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New from me: Fox News HAD the story of Trump's hush money payoffs to Stormy Daniels BEFORE the election but killed it because the reporter said she was told, "Good reporting Kiddo, but Rupert Murdoch wants Donald Trump to win. So set it aside." Reporter sued, is bound by an NDA.
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And so it was - a classmate who heard about it at the time told me he has thought of it every time he's heard Kavanaugh's name - for the last 35 years!
#Kavanaugh
on
@RonanFarrow
report: "If such a thing had happened, it would have been the talk of the campus"
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Elaine Chao's resignation, and her husband Mitch McConnell's break with Trump bring to mind what Ruth Ben-Ghiat, authoritarian expert, and author of "Strongmen" calls "The phenomenon of elite defection in the end, when their personal safety is in peril."
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This is why we need local news!
I just talked with a 'dead' voter. She's alive & well, charming & sharp at 96. The president's campaign said James E. Blalock had voted even though he died in 2006. It wasMrs. James E. Blalock. She voted legally against Trump. She first voted for FDR. Intvw shortly
@11AliveNews
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Thinking today about the unusual $1m that Trump’s PAC gave to Mark Meadows’ nonprofit, The Conservative Partnership Institute. What motivated that whopping gift?
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So,
@TheNewYorker
reported, instead of recusing, Clarence Thomas was the only vote to block the Jan6 committee from getting Trump's papers. Mark Meadows filed a supporting brief. And Ginni's texts to Meadows were at stake. via
@NewYorker
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Odd. Jacob Wohl says he doesn't know nuttin' about Surefire Intelligence, the firm tied to the bizarre Mueller allegations. Take a look at the photos below of Mathhew Cohen, head of 'Surefire,' and of Jacob Wohl.
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Actually, no. Every interview I’ve ever done with
@RepAdamSchiff
started with the admonition that he only speaks on the record for attribution that all can see- no background, and nothing off the record.
President Trump: "Adam Schiff is the biggest leaker in Washington. You know that. I know that. We all know that."
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The day after Thanksgiving is notorious in the media as the single best time to bury bad news. At the Wall Street Journal they'd save crummy pieces for months to bury then. Don't let this story get snuffed out- too important!
A massive federal climate change report that was due next month is out today. It warns of devastating health and economic costs to the US.
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This will make some heads explode: Biden Gets Assist On Fox: Karl Rove Busts Out White Board To Explain Trump's Classified Docs Issue Is Worse
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Susan Collins Shocked That Brett Kavanaugh Would Ever Lie to a Woman
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New: Fox reporter Diana Falzone's lawyer Nancy Erica Smith has issued a statement demanding that Fox release her from her NDA so she can talk about getting the Stormy Daniels story before the 2016 election.
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Lawmakers have just added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act protecting Supreme Court spouses from having to reveal any outside employer, in the name of security. If it passes, Ginni Thomas’s professional entanglements would effectively be state secrets.
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The
@Newyorker
can confirm this: Sen. Chris Coons personally alerted FBI Dir. Chris Wray of an additional eyewitness alleging Kavanaugh exposed himself to a 2nd woman at Yale- but the FBI never interviewed the witness, Max Stier, or investigated it.
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Nearly 40 percent of Kentucky’s state budget is federal funding from Washington, making it the 4th-most dependent state on outside funds according to a 2017 study.
NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who originated this argument, would be very proud of
@NYGovCuomo
today.
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The last story
@RonanFarrow
and I teamed up on exposed NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of sexual misconduct, resulting in his resignation under 3 hours later. He was one of Trump's most effective Democratic foes.
@JerylBier
@JaneMayerNYer
Its just so odd all the people they find are left wing activists.
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One additional detail: Clarence Thomas is The Godfather to Clint Bolick’s child, and Bolick’s wife is the AZ lawmaker who Ginni Thomas pressured to overturn the 2020 election. No conflicts of interest?
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Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion | MIT Technology Review
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Almost NOTHING His Main Accuser Said checks out: the Case of Al Franken
The Case of Al Franken
A close look at the accusations against the former senator.
www.newyorker.com
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Just a reminder: In 1904 Germany kicked out Trump's grandfather Friedrich Trump, forcing him to emigrate to America because he'd ducked required military service.
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Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance’s office now responding to Trump’s pardon saying it “underscores the urgent need to hold Mr. Manafort accountable for his crimes against the people of New York as alleged in our indictment,” and “we will continue to pursue our appellate remedies.”
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Interesting that both Christine Blasey Ford and Debra Ramirez have searing memories of Kavanaugh laughing at them.
