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DC bureau chief of Mother Jones, MSNBC analyst. Best-selling author of "American Psychosis." Sign up for my newsletter "Our Land" at davidcorn.com.

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My new book "American Psychosis" hits on 9/13. This rollicking history of the GOP's decades-long relationship with far-right extremism provides the perfect context for the debate on the Republican Party, Trumpism, & fascism. Please order now & RT this. amazon.com/American-Psych

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BRENNAN: You put Marjorie Taylor Greene on the subcommittee to investigate the origins of Covid. She compared mask requirements to the Holocaust. How's anyone supposed to take that work seriously? MCCARTHY: You have all the questions out there.

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A leaked internal message appears to show Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff to suspend a left-wing...

The internal message involved the account of activist Chad Loder and said: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk," Bloomberg reported.

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unionbuster agrees that workers should also have to work longer before they can retire

Elon Musk says France's President Macron is doing the 'difficult, but right thing' by raising the country's retirement age

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He was a musical great. If you don’t know Television, you’re missing out.

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Breaking News: Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the punk rock scene centered on CBGB — but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorizable — has died at 73. nytimes.com/2023/01/28/art

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Curiouser, curiouser

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We tried to call the top donors to George Santos' 2020 campaign. Many don’t seem to exist

The list of matters to investigate keeps growing.

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Otto Von Biz Markie

RIP Tom Verlaine of Television, who could make a guitar sound like lightning striking itself, a virtuoso of restraint & the negative void, a spare & elegant lyricist like his symbolist namesake. His stage alias, band name, and style defined punk cool. Artistic elevation perfected

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Upsetting news. Please check out this wonderful music from the NY scene that inspired many musicians.

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RIP Tom Verlaine and thanks to @DavidCornDC for recommending Television a few years back. twitter.com/Steven_Hyden/s…

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Sad news. One of the best bands ever. Very influential. I saw their last show ever. It was thrilling. Thanks, Tom.

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RIP Tom Verlaine. MARQUEE MOON is one of the best debut albums ever and it still sounds fresh any time you put it on. He made long and mind-blowing guitar solos and punk fit together. Remember hearing live album THE BLOW UP and being obsessed for weeks. youtu.be/ASCf0yLku7o

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Excellent reporting from

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Some of Santos' big donors in 2019-2020 don't seem to exist per

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Appended to

's lovely remembrance of Victor Navasky in

(bit.ly/3WLl6md) is this amazing anecdote about Calvin Trillin:

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I hope you caught this scoop last night: We went looking for

@Santos4Congress

' top donors who were listed in his FEC reports. For a bunch we couldn't confirm their names or addresses. It's as if they...don't exist. Yet another Santos money mystery for investigators probing him.

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SCOOP! Many top donors to @Santos4Congress' 2020 campaigns, uh, don't seem to exist. @nlanard and I tried to contact these donors and found addresses and names that could not be confirmed. Please read/share. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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Just one example from our scoop about George Santos donors who don’t seem to exist. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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A retiree named Stephen Berger at an address on Brandt Road in Brawley, CA, was listed as giving $2,500. William Brandt and his wife have lived at that home for at least two decades. He did not donate to Santos, nor does he know Stephen Berger.

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Isn’t that a Steely Dan album?

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It’s almost time for Night Salad

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It seems entirely possible that George Santos will find face criminal charges before his congressional term runs out. Excellent reporting via

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Lúcia Guimarães

@luciaguimaraes

A última do talentoso Mr Santos:

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foram procurar grandes doadores da campanha do deputado nova-iorquino de Niterói. Eles não existem. Na

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New: We've identified more than a dozen top donors to Santos' 2020 campaign who do not seem to exist. I also spoke to a friend of Santos' who says he did not give the $2,800 donation attributed to him. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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SCOOP! Many top donors to

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' 2020 campaigns, uh, don't seem to exist.

and I tried to contact these donors and found addresses and names that could not be confirmed. Please read/share.

