Will Bunch
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When did college go from maker of the American Dream to breaker? What really caused the hatred of college/non-college divide between Dems, GOP? Is it fixable? I put everything into these questions and my book, After the Ivory Tower Falls. Preorder it now
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How did America get from impeaching a POTUS over a blow job to having a president who's a credibly accused rapist overseeing dehumanizing concentration camps while coming within minutes of starting a war and it's like, whaddya gonna do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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"Had I not fired James Comey...I wouldn't be standing here right now."
The president just confessed to obstruction of justice, a felony
Impeach him again
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Never forget: Mitch McConnell kept one Supreme Court seat vacant for an entire year to get the POTUS he wanted -- but the next vacancy couldn't wait 2-3 additional weeks for a real FBI investigation of credible sexual assault charges against the nominee
#KavanaughLied
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Is is amazing how the protesters are always right 50 years ago and always wrong today
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HUGE SCOOP IN PA. The postal service is now telling state officials in Pennsylvania -- the most critical swing state in November's election -- that it can't deliver the mail quickly enough for the current vote by mail plan. This is a 9-alarm fire, folks
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1971: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2021: The Coup Is On a PowerPoint
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I just saw the "Send her back" chant video from the Trump rally and it's more horrific than I could have imagined. There's a young girl who looks to be 12, chanting zombie-like with the rest of the crowd, taught to hate by the president of the United States
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So many people are chugging horse dewormer that we can’t treat the gunshot victims is the most American tweet ever
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Trump is ignoring America's Teacher of the Year (normally a yearly event) who happens to be black.
Now he ignores the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft who happens to be black.
My finely tuned radar is sensing a pattern here
Congratulations to Nick Bosa on being picked number two in the NFL Draft. You will be a great player for years to come, maybe one of the best. Big Talent! San Francisco will embrace you but most importantly, always stay true to yourself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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I mean, this Ginni Thomas stuff looks really bad, but is anybody going to do anything about it, or about anything? If they won't do anything about the 'multiple felonies' of Donald Trump, why would they do anything about Ginni, or Clarence ruling on 1/6 cases. I'm in a total funk
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BIG NEWS: Many people have been asking me for months what's up with this issue, and tonight I can proudly announce...
The editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer calls for the impeachment and REMOVAL FROM OFFICE of President Donald Trump
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It's so tempting to pile on the Ron DeSantis jokes but I keep thinking about the Black voters he had arrested, the kids who had to leave New College, the migrants he tricked onto that plane - all for the sake of the worst campaign in American history
It's actually not that funny
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This is a good time to note that Reality Winner -- who took a grand total of ONE classified document and leaked it to the news media -- was sentenced to five years and three months in a federal prison
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A trucker convoy finally reaching Washington to protest COVID-19 mandates -- now that almost all mandates have been lifted -- is like the American version of Japanese in caves still fighting World War II in the 1950s
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So...
In Missouri, people who falsely call their enemies "Communists" and are dying in rising numbers are threatening to shoot anyone who comes to their door pushing vaccines
In Cuba, people are rising up against actual Communists to demand...vaccines
What a world
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Elon Musk's public meltdown reveals a panicked American kleptocracy, racing to control our free speech because they fear their $$$ will no longer buy our elections
It's way past time for the 330,999,400 to tax the 600 out of their misery. My new column
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This is a joke, right?
You pre-recorded an interview with multiple lies, then -- instead of not airing them or at least fact-checking in a real time -- ran that interview for millions on national TV, followed by a online fact check to be read by 1/100th of that?
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Every time I watch a town hall like last night's, I'm blown away with how everyday people ask such better questions than professional journalists
Access journalism is my profession's greatest curse. Too many reporters fear getting cut off for one tough Q. Real people don't care
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Nothing to see here: Just the founder and owner of massage parlors linked to prostitution and possibly human trafficking also selling rich Chinese people access to the president of the United States
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In the last hour I've gotten emails from men calling Hillary "a bitch" and Greta a "wacko Swedish twit."
