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The world's going to hell, Lady Liberty's on life support, and we're all along for the white-knuckled ride. Pull up a chair, settle in. It's a total blim blam!

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@TheStevenCheung No, you weren’t. Arlington doesn’t operate that way. No special dispensation granted, ever. Those of us with loved ones buried or interred there know the rules all too well. They don’t come any sleazier than Steven Cheung. #TrumpSleaze #ArlingtonNationalCemetary
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@JMitchellNews Who needs to wear a white hood when you can pin on a badge, carry a gun and call yourself a peace officer?
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@joe_c_giles @MollyJongFast Take it a step further: establish an ethics overseer for Scotus justices. The last to resign because of an ethical cloud of his own making was Abe Fortas, more than half a century ago. What we’ve learned about the activities of Ginni Thomas and Tony Kennedy’s son seem far worse.
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@agibSD @contranymic1 @aterkel @JNicholsonInDC Spite isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.
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@mmpadellan @TomFitton Fitton's interests tend more toward exercising his biceps and not his frontal lobes. Larry Klayman's ghost dies a little bit more every time one of these happens.
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@ZelenskyyUa How, at this point, can @SpeakerJohnson not hang his head in utter shame at what's befalling Ukraine because of his indifference?
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@AmericaPapaBear @RpsAgainstTrump Ayatollah Trump abandoned the Kurds, our most faithful ally in the region. And looked the other way as Putin paid the Taliban bounties for dead American soldiers. You’re holding a pair of threes, sluggo. Fold.
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@DanRather A reported $400 million owed in state and local taxes, for starters. Not subject to any statute of limitations. And a new Manhattan D.A. already to get down to business on the criminal side.
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@NikoEsquire @davidgura Rest assured, the governor is a no-nonsense sort who will veto it if such a bill even gets through the legislature.
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@marla_vous @RogueCitizenOne Can witches everywhere please file a class-action defamation suit against Trump already??!?
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#FloriDuh This poor dumb bastard will be first in line for federal disaster aid.
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Hurricane... No Problem... #FJB
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@SamRamani2 @RealBenisons Why does America throw so much money at Israel again?
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@BronxZooNYY Bob Watson never got the respect he deserved. The O’Neill trade was one for the ages.
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@SenJohnson On July 2nd, Tennessee Republicans celebrated transforming the Volunteer State into one of the most blatantly racist in the country.
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@CapitoforWV @WVGOP Shelly, how many abortions do you wager Trump's paid for in the last 40 years?
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@KravetzSandy @mrtgr @lachlan Please, let’s get a felony collar on O’Keefe.
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@jphicks @SteveWh48941132 James Byrd was lynched in Jasper, Texas, just over a quarter-century ago. It never really ends, does it? But yes, the guy who rode down the escalator at his Manhattan address eight years ago has given license to people who'd have been sympathetic to what Byrd's tormentors did.
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@TimRyan You really aren't much of a Democrat these days, are you?
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@marceelias Who'd have thought mild-mannered #MikeDeWine , the Barney Fife of the U.S. Senate, would turn out to be a bigger anti-democracy zealot than, say, fellow Ohioan Ken Blackwell?
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@JulesMoffit @oliverdarcy She’s auditioning for a steady Fox gig.
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@NormOrnstein The root cause of most if not all of America's problem politics in the last decade. Money = speech. What a sad day that was. A stain that Roberts will never be able to erase.
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@RoGebbyNoFaux @JuliaDavisNews The Foundation had nothing to do with financing the campaign. Even Marge knows this. If it did, it would’ve been illegality writ large.
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Radiology treatments are OVER! Ring that damn bell!!
Tweet media one
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@clearing_fog Worked pretty well, dontcha think? I remember very well how he dismembered the New York Post and then staffed it up with Aussie and Fleet Street cronies. Even got a letter from some flunky editor after I wrote to complain. Got accused of xenophobia. #RupertMurdoch
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@RadioFreeTom @NormOrnstein @AnaCabrera No, police unions are gonna police-union. Ginormous difference.
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@robtfrank @jack @elonmusk I think we’ll look back on the ‘Jack years’ with fondness after the terrible folly of selling out to Musk fully sinks in.
