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Analysis | Tonight‘s wins in New Jersey and Virginia may help Democrats finally close the MILF gap

SCOUNDREL TIME AGAIN Work took me to Washington briefly this week.

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The area where I took this pic chilled me out. Didn't stop me writing this week's FRDH, First Rough Draft of History substack though.
On Scoundrel Time
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Did you see his late play Broken Glass when it came out?

Sunset. James River, Yogaville VA

In America right now, wish I could say the country is up in arms over this ... it is not.

It is now likely that SCOTUS will overturn LBJ's greatest legislation, the Voting Rights Act, before Robert Caro actually finishes his LBJ biography which with 4 volumes published has yet to reach the Voting Rights Act.

Edward Luce just now in the FT. Spot on. Urge all at Blue Sky to change their focus from his swollen ankles & demented word-salad comments & social media posts to more substantive things

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Stefan E. Brodie, Betty Wold Johnson Foundation, Charles and Marissa Cascarilla, Edward and Shari Glazer, Harold Hamm, Benjamin Leon Jr., Lutnick Family, Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Konstantin Sokolov, Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher, Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss.
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Emilia Fanjul, Hard Rock International, Google, HP Inc., Lockheed Martin, Meta Platforms, Micron Technology, Microsoft, NextEra Energy Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc., Ripple, Reynolds American, T-Mobile, Tether America, Union Pacific Railroad, Adelson Family Foundation,
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Announcing the creation of the Mme. DeFarge society. Learn to knit and remember the names via
@HC_Richardson
a 🧵 of those donating to Trump’s ballroom:
Altria Group Inc., Amazon, Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Caterpillar Inc., Coinbase, Comcast Corporation, J. Pepe
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The quality of Trump's mercy is strained. It strains credulity

WHAT DO WE DO NOW? That’s the ironic last line of Robert Redford’s 1972 film “The Candidate” and it still resonates after half a century, especially after Saturday’s No Kings rallies across America.

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I went down to the demonstration and did not get my fair share of abuse, instead all I picked up was good, good, good vibrations which gave me expectations and made me ask a question

Brothers (and Arsenal supporters) in Arms. No Kings @ Long Beach Island NJ 700 people by 1:15.

Dawn of a new day for America. NO KINGS!!

Keep it under your hat (geddit?)

Dawn of a new day for America. NO KINGS!!

Donald Trump bankrupted a casino. Pritzker cleaned one out, I say go with the guy who wins.

And Robert Duvall robbing banks!!

You should listen to this while making plans for the Saturday's No Kings event. Brian lays out the fight ahead

At 1 level, not surprising this is how young MAGA activists talk & are stupid enough to put it in writing. But don't dismiss these messages published in Politico, especially if you are Jewish & think Trump and the wider MAGA Republican party are on your side. They are not.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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At 1 level, not surprising this is how young MAGA activists talk & are stupid enough to put it in writing. But don't dismiss these messages published in Politico, especially if you are Jewish & think Trump and the wider MAGA Republican party are on your side. They are not.

Oh shit. There goes the neighbourhood. England now features in the NYTimes property porn section

WHAT CONDITION WILL AMERICA'S SOUL BE IN AT THE MIDTERMS? A Conversation with Professor Brian Klaas

A year from now the US will be consumed with election tension. It is already building: Will midterms be free and fair? Will MAGA Republicans accept the results? Give @brianklaas.bsky.social and I 56 minutes to talk it through
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Silicon Valley est perdita. Reclaim it for the one true church! In hoc signo vinces!

Oh, dear, a Nobel Prize thumb in the eye to Trump. He and his Secretary of War and Good Grooming Hegseth are trying to violently overthrow Maduro and the Committee is honouring a woman working for a "peaceful transition" to democracy.