Matthew Cooper
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Executive Editor—Digital, Washington @Monthly . Alum: @Time @Newsweek @CondeNast @NewRepublic . DM for Signal. Views are my own.
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Thinking Trump might have been better off with LegalZoom.
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Trump offered no good wishes for
@SenJohnMcCain
in his cancer battle and no mention of the sailors lost on the USS John S. McCain IN ARIZONA
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Dallas
#blm
protest was so orderly, peaceful that cops were posing w demonstrators until someone(s) started firing.
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Like many other journalists who have spoken out, I say it's nuts to take these briefings live. Cover them. Sort out what's true. But journalism isn't open mic night.
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Tucker et al keep saying Martha's Vineyard is somehow immigrant free. But 13 percent of the island's 20,000 residents--fishermen, merchants, plumbers--are foreign born. Large Brazilian community.
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Keeping
@AuschwitzMuseum
in my feed is hard as with the murdered woman below. But the constant reminder that this is where hate can lead is important even if it’s also excruciating.
31 December 1918 | A Czech Jewish woman, Věra Langendorfová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to
#Auschwitz
from
#Theresienstadt
ghetto on 16 October 1944. She did not survive.
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@NancyCooperNYC
Nancy, the piece failed to mention that Eastman ran against Harris. Surely that's something
@Newsweek
readers deserved to know regardless of the op-ed's legal much-ridiculed analysis?
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Newsweek chaos:
@Hadas_Gold
on the
@Newsweek
fallout, including my resignation. . My letter below.
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@josh_hammer
Josh, the piece failed to mention that Eastman ran against Harris. Surely that's something
@Newsweek
readers deserved to know regardless of the op-ed's legal much-ridiculed analysis?
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ON
@MSNBC
,
@RepBuddyCarter
just said on
@lisamurkowski
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I say this as a former White House correspondent during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Lengthy live takes aren't great in the best of times--unless they're major presidential addresses--but when there's so much misinformation it's no service to viewers/listeners.
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Pelosi's pray-for-him line was tactically brilliant:
--Will be oft quoted.
--More-sorrow-than-anger is almost always a good look. (See Peter Rodino graveling impeachment vote)
--Ecumenical invocation of religion--good for Dems
--Will further mess with Trump's Head. Her specialty!
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Where hate can take you. I get these from
@AuschwitzMuseum
to never forget.
27 September 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Myriam Bloch, was born in Metz.
She arrived at
#Auschwitz
on 20 December 1943 in a transport of 850 Jews deported from
#Drancy
. She was among 505 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
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WIth Roy Moore, a judge who disobeyed Supremes, and Judge Jenine Pirro, who calls for imprisonment without trial, where is
@FedSoc
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"A friend told me about a kid in our class who was selling coke. The dealer was Bobby Kennedy."
@KBAndersen
has an awkward question for Robert F. Kennedy Jr:
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Now, I'm starting to think RFK showed remarkable discipline because what he's unleashing in this press conference suggests he was even nuttier than we thought.
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Will say it again.
@NBCNews
's Pete Williams is a model of clarity and accuracy. Welcome in a time of turmoil.
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Is it perjury for Brett Kavanaugh to say he enjoyed all 65 meetings with senators?
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She's right.
Not holding people accountable for assault is not "taking the high road." The high road would be demonstrating to millions of kids who watched it on TV that they'd be held accountable for physical assault on a person, no matter the reason & no matter how rich & powerful they are.
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This isn’t a small thing. It’s happened two administrations in. a row. Remember all that talk about “norms”? This is a big one. SecDef shouldn’t be a recent general. Libs and Cons got lulled into this because Mattis was, like, among the few sane people. What’s the excuse now?
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@chrislhayes
It’s more targeted: women who haven't given birth. They're not pissing on Lindsey Graham.
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I knew there'd be a lot of love for GHWB this week. It's arguably a nice tradition that former presidents get a send off that emphasizes their better qualities but I've never seen any POTUS death this hagiographic
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The
@nytimes
headline about
@GovWesMoore
was alarming. The story didn't deliver, burying key elements. Something is very wrong on 8th Avenue. I'm sure the gray lady's high stock price and booming subscriptions aren't fueling introspection but it's really time.
A big supposed "takedown" of Wes Moore. In a million years you'll never guess where it ran.
Nor guess that its entire premise is undone with info place 14 paragraphs down
See
@joshtpm
for the details. Not linking to the story. But do see this link to Josh M
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Thanks to the great
@Olivianuzzi
for posting this. All those off the record/background/whatever agreements have to be two-way.
UPDATE: Immediately after the press conference ended and before the anonymous statement was sent out, Mark Meadows briefed reporters without cameras—but he was caught on a feed asking to be off the record.
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JFC. Multiple things are true:
*Biden appears old, is old, and age is not helping his race.
*He has an excellent record on which to run.