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Interestingly, though Kavanaugh's team scrambled to find someone who would call Ramirez a liar, no one did. I interviewed the Yale friend they produced, and when pressed, she declined to say Ramirez was lying, or was politically motivated.
NEW: Texts between friends of Kavanaugh, "suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public."
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Steele's opposition to Trump was based on his investigation, which unearthed alarming, and myriad ties between America's future president and Russia's corrupt rulers. Calling that a bias is like saying the FBI is biased against crime.
Predictable character assassination from a partisan hack. Forget this forgettable hit piece. If you really want to educate yourself about Steele and his memo, read
@JaneMayerNYer
's excellent piece in the New Yorker
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Kind of amazing:
@jddyche
was Mitch McConnell's admiring biographer and among his closest conservative confidantes in KY. Now he's publicly voting against McConnell and calling for a Blue Wave!
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New in my neighborhood: Washington National Cathedral lights up in support of 'Black Lives Matter'
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Interesting: As GOP bashes opponents’ ties to Beijing, Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law Angela Chao is a non-executive director of the Bank of China, which Trump owes tens of millions to, due soon... via
@politico
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How many people think the disclosure of Supreme Court justices’ tax returns is a bad thing? Asking seriously.
Kevin Brady (R-TX) warns that releasing Trump’s tax returns could lead to the release of tax returns of Supreme Court Justices
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Reporter whose Stormy Daniels story was killed by Fox before the 2016 election speaks out about exec who pulled the plug
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presidential historian: "this is not a drill"
"You want to go into history to look for something like this? Go into Italian history and look at Mussolini. This is the way dictators come to power." -
@BeschlossDC
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Secretly paid by a Trump backer involved in a case: Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
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New from us: The F.B.I. Ignores Testimonies from Kavanaugh’s Former Classmates - including a professor now on the record about Ramirez allegations
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The actual author of The Art of the Deal drops the mic on the book:
Given the Times report on Trump's staggering losses, I'd be fine if Random House simply took the book out of print. Or recategorized it as fiction.
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Another Yale Classmate Rebuts Kavanaugh: was he lying then, or last night on Fox? This classmate is now an award-winning history professor.
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The Trump campaign paid more than $2.7 million to individuals and firms that organized the Jan. 6 rally that led to violent rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, according to the Center for Responsive Politics via
@bpolitics
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Just posted: New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit
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Every US news org should copy the BBC’s new standard: disclose the funders behind think tank talking heads.
OMG!!!
A v small ray of sunshine in ongoing national shitshow..but
@BBC
has introduced a new policy on think tanks! That includes info on "funding"!!
*faints*
Look! And it only took all of us going on & on for years (& a strategic ambush of the director general at a public event)
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Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years
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And Max Stier is no slouch of a witness- he is a Rhodes Scholar, Stanford Law grad, fmr. Supreme Court Clerk, runs a bipartisan center for public service and is the star of Michael Lewis’ last book.
“A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier notified senators and the F.B.I. but the F.B.I. did not investigate”
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Ginni Thomas admits she attended the Jan 6 stop-the-steal rally on Elipse
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So we’ve gone from ‘It’s not happening’ to ‘We can make money off it’?
Analysis: The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, the U.S. says the melting ice creates "new opportunities for trade"
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FYI, this means only 4 classmates are keeping their names on a statement disputing Ramirez, and two are implicated in the incident, according to her, and a third one is married to the guy who she recalls saying, "kiss it" at the party.
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It’s amazing that the Supreme Court exempts itself from the Judicial Code other judges must follow.
A good example of why we need a Code of Judicial Ethics for the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from any decisions in areas where his wife has been an activist presence.
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No Hoax: Bipartisan report, unanimously endorsed by GOP-led Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016 via
@politico
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How could this candidate get elected without this coming out earlier? Great reporting but where was everyone before?
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It's always a "her"...
Chanting "lock her up," Michigan protesters in MAGA hats mass against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus restrictions
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The owner of the $238 million apt., Ken Griffin, switched from Dem to GOP after Dems tried to crack down on hedge fund tax breaks - clearly he needed the government help! Charles Koch thanked him in 2011 for giving $1 million to the Kochs' political fund -- all in Dark Money.
A billionaire has purchased a Central Park penthouse apartment for $238 million — the most anyone has ever paid for a home in the United States
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In defense of Clarence Thomas
@WSJ
slams
@propublica
as “Left-Leaning” website- omitting that it was founded by former WSJ assistant publisher Richard Tofel & former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger:
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It took 7 years of legal fights but watchdog group CREW finally forced dark money org to name secret funders- like Peter Thiel, charles Schwab, Mnuchin, DeVos, Koch group and other fossil fuel $. They can run, but they can’t hide forever.
