NYT contributor. Author of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, THE NEW NEW DEAL & THE SWAMP. Annoyed Floridian.
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R's: Clinton is blowing up deficit!
Clinton eliminates deficit.
Bush wins.
Bush blows up deficit.
Cheney: Deficits don't matter!
Obama wins.
R's: Obama is blowing up deficit!
Obama reduces deficit.
Trump wins.
Trump blows up deficit.
Mulvaney: Nobody cares about deficits!
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The NYT proved the president’s money is stolen from you and it was almost as big a story as people being mean to Dershowitz on the Vineyard.
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I had forgotten my own reporting that @SenatorCollins stripped $870M for pandemic preparations out of the 2009 stimulus.
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Kelly sucks. Mattis sucks. Mooch sucks. Tillerson sucks. Bannon sucks. Sessions sucks. Omorosa sucks. The guy who hired them all is genius.
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It's like connect the dots with only two dots.
"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this" nyti.ms/2wWUars
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The amazing thing is how seamlessly he’s gone from “Zero cases, I’m awesome!” to “Probably only 200,000 dead, I’m awesome!”
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I’m not weighing in on politics much these days but the White House pardon attorney announcing that you can commit any crimes you want as long as you support the president’s politics seems really really really really scary.
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Biden should put out a new ad with Trump saying Covid is no big deal, nobody will die, wearing masks is dumb, it will miraculously disappear by Easter, etc....and then enjoy the huge earned media debate over whether using Trump’s own words counts as a negative ad.
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I took this photo of @JoeBiden in 2016 - the way he tries so hard to connect with everyone he meets has always touched me. I hope he gets well soon. He’s been through a lot.
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My wife spent the morning trying to apply for the small business thing and ohhhhh this is gonna be a cluster.
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GOP senators killed the Dream Act in 2010. GOP House killed immigration reform in 2013. GOP voters elected Trump. This isn't complicated.
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I went to an obscure hearing today in the Danish Parliament. It blew my mind, not because of the substance, but because the US Congress has totally warped my view of hearings. And I’m just dorky enough to do a thread about it. 1
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My dad’s first memory is hiding under a table 80 years ago tonight, when Nazis took his dad to Dachau on #Kristallnacht.
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Wait, people are seriously arguing that Trump loves Putin and hates the FBI because he's obsessed with the legitimacy of the election? He was sucking up to Putin and trashing the FBI during the campaign, which I'm pretty sure was before the election.
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Democrats cave: Nothing for states or cities, nothing for election protection or the post office, no oversight, no limits on fossil fuel bailouts, no food stamps. They got some testing - somehow that’s a GOP concession! - but no contact tracing. politico.com/news/2020/04/21…
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I did some fun reporting last week in the Bay Area, checking out companies making meat and dairy products without animals. I ate some of the future of food. Here’s a thread with some of the cool stuff I got to try! 1
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What exactly is the Democratic argument for not calling, say, the Republican secretary of state of GA to testify that Trump pressured him to steal the election? Maybe some of the political geniuses are overthinking this.
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We're supposed to be mad at Biden because he copied a few lines of his climate plan from environmental groups? That's not "plagiarism." That's "agreeing." "businessinsider.com/joe-bide…
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In conclusion, we suck. Sometimes it’s good to be reminded how much we suck, and how it’s possible to suck less. END
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The dumb airline tweets are fun to mock but this is #actually how Trump won: Ignore data that prove things have gotten better, insist things have gotten worse, appeal to nostalgia for mythic era before modernity when things seemed simpler. (For some people.)
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The Mueller report is what it is, a compilation of lies and bad acts by the president plus lies and crimes by his aides. What's really odd is the firm belief by leading Democrats that a more intense public airing of these lies, bad acts and crimes would hurt Democrats.
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Someday we’re going to try to describe the stuff we shrugged about in this era and nobody is going to believe us.
Trump’s nuts rant about wind energy: “I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much... Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes & everything.”
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One of the main themes of my 2018 dive into The Villages was white power. politico.com/magazine/story/…
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When I joined The Washington Post 20 years ago, I might have believed Trump would be president someday, but I never would’ve believed this.
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I’ve gradually ceased to believe that good policy is good politics, but Biden signing a big bipartisan infrastructure bill after Trump failed so spectacularly to keep his infrastructure promises does seem like a rare policy win that could break through today’s information fog.
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This is just like that time in the Obama White House when...no, sorry, drawing a blank.
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It’s a big achievement, and it happened because there were 50 Dem senators. It wouldn’t have happened with 49. It would’ve been bigger with 51. That’s something all us nonpartisan policy geeks should be reckoning with.
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Anyway, the weirdest thing about this mostly banal experience was how weird it seemed. The lack of speechifying, grandstanding, partisanship or fake umbrage. How seriously they all took their responsibilities. The absence of bullshit. 10
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Wow, the long-dormant Republicans For Unity caucus is waking up at the exact same time as the long-dormant Republicans Against Deficits caucus. Why do you think that is?