Now that I'm 60, one of my biggest regrets: I didn't understand or fight hard enough against misogynistic hate. I hope to spend the rest of my days making up for that
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Peter King:
Blamed Eric Garner for his death at the hands of cops, saying he was "obese"
Compared NFL kneeling protests to "Nazi salutes"
Leader in promoting Islamophobia
Delete this, Schumer
Peter King stood head & shoulders above everyone else
He’s been principled & never let others push him away from his principles
He’s fiercely loved America, Long Island, and his Irish heritage and left a lasting mark on all 3
I will miss him in Congress & value his friendship
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1. You've probably seen this picture of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his gaggle of white men signing the state's voter suppression law -- the new, new Jim Crow. But there's a shocking angle to this story that you haven't heard. Sit down for this one...
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The Meadows email about Nat'l Guard protecting "pro-Trump" protesters also exposes a key fact about Jan. 6 that everyone forgets - the brilliant move by the left (including so-called 'antifa') to stay away from D.C. I think Trump's coup plotters were counting on leftist... 1/2
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All hail the mighty Connecticut Post! Somebody finally had to go first
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Imagine working for the University of Pennsylvania's marketing department:
"Penn: We gave diplomas to Donald Trump and Elon Musk but denied tenure for a woman who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine"
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1. So you're probably seething about the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse case saying lawyers can't call the 3 people he shot "victims," while there's a chance they can be called "rioters" or "looters"
Did you wonder what's up with this guy? I did.
Buckle up
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It's really frustrating -- infuriating, actually -- to see a big CNN banner about "BIDEN'S STALLED AGENDA" when the real story is "GOP OBSTRUCTION." Mitch McConnell must have a good time laughing at how suckers in the media fall for this act every time
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I've said before: I gave up weekends for more than a decade to do the dullest freelance writing so my two kids could go to college without taking on debt. And I 100% support total debt cancellation for all the kids who did
Boomers got nearly free tuition; Millennials and ...
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It was the real "October Surprise" - 2016 deceptions that put Trump in the White House, fueled by FBI leaks
Knowing now that a top FBI agent went to work for a billionaire Putin ally, the NY Times need to reveal the truth of these stories
My new column
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The Saudi/UAE puzzle piece makes it clear: The 2016 election was stolen, and U.S policy auctioned off to the countries that made it happen, with $$$ for the Trump/Kushners families and assorted mistresses. Unraveling a scandal 10X bigger than Watergate:
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Yes, Pelosi's cowardice is terrible but let's not forget that even with this new devastating beyond-Watergate evidence of Trump's abuses of power, NOT ONE American newspaper has called upon the president to resign. It's time for the media to step up to the plate
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1. In Delaware County, Pa., where I live, the police union VP posted to FB: "If you choose to speak out against the police or our members, we will do everything in our power to not support your business."
People protested and his borough has suspended him
The cop then posted...
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I want to be very clear, with absolutely no equivocation. Rep. Ilhan Omar is asking questions about American policy in the Middle East and elsewhere that should have been asked decades ago. They're terrified, and they're trying to take her down.
#IStandWithIlhan
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Foles on the phone with Mitch McConnell solving the government shutdown
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Maddow: Sen. Jeff Merkley has obtained memos showing the Trump administration taking nearly $10 million from FEMA -- which deals with hurricane relief -- and giving the money to ICE for more detention centers
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Imagine if CNN and other news outlets covered the burning of the American West as aggressively as they cover the burning of billionaires' money on vanity space missions
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It still just blows me away every time I re-read this Kathleen Parker column from November 4, 2016
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Let’s be honest: What we’ve seen today is just a trial run for when Trump loses the presidency. Except that’s going to be a lot uglier
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An AMAZING thing just happened in the nationally televised Philadelphia Union game (in Washington v. D.C. United). The Union's Alejandro Bedoya scored in the 3rd minute, ran to the corner where the on-field mic is located, and screamed, "END GUN VIOLENCE NOW!"