BREAKING: Following a historic victory against dark money by CREW, Americans for Job Security has released its donors from 2010 through 2012, including major contributions from Peter Thiel, Richard & Helen DeVos, Sheldon & Miriam Adelson and Robert McNair.
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Projection is usually the closest Trump comes to telling the truth about himself. Look what he said about Obama:
“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate...So the only way he figures he’s going to get reelected, and as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.”
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Anyone thinking Trump’s assault on the postal service is a rogue move needs to understand that Mike Duncan,Trump’s Postal Service Chairman is McConnell’s guy. He’s Led Senate GOP’s $100 Million Super PAC
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Now we know what happen to the boy who pointed out the Emperor had no clothes.
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New: Ginni Thomas invited DeSantis to join her weekly “cone of silence” Groundswell meetings, saying Justice Thomas had been in touch with the governor too:
Emails we obtained, reported on by
@politico
, suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in regular contact with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In a June 2021, Ginni Thomas said DeSantis should be familiar with her because “my husband has been in contact with him[.]”
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One billionaire with an inherited fortune accounts for half the spending behind the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate. He also secretly funded the lawsuit giving the GOP more gerrymandered districts. via
@nytimes
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The NYT has the story - she blames a “left wing pressure campaign” instead of the fact that she was caught on tape violating her law firm’s policy.
"In an email to her clients and friends,Ms. Mitchell blamed her departure on 'a massive pressure campaign in the last several days mounted by leftist groups via social media and other means against me,my law firm and clients of the law firm.'"
@nytmike
me
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Boom! DNC Chair says Fox can't sponsor 2020 Dem Primary Debate:
"Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and FOX News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral"
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After talking with her "best friend," which is how the Thomases refer to one another, Justice Thomas's wife militates relentlessly for the president's chief of staff to overturn a presidential election. Time for a SCOTUS Ethics Code yet?
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Who Bankrolls Tucker Carlson's Hateful Propaganda? Why the Kochs of Course. -
#GoogleAlerts
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Prof. Ford says She saw Mark Judge after the assault, working at Potomac Village Safeway. In Judge’s book, Wasted, p 93 he describes working”as a bag boy in a local supermarket.”
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In Senate hearing on For The People Act Sen Roy Blunt just opposed an amendment that would enable good samaritans to give water to voters stuck on line. He suggests the water could buy off their votes.
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One jaw-dropping story after the next- these
@NYTimes
reporters are simply amazing.
NEW: President Trump's tax records reveal a previously unknown bank account he has in China, where he's spent a decade pursuing business deals. w/
@russbuettner
,
@susannecraig
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So proud of my nephew, right, with his co-workers on Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance crew in NYC. He is an EMT, a freshman at Yale, and a wonderful kid who wants to give back.
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An Italian once told me that what it took to bring down Berlusconi was corruption so obvious a grade schooler knew it was wrong...
“If anyone in the executive branch other than Mr. Trump or ...Pence tried the same thing, they would likely have been blocked by government lawyers, faced an ethics investigation and perhaps become the subject of a criminal inquiry...”
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The essay is breathtaking.
"If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell." Provocative essay by major historian of Third Reich:
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Wow. Ex-CDC head says if DeBlasio had listened to Health officials and implemented stay-at-home orders ten days earlier casualties from Covid-19 might have been 50-80% fewer.
.
@DrMaryTBassett
of the ongoing dispute b/w
@NYCMayor
& his health dept: “New York has one of the best health departments in the United States, possibly the world. We’d all be better off if we were listening really closely to them right now.”
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Hello, Trump Base? Notice anything?
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"The prospect of the world’s richest families hustling to trade remote properties stocked with enough livestock and water to survive on for years is probably nothing to be alarmed about for the rest of us." Rupert Murdoch buys $200m Montana cattle ranch from Koch brothers
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The West is on fire, the South is drowning, and Trump to nominate Andrew Wheeler, climate change denier and coal lobbyist as permanent head of EPA
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This is why public trust in the Supreme Court is cratering: Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From GOP Donor — ProPublica
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Document shows Clarence Thomas wanted more Money — and got it from rich conservatives fearful he’d resign ProPublica
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Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan D.A. leading the criminal investigation of Donald Trump, told his staff at 6.a.m. this morning he's not seeking another term - leaving the case in the hands of a yet-to-be-determined successor.
