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Clio, Muse of History, also known by her MCU superhero name, The Proclaimer (!). Great friend of the blog.
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Do I really have to explain why Kate McKinnon is a bigger loss to SNL than Pete Freaking Davidson???
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I will say this again — if Sanders is the nominee in the fall, and you don’t vote for him, the second Trump term is on you, not him and not his supporters and not the Democratic Party.
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Dear Headline Writers: Mnuchin is not “declining a request.”
He’s breaking the law.
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Jon Stewart has gotten conspicuously angry in public twice. The first time, he got Crossfire cancelled. The second time, he got this bill passed. He's already contributed more to American politics than Newt Gingrich has in 30 years.
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If Ted Cruz were an ordinary dude, and he did a Mexico roundtrip in less than 17 hours, the DEA would be waiting on his lawn when he got home.
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So does half your political party, Ace.
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I am not kidding.
We need UN election observers in Georgia...the state, not the country.
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I’m coming to the conclusion that William Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report was not made in good faith.
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I have never underrated a public figure the way I underrated Joe Biden in 2020.
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13 people got shot in Milwaukee last night.
10 people shot to death in a Buffalo supermarket today.
THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN IN OTHER COUNTRIES
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Just as the Republican Party sets out to whitewash American history in our schools, here comes Ken Burns with a bucket of cold water. Well done.
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Let us be clear. The hiring of Steve Bannon as a WH policy adviser is exactly the same as hiring David Duke. Please don't normalize this.
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A reminder that, when JFK made the commitment to go to the moon, the top tax rate was 91 percent. When Apollo 11 landed, it was 77 percent.
Now we “can’t afford” to pay for anything.
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The woman who stumped Pence at the end was Paula Reid from CBS.
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I think we all should take a step back and ponder the fact that the president* of the United States just admitted in a court finding that he’d looted a charity.
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I would rather let Carnival cruise line die than people my age.
Just sayin’.
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The Germans are warning us about fascism.
I got nothin'.
Germans know fascism when they see it.
Today the nation's top magazine, Stern, declares
@POTUS
@realDonaldTrump
a Nazi.
Yesterday Chancellor Angela Merkel came to the defense of US Congress "Squad."
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I might just be an old legacy media dude, but I think the revelation that a president*'s son was bragging to the WH COS that they could overturn a national election should be a slightly bigger news story than it is.
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Is Rep. Matt Gaetz the biggest schmuck currently gracing the halls of Congress?
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The FBI dudes literally busted Roger Stone for free.
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I’m not comfortable with heavily armed humans stopping traffic on a major thoroughfare on a holiday weekend and I don’t care what their particular strain of crazy is.
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If you’re keeping score at home, it’s too dangerous to hold the convention in Jacksonville but safe to open schools.
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Does McConnell think nobody remembers that he blew up the filibuster for SC nominations???
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If you’re using more airtime on Jussie Smollett than on Christopher Hasson, you’re doing TV very wrong.
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On a week in which I lost respect for a lot of people. I gained a lot for Amy Klobuchar.
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I don’t recall ever hearing Obama speaking with this kind of unforgiving outrage. Maybe I missed it, but this is one pissed-off patriot up there.
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Here's where we remember that the CDC is forbidden BY LAW from studying gun violence as a public health problem.
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Let me see if I have this straight.
1) Secret Service busts guy near WH.
2) SS takes guns away and gives them to guy's Dad.
3) Dad gives guns back to kid.
4) Kid shoots up Waffle House.
Gun culture is weird, man.
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I say we take away Joel Osteen's tax-exemption and we give it to Mattress Mack.
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So, to recap: a woman who's had a long career as a conscienceless rightwing hit person, who began her career outing gay students at Dartmouth, is now hiding behind Holy Week because a HS student is kicking her ass.
Did I miss anything?
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I hired my gardener to be my plumber. Why is my kitchen underwater?
As Exxon CEO, Tillerson was a success. So why has he belly-flopped as SecState? My take.
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If you thought you wouldn't live long enough to hear a president mock a guy going thru chemo for brain cancer, congratulations. You made it.
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Let's settle this whole thing by comparing the two schools begun by LeBron James and the president*. Which one of them was a multimillion dollar fraud?
