Hey US media folks, here, I would argue immodestly, is how you interview a Trump supporter on Trump's lies:
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Curious what others think but I’d imagine that without Senate control on the line in Georgia runoff that’s good news for Warnock
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Red wave! Red wave!
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Might be some more crying left to do, I think?
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Barring something statistically unforeseeable, it's all over but the crying here. Laxalt is going to win this. twitter.com/RalstonReports…
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I mean, if you’re still a self-identified member of ‘Trump’s inner circle’ in the fall of *2022* maybe you should take a long hard look at your life choices.
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Dark time in Trump's inner circle. Spoke to several longtime friends, donors, and aides in the past 24 hours. Many say he's listening to very few people, isolated, and meanspirited about his potential rivals. Several of them say they're tired of his rants and are avoiding him.
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Spoke with about how our campaign overcame AIPAC & the GOP's mountain of dark money that tried to stoke fear and division, by building a multiracial, multigenerational coalition that stays true to our values—fighting for the needs of working families. #PA12
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The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth.
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As Twitter heads for possible bankruptcy, and endures daily chaos and controversy, the new owner is taking some time out to debate insulin pricing with Senator Bernie Sanders. As you do.
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Full answer to insulin price question is complex. Short answer is that original insulin, discovered in 1921 (not 1923), is inexpensive, costing as little as $25.
New, higher efficacy analog variants of insulin are more expensive. @CommunityNotes
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Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
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We apologize to those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account. Our official Twitter account is @LillyPad.
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Between Two Ferns Bloopers to brighten your day!
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Just watched a long news piece on Casey DeSantis, looking forward to seeing a news piece on Dawn Moore (wife of governor Wes Moore) and on Dr. Marc Mallory (Husband of governor Gretchen Whitmer).
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Did Josh Shapiro have a stroke? Did Shapiro get outspent by millions? Did Shapiro have a celebrity opponent? Did Shapiro try to flip a GOP seat?
Come on, the comparison is not just unfair but ridiculous. Shapiro & Fetterman both ran great races and both won great victories.
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Fetterman did great. But he also ran 9 points behind Josh Shapiro.
Maybe that's because Shapiro was seen as more moderate than Fetterman or maybe it's because Mastriano was seen as more extreme than Oz. But either way, Pennsylvania confirms the power of the middle of the road twitter.com/anatosaurus/st…
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Mandela outspent by $25 million with unrelenting barrage of fear mongering ads that darkened his skin and called him dangerous that went unanswered. Yet he came w/in 1 pt. Feingold lost by almost 5pts, having previously been elected and thus - by def - electable.
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As you see discourse on how to recreate Fetterman, recall that the establishment deemed him too leftie and desperately wanted Lamb. So, as a step one, how about we put an axe through “electability” and recall that the middle of the road is where you get run over.
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One of the largest food safety companies in the U.S., Packers Sanitation Services, illegally employed more than two dozen children, the Labor Department found. Some were as young as 13, and several suffered chemical burns from corrosive cleaners.
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Remember how Trump stole classified documents from the White House, lied about it, and compromised our national security and allies? Don't worry about it. We've all forgotten and nothing happened to him. Oh well.
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Young people aren’t oblivious. We know Republicans don’t have any real policy platform. And we made it clear on Tuesday we won’t stand for what they (don’t) have to offer.
Thank you, , for having me on earlier to talk about Gen Z w &
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Grift all the way down.
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A woman wept with joy as she embraced a Ukrainian soldier after Russia formally announced its retreat from villages along the Kherson front in southern Ukraine. The move puts Kyiv on the cusp of achieving one of its most significant victories of the war. nyti.ms/3UNGCpD
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Serious question: is it that easy to become the richest man in the world? 🤔
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Lol: Twitter sent an HR email to every laid off employee acknowledging it's late getting people their separation agreements and release of claims. But the company messed up the BCC and it has become a reply-all catastrophe.
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Do you define the Santa Monica Observer as ‘citizen journalism’? You still haven’t explained how you ended up tweeting a link to its bonkers homophobic conspiracy and then quietly deleting it?
