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It remains interesting that Herman Cain’s death from COVID-19—after he attended a Trump rally in Oklahoma—didn’t even register as a warning in Trump Administration circles.
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I think often about the note RBG’s husband, Marty Ginsburg, left for her when he died, and especially now.
(quoted in @JeffreyToobin’s profile newyorker.com/magazine/2013/…)
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Kelly and other staffers--people with power--listened to the call. But when a young widow has back-up, it's an out-of-bounds intrusion?
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The Brexit result has to be a serious wake-up call for anyone complacent about Donald Trump.
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At this moment, the person I'm thinking of, with great respect, is Merrick Garland. #SCOTUSnominee
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Pause to think about what a triumph the victory in Arizona is not only for Mark Kelly but for Gabby Giffords, who was shot and almost killed nine years ago and hasn’t stopped fighting since.
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Wait, did @60Minutes hold that clip for two days? If so, why?
Donald Trump says he's "saddened" to hear some of his supporters are inciting violence: "If it helps. I will say this…Stop it"
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My bittersweet assignment for this week's @NewYorker: to find a way to say goodbye to Michelle Obama as @FLOTUS. newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
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It's striking—and, actually, moving—that it was Washington state's commitment to its public universities that gave it standing to sue Trump
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The detail about Meghan not having possession of her own passport, driver’s license, and keys will resonate with a lot of people, I think.
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As with Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal's story raises questions of what counts as an undisclosed campaign contribution to Trump. There are laws about that... nitter.app/ronanfarrow/status/964…
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Really, everything you need to know about @realDonaldTrump can be found in the story of the Central Park Five. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Let's be clear: Reince Priebus as chief of staff doesn't mean Trump adopting moderation, but rather the institutional GOP acceding to him.
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Devastating. If anyone tries to tell you that New York City’s hospitals were never really overwhelmed, or that no one died simply for lack of equipment or care, send them this. wsj.com/articles/how-new-yor…
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What did people think it looked like when a football player knocked a woman unconscious? nyr.kr/1q9cJ2H
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Another reminder that the Democratic Party has a few things to figure out before the 2020 campaign. politico.com/magazine/story/…
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Obama won--the whole thing, but especially the last question. #debate
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Does he want to know when Pelosi found out that her staff members had to barricade themselves in a conference room and hide from the mob under a table for hours? I’m sure she’d be glad to tell him.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) wants to call Nancy Pelosi as a witness: “What did she know and when did she know it?”
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"I am much weaker than she is, in such matters,” Khizr Khan said of his wife, Ghazala. Both of them are so strong. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Does Team Biden really want to rely on the argument that Kamala Harris can’t hack it? Doing so just raises questions about why she’s the VP for an 81-year-old. If anything, they should talk her up as a reason to be comfortable voting for someone who might not complete his term.
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Exactly. The rest is just Ryan asking us to indulge him as he explores the borderlands of intellectual vanity.
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This needed to be said--on its own terms, but also so that the Democratic Party can understand all the things that went wrong in 2016. (Assuming that it wants to get it right in 2020...)
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Resonances: Harriet Tubman's father, after gaining his own freedom, managed to buy her mother's--for twenty dollars: newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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One could see the Gorsuch-Sotomayor mask story as an illustration of why workplace COVID-protection mandates make sense. Roberts, as the manager, apparently just tried to work things out in an informal, collegial way. Sometimes that‘a enough—but not this time.
This is such a non-denial denial that it practically reads like a confirmation. The @NinaTotenberg story said that Roberts asked Gorsuch to mask—not that Sotomayor did. And if her reporting was false, this statement would have been the place to say so.
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We’ve heard a lot about the donors Trump recklessly exposed to the coronavirus at Bedminster. What about the waiters, the coat-checkers, the people cleaning the bathrooms or, later, those donors’ homes?
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Very nice reply by Obama to applause at "no more campaigns to run"—"I know, because I won both of them."
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The thing is that the press has a job, and being "nice" isn't it...
I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice
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The Atlantic is very lucky to be getting @juliaioffe.
