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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. Novels: You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century. Co-created & Spy.

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    9 Dec 2017

    "A great revisionist history of America." “The indispensable book for understanding America in the age of Trump." "Nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year." O’Donnell

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  2. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    And if you don't think the US military or law enforcement officials required to execute this maneuver would not do so, you don't really understand the professionalism of the US military and law enforcement (or their views of Trump).

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  3. 14 hours ago

    True. But not as bad as most directors’ worst films.

    Whether you watch the Hateful Eight in one sitting or as four episodes on Netflix, it’s still Quentin Tarantino’s worst film.
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  4. 14 hours ago

    Clap as if a guy who won’t be alone with a woman who isn’t his wife is a stripper. America.

    US Navy sailors instructed to 'clap like we're at a strip club' for Mike Pence arrival
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  5. May 5

    I asked “2001” superfan Tom Hanks if he’d hum a bit of “Thus Sprach Zarathustra.” He hummed the whole thing, note for note, from memory.

    1:00
    Next time on Studio 360:
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  6. May 4

    Agree. I mean, if you’re a Democratic leader, sure, envision and prepare for that possibility, but don’t overthink and publicly use it as a strategic political argument for nominee-picking.

    I am honestly baffled by the conversation about Trump "contesting the results" if he loses. Why would this matter? Trump whines about everything and says all sorts of things. If he's like "rigged! I really won" after the election, so what? January 21, he's just a guy tweeting.
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  7. May 4

    Decline-and -fall milestone.

    We no longer use (sic) to show that quoted material includes a misspelling, incorrect grammar or odd usage. Instead, paraphrase if possible. If the quote is essential, use it as spoken or written, in line with other guidance in the Stylebook's "quotations in the news" entry.
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  8. May 4

    I asked people to hum a bit of the opening music from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Thus sprach , and over-delivered.

    1:00
    Get excited for our next hour:
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  9. May 4

    Weekly bit of good news: in 1980, a full third of white Americans lived in neighborhoods where all or nearly all of their neighbors were white. Today only 5% of them do, mostly in rural areas.

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    May 4

    One of the shortcomings of the whole "let's just focus on policy and not bother with the horse race" thing is that it winds up having a really poor conception of why people vote the way they do.

    It’s a little hard to tell but it looks to me from things like Buttigieg doing way worse with self-described moderate Democrats that people understand intra-party cleavages in terms of cultural cues more than policy — just like their understanding of how Ds & Rs differ.
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  11. May 4

    Correct and important.

    Journalists and commentators ought to be more careful about the use of the term "economy." It is a gross and misleading generalization typically used to described a couple of top line indicators and showing zero insight into what is happening within the economy itself.
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  12. May 4

    Appalling: Republicans trust Trump more than the press to tell the truth by 82%-9%, and say the press is “the enemy of the people” vs “an important part of democracy” by 49%-36%. On the other hand, only 28% of Americans say they’re Republicans. a third

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  13. May 2

    “People say, ‘How do you go through those witch hunts and everything else?’ He looked over to Vice President Mike Pence and shrugged. “We think about God.”

    President Trump said he leaned on one thing to get through special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election: his faith
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  14. Retweeted
    May 2

    🔊Our new episode is out now! Featuring: Ani DiFranco, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Pete Seeger, and Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy.

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  15. May 2

    I‘m not a gardener but I’m fortunate to live with one and I love plants and flowers and adore this brilliant gardening guru and her beautifully written new book, just out. It’s useful and gorgeous, a great combination.

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    May 2

    "Optional Medicare-for-all", i.e. a public option, polls very well, though, and would presumably have fewer problems with people having to give up their current insurance.

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    May 2

    Congressional Democrats: Subpoena every member of William Barr’s staff. When the first refuses to show up, cite them for contempt and have them arrested. This is Barr’s last career stop. Target the people who have futures to consider. Cut off his legs and work your way up.

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    May 1

    . caught Lindsey Graham complaining about FBI officials saying the same negative things about Donald Trump in 2016 that Lindsey Graham was saying about Donald Trump in 2016.

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  19. May 2

    Anti-vaccine zealotry and Scientology -- the different fiefdoms of come together! (Talk about a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.)

    Cruise ship quarantined over confirmed measles case; ship is not allowed to leave port; nearly 300 passengers and crew can't disembark.
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  20. May 1

    Love her cooly-amused-ness in general.

    I like the way that Kamala Harris is able to come across as coolly amused *and* righteously disgusted at the same time. Seems like the correct stance for 2020.
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  21. May 1

    Wow. 27 YEARS AGO, conservative William Safire deriding William Barr as the ”Coverup-General" for his “obvious conflict of interest," trying to 86 an investigation of Reaganites' Iran-contra crimes and the Bush Administration "obstruction of justice" & "deception of Congress."

    William Safire had Bill Barr's number 27 years ago. via
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