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Sure, sounds great but can we do so without a civil war? Otherwise, the people needed to enact said reconstruction benefit the most from the status quo and I’m very doubtful they’ll voluntarily relinquish power.

Another bizarre Cabinet "meeting" where agency heads compete to be maximally sycophantic on camera. But elaborately praising the 79-year-old president as he nods off really takes it to another level.

I mean, I don't want Donald Trump in this country and I think he's garbage, but we don't have the right to throw him out.

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Is the US at risk of losing its measles elimination status? More than 1,700 measles cases have been confirmed so far in the U.S. this year.

Peter Hotez: For all practical purposes measles is back, now whooping cough on the rise, next domino to fall. What’s next? Hib meningitis? Polio? All to benefit a corrupt wellness influencer industry and phony MAHA ideologies. Congress, the White House asleep. Americans should be outraged.

Was just listening to Is It In!

A freaking great record

My husband @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity.

The President called him a traitor and demanded he be executed. It is dangerous and wrong. Americans need to stand up and say so.

Jeez. Trump reposted a call to execute six Democratic members of Congress, and it’s not on the front page of the NY Times, and this is the headline—no mention of hanging lawmakers.

The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:

In a two-party system, all you have to do to win in a landslide during a disastrous presidential administration is to be the only other alternative in town. Just ask the Democrats of 1930, who didn't particularly stand for much other than that they weren't Hoover. They gained 52 seats in the House.

Due to Botched Paperwork, Comey May Never Have Been Properly Indicted ALEXANDRIA, VA—In a stunning admission, prosecutors in the James Comey case conceded that...

In a stunning admission, prosecutors in the James Comey case conceded that the two-count indictment against the former FBI director was never presented to or voted on by a grand jury.
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There’s a nice temporary exhibit up right now at Philly’s Museum of the American Revolution which is quite good, I thought, looking at the Declaration in this way, exploring revolutions around the West that followed, and through time.

i know “quiet, piggy” is just one raindrop in the flood of vile, shocking statements from trump, but it’s SO cruel, so threatening, such a violation of our most basic interpersonal norms. i would really like to see it get some actual coverage.

The absolute worst people are in this administration, just carrying on with the most blatant corruption, so voluminous it’s impossible to even keep tabs on

Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy' Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files

"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."

Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?

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a woman in a green hat is speaking into a microphone while standing in front of a crowd of people . Alt: Philadelphia mayor Parker misspelling “Eagles”

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9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

Incidentally, John Shaw's book on Eliasson is The Education of a Statesman: How Global Leaders Can Repair a Fractured World
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ICYMI: Jan Eliasson, former Swedish & UN diplomat, and John Shaw, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Inst, discuss how diplomacy can help tackle vexing problems like climate change, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, UN reform, & the global refugee crisis, on the eve of Trump's 2nd inauguration.

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Trump’s Insane Pentagon Name-Change Likely to Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion Changing signage and stationary alone for the Department of Defense would cost at least a billion dollars.

Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.

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Everyone focused on Zohran Mamdani's win. But Sherrill and Spanberger did better than Mamdani with nonwhites, whites without degrees, independents, white college grads and low-income people. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

Friends and colleagues in the London area, I will be talking to Piro Rexhepi at the LSE about "Girlhood At War".

📆 12 November
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