always struggled with the Christian notion of vicarious redemption because it’s such a strange moral logic. This is odd for similar reasons. Feeling shame for an entire “race” is wasted energy. Denounce what happened. Right the wrongs. This is impotent theater.

National Geographic

@NatGeo

3 years

"I'm ashamed for my ancestors' race."

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

There are tons of asymmetries between the parties, but one of the big ones is that Republicans want to win power and Dems want to win arguments

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

4 years

It truly is strikng to watch Democrats immediately spin a win into a loss and Republicans spin a loss into a win.

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

@chrislhayes I’d put it differently. I’d say Trump was “fundamentally” the product of a Republican base that is itself largely a media creation.

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sean illing

@seanilling

5 years

Nothing is more infuriating than watching the press continue to treat this president, a fundamentally bad faith actor, like they would any other president. That model doesn't work, has been hacked, & it's absurd that these sterile, dangerous, unthinking takes are still possible.

Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸

@NorahODonnell

5 years

. @weijia on the president's remarks on the El Paso shooting: "He really did set a different tone than he did in the past when it comes to condemning this hate"

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

Wrote my dissertation on Camus and I've waited, patiently, for an excuse to write about him for Vox. Today is that day.

This is a time for solidarity

What Albert Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about life in a pandemic.

www.vox.com

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sean illing

@seanilling

5 years

Some personal news: I’m ... going ... to ... be ... a ... dad!

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sean illing

@seanilling

8 months

The problem is that elected office is nothing but a media grift for an entire generation of conservative politicians

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

8 months

I mean this quite earnestly: I think the country and our politics would be a lot better off if Cruz and Gaetz et al just left elected office and did media full time. No shame in it!

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sean illing

@seanilling

3 years

It's a religion, not a conspiracy theory

The future of QAnon, explained by 8 experts

QAnon’s prophecies failed to come true. Here’s why the conspiracy theory will persist anyway.

www.vox.com

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sean illing

@seanilling

4 years

If you're talking about Trump's tweets, he's winning. Every. Time.

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sean illing

@seanilling

6 years

Now that's a goddamn headline. Happy Friday, friends!

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sean illing

@seanilling

2 years

I'm a broken record on this, but I'll keep saying it: I agree w/ @ThePlumLineGS but the party that's untethered to material reality and unchecked by a basic commitment to truth is going to win the narrative battle in this asymmetric media environment

Opinion | The GOP’s repugnant midterm strategy requires a tough Democratic response

Democrats cannot cower in the face of Republican demagoguery on critical race theory.

www.washingtonpost.com

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sean illing

@seanilling

2 years

The wisest move McMorrow makes is saying plainly & forcefully that no one insults the intelligence of Republican voters more than Republican politicians. Simple, assertive, concrete, rejects GOP framing. This is the way. Strong piece by @ThePlumLineGS

Opinion | A young Democrat’s viral takedown demands a ‘wokeness’ rethink

Mallory McMorrow's forceful rebuke of Republicans suggests a way forward for Democrats.

www.washingtonpost.com

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