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Dunno. Is it still alleged when a guy admits it to an entertainment TV reporter?
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Am I way out of the box to suggest that, maybe, the House shouldn't take 5 weeks off at this particular point in history?
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The standing O for Yovanovitch was a signifying moment.
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Since when can you check yourself into a hospital as a precaution?
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This is the dumbest thing ever said by any elected representative ever.
Collins: "My fervent hope is that Brett Kavanaugh will work to lessen the divisions in the Supreme Court so that we have far fewer 5-4 decisions."
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We just killed the second-most powerful person in the Iranian government with no warning, nothing to Congress? This is crazy.
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Amazing to me how the "woke"" timeline on sexual harassment always begins with Bill Clinton, and ignores the fact that a credibly accused fella has been sitting on the Supreme Court for decades .
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She tried to tell us.
There's a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.
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Wait a minute. The Secret Service asked the mayor of Tulsa to put a curfew in place for the next two nights. The mayor complies. And the president* demands the city call it off?
1) The mayor should’ve told the president* to stuff it.
2) He wants a riot. He’s begging for one.
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The Texas GOP is going for it all. Its platform calls for nullification. Welcome to 1857.
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Puerto Rico is an "inaccessible island"? Are you Vasco da Gama?
We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida (and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent Mayor of San Juan). We are ready for the big one that is coming!
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I will respect no Republican who comes out against the president* now. I will be grateful. I will be relieved. But you jamokes ran with this guy who sold out the country so you could get judged and a big tax cut. You can all still fck off. Your party’s a sham.
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Am I surprised that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions went right to the one Scripture passage that was the go-to passage for antebellum advocates of the slave power?
No.
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Before we carry Jon Stewart around the Intertoobz on our shoulders, we should remind him that “Congress” isn’t holding up the renewal of the 9/11 bill. Republicans are.
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Watching people pretend that these demonstrations are spontaneous is proof that we never learn anything from anything.
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The burdensome Obama-era regulation in question prohibited racial and ethnic discrimination in auto loans.
God, what a fake this man is.
Great news→ This bill repealing another burdensome Obama-era regulation that's hurting consumers in the auto lending marketplace is off to the
@WhiteHouse
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Impeach him again. Do it tomorrow.
U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic
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Then you're going to love federal court.
Great time with
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#maga
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The Dixie Chicks find this take hilarious.
"David Hogg's attempt to end Laura Ingraham's career sets dangerous precedent"
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Somebody dropped this in my mentions and it needs to be said and spread widely:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders got more due process at that restaurant than a migrant mother with an infant will get at the border.
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Ted Cruz just said nobody can be NOMINATED as a SCOTUS judge if the president and the Senate are held by different parties. Not confirmed, nominated. Game, given away.
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Is it time yet to point out that only one D candidate has promised to bring these crooks to justice if she gets elected??
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Speaking of contact tracing, does Judge Barrett have to self-quarantine?
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My astonished rage cleared for a second and I realized that, according to this decision, states can pass all kinds of unconstitutional laws as long as they leave the enforcement to bounty hunters.
Jesus, we're back at the Kansas-Nebraska Act again.
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Sarah Huck just called Michael Wolff an "author nobody ever heard of before today." Why people sit through this preposterous woman's daily exercise remains a national embarrassment.
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One thing Fonda has over your old man. She actually went to Vietnam.
Darn, we lost "Hanoi Jane"... again. I'm not sure how real hardworking Americans will be able to cope. 🙄
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Professor Pamela “Nostradamus” Karlan, ladies and gentlemen.
Pamela Karlan: “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll... send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.”
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The scandals surrounding the White House seem to be mushrooming.
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Meghan McCain is going through the slow death of a parent right now. I am familiar with what this is like. Someone close to her should tell her it's not the best time to be on TV.
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Hey, Mitt, not for nothing but why do you have to be asked to support voting rights? Your old man wouldn’t have waited for an invitation.
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The next person who mentions Youngkin’s brilliant “education plan” without mentioning that it was pure race-baiting horseshit is going to bring out my inner Hulk.
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Trump apparently called everybody in Georgia except Boss Hogg, and everybody he called apparently recorded the conversation.
