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On Tuesday's episode of The Editors,
@NoahCRothman
,
@michaelbd
, and I disagreed over Ukraine. A bunch of people said they wanted to hear a longer debate on tha topic, so I made that this week's episode of my own podcast:
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"What's your favorite sandwich?"
“The spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A.”
"Wrong!"
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I read through FL’s new curriculum. It is difficult to convey the astonishing extent to which Kamala Harris is lying about it. To illustrate it, I've copied and pasted all 191 of its references to slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and civil rights.
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I’m worried about this too. Imagine if, in a transparent attempt to control information, Twitter blocked access to true stories in major newspapers on the grounds that those stories were Russian misinformation. It sounds far-fetched, but it could happen.
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Insane framing. They borrowed money and spent it on a product that they received. They then got a three year break from paying it back—at taxpayer expense. The media can’t cover this story properly because almost all of the authors of the pieces are in on the scam.
Student loan payments restart today, forcing borrowers to take on more debt and put off saving for retirement.
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@socialiststeve6
Because this isn’t the responsibility of the people who didn’t make the voluntary decisions you did.
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BREAKING: After an impressive interview, Google Gemini has been chosen as the new president of Harvard.
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“For those pointing out that my argument was stupid, rest assured that I am capable of making an even more stupid one if pushed.”
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In which Jennifer Rubin writes a piece in the Washington Post on Friday that is based around the massive mistake that Business Insider made—and then corrected—on Tuesday. “Does she have editors?” was just emphatically answered.
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We have an entire class of journalists that believes that nothing is real, and that everything is about words, and that the public’s obvious concern about the tangible problems that are in front of their eyes is invariably about something else.
“The concern over shoplifting taps into a larger narrative about how urban areas are out of control.”
What America’s shoplifting panic reveals
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In his defense, Biden is in better mental shape than both François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl.
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Biden knew this was illegal. Everyone knew this was illegal. That he tried to do it anyway, in violation of his oath of office, remains a monumental disgrace.
The Supreme Court accurately concludes via a 6-3 decision that Biden’s administration clearly did not have the authority to transfer billions in student loan debt from those that took it on to taxpayers:
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The gap between what is actually a strong legal argument and what the press insists is a strong legal argument has rarely been wider.
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Let us know when you find out who is responsible for these policies.
My wife and I play these scenarios over in our head all the time. We’ve practiced going out through the back seat to get our kids out of our car if we are carjacked. This is not normal. Soft on violent-crime prosecutors are letting too many dangerous people threaten our kids.
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In Google Gemini's defense, I just asked it to show me a photo of the best Supreme Court Justice and it generated a picture of a black guy.
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This really is one of the most grotesque ongoing performances in recent memory. To justify illegal and immoral executive action, the White House is lambasting a bipartisan law passed by Congress that was implemented exactly as it was written.
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I’m also a proud immigrant. There’s nothing wrong with using “illegal” to describe those who moved here in violation of our law—as distinct from those who did not. This is akin to the law-abiding complaining that the word “criminal” exists.
As a proud immigrant, I'm extremely disappointed to hear President Biden use the word "illegal."
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Astonishing dishonesty. This is the worst version of this yet.
My predecessor presided over historic job losses.
Thanks to Bidenomics, we’ve presided over historic job growth.
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How to Talk to Your Crazy Republican Uncle About Osama bin Laden’s Good Side This Thanksgiving
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Masterpiece. The description of Hunter Biden’s crimes as “foibles.” The framing of the story as being actually about Republicans. The insinuation of “pouncing.” 10/10.
Hunter Biden's foibles provide ammunition for Republicans who want to inflict harm on Joe Biden ahead of 2024 presidential campaign.
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Every day on TruthSocial, Trump says the most lunatic, absurd, flatly authoritarian things, and nobody seems much to care, because it’s not Twitter. He’s completely out of his mind. That he’s leading in GOP poll is a disgrace.
Trump accuses NBC and MSNBC of “country threatening treason” and pledges to target the company if elected president
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“After their 21-hour sit-in.” These people so desperately want to be oppressed.
“In essence, they tried to break us. They tried to break our bodies, they tried to break our spirits.”
One of the Vanderbilt protestors speaks after their 21-hour sit-in:
h/t
@lawyergonerogue
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This is horrifying. When I tell Americans that the British have no useful free speech protections, and that the First Amendment is a glorious outlier in the world, this is what I’m talking about. Read the police officer’s questions.
1. Yesterday, a lesbian woman was interviewed under caution by
@northumbriapol
for saying Trans Women are men. They interviewed her despite a warning from Fair Cop to leave her alone. This is the transcript.
@SuellaBraverman
@SpeechUnion
Read it all. It is terrifying.
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It’s because they aren’t allowed to perform sex-change operations on minors.
