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White House correspondent at HuffPost. Author of THE USEFUL IDIOT -- Now fully updated post-January 6. https://t.co/88HnBbA8a7
Joined September 2012
As a journalist, it's not my job to tell you who to vote for. As a journalist, it IS my job to warn you that if we vote Donald Trump back into office, it may be the last vote we ever cast. https://t.co/Jhv2k8QOOI
amazon.com
America, we got lucky. On the laundry list of things Donald Trump has been terrible at in his life, transforming our country into a fascist autocracy was only the latest. After four years of constant...
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Reversion to type. "the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier."
ft.com
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
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Last week the Trump WH’s third grade response was “your mom.” This week we can probably expect to be called Mr. Poopy Head.
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Twenty years ago, I started my first job out of college: fact-checking at @NewYorker. Today, the magazine is running an excerpt of my first book, MOTHERLAND. Totally and wonderfully surreal. https://t.co/7e9B3SVmst
newyorker.com
Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.
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so to be able to send immigrants from America to the El Salvador torture prison, Marco Rubio agreed to betray Justice Department informants helping the prosecution of MS-13 gang members here. another window into his character
washingtonpost.com
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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A majority of Americans voted AGAINST Donald Trump last year. This is what he thinks of them. Funny, right?
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Generally, narcoterrorists are not repatriated unless they aren’t who Trump and Hegseth say they are. Seems like we are just randomly killing people in boats.
Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said. https://t.co/YTpRT3lkxY
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I believe the sign contest has an undisputed winner: Full album here: https://t.co/gqPvghQzO9
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Dangerous enough to try to kill with military force but not dangerous enough to detain and prosecute via lawful methods--almost certainly because a lawful case could not be made before a court. Especially awkward for DOD.
nytimes.com
The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.
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Getting on 40 years of doing this, and never once imagined I would be writing a lead like this -- not about someplace in South America or West Africa, but right here. In America. https://t.co/x4KYyjjzoT
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Look at this. Clearly San Diego PD has been taken over by ANTIFA. Hegseth better send in the Marines.
Thanks to the more than 25,000 people who came out and exercised their first amendment right peacefully and responsibly. Once again, no one was arrested. Thank you for keeping it classy San Diego.
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Grifters. Ripping all of us off. Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million https://t.co/3eqhX97FuB via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
Public documents show the Department of Homeland Security has contracted to purchase a pair of top-of-the-line Gulfstream jets for the secretary and other top officials.
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Rep. Adam Smith to @GregTSargent: "All they’ve said is, these people are part of a drug-running gang and we killed them. Who they are exactly, what this gang is, how it’s directly connected to the US, what the overall plan is here, who is the organization exactly that we are
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BREAKING NEWS: It appears from docs released today that Jeffrey Epstein had a tentative meeting set with "Matt Menchel" in 2011. Matt Menchel was one of the top federal prosecutors who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea deal in 2008. I have reached out to him for comment.
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Some people are honored to help children learn, or help the sick heal, or help the dispossessed fight for justice. Others are honored to have played a small role in giving lying criminals a chance to prey on society again, so long as they are Republicans.
I was honored as U.S. Pardon Attorney to have played a small role in @POTUS granting @MrSantosNY clemency. Thank you, Mr. President for making clemency great again.
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NEW -- Trump is now saying that the battle lines in Ukraine as they are right now should be the new territorial lines -- meaning war criminal Putin would be rewarded for his invasion and keep the land he has seized. https://t.co/y4FRpNvUAC
huffpost.com
The president met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and later stated that the fighting should end and that territorial lines should be where the battle lines are today.
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👀 Sources tell me and @joshgerstein that veteran federal prosecutor Beth Yusi — with DOJ since 2007 — was fired after resisting the Letitia James indictment. Also Kristin Bird, with EDVA since 2019.
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