#Reagan

Sir DMT PhD

SirDMTPhD

In 2016, I quietly told some friends I hoped Hillary would win. Why? Because I envisioned Trump to be the next Herbert Hoover. Through 3 years, I thought I was

David Dayen

ddayen

Robinhood has an arbitration clause in their customer contract. That may not help them avoid a class action lawsuit. But thousands of companies use arbitration to protect themselves from the

Bill Harvey's Ghost

TheGhostsGhost

Trump was ultimately a failed president. But, to be honest, he has lots of company. The last successful POTUS, who left the country better than he found it, was Reagan.

Greg Harvey

BetweenTheNums

Most MLB Team Wins Under Each President:Trump: Dodgers (345)Obama: Yankees (730)W Bush: Yankees (775)Clinton: Braves (763)HW Bush: Athletics (382)Reagan: Tigers (696)Carter: Yankees (392)Ford: Reds (240)Nixon: Orioles (552)Johnson: Giants (

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

I get it. I turned 18 and Ronald Reagan became president. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, Clinton ascended to the presidency and then fucked over traditional Democratic constituencies

Zach Dorfman

zachsdorfman

THREAD: Espionage in the Golden State.A big part of my reporting over the last few years has been about spying in California. It's an endlessly fascinating, under-covered, and (I think)

Cal Chelcicky

Cal_Crucis

While tmrw has an ominous glow around it, I don't think anything will happen. Neoliberalism is about min-maxing, control through manageable chaos, & stabilizing global-markets. They're parasites infesting nation-states. Joe'

Greg Pinelo

gregpinelo

For decades, we've been bombarded with the lie that Democrats are "weak" and Republicans are "strong."What voters are seeing now is tough-as-hell Democrats standing up to bullies, staring down domestic

David Priess

DavidPriess

THREAD: George Shultz, who died yesterday after passing his 100th birthday just two months ago, was a momentous and fascinating national security figure—and a generally under-appreciated consumer of intelligence.Some thoughts:1/9

grimm

mugrimm

I think people need to get REALLY cautious about the attitude "Nothing Biden can do will be worse than what Trump did", especially this early on. A counter intuitive part

Danny Braggadocious

danzu72

The media will start to talk about Trump's legacy, here are a few acts:Trump is the only president to lose the popular vote twice.The only president to never get above

Terry Dresbach

draiochta14

I sort of get the cult of Reagan. Sort of. He was an actor, so he was pretty skilled at conveying a message.His message was so strong, it blocked out

Will McAvoy

WillMcAvoyACN

The Hollywood blacklist was a massive systematic decision across studios that actually began in the late 1930s and the early 1940s with government investigations into Hollywood, and included people who

Dark Kent

Ajenebk

1/ My reply to @SteveSchmidtSES got a lot of traction today. Listen, Republican politics didn’t “all of a sudden” become unacceptable. For years they’ve argued that looking out for one

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Because we were "perfect" and "God's chosen nation," we reacted to any civil rights protests or protests in general by assuming they were in bad-faith and evil.We believed it was

David Priess

DavidPriess

THREAD: The office of the presidency ages all who occupy it, some more than others.The differences from Inauguration Day to the final days in office can be striking.Let’s look first

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