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WSJ opinion pages fully mobilized today against Kavanaugh accuser, with three separate pieces attacking her. Here’s the extra-long main editorial: wsj.com/articles/the-m…
Here’s an op-ed column urging against her: wsj.com/articles/its-s…
And here’s yet another: wsj.com/amp/articles/a…
“Spectral.” She’s a ghost!
Oh, and in case you're wondering: yes, that last op-ed directly compares Christine Blasey Ford's accusation to the girls' claims in the Salem Witch Trials.
Just remembered this remarkably friendly WSJ headline from July. All the more striking in light of latest news.
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Stunning new stat out of Ohio:

We already knew that Republicans got 12 of OH's 16 US House seats despite winning only 52% of total congressional vote.

But get this: Republicans also managed to hold supermajorities in the Ohio legislature despite LOSING the total state leg vote.
Source: cleveland.com/expo/news/erry…
Seriously, whichever computer program was used by Republicans to gerrymander Ohio back in 2011 deserves a raise, or at least a sheet cake or pat on the head. That's just astonishingly precise work, to hold big majorities even amidst minority of total vote.
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It’s time to talk about Ohio.
Yes, Sherrod Brown won reelection, which shows the enduring appeal of his rumpled brand of economic populism. (Though his flawed opponent got almost 48% despite getting relatively little party/outside backing.)
But overall 2018 was brutal for OH Dems. They lost every other statewide race—guv, AG, etc. They didn’t pick up 1 US House seat—they hold 4/16. And they netted only four state reps and LOST a state sen seat in ex-Dem stronghold of Mahoning Valley, preserving GOP supermajorities.
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Meanwhile, some craziness in another part of the world: the stats in this WSJ story late last week on the homicide surge in Latin America are insane. It's gotta be one of the most under-covered stories on the planet now, given the life-and-death stakes. wsj.com/articles/400-m…
"With just 8% of the world’s population, Latin America accounts for roughly one third of global murders. Nearly one in every four murders around the world takes place in just four countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia."
"Last year, a record 63,808 people were murdered in Brazil. Mexico also set a record at 31,174, with murders so far this year up another 20%."
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By raging he's being framed by a Clinton revenge plot conspiracy, Kavanaugh echoed Trump propagandists discrediting Mueller & Russia probe. That in itself is disqualifying from sitting on the Supreme Court. It also proves he won't be an impartial arbiter on those & other matters.
Forget the alleged sexual assault & lies for a moment. Kavanaugh's partisan rant about a left-wing smear conspiracy is so off-the-rails improper for someone whose job is literally to DISPASSIONATELY & fairly interpret facts & law before him. And he wants a promotion to SCOTUS??
Maybe #Kavanaugh's not a conspiracy theorist. But he is consciously echoing Trump. He altered strategy from choir-boy Fox interview b/c Trump didn't like it. Kav's already bending to the executive who named him, like the political operative he is at heart. And will be on SCOTUS.
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💣Insanity💣

Amnesty Int’l is calling on senators to halt the nom of SC nominee Kav over his "possible involvement" in human rights violations post terrorist attacks on 9/11/01

"in issues related to torture & rendition after 9/11."

Kav cd face a 4th sexual misconduct alleg’n
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Smokescreen-Trump Wanted to Nuke Rosenstein to Save Kavanaugh’s Bacon

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Roger Stone sought contact with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, email suggests

📌Establishes key nexus
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🚨Foreign gov't official patronized Trump Hotel DC today. Ford is shown here talking with the Trump Hotel DC's managing director.🚨
U.S. ambassador to Canada—nominated by @realDonaldTrump—invites two Canadian gov't officials to lunch at —

Trump Hotel DC.

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Trump: Day 606
-Compared 2 Toad from "Mario Kart"
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[QAnon] Pence’s favorite word, or could it be NH IT DM?

KAC admits that Woodward is credible & his book is ‘damaging’

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Sen. Durbin:”Between 2001 and 2003, Republican Senate staffers hacked into and stole 4,670 files on controversial Bush judicial nominees from 6 Democrats, including me.

This scandal amounted to a digital Watergate, not unlike Russia’s hacking of the DNC.”
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