Matt Szafranski
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@Popehat
@justinamash
I mean, I can hold two thoughts on my head:
1. The FBI has abused its power and reputation at the expense of real human lives.
2. That wasn't the case here and in fact, *based on the evidence we have,* they executed this search with care and professionalism.
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One thing mainstream press doesn't appreciate is the consequences of grading on a curve. It's one thing to do he said/she said. That's just lazy. But it takes effort to develop a nonsense narrative and then stick with it in defiance of the facts.
Left: After 330,000 jobs are added under Biden
Right: After 178,000 jobs are added under Trump
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@maggieNYT
public office entails criticism. If they chuck an intermission Chardonnay at him, I'm w/ u (it's also a crime). Until then…tough.
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@davidlitt
@DanCrenshawTX
That assumes
@DanCrenshawTX
is capable of abstaining from opportunistic partisanship then have a real conversation.
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This is the dumbest controversy. It's a little precious for the same crowd that routinely subordinates the mental health impact of COVID measures to turn around and say a company encouraging vaccination with free food is hurting people's health.
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There's an ethical problem in robbing anybody of their freedom absent lawbreaking, but just consider for how much less Britney had conservatorship forced upon her.
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@AdamBassOfMass
@JacobRubashkin
@MichaelCohen212
If you don't have client control, your representation becomes impossible over time.
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Glenn Close should play Katie Britt on Snl this week.
This was a great night for Glenn Close because after 37 years she’s finally off the hook for being the stock reference for an emotionally disregulated woman who might be about to kill you.
#steepedinblood
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Trump is obviously lying about his relationship to Project 2025, but his and his campaign's denial of a connection betrays a real fear based on some information they are seeing.
can report that people on the doors are starting to talk about project 2025 which means it’s probably breaking internet containment in a pretty substantial way
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In an email fundraising appeal, former South Bend Mayor
@PeteButtigieg
makes a pitch to
@EricLesser
's list and includes this photo of the two of them as young'uns from ye olde 2008 campaign for
@BarackObama
.
#1stHampSenate
#mapoli
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@gillespie_ian
@BenjaminDanard
@peterawolf
Lots of tourism inflow and other income may be deceiving, truly made in the Northeast but only domiciled in Florida for tax purposes.
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When you're in a room with the guy standing in the way of East-West rail.
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INBOX:
@RulesDemocrats
have scheduled a Wednesday hearing at 3pm for a resolution to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee assignments after reporting revealed social media & video featuring her using violent rhetoric & separately harassing Parkland survivor
@davidhogg111
.
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@ThePlumLineGS
You're also forgetting that if McAuliffe wins a comfortable 2-5 pts, not at wide as Northam, they'll write it off & say, oh it's a blue state nobody cares.
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In life, Harry Reid ordered the casinos to set up voting stations and give workers time off to vote.
In death, Harry Reid ordered God to drop a bunch of snow on rural Nevada.
Elko, the fifth largest rural Nevada county that Trump won, 76-21.
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The gas tax thing is silly, but sillier still is how bent out of shape people get over gas prices. At $3.40-something, they're lower today *unadjusted for inflation* than in summer 2008 when it scraped $4. Other inflation I get, but gas price obsession is just societal insanity.
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This is legitimately insane. The only thing I can think of is the DPU discovered something catastrophically wrong with how the MBTA is measuring safety because there is no way the entire system with four unique lines and rolling stock all merited this.
Whoa. MBTA announces new speed restrictions of 10-25 mph across all (!) subway lines, “effective immediately”
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"The Wagner mutiny runs on Dunkin"
did Wagner fighters stop for coffee on their way into the Rostov MOD headquarters? (photograph credited to Reuters, seen
@NYT
)
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.
@ThePlumLineGS
on
@ReliableSources
: There's isn't a middle line between a firefighter & an arsonist.
Great way to sum it up.
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@ArmandDoma
That's just because nobody has tweeted that Taylor could dump Travis for Yair Netanyahu and bring about a two-state solution.
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@HeerJeet
Live look at office of
@maggieNYT
,
@GlennThrush
@peterbakernyt
@MarkLandler
@juliehdavis
@shearm
& other Times staff.
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This is so gross.
MA received 17% of requested medical supplies from the Trump admin. ME: 5%. CO: 1 day's worth.
FL got everything they requested. + an identical shipment the next week. oh, and a 3rd is on the way.
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@jonfavs
@chucktodd
What's just as sick is it's driven by conservative pundits & other huckster grifting the base with junk while whipping them up.
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The fireworks are keeping them up.
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Last year
@PaulJSweeney
described in rather blunt detail last year how dark his life became after the pandemic upended his life, forcing him into welfare. He channeled that into helping people with addiction & is now back in elected government. A good result for all.
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@nycsouthpaw
Bret will be sending an email to your boss so s/he knows how their employee is fact-checking online!
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@maggieNYT
I mean Trump promised to shake things up, you know like payroll rules and ethics.