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@krassenstein @collie_plus_8 When will it occur that all broadcast licenses held by Murdoch's empire should be up for FCC review?
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@Crazy_Mama_G @namwella1961 @RepJamesComer doesn't have a law degree, and it shows.
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@shieldrepublic What a fuckingly disgusting shirt. Reagan was a resolute conservative who knew compromise was how you governed. He enacted the last immigration-reform law. Trump is an unvarnished fascist who’d end American democracy. There’s absolutely no comparison between the two.
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@earlymodjustice Just once, I’d like a Dreeben or Solicitor General to actually confront Alito or Thomas to state for the record why they aren’t recusing in light of all the recent reports about their unethical activities.
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@NickAdamsinUSA @tonyposnanski Nothing was *proven* in that absurd trial where the judge barely pretended to be even-handed. An acquittal means only the prosecution didn’t make its case beyond a reasonable doubt. It doesn’t vindicate the accused of anything.
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@rhonda_harbison @JonathanTurley Does the good perfesser understand that HRC sat for an FBI interview in the fall of 2016, when Garland was still on the D.C. bench because McConnell wouldn’t consider his SC nom? When has Trump had a sitdown for any such criminal proceeding? #JonathanTurley
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@bluestein Let’s remember character assassin Ann Coulter’s kneecapping of Max. And the time, alone in his wheelchair, when he tried to petition Dubya for redress outside the ranch in Waco. He was stopped unceremoniously by the Secret Service. Remember, @NicolleDWallace and @SteveSchmidtSES ?
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@mementomori_EN Block all advertisers. Send Musk a message.
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@TammieMcDonal17 @TheStevenCheung As someone whose parents are interred in the Arlington columbarium, I’m entitled to tell you to shove it all the way up your ass. You may be numb to Trump’s scandals, but it’s always revolting to see and hear of how he obscenely flaunts the rules that others must abide by.
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@BillWylie3rd @MollyJongFast Buying school supplies out of your own pocket and grading papers in your bedclothes at 3 a.m. shouldn’t be part of any teacher’s routine.
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@ThatEricAlper Harvest Moon, Neil Young
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@realtonysm1th @BenjySarlin Then you blame wrong.
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@BillWylie3rd @Mike_Pence And, Trump's Ukraine policy arguably started the wheels in motion for Putin to decide to wage war.
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@BidenHQ I'm guessing @RepRalphNorman and his wife aren't intimate these days ... Norman's also the guy who advocated that Trump declare martial law back in January 2021. Yeah, that Ralph Norman. #ReproductiveRights
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@JpLawrence3 @chrisalbon Yes: Google and Facebook. The commoditization of news.
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@RadioFreeTom Springsteen and Zevon references, and ‘I Know It’s Only Rock n Roll’ as the exit music. They could do worse.
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@joshcowenMSU @ArkansasEd @ArkTimes Average Arkansans are getting ripped off ... what will it take to touch off a genuine revolt against one-party corruption in Little Rock?
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@VegasSteve6 @ohioleprechaun @AVindman @JoeBiden A bargain. People who deprecate the importance of Ukraine’s fight for freedom and sovereignty may or may not realize they’re doing the Kremlin’s dirty work. Worst thing that could happen now would be to walk away from or hamstring Zelensky and his hearty band of freedom-fighters.
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@KarenPatota Compelling women to carry babies to term is the height of tyranny. #abortionrights
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@MollyJongFast And don’t forget: be sure to measure these key moments when policy decisions got made against Republicans buying and selling stock on insider info, akin to Senator Burr.
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@JoeyMannarinoUS @DNCWarRoom Use your left hand tonight, Joey.
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@sgt_pennie Please don’t extrapolate from your experience and try to hang it on today’s women. We’re talking about a right rescinded that they were free to exercise for nearly half a century. That’s not a step forward in the arc of the moral universe. It’s an unmistakable step backward.
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@JohnFugelsang Trump’s exhausted, huffing and puffing through his various grievances. So is MAGA, as evidenced by his lifeless rallies. And so are we. We, who get the final say in November. #Election2024
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@EricMMatheny The former was solved by the feds ordering the installation of scrubbers on power plants' smokestacks in the Midwest. A triumph for federal intervention. As for the latter, Poppy Bush was a key player in getting global sanctions imposed on the production of chlorofluorocarbons.
