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Seth MacFarlane is better at making the case for vaccines than any public official or medical expert I’ve seen.
Here he demolishes Bill Maher’s stupid assumptions and anecdotal “evidence”
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Some Trump supporters on Parler want to boycott the Georgia runoff — or even write in Trump’s name!
#Genius
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This is Beata Mejia-Mejia, who sued the Trump administration today for taking her son, Darwin, 7, last month after she requested asylum gfrom Guatemala.
She was bonded out of detention but they won’t tell her where Darwin is.
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Another great SNL skit with Hillary reprising that "Love Actually" scene at an elector's house
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Axios: “Does it not set off some alarm bells when you see an email that the Russian government wants to help the campaign?”
Kushner: “The email that I got on my iPhone said ‘Show up at 4’
I didn’t scroll down...”
Axios: “It had Russia in the subject line.”
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This passage from "Fear" on Trump's voting record, an innocuous conversation, is a perfect illustration of how easy lying comes to him, like his first instinct.
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Her name is Sarah Fabian.
Tell her what you think...
SARAH B. FABIAN
Senior Litigation Counsel
Office of Immigration Litigation
Tel: (202) 532-4824
A Trump official tried to argue that detained children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody
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Acyn
This tweet sent by your aides went live a few minutes AFTER Biden talked about the importance of securing the border
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How to try to win election by stoking fear amid the COVID-19 crisis:
Former Georgia Rep. Paul Broun who is running to return to Congress just released an ad warning that “in uncertain times like these,” it’s important to protect yourself against “looting hordes from Atlanta”
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In response to Eric Trump’s ugly tweet, George Conway retweeted three vicious responses from @ianbassin @rezaaslan @renato_mariotti
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Tell us more, world’s richest man, about market dynamics…
“the country’s top 21 companies took in $41 billion in profits during this year’s first quarter — $1.2 billion more on average per company compared to the same period last year”
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So he's thanked and lauded Russia now THREE times, compared to thanking our own special forces ONCE.
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How Mar-a-Lago is a security nightmare that is vulnerable to both casual and professional spies, according to former Secret Service and intelligence officials.
I tweeted abt Mar-a-Lago espionage possibility 3 weeks ago. Per Politico, details worse than imagined politico.com/story/2017/03/t…
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Good point by @AndrewYang: Neither Biden nor Sanders really talked about how to make whole the millions of workers who are losing their gigs with all the closings, such as in NYC and other cities.
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Aretha Franklin was born 80 years ago today. Here’s one of her best performances — “I Say a Little Prayer”
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“No notes, nothing?”
The way that Goldman schools Jim Jordan here is devastating.
Did Jordan have ANY idea what to expect when a real federal prosecutor joined the oversight committee?
(via @Mediaite)
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Great news: @ProPublica is looking to hire 15 to 25 reporters amid a surge in donations
poynter.org/2017/flush-from-…
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Stormy Daniels' attorney just posted this photo of a safe, with a CD inside.
If “a picture is worth a thousand words,” how many words is this worth?????#60minutes #pleasedenyit #basta
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Wow, this one line is the finest grade of pure uncut Rick Wilson:
“The traitors are ass-deep in oligarchs, eagerly selling access to the president, the secretary of state, the attorney general, and of course, the president’s venal pack of lucky-sperm-club spawn.”
My new piece for @RollingStone is attracting some *spectacular* hate mail and whining from the Trump crowd.
I present "The Traitors Among Us" for your reading pleasure.
rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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NEW: In his interview with Mueller's team, Stephen Miller talked a little about how the campaign worked with Cambridge Analytica:
"KUSHNER and PARSCALE handled the relationship with Cambridge Analytica..."
(thanks to @JasonLeopold for latest doc dump: buzzfeednews.com/article/jas…)
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Does anyone go up and question the lawmakers who pass these bills?
How can you discuss slavery without talking about racism?!?
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"He likes Oreos and whiskey!"
