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Columnist, author, friend of the wild. R/T are not endorsements and all views are my own.

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@nytegan
Timothy Egan
8 years
Does a pathological liar really want to pick a fight with the caretakers of America's Best Idea? My NYT column,
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Trump has spawned a thousand points of evil. He's been able to do it because enough good people do nothing. My NYT column,
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7 years
Their party impeached Clinton for lying about sex. Trump's entire presidency is a lie. Time to act. My NYT column
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5 months
Pretty close to peak perfection today at University of Washington’s cherry blossom show.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
. @realDonaldTrump @nytimes @NBCNews @ABC @CBS @CNN To call fellow Americans "the enemy" puts you in Nixon's dark cave of historic hatred.
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Timothy Egan
4 years
These violent mobs storming the gates of the world's foremost democracy are Trump's thugs, and the sad logical conclusion of his presidency. He owns this, but so does Fox News, and OAN, and Rush Limbaugh, and every enabler in Congress. May their mug shots live in infamy.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Thanks to Beto for carrying so many Ds over the line in Texas, and Kansas for common sense. Finally, a check on Trump. He’ll soon learn: nobody is above the law. Hallelujah: end of one party rule!
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Timothy Egan
6 years
These are the best, most nonbullshit 3 minutes on the Senate floor in a decade
@briantylercohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
6 years
Wow. I’ve never seen anything like this on the Senate floor.
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Timothy Egan
8 years
And he's emptying the Breitbart Dumpster tonight
@brianstelter
Brian Stelter
8 years
Overheard: A reporter in St. Louis saying: "Trump is using these women as human shields."
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Trump is a symptom of American ignorance, not a cause. A clueless citizenry gets what is deserves. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
6 years
To the bad parents in Congress failing our kids: stuff the thoughts, hold the prayers and do something about school shootings or get thrown out of office in November. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
2 years
Nothing makes an author happier than a new baby—er galley! A Fever in the Heartland, due out 4/04/23, is a true story from 100 years ago that explains much of the madness of moment.
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Timothy Egan
4 years
Mouth of the Columbia river today in the teeth of a storm. This is where Lewis and Clark first saw the pacific and said, ‘sigh.’
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Timothy Egan
2 years
Ok, rest of world. We suffer through a lot of winter rain, but this is the view off Whidbey Island tonight. One for the dark season scrapbook.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
House of Grifters: the nepotistic scheme at the heart of the Trump White House. My NYT column.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Republicans were never interested in due process. Their pact with an amoral presidency would deliver a Supreme Court majority. But this is the price they paid. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
1 year
A bird on the boot is worth lazing a day away above the clouds in the Cascades.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Wow. If this guy can knock off The Most Hated Man in the Senate, Ted Cruz, he should be Dem. nominee for prez in 2018. A no-bullshit pol, with echoes of RFK and King.
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Timothy Egan
4 years
My tent in North Cascades National Park, a good place to avoid the four-day lie-fest and nepotism stink of Trump’s RNC.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Mark it down: today is a day that will live in infamy -- The Treason in #Helsinki . "No president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tryrant," said John McCain. Insist that every candidate for congress stand with our country against this traitor of a president.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
He met with Ted Nugent in the White House, dictators of every stripe, but no time for one of the most loyal allies in our history.
@AP_Politics
AP Politics
6 years
BREAKING: Trump rejects one-on-one meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau over tariff dispute.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
The moral quackery behind Trump's pious enablers, turning a blind eye to every debasement. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
9 months
thanks! And let's hope this book makes its way into the schools. We shouldn't be afraid of history that makes us feel uncomfortable. Or outraged.
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Indianapolis Councilor Nick Roberts
9 months
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: I have been reading ”A Fever in the Heartland” by @nytegan the last couple days. The book goes over in great detail how, unfortunately, the KKK took over Indiana in the 1920’s. For anybody who enjoys reading history and/or about Indiana, it’s a must-read.
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Timothy Egan
4 years
Your handy, clip and save guide to how the U.S. response to Covid-19 ranks compared to the rest of the world. History will not be kind to this president.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Much, much longer than your failed presidency.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
How much longer will the failing nytimes, with its big losses and massive unfunded liability (and non-existent sources), remain in business?
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Timothy Egan
8 years
must-read piece by my great colleague @NickKristof on Trump's trail of racism. This is why ex-Klan leaders love him.
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Timothy Egan
8 years
Public service at its finest in the trump era...
@nytopinion
New York Times Opinion
8 years
Go rogue, park rangers! Tell the truth about science, you nerds in funny hats and badges!
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Timothy Egan
8 years
With a world-class vulgarian looming, the enduring decency of @BarackObama stands out even more. My NYT column
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Trump gave comfort to the two biggest ideological enemies in American history -- Nazis and slaveholders. A day that will live in infamy.