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What wasn’t in Trump’s statement:
—Any sense of responsibility
—Any note of regret
—Any concession
—Any congratulation to Biden
—Any call to his voters to drop attempts at sabotaging the transition that are short of outright violence.
What was there: victimhood.
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I’m grateful to @RonanFarrow and @JaneMayerNYer for helping my brave friend Tanya Selvaratnam & other women tell their story. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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“It is time for our leaders to realize that this is not in fact a family matter and take seriously their own constitutional responsibility to determine whether the President—not the team around him—has the capacity to govern”—from @JeannieSGersen newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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Agree that we should quickly lend India our AstraZeneca stockpile. The company hasn’t even applied for an emergency-use authorization in the U.S.; those doses are unlikely to be used here anytime soon, if ever. It would do the whole planet good to have them in India now.
India's health system is on the verge of collapse
America can help.
My piece in @washingtonpost on how the world’s oldest democracy (the U.S.) can help the world's largest democracy (India).
It's time to act.
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Here is the right answer: Keep Hamilton on the ten, put Harriet Tubman on the twenty newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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One phrase used is that Weinstein "offered" roles for sex; more accurate, often enough, is that he threatened to withhold or scuttle offers.
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Trump says there could be "a big, beautiful door" in the border wall—the classiest door, all the finest materials, gold-plated...
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Read this. latimes.com/california/story…
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If you’re not ready to endorse—that is, to choose a candidate—then maybe don’t endorse yet? Wait a couple of weeks, or more? Or was the timing driven by the TV schedule?
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Wrote this back in 2021 about a problem that, it seems, has not been solved. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
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What's behind the lead poisoning of Flint's water? The contempt of Michigan officials for the people living there: newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Trump did not win this election on his own. He won it because he was the candidate of the Republican Party. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Trump didn't just lose the #debate; Clinton beat him. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Even before they found the lead, Michigan officials didn't care if people in Flint were, in effect, drinking dirt. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Sanders has "no apologies": "It is not a radical idea to say that a single mom should be earning enough to take care of her kids" #DemDebate
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Some questions.
1) Does “summer” mean June or August?
2) How about the rest of her large household?
3) Why weren’t the other Barretts wearing masks at her introduction event, which is beginning to look like a source of a lot of work for contact-tracers?
NEWS w/ @jdawsey1 @scotusreporter: Amy Coney Barrett had been diagnosed with covid-19 earlier this summer, but has since recovered, three officials tell the Post. Tested daily as SCOTUS nominee washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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David Remnick on Donald Trump's very revealing rant against reporters: newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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All together now, one more time: Keep Hamilton on the ten, put Harriet Tubman on the twenty.
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This may be Obama's best tweet ever.
nitter.app/POTUS/status/644193755… #IStandWithAhmed
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
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The “deranged” label can wait until we know more—there may be apter ones, like domestic terrorist nyr.kr/1LhRBkD #CharlestonShooting
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Clinton: "Donald thinks that belittling women makes him bigger." #debate
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Wondering about the destruction of those tapes, re: Gina Haspel? Here’s an interview I did with Jose Rodriguez a few years ago about that & related CIA torture questions. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Let's take a moment for Tammy Baldwin's victory: our first openly lesbian senator (and not our last)
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The best way to demonstrate that something is not a show trial is to show the trial.
As I wrote for @NewYorker a while back, it would be far better for our democracy if Donald Trump’s New York and federal trials were televised. (Only Georgia is due to be.) Transparency is crucial. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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Paul Ryan does not get bonus points for canceling an appearance with Trump he never should have scheduled--while continuing to endorse him.
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.@JeffreyToobin tells it like it is on Scalia: newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
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A candidate who says he can't release his tax returns because he's being audited—how often do we get that? #GOPDebate
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I wrote about America’s gun problem—and a Supreme Court case that could make it worse—for this week’s @NewYorker. The prompt was Buffalo but it could have been the Texas school or the subway shooting or any day in this afflicted country. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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I still can’t get over the fact that a Harvard Law professor claimed that an analysis of the comfort women’s “contracts” undermined their story—which would be bad enough—even though HE FOUND NO SUCH CONTRACTS! He just dreamed up what they might be like—a fraud within a travesty.
