Garance Franke-Ruta
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Washington Postal Workers Defy USPS Orders And Reinstall Mail Sorting Machines via
@forbes
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Literally socialism.
A new report projects that nearly 40% of farm incomes in 2019 will come from federal aid to offset Trump's trade war damage, disaster assistance, the farm bill and insurance indemnities.
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Outside Trump Hotel, heading toward the Capitol. Never seen this kind of thing in DC. Crowd keeps coming & coming, growing bigger & bigger.
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The big freak-out over Mueller having the transition emails is that it means any interviewees who lied to the FBI about matters contained therein is already caught bc the FBI has the record of what happened.
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Everyone's talking about Ella Emhoff's sparkly coat but can I just say how nice it is to see Jewish curls in their natural if slightly windblown state in a town of near-universal blow-drying and hair ironing?
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Second member of Congress confirms being told the same thing
@AOC
said she was
"If you want water, just drink from a toilet." That's what border patrol told one thirsty woman we met on today's
#DemsAtTheBorder
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#DontLookAway
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One of America's most famous male journalists of the 1970s did not report on domestic violence in the White House because, he says, he did not understand that the president hitting his wife was a criminal act
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This is so insulting to everyone who has lost someone to the disease, or had friends suffer from it
"That's all I hear about now. Turn on TV, 'Covid, Covid, Covid Covid Covid.' A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don't talk about it. 'Covid Covid Covid Covid.' By the way, on November 4th, you won't hear about it anymore ... 'please don't go and vote, Covid!'" -- Trump
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People often imagine themselves being willing to take on heroic roles when it comes to the controversies of the past. But what ICE is doing right now is THE event of the early Trump years about which people decades hence will ask how America allowed that to happen.
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The president of the US on Veterans Day is calling for military and overseas ballots to be ignored in state voting. Most of the uncounted outstanding Fla. ballots after election day were provisional or military & overseas.
The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!
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Confirmation from Trump that goal of meeting was to get oppo on Clinton. Not about adoption, per initial statement.
Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!
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Someone please make this movie: These Five Women Were Bridesmaids in Each Other’s Weddings — Now They’re All State Senators via
@people
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"the former NY mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist."
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Logs show 10 House Republicans attended White House meeting on pressuring Pence to overturn election
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This would seem like a big deal. Flynn was paying an ex-FBI agent at the center of one of the Clinton email scandal chapters during campaign
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In sum: Trump's inaugural cmte. paid $26 million to a firm owned by friend of Melania's, who in turn paid Apprentice creator Mark Burnett's team, brought in at Trump's request, after Burnett refused to release the allegedly inflammatory Trump Apprentice tapes during the election.
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All praise to the medical professionals of NYC. What a milestone.
New York City witnessed zero confirmed deaths due to coronavirus on Wednesday. It's the first day without a COVID-19 death in months.
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Stories about why what Melania wore was wrong are better for the WH than stories about why journalists can't get access to the tender age facilities holding children taken from their relatives at the border.
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Israeli investigative reporter says Trump shared more information than has been publicly revealed with the Russians
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The GOP has got to get a handle on this. The president has stopped governing, we have an out of control pandemic, and he's straight-up spreading democracy-undermining conspiracy theories to boost whatever money-making scheme he's cooking up next.
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Kudos to all the cultural outlets who are streaming performances and screenings for
#FlattenTheCurve
shut-ins. I'm going to start aggregating the ones I see below, starting w this from the Met.
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I did some vaccine outreach w a local mutual aid group this weekend and based on the conversations I had I don't think we're going to see a big increase in vaccine uptake in low-vaccination neighborhoods until there are visible, daily walk-up vax centers embedded in neighborhoods
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"More Americans have died of Covid-19 than in two decades of car crashes or on battlefields in all of the country’s wars combined."
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The fantasies of Trump's masculinity one sees in fanbase depictions of him are so revealing
No one can stop our President! My new painting, see a list of who's in the painting here:
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This is what Alicia Machado looked like when Trump took to publicly & privately humiliating her over her weight. She had just turned 20.
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That's what Obama said for 8 years
'The fever will break eventually,' Senator Flake told me outside the Cathedral. 'It has to.'
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"The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without any official explanation or reason given...In many cases, these are the same machines that would be tasked with sorting ballots"
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Educated young women?
Sen. Ted Cruz: I think the Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson
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Trump's inaugural cmte. paid $26M to a 6-wk-old firm created by a friend of Melania's, who in turn paid Apprentice creator Mark Burnett's team, brought in at Trump's request, after Burnett refused to release the allegedly inflammatory Trump Apprentice tapes during the election.