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Dark Money Paid New Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s Salary for 3 Years
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Up now on our website, from me: Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier
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New: The Scandal of Clarence Thomas’s New Clerk
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quite a display of what $$$ can buy
Here’s what 80 Supreme Court cases look like, laid out on the floor — 80 partisan, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions clearly favoring a big Republican donor interest, all since Roberts became chief justice in 2005.
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Wow- Eye-opening report on Kochs' plan to privatize aka kill America's 200-year-old public mail service: The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service
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ICYMI - Guilfoyle, the Finance Chair of Trump's reelection campaign, offered $1 million in hush money to her former assistant to squelch sexual harassment charges, according to the assistant's draft legal complaint. To settle it, Fox paid the young woman over $4 million.
In 2017, Kimberly Guilfoyle—now the Trump campaign’s head of fundraising—offered to pay her former assistant at Fox News if she agreed to lie to lawyers about her experiences.
@JaneMayerNYer
reports.
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Important investigative report: in essence conservatives have intimidated the IRS into not enforcing campaign finance laws- enabling an explosion of secret influence buying.
Because of a tax code loophole, anonymous donors w/ typically wealthy interests are allowed to pass limitless amounts of $$$ into politics.
This is called “dark money.”
Who’s supposed to police it? The
@IRS
.
Are they? No.
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New from
@RonanFarrow
and me: E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser’s Effort to Give Testimony
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Watchdog Group CREW says Thomas should recuse from Affirm Action case because his wife’s group filed a brief
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Critics asked why none of the men who Ramirez identified as witnesses confirmed it. NBC says Kavanaugh camp tried to preemp them from doing so.
.
@NBC
exclusive:
Kavanaugh Yale classmates ignored by the FBI speak out, reveal new text message about Kavanaugh advising alleged eyewitness before New Yorker story:
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Schumer demanded two consecutive days of negative test results from all Sen.Jud. Comm. members for fear that Republicans would conceal illness to keep the Barrett nomination on track -- it seemed far-fetched...but was it?
Repeating myself and others here, but the reason Lindsey Graham won't get tested despite having been exposed to many COVID+ people is because if he reveals a positive test and has to quarantine the Amy Coney Barrett nomination could get scuttled. There is no other logical reason.
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Kudos to
@johnkingCNN
for calling it a “disgrace” that Trump said not one word about climate change in his SOTU.
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“He’s scared to death by how corporate America is responding” says Republican consultant Stuart Stevens. But “He’s trying to have it both ways.” Why McConnell Dumped Trump | The New Yorker
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Yet another new secret money group allied with the Federalist Society! Who is it who is really trying to pack the courts?
NEW: A dark money group with no website, no employees and no apparent offices brought in $80 million in its first year of operation.
The group's sole trustee is Leonard Leo, the Trump judicial advisor who's tied to millions spent on judicial nominations
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I’m hearing that private Dem polls show Dems holding their own in NC, NV and PA senate races.
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Yikes! Read:There’s dark $ behind Brexit from Koch & Mercer, aimed at gutting EU’s environmental protections
Get your brain into gear this morning with this long read from
@ChloeFarand
and myself for
@DeSmogUK
on how US libertarians and fossil fuel interests are infiltrating the UK's
#Brexit
debate and pushing for environmental deregulation
Here's a tldr THREAD
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Saying the quiet part out loud in wake of electoral defeat, Santorum says, “Pure democracies are not the way to run a country”
Rick Santorum is upset that Americans had an opportunity to vote on the things they actually care about.
@atrupar
.
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After consulting with Mark Penn, Trump copies Clinton’s impeachment survival plan including turkey with troops, as
@washingtonpost
1st reported. I’m thankful for reporters catching on and filling us in.
Just returned to the United States after spending a GREAT Thanksgiving with our Courageous American Warriors in Afghanistan!
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Trump isn’t the only GOP leader with Chinese bank ties. As the
@NewYorker
reported, Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law Angela Chao became a non-executive director of the Bank of China in 2016.
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Same Senator who claimed Anita Hill got her claims against Clarence Thomas from The Exorcist.
Hatch refers to Ramirez’ allegation in NYer as “phony.” We asked why he’s calling it “phony.” He responds: “Because I know it is. That’s why.” When asked whether Ford allegation is also phony, Hatch: “I think she’s sincere, at least I hope so. But I think she’s sincerely wrong.”
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This: Dems May be able to block Coney Barrett if 2 GOP senators are AWOL, and Dems call for a quorum. Pence can’t break the tie in a quorum vote.
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“Nothing to say” to the nation
Trump and advisers calculated that he shouldn’t speak to the nation because he had nothing to say, no tangible policy or action to announce, nor did he feel an urgent motivation to try to bring people together. So he let his tweets speak for themselves.
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