Political blogger and writer, formerly for the Washington Monthly and Mother Jones magazine, now on my own.
Irvine, CA
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Somehow--just a coincidence, I'm sure--every election comes down to demanding that the Democrat release a bunch of nonroutine records. Kerry's military records. Obama's birth certificate/college transcript/etc. Hillary's emails. Biden's UDelaware archives. Golly. I wonder why?
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Possibly the most counterproductive thing ever is snarking at someone who's switched to your side because it took them so long.
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Raw data: Fentanyl overdoses have dropped dramatically jabberwocking.com/raw-data-f…
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I hate it when Twitter forces me to defend Donald Trump, but his "bloodbath" comment was about what he thinks will happen to the US auto industry if he's not elected. Without high tariffs, he believes China will take over.
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Conservative think tank says Medicare for All would save $2 trillion motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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"Nearly everyone in California will pay less for insurance in 2020 than in 2019. This is what can happen when a state is actually serious about making Obamacare work as well as possible for everyone." motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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FWIW, I'd vote for "Rebuild the Police." Simple, clear, and obviously means we want a *better* police force, not no police force. And not as tepid as "Reform the Police."
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After 24 hours of panic, our withdrawal from Afghanistan is suddenly running smoothly jabberwocking.com/after-24-h…
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After the J&J Vaccine Pause, Daily Vaccination Rates Plummeted jabberwocking.com/after-the-…
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"I have previously criticized Republicans who accused liberals of wanting 'open borders.' President Trump tweets about this endlessly. But I have to admit that it’s hard to see much daylight between Warren’s plan and de facto open borders." motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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A personal announcement motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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The courts forced Hillary Clinton to release every single email she wrote as Secretary of States, but won't make Wilbur Ross undergo a single deposition about the 2020 census. I guess there's a reason for this, but jeez.
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Democrats took a terrible coronavirus bill and made it pretty damn good motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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Barely Anyone Believes In QAnon's Conspiracy Theories jabberwocking.com/barely-any… via @kdrum
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It's pretty amazing the amount of abuse @jessesingal and @jonathanchait take from progressives on Twitter just because they're slightly less progressive.
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"Teenagers today are just generally nicer, politer, and less likely to get in trouble than at nearly any time in the postwar era. It’s amazing what happens when you halt the practice of poisoning people and turning them into monsters, isn’t it?" motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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Raw data: What the American public thinks of culture war issues jabberwocking.com/raw-data-w…
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How many Haitian immigrants really live in Springfield? Maybe 2,000? jabberwocking.com/how-many-h…
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There is no crisis on the southern border. None. motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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But that makes perfect sense. Churches at 100% are more crowded than museums at 100%.
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Can we please stop with the "Day 1" stuff for Biden? Even FDR got a hundred days. Besides, most of these Day 1 ideas are harder than people think. How about if we give the guy a whole year?
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Americans have not lost trust in the media. Republicans have. jabberwocking.com/americans-…
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This graphic misrepresents the Gallup results from “Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low.” The posted graphic excludes Gallup’s “faith in media” results for Independents, at 27%. It also excludes the By Age Group, which shows 18-29 and 30-49 for all parties at 26%.
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The Washington Post is very, very wrong about the economy jabberwocking.com/the-washin…
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More people should read the Los Angeles Times motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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Huh. Trump refused Wolff access to West Wing but he was there all the time anyway. Poor management! Sad!
I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
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I read the entire Slack archive about the origin of SARS-CoV-2. There is no evidence of improper behavior. jabberwocking.com/i-read-the…
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Was chatting with the guy who owns the the yacht berthed next to mine, and he says he's really having trouble finding barnacle cleaners these days. Unemployment payments need to stop now so people will get back to work!
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Assassinations have plunged over the past two decades. Why? jabberwocking.com/assassinat…
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You know, Trump's lawyers can't keep him away from Twitter forever. He's gonna explode eventually.
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This is usually a plea from whichever side fucked up really badly.
When this pandemic is over, let’s avoid the partisan blame game, Mitch Daniels writes wapo.st/2SABrfa
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I have personally experienced zero change in Twitter so far. How many other people would say the same? Tens of millions? Hundreds?
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Can we please stop the "I'm a distant ancestor of X and here's what I think of X" op-eds? Who cares?
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After consultations with Donald Trump, I am pleased to announce that @MotherJones will not be moving its newsroom to Mexico.
