John Cassidy
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Writer/columnist at The New Yorker. Economics, politics, & other stuff. All tweets on this feed should be assessed at their market value.
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Fox News just said this is the deadliest school shooting "in the history of Broward County." Needless to say, only in America do individual counties have histories of school shootings.
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7:30 a.m. check in. Looking good for Biden in AZ, MI, WI. GA, PA look close. Biden now heavy favorite in betting markets. As I suggested last night, Trump wouldn't have given that speech if he didn't think he was likely to lose when all the votes are counted.
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Tillerson survived calling Trump a "fucking moron" but a day after he criticizes Russia for using a nerve agent to try and kill someone in Salisbury, England, he gets canned.
JUST IN: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is out at the State Department, President Trump confirms; CIA Director Mike Pompeo will replace Tillerson
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The early guidance not to wear face masks was a huge and tragic screw up.
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Textbook authoritarian tactic: encourage your supporters to whip up civil unrest and then exploit it for political purposes. Textbook.
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So will Carnival Cruises be applying for a bailout in Panama, since that's where its parent company is legally incorporated to escape US taxes?
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Just watched videos of cops shoving over an old geezer in Buffalo, beating up two women with batons in Indianapolis, and taking batting practice on protestors in LA. It's a national issue.
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Singapore, South Korea, and now Italy show test, test, test is the key. This makes the US failure even more lamentable.
Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero via
@IrishTimesWorld
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Remember: there's nothing to dispute or litigate. We've just had a record turnout (almost certainly) in the middle of a pandemic--a very good thing--and many of the votes haven't yet been counted, which is perfectly normal.
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"It's the kind of thing we see happening in completely broken countries. There is no definition of corruption that anyone could think of that would lead them to say this isn't corruption"--
@waltshaub
tells me.
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Trump would love the media to spend all day on his attack on Meryl Streep rather than his nepotism/conflicts of interest/unvetted nominees.
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Note to reporters still covering Trump. Where's all the money going? That's a real story. (I'm still on his campaign list and I get multiple fundraising alerts a day.)
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When a Fox News pundit says it was a "pick 'em" debate, you know it went badly for the President.
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This scoop from Politico about a building Trump co-owns that got more than $200M in funding from a state-owned Chinese bank got a bit lost today in all the bleach craziness.
via
@NewYorker
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Safe to assume that Hakeem Jeffries never dreamed he’d finish first in a vote for Speaker in a Republican House.
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Remarkable chart from the FT showing that the British economy basically never recovered from the Great Financial Crisis. In the words of
@MartinWolf_
: "In all, this is a disaster."
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NYC: Stores open. Restaurants open. Gyms open. Salons open. Schools closed. Failure of leadership.
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I'm old enough to remember when Trump said his family wouldn't have jobs in the administration...
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The Stephanopoulos Interview Is Another Fine Mess for Trump
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Just FYI, U.S. has 1,400 deployed nuclear warheads & about 4,500 in reserve. Each one up to 30X more powerful than Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs.
The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
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Time to go beyond shock/anger and ask: How can he be stopped? Congress, courts, states/municipalities, press, people. It's on you.
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Gotta love liberal Twitter. The Georgia results haven't even been called and people are saying are Joe Manchin will ruin everything. Take a breath people.
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Said it before, will say it again. Trump's biggest achievement is he has politicized people who were previously apolitical--mostly against him.
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True. Also confirms Obama's belief there is a monolithic foreign policy establishment that crosses parties.
As legions of ex-Obama officials endorse the strike, it's more and more clear the degree to which Obama was resisting his own advisors
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He paid virtually no federal income taxes at all for two decades and then got a $73M refund for the 3 years when he did contribute something. Think about that for a moment.
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So Donald Trump and Chris Christie are now both in hospital with Covid and more than a half a dozen others, have tested positive. This administration can't protect itself, let alone the country.
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In a vanished world, the U.S. used to do this sort of thing.
In a call between the two foreign ministers, China agreed to supply Italy with 1,000 ventillators and 2 million masks. Additionally, they are donating (!) them 100k respirators, 20k protective suits, and 50k test kits as part of "massive aid" package.
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The Brexit Fantasy Goes Down in Tears
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It's a rare skill to be able to speak well to a cheering crowd. To speak this well to a silent camera is remarkable.
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Lots of uncertainty left, though. Best to make no predictions and see how things look in a few hours, or even days. Let the process play out. That's what Trump doesn't want.
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Whatever the cause of this mess it's really unfair to the top one or two candidates, who are seeing their story squashed after a year of preparation.