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@NormOrnstein @Dahlialithwick @mjs_DC Get a Solicitor General out there to ask Alito and Thomas directly to explain why neither would recuse and why doing so doesn't reflect poorly on the Court. Maybe not the greatest idea from a career standpoint, but you'd be remembered for a singularly striking moment of justice.
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@lawofruby Lisa, what would stop Smith, if stonewalled on both his cases, from issuing superseding indictments naming names and laying out the full scope of the conspiracies before Election Day? His way of flashing the single digit at Trump, Cannon and the Supreme Court. Could he do that?
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@tribelaw @JesusNarrowWay Alito’s disdain and condescension are a wonder to behold. Mark me down for #SupremeCourt term limits.
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@HC_Richardson Kudlow was a terrible economist at Bear Stearns, in part because of a drug dependency. (I worked there at about that time.) Happy that he's turned his personal life around, but it's sad to see he seems more than willing to talk economic malarkey if that's what the Fox suits want.
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@VoteRandyFine Randy’s amused, everyone. Not mortified or introspective. He’s amused.
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@Bernade88359301 @MacFarlaneNews Running from accountability … is this how it’s done, @Degrasse81 ? #NY21
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@WarOnDumb @JoeTrippi @JohnArchibald Don't think for a second that Republicans in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi are remotely deterred by the pushback on IVF. Theirs is a crusade. The Dobbs ruling cleared a state-by-state patchwork of laws applicable to abortion. Expect more of the same.
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@RonFilipkowski @JesusNarrowWay What a miserable human being Trump is. No wonder so many in the cult identify with him. #TrumpTrial
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@Strandjunker @thomaskaine5 Nineteen years of carnage ... all placed at the feet of George Dubya Bush. Of all his terrible decisions, letting the assault-weapons ban sunset should never be over looked. The exclamation point on a truly awful presidency.
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@MacFarlaneNews Did you call after him, ‘Your constituents might appreciate the courtesy of an answer, congressman!’
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@ChuckCjmmn @laurenboebert Pelosi will go down in history books. Bobo will just go down.
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@mercedesschlapp From someone who pretends she doesn't remember backstabbing the Kurds.
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@JoyceWhiteVance And yet, Roberts said they'd continue to ride herd on racial gerrymanders. Turns out he's as big a liar as the other five.
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@RadioFreeTom This is the correct analysis. Let's get back to the days of Clinton and Gingrich cutting budget deals to the betterment of all Americans, or to the days when compromise wasn't a dirty word and two guys named O'Neill and Reagan managed to sort out the last real immigration reform.
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@BudKennedy What in the everlovin' fuck, #Texas ??
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@ResusCGMedia A day that will live in American infamy: September 13th, 2004. The day Dubya let the assault-weapons ban sunset. It was far from perfect, but we now live with the tragic aftermath of 13 years of unfettered commerce in lethal firearms. Put the blame where due. #KyleRittenhouse
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@TachiTaylor @cbouzy Tachi nails it. The scale of the gerrymanders in Ohio and Florida was beyond outrageous.
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@AdamCBird Twenty-plus years in the making, the institutional corruption that Ohio Republicans now routinely embrace in Columbus and elsewhere. As shameless a bunch as you'll ever see. #RepublicansCannotGovern
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@MollyJongFast Yeah, but it’s better when a country that values itself as the leading light for democracy in the world tries to right its wrongs, however many there are. In the space of seven years, three generations of this tradition have been flushed down Trump’s golden toilet.
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@waltshaub This is so beneath you.
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@evacide We didn't allow installation of Huawei wireless infrastructure in 5G networks. For the same reason as with TikTok: safeguarding national security.
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@MannsterRick @BMeiselas Why not let states decide to roll back to the days when negroes weren't permitted to stay in the same accommodations as whites while we're at it. A further patchwork of laws enabling states to discriminate b/c discrimination isn't specifically mentioned in the Constitution ...