WTF
Kilmeade describes it simply as "a picture of Bruce Rinehart" — though the judge has clearly been Photoshopped into this actual photo of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
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Someone had to do it, so I went back through all the transcripts up to 9/22/19.
In all the speeches he's given since taking office, Trump has mentioned foreign corruption only EIGHT times:
Corruption in Romania: 2
Corruption in Venezuela: 2
NEVER corruption in Ukraine
Trump's justification that he's worried about corruption in Ukraine would be far more credible if he had ever consistently expressed any concern about corruption in other countries.
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I love the cluster of folks—18 of them!—who think it’s somewhere in or off the coast of Greenland.
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Define the “woke agenda” for me and I’ll send you an apple pie.
It’s just a catchphrase.
You have no idea what that means.
It’s a hunch wrapped in feelings of resentment, packed with fear of demographic change and sealed with a zeal to “own the libs.”
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Asked about @maggieNYT report that Mike Pompeo is unhappy with him, Giuliani says:
“So, Mike, if you’re unhappy with me, I’m sorry. But I accomplished my mission.”
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“The house committees’ chairs say they will scrutinise a telephone call between the US president and Mr Zelensky on 25 July, during which Mr Trump allegedly told the Ukrainian president to reopen the Biden investigation if he wanted to improve relations with the US.”
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Bill Burr skewers Bill Maher like no one else has…
“You’re like that guy that has a fantasy football team and thinks he’s a fucking GM. That’s exactly what it is.
Why am I fucking listening to you? Like you’ve done something?”
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The MLK quote that most politicians ignore: “it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages…Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working every day? And they are making wages so low that they cannot begin to function…”
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This is excellent.
“Nobody should have any illusions: Bringing anything like justice to President Trump will be neither easy nor safe....” via @davidfrum theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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“Ramirez’s legal team gave the FBI a list of at least 25 individuals who may have had corroborating evidence. But the bureau...interviewed none of them, though we learned many of these potential witnesses tried in vain to reach the FBI on their own.”
Two @nytimes reporters, @rpogrebin and @katekelly, spent months independently reporting out Deborah Ramirez’s allegation against Brett Kavanaugh and found it credible—and documented another serious claim of misconduct with an eyewitness: nytimes.com/2019/09/14/sunda…
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Comey says he feels sorry for Trump: “I think he has an emptiness inside of him and a hunger for affirmation that I’ve never seen in an adult.”
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I don't get it -- is this a story?
Who cares?
Is this some effort to portray her as some out-of-touch elitist?
How conservatives would scream if some journo reported that Tom Cotton drives an F-150 and parked it illegally in front of a Walmart.
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Whoa... Fox News’s Dana Perino says that Biden “hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth” and Karl Rove calls it an “excellent speech” that should worry GOP strategists
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In another letter, Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died Thursday, condemned the lack of assistance for vets + vowed:
"I am no longer going to risk my life in hostile environments around the globe for a government that does not care about the troops"
Heartbreaking
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Wow.
@DrJasonJohnson and Sanders national campaign co-chair @ninaturner going at it over whether Bloomberg is an “oligarch”
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The way he angrily snaps at Mulvaney, “if you’re gonna cough, please leave the room!”... who would put up with being treated like that, even by your boss?
"He's coughing in the middle of my answer. I don't like that, you know. I don't like that. If you're going to cough, please leave the room. You just can't, you just can't cough."
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The 42-year-old Capitol Police officer who died tonight served in the Air National Guard in the Mideast + became fierce critic of the Iraq war.
He often wrote letters to the editor of the Central New Jersey Home News.
In a 2003 letter, he condemned "blatantly partisan politics"
Brian D. Sicknick was injured while physically engaged with protesters at the U.S. Capitol. He collapsed after returning to his division office and was taken to a hospital, police said. He died at about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday night.
Sicknick joined Capitol Police in 2008.
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WATCH: @profgalloway lays it down: “TikTok should be banned, full-stop”
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Hold my beer…
Back in 1996, I took my new wife, father-in-law (who was a rector of the church of Wales), and mother-in-law to go see Trainspotting, assuming that it was a charming movie about trainspotters (British nerds who count trains)
Absolute torture.
