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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

Guernica: With Jazz on the Turntable and a Drink in His Hand via @GuernicaMag

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

I was wrong about Biden. Not about his capacity but about his discipline. He spent a year and a half patiently working to deliver. Now, at almost Labor Day of the midterms, he’s uncorking the good stuff. He picked up a few things during that hundred years in politics.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Biden campaigning in Maryland on stakes of the 2022 midterms: "The survival of our planet is on the ballot."

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Francis Wilkinson

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Each day of Trump’s presidency has been grotesque. But seeing his corruption result in torture and death makes today especially grim. And unforgivable.

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Francis Wilkinson

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4 years

Spoiled by the excellence of Jared and Ivanka, Rick Perry and Ben Carson, Grenell, Ratcliffe and Whitaker, Republicans are concerned that a Biden appointee doesn’t meet their exacting quality standards.

Republicans raise red flags over Becerra's nomination to lead Biden health department

Some Senate Republicans have signaled concern with Becerra's nomination, but it is unclear if it is enough to block his appointment.

www.latimes.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

Obama’s Spock quality is useful in discussing Trump. When he informs you Trump is a repulsive garbage barge of filth he’s just delivering a cold, clinical analysis.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

It looks like fake farmer Devin Nunes bought a "farm" in his district so he can claim he's a real farmer. Based on its 15K declared value, the Sacramento Bee estimates the Nunes farm is about "100 square feet."

After ‘fake farmer’ claim, Devin Nunes reports he owns small farm that earns no income

For the first time in more than a decade, Rep. Devin Nunes is reporting that he owns a stake in a farm.

www.sacbee.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

Today’s the 4th anniversary of Trump’s promise to release comprehensive info on Melania Trump’s unusual immigration “over the next couple of weeks.” I’m beginning to think he was lying.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

If there were a social breakdown in South Carolina, the state’s senior Senator would hunker down in his home with a rifle, poised to shoot anyone who mistakenly believes the senator might provide leadership, guidance or assistance.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

3 years

"I own an AR-15. If there's a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops can't protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to, because I can defend myself." -- Lindsey Graham

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

“The reason Sussmann was afraid Trump posed a security threat to the United States is that Trump posed a security threat to the United States.”

John Durham Accidentally Debunked Trump’s Russiagate Theory

Trump’s prosecutor face-plants.

nymag.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

This is an absurd lie. They just spent 10 hours ritually grilling an FBI agent because they don't like him.

Alexandra Jaffe

@ajjaffe

6 years

Seems to be broad agreement there's not much GOP can do to reign in Trump. Collins: "We can't tell the president what to say. All we can do is make very clear that we disagree w/the approach the president has taken" Grassley: "I think only the president can reign himself in"

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

I doubt my wife was the only American woman who spent the morning finding Democratic women in toss-up districts and donating.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

The President is a sick, delusional, incompetent, vicious, authoritarian thug who enjoys the full support of his party. via @bopinion

American Politics Is Now Democrats Versus Authoritarians

When one party respects the rule of law but the other doesn’t, political discourse can’t be normal.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

Barr lied about the Mueller report to rescue career criminal Donald Trump. He lied about Antifa and BLM to deflect attention from violent right-wing extremists. He lied about vote-by-mail to establish a pretext for challenging a fair election. Barr is a liar and a thug.

Charlie Savage

@charlie_savage

3 years

In his new book, Bill Barr talks about thwarting Trump’s attempt to make Kash Patel the deputy FBI director, an idea he says showed “a shocking detachment from reality.”

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

The comic level of Wayne LaPierre’s grifting, ripping off NRA members who somehow never realized they were the marks, is positively Trumpian.

The Daily Beast

@thedailybeast

5 years

EXCLUSIVE: NRA spent tens of thousands on hair and makeup for CEO’s wife

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

Of all the garbage they are throwing this seems the biggest tell. No crooked cop plants evidence that is not incriminating. So their resort to “planted evidence” by definition concedes their belief that what was found was *incriminating evidence*.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

a Trump lawyer (Alina Habba) floats the idea that the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago. That's the second time today a Trump lawyer has floated this.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

I worked for a couple of bad men when I was very young but I’ve never met anyone in my professional, social or geographical life who is as disgusting as Trump. Never. Across a lifetime I’ve never known the equal of this skeevy sewer rat.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

How long has Ron Johnson been a Russian agent?

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

7 years

When you need more enemies than blacks, Jews, Muslims, Hispanics, women, immigrants and people who believe in liberal democracy.

