Editor of Pluribus, an online project exploring the rising tide of illiberalism and its recent progeny, cancel culture. Also, freelance writer, accountant, etc.
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Whenever the Southern Poverty Law Center names a conservative organization as a "hate group," the press is ON IT. But when they unceremoniously fire 60+ union employees as net assets pass $750M?
Crickets.
New from me at @PluribusPub.
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Idea: An NFL quarterback is injured mid-season; a British prince, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the QB, yearning to see how the other half lives, switches places w/ him. Hilarity ensues. And the Superbowl.
>>"The Prince and the Passer"<<
cc: @eagles @cj_wentz @RoyalFamily
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"no vaccine available"? What was president-elect Biden injected with? Sugar water? And was his *second* shot!
Maybe check your own tweets?
President-elect Biden received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine because he trusts scientists.
Our administration is committed to doing everything possible to ensure every American has all the information they need to get vaccinated.
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My son sneezed in church this morning, so we spent the afternoon packing, burning documents, establishing new identities and preparing to move to an undisclosed location.
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A man's brother died tonight. Either express sympathy or shut your mouth. This is not hard.
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Turns out the Washington Post uncovered the Great Mailbox Conspiracy ELEVEN YEARS AGO!
2009: "...half of the blue boxes in the Washington area have disappeared in the last nine years, and 200,000 nationwide have been plucked up in the last 20 years, leaving 175,000 total."
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Except @elonmusk's chart says "me", not "overall". It's an expression of his own political evolution, and the @washingtonpost says he gets it "wrong". HIS OWN POSITION.
Analysis: What Elon Musk’s polarization graph gets wrong wapo.st/38AYpxq
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What kind of psycho electrifies a campaign sign?
⚡️When this guy with Trump Derangement Syndrome went to steal a #TrumpPence campaign sign there was one problem, it was electrified....
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If @KyleKashuv posing with a gun is insensitive to those who experienced a school shooting, isn't a bunch of kids lying down in a hallway looking like fatalities from a shooting also insensitive?
The kids are here to stay and so is change. As @BarackObama said
“Our future isn’t written for us, but by us.” I say make it a good story for your kids and the history books because it’s the only one you got.
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this is unbelievable. I mean, if you can't reach something, you're just supposed to ask.
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Uh oh... 😳
Today, I received the COVID-19 vaccine.
To the scientists and researchers who worked tirelessly to make this possible — thank you. We owe you an awful lot.
And to the American people — know there is nothing to worry about. When the vaccine is available, I urge you to take it.
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Holy crap! This guy straight up lies! @AOC absolutely had the "unwilling to work" provision on her House.gov website and I linked to the Wayback Machine version of it here:
Watch what happens when Tucker Carlson steps out of the conservative bubble and brings on an @AOC policy adviser who debunks all the conservative media lies straight to his face (spoiler: it doesn't go great for Tucker)
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The guest literally calls for blowing up pipelines. Not a metaphor. @NewYorker literally platforming a terrorist.
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46 Democrats and 2 Republicans voted "no" on Clarence Thomas's nomination
Ana Navarro argues that Jackson should just be confirmed because of her skin color. "They're going to go down in history as having been against the first black woman justice which is a big moment for this country," she shouted.
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Look what I found: @NPR has the original FAQs on the #GreenNewDeal from @AOC including the "unwilling to work" provision and thing about... cows. The document IDs the author of the FAQs: "Saikat Chakrabarti" (@saikatc), @AOC's Chief of Staff.
apps.npr.org/documents/docum…
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After YEARS of publishing on its website that at 5-6 weeks of a pregnancy, "A very basic beating heart and circulatory system develop," Planned Parenthood has decided... it really doesn't. Now: "It sounds like a heartbeat on an ultrasound, but it's not a fully-formed heart..."
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Here's the national Black Lives Matter organization's official statement on Ma’Khia Bryant.
Anyone interested in fact checking this, or no?
blacklivesmatter.com/makhia-…
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Another perfect call.
WaPo: “‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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So, if you Google "schiff" and "parody" for the last 24 hours for NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC... nothing. 🦗So @RepAdamSchiff is getting away with making stuff up on live TV.
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Talk to me about how a Green New Deal will prevent 2 hurricanes from hitting the US at the same time.
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Personally, I didn't oppose Trump because I was afraid of what he might do. I opposed him because of who he had shown himself to be. If anything, I am more opposed to him now than I was before. The full scope of the ongoing harm to conservative principles has yet to be measured.
👀 prominent 2016 ‘Never Trump’ conservative @benshapiro tells me why he’s “much more apt” to support Trump in 2020.