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In a week, DT has arguably done more damage to US reputation than any prez in history. Bullying neighbors, tearing up int. agreements..1/2
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Ok, the fact that 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump is notable. But the fact that 197 didn't--more than than 95% of the total--is far more significant.
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Time to junk the entire thing. Its an embarrassment.
UPDATE— Pelosi has told House Dems the resolution will include language condemning anti-Muslim bias. Vote likely Thursday. Per a Dem aide.
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The "people's president" who lost the popular vote by 3m votes and has never seen his approval rating top 50%.
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Is party of Eisenhower/Reagan going to sit by while a new GOP president trashes/undermines an alliance that has kept peace for 70 years?
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Prof Reich has a point, methinks.
91% of Democrats, 85% of independents, and 76% of Republicans want the government to be able to negotiate drug prices.
Radical idea: What if we actually passed policies that people want?
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It's looking like America may have elected a president that 61% of Americans think is unqualified to be president. Go figure.
NATIONAL EXIT: Clinton qualified to be president? 52% yes, 47% no. Trump qualified to president? 38% yes, 61% no.
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So CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC have all gone to reruns. Thank god for C-Span. It's not as if anything big is happening.
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Ban television ads for prescription drugs. They are an obscenity.
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This by
@annettedittert
is one of the best pieces written about Boris's Britain in many a day. Tellingly, it was first published outside the country--in Germany.
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There's always been a question of when corporate America would jump off the Trump bus. The answer turns out to be after he loses an election, tries to overturn the will of the voters, and incites a deadly riot on Capitol Hill. Profiles in Courage.
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Stunner is the word. Underwood is a 32 year old African-American nurse running in an overwhelmingly white and previously solidly Republican district on health care, health care, health care.
Illinois 14, final. Underwood 49 (D), Hultgren 43 (R, inc)
Underwood by 5 in the more exact margin. A stunner, if true.
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Noon update. Counts narrowing in AZ, GA, PA. Dems confident. Fox already showing Biden at 264. Trump going ALL CAPS.
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Trump's bans refugees on Holocaust Day & prepares to drop sanctions on Putin's Russia. And U.K.'s PM embraces him. Shameful all round.
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Worst public health crisis in a century--2 Americans dying every minute from Covid 19--and the world's most powerful country is literally leaderless. (Trump gave up months ago.) If you step back a bit, it's almost unbelievably tragic.
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If nothing else, this hearing is a good reminder of what the modern Republican Party looks like.
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Good point. Trump omitted countries he does business in from visa ban list. 15 of 19 attackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens.
Trump to block visas to anyone from
Iran
Iraq
Libya
Somalia
Sudan
Syria
Yemen
No Trump business there.
Unlike Egypt, Turkey, Saudi..
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Trump knows a populist issue when he sees one. Calls for $2K direct payments or $4K per couple instead of $600/$1200. Drops a bomb on McConnell, who recognized Biden's victory last week.
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Amazing scenes in central London.
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2/2...banning refugees, introducing religious tests for entry, saying he endorses torture. From role model to rogue nation in 8 days.
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Just heard that my Aunty Delia, who is in her eighties, got vaccinated today in Leeds, northern England. She was apparently
#4
in the city. 😀
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Note to media: a deranged DT supporter just carried out a deadly terrorist attack in North America. Imagine if it had been a Syrian refugee.
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America's gun laws are insane. To anyone who's ever lived anywhere else, it's the most depressingly obvious thing about this country.
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I'm done for the day--off to other writing. 20 years of disasters, one after another. But don't forget how they began. Hubris.
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Note to news editors: European war > UK royals. Flip the home/front pages.
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It's official: Trump administration does u-turn on green card holders.
Trump admin now saying green card holders will be allowed back in, "absent ... information indicating a serious threat."
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Mattis is resigning not retiring. His retirement letter is an anti-Trump manifesto.
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It's a cover your ass plan. If a state does well, Trump will claim credit. If it does badly, he will blame them.
Governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that meets the needs of their own states.
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Tragic collective failure to vaccinate developing countries more rapidly. It was always a race against the next variant.
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This is why Rudy and Trump went digging for dirt in Ukraine. They knew Biden would be a tough target.
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Republican senator calls on president to make public the FISA court application for a wiretap of Trump Tower.
Sen. Sasse statement: "the President should explain what sort of wiretap it was and how he knows this."
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The Time cover is OK. The Economist cover is brilliant.
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You can’t keep a good seditionist down. Now Trump suggests the GOP primary in PA may be stolen from Dr Oz.