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Anyway I’m not very religious but I’m very fucking Jewish. I think a lot of Jews feel like that. And we notice there are still Nazis. END
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There’s no right to riot. But when @Kaepernick7 tried peaceful protest in response to police killings of unarmed black men a lot of people said he had no right to do that either. So what is the proper response to police killings of unarmed black men?
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When I’ve written this, even some of my media colleagues have told me I’m oversimplifying Trumpism. But Trump doesn’t think so.
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Shocking that the guy who said Obama wasn't American and Obama founded ISIS would say something nutty and false about Obama.
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My grim thought for the day is that Obama promised to end partisanship and Republicans understood they could make him the promise breaker by being partisan. Biden is promising to end the chaos and if he wins Republicans can prevent that too.
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Anyway, when the witnesses were done the politicians got their turn to speak. And none of them made speeches! They asked questions! Not leading questions designed to make a point. Thoughtful questions designed to get information! 6
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It's weird. We had a special prosecutor in the 90s over a 70s real estate deal. Now we're like "oh, the NSA being compromised is old news."
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If you’re giving Biden an F- on climate, you’re not a climate organization. You’re a Bernie organization.
30% of Biden supporters’ top issue is climate change, yet somehow they still support him when he has a F- rating from us.
Maybe if we had a #ClimateDebate voters would be more informed on candidates & why we need a #GreenNewDeal.
But I guess rules only change if you have money.
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First of all, there was a dais in the hearing room, just like any congressional hearing, except the politicians weren’t on the dais. The six experts who were testifying were on the dais. Can you imagine? As if the hearing was about them and not the politicians? 2
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If you had told me in 2016 that Trump would exchange love letters with Kim Jong Un and tell Ukraine to investigate his rivals and suggest we should inject ourselves with bleach I would’ve said maybe.
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Remember when the president told that Fox guy everything would be back to normal by Easter and that Fox guy said it would be like the resurrection?
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Omarisa: lowlife.
Bannon & Rick Gates: liars.
Carter Page & Papadopolous & Manafort: barely involved.
But who hired these awful people?
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This part really got me: The pols had to ask all their questions first, which took maybe 5 minutes, and then all the witnesses got to answer all of them, which took 20 minutes. The experts did the talking and the pols did the hearing. Is that how these things got their name? 7
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The politicians were sitting in the front row of the audience. They all stayed in their seats for the entire hearing. And do you know what they did? They listened! I was in the second row and I didn’t see any of them look at a phone or talk to an aide at any time. 3
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Thermometers are bullshit, too. One day they’ll say you don’t have a fever and the next day they’ll say you do have a fever.
President Trump explains how tests are overrated because you can test negative a bunch of times and then later test positive. “This is why the whole concept of tests isn’t necessarily great.” @JeremyKonyndyk @ASlavitt @Farzad_MD @chrislhayes @Laurie_Garrett @mlipsitch
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Joe Biden has strengths and weaknesses but he is a decent man. He would make 2020 a referendum on decency, and it would be very interesting and important to see whether America wants that or not.
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Obama's shrinking deficit was a disaster; Trump's exploding deficit is fine.
Obama promoting clean energy was corrupt; Trump promoting dirty energy is fine.
Obama's deal with Iran (which complied) was a joke; Trump's deal with North Korea (which didn't) is a breakthrough.
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Seems like a big deal that the United States now officially stands with international criminals but this will be forgotten in hours if not minutes.
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The story isn't Trump undoing Obama's climate legacy. That's a 4-year fight. The story is Trump making America a climate laughingstock.
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This entire thread is an SNL skit that the entire country is trapped in.
"I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship" -- Trump explains that he doesn't want to let people off the Grand Princess cruise ship because he doesn't want the number of coronavirus cases in the country to go up
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Every Bernie bro who said Trump would be tougher on Wall Street than Hillary should enjoy watching this. wsj.com/articles/trump-moves…
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One odd thing about Rahm getting considered for Transportation Secretary is that in 2009, Rahm almost singlehandedly killed a $450B Democratic transportation bill to avoid a gas tax debate - in my opinion, the worst political and policy blunder of the Obama era.
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When I started as a reporter conservatives were always lecturing about personal responsibility and moral virtue and limited government. I never expected the movement to become YOU CAN'T MAKE ME WEAR A FUCKING MASK and BOW DOWN TO OUR PORN-STAR-BANGING CONSPIRACY-NUT BULLY-KING.
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Reupping my piece about how Obama already renegotiated NAFTA in TPP. Now Trump is cutting and pasting Obama’s deal. politico.com/magazine/story/…
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OMG this debate transcript.
BUSH: "My mom is the strongest woman I know."
TRUMP: "She should be running."
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This thread is really about process, not substance, but I will say the topic was related to climate change, and everyone there took it seriously. One legislator told me only 4 or 5 of her 178 colleagues are deniers. 9
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I’ve now read the House bill twice and honestly windmills are among the only things that aren’t in it.
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I couldn’t tell which pols were in which party or what biases any of them had about the topic being discussed. It really seemed like they were there to learn. And by the end it was clear they had. 8
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Oh, did I mention this obscure hearing was simultaneously translated into English? They gave me cool high-tech headphones. I think everyone else in the audience spoke Danish but they take this stuff seriously. 5
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An obvious point about the Manchin deal that climate analysts and activists ought to grapple with: The least climate-friendly DC Dem turned out to be climate-friendlier than every single DC Republican. What does that say about the future of climate policy? Or the “Green Party”?