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@PaulaChertok @joshtpm Curiously, they really thought this was enough of a scandal to affect the 2020 outcome. Speaks to how highly flawed they knew the Republican incumbent was, even as he was busy marshaling his forces to lay the groundwork for the tragedy that would eventually result on 1/6/2021.
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@Lvstarlet64 @samanthamarika1 No, ridiculous. And hurtful. And unfair. And illogical. #ReproductiveRights shouldn't be treated as just another partisan political issue.
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@WeHearPodcast Widen the gender-gap margin up to 28% or 29% at the least. Dems typically must overperform in terms of raw votes by a solid margin in order to more than compensate for the built-in edge R's have in the Electoral College. Hear women roar in November. #WomenVote #ReproductiveRights
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@AnnaBower @RealBenisons So is putting a rookie federal judge in charge of a high-profile case that might involve espionage.
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@Ohio_buckeye_us @bennyjohnson Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. It’s why Republicans know they have to cheat to stand any chance. You’re welcome.
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@Jezebel So should people who claim citizenship in more than one country. Musk claims three: South Africa, Canada and the United States. #ElanMush
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So #ApartheidClyde thinks #RonDeFascist is ‘sensible and centrist.’ The more Musk reveals of himself, the more we learn just how much his formative years in South Africa helped shape him.
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@piper4missouri @SteveWh48941132 If there were ever a group that needed the security that goes with collective bargaining, it's schoolteachers ... whether in urban, rural or suburban schools.
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@jeremynewberger @thehill We're living through what happens when Congress and Republican presidents consciously neglect making needed investments in public works ... for three freakin' decades. The legacy of Small Gubmint.
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@ktbenner Gee, wonder why Chris Wray couldn’t have broken the word sooner …
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@chitribopinions Roles reversed (no reason they should be, but just for purposes of this argument) … would Trump pardon Biden? Of course not. Trump deserves no quarter for what he put our country through. A pardon would make a final mockery of our justice system and the Constitution.
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@get_headway When you have to *become* a ‘real man,’ your problems run deeper than becoming anything …
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@TNLandandLakes The most backward state in the nation? Hardest pass.
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@TheRealHoarse Gonna go compare notes with Herschel Walker.
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@atrupar Heisman vs Nobel? Hmm ...
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@RepStefanik #NancyPelosi will be remembered in history books. Stefanik’s name won’t be remembered by anyone.
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@cd_hooks Texas, the No Accountability State.
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@cathymcmorris You left no footprints on the Hill, sweetheart. Good riddance to your blissful irrelevance. And another step closer to #SpeakerHakeemJeffries .
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@CNBC @CNBCMakeIt Most *real* Christians don't believe in the 'prosperity gospel.' Jesus surely wouldn't have.
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@MakeTexasBlue22 Hogan was the beneficiary of Maryland Democrats nominating two subpar candidates for governor. To me, his legacy boils down to two mass-transit projects: killing the Red Line in Baltimore, since revived by Wes Moore; and committing to the Purple Line boondoggle in the D.C. burbs.
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@SergioMarBel Nobody circles the wagons like the corrupt Republicans who rule the roost in Austin. Any further proof needed that #RepublicansCannotGovern ? #KenPaxton
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@jilevin @upstate_dog Captain Underpants? Now they've gone too damn far. (The Naked Cowboy was unavailable for comment.)
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@Pastor_ChrisH @alisonvguthrie It's called free will. People use it to make choices in their lives. Sadder to see folks like you try to displace other peoples' sense of morality with your own.
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@joshtpm Fire Chris Wray. An embarrassment to the FBI. He should’ve blown the whistle the minute Barr came around suggesting ‘adult supervision.’
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@RepBarryMoore The FBI isn’t tasked with spying. But they did conduct an investigation into whether Russians interfered in the 2016 election. A number of indictments in absentia were returned. You can read all about it in the first volume of the Mueller Report. Glad to clear up your confusion.
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@BasedSavannah @JakeSherman What an odd reaction. Would you prefer reinstatement of a military draft? Because that would be on the table as a preparatory measure for America closing ranks with its NATO allies if Ukraine falls. Don't bet against it. #SlavaUkraine
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Anybody else out there thinking the quality of #Jeopardy contestants has been slipping of late? @KenJennings , come fix this!
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