Katherine Miller
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Writing + editing @nytopinion
New York
Joined August 2008
Author of this one hasn’t quite mastered their Trump voice.
The fact that the Supreme Court wouldn’t find standing in an original jurisdiction matter between multiple states, and including the President of the States, is absurd. It is enumerated in the Constitution. .
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Does Donald Trump know what Abraham Lincoln did as president?
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It’s not even that they appeared out of nowhere, it’s that OJ Simpson appeared and said he has a little getting even to do and Bill Cosby came in with “it’s America’s dad,” like we’re in some kind of Twilight Zone funhouse mirror hallway.
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IT'S NOT FAIR, TO DENY ME, OF THE CROSS I BEAR THAT YOU GAVE TO ME YOU, YOU, YOU OUGHTA KNOW
THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
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News developments about who will pay for the wall feel a little like when everybody treats the Muppet characters like they're real.
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In 25 years, I think it will be tough to explain how massive these surprise Taylor Swift albums felt in 2020 — like last-minute plans and something to stay up for. A few thoughts from me on evermore, folklore, Taylor, this year, (and the National).
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Beat One Of The Most Powerful Democrats In Congress
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Bernie really looks like he's on his way to mail something
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"Time has melted." "I can't remember if that was two weeks or two years ago.". The 2010s were really disorienting. Here's my piece on how TV, algorithms, our phones, Trump changed our sense of time.
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Very into Nikki Haley's look today, which is kind of Our Competent But Charismatic President, During The Inter-Galactic War
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These are consecutive sentences in the Sessions statement: "I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false.".
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@AlannaBennett Personal theory on why that movie works: because the Julia Stiles character is an actual person who existed in 1999 and the central conceit seems about right (people wouldn’t want to date her and she’s fine with that).
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This is the kind of cheerful trolling I treasure and respect
Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!.
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Tillerson sounds like he's talking about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
Tillerson: "There was a very clear positive chemistry between the two. There was not a lot of relitigating things from the past.".
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"It is a frustration of mine, though not a surprise, that A League of Their Own isn’t considered a slam-dunk top-10 all-time sports film. It is the best-earning baseball movie in history, and it holds up as well today as it did in the early ’90s."
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"For 36 hours after her diagnosis, the RNC made no attempt to inform donors who had attended the extended, indoor fundraiser with McDaniel. Only on Oct. 2, after the president had also tested positive, were attendees told they might have been exposed."
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New: Ayanna Pressley is backing Elizabeth Warren .
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“Eight Pelosi staffers trapped inside their suite barricaded themselves inside a staff conference room, and huddled together under the table in the middle, hoping that the protesters who had already broken down one door. wouldn’t make it farther inside.”
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Glad we could start the business hours day with Trump basically calling himself the King of the Jews and close it with Henry Ford, famous anti-Semite, rolling over in his grave about consumer prices.
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I love how all the Justice Department photos of Paul Manafort's clothes look like they're from a listing for an apartment sublet on craigslist
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What if the acting CFPB directors fall in love?.
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Trump Jr. in general very sharp onstage, and the messaging bridges the pro-Trump stuff with the business/fiscal conservative messaging pretty well.
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I love how this Indians thing isn't happening for a full calendar year, like taking a patch off of some baseball uniforms is a nuclear disarmament treaty.
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In FEC filings, Jack Dorsey is listed as maxing out to Tulsi Gabbard the day after the debate.
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Hey, I know it's late, but do you have a second?. I hate that I'm messaging you like this again, and I really wish I could say that everything is ok. But things are bad, and I just need to talk to you. If we don't meet our goal for the quarterly fundraising deadline,.
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“I’ve noticed that in slightly older generations like millennials that there was some hope, but that was taken away through 9/11 and throughout the 2008 recession. For Gen Z, that hope was never there."
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A Senate candidate's lawyer demanding that a HS yearbook be relinquished to a "neutral custodian" really brings the year home.
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This is Scalia speaking at a commencement in 2010.
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“If you decide to go back in, turn to page 124. If you stay home, turn to page 33.”
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Here was the main thrust of Khizr Khan's speech at the DNC
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WSJ trying to get something started on Friday night
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It is semi-entertaining to open Twitter during GoT if you don't watch it and get hit with tweets like:. "That did not feel like an effective tactical use of the dragons." . "Everyone had all that goodbye sex for nothing.".
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"[Northam's] advisers have assigned the governor homework: He’s begun to read Alex Haley’s Roots, and The Case for Reparations, the seminal essay in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates."
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All due respect to the woman I saw rollerblading while smoking a cigarette in 33-degree weather this evening.
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Thomas J. Miller, my father, died on Friday from cancer. He was an interesting guy—here's a little bit about him.
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One thing the Washington Post has really done in these investigative stories is be very transparent about perspectives of sources & how stories came about and were reported
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A real thing that happened at the 1996 RNC was Bob Dole led this call and response:. Q: Which is more important, wealth or honor?.A: Honor.
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The Babies R Us in Union Square has elected to go out with this haunting mannequin window display
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Personally considering drugs to get through the debates.
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Ok, The Truth Is I Too Met With The Russian Ambassador But The Reason We Didn't Say Anything Is We Were Planning A Surprise Party For You.
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Man, like everything you need to know about the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area here.
