Dick Polman
@DickPolman1
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Writes at https://t.co/6paMmTEAiI; archived at https://t.co/WY2bm9BTXo; Phila Inquirer & WHYY News alum; UPenn journalism prof since '06
Philadelphia
Joined August 2011
Why is Trump trying to bury - forever - the final report about his theft of classified documents?
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Trump's masked thugs are massively unpopular. But does public opinion matter anymore?
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Al Pacino & Stephen Graham are two of the most intense actors I’ve ever seen. Graham, who’s taken home every award under the sun for Adolescence, absolutely holds his own with Pacino throughout multiple scenes in The Irishman. I’ve loved this scene from the first moment I saw it.
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Bravo to the artists' mass exodus from the totalitarian playhouse on the Potomac
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It sounds so ridiculous, doesn't it? It is a great analogy‼️
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Definitely delicious that the U.S. can prosecute foreign heads of state for their official acts in American courts but the U.S. president is presumptively immune from prosecution for his official acts. Good case study in legal realism.
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House MAGAts released Jack Smith's secret testimony. No surprise, he kicked their asses.
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I’m not a Venezuela expert so I’ll leave that to folks who actually are like my @AtlanticCouncil friend and colleague @jmarczak. But I do know about energy markets and U.S. foreign policy. Venezuelan oil reserves are significant, 17-18% of world total, but its supply is at best
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Several contradictory things are simultaneously true: 1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region. 2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate. 3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government
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This is well said. The military execution was brilliant, and Maduro is dreadful, but as of right now it looks like most of the Maduro regime remains in Venezuela and may well still run the country. It's very fair to ask, "What now?" We don't yet know if the military success is a
It's ok to have mixed feelings today. Pride in our military. Hope for a Venezuela free from Maduro. Concern about tenuous legal authority and fraying constitutional safeguards. Anxiety about what comes next on the ground, in Venezuela and at home.
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There are times you know a politician wrote his or her own stuff This from @timkaine is one of those times “President Trump’s unauthorized military attack on Venezuela to arrest Maduro—however terrible he is—is a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the
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Absolutely! You wouldn't want "academics and elites" who have actually studied a subject to outweigh the off-the-cuff opinions of village idiots. This is how we're seeing the resurgence of measles, and the widespread belief in almost non-existent vote fraud, among many other
"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you." That changes now. The new CBS Evening News
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And that's the way it is: CBS News has been rendered worthless by a MAGA handmaiden. Donate your money to independent news sites!
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"The American President": Nostalgia on steroids, dosed with Capra-corn, served up by Rob Reiner
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25 years ago today, Al Gore didn't yell "RIGGED!" Instead, "I offer my concession."
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A toxic regime of simpering suckups has rendered the 25th Amendment meaningless
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Rand Paul: "It looks to me like they're trying to pin the blame on somebody else and not them. Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did
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Elect a convicted criminal, you get a criminal regime and crime spree. Thanks, dimwit electorate.
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