Jason Linkins
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Deputy editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress, Huffington Post. "There's something in the static; I think I've been having revelations."
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at The New Republic as of today, I invite you to subscribe:
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Liberals should be cautious: back when the Tea Party did a lot of rude direct action and confrontations with lawmakers, they ended up [checks historical record] uhhhhhh taking over the government and electing a like-minded president
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fuck aboot and find oot
NEW: Two travelers from the US fined nearly $20K each for providing false vaccination information to Canadian authorities, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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imho it was probably a mistake for Democratic elites to characterize the GOP as a party temporarily brain-broken by Trump that could become reasonable again and not as a party that's fully committed to a well-funded 50-year plan to reverse major civil rights gains
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before I got in the shower Mooch had a wife and Reince had a job
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first they came for Alex Jones -- oh, hold up, whoops I apparently have this wrong [checks historical record] ahh, here it is: First Alex Jones sent an army of banshee dipshits to terrorize the parents of dead children -- yeah, there you go, that's it
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Trump is getting a substantial in-kind donation from the media in the form of coherence bias. This Truth Social post is a really good example, look at all the sheer fucking crazy nonsense CNN just cleans up on the Trump campaign's behalf!
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one thing that's somewhat gratifying about the Fetterman win was that the post-debate take assumed the worst about the charity of ordinary people w/r/t to disability and it turns out that maybe it's just political pundits who are uniquely shitty and shallow people
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yo she's just fucking nuts, man, you can't LEARN lesbian dance theory in school—what the hell!—you can only pick that shit up on the STREETS, everybody knows that
Lauren Boebert: “Joe Biden is robbing hard working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.”
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looks inconsistent until you realize all roads lead to driving public school teachers out of the profession
Five minutes ago, conservatives were accusing teachers of being demented sex perverts trying to groom their children.
Now they want them armed while teaching.
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probably best you don't reference a movie about high school cheerleaders my dude
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the fact that Harris has navigated this weird month with the deftness of someone trapped in her impossible position and the grace to not just burn it all down has me feeling a little more bearish on those “she’s not a natural campaigner” takes
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if you're reading this tweet, it's because I scheduled it on April 4, 2015
what's the world like, I imagine it's pretty cool
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I wish I loved anything as much as the timorous little babies who run
@nytopinion
love watering down Jamelle Bouie's headlines
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very disappointed that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez failed to disclose that she's living rent-free in the Fox News Channel's head
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yep, in the popular telling, the GOP is permitted to use maximal power to govern and the Democrats are meant to serve as helpmates that occasionally trim the GOP's excesses; whenever Democrats attempt to pursue their own governing or their own projects the media convulses in rage
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they're so terrified they might accidentally help someone
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) tells me he could envision tuition-free community college being means tested
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unless I'm mistaken pepper spray is not a naturally-occurring phenomenon
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Selena Gomez should be put into SNL's regular host rotation (and somehow I think that doing a show with Martin & Short will help that happen)
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EVENT HORIZON (1997)
Welp, I made it inside the space. I don’t hear anything right now. Tim Pool is here.
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wow way to prove Thanos' point, AMC
Demand is so high for 'Avengers: Endgame' that many AMC theaters will open 24 hours a day all weekend
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one thing's for sure, this was not a great night for the "don't worry the Democratic establishment knows best" set
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what if Warren is actually somehow substantially less cynical about her means-and-ends calculations than the average Democratic politician, just spitballing here
Warren is now on CNN clobbering Bloomberg on NDAs like a prosecutor making a closing argument with nary s word about Sanders, who you might think was her biggest political problem.
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really can't stress this enough: stuff like Chevron deference isn't as well known as Roe and Casey but the stuff at stake in WV v. EPA is basically "the mechanics by which non-psychopaths would govern"
After the Supreme Court issues its ruling in West Virginia vs EPA this week it's gonna take people like three years to begin to grasp how catastrophic the decision is not only for clean air & climate but for ... everything. Workplace safety protections, for example.
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NEW YORK TIMES POLITICAL REPORTERS: [screechy high dudgeon over MTA fare evaders]
ALSO NEW YORK TIMES POLITICAL REPORTERS: gee I'm not sure someone as pretty as Hope Hicks should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us
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Trump wins election, the media rushes to talk to Trump supporters. Trump loses election, the media rushes to talk to Trump supporters. There are other people!
ABC traveled to Wyoming to interview random Trump supporters. One was given airtime to push a wild conspiracy theory about the 2020 election without any pushback.
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basically the contours of the Kavanaugh confirmation will be:
SUSAN COLLINS: Here is my very clear standard.