CBS News

@CBSNews

7 years

On Sunday's @60Minutes , Steve Bannon says Catholic Church has "economic interest" in "unlimited illegal immigration"

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

Kavanaugh’s bottom line is that he desperately wants his name cleared provided it doesn’t entail the collection of evidence by trained professionals.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

From May: The reason Trump can commit crimes with impunity is that the GOP is an authoritarian party. Right now. via @bopinion

American Politics Is Now Democrats Versus Authoritarians

When one party respects the rule of law but the other doesn’t, political discourse can’t be normal.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

I don't know if Amy Coney Barrett will overturn Roe or kill the ACA. I do know she accepted a tainted nomination from a crooked president who expects her to help him steal an election and scuttle rule of law. Seems significant. via @bopinion

Amy Coney Barrett and the Republican Abortion Scam

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is a threat — but maybe not to abortion rights.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

I asked Quinnipiac about that intriguing poll data on Hispanics, in which 44% said Trump is not racist. Here's scoop: They surveyed 95 registered Hispanic voters. 7 of the surveys were in Spanish.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

WSJ reporting Wayne LaPierre under IRS investigation "for possible criminal tax fraud related to his personal taxes"

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

I think this is the best Biden I’ve seen this year.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

There is no great political gain for Romney on the other side of this. No power. There is only dignity for more humans and, I hope, more respect for Romney for doing what not a single one of his GOP colleagues has the basic decency to do.

Mitt Romney

@MittRomney

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Black Lives Matter.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

It’s like watching a debate about how best to drive a car with no brakes. And the only idea that’s off limits is fixing the brakes.

Scott Charles, MAPP, FCPP

@TheScottCharles

2 years

America is a dystopian hellscape.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

7 years

The IRS scandal loyally served the GOP for years. It died quietly this month, forsaken and alone via @bv

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

This is a clip of @JohnJHarwood saying what every competent political journalist in the US knows. But other journalists choose, over and over again, not to say it. The incentives to evade the truth are clearly very powerful. Institutional crisis.

CNN

@CNN

2 years

"Donald Trump is mentally unwell in a way that makes him interested exclusively in what benefits him." CNN White House correspondent @JohnJHarwood reacts to a new interview where Donald Trump asks Putin for intel on the Bidens. Watch the moment here:

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

The president admitted to being a thief in official court documents released yesterday and you have to scroll down the Times website to find it because presidential crime stories are too routine to be big news.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

The pathological make-believe of gun culture is incompatible with public safety. So you get situations.

A Heavily Armed Man Caused Panic at a Supermarket. But Did He Break the Law? (Published 2023)

In states with permissive gun laws, police and prosecutors have limited tools at their disposal when a heavily armed individual sows fear or panic in public.

www.nytimes.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

This, from Adam Winkler, on the guns everywhere for everyone ruling, is so damning.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

1 year

The corruption here is so casual, so premeditated, so routine, so defiant, this might require John Roberts to adopt a whole new manner of pretending he doesn’t see it.

ProPublica

@propublica

1 year

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show. The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

McCarthy should not be able to appear in public without being asked if he still believes Trump is paid by Putin.

CBS News

@CBSNews

5 years

Rep. Kevin McCarthy says Mick Mulvaney was clear in cleaning up his statement about a quid pro quo

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

When this is over, Dems will have a pretty straightforward message: GOP rigged the trial so Trump can rig the election.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

When Trump was elected we were told honest men like Ben Sasse, Rob Portman and Lamar Alexander would protect the republic. They proved to be greasy little cowards. The people who stood up and resisted? The political hacks.

The Never Trump Movement’s Surprising Core

How did political consultants become the conscience of the Republican Party?

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

What this story calls a “legal strategy” is in fact a criminal strategy.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

Chances Trump won’t have his greasy paw in the till: Zero.

John Harwood

@JohnJHarwood

4 years

Trump declines to pledge that his family business won’t take any of the hundreds of billions in relief for companies in coronavirus bill now before Congress “let’s see what happens,” Trump says

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

Today was the third hearing that was uncluttered by MAGA bs and concerted gaslighting. Washington institutions can function if MAGA liars are restricted. Imagine if Pelosi had allowed McCarthy’s thugs on the panel.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

For all those wondering exactly how much of this treason @senatemajldr is willing to aid and abet, the answer appears to be “all of it.”

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

Moral depravity is the GOP brand now.