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The worst scandal in the 234-year history of the Supreme Court requires more than just a Beltway shrug. This is a 21st century Watergate and let's treat it that way
We need political, prosecutorial pressure for Thomas to resign...and more. My new column
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When a cargo ship took out a Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our immigration debate
The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life
My new column⬇️
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Any other boomers out there who remember Watergate?...(I was age 13-15, but a total Watergate nerd) because this week has reminded me so much of how that felt. That initial feeling that the break-in will be forgotten and then suddenly the story explodes 10 months later
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1 thing wasn't in the air at Capitol insurrection: Economic anxiety
They were affluent suburbanites - real-estate broker, lawyer, doctor's spouse, business owners, etc. They flew to DC and risked all for what mattered to them: White privilege
My column
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Every other MSNBC host came out and made a brief statement blasting Ronna McDaniel
Rachel Maddow does a 30-minute history lesson about Father Charles Coughlin and other forgotten fascists of the 1930s and '40s before she finally got to Ronna
She's the best
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Thursday: Marquette poll find voters think Trump is better than Biden on the issue of creating jobs, 49%-30%
Friday: Biden economy creates another 336,000 new jobs
Every day now I feel like my head is going to explode
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Hey,
@PhillyMayor
why are your cops tear-gassing citizens engaged in non-violent civil disobedience? This is outrageous
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This is how I've been talking this week. I have COVID-19
Here is a second angle of Ron DeSantis struggling with breathing problems during his event today. The longer this clip goes on, the worse it gets.
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2. ...it again to his personal FB page, adding the caption, ""Try us. We'll destroy you."
Police unions are an organized crime racket. Break them all up, and defund the police
Link: (2nd half of story)
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It's the worst case of generational theft in human history: David Koch and his ilk brought the world to the brink of environmental ruin, pocketed billions, and now won't live to watch us deal with the engulfing flames. My new column
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It's amazing that the Canadian "freedom" people don't get that civil disobedience -- protesting by blocking streets or defying official orders -- means YOU EXPECT TO GET ARRESTED. That's what civil disobedience is!
White privilege is a powerful drug, man
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13. I would plead with the legal system in Wisconsin to use whatever means are available to remove Judge Schroeder -- and name an impartial, respected jurist. Failure in this case could have serious consequences, not just for Kenosha but for the nation - 30 -
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Last night, one of the most incendiary and dangerous speeches in U.S. history was delivered by Donald Trump. He all but threatened civil war if he's indicted, threw in the race card, and dangled pardons for insurrectionists
My new column on what it means
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She warned America and election officials - Russia election hacking was far worse than we knew. Reality Winner should be hailed as a hero. Instead she's behind bars until 2022. If you care about a free press, care about what happened to Reality. My column
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...counter-protesters to clash with their people and thus justify a military intervention that would have been in support of a coup-like takeover. When that didn't happen, you instead saw an afternoon of weird inaction by NG and Pentagon. The dog that didn't bark 2/2
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The man replacing Acosta -- deputy labor secretary Pat Pizzella -- was a former associate of disgraced lobbyist felon Jack Abramoff who pushed for "unchecked slave labor" on N. Mariana Islands. You couldn't make this stuff up
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As Trump presidency spirals into madness, why are insiders so terrified about "normalizing" impeachment? The actual threat to America is normalizing Trump's anti-democratic actions and corruption - exactly why Founding Fathers gave us this tool. My column:
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I guess silence on murdering Khashoggi was pretty valuable
Jared Kushner in talks with Saudi Arabia to receive $2bn for investment firm: Report
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This is a concentration camp. That debate is over
“A cell meant for a maximum of 35 held 155 adult males with only one toilet and sink. The cell was so crowded the men could not lie down to sleep.”