He also warns against primarying POTUS from the right, reasoning that it would fail & actually risk harming conservative principles:
townhall.com/tipsheet/guyben…
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How is this any different than those who accuse lawmakers who happen to be Muslim of wanting to "institute Sharia law"? And she's accusing an entire party wanting to do the same with Christianity. Reverse this and it'd be considered straight up bigotry.
What angers me about the GOP’s attempts to turn the United States into a far-right Christian theocracy is how dishonest they are about it.
At least be forthright about your desire to subvert and dismantle our democracy into a creepy theological order led by a mad king.
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This is amazing. On @CNN today: "What the pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses actually want"
Guess who they quote...
"'We are not going anywhere until our demands are met,' Khymani James, a student at Columbia University..."
Do not mention what James REALLY wants.
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"A philosopher makes the case against free speech."
What gives him the right??!!
A philosopher makes the case against free speech vox.com/2019/3/4/18197209/fr…
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So, @EricHolder, was this photo with @LouisFarrakhan at Aretha Franklin's funeral intentional, or were you caught off guard?
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By the time @NBCNews posted this, the schoolmate took down her post, admitted no first hand knowledge of the incident that Ford mentions, and said she'll do no interviews; yet NBC headlines: "Accuser's schoolmate says she recalls hearing of alleged Kavanaugh incident". Well done!
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Oh, look, the @nytimes is finally covering the story of the Florida guy who drove his truck into a GOP voter registration tent because "someone had to take a stand" against Trump...
Oops, no, wait, just another AP wire story. Nevermind.
nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02…
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Simple. Because one is killing a innocent child who has done nothing wrong and the other is justice against a criminal who has usually taken another's life or committed some other heinous crime.
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Folks. This website, @voxdotcom, literally has NO mentions of the man who was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh's home with weapons and later indicted for attempted murder. Not a SINGLE MENTION.
The attack against Nancy Pelosi’s husband isn’t an outlier, but part of a growing wave of right-wing threats against political officials. vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
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The @NYtimes has now published its first article on Jacob Blake since Blake admitted on @GMA that he was carrying an open knife when he was shot. The article does not mention this fact, nor has the Times mentioned it at all.
nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/ja…
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When Clarence Thomas was confirmed in 1991 to become the second black man on the Supreme Court, only 9 of 22 senators from the 11 states of the old Confederacy voted no. All 9 no votes were Democrats.
when Thurgood Marshall was confirmed in 1967 to become the first black man on the Supreme Court, 16 of 22 senators from the 11 states of the old Confederacy voted no or didn't vote
when Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed today to become the first black woman, 18 of 22 voted no
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I feel like "don't leave your house, don't go to weddings or funerals, don't visit your dying loved ones, don't eat out, don't send your kids to school, and wear a mask everywhere" is kind of a bigger ask than rein-in-your-promiscuity.
Sex is a major driver of the global monkeypox outbreak. But health officials and longtime HIV activists say calls for abstinence don’t work. wapo.st/3vA25by
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October 2020, @JoeBiden: "This is a national emergency. The President should take responsibility."
Cases per day: 50,000
Deaths per day: 1,000
Total deaths: 200,000
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Today per @NYTimes:
Cases per day: 164,326
Deaths per day: 1,521
Total deaths: 645,383
More than 200,000 Americans have died. 50,000 Americans are getting the virus every day. 1,000 a day are dying. This is a national emergency.
The President should take responsibility.
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The AP stealth-edits story to note that Native American tribes used scalping against each other rather than just being a "gruesome practice taken up by white colonists" against Native Americans as the original article stated.
apnews.com/article/harvard-p…
Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism apnews.com/article/harvard-p…
Community note
Plagiarism is a breach of rules for Harvard University:
usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-plagia…
Claudine Gay was ultimately forced to resign for a series of breaches of this policy:
freebeacon.com/campus/harvard…
Plagiarism - or application of the rules around plagiarism - therefore cannot be considered a "weapon"
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Oh, look, it's the Harvard Law instructor helping to spread a "elon musk is a pedophile" story.
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If you mocked/ridiculed/decried the tiki-torch brigade of white supremacists (and rightly so) but you can't bring yourself to do the same to the wanna-be-ninja, masked antifa idiots, then you should probably question what your principles really are.
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FEMA was in Louisiana for more than 10 YEARS after Katrina. I think we can spare a few months for Puerto Rico, eh?
fema.gov/hurricane-katrina-d…
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“This is an outcry by a very challenged young man.” - the police chief will probably regret this description
PURSUIT OF MOTIVE: “He does not at all mention anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate,” [Austin Police Chief Brian] Manley said. “This is an outcry by a very challenged young man.”huffingtonpost.com/entry/aus…
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The Five Stages of Trumpism:
1. Denial - He didn't do it.
2. Anger - HE DIDN'T DO IT!
3. Bargaining - If he did do it, it was fine anyway.
4. Depression - [crap, he did it]
5. Acceptance - It's fine and good that he did it.
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Headline versus actual story below.