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Actually, there was one politician on stage, the committee chair. She welcomed everyone, told the witnesses they would each have 10 minutes, then didn’t say anything until one witness asked for an extra minute. She said no. I swooned. ❤️ 4
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This is an alert to their favorite viewer that he needs to change his story.
Steve Doocy: "If the president said 'I will give you the money but you've got to investigate Joe Biden,' that is really off-the-rails wrong. But if it's something else, you know, it would be nice to know what it is."
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Trump's bipartisan deals:
1. Punt budget for 3 months
2. Undo mean thing he said he'd do.
This isn't the height of achievement.
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House Rs are ditching their rule making it hard to hike people’s taxes, because they’re about to hike people’s taxes.
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Fun fact: Solyndra was the 1st firm to get a renewable loan because it was #1 on Bush DOE’s list. (Also: The loan portfolio is profitable.)
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Periodic reminder: He demanded ID from the first black president. Nobody is allowed to act surprised.
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I also hope everyone noticed @jaketapper asked about climate change right off the bat. That never happens. A model moderator.
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Just got off the phone with a Dem #'s guy who gave me a pretty plausible case for Biden getting 305 EVs.
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When you think of what Joe Biden's endured and what he's like, he seems to get something right about life that most of us don't.
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Yesterday Trump said ISIS has been wiped out. Today he’s saying ISIS just isn’t America’s problem. That’s a pretty significant change!
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This is a classic “so close to getting it.” Why do these Democratic presidents who inherit mega-crises from Republican presidents keep insisting everything is in shambles?
The Biden Administration is following the Obama playbook to the letter -- Blame Your Predecessor claim everything is in shambles and we will be lucky to move forward at all!
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I cannot tell you how jarring it is that when @GreenDay comes on the radio my 8-year-old rolls her eyes and says "Oh, that music Daddy likes," as if they were Perry Como or something.
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At this point a seemingly sane, competent, non-racist UN ambassador with no foreign policy experience feels like a giant step forward.
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Does Bernie think @amyklobuchar couldn’t beat Trump? Because she sure seems like someone who could.
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It's weird how climate is the biggest issue ever and the reconciliation bill is the biggest climate bill ever, but the coverage is all about price tag, offsets, progressives vs. centrists, timing with infrastructure/debt ceiling, everything but whether DC acts on climate or not.
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Another reminder that they're not all the same: Every D voted no, but R majority voted to protect Wall Street from lawsuits.
Senate Republicans struck down a rule that would have let Americans sue banks and credit card companies nyti.ms/2zOo5RI
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We were too focused on impeachment to think about the virus, but not too focused to tell the public the virus was no big deal, and just the flu, and fully contained. Also not too focused to hold big political rallies. Or sell our stocks.
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So why did the Dow more than double with that liberal politician in the White House? I'm genuinely curious to hear the answer.
Amazing what happens when you put a businessman instead of a liberal politician in the White House->
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Obama picked R's to run DoD, DoT, even (ahem) FBI, but Beltway pundits called him pure partisan. So far the Trump administration is all R's.
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Good thing Ds caved on witnesses, otherwise Rs would have tried to obstruct their agenda.
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This joke is offensive. latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m…
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Captain Obvious says: $555B for climate would be a huge step, progress is progressive, nobody would have dreamed this was possible before the Georgia runoffs, Ds focusing on what's not in this are missing the point in an epic way. politi.co/3mjtE4S
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Mitt Romney complained in a debate that Obama gave stimulus loans to "losers" like Tesla, which is now worth a trillion dollars. I remember at the time it was seen as a very powerful attack. Maybe it was. I wish there was some kind of cost to being superwrong in politics.
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Trump borrowed $2T to cut taxes for the rich, tried to strip health care from 20M Americans, rejected the global consensus on climate change, called LeBron James dumb and pardoned Joe Arpaio...and he's got the media discussing whether Democrats are radical.
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This is outstanding work. The kind of thing that used to require yearlong newspaper investigations. nitter.app/shaunking/status/89940…
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It wasn't even big news last week that Trump Tower is a money laundering scam but we're seriously going to debate I versus I'd?
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That saying about how you might not care about politics but politics cares about you...yeah.
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Can someone explain why Republicans gleefully investigate imaginary corruption while Democrats seem afraid to investigate real corruption?
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Just leaving this here, @marcorubio.
Paul Manafort pardon could force Congress to limit Trump's power, Marco Rubio warns washex.am/2RKo75n
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This is the kind of breakthrough a competent government would fund. Instead we have to rely on a sports league that the president keeps attacking.
The NBA and NBA Player's Union funded the creation of a saliva-based COVID test with Yale that is cheaper and quicker than current options. es.pn/2PRD3j0
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Trump did what he wanted to do: He told the Proud Boy types to raise hell at the polls, he told the country he considers the election illegitimate, and he told the Supreme Court to keep him in office.
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