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Senior Editor at Business Insider. MSNBC contributor. Host of KCRW's Left, Right & Center. Host of . Crotchety young man.

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Joined September 2008
Born on July 17
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 17

    Someone asked what I wanted for my birthday. I said I want the election to be over.

    402 retweets 1,949 likes
  2. 1 hour ago

    Area EarthLink User Dislikes Article

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  3. 1 hour ago

    Trump can't get US Senators on stage with him. Maybe there is some work only foreigners will do.

    leader Farage expected to appear at rally
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  4. 1 hour ago

    Is homework standard in second grade? We didn't have any homework in second grade.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Is Trump's pitch to black voters any more condescending than his "2 Corinthians" pitch to evangelicals?

    35 retweets 68 likes
  6. 5 hours ago

    Why does Trump think a reductive, ignorant, condescending pitch to blacks will work? Because it worked with whites.

    190 retweets 232 likes
  7. 7 hours ago

    Nigel Farage: I'm appearing with Trump tonight! Hope Hicks: New phone, who dis?

    204 retweets 215 likes
  8. 7 hours ago

    Poor Ron Johnson, his race doesn't even make the chart.

    Here's a useful chart showing how various Senate forecasters rate competitive races (via ).
    10 retweets 38 likes
  9. 8 hours ago

    So we learned this year that Ann Coulter is more principled than Paul Ryan.

    Sensational: Ann Coulter, out promoting book "In Trump We Trust," criticizes him for wavering on immigration.
    51 retweets 154 likes
  10. Aug 23

    Pennsylvania barber cuts Mike Pence’s hair on live TV, asks, “And your name was?” lol.

    912 retweets 1,238 likes
  11. 23 hours ago

    Fashion Police: Not just a metaphor anymore!

    91 retweets 73 likes
  12. 20 hours ago

    Trump is angry about all these changes and sensitivities and Mexicans. If you're angry about those things too, you might trust him.

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  13. 20 hours ago

    Trump's pitch was never stalwartness. He's always said he'd "make deals." Pitch is he has "your" interests at heart.

    A reminder for his ardent supporters: for Trump everything is negotiable. Every promise comes with an expiration date.
    40 retweets 96 likes
  14. 20 hours ago

    Trump is walking away from major promises on his central issue. But he'll stick to promises on the Supreme Court?

    A reminder for his ardent supporters: for Trump everything is negotiable. Every promise comes with an expiration date.
    713 retweets 950 likes
  15. 21 hours ago

    Repeatedly re-registering with the angry out-of-power party: D 2001 D 2005 R 2009 R 2012

    Trump changed parties 7 times between 1999 and 2012
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  16. 20 hours ago

    Trump's new pitch to black voters -- "your life sucks, these losers failed you, I can fix it" -- has been his pitch to whites all along.

    187 retweets 362 likes
  17. 21 hours ago

    Why did the cinnamon diabetes cure makers want Mike Huckabee as a pitchman? Because many of his fans are rubes who will believe anything.

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  18. 21 hours ago

    Conservatives should have gotten more nervous about their party when they realized how eager scammers were to rent their email lists.

    89 retweets 184 likes
  19. 21 hours ago

    Many of them even have disposable income!

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  20. 21 hours ago

    A huge fraction of the population is ignorant enough to fall for obvious scams.

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  21. 21 hours ago

    That Trump will get 40% of the vote is a good reminder of why timeshares and homeopathic remedies and infomercial get-rich systems sell.

    1,302 retweets 2,388 likes

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