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Timothy Egan
5 years
How Trump is pissing away the great American inheritance, while hastening the demise of the planet. My NYT column,
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6 years
One of those heart-stopping winter days in Seattle when you can forget about Trump— for a few hours, at least.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
The Trumpocalypse foretold: @POTUS fires Mueller. Banana Republicans make noises but cave. A turn toward authoritarianism by new year. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
5 years
Everybody talks about how awful Trump is, but nobody does anything about it -- except on the West Coast, where they're kicking Trump's butt. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Trump is out to do lasting damage to the West -- a part of the country he knows nothing about. My NYT column
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Timothy Egan
8 years
For the sake of yourself, and the country, you've got to stop lying! This claim has been proven wrong 1000 times over. Pathological!
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
8 years
The DJT Foundation, unlike most foundations, never paid fees, rent, salaries or any expenses. 100% of money goes to wonderful charities!
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Our Fake Democracy: On every issue, and especially health care, Congress doesn't care what the public thinks.
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Timothy Egan
4 years
Trump golfs in Florida. Pence skis in Vail. Millions lose their unemployment, and family businesses go under. Has there ever been a more cold-hearted cipher of a man in the White House? Even Herbert Hoover has a fairly strong humanitarian impulse.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
New York first amendment and all-day breakfast enthusiast
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Timothy Egan
6 years
To deny these families their grief, to compound their loss for your short term gain, this is political sociopathy.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...
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Timothy Egan
8 years
First full day in office: taxpayer funded lying, at war with reality on crowd size. Wait until it's something serious.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
With Trump overseas, a week of "President" Pence gives us all a look into the empty shell of the Veep. He makes Ned Flanders sound like Voltaire. My NYT column
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Timothy Egan
5 years
The real news of the Cohen hearing is not the graphic description of the most despicable man ever to occupy the White House -- we knew that -- it's that elected Republicans are now Trump's fixers, doing the dirty work that Cohen used to do. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Trump to Earth: Drop Dead. A look at the carnage against the natural world from this president. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
3 years
The Mountain, after taking on a zillion pounds in additional precip this week. Apres le deluge, back to form.
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Timothy Egan
8 years
Among the things we're going to miss about @BarackObama : A prez who can tell -- and take -- a joke. My NYT column
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Timothy Egan
7 years
complete sentences, rationality, thoughtfulness -- the whole package.
@NewYorker
The New Yorker
7 years
. @BorowitzReport : Obama’s Barrage of Complete Sentences Seen as Brutal Attack on Trump
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4 years
Trump is clearly high as a kite and more deranged than ever in a ghostly White House emptied by his hubris and incompetence. Those charged with preventing something catastrophic need to be on extra alert.
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Timothy Egan
5 years
So, Colin Kaepernick banned from the NFL for perfectly legal expression of First Amendment rights. But biilionare Patriots owner and creepy Trump buddy Robert Kraft arrested for prostitution in a case with human trafficking implications and the response will be? You can guess.
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Timothy Egan
5 months
Terrific story out of Evansville, Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan first got its toehold in the north. And now, a hundred years after the Klan owned the state, Evansville has a black mayor!
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Historic, in all the wrong ways. Story of Trump presidency.
@patagonia
Patagonia
7 years
This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history. Take Action: #BearsEars
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Timothy Egan
2 years
At looong last, the Good Rain is back in Seattle. Once again, we can breathe the best air on earth.
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Timothy Egan
5 years
So, Sarah Sanders says God wanted Trump to be president. These progressives have an answer to that -- from a surprising source. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
8 years
Big Baby in the WH already acting like Dear Leader. Before CIA, lies about crowd size, lies about Time mag covers. Chillingly insecure.
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Timothy Egan
8 years
Aleppo tragedy, and your focus is a bad restaurant review from a magazine that first noted your tiny hands. Wow. Really showing leadership.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
8 years
Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!
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Timothy Egan
4 years
@rtenews @JoeBiden Hope and history finally rhyme.
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4 years
"Stop the count." The three most terrifying, autocratic words ever uttered by an American president. But history is being made on the positive side. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Despite the tasteless snipes from the White House and policy snubs from fellow senators, John McCain is giving us all very public tutorial in how to plan a death with dignity and defiance. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
2 years
There’s arguably no better place on earth in the first week of summer than the Sawtooth Range in Idaho. Most of it is public land.
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Timothy Egan
9 months
Among the top ten reasons to go to Indiana and read and discuss A FEVER IN HEARTLAND
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Baby Boomers gave us Donald Trump, the most odious, self-absorbed, crybaby Boomer of them all. But Millennials, soon to surpass Boomers as a voting bloc, can save us from him in November. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
4 years
a crime, clearly, one that will now be echoed by Congressional Republicans on Wednesday. This party is burning the Constitution on the way out.
@grantstern
Grant Stern 
4 years
Trump's call to Raffensperger is a crime and it's an impeachable offense.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
The remains of a Seattle day over Lake Washington. Clinging to the light!
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Wow -- not-failing, non-Enemy-of-the-People NYT showing huge earnings increase. In the age of lies, truth finds a way and democracy stays alive. Thanks to all readers!
