Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to testimony to House investigators.
@npfandos
The pivot from “what will be your role in an authoritarian coup?” to “how can you bring the nation together for the sake of the eighth-graders” was quite something.
By this logic, no cover-up can ever be proven, since the moment it’s exposed, it stops being a cover-up. No wonder this dude is hailed as the most formidable intellect on the right
So far, there’s no evidence of a cover-up (both the transcript and the whistleblower complaint are public), no evidence of quid pro quo (multiple reports state that the Ukrainians didn’t even know military aid was being withheld). So what exactly is the theory of impeachment?
Stephanopoulos: If you stay in, and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?
Biden: I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.
Leonard Cohen died right after Trump’s election; now Alex Trebek’s passing has me scared that the gods demand the sacrifice of an outstanding Canadian in exchange for each new American president.
Dear op-ed editors:
@david_j_roth
grasps the Trump age more soundly than a regiment of McArdles, Brookses, and Stephenses and writes circles around all of them. Hang your dopy Ivied heads in shame.
From my unsecure location on vacation, I’m delighted to report that the TNR job listing that social media made infamous today NOW INCLUDES BENEFITS, as all permanent PT jobs at the magazine will going forward. cc
@AnandWrites
BREAKING: Republican lobbyist just told me White House staffers are “in shock,” saying they weren’t aware Mueller or the FBI could indict witnesses who lied to Congress. A lot of them also never believed Trump had Russian business ties, until Michael Cohen’s plea deal today.
Collins tirelessly bruited as an independent-minded moderate, who then becomes a tedious spouter of dumbed-down party propaganda: the entire "Never-Trump" phenomenon in a nutshell.
Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing. It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with, and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people
Roger Goodell said that he "wished we had listened earlier" to what Colin Kaepernick was trying to bring attention to when he began kneeling for the national anthem.
I grew up in the deindustrialized Rust Belt, and absolutely no one there talks like this, ever. My late mother, who spent an entire lifetime outside of David Brooks’ head, read Hillbilly Elegy and pronounced it gibberish. Please keep the goddamn voices in your head to yourself
“Do you remember those months just after the election when people like you were briefly curious about people like me? You read “Hillbilly Elegy.” It didn’t take you long to lose interest in all that.”
Analysis: The first two witnesses called Wednesday testified to President Trump's scheme, but lacked the pizzazz necessary to capture public attention.
For those curious about the ideology that appeared to motivate Alek Minassian's terror attack in Toronto, see
@AngNagle
exhaustive study in
@thebafflermag
.
Feel like you've heard all the belligerent invective against the Green New Deal somewhere before? So does Kim Phillips-Fein, and she spells out just where in
@newrepublic
!
Not sure if the Freedom Convoy leaders scheming to block traffic on the Beltway tomorrow understand that this is known in DC as simply "being on the Beltway."
Right-wing panelist on Meet the Press on climate change: "I'm not a scientist ... We need to also recognize we had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!
Here's the press release about the Obamas' deal with Netflix. "The Obamas will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features..."
When future historians seek to document the moment when our elite discourse went from brain dead to morally toxic, this column will likely be Exhibit A
Nancy Pelosi knows that giving in to the primal pleasure of an impeachment inquiry could backfire.
"The thing is that, he every day practically self-impeaches by obstructing justice and ignoring the subpoenas,” she tells Maureen Dowd. Read on:
Whatever else the long-term legacy of the Russia probe turns out to be, I’ll always cherish the baroque public humiliation it’s visited on Rudy Giuliani.
Fox is a menace, a purveyor of conspiracy and anti-immig hate. It's where rants against Soros are commonplace and the "nationalist" pres is defended. If you're a conserv pundit what the hell are you doing on their shows? If you're an advertiser why have products assoc with Fox?
That it’s 2018 and we’re still being marched through the petty, ignorant bigotries of Jamie Kirchick and Megan McArdle is a far greater civilizational failure than Bari Weiss could ever imagine.
When Greg and I both worked at the haven of witless privilege known as Adam Moss's New York magazine, we'd be kicked around by the many trust fund babies who worked there. There's no doubt in my mind which side of this class divide Josh Hawley and his ilk are on.
Today, conservative Senator Josh Hawley attacked me as a "smug rich elitist" who has "contempt for the heartland."
Here's my response, with a brief biographical note. I suspect Hawley would not regard my middle class background as a virtuous one:
My mother, who died in March, was a lesbian and late-life Catholic convert. She probably would never have said this herself, but in her memory, I invite you to go fuck yourself.
What's causing John Delaney’s spark tonight?
He watched old presidential debates, Republican and Democratic, dating back to 2004, and practiced various scenarios – against his rivals – as soon as the lineups were announced
#DemDebate
“The New Yorker . . . provides the intelligent and cultured college graduate with the most comfortable and least compromising attitude he can assume toward capitalist society without being forced into actual conflict.”—Robert Warshow.
ABC news reports that the Trump campaign "voter fraud" hotline "has turned into a nightmare...bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's win before hanging up..."