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It didn't help that the national Democratic Party abandoned him, and let Johnson flood the airwaves with nakedly racist ads while Barnes was powerless to respond in kind.
Barnes also failed to clearly and aggressively define Johnson as the extremist he is.
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An unpopular but needed take—
CANDIDATES DO NOT SIMPLY GAIN AND SHED VOTES AS THEIR POLICY POSITIONS MOVE CLOSER TO OR FURTHER FROM THE MEDIAN VOTER
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An unpopular but needed take—
Dems would have won this seat if we nominated a mainstream Democrat who never wore an Abolish ICE shirt, flirted with defunding the police, or appeared on Russian state TV to trash America
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One of the great failures of our media in this country is the regular both sides-ing of ‘far left’ and ‘far right’ as some sort of matching counterparts.
The far right cozies up to Nazis and incites political violence. The far left wants Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.
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AOC to Chris Wallace: "As someone who is often, I think, characterized as 'extreme,' I of course would object to that. I do not believe that I am as extreme in the way that Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Republican side is extreme."
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Eli Lilly lost 15B in market cap, probably more than Twitter is currently worth in total
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Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?
Yes.
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Gillum’s lawyers in court filing today: “Trump’s posts raise serious questions about how exactly Trump ‘fixed’ Desantis’s campaign, what Trump directed the FBI & US Attorneys Office to do, and whether there is any connection to the prosecution of Gillum.”
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Compare this to NY. And keep in mind Philly has had one of the largest homicide increases in the country. Again, I don’t know *why* it was so much higher salience in NY, but it clearly was.
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And note, Fetterman did BETTER than Oz with voters who cared most about crime!!!
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While we're counting needlessly lost seat, don't forget:
Stephanie Murphy retiring for no reason cost Dems a seat in FL
Crist running a hapless, loser race for gov cost another FL seat
Suozzi running for gov cost a NY seat
Kathleen Rice quitting for no reason cost another NY seat
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This is stupid and false. There are almost 100,000 votes left to be counted (at least). Laxalt is up by 9000 votes. The biggest chunks of votes remaining are in counties where Cortez Masto is ahead. Of course there's a mathematical way Laxalt loses.
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Lindsey Graham suggested on NRSC call yesterday that fraud in NV would be the only way GOP loses.
“There is no mathematical way Laxalt loses,” Graham said. “If he does, then it’s a lie.” politico.com/news/2022/11/1
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This is a misguided thread (and I’m not a Milley fan). Modern wars almost never end with decisive victories. They end in negotiated settlements. Supporting Ukraine also means being honest (not pressuring them) about when is the optimal time for them to negotiate.
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“Gen. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has made the case that the Ukrainians have achieved about as much as they could reasonably expect on the battlefield before winter sets in & so they should try to cement their gains at the bargaining table.” nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/Show this thread
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In the end, voters thought Oz was the extreme one.
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So it turns out voters cared about democracy and abortion despite the pundit industrial complex saying otherwise
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1. Democracy can be on the ballot, and citizens can, in fact, respond to that.
2. Parties need to suffer thorough defeats, over and over, before they will reform. The GOP - which turned into a loony seditionist movement - isn't done learning this lesson, but we're getting there.
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me reaping, me sowing: a story in 4 parts
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Well, Twitter blue was beautiful while it lasted
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The result was weird enough to prop many theories, but come on. Obvious takeaway is that it was Dobbs, democracy, and GOP candidates being crazy. The people who said to focus on this seem to have been right, the people fixated on inflation, gas, policy seem to have been wrong.
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Top U.S. General Urges Diplomacy in Ukraine While Biden Advisers Resist - The New York Times
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“Blaming Trump is easy. Organizing a realignment of the GOP coalition to improve its standing with younger voters—by purging the party of its openly racist and seditionist elements, for example—is more of a challenge.”
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“Who gets the blame for picking a weird Ron Paul acolyte to take on a popular astronaut? Do you put that all on Trump?”
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