Steve Scalise

@SteveScalise

5 years

Dems claim their scheme to impeach @realDonaldTrump is fair. Here's the reality: - All done in secret - Led by proven-liar Adam Schiff - No authorization from the House - Full of misleading leaks from Dems - Members of Congress denied access This process is rotten to the core.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

To indict, convict and jail Trump is only way to end his crime spree. It was bad enuf when he was just a corrupt heir. Now his criminality undermines US democracy, security & capacity. His addled followers commit violence, accomplices commit new crimes. The crime wave must end.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

They gave him big, brightly colored kindergarten charts to pretend the deaths away. His aides know he is a corrupt buffoon who is killing people. But they like working at the White House. And he’s afraid of prison. So many thousands more must die.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

Firearms in bars is one of the truly great policy accomplishments of masculine insecurity.

Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

3 years

Multiple 911 callers “frantically begged for help,” reporting shots fired in a St. Paul bar. A woman in her 20s was pronounced dead; 14 others were taken to the hospital. There is no Minnesota statute making it illegal to concealed carry in a bar. #mnleg

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

Deripaska had gophers in top ranks of the Trump campaign and the FBI. The NRA and Christian nationalists were infiltrated by a Russian agent who was a GOP consultant’s gf. The most MAGA GOP and FOX voices are openly pro-Russian. Everything’s fine.

Former senior FBI official accused of working for Russian he investigated

Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief, is charged with money laundering and other counts connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

“The case for ending the filibuster is now overwhelming. There are not 10 Republican Senate votes to be had on anything that really matters.”

Opinion | The beginning of the end of Trumpism

Republicans have a lot of work in front of them. But comments that the ex-president must still confront the criminal justice system are a sign of how far he has fallen.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

The willingness to enable, and sustain, mass random death, via gun violence or Covid denial and related anti-science pathologies, is the defining feature of one of our political parties.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

We have returned to the politics of the Fugitive Slave Act. And the free and slave states are the same, too.

Katie Lannan

@katielannan

2 years

Under an executive order Gov. Baker signed today, Mass. "will not cooperate with extradition requests from other states pursuing criminal charges against individuals who received, assisted with, or performed reproductive health services that are legal in [MA]," per his office.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

Dems should use market power and public shaming to raise the cost of supporting GOP authoritarianism. It worked with Jones Day. It's a tool that can be expanded. via @bopinion

Democrats Have Corporate Power. They Should Use It.

Business leaders and consumers need to work together to stop the Republican Party's slide toward authoritarianism.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

1 year

If the partisan data were reversed, every Republican would mention it in every media appearance every day. One of the great mysteries of American politics is why Simon is always out here singing this solo.

Simon Rosenberg

@SimonWDC

1 year

One party - the Democrats - has repeatedly brought growth, lower deficit, American progress. The other - Republicans - has repeatedly been an economic wrecking ball. Here’s the data:

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

Is anyone else curious about the content of Trump’s private discussions with Amy Coney Barrett at a time when he was publicly citing the Supreme Court as the mechanism by which he would remain in power?

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

Rupert Murdoch kills again.

Don Moynihan

@donmoyn

2 years

The gunman who killed at least 10 people in Buffalo is a self-described white supremacist who advocates for the Great Replacement Theory. He left a manifesto. See if you can tell the difference between it and standard fare on the Tucker Carlson show.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

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“Joe, you ran a red light in the Chevy that night in ‘47 when we double dated with Gladys Ferlminter and Eve Linklater”

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

Still waiting to find out who’s going to jail for systematic kidnapping and abuse of small children.

Jacob Soboroff

@jacobsoboroff

6 years

BREAKING: The Trump administration just released the latest number of still-separated migrant kids. Of 2,654 separated kids, 211 are *still* in U.S. custody without their parents. 6 of them are under 5 years old. Parents of 165 of those kids are already deported. 1/2

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

MAGA who sought to invalidate 2020 election and overthrow democratically elected government of the United States is new chair of *Homeland Security*

Olivia Beavers

@Olivia_Beavers

2 years

NEWS: Rep. Mark GREEN (R-Tenn.) wins the Homeland Security gavel, I'm told. He beat out Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

As I did in 2016, I want to express sincere thanks to all the conservatives and GOP stalwarts who turned away from Trumpism. It cost people like me nothing to acknowledge Trump’s unfitness and thuggery. But it did cost others. Thank you.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

When abundant evidence suggests you have dismembered a man, we suspend your twitter account.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

Sometimes you see things that aren’t there. But I’m having trouble unseeing a straight line from overturning Roe in the dead of night to overthrowing the 2024 election.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

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“To pretend that separated children do not grow up with the shrapnel of this traumatic experience embedded in their minds is to disregard everything we know about child development, the brain, and trauma,”

What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’

Trump’s border policy could cause long-term damage to children’s brains, experts warn

www.washingtonpost.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

7 years

"Manafort controlled hiring for the Trump campaign, along with its media campaign and budget." via @alhuntdc

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

This is the 2018 election in one sentence.

Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

6 years

Millennials need to start voting before the gerontocracy kills us all.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

What crimes will Trump commit today?

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

This story drives most others.

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

4 years

The central story of American politics right now is that one of the two parties is *radicalizing against democracy* in front of our eyes. There are tons of other stories as well, but they all come after that, I think.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

We have to stop pretending we don’t see what’s right in front of our eyes

John Harwood

@JohnJHarwood

5 years

across Mueller report, Ukraine and Syria, a common thread: Russia helps Trump, and Trump helps Russia my ⁦ @CNBC ⁩ column

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

As @davidcorndc points out, nothing about Barr's 4-page summary changes known facts about Trump's pervasive and extended corruption spree. via @MotherJones

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

That we are 3 years into this astonishingly corrupt presidency and we still don't know the precise terms of Trump's service agreement with Putin remains the most alarming aspect of this cosmic fiasco.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

Senator Cruz, who has called Donald Trump a "pathological liar," will be joining Trump in El Paso today, performing as a character witness while Trump tells more lies.

Senator Ted Cruz

@SenTedCruz

6 years

Walter Jones was a man of integrity, strong values, and great patriotism. My prayers are with his family and the people of NC’s 3rd District, for whom he worked for a quarter of a century. -->

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

“The most salient fact about Barrett is her willingness to accept a tainted, last-minute nomination to the court from a president waging war on the rule of law and the constitutional democracy that she, perversely, must swear to uphold.”

Amy Coney Barrett and the Republican Abortion Scam

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is a threat — but maybe not to abortion rights.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

And remember when Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy joked about Trump being on Putin's payroll and then Ryan said to never mention it outside the room because it wasn't really a joke?

Adam Jentleson

@AJentleson

6 years

Never forget what Mitch McConnell did

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

It’s ok to publicly fantasize about murdering a colleague (who already receives death threats from GOP fans). Just don’t vote to build a bridge.

Jonathan Allen

@jonallendc

3 years

👀 . @PunchbowlNews reports House GOP discussing whether to strip committee assignments from the baker’s dozen who voted for bipartisan infrastructure bill. If so, House GOP would send a message that members’ votes belong to the caucus not constituents.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

Rupert Murdoch could stop killing people and poisoning democracy. But he doesn’t want to stop.

Murdoch Has the Power If He Wants Trump to Move On

The media mogul can order his properties to stop enabling the former president’s falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

@NormOrnstein The inability of many to acknowledge Ornstein/Mann analysis in 2012 was precursor to massive media failure to acknowledge or communicate the GOP’s lurch into authoritarianism.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

1 year

The speed with which red states are barreling toward authoritarianism with christofascist highlights is dizzying.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

The daily crisis that is Trump’s presidency often obscures the extended crisis that is the Republican Party.

Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

The Election Fraud Is Coming From Inside the GOP

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

Credit where due: Putin recognized GOP and its key parts (professional Christians, gun fanatics) were so desperate and corrupt they would sell out to him. Now he has a US AG flying around world trying to exonerate Russia of its attack on US.

csdickey

@csdickey

5 years

Maria Butina Receives Hero’s Welcome in Moscow via @thedailybeast @JuliaDavisNews

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

7 years

More than a month passed since report that NRA was under investigation for laundering Russian money into 2016 campaign. No NRA denial yet.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

8 years

Your president-elect is blindly warmongering with China and you have strong opinions about a pipeline easement.

Paul Ryan

@SpeakerRyan

8 years

This is big-government decision-making at its worst. I look forward to putting this anti-energy presidency behind us.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

@marybschneider @anneapplebaum As a derelict party compromised by a pro-Russian faction assumes power in the House, it seems worthy of attention.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

Senate majority leader celebrates plowing thru with popular white nationalist television host

Leader McConnell

@LeaderMcConnell

6 years

It was a pleasure to talk about the nomination of the outstanding jurist, Judge Kavanaugh, tonight with @IngrahamAngle . #ConfirmKavanaugh

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

Trump’s first coup attempt was entirely serious. It’s not surprising to learn he is serious again. Either democracy is going to prosecute Trump, or he is going to take another stab at killing democracy.

Jane Coaston 🏔️

@janecoaston

3 years

I said this was a fundraising bit, and I was apparently wrong.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

I've been searching for the right modifier for "incompetence" to succinctly, accurately describe Trump's peculiar brand. I think @michelleinbklyn found it. "Savage."

