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22 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Bolero is a neato warhorse, but it is actually one of Ravel's less impressive works. I remember at Oberlin wandering into @CarlaKihlstedt's practice room when she was practicing the "blues" movement from his sonata for violin and piano. It blew my mind. I've loved Ravel since.
Here's @JoshuaBellMusic playing it with @jeremydenk, who was also at Oberlin with us:
The rest of the sonata is baller too.
And by the way, @JoshuaBellMusic, @jeremydenk and @CarlaKihlstedt should all come on @inlieuoffunshow with me and @klonick.

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22 Nov
Lisa Monaco would be an excellent choice for attorney geberal. Unlike Yates, she has not been on a lot of people's lists in rumoring about the role. It's good that she *is* apparently on Biden's list. She is diversely qualified. She is also a very serious person.
The reason, speaking candidly, that she has not been on my list is that I have assumed the incumbent president was going to fire Chris Wray and that Lisa would be a leading candidate for FBI Director. She would be excellent in either role.
Incidentally, the FBI Director role is a much harder one to fill than the attorney general. There are many fewer people qualified to do that job. Lisa is VERY well qualified that role. So if Biden expects Wray to be removed or expects to remove him, he might plausibly...
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Does anyone seriously believe that senators would be lining up to preemptively oppose @AmbassadorRice if she looked a little more like, say, Tom Donilon?
She is overwhelmingly qualified. The reasons for opposition to her--at least as I understand them--are nonsense.
So to all senators who are lining up to denounce her, I issue a challenge: articulate clearly why you think she is not an appropriate nominee. I'm open to persuasion here. Really. But if you're going to declare an overwhelmingly well-qualified black woman as DOA as a nominee...
...you should able to make a clear case based on disqualifying facts, positions, or views.

So what is it?
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20 Nov
To everyone flipping out on Twitter right now. Stop. Breath. And let’s go over what’s going to happen. Tomorrow, the electoral result in Georgia will be certified. Monday, the results in Michigan and Pennsylvania will be certified.
Arizona will follow in a week.
Nevada and Wisconsin will certify on December 1.

The electors will cast their votes on December 14.

Congress will count those votes on January 6.

That is what’s going to happen.

All the rest is antidemocratic noise.
The reason you are hearing nothing but calm seriousness from the president-elect and his team is that they know this.
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18 Nov
A challenge to those inclined to dismiss this statement as rhetorical hyperbole: Show me the evidence-free challenge that Republicans are making to any sizable contingent of white votes in any of the states at issue.
I know of none. Maybe @KristenClarkeJD or @marceelias or @emilybazelon can help me out here. Or maybe some of the Trumpists can point me to an example.
But remember: 40 percent of white people voted for Biden. If you want a huge pool of votes to delegitimization, you should be interested in counting only the legal ballots among those votes. Why are Republicans not fishing in those waters?
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14 Nov
I learned only yesterday on @inlieuoffunshow that the @nytimes once ran an oped by Hitler: nytimes.com/1941/06/22/arc…

Who knew?
To be precise. It's excerpts from Mein Kampf. Not clear to me why they published it at this stage--more than a decade after its publication.
There does not appear to be an editor's note explaining the editorial purpose. Given the time of publication, June 1941--during a prior of US formal neutrality but backing of UK--I assume it must have been to show how horrible he was. But I am not sure. Does anyone know?
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