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Staff writer . Senior Fellow , . Author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE and now TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

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    Nov 15

    All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like. There is a bad man at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents...

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  2. 2 minutes ago

    By presenting a list unreasonable demands, the Russians are giving themselves a false excuse to behave unreasonably, if they need one. I can't think of any other reason for them to do this.

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  3. 4 minutes ago

    The Russians also know that NATO is a defensive alliance: It exists to deter them from invading. It is not a threat to them, and it will not invade them. Countries join NATO because they are afraid of Russia, not because they want to attack Russia.

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  4. 46 minutes ago

    The administration will not/cannot accept this. Which the Russians know.

    Russia set out its demands for a sweeping new security arrangement with the West in Eastern Europe, including a request for a written guarantee that NATO will not expand farther east. The proposal comes as Russia masses troops on the border with Ukraine.
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  5. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    Hard to imagine a more dramatic illustration of why everyone needs to be vaccinated (and with 3 shots). This is NYC: hospitalizations spiking among the unvaccinated but flat among the vaccinated. (hat tip to ⁦⁩).

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  6. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Those jaw-dropping Trump quotes in full: "It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress" "The Jewish people in the US either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel" "Evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews" do. Exclusive clips on Unholy

    Donald Trump said some jaw-dropping things about American Jews to - and you can hear those clips exclusively as and I sit down with him (Barak, not Trump) for the latest Unholy
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  7. 13 hours ago

    This bill directly attacks a single company, the only truly independent TV company in Poland, and also the largest US investment in Poland.

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  8. 13 hours ago

    Polish government is in conflict with the EU, Germany, Israel, France, Czech Republic, Belarus...Now they want a war with the US as well.

    The United States is extremely disappointed by today's passage of the media bill by the Sejm. We expect President Duda to act in accordance with previous statements to use his leadership to protect free speech and business.
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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    Amusing to see Trump turn on Israel because Bibi didn’t back the Big Lie. It’s all about his ego. This should cause pro-Israel right-wingers (esp Jewish Republicans) to rethink their support for DJT… but it won’t.

    Donald Trump: Benjamin Netanyahu was "willing to fight Iran to the last American soldier...”
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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 16

    Especially since his emails were about plotting a coup d'etat, while ours were about gefilte fish.

    .: If Hillary Clinton's email protocols were a major national story for over a year, Mark Meadows' use of private email accounts matters, too.
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  11. Dec 16

    "Hundreds of thousands of people wanted to help these children when they believed they were victims of sex trafficking. When it turned out that they were victims of a viral hoax, the kids and their families were left to face the wreckage alone."

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  12. Dec 16

    This is actually much, much worse than Pizzagate

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  13. Dec 15

    For those who missed the sarcasm: This is a direct reference to the fact that Trump wouldn't have done it. Or would have done it gracelessly, offensively, throwing rolls of paper towels.

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  14. Dec 15

    Imagine a president offering support to a state that did not even vote for him

    President Biden in Kentucky: "I intend to do whatever it takes, as long as it takes — as long as it takes — to support your state and your local leaders as you recover and rebuild, because you will recover and you will rebuild."
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  15. Retweeted
    Dec 15

    Yesterday, 18 US lawmakers asked the Treasury Department and State Department to sanction spyware maker NSO Group. They say the company facilitated the "disappearance, torture and murder of human rights activists and journalists."

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  16. Retweeted
    Dec 11

    This is a good piece by about Trumpists installing themselves in positions of control over elections to steal a future one. One thing, though: It commits the fallacy of stating as fact that all these people "believe" 2020 was stolen:

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    Dec 15

    NEW: Political scientist recommends the best politics books to read in 2021, with a focus on the internal turmoil of the United States. ft.

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    Dec 15

    What's that on this coin I happened to find in my wallet today? Oh, just Germany commemorating the time its Chancellor fell to his knees in front of the monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in a spontaneous show of contrition for the Holocaust.

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  19. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    It’s worth stepping back for a moment to appreciate just how badly the U.S. decision to withdraw from the JCPOA has turned out.

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  20. Dec 14

    Amazing

    1:59
    What Fox News hosts said privately vs. publicly on Jan. 6
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    Dec 14

    In recent days, there's been a flurry of articles by cons seeking to set some guardrails on how states go about banning "CRT" and related books. They support the bans in principle, but for strategic reasons, worry that they might be going too far. They are right to be worried.

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