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Timothy Egan
7 years
We had a bigger crowd at seattle's st. Paddy parade today than @POTUS inauguration!
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Timothy Egan
5 years
I took Trump's advice and left the country for the place from which my people came. Trump's dystopian USA doesn't hold up well in the comparison. My NYT column,
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Timothy Egan
5 years
You fat sack of ignorance, you have no idea what you’re saying. But being a true bullshit artist, you just keep saying it.
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The Hill
5 years
Irish PM Leo Varadkar: "The thing we want to avoid of course is a border or a wall between--" President Trump: "No, I think you do. I think you do. The way it works now is good. You want to try and keep it that way."
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Timothy Egan
7 years
They won't be hanging this one up, framed and prominent, at every Trump golf course.
@ananavarro
Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
7 years
Congratulations to #Trumpito . He made it on the cover of @Time .
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Timothy Egan
4 years
How to escape Trump’s dystopia? Go to the heart of America’s Best Idea. Mt Rainier National park today, the spot where I threw my grandpa’s ashes to the wind many years ago.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
You think the other Washington has cherry blossoms. Check out the U.W. quad in Seattle today — weeks ahead of the Tidal Basin!
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Timothy Egan
4 years
Went for a swim in this bay in Lake Washington today, aptly described as a mountain lake at sea level - one of the latest swims without experiencing any, um, shrinkage. Water was brisk, cleansing, renewing — what I hope most of us can feel one month from tomorrow.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
and it reinforced the point
@davidfrum
David Frum
7 years
The president actually had a press conference to deny being stupid?
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Um, the Irish, who saved civilization, gave us JFK, Bing Crosby, U2 and joy! All from a place that wasn't even a country, let alone failed.
@TuckerCarlson
Tucker Carlson
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#Tucker : Why does America benefit from having tons of people from failing countries come here? @FoxNews
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Timothy Egan
6 years
If a corrupt cabinet member screams into a $47,000 cone of silence after getting the boot, does anyone hear him? Good riddance, foe of clean air, water and science.
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Timothy Egan
5 years
Who owns the West? You do! Go out and take a look at your public land on this Indy Day—-as here, in the Cascade Mountains just outside Seattle.
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Timothy Egan
7 months
Thanks for the boost, Allison! A tough hard story to tell but it’s found an audience thanks to readers like you.
@AllisonLCarter
Allison Carter
7 months
I am reading “Fever in the Heartland,” about the KKK’s horrible grip on Indiana in the 1920s, and it is the most bizarre, gut wrenching, fascinating book. It’s a must for any Hoosier. Thanks to @JamesEBriggs for the recommendation.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
America's least-finest hour.
@jmart
Jonathan Martin
6 years
Heat from Fleet Street >
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Timothy Egan
5 years
TR nails it, as usual. No modern Republican would vote for this man.
@davidaxelrod
David Axelrod
5 years
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Timothy Egan
7 years
..or a lot of them.
@ForestServiceNW
Forest Service NW
7 years
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” - John Muir #NationalTakeaHikeDay
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Timothy Egan
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Couldn't be prouder of my profession, in wake of all the hits and hurt from tyrants foreign and domestic, showing how real journalists expose fake journalists. Bravo! And Trump gave this phony outfit $10K.
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Just goes to show that well-told, real-time history beats reconstituted bullshit any day.
@DeanJobb
Dean Jobb | True Crime Writer
6 years
Bob Woodward’s book sold almost as many copies in one week as Donald Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ has in 30 years
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Timothy Egan
6 years
@realDonaldTrump @FoxNews Tempted to ask: What are you Smocking? Junk food through a vaping pen? Still, where there's Smock, there's fire. And the Orange One is aflame.
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Timothy Egan
2 years
This is a huge upset, sending to Congress an intriguing & likable newcomer in a Republican district, all because of Trump’s vengeance & eggshell ego. Yayy for democracy.
@davidlgutman
David Gutman
2 years
Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez defeats Republican Joe Kent in #WA03 via @Jim_Brunner
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Parks for plutocrats: The Trump plan to price many people out of our national parks. My NYT column
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Timothy Egan
6 years
Took an Irishman thousands of miles away to give us best analysis yet for the turn to fascism in the United States.
@IrishTimesOpEd
Irish Times Opinion
6 years
One million people have now read this @fotoole article: Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
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Timothy Egan
3 years
My grandpa was a Zag, roomed with slacker Bing Crosby. He’d be doing an Easter rise and high five from the grave over this finish.
@MarchMadnessMBB
NCAA March Madness
3 years
JALEN SUGGS SENDS GONZAGA TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 😱 @ZagMBB #FinalFour
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Timothy Egan
7 years
Look at France or Canada, and you see young, dynamic leaders. We're stuck with an aging grump. My NYT column.
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Timothy Egan
7 years
With every day, Trump sinks deeper underwater. Nearly 2/3 of the country now can't stand him. Reason is winning!
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