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Interesting. Seems like
@elonmusk
needs the biggest accounts to have a blue check more than they do because they drive a lot of engagement and the Twitter algo no longer recommends non blue check tweets. Presumably someone informed him of this.
I could be wrong, but from what I can tell all previously verified accounts with over 1,000,000 followers got the check back.
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This is one of the most devastating stories you'll ever read about an American president. The fact it will almost certainly have no impact says everything you need to know about the state of American democracy.
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With all due respect to Oprah and Mueller, this is the big news of the morning.
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This may be the Biden admin's most far-reaching proposal. Rebalancing the tax system is like tackling climate change: it has to be done at the international level.
Breaking News: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday argued for a global minimum corporate tax rate, as the Biden administration looks to fund its infrastructure plan and prevent companies from shifting profits overseas to evade taxes.
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Pure speculation but seems plausible Trump leaked tax return. Shows he paid $36.5 M federal tax in 2005. Comes day before Comey testimony.
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Is American democracy bigger than Trump (and Bannon)? That is the question. All the rest is noise.
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Visa/refugee ban may be moment when corporate America got freaked by DT. Eventually, financial markets will do same. Then he is in trouble.
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Occam's Razor says Stone has the goods on Trump. Otherwise, Trump would surely have waited until after the election and issued a pardon.
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Too many falsehoods and deceptions to call them all out, but the big lie--in the Goebbels sense--was that Trump did a good job on the virus. Straight out propaganda.
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Huge decision now for both parties on how to proceed once they've confirmed the election results. What do you do with a seditious President who still has 2 weeks in office?
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Hey
@Jack
, you ok with this user exploiting your platform to attack the 1st Amendment and use language associated with Robespierre & Lenin?
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My apologies for the understated headline.
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Enough of the 18th C rationalizations. It's insanity to let heavily armed extremists march through a US city brandishing their weaponry.
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Don't forget J Crew got loaded with debt years ago in a private equity deal, so this isn't just a Covid story.
Breaking: J. Crew is preparing to file for bankruptcy. It's one of several high-profile U.S. chains on the verge of unraveling during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Parisians rebuilt Notre Dame in the 19thC. They'll do it again.
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On a more serious note, the U.S. has been underinvesting in its physical infrastructure for decades and this bill is long overdue. So score one for Biden.
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"If he had been following his own advice, McCain would have broken with McConnell and voted against the motion."
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Why so many pardons? Some paybacks but also Trump's MO. If you've got power, use it, flaunt it, stick people's noses in it. Keep going until someone stops you.
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1. Meat of Mueller's sentencing memorandum in Cohen case:
"The fact that Cohen continued to work on the"--Moscow--"project and discuss it with Individual 1 well into the campaign was material to the ongoing congressional and SCO investigations, particularly because it occurred...
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The Trumper who just got arrested got his picture in the Kenyan newspapers. Good headline, too.
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Wondering when will someone ask Comey why he didn't reveal existence of Russia/Trump campaign investigation before Nov. 8.
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Details of Pence evacuation are particularly devastating when counterposed to Trump’s tweet attacking him at the same time.
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Estimates of
#WomensMarch
now 3.7 million. The story of the weekend. The rest is diversionary propaganda.
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This is starting to look like incitement. Does the Supreme Court's Brandenburg ruling apply to presidents?
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Why did Trump pay $25M to settle the NY State case against Trump University? This might help explain:
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I would guess the only real danger to
@Scaramucci
is that
@realDonaldTrump
gets jealous of all the publicity he is getting.
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“It’s going to be catastrophic,”
@IanShepherdson
tells me. “This is an economy built on discretionary consumption.”
via
@NewYorker
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Pompeo trying to make political capital out of the situation he helped to create. Good job to Chris Wallace for sticking it to him.
Chris Wallace throws Mike Pompeo's past praise for the Taliban back in his face.
"Do you regret giving the Taliban that legitimacy? Do you regret pressing the Afghan government to release 5,000 prisoners... some of whom are now back on the battlefield fighting with the Taliban?"
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Important point: essential to have competing media outlets.
The NYT and WaPo are in a serious reporting war on the Russian story right now, praise be.
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Of course, if he really cared about this he could have intervened weeks ago. He is the President. Seems like a wrecking ball.
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Set Trump aside for a moment: he's a special case.
The minority leader in the House of Representatives, a 7-term Californian congressman, signed onto an effort to overturn U.S. democracy.
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Suspending dividends should be an absolutely basic requirement for any federal aid. Stocks are meant to be risky.
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Trump admin will try and make it about Comey. It's not. It's about the president firing an FBI director who was investigating his campaign,
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