"I never thought that I would have to flee a state."
This family of four living in suburban Florida shares why they are packing up to leave.
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I remember being taught about this woman in college.
“There is a world of knowledge out there,” my tutors said, “and you can never know even a fraction of it. Nobody can.”
“Except,” one professor said, in hushed tones, “for Kate Starbird, who is the rightful arbiter of truth.”
X, formerly Twitter, only responded to 30% of the notes from researchers flagging misinformation in posts, says Kate Starbird, the leader of a misinformation research group.
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“All the free money in the Inflation Reduction Act” is one of the funniest sentences I’ve seen in years.
The average American probably doesn’t know about all the free money in the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Instant classic. This one will be tough to top.
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We need none of these things.
Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need 3 things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.
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In one illegal order, Governor Lujan Grisham of New Mexico has highlighted both the problem with the unconstitutional “emergency” suspension of rights *and* the gaping practical flaw in most gun-control proposals. It’s almost elegant in its stupidity.
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There are 756 words in this piece, and not one of them even hints at the events that led to the expulsions. This is a fantasy account. It’s a press release. It’s what Axios wishes had happened. Extraordinary.
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It’s extremely weird that some of the most sensitive people in America are willing to overlook calls to ban homosexuality, establish a state religion, or conform to the patriarchy if those calls come from someone who is foreign.
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Manchin got played. He knew he was going to get played, and yet, having held out for a while, he gave in. To stop this from happening, all he had to do was nothing. This is on him.
The Biden administration is breaking its word to the American public by ignoring the text of the
#InflationReductionAct
to pursue its radical climate agenda. Let me be clear: if this continues, I'll do everything in my power to stop them — including voting to repeal the IRA.
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Imagine how little respect you must have for voters to try this.
While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same?
Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend.
I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it.
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“Athens man.”
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@soledadobrien
Someone has hacked your account and is publicly endorsing racial discrimination.
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At CNN, Sherrilyn Ifill says it's “shocking and dangerous” for Congress to ask questions of Harvard, which is "independent." Nonsense. Congress has given more than $3bn of taxpayer money to Harvard since 2018. With subsidy comes oversight. Pick one.
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An incredible lie.
AFT President Randi Weingarten: "We spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools."
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And here’s Jennifer Rubin, three days later, still running with it in the Washington Post. She doesn’t know anything, or care that she doesn’t know anything—and nobody at the Post seems to mind.
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Counterpoint: Don’t do this. It’s Maryland, different states require different candidates, and the Senate matters.
SAY NO TO LARRY HOGAN
Larry Hogan has actively sabotaged conservative candidates including President Trump at every turn. Every Republican should actively oppose him and vote against him. No more RINO slugs who undermine the conservative agenda in Congress and promote the likes…
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Yet another thing 9/11 took from us: the joy of those perfectly normal non-violent plane hijackings we all enjoyed. I remember it well. “Do you have a layover?” my parents would ask. “That depends,” I’d answer, impishly. And then we’d all laugh, and shout, “fingers crossed!”
Reminder that plane hijackings used to be perfectly normal and were mostly non-violent. 9/11 was an outlier and the first of its kind
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I am afraid that there is simply no way of perusing this course and concluding that it “gaslights” people or whitewashes slavery. It is comprehensive and blunt. Harris is lying to a degree that is impressive even for her.
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It was all stuff and nonsense. All that talk of “hate speech” and “accountability culture” and “systemic oppression” and the need to ensure that everyone in the community feels “safe” at all times? It was all guff, flotsam, baloney.
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It’s flat-out insanity for DeSantis to mention RFK Jr. within the same sentence as the FDA or CDC, let alone as a potential appointee to do anything related to medicine. RFK Jr.’s a kook who’d improve nothing. (The full answer’s even worse than this clip.)
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), when asked if he would consider naming 2024 Democratic candidate RFK Jr. as his vice president:
“Sic him on the FDA if he’d be willing to serve, or sic him on CDC.”
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They can’t change because this is what they think their job is.
The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes
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Classic media pattern. When reporting on the story per se, the murderer was an “Athens man.” When writing the “Republicans pounce” piece, they allow that it was an illegal immigrant, but only to criticize those who noticed.
NEW: Top Georgia Republicans quickly tied the killing of a student on the University of Georgia campus to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, decrying what they see as lax border controls after a suspect from Venezuela was charged with murder.
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They can’t stop doing this because doing this is why they exist now.
Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism
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Did they not see the movie?
Keanu Reeves' Los Angeles home 'burglarized by multiple men wearing ski masks' who smashed his windows, stole a firearm and fled the scene
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My take is that you shouldn’t light yourself on fire, or celebrate those who do.
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She didn’t think this through, did she?
