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1. Don’t miss this @GrahamDavidA look at the sudden effusion of God-talk from the president, and what it means: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@GrahamDavidA Or, as another political analyst once put it, to cement his support in the face of Mueller's probe, Trump has been reminding his base of "guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@GrahamDavidA 3. Trump has recently addressed the NRA, started talking about God, hurled racially charged invective, proposed a wall and new asylum restrictions, and pressed forward with tariffs. You know who predicted the appeal of that agenda? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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1. There’s a quiet revolution underway in constitutional studies, and we’ve got two entries from it up this morning. Digital methods are transforming our understanding of the field:
2. How do we understand the original meaning of constitutional terms? @jdmortenson looked at more than a thousand contemporary texts, and produced a finding of tectonic importance about executive power: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
3. Digital methods are also changing how we understand contemporary debates. David Pozen and his colleagues used machine learning to show a recent, sharp divergence in constitutional rhetoric: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Yoni Appelbaum
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1. I am genuinely alarmed that no one seems to have explained to the president of the United States the basic principles of impeachment as a constitutional mechanism. So here’s a small refresher.
2. The president “can’t imagine the courts allowing it.” But the Framers quite deliberately vested the power of impeachment in the House, and of trial in the Senate. “The courts” have no role to play here whatsoever.
3. The president says, "It's high crimes AND misdemeanors, not high crimes OR misdemeanors.” Which is true! But it’s not a dual requirement, it’s an eighteenth-century legal term of art.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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"If Trump would take his acquittal by the Senate as vindication of his behavior, what conclusion would he and future presidents draw from the House’s refusal to impeach him for it in the first place?” Smart @fordm point: newrepublic.com/article/154001…
@fordm And this, too: "Nothing could make Democrats look weaker than spending the next two years warning that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy, then telling voters that it’s not worth the trouble to impeach him."
As @GrahamDavidA wrote yesterday: "Once GOP voters were convinced that Obama was a tyrant, everything the Republican Congress did short of acting that way started to look like a betrayal, and incumbents paid a price for that in their primary elections.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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My sense is that @nancyleong is spot on, and one wonders if, despite her well-honed political instincts, @SpeakerPelosi may not fully appreciate this aspect of the public zeitgeist. Indeed, @justinamash is onto something....
/2 And it's not surprising that, days later, almost none of @justinamash's detractors addressed the substance of his detailed argument for impeachment. Nor have they challenged his assertion that most lawmakers haven't read the report. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
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theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… I appreciate the point, that it’s ridiculous that men get kudos for being half as good as women. But I also must point out that brow-beating and nagging is also work, and telling women to do more of it adds to women’s unfair work load.
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God, I hate this article so damn much. Urgh theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Was it even 48hrs after the crash? There is a moral dividend to people doing the right thing - putting value on life, mourning properly etc. How do you just jump into that - on the basis of a deleted tweet and ONE news anchor - and try to claim that? Foken hell
The idea that the erasure or non-erasure of the tragedy is all down to 'the west' is so annoying. Everyone is mourning their dead in their own way. Why are you so good - so pure as the driven snow - that it falls upon you to mourn more than your fair share?
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theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… It really is remarkable that the president spouts Putin’s propaganda, and everyone shrugs because it’s not news that he’s Putin’s puppet.

Sure, there’s still work that needs to be done *proving* it, but that Putin owns him is not controversial anymore.
If you want to know what life under a puppet government is like, I suppose that’s it: The official line is the president is a democratic leader, but everyone just knows that he’s actually being controlled by a foreign power.
Also worth pausing to note that the same people who made 1984’s Red Dawn a big hit would now greet a Russian invasion by waving Russian flags and cheering their new leader Putin, with Trump at his side, in the streets.
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Quinta 🎃 Jurecic
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Genuinely thought this was fake
Re-upping what I wrote for @TheAtlantic on the Helsinki press conference. The problem then was that unquestioningly accepting the dictator's word made Trump look weak. It will be interesting to see if the same dynamic plays out now. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Stay tuned for a lot of jokes about how Trump is sexually submissive to MBS, in other words
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Karol 🌿
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🏵Dr.Ford🏵

Dr. Ford testified she was "100%" certain Kav sexually assaulted her..

Kav called the claim part of a "calculated & conspiratorial political hit by the DEMs/Clintons to torpedo him from the SC.

If so, why didn’t the DEMs do that to Gorsuch?
Kavanaugh displayed an angry, combative & belligerent side in contrast to the ‘choirboy’ image portrayed on Fox lamenting the ‘unfairness’ of the allegations.

It wasn’t a stretch to imagine Kav as a mean & belligerent drunk.

He never drank more than the blood alcohol chart...
🏵Dr.Ford🏵

Kav shouted over & interrupted the senators & gave vague & evasive answers for the most part.

He refused to agree to an FBI investigation, whereas his accusers welcome the higher level of scrutiny a investigation.

Dr. Ford first named Kav in 2012.
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