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Here's the story:
The meeting was Mr. Kushner’s first face-to-face encounter with MBS since Saudi agents killed Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October.
"The White House statement did not mention Mr. Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen who lived in Virginia."
nytimes.com/2019/02/27/world…
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This is the same nutcase whose hysterical rant about homeowners facing foreclosure as “losers,” kicking off the Tea Party protests.
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One possible example—THREE DAYS after the Chinese government delivered a $500M loan to a project in Indonesia anchored by a Trump resort, Trump lifted sanctions on Chinese telecom giant ZTE.
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Excellent rundown of recent “bad boys” in tennis who’ve behaved much worse than Serena and received lighter (or no) punishments, via @woolyknickers
fastcompany.com/90234350/was…
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Looks like Trump posed with Stormy Daniels at same event at which he met Jessica Drake, porn star who claims Trump offered her $10K for sex...
nydailynews.com/news/politic…
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Trump attacks @Yamiche again for asking a tough but fair question:
“Why don’t you people...you act in a little more positive. It’s always trying to get you, get you...”
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I dare you to go up to some FBI agents + tell them to their faces that they’ve been turned into a “KGB-type operation.”
One that investigated Hillary in lengthy probe, the drip-drip-drip of which very likely cost her the election.
And this time, have the guts to respond to me.
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Flynn invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 450 times (!!) during his deposition, by my rough count — including to questions as innocuous as "who is Sidney Powell" (his former lawyer) and whether he believes in the peaceful transfer of power.
PDF of Flynn transcript just released
january6th.house.gov/sites/d…
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So, @EricTrump, how do you explain this discrepancy?
yikes -- in light of new reporting that the Trump Org charged the Secret Service as much as $1,185 a night to stay at Trump hotels, it's worth revisiting this clip just played on MSNBC of Eric Trump lying in 2019 that the govt was only being charged "like, you know, 50 bucks"
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It's stunning to see the level of blind faith these lawmakers have in our "national security agencies" -- given Snowden, FBI screwups, and a million other scandals over the last few decades.
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Every congressional reporter needs to track down these senators and persist in asking them a simple question: “Why are you so scared of President Trump that you can’t go public with your thoughts?”
The 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for Trump are: Portman, Alexander, Sasse, Blunt, Collins, Murkowski, Cornyn, Thune, Romney, Braun, Young, Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Rubio, Grassley, Burr, Toomey, McSally, Moran, Roberts, Shelby. (2/3)
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It's not about "not liking"
It's about blaming a former boss who almost got you killed -- and then was pretty nonchalant about it afterwards.
Any of us would be pretty pissed.
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Like an SNL skit, this OAN “investigation” is batshit insane:
+ Within hours of reports of their visit, 1,000 troops were “patrolling” Kyiv
+ That prompted them to charter a “midnight jet to Vienna, and we sped to the airport”
+ “We came upon an entourage of Black Mercedes...”
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She organized a “charity event” — ostensibly to fund homeless shelters and wreaths for veterans’ graves — and used the money she collected
“on purchases for herself at McDonald’s, QVC and elsewhere,” say state attorneys in North Dakota.
[chef’s kiss]
Sidney Powell’s secret intelligence contractor witness is a pro-Trump podcaster, @jonswaine scoops washingtonpost.com/investiga…
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I went to college… but even I know that overblown pronouncements and “deep thoughts” shared by tech bros are about as valuable as an AOL CD-ROM
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Tucker Carlson goes off on media pundits who agree with intel assessments that Russia’s interfered in our elections:
“The irony, of course, is that Putin, for all his faults, does not hate America is much as many of these people do. They really dislike our country.”
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You need to re-read Psalm 101:7
“No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.”
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“Was this mere incompetence or something malicious?” asks @AriMelber about this “total failure of law enforcement” today.
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On February 28, Sen. David Perdue told his constituents he's regularly attended meetings of the Coronavirus Task Force, reassuring them that "we’re fortunate to have the best and brightest at the CDC working to prepare the country."
