#Opinions

BREAKING: First Circuit vacates Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence but says it could be re-imposed after a new penalty-phase trial. http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16-6001P-01A.pdfhttp://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/16
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The evidence is extensive and it is damning. Many of those who preplanned Jan. 6th did so because they correctly understood that Trump had told them to do exactly that:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/david-schoen-hannity-
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I find it really hard to conduct myself on twitter in terms of presenting 'opinions'. This is a place which rewards impulsivity over sense. Like, you could have a very
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The DOJ effort to block publication of John Bolton's book is likely a serious abuse of power. I took a closer look at DOJ's claims about the process with help
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Trump is banking on mail delays to help rig the election.Here's something that could make this worse.Many states don't accept mail ballots that arrive after election day.This includes *all* swing
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The new Post poll has some awful findings among Republicans:51% say GOP leaders didn't go far enough in nullifying election56% say Trump bears zero blame for the insurrection66% say he
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Forgive me if I get a little up my own ass for a minute, but I think that the key sign to whether or not an opinion is rational is
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Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are playing a slimy game: They're disowning the insurrection without retracting their support for the big lie that incited it. But they have a problem:
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Mark it down: Most elected Republicans will end up comprehensively absolving Trump of any and all responsibility for inspiring the attack. His role will be erased entirely. @LindseyGrahamSC's abject toadying
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The original Big Lie of the Trump presidency was his lie about his inaugural crowd. So it's fitting that Trump is now gripped by fear of low rally turnout amid
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Damning new facts show Trump may have known Pence's life was in danger when Trump attacked Pence during the insurrection. Democrats simply must call witnesses. If Trump knowingly pointed this
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It's getting ugly in Georgia. Republicans are now openly begging Trump to stop lying about the voting being fraudulent. What's disgusting is that they happily told these same lies, and
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Fox News propagandists are now relentlessly pushing the idea that the election is being stolen from Trump, to provide cover for invalidating countless lawful ballots. What's funny is those Fox
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If you want to understand Rush Limbaugh's poisonous impact on our politics, you couldn't ask for a better guide than @rickperlstein, the great historian of the New Right.So I talked
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Dems are investigating whether the suppression of DHS intelligence about violent white supremacy and right wing extremism -- done to bolster Trump's campaign agitprop -- may have helped exacerbate the
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'Freedom of speech' is a myth.If it were more than that, then people wouldn't hide behind fake names and avatars because they are terrified of the repercussions of having their
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