EVERYONE: Here's a mountain of evidence demonstrating the violation of this standard.
COLLINS: Wow I mean who knows what to do about this though.
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so, there's this movie called SPOTLIGHT...
Please someone help me with this.
Georgetown Prep boys frequently committed gang rape.
Lots of people knew they were committing gang rape.
And despite this common knowledge no one has talked publicly for three decades, until the day before a crucial Senate hearing.
What?
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so not for nothing but this is what it should look like when a head of state attempts to...you, know--rig an election
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wow I didn't catch that the NYT watered down Jamelle's headline after the fact, good catch from
@ParkerMolloy
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it just rules that Dr. Oz could have just been a wealthy celebrity snake oil salesman but instead he decided to run for office and incur several metric tons of reputational damage trying to win a job he couldn't possibly really want in a state he knows nothing about
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@still_oppressed
"I failed to consider what this store's impact would have on my good friend, who is as stupid as a dead crow."
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important to remember that Trump was actually denigrating people, not nations
landmasses aren't immigrating here, *people* are
question isn't "is Haiti a nice place to live," it's "are Haitians worthy of being treated with dignity"
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what's funny to me is that in the parallel universe where his father isn't president, Donald Trump, Jr. is just a carefree rich guy with no real hassles in his life
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It would take nearly no effort for Obama to tell folks he doesn’t support Captain Stop N. Frisk, he could literally call up any reporter in the world and set the record straight right now
I keep encountering Dem voters who like Mike Bloomberg because he’s been endorsed by Barack Obama. Fake news and the power of saturation TV ads.
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Joe Biden's belief that Republicans will have an epiphany is taking an absolutely savage beating and I have to say--I don't hate it, he needs to learn this now
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apropos of nothing one thing that a Trump White House is *definitely* going to fuck up, should one occur, is a pandemic
fingers crossed we don't cross that bridge but I probably should just pre-draft an entry tbh
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really gotta feel for Sean O'Brien, there was no way of knowing that Trump might make this turn besides his four years in office, his career in business, the words he says, and the totality of observable reality—tough break for the Teamsters head, who is definitely not a dumbfuck
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WASHINGTON DC--Today, a historic gathering of portable toilets was briefly interrupted by a small, sparsely-attended inauguration parade.
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Congratulations to everyone who didn't write or publish this!
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DEVIN NUNES: Well I don't think anyone can top how full of shit I was in front of reporters this week
MARK MEADOWS: Hold my beer.
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First, this is insane on its face. More importantly, I can't find any example of Trump's deportation plan being framed by the campaign as a means of providing affordable housing. The Times just hands them this rationale to use, if they want, free of charge.
No, NYT, you do not need to even pretend that "mass deportations" is an affordable housing strategy from Trump. FFS.
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"Everyone is allowed to molest a child once but come on don't make it a regular thing." --the New York Times editorial board
The Smearing of Woody Allen by Bret Stephens The key "only abused her once" quote: "If Allen is in fact a pedophile, he appears to have acted on his evil fantasies exactly once. Compare that to Larry Nassar’s 265 identified victims."
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NYT's top brass sending a message that their anti-trans campaign is a big big company-wide priority
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@bananafitz
Tracy: "The capital of the United Arab Emirates is Abu Dhabi. I know that cuz if I go back there I'll be executed."
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hey you know what, report the slavery
Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers
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I have opened
the safe
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Forgive me
I had a warrant
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all your shit
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it's like a geode, you never know what's gonna catch the light; today I'm most amused by the part where he admonishes himself for forgetting how what a dummy his friend was
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literal premise of THE COLBERT REPORT
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shout out to everyone out there who's also playing the daily game show, "huh, is this a coronavirus symptom or is it just my usual allergies/anxiety/asthma/depression/insomnia acting up again" I made it to the lightning round today, won so many prizes
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I like the framing of this push alert because first it gives you the news and then it tries to make you feel less alone, like we are kind of hitting a wall right now, and it’s okay to feel like nothing is really going your way, just take a minute to not feel so alone, you know?
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if Sarah Huckabee Sanders being out there with a doctored video proves anything, it's that so many of you people standing in solidarity with Jim Acosta need to go to Michelle Wolf RIGHT FUCKING NOW and apologize to her
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for those who have stood by Trump's side, this has been a disappointing week, but if it's any consolation, you're all apparently getting Covid-19
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joke's on that baby because object permanence doesn't kick in until the 8th-9th month
A 4-month-old baby in Boston has seen more championships than a 45-year-old Mets-Jets-Knicks fan
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Congratulations to everyone who didn’t write this. Imagine having this on your permanent record.
