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David Carroll 🦅 @profcarroll
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I think @JeffFlake could save the Republican party from itself tomorrow. All it takes is one man to break rank, leading a new moderate faction, willing stand up to trumpism, draw red lines on the right. I hope he was inspired by Dr Blasey Ford’s courage and patriotism today.
POLL: @JeffFlake on #Kavanagh?
Nope. America is dying.
Looks like I asked the wrong question. Should have polled will Flake demand FBI investigation from Trump. He got it.
Credit on the Dem side seems to go to @ChrisCoons. Bipartisanship is still possible.
That said. Brett Kavanaugh outed himself as a partisan operative who also happens to be a colossal prick. I believe Dr Blasey Ford. I also believe Kav perjured his ass off. His confirmation will further delegitimize the US government and the rule of law.
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Criminal prosecution of Cambridge Analytica (SCL Elections Ltd) begins in UK tomorrow. It’s a crime to defy an order from the Information Commissioner’s Office. They refuse to disclose a complete US voter file despite a legal order from their regulator. ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Meanwhile in the USA, our closest counterpart is the FTC and it is shutdown. Its Facebook Cambridge Analytica investigation is delayed. The FTC vs D-Link trial is now also delayed to the summer. #ShutdownStories
For the record, I won’t be attending the trial tomorrow, but I will share news as it comes in. I’m not the plaintiff/complainant here. This is the ICO vs SCL, the UK regulator simply upholding the Data Protection Act of 1998. Not sure if we’ll see Nix or Wheatland cross-examined.
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Brexit movie premiering on UK TV now (HBO in the US later this month). Apparently, it’s a fictionalization first and foremost. #UncivilWar
Imagine casting Robert Mercer
HBO audiences in America would need an understanding of the British campaign finance law scandal that taints Brexit to spot it in this Easter Egg.
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First President to engage in memetic warfare while holding a million federal employees and contractors hostage.
Trolling is Trump doctrine, leveraging Kremlin and DARPA methods.
The GoT wall meme is an intricately layered “in-group” cultural signifier. At the core it’s Trumpists vs everyone else, Us vs Them anti-immigration, those who get Game of Thrones reference vs those who don’t, those who spread meme to endorse it vs those who spread meme in dissent
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By: Christopher R. Browning

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As a historian specializing in the #Holocaust, #Nazi Germany, and #Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of #fascism in Europe.
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One thing about the Republicans is they are not one big happy family, but neither do they care.

Paul Ryan is not on board with impeaching Rosenstein. His response is, I'm sure, basically "Can you maybe not?" or "Can't this wait until I'm gone?"

But he's not stopping them.
He understands there are gains from this, that it helps provide cover to the GOP and their president, and might slow down the fastest moving threats to the party and their power, and he's not rejecting those gains, even as he personally rates the headaches it will cause higher.
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And that's basically it. That's the whole party.
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