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Why has teen mental health fallen off a cliff recently? jabberwocking.com/why-has-te…
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The end of the eviction moratorium turned out to be a nothingburger jabberwocking.com/the-end-of…
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We finally know what it takes to be called racists motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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FFS, people, nobody "cheated" in the Democratic primary. Can't we at least put that brand of idiocy to bed?
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There sure are a lot of people on Twitter who are convinced the FDA process for approving vaccines is just a bunch of bullshit even though they have no idea what that process is or why it's in place.
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Democrats do not advocate open borders. Democrats have placed a number of immigration proposals on the table over the past decade or so, and they’re all easy to find and read.
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"I still can’t help but feel that something non-obvious happened around the year 2000 to produce a sea change in both the global economy and our response to it....But I confess that I’m no closer to an answer today than I was eight years ago." motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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Trump’s Feeble Hurricane Response Probably Cost Nearly a Thousand Lives in Puerto Rico bit.ly/2ox0DEl
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It's very cynical, actually. "Unsafe" is largely a codeword that forces HR to get involved for legal reasons.
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Note to everyone: Focus, people. Trump's specialty is tossing gobs of shiny objects in the air to distract you.
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We used to have these. They even had their own money and their own stores! Good times until libs ruined it.
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California Should Leave Undercover Video Activists Alone mojo.ly/2nfLO5r
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I guess Trump thinks the Paris Accord is an agreement with France.
Everything is personal for Trump. Here's his latest comments on the Paris climate accord -- “Would I go back in? Yeah, I’d go back in. I like, as you know, I like Emmanuel," the French president.
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Quote of the day: College-educated Republican women are extinct motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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Our withdrawal from Afghanistan is not the disaster the media is making it jabberwocking.com/our-withdr…
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Selling arms to Saudi Arabia, in whatever quantities, will not generate 500,000 jobs. Or 600,000 jobs. Or 1 million jobs. The entire defense industry only employs about 300,000 people in the first place, and Saudi Arabia is not that big a customer.
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The $3.5 trillion bill increases spending by 7% and increases the deficit by 0% jabberwocking.com/the-3-5-tr…
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Mueller found "corrupt intent" repeatedly in Donald Trump's actions toward the Russia investigation motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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So how long will it be before Trump realizes just how insulting Mattis's letter was and starts a whole tweet tantrum about how Mattis was a terrible SecDef all along?
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This just isn't true. The program was created and funded entirely by Congress and the private sector. Trump just gave it a name--which, admittedly, is something he's good at.
Donald Trump had exactly one, you-gotta-hand-it-to-him, that was an insanely successful policy that saved countless lives and we should do it again and again: Operation Warp Speed.
And it's the only policy from his first term he has completely disowned and is now salting the earth over.
it's like if George W. Bush decided his entire presidency was perfect except for PEPFAR.
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I doubt that. But what matters is not what other people do, but whether S&C are making reasonable arguments.
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Blame the Army, not Biden, for our panicked evacuation from Afghanistan jabberwocking.com/blame-the-…
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"The Beverly Hills market softened considerably last year and a home like this one should probably sell in the neighborhood of $10-11 million. So why did this Indonesian guy pay Trump Jr. $13.5 million? We can guess, but I suspect we will never know." motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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Donald Trump Just Demonstrated That He Knows Precisely Nothing About National Security mojo.ly/2bZSTHW
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Here's Why I Never Warmed Up to Bernie Sanders mojo.ly/21izmkm
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Black Republican senator thinks Republicans should stop nominating racists motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2… via @MotherJones
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If there is *anyone* left on Trump's mfg council by the end of the day, their board should fire them for gross stupidity and obtuseness.
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The biggest military evacuation in US history is going pretty well jabberwocking.com/the-bigges…
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The Veterans Choice Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2014, not by Trump. In 2017 Trump signed a bill approving a new version of the act that he likes better, but without bothering to fund it.
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L'Affaire Covington is, at bottom, about a bunch of teenage boys. No matter who's right, it ranks about #1000 on my list of things to worry about. I hope it doesn't turn into a hill for everyone to die on.
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The lab leak zealots are weird. They keep posting screen shots of Slack and email messages as PROOF of bad conduct, so I click. And there's nothing. Just nothing. What do these people see?
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On Earth-2, lefties are griping because Hillary is renominating Merrick Garland instead of a real progressive.
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"By definition, leaking is against government policy...But surely Comey's act was more whistleblowing than leaking? It exposed clear wrongdoing on the president’s part. No classified information was put at risk and no investigations were compromised." motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2…
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