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That thing where reporters aggregated puppet jokes on Twitter after the Clinton-Trump puppet debate dust-up instead of taking her words seriously as a former SoS talking about geopolitics
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The president of the United States just implied the election that elevated him to office was stolen by the Russians
Rumor has it that Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana is paying for Facebook ads for his so-called opponent on the libertarian ticket. Donnelly is trying to steal the election? Isn’t that what Russia did!?
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In front of White House, nurses read names of colleagues killed by coronavirus
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Um maybe leave them there
30 lead tablets, engraved with curses, that invoked the gods of the underworld in order to cause harm to others, have been discovered at the bottom of a 2,500 year old well in Athens.
#archaeology
#Greece
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But first, a message from Stormy Daniels...
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Sans Les Etats-Unis
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I don’t understand what the protest message in Portland is any more.
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“Alabama AG leads nonprofit that helped organize march at Capitol”
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The biggest Asian neighborhood in NYC has had one if the lowest rates of covid-19. Why? Masks & early warning from relatives overseas.
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If you look up side-eye in the dictionary you get this picture
Wow. The look on the face of Doug Jones' proudly gay son Carson as bigot Pence swears him in: priceless.
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Stephen Miller is 31 and not a lawyer. Acting AG Yates is an attorney who worked at DOJ for 27 years.
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Almost everything going wrong in America right now is because we live in an era of anti-democratic minority rule
From the Times/Siena poll. I keep seeing claims that "Americans" don't have the patience to control the pandemic. No, *Republicans* — taking cues from their leaders — are demanding early opening. And they're in the minority 1/
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The question now is if a man who broke federal law to protect a wealthy sex trafficker -- "Epstein’s victims...were mostly 13 to 16 years old at the time of the abuse" -- is allowed to remain part of Trump's Cabinet.
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White privilege is being able to live the life of hate and harassment this guy did without it ever showing up on his record. He was also reported to the FBI at one point, and his own family thought he could have been the DC sniper—all the way back in 2002!—according to the story.
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Trump Speaks At Fourth-Grade Level, Lowest Of Last 15 U.S. Presidents, New Analysis Finds via
@YahooNews
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Maybe someone should hold a hearing into all the different ways Trump has asked people who work for him or the government to break laws.
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Spotted in DC this morning -- these are so newly posted the wheat paste is still wet.
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The FBI investigation was hamstrung by GOP senators, who then used the lack of findings to push the nomination through
“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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"Mayor Muriel Bowser had warned of impending violence for weeks, and businesses had closed in anticipation. She requested National Guard help from the Pentagon on Dec. 31, but the Capitol Police turned down the Jan. 3 offer from the Defense Department"
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The "mild" Omicron death peak was higher than for Wave 1 original Covid.
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This is the funniest thing I've read all day
Trump just described Nigel Farage as "one of the most powerful people in Europe" at his rally in Arizona
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"On Friday, British ear, nose and throat doctors, citing reports from colleagues around the world, called on adults who lose their senses of smell to isolate themselves for seven days, even if they have no other symptoms, to slow the disease’s spread."
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Cannot believe today's kids are subjected to this. No wonder they are turning out in the streets.
IT'S ONLY A DRILL! East High's school resource officer fires blanks inside the school to simulate an active shooter. Training teaches students what gunfire sounds like.
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If this is what outdoor masking & distancing looks like in London I think I’ve figured out why their pandemic is out of control
The dogs of London are very happy with the snow today but I’m not sure I can say the same for this cat
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The whole Inauguration could stand more scrutiny: "The committee spent heavily on administrative expenses, including $9.4M on travel, $500K on legal fees, $237K on fund-raising and $4.6M on salaries and benefits for its 208 employees. That included $100K paid to Rick Gates"
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How much money has the Department of Homeland Security spent since 9/11? And we can't even defend the U.S. Capitol?
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If Warnock wins he will be the first Black American to win a US Senate seat in a former Confederate state since Reconstruction w/o incumbent advantage (Scott was appointed to his seat in SC + later won election as an incumbent). And also only the 11th Black senator in US history.
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I would like to welcome everyone in the White House to what it was like to live through March and April in NYC.
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In sum, the man was a low grade compulsive sex criminal who found his pathology celebrated online. In fact most sex crimes, even rape, are never prosecuted. What if this new anti-woman hate movement is just a bunch of unprosecuted sex criminals who have massed & now rally online?
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The president just called the woman who was his only high-ranking African-American White House aide a "dog."
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
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@Forbes
reports Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is not a billionaire & has been lying about his net worth since 2004
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It is very sad that this elderly man who is obviously still ill and only on week one of what is likely to be a longer illness process is encouraging people not to fear a potentially devastating and highly contagious disease that he's nowhere close to fully recovered from
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Pretty stunning graphic from
@axios
about the distribution of excess deaths (all causes) during Covid.