BREAKING: New Mexico Attorney General tells the Governor that he won't defend her carry ban, saying "I do not believe it passes constitutional muster."
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When you believe in nothing outside of rank identity politics, you end up writing things like this without realizing how you sound.
If we’re going to start scrutinizing every detail of college presidents’ past writings for technical attribution issues, then let’s do it. Let’s go look at everyone’s past writings, not just Claudine Gay at Harvard. Let’s put them all under a microscope and see how they hold up.
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Such a shame that he won’t get to
enjoy Moscow’s subway and supermarkets.
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“Limited scientific evidence of physical advantage.���
Nobody actually believes this. Some people pretend to. Others knowingly lie about it. But nobody actually believes it.
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When you don’t read the opinion before tweeting.
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Good example here of how “DEI” people sell themselves using the language of liberalism and inclusivity, but are actually vicious bigots whose sole purpose is to limit debate and enforce ideological conformity.
NEW: Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, who was shouted down by Stanford Law students yesterday, says the protesters behaved like "dogshit."
He is also calling on Stanford to fire the DEI dean who participated in the uproar.🧵
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Clearly, the best way to capitalize on this is to start a pointless internecine war over the House Speakership, shut down the government for no comprehensible reason, and nominate Donald Trump for president.
Biggest R advantage on economy since 1991 in newest
@GallupNews
survey. They’ve been polling this question since 1951 (!!!)
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The Bragg indictment was weak, tendentiously argued, and transparently politically motivated. This federal indictment is devastating.
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Tucker Carlson this afternoon, probably: “I’m here visiting the gulag. And the question is: how is it doing after 100 years? So we went in to look, and what we found shocked us. There is no crime in here. There are lots of guards. It has a beautiful concrete quadrangle . . . ”
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It’s almost as if there’s a big news story about him that was being carried live on all the networks.
Hunter Biden has already been mentioned at least 104 times *this morning* on Fox News and Fox Business, according to a transcript search. It's not 10am eastern yet.
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Joe Biden is an asshole.
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The media cannot escape this formulation. It is constitutionally incapable of seeing what it does, or why.
Sen. Ben Cardin’s office has parted ways with a staffer who conservative news outlets alleged was shown in a leaked video having sex in a Senate hearing room.
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Tweet would be identical if the killer had been the victim. Whatever the impetus, the response is exactly the same. Quite the trick.
Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity: “We were already fearing for our lives. Now, it’s even worse.”
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But Biden said that he needed Congress to give him that power—which he didn’t, and which he knew he didn’t, and which everyone else knew he didn’t as well.
“Biden has considered an executive order that would dramatically stanch the record flow of migrants into the Southwest. This could even happen in the two weeks before the address, allowing Biden to say he took action while Republicans just talk.”
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This is a level of pouncing I frankly never thought possible. It’s the sort of pouncing you read about in legends and hear about it in rumors handed down through the generations, but never believe might come true. And then, one day, it does.
"Republicans would cripple the IRS by forcing its workers back into the office" (
@TheHillOpinion
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They knew, though. They absolutely knew. They just didn’t want to talk about it, so they didn’t.
It is significant that detailed facts on Biden's inability to respond to questions did NOT come from the news media.
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January 6th happened because Trump lost, lied about it, tried to use the 12th Amendment and Electoral Count Act to stage a coup, and then set about convincing a lot of people that he had been wronged. Scour all the footage you like; that’ll stay true.
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Woman who lied about Harvard’s free speech policies retained by governing board lying about Harvard’s plagiarism policies.
Claudine Gay to keep her post at Harvard after the governing board decides to support her,
@mherszenhorn
and
@claireyuan33
scoop for
@thecrimson
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Misleading tweet: 383,000 views
Devastating correction: 4,800 views
They do it on purpose.
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The chance that Biden refers to the special counsel as "Ben Hur" in the next 48 hours is pretty high.
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This is an extraordinary interview, and anyone interested in American politics should read it from start to finish.
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George Soros is heavily engaged in American politics—ask him, he’ll talk about it openly and enthusiastically!—and he is as liable to be criticized for that engagement as is anyone else. Those pretending otherwise are just trying to shut you up.
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Campaigning. They’re campaigning.
Just before Election Day, conservative groups in Virginia are knocking doors, using education, taxes and other issues to convince voters to flip the state Senate.
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Extraordinary dishonesty. Suicidal politics.
For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it.
Here's my full statement on border security negotiations:
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The argument being made here is that the executive should control the executive branch. There is nothing terrifying or problematic about that. It’s Article II, plainly understood. The problems start when the executive usurps powers vested in *other* branches—usually Congress.
You don't find this terrifying and problematic ?
"I mean that the president should have more authority over the federal bureaucracy, so that it implements his policies faithfully".
Isn't this the antithesis of having 3 equal branches of government ?