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Dude, you literally had a tweet targeting three Jews (Soros, Bloomberg, Steyer) of "buying the election" pinned to the top of your feed
Targeting and harassing Americans because of their political beliefs is shameful and dangerous. What happened to “when they go low, we go high?” Or does that no longer matter when your brother is polling at 1%? Americans deserve better.
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Don't do this, New York Times. It's stupid
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This is how liberty dies -- with a smirk on the face of Mitch McConnell. His win-at-all-costs political nihilism -- on SCOTUS, Russia, and everything else -- has been in some ways more destructive to democracy than Trump. How to stop Mitch is my new column
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I went to the Schnecksville rally today to talk with Trump voters, because our biggest story isn't a wannabe dictator but the 74 million who want to live under one
I met people trapped inside a hopeless doom loop of disinformation. My instant column
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Failed smear on Warren may prove to be one of the worst political backfires of all time. All it did is remind women voters that her struggles are their struggles
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If Democrats can't defeat a party that wants to end recreational sex then I give up
"It seems to me that a good place to start would be a feminist movement against the pill, & for... returning the consequentiality to sex."
Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.
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So disturbing from Trump's racist NC rally was the little girl behind POTUS who joined the "Send her back!" chant. His fascist movement is tearing America apart - and teaching our kids to hate. The time to end his immoral presidency is NOW. My new column
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Let's just get it out there right now: William Barr is a monster.
History will remember him just as poorly as every other authoritarian suck-up and henchman
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I nearly spit out my morning coffee when I read this. The "purchase of a $19,000 lectern" was a crazed belated effort to cover up what looks more like funneling tax dollars to a close friend. That's not "an unforced error," but straight-up graft
The New York Times, assessing Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ chances of becoming Trump’s running mate, calls the $19,000 lectern scandal an “unforced error,” as if it’s an isolated incident instead of the perfect symbol of her shady conduct and reflexive lying.
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I'm sure David Koch loved his grandkids or whatever, but the reality is that he and his greedy generation in Big Business and politics set the world on fire from Alaska to the Amazon, and now they won't be around to watch the flames consume the rest of us
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This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing
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It barely made the news
In Germany, a crazed gunman praises Trump, spouts "Pizzagate" nonsense as he slaughters 10 mostly migrants
The loop between right-wing violence and authoritarianism is the story of our time, and we're missing it
My new column
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1. It came out of left field, but last night's bombshell developments seem to have exposed a tangled web involving the Saudis, MBS, their allies, Team Trump, global hacking rings, Khashoggi, the Washington Post and Bezos that could take everything down. Follow the chain here:
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2. Notice the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signs the suppression law? Thanks to Twitter crowdsourcing and particularly
@TheSeaFarmer
, I can report the measure to limit Black voting was signed under the image of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County, GA
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There needs to be a revolution in this country, and one of the first things that needs to happen is the impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh. He's a serial sex-abuser who lied his way onto the Supreme Court. Saving America's soul means getting him out!
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His state: 5th in poverty, w/ opioid crisis, weak broadband, polluted H2O, a dire need for jobs
Joe Manchin should be an evangelist for the Biden agenda, not hung up on delusions about filibuster, bipartisanship
WV is starting to notice. My new column
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What happened to Mueller? New secret docs from the probe suggest strong evidence ("Get the emails") never made the final cut. How Trump, William Barr turned up the gaslight on Mueller, and why Congress has to fix this through impeachment is my new column
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I think we all need a feel-good story this week
God bless the kids at Pa's Central York HS. When mush-minded parents rammed through a ban on books about MLK, Rosa Parks, Malala and others, these students fought back. Monday night, they won
My new column
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Annoyed by the 200-plus "Here in W. Va., Trump voters still love Trump!" stories? Me too! I decided it was time to journey into "Anti-Trump Country," where voters still believe in an America better than its president. My column:
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It took a hero - a whistleblower willing to risk it all for the truth - to shine a light on the cowards of the Trump era, the ex-generals and the insiders who took the easy path and just followed orders. History will be unkind. My new column names names
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Hey
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, we are all Aaron Rupar
Good thing you sleep in the office (that you don't pay the rent on) because you're going to have to suspend every damn one of us
Let that sink in
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1. I'm sorry but this is total BS. The royal family - a powerful tax-funded institution - took what could have been a courageous, teachable moment about cancer and dissembled and lied for months. They put out a fake photo, blamed it on Kate, and didn't dispute fake paparazzi...