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“Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump’s megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th,” the employees wrote.
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Also: "The company that received the biggest payment—$26M—was WIS Media Partners...Records show that the firm was created in December 2016, about six weeks before the inauguration...its founder...was Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a longtime friend of Mrs. Trump’s."
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"The FBI thwarted what they described as a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and federal prosecutors are expected to discuss the alleged conspiracy later Thursday." via
@detroitnews
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This looks like one of those parody newspapers from 2016 half-joking/half-warning about what a Trump administration would be like
Three years to the day after he announced for president, every story on the front page is about Donald Trump.
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BROKEN WINDOWS
“Nobody got killed, nobody got robbed… This was not a big crime,” Giuliani told The Daily Beast, re alleged violations of campaign finance law.
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The optics of a 79% male legislative body shutting down a female U.S. senator for quoting another woman are also not great.
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Sabotage. That’s what the Trump administration is up to now. Hurting America to punish it for rejecting him.
Trump's HHS won't work with Biden: HHS staffers have been informed that if anyone from Biden's team contacts them, they are not to communicate with them and should instead alert the deputy surgeon general of the communication.
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Trump so far has fired or driven out:
* NSA
* Deputy AG
* FBI director
* Comms director
* Press Sec
* Chief of staff
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This is the worst attack on the federal government of the United States of America since 9/11
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Ok so basically the news the morning as Republicans call for unity is that Trumpists are planning a second paramilitary attack on the Capitol and especially on Democrats next week. How about Republicans try to call them off and deescalate THEM?
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You're saying her appearance was...canceled?
Confirming CNN report. Mary Ann Mendoza has been booted from tonight's lineup after tweeting out a conspiracy theory, per person familiar
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He wants to throw out legal votes. That's what he's saying here.
"It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on Nov. 3, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate, and I don't believe that's by our laws." -- Trump (In fact tallying all the ballots is consistent with the law.)
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The lack of widespread public outrage over botched hurricane recovery in PR is of a piece w the low-key public acceptance of how ICE & CPB have been treating migrants. Both say as much about who we are as a nation as they do about the man this nation elected president.
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Report: 8 years ago, Trent Franks called an incoming female office intern from his cellphone late on a Sunday night, said his family was out of town, and asked her to come to his house for a final interview. She refused. He rescinded the internship.
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I think I finally understand NFTs and it's Beanie Babies, but digital?
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This is a president calling for the suppression of vital public health information necessary to keep Americans healthy & alive.
We have made tremendous progress with the China Virus, but the Fake News refuses to talk about it this close to the Election. COVID, COVID, COVID is being used by them, in total coordination, in order to change our great early election numbers.Should be an election law violation!
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Why women don't report, exhibit 10 million
Alabama State Rep: legal action should be considered against Moore’s accusers.
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NB: Anthony Weiner is in prison right now for sexting with a 15-year-old.
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Can we also talk about the fact that a foreign leader felt the need to stay at a property developed by the US president and to mention it in a call in which he was seeking military support.
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Whatever the protests started as, they have evolved into something else. In Portland, every video of street combat I’ve seen from last night shows white men fighting white men.
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People who think Kavanaugh's testimony is disqualifying probably don't watch Alex Jones or listen to conservative talk radio, where the wildly angry and wounded tone is standard, and popular.
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Ryan primary challenger Paul Nehlen suspended from Twitter
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How to get your life back, pandemic edition: Wear medical-grade masks 100% of the time when outdoors near anyone, 100% of the time when indoors & not home (and never eat indoors w unmasked strangers), test & quarantine before visiting w relatives.
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If Sanders wins, get ready for him to be vetted for the first time in the general. Clinton didn't go hard after Sanders. It might have seemed like she did but she didn't, bc she was in the lead and couldn't risk alienating his supporters for the general.
EXCLUSIVE: As Sanders floats at the top of the polls, previously unreported statements from the '70s where he compared predominantly white workers in his home state of Vermont to black slaves may put his past and judgment into question
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All above quotes not from the Guardian are from this Feb 2018 piece by
@maggieNYT
and
@kenvogel
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"what she and the writer who told her story created was 3,000 words of revenge porn. The clinical detail in which the story is told is intended not to validate her account as much as it is to hurt and humiliate Ansari"
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I feel like she's just trolling us now.
New Zealand's prime minister just suggested the entire nation move to a 4-day workweek to help boost the post-coronavirus economy
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Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts
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A VICE PRESIDENT IN YOGA PANTS
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