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You can tell how indefensible a policy is by looking at how far it has to be spun to make it sound acceptable to the people who aren’t paying attention.
Republicans are suing, in multiple states, to make sure that Americans have to pay more to banks on student loans. In an election year.
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Almost every press outlet in America has been captured by unhinged activists. The “health care” referenced in this tweet refers to, in CNN’s own words, “children” being given “prescriptions that block puberty hormones or sex-reassignment surgeries.”
Florida lawmakers have sent to the desk of GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis a slate of bills that will alter the lives of transgender people in Florida – including their access to health care and everyday amenities
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Actual racism: taking the bad behavior of an individual and applying it to everyone else who shares that individual’s immutable characteristics.
Fani Willis' testimony evokes long-standing frustrations for Black women leaders
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What exactly did New York City think “sanctuary” meant?
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What’s hurting Kamala Harris is that Americans have ears.
Republican attacks are hurting Vice President Kamala Harris' approval rating, Democrats say, and the White House is running out of time to help her.
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It really is jarring to see. When I’ve written for the Post and the Times, I’ve been fact-checked until I bled. I if wrote that there are 50 states, I was asked for a citation. That’s fine—good, even. But, as is evident if you read those papers, it only happens in one direction.
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I’m just impressed by how talented a businessman Hunter Biden must have been to have won all of those lucrative contracts.
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It’s always a useful sign when they start saying that the thing they’ve been pushing doesn’t actually exist.
Hakeem Jeffries: Biological males competing against women in sports is an issue that “doesn’t really exist.”
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Joe Biden is, as he has always been, a terrible person and a pathological liar. The only reason he gets away with it is that the Republicans’ perpetual candidate, Donald Trump, is both of those things, too.
🚨 SCOOP from
@AlexThomp
: Old yeller: Biden's private fury
"God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!," "Don't f**king bullsh*t me!" "Get the f**k out of here!"
And according to one source, no staffer is safe.
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Nobody believes this, including Elizabeth Warren.
Prices are still high. Why? A big reason is that even as costs have come down, corporations are price gouging to boost profits.
Take diapers for example. Costs like wool are down 25%. But 2 companies control 70% of the market, & their executives brag about fatter profit margins.
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I loathe RFK Jr., and I have for decades. But the idea that America’s cable news outlets ought to cut off interviews if they don’t explicitly help Joe Biden is hilarious.
Good grief. CNN just gave RFK Jr. a national platform & threw easy, softball questions at home with no pushback when he answered with lies & conspiracy theories. They should’ve cut the interview, but they didn’t. CNN continues failing its viewers & our democracy.
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Republicans demanded accountability from their own representative and are now trying to demand accountability from a Democratic representative, and this just shows how hypocritical they are!
First, New York Republicans supported George Santos. Then they voted to expel him. They’re so embarrassed by their behavior that they’re trying to distract people by censuring
@RepBowman
— doing their best My Cousin Vinny impersonation to break down an incident with a fire alarm.
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@BarbMcQuade
You spread lies, though. That’s why they’re asking. Here’s an example of one: . You deleted it because you got caught, and now you’re trying to sell a book criticizing people like yourself.
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This is an absolutely ridiculous way to cast what has happened, which is that the GOP has passed a bill through the House and Biden has insisted that he won’t cut a deal with the branch of government that is in charge of the process.
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The fuck you are.
#JackPosobiec
#CPAC
"I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy. We're here to overthrow it completely, we didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here, we'll replace it with this right here."
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Harvard’s plagiarism system is the same as its free-speech system: an entirely malleable tool that can be used or discarded at will depending on the status of the person whose behavior is being examined.
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The correct constitutional position, given the limited powers of the federal government.
Trump says abortion is up to the states, declines to endorse national limit
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Using the phrase “an equal chance” while calling for racial preferences is absolutely precious.
An extremist Supreme Court has once again reversed decades of settled law, rolled back the march toward racial justice, and narrowed educational opportunity for all. I won't stop fighting for young people with big dreams who deserve an equal chance to pursue their future.
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I increasingly wonder if they do it on purpose.
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Yes, that classic line that we all associate primarily with Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi moment in Chris Christie's speech when he cites her favorite Ben Franklin, "a republic, if we can keep it."
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Ben Sasse’s statement on what happened in Israel—a statement that, unlike many others, had an obvious reason for existing—was about as good as it gets.
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Beyond parody.
Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA
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Here’s Business Insider correcting its absurd mistake on July 11.
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Facebook tagged my piece arguing that the president can’t usurp Congress’s power as “hate speech.”
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Biden says he believes he can use the 14th Amendment on the debt ceiling. At no point in his presidency—not once—has he stood up and said No to the progressives in his party who, on the basis of obvious and risible lies, have demanded he violate his oath.
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