Hi. I see you’re a former prosecutor. I’m curious how many poor black defendants you decided to let history, not a jury, judge. Or is that reserved for powerful white fascists?

I would sincerely like an answer to this question!

Do "let history judge Trump" types have a list of crimes they think should be prosecuted in 8th grade social studies rather than courtrooms?
Or is not at all about the crime and it's that some people are Too Big To Prosecute?
Also: It’s absolutely *wild* that an actual professor at a prestigious university would write an op-ed making “the case for letting history, not a jury, judge Trump” without using the words “Nixon” or “Iran-Contra,” like we haven’t already tried this no-accountability bullshit.
Also *wild* that any editor would publish it!How does that work?

PROFESSOR: “Here’s an op-ed saying we should keep doing a thing that always backfires.”

EDITOR: “I shall stop the presses to run this vital perspective!”
Ah, yes, who can forget how the lack of accountability for Iran-Contra healed our divisions and led Republicans to accept Bill Clinton? Or how the lack of accountability for Iraq lies/torture/domestic spying led to the Obama era of bipartisan bonhomie?

My entire life, all 45 years of it, has been elites deciding not to hold Republicans accountable for their escalating series of misdeeds, and the GOP responding by becoming ever more hostile and lawless. GTFO with this “accountability will divide us” bullshit. Read a book!

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23 Nov
Putting a former Secretary of State in a sub-Sec/State international role focused on climate is a big deal, as is establishing a climate seat on the NSC.

These are both *really* good signs about the Biden administration’s seriousness about climate.
I strongly suspect I will at some point find the administration’s approach to climate inadequate, but for now, it’s weird to see people overlooking the significance of the Kerry announcement in favor of being disappointed by something it didn’t actually say (Kerry = Climate Czar)
I think some of this is people are underestimating how rare it is for a former Secretary of State to take on a smaller international role. IIRC, Baker did some Iraq-related envoy thing but I don't think that was as full-time as this seems to be. Can't think of another.
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6 Nov
it's over. it isn't close. it's been clear for days. If your news organization of choice won't tell you that ... it's still true.
(and by "go home" I mean "Go to Georgia." I don't write the captions.)
Yet another in-kind contribution from the nation’s news media to the paste-brained fascist they helped create.
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5 Nov
Don’t air this
Gotta give CNN this much, I guess: They’re loyal.
CNN is airing Donald Trump’s dangerous lies uncut, but at least they’re letting their reporters say on Twitter that he’s lying.
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4 Nov
This is idiotic. You know damn well Joe Biden is going to get more votes than Donald Trump.

There are a lot of people who like Trump and other bad things. There are more people who dislike them. It is an idiotic lie to say that equals “a Trump country.”

This is extremely dumb. Donald Trump has twice run for president and twice gotten fewer votes than his opponent; his approval has never been above 50 for a day of his presidency. His supporters are a minority of Americans. There are too many of them, but it is not their country.
Democrats have won more votes in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections, so I would suggest that perhaps the people who need to get out of their bubble and spend more time with real voters are the right-wing pundits who think America is a center-right country.
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seems bad

(also: let this be your periodic reminder that Donald Trump has been encouraging violence against his political opponents for years, and the media has largely ignored this.)

Here is Donald Trump, who has been encouraging violence against his political opponents for years, again encouraging violence against his political opponents. Image
Donald Trump is spending the last days of the election encouraging his followers to violently prevent his opponents from campaigning. @jack @TwitterSupport why do you allow this? Image
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27 Oct
Something that isn’t properly understood (particularly among journalists) is that The Right spent hundreds of millions of dollars and decades creating a facade of intellectualism and a key part of that was marketing nitwit partisans as “brilliant..”
And a lot of journalists were active participants in this, both because they got suckered by dumb arguments and because praising the intelligence/seriousness of this right-wing faux intellectuals was a easy way to demonstrate their own seriousness and “objectivity”
See also: “Paul Ryan is a wonk”
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