Opinion | Obamagate Is a Fake Scandal. Rick Bright Described a Real One. (Published 2020)

“The darkest winter in modern history” may soon be upon us, while Trumpists are obsessed with a new conspiracy theory.

www.nytimes.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

The government put Charles Manson in jail for life. They never put Mr Rogers in jail for even 5 minutes.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn

@MarshaBlackburn

4 years

Twitter has not censored Joe Biden once. It has censored @realDonaldTrump more than 65 times.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

Texas economy continues to expand and provide opportunity. You can now make a living there as a fascist snitch.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

3 years

One NRA rhetorical tic is to condemn Potus or others (Bloomberg) for having armed body guards while supposedly demanding that the little guy fend for himself. That Wayne LaPierre needs a yacht — rather than a gun — to feel safe is truly one of the great testimonials of the age.

Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

3 years

LaPierre testified the yacht was “the one place I could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, Thank God I’m safe, nobody can get me here. That’s how it happened. That’s why I used it.” The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good friend with a yacht?

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The "White House’s unprecedented lying and Trump’s nonstop assaults on the press are, at bottom, an effort to get the news media to be more tentative in calling out those lies and in holding Trump accountable than they otherwise might be." @theplumlinegs

Opinion | The news media just handed Trump a big win

MIchelle Wolf got it right, and the media got it wrong.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

Republicans are about 18 months away from demanding only propertied white males should vote

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

Moving on to the F Team here

David M. Drucker

@DavidMDrucker

5 years

NEW: Kris Kobach said Tuesday he is eager to become @realDonaldTrump 's Homeland Security secretary & confirmed he's been in communication w/ White House. @dcexaminer

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@fdwilkinson

5 years

Jim Jordan on the verge of defending Russian agents charged with crimes

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@fdwilkinson

3 years

The essence: “If they can’t own the country, they’re ready to defile it.”

Opinion | The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It (Published 2021)

White evangelicals can't tolerate becoming just another subculture.

www.nytimes.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

Their acquittal of Trump will mark GOP senators as made men, complicit in crimes past, present and future. They will cross a line from which there’s no return. The Gangster King will finally have the Gangster Party he’s long demanded.

After Trump’s Acquittal, It Will Only Get Worse for Republicans

Accepting the president’s corruption is one thing. Enabling the erosion of democracy is another.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

7 years

Is there any rough angle on hypocrisy that Repubs haven't worn smooth?

Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1

7 years

WaPo: The Nunes-led Intel Cmte asked spy agencies to 'unmask' Americans last year—a practice now condemned by Repubs

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

4 years

They intend to steal the election.

CNN Politics

@CNNPolitics

4 years

JUST IN: Office of the Director of National Intelligence informs the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence that it'll no longer brief them on election security issues

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms of @MomsDemand , who have been a powerful force for good across the nation.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

5 years

A testament to what one righteously outraged citizen can accomplish. 2020 is days away. Don’t sit it out.

Shannon Watts

@shannonrwatts

5 years

Seven years ago today, I stood at my kitchen counter in Indiana and created a Facebook page that became @MomsDemand . I never imagined we'd become one of the largest grassroots movements with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and, as part of @Everytown , 6 million supporters.

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@fdwilkinson

4 years

Republicans who drove this coup 99 yards downfield are shocked that their followers want to take it into the end zone.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

We’ve known since before he was sworn in that Trump is disastrously unfit. The central question is the same today as it was then: What will Republicans do about it?

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

Fox is essentially a white nationalist megachurch. It can’t traffic in fact without betraying faith. via @opinion

Fox News Is Trapped by Its Own Zealotry

Fear of losing viewers to more fervent purveyors of the Trump gospel ultimately ensnared the network in a $1.6 billion defamation suit.

www.bloomberg.com

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

2 years

I can’t imagine any American could be more effective in this vital role than Liz Cheney.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

8 years

somehow this night is both more boring and more horrifying than I expected.

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@fdwilkinson

1 year

The same level of attention to historical detail he provided in Bruen.

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

6 years

Welcome to the party you've been building, Senator.

Alex Isenstadt

@politicoalex

6 years

NEWS: Blankenship intensifies racial attack vs. McConnell - goes after GOP leader's "China family" in new TV ad

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Francis Wilkinson

@fdwilkinson

1 year

In which “no clear messaging” is a euphemism for “voters disapproved of the initiative and we never found a successful way to lie about it.”

Mary Frances McGowan

@maryfrancesmcg

1 year

"There was no organization, no money, no cohesive, clear messaging,” said Ohio GOP operative Bob Kish. "It was a mess. It was like the Titanic.” New from me on Issue 1's defeat & what it could mean for the future of the Buckeye State. (unlocked!)

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