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Associate Professor in Global Politics . Washington Post columnist. Author: How to Rig an Election & Despot's Apprentice. Host . DPhil: Oxford.

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    Feb 6

    NOW OUT: Season 2 of the podcast. Mercenaries. Propaganda. Biological weapons. Corruption. Purges. Trolls. Revolutions. Catastrophic miscalculations. Pandemics. Come explore the dark side of power. Subscribe on for free:

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Sabotaging his campaign to own the libs

    Trump’s message two weeks out, based on call with staff: -Dr. Fauci is a “disaster” who is a “bomb” every time he’s on TV -Other health officials are “idiots” -Americans no longer care about the pandemic and just think “whatever” -News reports are “fake”
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  3. 2 hours ago

    Fauci is in a tough spot. He wants to prevent Trump from doing even more damage - by being in the room when decisions are made. But at this point, the biggest public health benefit he can probably provide is by speaking out to help ensure that Biden is in the room instead.

    Trump calls Fauci a "disaster"
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  4. 2 hours ago

    This is so depressing. Including the word "Black" before Americans in a survey question about protesters causes a 37% decline in support for protests among Republicans who trust Fox News compared to just the word "Americans." There was a 25% decline for Republicans as a whole.

    BREAKING: When protesters are specified as “Black Americans” vs. “Americans,” support for protests DROPS by ___ points: Rep (trust Fox News): 37 Rep: 25 White evangelical: 20 All White: 14 Dem: 0 My take: Most depressing finding in .
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  5. 3 hours ago

    Imagine publicly acknowledging that someone is inciting far-right militia violence and still admitting you might vote for that person.

    Florida GOP Congressman tells he thinks President Trump is "inciting" far right militia groups to commit violence, but he might still vote for him.
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    3 hours ago

    How to Don jr

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  7. 3 hours ago

    Early voting opens today in South Florida. If you live there, go vote!

    VOTING BEGINS: Early voting begins today in South Florida. Polls open at 7 a.m. Here are the locations in Miami-Dade, Broward and the Keys:
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    4 hours ago

    ...yes

    Trump: Biden will "listen to the scientists" if elected
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  9. 4 hours ago

    Allow me to fetch my microscope so I can find the world's tiniest violin and play it for these Trump campaign aides

    Some aides inside the campaign have started to grow fearful of what their employment prospects may look like if the president were to lose, sources said.
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    5 hours ago

    This is what America has come to. Scientists need bodyguards.

    0:40
    Once an avid runner, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 79, power walks. Since receiving death threats, he is now accompanied by a security detail.
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  11. 5 hours ago

    I knew there was no formal RNC platform, but I always figured they would at least have something in place like "Continue to build the wall," or other meaningless platitudes. But the disdain shown for the country that he doesn't even think he needs to say what he would do...wow.

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  12. 5 hours ago

    I hadn't realized this, but Trump's website literally doesn't have a policy platform. The about section is a bio. The promises kept stuff is about his first term. There is nothing on the campaign site about what he would do if re-elected. His cult of personality reigns supreme.

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    16 hours ago

    You know what, person on facebook, I did need to hear this

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  14. 5 hours ago

    Tells you a lot that Trump's strategy to get re-elected revolves around spreading a series of insane lies about his opponents and convincing people that mail-in ballots are rigged (they are not). Nothing about how he's going to prevent pandemic deaths or repair the economy.

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    7 hours ago

    This is an incredible indictment of the nation's leadership at all levels:

    Almost the whole country is in the "Uncontrolled Spread" category 1/
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    19 hours ago

    Trump is now a TikTok dance and I simply cannot

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    20 hours ago

    Haha! his is so funny and weird! Oh, and also very important. Spread the word 👍

    2:48
    Filmmaker and I have a message for every American: Vote. Register to vote. Make a plan to vote. And then vote. And best of all, we were able to deliver that message leveraging my personal brand of comedy — subversive, yet relatable. Vote:
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  18. 23 hours ago

    I love this. Texas Governor tried to suppress voting by limiting early voting to one drop-off box per county. Nonetheless, Texas voters are casting early ballots at an unprecedented rate. No matter how hard Republicans try to make it for you, make your voice heard.

    Texas now leads the country in the raw number of people who have voted early (nearly 3.9 million) and as a percentage of their 2016 vote (43.2%)
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  19. Oct 18

    It's all just so cynical, craven, and predictable: the Republicans who publicly praised Trump over his first term and enabled him at every opportunity are those who suddenly say that they privately opposed him now that it's two weeks before they face a tough path to re-election.

    Cornyn says he privately opposed Trump on deficit, border wall
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  20. Oct 18

    The wall will not "soon be finished." In fact, only five miles of new wall have been built in places where no barrier previously existed. Five. And how many miles did Mexico pay for? Zero.

    Not my Wall, which will soon be finished (and Mexico will pay for the Wall!). Totally unrelated, but I think Steve will be just fine. By the way, is this the same job hopping Tim O’Brien that headed Mini Mike Bloomberg’s humiliating 2 Billion Dollar Presidential run? Debate prep!
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    Oct 18

    219,000 Americans dead and the President's coronavirus health adviser is spreading misinformation that could make the pandemic even worse

    Twitter has removed a tweet from White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas that sought to undermine the importance of face masks because it was in violation of the platform's Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy
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