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1. Contributing Editor, The New Republic 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Profile drawing by Joe Ollmann

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  1. 28 minutes ago

    Swan's Way: a long text, that implies more than it says outright, which people know is important but don't always read. Checks out.

    just learning that Mueller's middle name is "Swan," what a remarkable day
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  2. 2 hours ago

    This is excellent, not just on Farage but on the dynamics driving Brexit.

    Opinion | Nigel Farage Is the Most Dangerous Man in Britain - The New York Times My latest for the NYT. It will be in the print edition tomorrow for American readers.
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  3. 5 hours ago

    I was hoping that someone would write a deeply informed book on the left insurgency in the Democratic party, one that links up the history (Jesse Jackson) with the current moment. So super-excited that has done the work.

    Okay, this is the last time I’m gonna say it: Buy the book
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  4. 5 hours ago

    This is exactly our situation.

    People pointing out what’s obvious to people who have invested their reputations and careers in not seeing it.
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  5. 6 hours ago

    Anyone who has ever led a seminar where the students didn't do the reading will understand the agony of Robert Mueller.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Trump's going to get away with a lot of crimes because those tasked with holding him accountable, including members of congress, finding reading to be hard.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Trump/Pence 2020: Insufficient Evidence!

    Nothing changes from the Mueller Report. There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed! Thank you.
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  8. 6 hours ago

    Mueller's press conference reinforced my sense that the only path forward is congressional investigation & impeachment. But I'm open to counter arguments. What's the best case for not impeaching?

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  9. 6 hours ago

    Mueller's not wrong about this. The only redress for the types of crimes & norm violations outlined in the report is congressional investigation and impeachment.

    Shorter Mueller: "Congress do your job"
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    6 hours ago

    Mueller is taking "it's in the syllabus" to an unprecedented world-historical level.

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  11. 6 hours ago

    Justice Dept. can't indict a sitting president. Can't even issue a report making judgement he committed crimes. Only redress is impeachment & removal. That can't happen as long as President has minimum of 34 Senators, an insurmountable hurdle. So President is above the law.

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  12. 6 hours ago

    James Joyce: "The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." Robert Mueller: "Exactly!

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  13. 6 hours ago

    Shorter Robert Mueller: None of you people can read, so I have to recite a quick summary.

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  14. 6 hours ago

    As I keep saying, Mueller is the last New Critic.

    “It is important that the office’s written work speak for itself.”
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  15. 8 hours ago

    Stalin takes criticism from Trotsky and the Left Opposition and from Bukharin and the Right Opposition. Clearly he’s touching a nerve and doing something right.
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  16. 21 hours ago

    When the aliens come, I have dibs on explaining the rules of access journalism to them.

    When the aliens come, I’m snitching out everyone who doubted their existence.
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  17. 22 hours ago

    This is very true -- especially if what is making you mad is a photo, a headline or a twitter summary. And also sometimes if it is an especially incendiary phrase turn.

    Have said this before, but when it comes to the big, complicated news organizations (e.g. NYT, WaPo, CNN) the vast majority of complaints ought to be directed at editors and management, not individual reporters.
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  18. 22 hours ago

    Once again, clowns, comedians & satirists are more reliable than the powers that be.

    In 1996 Terry Pratchett interviewed Bill Gates for GQ and accurately predicted how the internet would propagate and legitimise fake news. Gates didn’t believe him.
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  19. 23 hours ago

    Stake a position:

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  20. 23 hours ago

    One other dynamic at work is liberals tend to over-obsess about the NY Times & its coverage. My former colleague wrote a good piece on this:

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