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We tried to call the top donors to George Santos' 2020 campaign. Many don’t seem to exist

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Donald Trump’s PAC secretly handed $1 million to the controversial Arizona “audit” that hoped to prove the election was stolen from the former president.

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Trump’s PAC Secretly Gave $1 Million to Baseless Arizona Election ‘Audit,’ Report Says

A watchdog group traced the funds back to Trump’s Save America Pac.

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The sad thing is that the "Daily Caller" actually thinks it's to its credit to tweet this out. twitter.com/DailyCaller/st

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There are so many great moments in this

remembrance of Victor Navasky. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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It's no state secret that the classification system that tripped up Biden & Pence is ludicrous. Though someone might try to classify that info anyways. "It’s a ridiculous system that’s not fit for purpose anymore,” one State Department official said.

The Classified Document Scandal Is Even Dumber Than You Think

“It’s a ridiculous system that’s not fit for purpose anymore,” one State Department official told VICE News.

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Wild story.

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Even the most astute among us can be fooled. inquirer.com/opinion/commen

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At Grand Central Madison NYC jalopnik.com/grand-central-

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Please do. And share it.

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Read @DavidCornDC's tribute to Victor Navasky motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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How deplorable can you go?

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Eric Kleefeld (becoming a parody of myself)

Bannon guest suggests Jan. 6 police suicides were out of shame. “Perhaps they were involved, or they were so distraught over what they saw these two police forces treat American citizens on public property, perhaps that is one reason why maybe some of them took their own lives.”

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Hey I found the "weaponization" of the federal government! Spoiler alert: It was Barr & Durham. I'm sure the House GOP will be investigating this. And guess what: The Russian investigation was no witch hunt. The effort to prove it was...was the witch hunt. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/

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Hey I found the "weaponization" of the federal government! Spoiler alert: It was Barr & Durham. I'm sure the House GOP will be investigating this. And guess what: The Russian investigation was no witch hunt. The effort to prove it was...was the witch hunt.

How Barr’s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

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In case you missed my farewell to the incomparable Victor Navasky.

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My remembrance of Victor Navasky. From my days working for him at @thenation. With cameos from Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, and Calvin Trillin. Thank you, Victor. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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This is a good companion piece to my mini-memoir: motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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Remembering Victor Navasky, a "liberal lion" who won the @nationalbook Award and edited @thenation, with writers including Christopher Hitchens, Alexander Cockburn, @DavidCornDC, @KathaPollitt and @Eric_Alterman, from 1978 to 2005. #RIP theguardian.com/books/2023/jan

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My remembrance of Victor Navasky. From my days working for him at

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Remembering Victor Navasky, the unflappable ringmaster of "The Nation"

The impish editor inspired a generation of journalists.

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Easy to do? Has Trump pressured Putin to end his unprovoked genocidal and horrific attack on Ukraine and immediately withdraw? This is more Trump twaddle.

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emailed Santos’ office at 3:20 to ask it to clarify the mix-up. It never responded. At 3:46, someone submitted yet another FEC filing. Like the others, it includes the same treasurer claim. But Thomas Datwyler didn't agree to that one, either.

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George Santos' new treasurer wants you to know he's not George Santos' treasurer.

"We informed the Santos campaign on Monday that Mr. Datwyler would not be interested in serving as their treasurer."

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Why do they hate free enterprise and capitalism?

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Did you try to overthrow the government? Are you worried that the rule of law is catching up to you? Thanks to Kevin McCarthy, the attorneys at #InsurrectionLLC are standing by and ready to take your call...

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How soon before Fox launches a crusade to bring back lawn jockeys?

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It's a tough choice: Election denier versus election denier versus election denier.

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Note the empty chair behind the Ronna McDaniel placard. Rival Harmeet Dhillon is not here, either. She sent Caroline Wren. Richard Anderson is the state chair in Virginia. On the right is Fredericks.

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