Chris Lehmann @lehmannchris Twitter profile

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Chris Lehmann

@lehmannchris

5 years

This administration has managed the impossible: it has made John Bolton look prudent

Peter Baker

@peterbakernyt

5 years

Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to testimony to House investigators. @npfandos

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The pivot from “what will be your role in an authoritarian coup?” to “how can you bring the nation together for the sake of the eighth-graders” was quite something.

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7 months

Here, WaPo, I fixed it for you

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3 years

US Senate profoundly disoriented before the prospect of actually doing something

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5 years

By this logic, no cover-up can ever be proven, since the moment it’s exposed, it stops being a cover-up. No wonder this dude is hailed as the most formidable intellect on the right

Ben Shapiro

@benshapiro

5 years

So far, there’s no evidence of a cover-up (both the transcript and the whistleblower complaint are public), no evidence of quid pro quo (multiple reports state that the Ukrainians didn’t even know military aid was being withheld). So what exactly is the theory of impeachment?

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Chris Lehmann

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7 years

@BrandyLJensen I would like to clarify that the Baffler does not publicize its POY choice until after the check clears.

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6 years

I can't imagine how this high-stakes drama is going to end!

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6 years

Susan Collins tells @tedbarrettcnn she’s still undecided on the Bill Barr nomination for attorney general

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5 years

Can 2020 just SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, PLEASE?

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@Independent

5 years

A radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists announce

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5 years

So, yes: some news, as the kids say.

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5 years

The New Republic has named @lehmannchris its new editor.

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4 years

The exceedingly rare multilevel self-own

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1 month

So I guess democracy’s no longer on the ballot?

nikki mccann ramírez

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Stephanopoulos: If you stay in, and Trump is elected and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January? Biden: I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.

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4 years

Leonard Cohen died right after Trump’s election; now Alex Trebek’s passing has me scared that the gods demand the sacrifice of an outstanding Canadian in exchange for each new American president.

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6 years

Dear op-ed editors: @david_j_roth grasps the Trump age more soundly than a regiment of McArdles, Brookses, and Stephenses and writes circles around all of them. Hang your dopy Ivied heads in shame.

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8 years

The sad thing for Ryan Lochte is that Michael Phelps also assaulted a security guard and faked a robbery in half the time.

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5 years

I dreaded this moment--and somehow it has managed to be so much worse than what I was dreading.

The 1519 Project: How Spanish Explorers Ended A Mass-Murdering Cult

Five hundred years ago, Hernando Cortez and his native allies put an end to a gruesome regime with one of the greatest underdog victories ever recorded.

thefederalist.com

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5 years

From my unsecure location on vacation, I’m delighted to report that the TNR job listing that social media made infamous today NOW INCLUDES BENEFITS, as all permanent PT jobs at the magazine will going forward. cc @AnandWrites

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5 years

There’s a reason that the expression “put an Iowan in charge” never caught on.

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6 years

We’re rapidly approaching peak 2018.

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1 year

Up against the wall, redneck mothers (and your press enablers): my latest for @thenation

Moms for Liberty Is the Tea Party All Over Again

The growing right-wing movement proved its influence at its recent Philadelphia summit. The political press is playing right into its hands.

www.thenation.com

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4 years

Hammering away at your base until you actually kill it.

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6 years

The sheer stupidity of our oligarchy is often a wonder to behold.

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@funder

6 years

BREAKING: Republican lobbyist just told me White House staffers are “in shock,” saying they weren’t aware Mueller or the FBI could indict witnesses who lied to Congress. A lot of them also never believed Trump had Russian business ties, until Michael Cohen’s plea deal today.

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2 years

Eagerly awaiting Ted Cruz's response tweet announcing that consensual reality is just a fable

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@ddale8

2 years

Read it for yourself. Here's the FBI's summary of what it says was a Mirandized interview with the man who attacked Paul Pelosi.

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4 years

Ok, new DC football name, everyone!

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6 years

Collins tirelessly bruited as an independent-minded moderate, who then becomes a tedious spouter of dumbed-down party propaganda: the entire "Never-Trump" phenomenon in a nutshell.

