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It's a little known fact that one of Radiohead's best songs, Electioneering, was written about the 30-day pre-primary window, which opens tomorrow for Iowa, during which electioneering communications have to be reported to the Federal Election Commission
Some may look at the fact that no one likes their music tweets or their campaign finance-minutiae tweets and decide to avoid both.

Not me. I double down.
But seriously, the electioneering communications window for the Iowa caucuses does open tomorrow fec.gov/help-candidate…
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Still blows my mind that the president's longtime personal lawyer is behind bars for crimes that include hush-money payments to pornstars that federal prosecutors said were made in coordination with and at the direction of the president himself, and it's no longer a major scandal
Months after entering the White House, the President of the United States signed a check reimbursing his personal lawyer for part of a hush-money payment to a porn star he allegedly had an affair with while his third wife nursed his fifth child.

It's just bonkers.
The fact of the matter is that the sitting president of the United States appears to have committed multiple crimes, just in this instance, to cover up extramarital affairs, but we don't even have the time to focus on it because of all the other scandals citizensforethics.org/press-release/…
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In its 231-year history, the Senate has completed 15 impeachment trials, and despite what President Trump's allies would have you believe, senators have heard witness testimony in every single case.
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In fact, not only has there been witness testimony at every single impeachment trial that the Senate has ever completed, but the Senate has often sought additional testimony from witnesses who did not testify in the House.
Statements like these, in other words, have no basis in actual Senate precedent.

In just the last three impeachment trials the Senate has conducted, it has sought testimony from more than two dozen witnesses who did not testify before the House
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President Trump has now spent more than two weeks straight at Mar-a-Lago, and this morning, he is making his 259th visit, as president, to a Trump-brand golf course.

Luckily, there is nothing terribly important happening in the world.
Trump's total conflicts of interest are ticking up to 3,000—fed in no small part by his hundreds of visits to properties he still owns and profits from, which foreign governments and special interests use to curry favor with him and his administration citizensforethics.org/trump-conflict…
But remember, we must never forget that Trump cares deeply about fighting corruption.
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The European Elections will be increasingly prominent in the debate about extensions to Article 50. I have not yet seen anybody try to sort out several unanswered questions about this unprecedented situation. (The situation may be messier than is commonly asserted).
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

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