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Only problem with this WP story: This should be the lede of the BIGGEST story in the country, not just an *opinion* piece.

Did the purposeful fizzling out of Mueller under Barr leave us so jaded that when we get the Mueller COLLUSION smoking gun we hedge it as OPINION?
If this story had come out in 2017, it would've spiraled the Trump administration straight to hell and settled the collusion question for good.

But we get it in 2019, post-Mueller, and instead of being the only story for weeks, it's only a lede when relegated to opinion?
This story/editorial should be lighting up every broadcast & the front of every paper, not being treated like background info.

I feel the same about the story on Putin feeding the Ukraine conspiracy to Trump. Exactly what @HillaryClinton warned about & got called hysterical for.
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We decided to watch the Stars Wars Christmas Special.

Just got past the first 20 mins of wookies wailing & moaning at each other. Now one is watching a cooking show with an Oompa Loompa Paula Dean. Wtf.

Was this something people watched in the '70s while high on LSD/shrooms?
Okay now they got grandpa wookiee high af with a "brain evaporator" and there's a kaleidoscope... and now... it's getting really pornographic all of a sudden and grandpa wookie is having fantasies and oh my god

w...t...f.
And now for some reason it just morphed into a terribly animated cartoon where Luke, Leia and C-3PO look like they snorted meth. Did they run out of money to pay the actors halfway through or what?

And there be a dragon here.

Can we go back to Oompa Loompa Paula Dean now?
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Pledges to reject conventional big money donors/PACs & focus on small donors have helped a few candidates (Bernie), but left Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, & Beto O'Rourke without funds to continue.

2 billionaires were able to swoop in & join debate stage at last minute. 1/
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...boxed in a lot of Dems, most of whom ran on some form of limiting big dollar donors this time. There was speculation early that this pledge might hurt women running the most, who bc of sexist standards have to run more on substance & experience, not on genereting euphoria. 3/
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Georgia Congressman John Lewis just gave a stirring #ImpeachmentDay speech on the House floor that echoes the moral righteousness of the Civil Rights battles in which he fought:

"Madame Speaker, I rise with a heavy heart to support this resolution. ..." 1/5👇🏻
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THIS

#Barr reply to @SenBlumenthal

“There are two different reports…Under the current regulations, the special counsel report is confidential. The report that goes public would be a report by the Attorney General.”

Opposite of reassuring that he'll make Mueller report public.
Senator @maziehirono follows up

"What I am hearing you saying is that...neither Congress nor public will get the Mueller report because that's confidential."

#Barr dodges: will release information "consistent with the regulations"—regulations which he says make it confidential!
Bingo

@SenFeinstein's precise followup:

"There is nothing in the regulations that prevent you from providing Mueller's report to Congress…the regs do not state that confidentiality means the report cannot be provided to Congress…Will you provide Mueller's report to Congress?"
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