*WH press is in 2016 mode as a wayward prosecutor drives a feeding frenzy. Six stories in
@NYTimes
last night on Biden's memory!
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Bingo...plus career DOJ resignations and threats thereof over Flynn, Stone, etc.
Read everything Barr was saying to the DOJ prosecutors. Then remember that last week, one of Durhams top deputies resigned in protest of Barr trying to rush the Durham report for politician purposes. We are seeing Barr’s rage filled reaction that his corruption got delayed.
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@atrupar
One of the strangest most immolating interviews i’ve ever soon. Bringing up false sex allegations about Tucker and then bring up T’s wife
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Much has been written about John Roberts as an institutionalist. In the Washington
@monthly
, Garrett Epps traces the Harvard-educated chief justice's anti-intellectualism and reckless rulings.
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The agita about Neera Tanden is all about faux indignation and a soupçon of sexism.
cc:
@chrislhayes
@page88
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Shouldn't Mayor Frey, City Council Pres Bender, Rep. Omar, Keith Ellison, Klobuchar and others be down there the way John Lindsay kept the peace after MLK was shot? Maybe it's too out of control but this seemed so foreseeable for days.
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Trump thanking Collins and thus producing the first Dem ad against her.
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DOJ never got a warrant for
@aliwatkins
content. How much damage, imminent harm could have been at issue? Was Gang of Eight told about possible leaks off Hill? This surveillance is very disturbing.
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Jan. CW: Biden is FDR. Will get everything he wants.
Late May CW: Biden’s screwed. GOP wins again.
July 4 CW: Biden knows what he’s doing and is doing well considering 50-50.
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Bernie Sanders’s health plan comes up $12.5 trillion short, while Elizabeth Warren’s spares the middle class a tax increase, writes
@baselinescene
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Republicans might keep the Senate and Stephen Breyer is 82.
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Gulf of Trumpkin
BREAKING: Secretary Pompeo says
#Iran
responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman this morning.
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Recall Comey appointed CIA leak special counsel Pat Fitzgerald. This is a slap at Comey.
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Ambien Trump is doing better than Roid Rage Trump. I don’t think it will last.
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After attack Trump had options: call an NSC meeting, visit Argentine/Belgian embassies, instead attacked Schumer.
@NicolleDWallace
notes
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Eugenio Martinez, Last of the Watergate Burglars, Dies at 98
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Can't imagine why Sweden would want to join NATO.
Wow, Putin basically just stopped pretending: "During the war with Sweden, Peter the Great didn't conquer anything, he took back what had always belonged to us, even though all of Europe recognised it as Sweden's. It seems now it's our turn to get our lands back [smiling]".
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Obama did the right thing on Russia, despite what Trump and Adam Schiff are saying. Me in
@Newsweek
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"Perhaps the most blockheaded thing about Alito’s preemption was that it gave fresh publicity to the latest installment in a growing series about the justices licking sugar off the tummies of their sugar daddies."
via
@politico
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@baseballcrank
Except that Memorial Day honors those who died while wearing the uniform. You're thinking of Veterans Day.
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@BillKristol
McCabe on 60 Minutes. He's said he watches the show and even if he knew the gist it might have been a trigger
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@TheRickWilson
Also sure they make an exception for pacemakers and could as well for an ankle monitor
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The Brits threw out Chamberlain during war time. It’s allow.
💥In Tel Aviv, thousands call for 𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 𝑵𝑶𝑾
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Exclusive: The article Guernica retracted, and the translator who tried to tread the line of empathy. From the Edges of a Broken World by
@joannachen1
in the Washington
@Monthly
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Very sorry to hear about
@JohnJHarwood
's departure from CNN, especially after the bothsidesism contortions on the network last night. I remain an admirer of his work and look forward to what's next.
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RBG sidenote: Jimmy Carter is the only president since WW II who didn't get to appoint a Supreme Court Justice but he did name Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the D.C. Circuit making it much more likely she'd make it to the high court.
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That's a good line
AOC downplayed the age issue, noting Biden and Trump "could have gone to high school together." Adds that Trump his 91 indictments
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Wilford Brimley’s small, but well-done turn in “The Firm” shouldn’t be forgotten. RIP
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This is, I think, the most effective testimonial I've seen from an alarmed former Trump official. cc:
@juliettekayyem
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I admire
@SteveSchmidtSES
but it’s rich to hear him beg an inside resister to come forward when he didn’t spill the beans about
@SarahPalinUSA
‘s unfitness until after the election.
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Wow. Mike Hayden on CNN not buying that Comey is being fired for his handling of Hillary emails.
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Why Donald Trump's defense of Social Security is smart and perfect for the new, blue-collar GOP. Me in
@newsweek
.
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This is interesting
"He is in the act of getting up. And his head is up, not bowed, because he's looking forward to a future of freedom."
Some want D.C.'s Lincoln statue gone. Others point out: Freed Black Americans paid for it.
STORY:
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I'm just waiting on a friend.