.@NewYorker is just amazing for translating my article into Korean and Japanese, understanding the importance of war memory and responsibility to facts, for Korea-Japan relations going forward. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…. Please share. Thank you!
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A Republican businessman may be about to be elected President, and as a result the markets are deeply rattled.
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Now Megyn Kelly is stepping in and debating Trump herself. But who does that leave people to vote for? #GOPDebate
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One problem with Trumpism is its elevation of conspiracy-mindedness and its partisan suspension of skepticism; that has to be resisted, too.
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Wake me up when Paul Ryan actually withdraws his endorsement of Trump. Until then, it's just tactics and sophistry.
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This, by @juliettekayyem in @TheAtlantic, on the need to properly count the dead—something that isn’t happening—is so important and so thoughtful. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Meanwhile, about that executive order...
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Why was the one girl who stood up for the student a deputy threw across a classroom also arrested? newyorker.com/news/amy-david… #Springvalleyhigh
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Myeshia Johnson, a young, pregnant widow with two small children, stood up to Trump. Maybe some Senators could, too. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Did Cruz just complain that we weren't bombing "Jihadi University"? With a joke about doing it before "freshman orientation"? #GOPDebate
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Marco Rubio wants to remind everybody that Jesus Christ is the only savior, and that Bernie Sanders is a socialist. #GOPDebate
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Am trying not to take the World Series rain delay as an omen for an Election Day recount. Trying.
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Here's what the Donald Trump who says he's shocked by the term "super-predators" said about the Central Park Five: newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Why must @NYCHealthSystem kick private health aides, some caring for ALS patients like @JiayangFan’s mother at Henry Carter, out of its nursing homes? Will it increase staffing to compensate? City nurses are overwhelmed. @NYCMayor @melissadderosa @DrKatzNYCHH @NYCHealthCommr
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"I know nothing about Russia"—Trump, in a possible moment of honesty. #debate
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So what, exactly, does @rupertmurdoch mean by "a real black President"?
Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else.
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If you want to understand Biden’s acknowledgement of the Armenian genocide, a good place to start is with this magnificent piece by @raffiwriter, from 2015: newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
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Here is @lawrence_wright's brilliant @NewYorker piece on Paul Haggis and Scientology: newyorker.com/magazine/2011/… #GoingClear
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Trump: "Such a nasty woman." Does he think we can't hear him? #debate
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I wrote this in 2013: Megyn Kelly is the brains of Fox News, and, occasionally, stops caring if the men there notice: nyr.kr/1KVZyMK
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Rubio gives a strong answer on the propriety of speaking Spanish to people who speak Spanish—somehow a controversial point in the #GOPDebate
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Obama calls for closing #Guantanamo, as he did his first week on the job. Running out of time. #SOTU
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Sanders: "the business model of Wall Street is fraud." #DemDebate
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Dear GOP'ers waiting for "proof" that Roy Moore is unfit: he's confirmed that he doesn't believe in letting Muslims serve in Congress. If that's not enough... newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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Really don't know how we're going to make it through the 2016 election without Jon Stewart. Worried.
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Trump wasn’t putting the two sides on the same level; he was saying that the counter-protesters were worse. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Extra points if they didn't, at about the same time, announce their retirement. nitter.app/noahshachtman/status/9…
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Too much time in this #DemDebate has been spent on questions about ideological labels.
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I love her.
"When I step on the court, I'm not a Serena fan - I'm just a tennis player playing another tennis player. But when I hugged her at the net, I felt like a little kid again."
❤ @Naomi_Osaka_ lets us into her heart...
#USOpen
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As I wrote for @NewYorker a while back, it would be far better for our democracy if Donald Trump’s New York and federal trials were televised. (Only Georgia is due to be.) Transparency is crucial. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: Your Super Tuesday reminder of who he has always been. newyorker.com/news/amy-david…
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Santorum just compared #SCOTUS's marriage ruling to Dred Scott. Here's why that analogy is nonsense: newyorker.com/news/amy-david… #gopdebate #SSM
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