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All lockdowns will do is destroy mental health. They haven't meaningfully altered a wave since spring 2020.
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@RadioFreeTom
Wait a minute Tom. Are you telling me Hillary isn't president? I'm pretty sure Fox News has been saying otherwise.
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@JaredEMoskowitz
@RepJeffries
At this rate, he may be eligible to be in Congress himself before that happens.
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It's quite bizarre actually. DeSantis dumps migrants on MV. The right then insists it's Vineyarders who are hypocrites because residents facilitate a real solution rather than house migrants in summer homes residents do not own or control.
What's striking about the DeSantis farce is that the "own the libs" component is unfolding entirely in a land of make-believe.
It isn't actually owning the libs. But right wing media just keep on saying it does. That's good enough for them, apparently.
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If any two committee leaders could run Rules together it's Cole & McGovern.
Dems are discussing the idea of shared control over the Rules Committee, erasing the right's leverage and giving Dems real input.
“A real power-sharing agreement means shared control over what does and doesn’t come to the floor,”
@RepJayapal
says.
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HO-LY Shit.
This may come to nothing, but either recognition or not vetoing at the UNSC would probably cause a massive political crisis in Jerusalem. It would effectively nuke Netanyahu's only life preserver: promising to never let a Palestinian state exist.
Scoop: State Department reviewing options for possible recognition of Palestinian state. My story on
@axios
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Breaking: Biden has asked the NLRB's general counsel Peter Robb to resign.
Robb -- who is is known for his aggressive anti-union, pro-business positions -- is the first NLRB general counsel to be forced out in more than 50 years.
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@sarahkendzior
makes the point that America has had authoritarian moments before, notes connections between corruption in US & Central Asia.
#BBF2018
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@magi_jay
My policy is to ignore any pundit calling for Biden to step aside but refused to acknowledge Harris, let alone she as the only alternative. Suggesting a brokered, open convention is just a knock-off of Sorkinism.
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@ArmandDoma
The reporting on this is actually quite bad. There are many avenues through which Israel gets weapons, but most are purchases. This was a years-old purchase *Congress* approved. What discretion does Biden even have without invoking the Leahy Act, which it's not prepared to do.
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Dead people have won elections for this very reason! West Wing didn't make it up.
Here's the part of the discussion over John Fetterman's health that makes no sense to me. Why would anyone vote for someone they can't stand because the candidate they prefer isn't 100% well? If the candidate I liked dropped dead, I'd vote for them anyway. (1/x)
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Somebody is asking at the
@GovNedLamont
presser if private parties asking health questions violated HIPAA. Come on people, HIPAA is a privacy law imposed on health care providers & insurers.
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This from
@PeterBeinart
connects Trump inability to feel empathy w/ many of his supporters' inability to do so.
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@samdman95
@yfreemark
They do. There's been a lot of investment in NJ to achieve this. Just upgrading the WAS-NYP electrical could boost speeds considerably.
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@KellyannePolls
For what? The report confirms a lot if their reporting. You'd be better off going back to Mueller was biased.
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Big cheer when
@SenWarren
says there's going to be the biggest investment in climate change.
#mapoli
After Build Back Better act, voter rights are up next, Warren says.
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I am not voting for Bloomberg, but Sanders needs to shut down this shit.
NEW this AM: Bloomberg campaign manager
@ksheekey
says
@BernieSanders
"campaign staff is spreading lies about Mike Bloomberg" after a Sanders spokeswoman falsely claimed on CNN that Bloomberg suffered heart attacks
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@RepMaxwellFrost
is very good at this.
Putting aside that average people are not watching these hearings (probably for the best) and con media will keep his comments from their audience, Frost has a knack for brevity & succinctness.
A very good week for Rep Maxwell Frost:
Got border police to debunk open borders lie
Had big moment mocking GOP Twitter lunacy
Went viral blasting DeSantis drag crackdown
I talked to Frost about his approach and why Dems must wage information warfare:
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We need center-right party. Period. GOP may not be it any more. Principled R's, like Tom, may be ones to form it if GOP finally implodes.
I still believe there's a legacy worth saving. And the Democrats are not an option for me. So yes, I'm still a Republican - in opposition.
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I gotta say one more thing and then I will (try to) stop tweeting. 27k votes cast (both parties) in
#Springfield
for a primary is AMAZING! That's practically a tie for 1990 and through the roof compared to 2006.
#mapoli
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@ArmandDoma
It's President Niinistö's old party and he's been a driving force in joining NATO post-invasion.
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No more calls. 📞
We have a winner. 🏆
All true, but what JD Vance really means by "pro family" policies is using state power to facilitate the formation of "traditional" families and to discourage other iterations. This is a New Right idea.
@melissagira
and I went deep into this on our pod:
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Whoa! Excellent news. Also interesting to see Bill Richardson still at work on this stuff.
Governor Bill Richardson and the Richardson Center are thrilled to announce the release of American journalist Danny Fenster from prison in Myanmar.
