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1. National-Affairs Correspondent, The Nation 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Profile drawing by Joe Ollmann

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  1. 2 hours ago

    Some drama around a Christopher Hitchens biography that is currently being worked on:

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Big props to Bari Weiss for all her work in elevating and mainstreaming this dingbat.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Informative thread on the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

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  4. 5 hours ago

    This is the most likely scenario.

    "Republicans are going to double down on Trump, culture war grievance politics, violent insurrection, and conspiratorial insanity for the indefinite future."
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  5. 5 hours ago

    3. Being the Mugwump mooks that they are, the Times is fretting over executive orders as if there hadn't been a botched putsch earlier this month which explains why Biden needs to demonstrate his authority. More here:

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  6. 5 hours ago

    2. In late 19th century, the Times was a big advocate for the Mugwumps, an upper-middle class faction obsessed with civill service reform at the expense of everything else going on (Reconstruction, the KKK, mass unemployment & strikes, mass foreclosures). Times is still the same

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  7. 5 hours ago

    1. The New York Times thinks Joe Biden is going too fast with the executive orders. The editorial is chiefly valuable as a distillation of the Times propensity for a myopic Mugwumpism.

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  8. 5 hours ago

    I was thinking of doing a column on Freeman's excellent book on antebellum congressional violence but ... she beat me to the punch!

    “[Republicans] want reconciliation w/o apologies, concessions w/o sacrifice, power w/o accountability. And many of them are using threats of violence to encourage Democrats & the disloyal to fall in line” My new piece on accountability in ⁦⁩
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  9. 6 hours ago

    Even by the standards of unhinged Tom Friedman metaphors, this is amazing.

    Tom Friedman really goes above any beyond your wildest Tom Friedman dreams here, has to be seen to be believed
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  10. 17 hours ago

    As I always say, Jesuits are the best Catholics.

    father forgive you for this is hilarious
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  11. 17 hours ago

    Excellent news. It's a good sign that Biden didn't listen to the coalition of dingbats, militarists and friends of Gulf state autocrats who opposed this nomination.

    It's official. Rob Malley is the new Iran envoy. New administration, new team, new policy. By
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    18 hours ago

    Oh look, another billionaire is mad that he might have to pay more taxes while children in America go hungry and veterans sleep on the street. Cry me a river. Yes. We will make Wall Street billionaires pay their fair share of taxes and create an economy that works for all of us.

    Leon Cooperman ranted on CNBC that the idea of a "fair share" is a "bullshit concept" that just attacks wealthy people.
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  13. 18 hours ago

    The principles of forgiveness, contextual understanding and giving a second chance are good ones. I just don't know how to square those with the firing of Lauren Wolfe.

    NYT boss Dean Baquet emailed the newsroom after our story on a top reporter's racist remarks. “I authorized an investigation and concluded his remarks were offensive... but it did not appear to me that his intentions were hateful,” he wrote.
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  14. 18 hours ago

    What I like about Bernie is he's succinct.

    The business model of Wall Street is fraud.
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  15. 19 hours ago

    This is excellent --- is doing a great job explaining things.

    And were back!
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  16. Jan 28

    What we've learned is that there are no bigger cry-babies on hearth than hedge fund billionaires.

    Listening to irate New York hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman on CNBC right now lamenting people "sitting at home getting their checks from the government, trading their stocks." “This fair share is a bullshit concept," he shouts. "It’s a way of attacking wealthy people."
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    Jan 28

    I could look at this for hours. It’s so beautiful

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  18. Jan 28

    Democrats should listen to Ossoff.

    On internal call, Sen. Jon (D-Ga) is arguing for being bold in delivering immediate material results for Americans as promised during campaign, maintaining that's how Dems won Senate, these 2 sources say
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  19. Jan 28

    It took a little effort but the NPR libs have finally done it. Hedge fund managers are now a protected class.

    someone on NPR just compared the Reddit stock market stuff to gamergate bc of the "harassment" of hedge fund managers 🙃
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  20. Jan 28

    This is right but there is one more thing to say. Trump & his faction made systematic effort, up to fomenting violence, to delegitimize Biden's presidency. So it's crucial in early days for Biden to show he is in fact president and has control of the government.

    We are not taking executive action in lieu of legislation: we are taking executive action to fix what Trump broke in the executive branch, and to keep the President's commitments to use his power -- within appropriate limits -- to make progress on four crises.
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