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26 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Amazing to hear nothing remotely like a good or realistic idea from these folks.

Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana says: Dems should "do what they should’ve done in the first place and that’s not to try to fix something that wasn’t broken and go back to what is working."
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Cruz says "it is the direct consequence of policy decisions by the Biden administration" including "to stop building the wall."
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Best by far is Tuberville:

"We finally elected a president in Donald Trump because he got elected because he said he was going to fix it. And he was trying to fix it. And he was unelected."

rev.com/transcript-edi…

"UNELECTED"

I shit you not.
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And Ron Johnson now complains they might process migrants TOO FAST. "That's not even a speed bump," he said.

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8 Aug 20
Let's make this a teachable moment!

Social Security isn't just a retirement program, though it's a great one. It's a complex social program. It’s arguably the most successful government program of any government, of all time. /1
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Julian #Assange has been charged with conspiracy to commit journalism. The free press has not ducked a bullet here; it’s taken one to the chest. 1/7
Here are the “manners and means of the conspiracy" from the indictment. There are only four of them. 2/7
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17 Jul 18
Yesterday was a historic day, for all the wrong reasons. But don't bother saving the front page of the NYT, WaPo or WSJ. Their main headlines didn't get close to telling the real story. Several regional papers -- especially in blue states (!) -- didn't hold back. See below.
WaPo front page didn't come close to conveying the gravity of the situation
NYT front page didn't come close to conveying the gravity of the situation.
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22 Jun 18
10 paragraphs of pure stenography from the NYT on Trump’s cynical use of “angel families” to calumnize the media and demonize immigrants as criminals. Then the tiniest bit of context. This is NOT NORMAL, NYT, please stop treating it that way! nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/…
By contrast, this excellent NYT story makes it very clear that Trump has no idea what he’s doing, which he doesn’t nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/…
My friends at the @nytimes: Are these written and edited by different NYT species? (Or just different desks? Or just different reporters?) I don’t get it.
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3 Jun 18
The @nytimes knows full well that Trump is being deceptive and misleading in his suggestion that his lawyers' letter was leaked by Mueller.
Consider that this unsourced and yet in no way qualified paragraph is the Times clearly indicating that they were told things directly by Trump's lawyers, but only on condition that then not attribute it to anyone at all.
hyp.is/c2IuomdOEeimsY…
That's actually a strange amalgam of "off the record" which means they can't publish it at all unless they get it from someone else, and "on background" which means they can use it but only attribute it in an agreed-upon way.
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