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Roving journalist, friend to all dogs mtracey@protonmail.com

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  1. Oct 17

    Marijuana prohibition is officially over in Canada. It can be easy to overlook given how rapidly things are changing, but a legal regime which has brought about so much unnecessary misery and cruelty is being steadily dismantled. Great news for humanity!

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  2. Oct 16

    Kind of mystified at how epically Warren mishandled this heritage thing. Took an inconvenient but manageable problem and blew it up into a potentially-fatal political disaster.

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  3. Oct 16

    Can some polling organization please ask Trump 2016 voters what they think of his extremely friendly relationship with the world's leading purveyor of "Radical Islamic Terror" in Saudi Arabia

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  4. Oct 15

    Everything about the Elizabeth Warren DNA issue is so mind-bendingly stupid that it’s not worth commenting beyond that.

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  5. Oct 15

    This exchange is being touted as a great journalistic triumph, but it’s just another invocation of the same bogus trope always used to undermine diplomacy. For the millionth time, engaging diplomatically with a state ≠ endorsing all the state’s practices

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    Lesley Stahl on Kim Jong Un: "He presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation…slave labor, public executions. This is a guy you love?" President Trump: "I know all these things… I get along with him, okay? … Let it be whatever it is to get the job done.”
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  6. Oct 15

    Bleakest thing you’ll read all week

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  7. Oct 14

    Many people are saying that this is the most important midterm election of our lifetimes. Many people also said this in 2014, 2010, and 2006. Many people always say this.

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  8. Oct 14

    Is 60 Minutes a journalism program or two-bit Deepak Chopra seminar? Lesley Stahl: “We need to be healed.” President Donald Trump: “I do wanna heal.”

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  9. Oct 14

    Everyone makes mistakes, but this “mistake” could’ve been avoided by simply taking 2 minutes to listen to the full context. So “mistake” probably isn’t the right word

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    CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as "incredible" at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump's remark. Here is the full clip.
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  10. Oct 14

    Jonah Goldberg said on national TV today that Nikki Haley is the most popular politician in America. Also added that his wife works for Nikki Haley.

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  11. Oct 13

    Already halfway through my book-length treatment of Kanye’s political philosophy. Channeling the manic energy

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  12. Oct 12

    This song contains all the answers

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  13. Oct 12

    Great new addition to my “oversized coffee mugs commemorating random US municipalities” collection!

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  14. Oct 12

    Historically catastrophic hurricanes seem to be happening every other week so I almost tuned it out, but the images from the Panama City, FL area are just horrible.

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  15. Oct 12

    Bottom line on Kanye: most of the media/entertainment industry sees supporting Trump as inherently irrational, so any Trump-supportive comments *must* be the product of mental illness, narcissism, or some other pathology. It's the viewpoint itself that they find insane.

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  16. Oct 12

    It's truly incredible, and disgusting, how people who in other contexts profess to be against the "stigmatization of mental illness" just completely throw that all out the window when it's politically advantageous

    Exploiting Kanye West’s medical treatment for mental health issues to declare him unworthy of being heard, or being incapable of cogent thought, is grotesque.
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    Oct 12

    I can't remember an episode that has produced more crude, contemptuous, reckless, stigmatizing and harmful discourse about mental health issues than the partisan anger, primarily emanating from cable news & social media, over the last 48 hours due to Kanye West's WH visit.

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  18. Oct 12

    Kanye has always had a manic, performative style that people understood (and celebrated) as artistic expression. Put that same style in a "pro-Trump" political context and suddenly it's mental illness. The reactions to this have been so lazy and pernicious

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  19. Oct 12

    Like it or not, Kanye is perfectly rational: his critics are the ones who seem deranged

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  20. Oct 11

    Apparently there are national political reporters under 40 who claim they don't know any Kanye songs. I consider myself a relatively normie fan, and I've seen him in concert and own at least 7 albums

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