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There’s always more, and it’s always worse. But it’s never new.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Nov 2020

    This guy delivered his precinct.

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  2. 21 hours ago

    "Unskilled" workers.

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  3. Retweeted
    Mar 5
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    I'm about halfway through Before The Storm, by and The Absolute Book, by Elizabeth Knox. I must say that Before the Storm is making me feel a little better about the US today. There was some bat shit crazy stuff going on then and we lived to tell the tale.

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  4. Mar 5

    The conclusion my friend John is straining for here reduces to a single word: PROPAGANDA. And all-too-successful propaganda at that. Liberals, mainstream media, feel free to criticize instances. But please please please: refuse to play the reactionaries' game.

    i dont understand what views are harder to find with the advent of cancel culture, i spend a good deal of time on a website that's just crawling with the grossest antisemitic propaganda (for research, for research) my amazon suggestions are plying me with reactionary books
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  5. Mar 5

    Political sophisticates in my orbit tell me it's all about the Venezuelan vote in Florida. Great! Now we can look forward to another 60-year humanitarian catastrophe that accomplished 0% of its strategic aims, the Cuban economic embargo.

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  6. Mar 5

    ..who secretly passed the party's donor lists to sort of right-wing groups the rest of the RNC was busy denouncing as extremist. So the RNC chair had a staffer break into the finance guy's desk. The staffer was caught; the Goldwater guy put out a press release.

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  7. Mar 5

    The story of Trump beefing on the RNC for using his name for fundraising reminds me (of course) of a similar cock-up from 56 years ago: in 1965 the only Goldwaterite kept on at the RNC was the finance guy...

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  8. Mar 5

    Proud of a certain formerly centrist senator's retreat from his former taste for neoliberalism and law 'n' order. But when a nation whose defense budget is 0.1 percent of ours poses an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security": fuuuuuuuck

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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    Next Wednesday and will be recording with to discuss his landmark series about The Unmaking of the American Consensus, which begins with the rise of Goldwater. If y’all have questions, hit us at nowmorethaneverpod@gmail.com

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  10. Mar 3

    Remember, however, that this is the paramilitary arm of the over half of the Republican mrmbers of Congress who voted that the opposing party cannot legitimately win an election.

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  11. Mar 3

    The people making this decision to suspend Congress are skirting breaking their oath of office. Mobs do not get to dictate when the United States Congress conducts its business. That's the main point of the Constitution to which they swore an oath to preserve and defend.

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  12. Mar 3

    Negotiating with terrorists. Why not model patriotism, valor, show that Congress does not bend to armed threats? Maybe they're terrified police will have to shoot a white person.

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  13. Mar 2

    Tell your !

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  14. Mar 2

    Listening to the Most Compassionate Perlstein. Community colleges are the backbone of working class mobility in the U.S. And the media does a crap job with them.

    I perpetually long for better coverage of and and deliver. They go beyond the mere fact of the enrollment crisis to show why these institutions matter & to whom. I can't wait to see more of this across media.🤞
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  15. Mar 2

    Great personal essay about the civic rot nurtured for decades under the guise of "Christianity" that found its apotheosis on 1/6, by the guy who gave me one of REAGANLAND's best stories.

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    Mar 1

    Bigot Coalition Targeting Equality Act With Tactics They've Been Using Since At Least 1977

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  17. Mar 1

    The Cool Perlstein has something to say.

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    Feb 26
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    Since it seems like years ago that I wrote this, I’m not embarrassed to say my math was off by one. Since VP needs 41 (not 40) senators to back her play, she effectively has 19 votes in her pocket on Byrd rule votes.

    When & get around to writing books covering Biden’s 100 Days, they will have to explain the peculiarity of federal budget law that effectively gives Vice President 20 Senate votes in deciding what’s eligible for a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill.
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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 25

    “Rep. Pramila Jayapal said Wed on MSNBC. “Because, I'll tell you what, in 2 yrs... when people vote in the midterms, you’re not gonna be able to say, ‘Well, I’m sorry, we couldn’t raise the min wage because the parliamentarian ruled that we couldn't do it.’ That's not gonna fly.”

    The White House may be CHOOSING not to increase the minimum wage, as a sop to etiquette scolds. This would not be morally acceptable.
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  20. Feb 25

    The White House may be CHOOSING not to increase the minimum wage, as a sop to etiquette scolds. This would not be morally acceptable.

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  21. Feb 25

    Making a way out of no way.

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