Congrats, @NYTimes. Keep pumping out of the kerosene.
nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/we…
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According to my Google searches just now, out of the Top 10 deadliest cities in America, 10 of them have Democratic mayors.
According to CBS News out of the Top 10 deadliest cities in America, 7 of them are in Republican-run states.
Now, follow-up question: were you one of the members who sought a pardon after Jan 6th? I didn’t.
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March 1st: "A ban on single-use plastic bags in New York begins today. Here’s what to know."
March 18th: "“Reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses — and spread the viruses throughout the store.”
🤦♂️ - Could the timing have been worse?
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Here's an archived version of the now-deleted @AOC's House webpage with the #GreenNewDeal FAQ's and the "guarantee" in all its glory: "It guarantees to everyone... Economic security to all who are... unwilling to work."
cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=oc…
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Of all the @realDonaldTrump RTs this morning, the one showing his political opponents behind bars, convicted of treason, tops them all.
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This is absolutely beyond parody. The ONLY mention of "Hamas" on the @UN_Women twitter feed is - are you ready for this? - touting Hamas's first female spokesperson!
#Palestine: Hamas appoints first woman spokesperson, 23 year old Isra al-Modallal owl.li/qCVtn v @guardian
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Our military is invaluable and I respect the military tremendously, and this is dumb.
Exclusive: At Trump’s direction, Pentagon is planning large-scale military parade inspired by France's Bastille Day celebration wapo.st/2EJUxY0
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With the Betsy Ross flag now a hate symbol, or at least insensitive, how far are we from George Washington's picture on our currency being too painful a reminder of our imperfect past as a nation? Questions that used to sound like satire no longer do.
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>@AOC has been on the cover of Time, The Hollywood Reporter, Bloomberg, the Nation, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone. She's been on the front page of the New York Times. Vogue did a story with an Annie Leibovitz photo spread. Yes, but Fox News...
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Here's one of Darryl Cooper's gems via @TuckerCarlson: "They [Nazi Germany] launched a war where they were completely unprepared for millions and millions of prisoners of war... and they just threw these people into camps and millions of people ended up dead."
"ended up dead"!!!
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.
(1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(12:39) The Jonestown Cult
(32:10) World War Two
(45:04) How Would You Assess Winston Churchill?
(1:17:17) How History Is Rewritten and Propagandized
(1:24:39) Mass Immigration in Europe
(1:42:25) The Civil Rights Movement and BLM
(1:48:17) Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump
(1:58:30) Christianity
(2:10:58) Hate Blinds You
Includes paid partnerships.
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It's kind of like asking how one can be against kidnapping but in favor of locking up criminals.
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This is remarkable. @JoyAnnReid is tweeting about how dangerous Trump's Fake News Awards is the same night she has falsely accused @DavidAFrench of wanting "Democrats and minorities" to die in a nuclear blast.
nitter.app/JoyAnnReid/status/9537… nitter.app/JoyAnnReid/status/9538…
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I have to say it's a little weird just after nationally televised hearings where it was made clear your old boss thought it wouldn't have been a bad idea to let you be hanged to tweet about the "Trump-Pence Administration".
January 20, 2021: $2.39/gallon
June 11, 2022: $5.00/gallon
American Prosperity under the Trump-Pence Administration: Priceless
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The @nytimes originally labeled its interactive map the "Wuhan Coronavirus Map." It is now just the "Coronavirus Map."
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If everyone is really concern about voter turnout, I suggest putting @jaketapper in charge of GOTV in 2020. In less than 30 minutes, he persuaded 18,217 people to vote on who is the wealthiest fictional character.
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Here's a statement from the Provo, Utah police on this incident:
"A male protestor ran to the SVU on the passenger side, pointed a handgun at driver and shot one round through the window. The driver, who was struck by the bullet, hit the gas trying to leave the situation."
In the heart of Mormon country in Provo, Utah, Black Lives Matter rioters surround a car in the street before one of them pulls a gun and fires twice at the driver. nitter.app/NiasDiad/status/127786…
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In the week of the Nicholas Sandman/Lincoln Memorial confrontation w/ Nathan Phillips, a Native American man, the @NYtimes ran 6 articles about it.
In the week since Nicholas Roske's assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh, the Times has run 2 articles, the last 5 days ago.
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First two photos: statues near White House after Gaza protest. No arrests.
Second two photos: Police photos of scooter tire marks on LGBT pride street mural. Three arrests.
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"A western Michigan man who pleaded no contest to shooting an 84-year-old woman campaigning against abortion rights at his home was sentenced to community service Tuesday.
Richard Harvey, 75, was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service."