That same day, he sold Caesars stock.
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He thinks his tough-guy posture is going to win over viewers, but it's backfiring.
No one likes a bully who steamrolls a witness and prevents them from answering questions.
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Whoot whoot! @AndrewYang gives a shout out to “local journalists” and the value of local news!!
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So sad to read about the passing of World Party frontman Karl Wallinger.
One of the best songs of the ‘80s
“Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
Or drowning in the oceans of history”
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Amazing violinist on the 2nd Ave subway platform — creating beauty deep underground the gritty city
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Well, public opinion matters when it comes to votes and the will of the people: ALMOST SIX MILLION MORE VOTES
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Late on a Sunday night during a blizzard in ‘98, with no one else out, passing Bob Dylan all by himself walking across Broadway by Lincoln Center—and giving each other the head nod. ❄️🔥
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Reminder: Eddie Gallagher was witnessed (by other U.S. snipers) killing an unarmed old man and a young girl with militarily pointless shots.
He also allegedly threatened to kill fellow SEALs if they reported him, sending texts to “pass the word on to these traitors”
Outgoing Secretary of the Navy Spencer’s acknowledgment-of-termination letter says that he “cannot in good conscience” obey an order he believes “violates the sacred oath“ he took & that he and POTUS disagree on the “key principle of good order and discipline”
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This image of Ilhan Omar waving an American flag while Adam Kinzinger endorses Kamala must be making MAGA heads explode
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So, despite DOJ statistics and its current investigation, Tucker Carlson is not convinced that rising white supremacy is a problem.
He says that such concerns are “a "conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power. That's exactly what's going on."
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And shame on @HARRISFAULKNER for just staying quiet while he made those despicable comments.
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These are the lobbyists for Safari Club International, who pushed to lift the ban on importing elephant trophies. (cc: @yashar @matthewjdowd @goldengateblond @brhodes @JRubinBlogger)
soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm…
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During his Hannity town hall, Trump claimed that Germany is opening a coal plant “every single week” — !?!
In truth, coal-fired power production fell to its lowest level in 60 yrs + they’re
shutting down so many plants that they’re ahead of their target for exiting coal by 2038.
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His facial expressions are so interesting - nodding while she describes Putin’s wish list: the breakup of NATO, etc.
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Anderson Cooper just nailed it, calling out “tough guy” Putin “who likes to ride horses shirtless and likes to show off his judo skills” for being “afraid” of this elderly woman protesting the war who was arrested by riot police in St. Petersburg
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True confession: I once knocked down an old guy on skis, his first time in 30 years on the slopes, but he was forgiving and we parted ways amicably.
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Important to remember this exchange nitter.app/45rapedkatie5/status/1…
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Stunning video evidence here.
As acting US Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, who is leading the probe, told 60 Minutes: If evidence connects chemicals sprayed at Officer Sicknick w/ his death, “that’s a murder case.” nytimes.com/interactive/2021…
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Best SNL skit tonight: Ivanka's new cologne, "Complicit"...."for the woman who could put a stop to all this - but won't"
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Great to see a professor at a major university who has so little faith in the value of a diversity of opinions.
“No one should ever publish...” Seriously? If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it.
Wow, we live in strange times.
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Bill Biggart’s cameras and camera bag, along with notes, press credentials and personal effects.
He was the only journalist killed covering 9/11.
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Terrifying ride on the A train today
Body scanners coming to NYC subway stations as city struggles to get a grip on surging crime trib.al/M8DFN6x
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Just curious, Elise.
How many times have you tweeted about Hunter compared to issues that matter to your constituents like:
Job creation
Affordable housing
Infrastructure
Veterans healthcare
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After Joseph Azam, a Muslim news producer at Fox, responded to Tucker Carlson's horrible comments with this tweet, he was reprimanded by News Corp General Counsel David Pitofsky, who told him not to attack other Fox personalities. (via @davidfolkenflik) npr.org/2019/03/21/705441083…
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Who was the White House staffer who yelled at you, @GovPritzker?
That’s outrageous.
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