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2 years

His plan for everything is to crash more cars

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2 years

My remembrance of the fantastic, irreplaceable Barbara Ehrenreich:

Remembering Barbara Ehrenreich | Chris Lehmann

With the death of Barbara Ehrenreich, the embattled traditions of journalism and critical discourse have lost a model practitioner.

thebaffler.com

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Chris Lehmann

@lehmannchris

11 months

Could have just ended the post at “unfortunately.”

Bill Maher

@billmaher

11 months

Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing. It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work. The writers have important issues that I sympathize with, and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people

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2 years

Some personal news:

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@thenation

2 years

Welcome @lehmannchris , our new DC bureau chief.

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4 years

In which "collusion among owners to blackball dissent" is downgraded to "not listening closely enough."

SportsCenter

@SportsCenter

4 years

Roger Goodell said that he "wished we had listened earlier" to what Colin Kaepernick was trying to bring attention to when he began kneeling for the national anthem.

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7 years

@BrandyLJensen I don’t make the rules

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5 years

Welcoming Willie to the pack!

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@lehmannchris

5 years

I grew up in the deindustrialized Rust Belt, and absolutely no one there talks like this, ever. My late mother, who spent an entire lifetime outside of David Brooks’ head, read Hillbilly Elegy and pronounced it gibberish. Please keep the goddamn voices in your head to yourself

David Brooks

@nytdavidbrooks

5 years

“Do you remember those months just after the election when people like you were briefly curious about people like me? You read “Hillbilly Elegy.” It didn’t take you long to lose interest in all that.”

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2 years

@JeffSharlet Licorice Pizza, Power of the Dog, Raging Bull

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5 years

I guess this is why today’s hearings are now scheduled to close out with something called “Big Fosse Production Number.”

NBC News

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5 years

Analysis: The first two witnesses called Wednesday testified to President Trump's scheme, but lacked the pizzazz necessary to capture public attention.

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@hannahgais I'll always cherish the memory of my first Harvard Club meeting of the Directorate to Seize Unilateral Control of the Culture.

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2 years

Today is when all the scams I’ve been covering became the same giant scam.

Scoop: Alleged liar George Santos had backing from FTX execs

Two FTX executives with sparse political donations gave big to Rep. Santos, according to...

www.sfgate.com

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5 years

Which candidate will now take up Adorno’s critique of Kierkegaard’s construction of the aesthetic?

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@lehmannchris

5 years

Democracy dies in Kalorama

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@JuddLegum

5 years

Jared, Ivanka, and Kellyanne Conway all went to a party at Jeff Bezos' house last night

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2 months

Democracy dies in deference: my latest for @thenation

The Upside-Down Ethics of “The Washington Post”

The newspaper sat on the Alito flag news for three and a half years. The story reveals how clinging to a notion of journalistic impartiality can harm basic reporting.

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Chris Lehmann

@lehmannchris

6 years

Reminder that our mainstream media has elevated this moral imbecile as the house intellectual of the conservative movement for a generation now.

The Washington Times

@WashTimes

6 years

Newt Gingrich: Mollie Tibbetts murder could help Republicans in midterms

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7 years

Bill Maher claims he made Milo go away by exposing him as an asshole on his show. But by that logic, why hasn't Maher himself gone away?

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6 years

For those curious about the ideology that appeared to motivate Alek Minassian's terror attack in Toronto, see @AngNagle exhaustive study in @thebafflermag .

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Chris Lehmann

@lehmannchris

5 years

Feel like you've heard all the belligerent invective against the Green New Deal somewhere before? So does Kim Phillips-Fein, and she spells out just where in @newrepublic !

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right

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Chris Lehmann

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8 years

It says so much about today's Democratic Party that income inequality can be dismissed as a "single issue" to applause.

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5 years

Yep, we've traded a generation's worth of middle-class prosperity for a Charles Dickens script treatment.

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How you know you’re back in Wisconsin: you order scrambled eggs and waitperson asks “what kind of cheese?”

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7 years

I'm a high-school dropout, and a vegetarian. If David Brooks took me to lunch, would it trigger his final breakdown?

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8 years

Damn, I love this country.

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8 years

Rare footage of a man's soul leaving his body in real time.

ABC News Politics

@ABCPolitics

8 years

. @SpeakerRyan on Pres. Trump's immigration order: "What is happening is something that we support."