I’m so looking forward to coming back to an America free of harsh words and name calling and be amongst people who I know have common ground and harmony. It’s a challenge but it can be done!
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@SteveSchmidtSES
Agree. Plus it's insanely unfair to the officers to put them in this position. Deputizing a BOP corrections officer from Cumberland, MD to come into DC and deal with crowds? An ATF agent who deals with tobacco smuggling? A DEA agents who takes down meth labs?
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Justice Kadan in EPA: Some years ago, I remarked that “[w]e’re all textualists now.” It seems I was wrong. The current Court is textualist only when being so suits it.
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Very important piece. We’re only having a Veep search because Trump couldn’t stick with a Pence too loyal to the constitution. Next up, a true Quisling.
Every contender to replace Mike Pence on the GOP ticket watched video of a violent Trumpist mob storming the U.S> Capitol while chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and said, "that won't happen to me because I'll just do what Trump wants."
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@marcambinder
Ah, journalism where we use our leverage to squeeze corporations for lavish salaries.
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Just finished
@anneapplebaum
's stunning "Iron Curtain." I thought I knew a lot about the crushing of Eastern Europe following WW II. I didn't and this immensely reported volume couldn't be a more timely look at the fragility of democracy and civic life.
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Music of Israel's 'Tehran' star Liraz Charhi becomes a soundtrack for Iran protests | The Times of Israel
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When you've lost Abe Foxman...
What a sad day for Israel and the Jewish people. Thank you Yoav Galant for your courage and leadership. In my wildest dreams I would not have imagined that PM Netanyahu could act so irresponsibly. We need a miracle !
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Abortion is essentially illegal in the second most populous state and corporate reaction has been far less vigorous than in same-sex marriage or BLM. I’d have thought C-suite, shareholders, customers would be more engaged.
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McConnell's last power play? The Senate GOP leader and self-styled constitutionalist put a hammer to the 17th Amendment to make sure a Democrat couldn't take his seat. Garrett Epps explained it way back when.
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It's midnight. Luria is only Dem incumbent, House or Senate, to lose on Election Day.
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Wanna know what Democratic control looks like? Ds has 76 of 96 Senators at start of 1937. Even then, with real control, FDR gave up on court packing and the New Deal slowed down. Biden lives on Planet Earth and knows what presidents can and can’t get.
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@lutherlowe
@weijia
I was a White House correspondent during the Clinton and GWB administrations.
@weijia
did a remarkable job and continues to bring honor to our profession.
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So,
@PatrickMcHenry
threatens to padlock Pelosi's hideaway. Not a shock if you know him. See this 2006 profile of the bowtied operative on the make by Benjamin Wallace-Wells in the Washington
@Monthly
.
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David Dinkins Kept Loving Tennis, No Matter Who Mocked Him
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Ick. Roy Moore's pursuits of girls is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles
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@MollyJongFast
@chick_in_kiev
Annnd fwiw DC is not a gun-free zone. Scalia’s infamous Heller decision overturned DC’s handgun ban.
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The
@joshtpm
has been a model of thoughtfulness and restraint during this tumultuous time, not succumbing to the mob and thinking through each option, most of them shitty, to the fullest
I think Jon’s argument here is to a degree a straw man. He says at the bottom that the half dozen or so stakeholders in this conversation need to pick the best candidate. And if it’s Harris, he says, great, off to the races. His argument here seems to be…
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Cautionary note: After Goldwater's crushing defeat in 1964 punditocracy assumed moderates like George Romney would take over the party. Assuming Trumpism will die with Trump is foolish.
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@tomwatson
I was in the middle of Bill Clinton must go, drop out, or resign feeding frenzies. Agree stranger things could happen. A town hall would help, going over the heads of press and pols.
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The Irrepressible Walter Shapiro by me. A reporter who was cutting without being snarky and sincere without being corny, my late friend pulled off a balancing act for 50 years that made him one of the great political journalists of our time.
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I went to Safeway, came out, checked phone and learned we're all gonna die.
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This'll be interesting. Calif. was Biden's best state, so far, but nixed restoring affirmative action to higher ed admissions. 1/x
The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department is headed for a makeover under President-elect Joe Biden via
@bpolitics
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The question: Will crimes committed to cover up extramarital sex be enough to compel the House and Senate to impeach and remove a president? Will it take other crimes to achieve critical mass?
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Crazy video from
@Report4America
's
@annaliznichols
at the Michigan capital. She knows Lansing...
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Just over 115 years ago, my father's side of my family was driven from what's now Belarus, specifically Pinsk (not the more famous Minsk). Relatives who remained perished--perhaps in camps or Einsatzgruppen. We don't know. Here's hoping Belarus has a democratic, tolerant future.
Reports of pro-democracy protests across Belarus tonight and extraordinary scenes in Minsk in particular. It seems that, this time, the people of Belarus aren’t willing to settle for a rigged election.
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