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28 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New from me: I wrote on the most benignly weird thing that we’ve learned about the Trump era to date — WH staff using the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber to calm down the former president’s rages — and why it makes perfect sense

msnbc.com/opinion/trump-…
Come for the AMAZING art from @chelseastahl, stay for my extremely on-brand discussion of the Trump-ALW overlap

msnbc.com/opinion/trump-…
"Everything is overwrought” in a Webber hit. "If there isn’t a parade of dancing cats following the loosest plot heretofore discovered by man, there’s an entire chandelier crashing on stage, and a legion of exhausted first sopranos strewn in his wake.”

msnbc.com/opinion/trump-…
Also a HUGE shoutout to @DLind, whose 2016 Vox piece on Trump and Webber was a guiding light for me in writing today’s piece

vox.com/2016/1/23/1081…

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29 Sep
SCREAM.

msnbc.com/opinion/sinema…
TO REPEAT MYSELF: “We should understand this effort as plastering the veneer of technocracy onto her already shallow version of moderation, where aesthetics are more important than policy.”

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When I wrote this I considered the potential that it’d turn out Sinema has PLENTY of specifics and policy ideas! Or that she’d use the technocracy as a cover for caving to leadership’s plans! But no. She still has no idea what she actually wants except “big number get smaller"
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14 Sep
New from me: Kyrsten Sinema, we learned in an Axios article, has a secret weapon in her fight to winnow down Democrats' $3.5 spending plan — spreadsheets

…As you might guess, I was not impressed.

msnbc.com/opinion/sinema…
If you read the article, you wouldn’t get many more details than that.

Sinema doesn’t want Democrats spending too much.

She has spreadsheets tracking that spending.

That’s it.

msnbc.com/opinion/sinema…
So why does this article exist? Simple — to give Sinema the veneer of technocratic competency.

She has SPREADSHEETS. She is collecting DATA.

Which obscures something missing from the article: There’s no discussion of WHAT that data represents.

msnbc.com/opinion/sinema…
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3 Sep
New from me: one thing that ties together the Republican agenda lately is the sheer creativity on display as rules, laws, and norms are bent, twisted, and invented out of whole cloth in the pursuit of power

msnbc.com/opinion/texas-…
The conservative wing of SCOTUS’s use of the shadow docket? Novel.

The Texas GOP writing a law that makes nobody and everybody responsible for enforcing it? Groundbreaking.

Trumpists taking over precinct officer roles for elections? Visionary.

msnbc.com/opinion/texas-…
Meanwhile, Democrats are, well, conservative in how they think about The Rules. And it’s forcing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs in the face of an onslaught of inventive chaos from the GOP.

msnbc.com/opinion/texas-… What we’re seeing from Democrats is not only a lack of ima
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28 Aug
wild that everyone who was in charge when we invaded afghanistan and completely fucked it up is now back twenty years later to say that they wouldn't have fucked up in afghanistan if only they were in charge
i could count on one hand the people with national security portfolios from years 2001 - 2004 in particular that i want to hear from on afghanistan to say anything that isn't some variation on "i'm sorry"
fully convinced the op-ed rumsfield would have been commissioned to write would have given me an aneurysm
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27 Aug
this chart is about the climate crisis but doesn’t realize that it’s about the climate crisis
it’s also about the housing crisis and the racism that’s part and parcel with the housing crisis
a car-centric society is one that thinks that it makes sense to have stores, schools, and other services be several miles away in exchange for bigger, single-family homes. these respondents aren’t biking to and from those places.
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25 Aug
New from me: Moderate Democrats need to quit hiding behind “oh this costs too much!!” and tell us just which poor people don’t deserve federal help

msnbc.com/opinion/modera…
“wE hAvE cOnCeRnS aBoUt SpEnDiNg AnD pAyFoRs” the nine moderates who held up the budget resolution say

okay, then name one part of Biden’s economic agenda that you think shouldn’t be fully funded — or cut entirely. Please.

msnbc.com/opinion/modera…
But they won’t, because they want to have it both ways. They want to support the priorities and policies of the Democratic Party — but balk at the price tag, in order to show that they’re not beholden to the left-wing of the party.

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