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Hypothetically, if you walk into the gym at 8:30 on a Friday night and there is literally one person in the entire place, do not select the treadmill next to her.
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Botham Jean's mother: "The question I keep asking is: What if she was not a police officer? I want us to put that aside and just say one of the other neighbors made all these mistakes that led to a murder. I want her to be treated just like that person."
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Mike Pence turning in a great performance for his imaginary running mate Mitt Romney.
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Kamala Harris touching tonight on the Midwest electability conversation often leaving out black voters, who are pretty important especially in the context of the narrow losses Dems saw in 2016
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Something about this looks slightly like NBC welcoming you back inside the Olympic Aquatic Center
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President Trump offers a vivid example of someone on our side of the wall being killed by a falling, 60-lbs. bag of heroin
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"One of (Andrew Yang's) senior aides argues that Biden, Warren, and Sanders 'are running like it’s 1996.' Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, the aide said, 'are running like it’s 2008. We’re running like it’s 2030.'".
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There’s a line outside the wine store in my neighborhood.
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"He has told aides he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access. his tax returns."
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Since Central Park Five has come up today: Always worth reading Joan Didion’s “Sentimental Journeys”. (in which she was skeptical of the prosecution, and had a lot to say about media mobs and late ‘80s New York)
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The reason many reporters like @maggieNYT a lot is pretty straight forward: a. She breaks a lot of news that is sometimes of a very difficult degree to do, b. On the pure facts, her big news is rarely incorrect (tough to be a. and b.), c. She can be a genuine, generous friend.
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Weird part about these tweets sometimes is a broken fourth wall vibe, like Trump is Ferris Bueller or Richard III addressing us on Tillerson.
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As a Supreme Court aside, people don’t talk enough about how Sandra Day O’Connor and William Rehnquist dated in law school, then ended up on the Supreme Court.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's marriage was always a real joy to read about
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Dude, turned on the TV and on NY1 they were interviewing this woman who works as a security guard at the Staten Island ferry, and has had to pay $25 EVERY MORNING in cab fare to make her shift; she was delighted and saint-levels of chill about 24/7 subway returning.
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In terms of great bookings: one of the most famous people in the world, who's mostly been quiet during a time of enormous interest, headlining a session on the launch of your publication and what it sets out to do is an all-time great booking
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"Currently there are — no typo — more than 140 women and girls suing Nassar."
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In a very cheesy, patriotic, apolitical way I thought the roll call was great. They should always do them like that, GOP too. And here are two paragraphs from me on why it was such a weird delight.
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Is America ready for a vp who puts a baseball player level of effort into a prank
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However good or bad The Last Jedi is, it is not as bad as hearing everyone's opinion about it.
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Like last weekend, it honestly doesn’t matter that Baltimore has its struggles or that Cummings’ district has a lot going well in it; it’s incredibly depressing that the U.S. president talks so terribly about parts of America or American citizens.
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“‘That’s kind of what he does,’ Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account—‘What do they call me, a lurker?’—to keep tabs on the political conversation.”
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"If Biden decided not to run, 30 percent of those who name him as their first-choice candidate would switch their allegiance to Sanders, whom they named as their second choice."
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Just as an aside: It is actually possible to do great reporting at conservative publications, or start as a conservative reporter or editor and then work in the MSM (whatever). The quality of the WORK itself is what matters.
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What's the point of this? The shooter hated Trump and there's no indication in the story he listened to this pro-Trump host.
In Alexandria shooter’s home town, rage-filled radio host channels middle America’s inner frustration
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Brady looks like a henchman in A View To A Kill?
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"It would have been a hell of a lot easier to get acting jobs if my name were Day instead of Dukakis, but then I wouldn’t have had the satisfaction of seeing the family name — my parents’ name — displayed so visibly during that time"
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Bolton and Giuliani comparing each other to an escalating series of weapons is an unexpected but excellent turn.
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A thrilling day in America, when half of Twitter seems disappointed the president isn't being charged with a crime, and the other half is like "scoreboard bitch!" that the president didn't collude with a foreign country's government.
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Sometimes, it is sort of amazing how life just rolls on, knowing that meanwhile, the president is in the White House firing off a tweet a la your neighbor just taking a stroll outside naked.
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Everyone gonna be dressed this winter like they graduated from an SEC school in 2010
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Polls in Alabama basically that scene in Home Alone when Buzz throws out random numbers while his sister tries to count the family members.
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"A person close to Masters told CNN that the Republican candidate designs, codes and updates his website himself -- and that his recent updates to the abortion section reflect his desire to use his policy section as a 'living document'"
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“It would have normally taken two years to produce a rough design of a ship on paper, but during the heat of the Vietnam War Ms. Montague was given one month to design the specifications for a frigate. She did it in 18 hours and 26 minutes.”
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An extremely disorienting thing about this time is that it defies comparison, both on the frightening national level (economy, pandemic) and on the unique interpersonal level. A few thoughts on that from me.
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This hearing not keeping Dianne Feinstein from seersucker Thursday.
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Friends, . Do you hear that? Listen closely. That faint tick-tick-tick is the sound of a bomb, inside your heart, that will explode if we don't meet our goals for this crucial FEC deadline. I'll be honest with you, [NAME]: I want you to live. You're a valued member of the tea.
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