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ooooh someone got dressed down
Clarification: the negative characterization of the West Wing in my previous tweet is entirely my own, & based on the early days of the Administration, not today.
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fun fact! the Office of Government Ethics has no investigative or enforcement authority
call the House Oversight Committee
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it’s a cruel age, folks, and it’s not anywhere near done with us
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money is a corrupting influence in politics but the recent uptick in instances where reporters conflate the contributions of an industry's worker bees with actual persons of influence is not a valid corrective; I immediately ID such reporters as dipshits
There are reasons to not support Beto O’Rourke. This is not one of them. O’Rourke took no money from oil PACs or any other PACs; he got donations from oilco EMPLOYEES—in small dollar amounts—because he ran for US Senate in Texas, the state with 40% of all US oil & gas jobs.
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@david_j_roth
any reporter who does not ask
@PressSec
about the president’s level of dampness is committing journalistic malpractice
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@GOPChairwoman
the president lives in Manhattan on a pile of his father's money but go off, Name Redacted For Juche Glory
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congratulations to everyone who died before this story came to light
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if Trump wants to stop Mike Pence from measuring the Oval Office drapes he needs to station a solitary woman inside, standing guard
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lot of words to just say "snatch up all the black kids you see"
"The Memphis Police Department is introducing an eight-officer unit that will arrest unaccompanied minors that sell food, play loud music, are 'inappropriately dressed' or dancing in the street in Downtown Memphis"
@LucasFinton
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it's times like this that I remember how several DC reporters know the identity of the Republican who said, "What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?...It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20."
A GOP lawmaker texted Meadows on Jan. 7. The lawmaker wrote: “Yesterday was a terrible day. We tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states. I'm sorry nothing worked,” per Jan. 6 committee. They don’t say who it was
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Naturally, the coherence bias is bad but then you have the New York Times soaring to new heights of pundit analingus. Surprised they couldn't squeeze in some 😍😍😍's here.
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Chuck Todd gets paid millions of dollars to be the last dumb mottherfucker on the planet to figure everything out, that's the meritocracy for you
This is a remarkable interview with Chuck Todd. He admits several times he has been naive about the Republicans' commitment to disinformation.
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sweet zombie Jesus there's to be a TAXPAYER FUNDED BAILOUT of the FUCKING INSURANCE INDUSTRY
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COUNTERPOINT: No it would not.
Former President George W. Bush's endorsement of Biden would put an end to the Trump presidency and save the country and the GOP from itself | By Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan for
@CNNOpinion
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pro-tip: "This is our 9/11" is not the rhetorical crutch you want to be reaching for considering our response to 9/11 was an omnidirectional failure that made everything worse save for enriching/enabling the most corrupt people alive
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[FIRE ROARS THROUGH BUILDING]
Box on wall: "In case of emergency, break glass."
Jeff Flake: (standing right there, tweeting) "I call on someone to break this glass, at some point."
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the party standard bearer is a centrist born in 1942; the institutional normies hold every meaningful lever of power; the radicals have been humbled; Dems will give the Pentagon $768b this year while BBB hands out $175b for the next ten; "remain in Mexico" remains in effect
To the people who say "But what's the answer, then," the answer is stop doing what Skocpol warns about: Stop pushing "moralistic identity-based causes or specific policies that do not have majority appeal, understanding, or support using weird insider language and dumb slogans"
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anyone who is seriously concerned about catching school-aged kids up to speed after a pandemic year should be coming out in favor of getting rid of standardized tests; they take up a massive amount of instructional time, inhibit educational attainment and your children hate them
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Sen. Susan Collins says she just doesn't understand why all these draconian abortion restrictions are suddenly happening. (It’s because you keeping putting avowed Roe-killers on the Supreme Court, nimrod.)
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@NYGovCuomo
you best be figuring out a way to put a mask in the hands of every resident then, son
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What's interesting about this framing is that it doesn't state this is wrong or illegal, merely unusual, unexpected, difficult to imagine. Around the 3rd or 4th time Trump does it, it will no longer be these things, and the chance to recover "wrong" and "illegal" will be lost.
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god this makes me so happy to hear, I hope these are permanent conditions
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public financing of stadiums
Name a sports tradition dumber than throwing a catfish on the ice in Nashville.
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a lot of George & Kellyanne takes have this "trouble in the Conway home" perspective but this overlooks the fact that the entire Beltway elite game is to immunize yourself from the effects of politics and keep cashing in no matter who's in power; trust me: theirs is a happy home
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why are we giving this pillocks Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse a pass for waiting five days to condemn this shit I swear to God you people are absolute chumps
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no public money for professional sports owners
Dan Snyder spends more than $100M on yacht with onboard Imax theater
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