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2 years

Not sure if the Freedom Convoy leaders scheming to block traffic on the Beltway tomorrow understand that this is known in DC as simply "being on the Beltway."

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6 years

Correction of the week.

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3 years

If "thought leader" ever had any coherent meaning, it is now officially dead and buried.

Thought Leader Jack Posobiec Joins Human Events Team as Senior Editor

Human Events is thrilled to announce the hiring of the extremely talented and influential Jack Posobiec as Senior Editor. Most recently, Posobiec served as a correspondent and host for One America...

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Chris Lehmann

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3 months

Big mag on campus: the Atlantic's never-ending trolling tour of student protests (my latest for @thenation )

Save Us All From The Atlantic’s Protest Coverage

The magazine has unleashed its top writers on the Palestine student movement. The results have been as dire as you might imagine.

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@lehmannchris

6 years

Honestly, it'd be more edifying if our corporate news establishment were interviewing housepets on this topic.

John Whitehouse

@existentialfish

6 years

Right-wing panelist on Meet the Press on climate change: "I'm not a scientist ... We need to also recognize we had two of the coldest years, biggest drop in global temperatures that we have had since the 1980s, the biggest in the last 100 years. We don't talk about that."

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8 years

At least our divided nation can agree on the self-evident proposition that former Rep. Joe Walsh is a raving imbecile.

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4 years

We may be on the cusp of a change in administrations, but the painfully inane takes will continue exactly as before.

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7 years

@Beryllium9 @BrandyLJensen TBH, I wish it could.

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6 years

Today in sleeping through 15 years' worth of moral wake-up calls.

Jamie Dupree

@jamiedupree

6 years

NRCC chief Rep Steve Stivers R-OH publicly rebukes Rep Steve King R-IA

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Chris Lehmann

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7 years

Keep talking, pal--you helped elect a socialist and the first-ever trans state delegate.

Donald J. Trump

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7 years

Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

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5 years

A step up from booing.

David Waldman - @KagroX.bsky.social

@KagroX

5 years

Guess who’ll now be the county Supervisor for the district that includes Trump National? It’s @julibriskman !

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6 years

The post-presidency of Jimmy Carter just looks better and better

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6 years

Here's the press release about the Obamas' deal with Netflix. "The Obamas will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features..."

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6 years

Farewell to one of the true heroes of my life. RIP Hank.

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4 years

This has been a glorious foretaste of a world in which Donald Trump is no longer president. Treasure it

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4 years

File under Deleted Fellini Dream Sequences

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4 years

Nuns playing basketball at a monastery in Sevilla, Spain while sheltered in place for the coronavirus. Hoops makes the world go around.

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4 years

In line with the campaign's closing argument, "We're white, and can do whatever we want."

Fifty Shades of Whey

@davenewworld_2

4 years

Obnoxious Trump supporters in New York shut down Mario Cuomo bridge

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5 years

When future historians seek to document the moment when our elite discourse went from brain dead to morally toxic, this column will likely be Exhibit A

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

5 years

Nancy Pelosi knows that giving in to the primal pleasure of an impeachment inquiry could backfire. "The thing is that, he every day practically self-impeaches by obstructing justice and ignoring the subpoenas,” she tells Maureen Dowd. Read on:

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9 years

Clinton campaign now weighing the feasibility of having Benghazi Committee accompany her on all campaign stops going forward.

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3 years

Challenging Jacob Frey, Nancy Pelosi and David Axelrod to a yearlong silence-off, starting now

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2 years

My tour of the Haberman-Trump axis, for @thenation :

Maggie Haberman’s Trump Biography Buys Into the Myth

The book's focus on an individualized rise to power lets the American media, political system, and cult of entrepreneurship off the hook.

www.thenation.com

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6 years

So far I'm vastly preferring Woke Jennifer Rubin to Woke Max Boot.

Jen "We aren't going back " Rubin 🥥🌴

@JRubinBlogger

6 years

Fox is a menace, a purveyor of conspiracy and anti-immig hate. It's where rants against Soros are commonplace and the "nationalist" pres is defended. If you're a conserv pundit what the hell are you doing on their shows? If you're an advertiser why have products assoc with Fox?

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Whatever else the long-term legacy of the Russia probe turns out to be, I’ll always cherish the baroque public humiliation it’s visited on Rudy Giuliani.