9and10news.com/2023/05/24/mi…
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For weeks, Dems complained they had 100s of 1000s of documents to review & 100s of 1000s of other docs that had been withheld. No time to research or investigate!
At the same time, they held a single letter for 8 WEEKS & did nothing, but now want to delay the vote. We need time!
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"the spread and effects of disinformation on American society have only worsened and become entrenched in domestic politics... This is the type of work I had hoped to do at DHS"
Need clarification, because I thought the DIsinfo Gov Board had nothing to do with domestic politics?
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Basically, at this point, the UK is afraid if they let #AlfieEvans leave the country, he might live.
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2013: "A group of about 100 people trying to illegally cross the border Sunday near the San Ysidro port of entry threw rocks & bottles at U.S. Border Patrol agents, who responded by using pepper spray & other means to force the crowd back into Mexico, federal officials said."
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Holy mackerel, here's a new one:
"But that was a one-day event..."
Israel had the right to defend its people from the militants who attacked as it was happening on Oct. 7th. But that was a one-day event; you can’t spend the ensuing period massacring the civilians you occupy out of revenge for an attack that happened over a month ago. And that attack wouldn’t have happened in the first place if not for the occupation.
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Can you flesh out "error" a bit more? What kind of error? It had already been reviewed and was a "final" decision.
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"...Israel shot dozens of unarmed Palestinian protestors in Gaza on Friday..."
But here's a quote from the NYTimes story on those "protests":
"...dozens of homemade bombs were thrown from the Gaza side."
I guess technically as soon as you throw a bomb, you are "unarmed"?
This is a stunningly irresponsible and misleading headline. Israel shot dozens of unarmed Palestinian protestors in Gaza on Friday and killed 4 Palestinians, including two protesters, in Gaza before any projectiles were launched.
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Either @HillaryClinton lied to the FBI, or lied on her State Dept. non-disclosure agreement (see composite below):
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In all seriousness, is one of the heavily-resourced, mainstream, legacy media organizations doing a deep-dive, follow-the-money thing on these protests?
“Yes, REI? I’d like to order 400 Coleman Skydome 2-person tents. Yes, you can charge it to the Grassroots Totally Spontaneous Movement to Liberate Palestine, 11 Yahya Sinwar Way, Doha, Qatar.”
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I missed this last week: "Jacob Blake has dropped his federal civil rights lawsuit against the Wisconsin police officer who shot him during a domestic disturbance and left him paralyzed from the waist down."
apnews.com/article/wisconsin…
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May 25, 2020: Biden campaign ad includes photo of @JoeBiden standing over a tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery, Section 60, on May 31, 2010.
To all the members of our military and our military families, especially those who have lost their service member, thank you. We owe you. We can never lessen the magnitude of your loss, but this I can promise you: we will never forget. #MemorialDay
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Elie Mystal wrote a book review for @washingtonpost in Nov. 2021 & has done a number of opinion pieces. In Nov. 2020, he wrote on Twitter "a majority of white people in this country are trash." As far as I know, he's still welcome at the Post. Dave Weigel is suspended for a joke.
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Jan. 2019, @NYTimes: "Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say"
Mar. 2019, Associated Press: "In a stunning reversal, key Greenland glacier is growing again"
Weirdly, the NYTImes missed the update!
nytimes.com/2019/01/21/clima…
bostonglobe.com/news/world/2…
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On his new blog, Trump has trashed Republican after Republican:
Liz Cheney: "warmongering fool"
Mitch McConnell: "gutless and clueless MINORITY Leader"
Mitt Romney: "stone cold loser"
BUT:
"Kim Jong-un of North Korea, who I have gotten to know (and like)..."
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Has he written a book?
A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking credit cnn.it/3rZN6DS
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"Nobody else will say this: we need to remove Abraham Lincoln's head from the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, and replace it with one of President Donald J Trump."
Sean Hannity: "Nobody else will say this: all charges against Paul Manafort and General Michael Flynn need to be dropped" mm4a.org/Zmr
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Some of the lines from former White House personnel wouldn't survive the editing process in a novel.
"People took him literally. I never thought I'd see that," former White House Chief of Staff @MickMulvaney says.
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60 Min: Care to comment?
Palace: On what?
60 Min: None of your business!
Palace: ...
60 Minutes reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. Palace representatives demanded that before considering commenting we provide them with our report prior to it airing, which is something 60 Minutes does not do. cbsn.ws/3k2tzUa
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While we're giving the IRS an extra $80B a year, perhaps it'd be worth finding out who at the IRS illegally gave confidential tax records to ProPublica in 2021?
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"President Gay is... requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted..."
Website: "When you fail to cite your sources, or when you cite them inadequately, you are plagiarizing, which is taken extremely seriously at Harvard."
The Harvard Corporation: “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.” hrvd.me/Corp2023t
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