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I'm gonna take a big sip of coffee and check out the URL they have surely reserved at for the people dot c
In all seriousness this seems like a much better slogan than "A Better Deal" ... that's why it has been the ubiquitous tag line of Florida's preeminent personal injury law firm @JohnMorganESQ
Aaaand now is the part where I plug my 2014 story about Mr. For the People and his lonely (ultimately successful) crusade to bring medical marijuana to Florida politico.com/story/2014/10/…
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Columnists often project their own interests and views onto voters. But this, from Andrew Sullivan, is so wildly detached from the lived reality of anyone involved in or reporting on, or in many cases voting in, the 2018 election.
You can argue that tribalism is a defining force - or the defining force - in American politics without making the kind of claim that suggests you’ve never talked to an undecided voter or visited a competitive congressional district or state.
(Re-reading it, the rhetorical choice to group health care — a life-or-death or bankruptcy-threatening issue for millions — with relatively abstract debates about “norms” and the executive branch is probably the most revealing part.)
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And if you think it’s important not to normalize aberrant behavior by politicians, don’t complain that reporters are taking note of this because it’s not what Trump does
Also, it’s the press’s job to fight for transparency. Local media often lacks the megaphone national media has in that fight. It’s a good thing when bigger outlets pay attention to this stuff, in general.
And at least as far as NY-based outlets go, the attention to AOC on this front is not unique — ask any NYC mayor. Heck, ask the current mayor who recently lost a big disclosure fight in court.
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Caricaturing concerns about the spread of deliberate misinformation – like, say, Sandy Hook conspiracy theories – as a demand to "blacklist people I don't like" is about as intellectually dishonest as it gets
This is obviously bad-faith media bashing, of the kind that I normally try not to engage – there are good-faith complaints about the press that are far more worthwhile. But the debate about Infowars is important & the idea that it just presents a different point of view is wrong.
This @McCormackJohn thread was persuasive to me – if there's an argument against banning Jones, it's not about intellectual diversity
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Right - this was part of much larger discussion, but it's worth unpacking this point for you all

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In essence there are two main flavours of 'craziness' that people often lump together (esp in Brexit), so it's important to separate them out, as they're very different

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First sort is proper 'madman' theory, as practised by Nixon in Vietnam and successive North Korean leaders

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I'm currently writing something that involves a fair quantity of barbarians, and so last night I decided to watch the original Conan with a notebook at hand as part of my research. I'd not actually seen it before, and let me tell you: Conan is a fucking *weird* movie.
So let's get this on the table first of all: Conan is riven through with indefensible sexual politics, which I won't celebrate. It was bloody uncomfortable viewing. But the intensely unpleasant moral landscape they contribute to is part of what makes Conan so fascinatingly odd.
To explain what I found so weird about Conan, I'm gonna take a big swerve and talk about Thylacines for a minute (stick with me). So here's a Thylacine. It was an Australian apex predator also called a marsupial wolf, and it's in black and white because they all died ages ago.
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Back online after working hard all day. Time to take a big sip of coffee from my "The Mets are a team of professional baseball players" mug and check ESPN.com.
Weirdly, having your shortstop pitch didn't help???????????
The Mets are doing so badly that the Nats have scored five runs since ESPN has updated the score on my computer.
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Maddow is wrong. The White House didn't edit a video or a transcript to remove a question posed to Putin. Nor did The Post, which had the same omissions.

Here's what happened. wapo.st/2OfSoYs
Time to fire up my laptop, take a big sip of coffee from my mug that says "people always share true things they don't like as eagerly as false things that they do" and see what's happening on Twitter.
No matter where you move the goalposts, Maddow asserted that the White House edited the video. That clearly didn't happen.
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#10YearsOfLostInTheMovies begins right now - a 100-day trip through my archive leading to July 16, 2018, the 10th anniversary of my site. I will share 10 posts each day, moving chronologically from 2008 to the present. Hope this provides an interesting way to explore my work.
I will thread the links so you can scroll around, hopefully pretty seamlessly (though of course Twitter is not always great at handling this type of navigation). When there are interesting images to incorporate, I’ll add them in a subsequent tweet.
As a disclaimer I certainly don’t always stand by everything I wrote years or even a decade ago; opinions change and I may also have written something differently than I do now. In various ways I’ve changed over the years though I’m still happy with most what I’ve published.
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