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9 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“In an interview, Brock confirmed that he was the man in the photos and videos.” newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
This guy.
Notwithstanding what the Air Force spokeswoman says here, the military actually insists it retains jurisdiction over retirees and can court martial them. navso.org/news/supreme-c…
(Of course the zip tie guy story features @steve_vladeck’s favorite issue.)

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10 Jan
It gets harder and harder to think of an innocent explanation for Capitol Police Chief Sund and his leadership team’s actions before, during, and after the attack. buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanu…
From this story: “Our chief was nowhere to be found, I didn’t hear him on the radio. One of our other deputy chiefs was not there.”
From Maxine Waters: https://t.co/WFQErdQkHB
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10 Jan
One of the biggest mistakes Obama made imo was treating the aftermath of the GWB admin like an essay question he could skip.
A government and ruling class that had tortured prisoners and covered it up, created a global system of gulags, made war on false pretenses, erected a bizarro legal system on a base in Cuba, sought to politically subvert DOJ, etc., was a serious policy problem.
Addressing that policy problem with patience and determination was a chance to make government better. Stronger laws against torture, stronger safeguards against ill-conceived wars, global standards for treatment/movement of detainees, even better preservation of CIA records, etc
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7 Jan
Cruz votes aye. Have only heard no’s otherwise.
Add Hawley, Hyde-Smith, and Kennedy, and the new obstetrician in town Marshall as ayes.
+ Tuberville
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4 Jan
What petition is Cleta Mitchell talking about here — the case filed in Fulton County that got dismissed or something else? nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/…
This looks like it.
The complain is verified, after a fashion, by Trump himself. It was signed on New Years Eve. cc @alanfeuer
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24 Dec 20
I’ve read half a dozen articles on this topic now—and I don’t want to totally underrate the phenomenon—but it’s striking that not one has even discussed the general effects of incumbency on the margins of a president running for re-election. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
These pieces are generally looking at areas with significant minority populations where Trump got ground into the pavement by Hillary Clinton and utterly flattened by Joe Biden, but when you compare the two, you can see Clinton delivered a noticeably more comprehensive beating.
There are a ofc constellation of views about why this is. Is it worth disussing whether, where Trump did really badly in 2016, voters didnt consider him a plausible president, and his 4y in the WH overturned that view in a way that wasn’t as salient in closely contested areas?
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23 Dec 20
A truly weird document
Nothing weirder than this part. Full pardons for mercenaries who murdered a bunch of Iraqi civilians—an act that even the document describing their clemency cannot look in the face.
Trump DOJ in 2019 on the mercs Trump pardoned today:

“When they stopped shooting, 14 Iraqi civilians were dead. Those killed included 10 men, two women, and two boys, ages 9 and 11.“

justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/for…
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