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17 Dec, 5 tweets, 3 min read
It's time for the Pinocchios of the Year! Trump's continuing 2020 election lies and falsehoods about the Jan. 6 attack top the list.....washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
...Biden's claim about the Georgia election law and what we call his "Flights of Fancy" are also featured ... washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… Image
Sen. Ron Johnson and his campaign of vaccine misinformation also make the cut ... washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… Image
...Tucker Carlson, Terry McAuliffe, Tom Cotton, and Rick Scott are also featured. And there's a special hypocrisy award for Mayor Muriel E. Bowser for violating her own mask mandate. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… Image
Don't forget to watch the entertaining video on the Pinocchios of the Year produced by @AdriUsero wapo.st/3GTQZBg

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8 Nov
This is detailed at length in Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Robert Moses, "The Power Broker." See especially pages 318-319: "He began to limit access by buses; he instructed Shapiro to build the bridges across his new parkways low -- too low for buses to pass."...
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"...found it very difficult to obtain permits, especially to Moses's beloved Jones Beach; most were shunted off to parks many miles further on Long Island." There's much, much more. Easily one of the best nonfiction books ever written. amazon.com/Power-Broker-R…
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30 Jun
The new C-SPAN poll of presidential historians is out! Always interesting to see how reputations rise and fall. In two decades, Ike shot up from #9 to #5 and stays there. Obama moves into the top ten. ....
Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson has fallen from #6 to #13, and Polk had also dropped from #12 to #18. Bill Clinton had moved up from #21 in 2000 to #15 in 2017, but now slips back to #19. ....
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11 Jun
A few days ago I tweeted about the bravery of an aunt and uncle who saved two Jewish children during World War II. Not every heroic act in the war had a happy ending. My father and aunt’s cousin, Johan Herman “Jan” Kessler, a son of my great-Uncle, was in the Dutch resistance….
He was carrying documents when caught by the Germans. This is an account of his torture and death at the hands of the Nazis, from Jan Braakman’s “The War in the Corner” (2010). It’s difficult to read… Image
Jan stayed silent, refusing to give up information. After one beating, he could barely stand. In the middle of the night, his cellmate realized he had no pulse and his body was cold. The Germans dragged the body away….
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My Tante (Aunt) Bep, my father’s sister, passed away in 2015 at 97, having lived a remarkable life. Newly married when Holland was occupied by the Nazis in World War II, she and my Uncle Bob decided in 1942 to hide two Jewish children from transport to the Nazi death camps...
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I joke that I belong to the Washington Post book of month club but lately it's been the book of week. Here are the great books I've read in recent weeks by @frankelglenn @ktumulty @JobyWarrick @michaeldobbs @blaineharden Film, politics, national security, history..take your pick
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This new complaint seeking an ethics investigation of McCarthy's housing arrangement with Frank Luntz draws heavily on information contained in three of our fact checks...
1. McCarthy's "room" that he rented was in a 7,000-square foot penthouse apartment. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
2. The housing arrangement violated the condo by-laws, which required the entire space be rented for not less than six months. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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