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Columnist, . Priors: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HP. Author: “TrumpNation.”

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    Jul 18

    Sometime next month, for the first time, the government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. Arizona and its farmers will get hit first, but the water crisis will touch everyone. Inside the Southwest’s two-decade mega-drought.

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    6 hours ago

    Today, I was asked to serve on the bipartisan January 6th Select Committee and I humbly accepted. When duty calls, I will always answer.

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    6 hours ago

    Damn…another giant. This one hits hard. Damn

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  4. 6 hours ago

    This is the same Pat Toomey who pushed hard in 2012 and 2013 for the sham Benghazi investigation: “I have long supported a congressional investigation and want to get answers to important questions,” he said back then.

    2:19
    Jake Tapper to Sen. Pat Toomey: "What does it say about your party that an investigation into a violent insurrection would reflect poorly upon it?" Toomey: "I would argue the current POTUS's policies & the damage he's gonna be doing, that's what we should be debating in 2022."
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    Jul 24

    Rioters struck one cop's head with a pole, wrenching it back as they tried to rip off his helmet. Injuries include concussion & a mind that shifts between “anger, confusion, despair,” He sees neurologist, 2 therapists. on 1/6 police fallout.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    “What more can statistics say about the flooding, the wildfires, the droughts and hurricanes and other deadly events?…Numbers and statistics are invaluable, but what the world requires now, more than anything else, is climate action.”

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    Jul 24

    "I lost my child and I was with her," says Ollie Gordon. "Emmett was not with his mom and he died in a horrible, abusive way. I can’t say that I have that kind of pain. I have pain that penetrates, but her pain is of a magnitude that I cannot imagine."

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    8 hours ago

    Pelosi plans to add Republican Rep. Kinzinger to Jan. 6 committee

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    Jul 24

    Man confronts Tucker Carlson over his anti-vaccine rhetoric: “You are the worst human being known to man. I want you to know that… What you have done to this state, to the United States… What you’ve done to people’s families…”

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    7 hours ago

    Literally dying to own the libs.

    Many Southerners “are turning down Covid-19 vaccines because they are angry that President Donald Trump lost the election and sick of Democrats in Washington thinking they know what’s best.”
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  11. 7 hours ago

    Can Arizona grow EVs in the desert?

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    Jul 24

    Note Florida's slope All have substantial increases in hospitalizations, led by Nevada 29/100,000; AR, FL and MO ~25

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    Jul 23

    I can imagine not liking “The Cleveland Guardians” but there’s not a lot of reasons I can think of for being *angry* they changed it

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    Jul 23

    Italy, like France, has announced it will start requiring proof of vaccination to go inside restaurants, museums, and other indoor activities. This is the trend.

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    Jul 23

    Amy Winehouse passed away 10-years ago today…

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  16. Jul 24

    Vail gets it.

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    Jul 24

    Pegasus spyware can use SMS, WhatsApp and iMessage to infect a phone and harvest messages, emails, contacts, GPS data, calendars, photos and videos stored on a phone. What can tech firms do to stop it?

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    Jul 24

    "Biden came into office pledging to follow the science, to vaccinate the country and lead the recovery. But he could not vaccinate the country against Fox News. There was no shot that could give viewers immunity to Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene."

    “I find it almost impossible to believe that there is a way to persuade millions of vaccine-skeptical Republicans to embrace the shot that their leaders have been demonizing for months,” writes.
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  19. Jul 24

    Everyone’s developing their own version of the Tucker Carlson response.

    Asked if he is vaccinated, Cowboys QB Dak Prescott: “I don’t necessarily think that’s exactly important. I think that’s HIPAA.”
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    Jul 23

    In 1955, Emmett Till was tortured by four white men in a barn in Mississippi. Today, the barn still stands, unmarked and unacknowledged, a symbol of the state’s struggle to remember its violent history, Wright Thompson argues.

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    Jul 23

    I wrote about how it’s not just Tucker Carlson race-baiting at Fox. While Carlson might be more overt about it than most of his colleagues, what he does fits neatly into the broader theme pushed by Fox as a network.

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