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6 years

I've now trademarked the term for this sort of performative pecksniffery. It's called "dumbrage."

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6 years

This isn't about whether Samantha Bee CAN say it. It's about whether she SHOULD say it. And whether we as a society SHOULD condone it.

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Ask anyone I've known my whole life. . . except for Mark Judge

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4 years

You can tell they've lost because they're starting to act like Dems.

Scott Ruesterholz

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4 years

Per Current Vote Count: GA: Trump -4k. Libertarians won 61k PA: Trump -27k. Libertarian 77k WI: Trump -20k. Libertarian 30k AZ: Trump -29k. Libertarian 47k. Absolutely blood boiling. I hope these voters are happy.

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No one explained that I’d have to try to survive a pandemic AND a Hamilton movie

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6 years

That it’s 2018 and we’re still being marched through the petty, ignorant bigotries of Jamie Kirchick and Megan McArdle is a far greater civilizational failure than Bari Weiss could ever imagine.

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2 years

@BenEhrenreich An incalculable loss to us all, but most of all to you. Condolences, and prayers to a wild god

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7 years

TFW a goddamn airline displays more intellectual courage than the American publishing industry

Delta

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@AnnCoulter Additionally, your insults about our other customers and employees are unacceptable and unnecessary.

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4 years

Read @david_j_roth on how the media got sucked into Trump's Eternal Now, at @newrepublic !

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5 years

When Greg and I both worked at the haven of witless privilege known as Adam Moss's New York magazine, we'd be kicked around by the many trust fund babies who worked there. There's no doubt in my mind which side of this class divide Josh Hawley and his ilk are on.

Greg Sargent

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5 years

Today, conservative Senator Josh Hawley attacked me as a "smug rich elitist" who has "contempt for the heartland." Here's my response, with a brief biographical note. I suspect Hawley would not regard my middle class background as a virtuous one:

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7 years

Rhetorical question fail.

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5 years

My mother, who died in March, was a lesbian and late-life Catholic convert. She probably would never have said this herself, but in her memory, I invite you to go fuck yourself.

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Here, WaPo, I fixed it for you.

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7 years

Oh, FUCK no.

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7 years

Can we just dispense with the fucking charade and let him go golf already?

Rebecca Ballhaus

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7 years

White House emails: “Photos of President Donald J. Trump working in the White House during the Democrat shutdown”

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8 years

CNN panel swoons for Melania, I guess because she was the only speaker not calling for an apocalyptic war between civilizations.

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5 years

The human experiment is officially a failure.

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5 years

TFW the interns running your network’s twitter account spent the past two hours sniffing glue.

CNN Politics

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5 years

What's causing John Delaney’s spark tonight? He watched old presidential debates, Republican and Democratic, dating back to 2004, and practiced various scenarios – against his rivals – as soon as the lineups were announced #DemDebate

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“The New Yorker . . . provides the intelligent and cultured college graduate with the most comfortable and least compromising attitude he can assume toward capitalist society without being forced into actual conflict.”—Robert Warshow.

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Inspirational lunch hour reading in downtown DC.

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Entire political party organized around the principle of playing with fire professes shock at the ensuing deadly flames.

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Dude, you don't trash Rosie O'Donnell on Long Island

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My debut as a @newrepublic contributor, herein. Props to @lmlauramarsh for the assignment and the def edits!

What Richard Hofstadter Got Wrong

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.

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With Facebook down, I’ve worn myself out by laboriously invading my own privacy all day

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This is the mission I would love to see our divided country unite around

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

4 years

ABC news reports that the Trump campaign "voter fraud" hotline "has turned into a nightmare...bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's win before hanging up..."

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Behold, your June 2019 @newrepublic !

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Beto on impeachment: here’s a cool painting I saw, bro.

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1 year

There are no libertarians in bank runs

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

1 year

Where is Powell? Where is Yellen? Stop this crisis NOW. Announce that all depositors will be safe. Place SVB with a Top 4 bank. Do this before Monday open or there will be contagion and the crisis will spread.

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4 years

In every sense of the phrase, Mike Lee is not wearing a mask.

Mike Lee

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4 years

Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.

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@lehmannchris

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It is something of an ingenious ploy to argue that you should be entrusted with maximal power because you are so easily bullied into submission.

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