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If you're really worried about a Pennsylvania senator struggling to communicate, I'd like to introduce you to Sen. Pat Toomey, who never once held a town hall in Philadelphia or nearby in 12 years as the state's junior senator
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Ever look at those pictures of young white thugs fighting against civil rights or school integration in the 1950s and '60s and wonder what ever happened to them?
One of them owns the Dallas Cowboys
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I rarely get as outraged as these AR-15 lapel pins on GOP House members, drenched in the blood of hundreds of mass shooting victims
But it symbolizes what the right has become: A death cult willing to destroy America if it can't rule
My new column
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1. In the middle of a middle-of-the-night impeachment, a nuclear bomb went off -- the smoking gun linking a powerful world dictator (and key Trump ally) with a criminal plot against press freedom in America. Whatever happens in the Senate, we need to find out...
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You gotta hand it to the DSA, Democratic Socialists of America. They're the ones occupying and shutting down the ICE office in Portland. They're the ones who protested Kirstjen Nielsen in the restaurant. They're the ones out there fighting back.
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I was a history geek who grew up learning absolutely ZERO about the 1921 Tulsa massacre (plus scores of other white attacks on Black Americans). I remember reading a piece on Tulsa maybe 15 years ago and thinking, 'Whoa, that sounds like a pretty big deal.' Now, white... 1/2
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George Nader, indicted today on child porn charges, met with Donald Trump Jr. in Trump Tower in the summer of 2016 and told him the Saudis and UAE were committed to help his dad win the election. Let that sink in
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The freak-out by white supremacists - including POTUS -- over NYT's 1619 Project is something we should have seen coming. Their entire worldview - depending on people not knowing the 400-year legacy of racism and abusive treatment of African-Americans - is finally under attack
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America is on the brink, so of course the media doesn't get it. Last week, the disconnect between rising GOP fascism - on a debate stage, in Trump's arrest posturing - and journalists covering 'a normal election' was really jarring
Now what? My new column
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I am furious!
The equal of 53 packed football stadiums of anxious, food-insecure kids - 3.7M children! - have been thrown back into poverty because of 51 feckless, amoral U.S. senators
How can a nation pick fighter jets over its children? My new column
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This Super Bowl is so bad that Gladys Knight took an earlier train
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Few noticed when Sessions' DOJ settled Russia money laundering case in May. It is key to the Russia collusion probe?
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Seems to me the story isn't that DeSantis fired the Nazi guy. The story is that DeSantis hired a Nazi guy that he now has to fire
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The bloody 1st days of August 2019 are the weekend Trump's America completely unraveled. His racism, incitements of violence are an intolerable abuse of power. End Congress recess, impeach Trump, pass gun laws, save U.S. before it's too late. My new column
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How to be a Republican today, in 3 easy steps:
1. Pray for the victims and their families.
2. Praise the heroic first responders.
3. Say absolutely nothing - not one word - about white supremacy, the president who promotes it, or the gun crisis that makes it so lethal
Voila!
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12. ...of Kemp signing this bill -- that makes it illegal to give water to voters waiting on the sometimes 10-hour lines that state policies create in mostly Black precincts -- under the image of a brutal slave plantation is almost too much to bear.
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13. The symbolism is no accident. Brian Kemp and his white henchmen have created an image for our times, in working to continue a tradition of inhumanity and white supremacy that now spans centuries, from the human bondage...
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Jeff Sessions lied under oath. Anyone else, his DOJ would be seizing their car, house and pushing for a 5-year max
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