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Win or lose, a lot more people voted for him this year, after watching him as president* for four years, than voted for him last time.
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NOW can we please have an impeachment inquiry????
Pretty please.
Otherwise, seriously, what's the fcking point of anything?
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump tells
@GStephanopoulos
he wouldn't necessarily alert the FBI if approached by foreign figures with information on his 2020 opponent: "It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it."
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Carl and Bob and Lesley Stahl all think Ford did the right thing with the Nixon pardon. All three of them are wrong. It was the beginning of the embedding in our politics of the notion that presidential accountability is not in the national interest.
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Can somebody tell me why anyone at USA Gymnastics still has a fcking job?
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Can folks please stop referring to the Griswold decision as having been "about contraception." Griswold confirmed the existence of a right to privacy within the Constitution. That's everything. /1
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Trump's parade should be mocked, relentlessly and everywhere, by every American who still has a sense of dignity and a vague memory of what an actual celebration of patriotism feels like.
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Sure, I was the first off my my landing craft at Omaha and made it almost three steps into France but it was all worth it so 70-odd years later a vainglorious twit could pat his own back.
Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!
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Dear NYT — Prager U is a scam. Having a featured columnist associated with it is an embarassment.
Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, explains how the NYPD's "broken windows" policy--swiftly and forcefully punishing even petty crimes--can be applied by the United States on a global scale.
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I think that when a Supreme Court justice disappears from public view for a few days, that's what we used to call newsworthy.
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Not for nothing, but if the phone call the WP got hold of between the presidenf* and Raffensperger isn’t an impeachable offense, nothing is.
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“I have total authority but it’s everybody
else’s fault” is an interesting philosophy of leadership
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So Mattis is willing to dish for money on the lecture circuit, on his book deal, and to be a hero in Peter Bergen’s book, but not under oath where it counts. The house is burning down and he’s on the sidewalk, selling marshmallows.
Forgive me if I’m not impressed.
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Can we all come together as one and agree that anyone of either party who was involved in what Jeffrey Epstein allegedly was up to should be tossed into gladiator prison forever?
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Alan Dershowitz has just declared the Constitution to be unconstitutional.
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At the heel of the hunt, I think the key to general Republican complicity in this scandal is going to be the fact that a lot of them got laundered Russian money in 2016, a lot of which got washed by the NRA.
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I am rooting for nobody harder than I am rooting for that Fulton County DA who was just on with
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The two senators from Louisiana just voted to kill storm relief for that state and when they run next time, assuming Louisiana isn’t a bay by then, nobody will care.
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Can we at least mention that the Senate Judiciary voted to put a blogger w/no legal experience on the federal bench for life?
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The president* has a secret Chinese bank account. Just as the Founders intended.
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I have been around this racket for going on 40 years, and I have never seen a purportedly neutral poll that left out a top-tier candidate simply because it wanted to.
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Now that 30,000 folks (and climbing) have been evacuated from Afghanistan, can I ask what the magic number is that will change the media narrative? 40,000? 50,000? A million. Please decide.
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"Stephen Miller looks like he has a sex doll named Mother."
--Michael Che.
And I am dead now.
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How about you enlist?
How about these whiny football players go to a local VFW and ask true heroes what that flag, service and sacrifice mean?
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You know what looks pretty damn good today?
Title IX, that’s what.
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Man, just fck anybody who ever wrote a word about e-mails.
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I went to an all-boys Catholic HS and I did not know 65 girls. I call bullshit.
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He was the bravest man I ever met.
Rest in peace, John Lewis. It’s up to the rest of us to get all the way across that bridge.
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Sheldon Whitehouse has sunk his teeth into what always has been the hinkiest part of that whole episode—namely, how Brett Kavanaugh’s substantial personal indebtedness was settled up before he was confirmed.
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Anybody who begrudges home care workers a raise because it "isn't infrastructure" has never had an Alzheimer's patient at home.
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In another kick in the jewels for the former president*, Yusef Salaam, of the Central Park 5, wins a NYC council seat. Donnie wanted him executed once.
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Bill Clinton doesn't have the old pipes, but he still knows the tune. Barack, of course, remains the whole damn symphony. Please use these voice elsewhere than funerals these days.
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