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Anybody equating frankly any period of the pandemic to WWII deprivations needs to read a goddamned history book and then stop making such facile comparisons. They're not the same. Stop it.
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And yet, not really that surprising given who we're talking about.
It’s genuinely shocking that the head of state of the most powerful nation on earth was not kept safe from contracting a known spreading fatal virus. The irresponsibility of it. Infuriating. Flabbergasting.
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@jcliffordknecht
I visited a month off two before I saw the show and it made my memories of the trip even better. Part of it is Chicago is an actual character in the Bear, like NYC is in many movies, and not just a setting.
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INBOX:
@RulesDemocrats
to hold on Tuesday for H.Con.Res.11 at 1:30pm. This the first step using reconciliation.
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Jeremy Peters, who didn't realize suburbanites he was interviewing were actually GOP activists, is going to cover campus culture. God help us all.
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@EpiEllie
We solved it by bringing hemispheric travel to a halt & closing pubic spaces. That's not a solution.
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@charles_gaba
@maggieNYT
It's really not. Her tweet doesn't exclude the possibility his "command" is self-delusional.
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We're not being honest with people. You're going to contract it many, many times in life. Protect yourself with vaccination, ASAP.
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@jentaub
Is there anything more revealing of how hollow a politicians' piety is than confusing Christ for a Shakespearean character?
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Good piece by
@dankennedy_nu
observing that
@brianstelter
's CNN exit and
@ReliableSources
cancellation is just one of many blows to media criticism of late.
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Patron to
@joekennedy
at the Rumbleseat: "I'm voting for you, but I thought you'd be way more attractive." [Laughter]
#mapoli
#masen
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@2AvSagas
@NYCMayorCounsel
It also contravenes the stated purpose of the rescission of indoor dining, which is the inability to wear masks. You can order/pickup food and use the restroom with a mask.
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[
@Nomads4Pritzker
tweet]
"The Mouse attempted to flee to the Californialands, but on the way was 'offered' asylum under the protection of the Illinoisan Khan."
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Pritzker Implores The Mouse: “Disney World, Peoria, has a real nice ring to it.”
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It is the Illinoisan Khan who gifts the Great Butter Cow to his people. None but he may disturb its environs lest any question that it was brought forth for those under his protection but not for himself.
@Nomads4Pritzker
The glass encasing of the butter cow got a little condensed, so
@GovPritzker
squeegeed it. All clear now!
#twill
🐮🧈
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@DKThomp
@MarcGoldwein
The Post Office is also owned and governed by the federal government. NPR is not. Many organizations receive far more federal funding, including banks.
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We were all so young then.
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@nycsouthpaw
I just read in Obama's book that
@JoeBiden
concurred with Rahm then. His big ask now would seem to confirm Biden's thinking has evolved quite a bit over time.
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The reason why people like Charlie Baker is they never got the truth that, however detail-oriented he is (and I think he is), his decision-making and execution was mediocre. In short, we got a facade, but no good working product underneath.
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@NotJD_
@TomCottonAR
"Not true!" The Senator protested.
"I once let one clear my oyster plate at Old Ebbit. Another shined my Fertagamos just the other day ago. But I don't have time to answer such silly questions. I've got things to do for ordinary Arkansans like myself."
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@keithedwards
@RepSantosNY03
I mean, I guess it's better than him saying. "The reports of my demise are premature as I am the true Dianne Feinstein."
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@ezraklein
New Yorker & New York Mag. So many stories I'd never seek out if I didn't have hard copy in hand.
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Yeah, the pandemic benefited nobody.
Returning to the status quo is only an option for those whom the status quo benefits.
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@Blake_Allen13
This feels more like a failure that presumed Kyiv was as weak as it had been under Yanukovich. In the alternative, it seems plausible Russia intelligence is more degraded than any of us realized.
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The Illinoisan Khan plans for conquest with cunning, seeding the Georgian lands with his kin before he strikes.
@Nomads4Pritzker
Congratulations to
@quentinfulks
for managing
@ReverendWarnock
to victory! A huge win for the nation and national Democrats.
We miss him in Illinois, but our sacrifice cemented a Georgia win and the Democratic majority in the Senate!
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@LesserFrederick
This is a natural result of conservative politics collapsing into purely performative governance.
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Really torn between laughing & crying.
Senior WH adviser Larry Kudlow takes strong stand on principle:
Literally using his vacation days until Biden inauguration
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INBOX:
@ufcw1459
, a
#Springfield
based local representing private & public sector workers endorses
@EdMarkey
.
#mapoli
#masen
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To be at this exact point in 2015 and then stare 7 years into the future.
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I just assumed it was classic anti-Semitism.
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But the vibes! It feels like Dems are in denial because they were seven years ago and rather than consider the evidence…the vibes. The VIBES!
Can we stop pretending "Trump can win" is a brave or daring position? Plenty of Dems in positions of real influence understand this perfectly well. The relentless search for some way, any way at all, to say "Dems/libs are in denial" is an absurd journalistic convention. Enough.
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