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Three thoughts recurred reading this.1. The theory that ex-presidents can’t be tried by the Senate is fake, conjured in bad faith to give GOP sens cover to acquit without stating

The solution is obvious. McConnell is *already* abusing the filibuster to block the constitution of the new majority. Nuking the filibuster is the appropriate response. At the very least the

This thread is sorta fatally undermined by the telling omission of race as a factor in the formation of the conservative movement, but I think it's narrowly right in its

If Ossoff wins, I’ll say: highlighting your opponent’s corruption is good. If he loses I’ll say: highlighting your opponent’s corruption is good even if it isn’t politically resonant enough for

I’d echo most of what @theplumlinegs writes here, but going forward, I think the key is that Republicans can’t be allowed to spin up a storm of lies *and then

Republican senators and their mediocre factotums like Drew are gonna do what they’re gonna do, but it will be professional failure to pretend to believe them when they pretend to

It gets at the core conceit of Trumpism: that mass deception—the warping of public perception—is the predicate for everything. Because once a large enough minority is bought in to a

This is a lie and they know it. The only reasons I can think of to do it are to a) intentionally cause social strife for no good reason other

Setting aside all the things that Trump is trying desperately to keep concealed, it’s true: Trump is not a complicated person. But that raises questions, like why he gets New

A perfect opportunity to test some of the ideas I wrote about here. It shouldn’t be a total non-story that literally everything Trump says in trying to appeal to voters

Fixed it for you, @nytimes. Fixed it for you, @nytimes. Fixed it for you, @washingtonpost. Fixed it for you, @nytimes. https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1267648829790224386?s=19 Fixed it for you, @nytimes. Fixed it for you,

For my sins, I'm going to do a @HeerJeet-like thread on the topic of Aunt Jemima, racist tropes, and the shifting bounds of acceptable mainstream discourse.https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1273271985863307266 The fact that Aunt

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