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A Thanksgiving story to warm your pluralistic hearts: It was the early 1990s, the days before Washington DC had meters in taxis. A famine was raging in Somalia. And I

To everyone flipping out on Twitter right now. Stop. Breath. And let’s go over what’s going to happen. Tomorrow, the electoral result in Georgia will be certified. Monday, the results

Does anyone seriously believe that senators would be lining up to preemptively oppose @AmbassadorRice if she looked a little more like, say, Tom Donilon? She is overwhelmingly qualified. The reasons

I refuse to discuss Amy Coney Barrett’s jurisprudence or character or views. The issue of her nomination should not be about that. It should be about the fact of her

One nice thing about remote court hearings is that you don’t have to stand when the judge enters. Listening to the court call the status hearing in the @petestrzok and

I will post the three three drafts I gave to @woodruffbets momentarily on this thread.https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1302002837837283329 Each is more than 30 pages. The language on white supremacy changes subtly but importantly,

Rather than be enraged by this tweet, I have signed up to give a monthly donation to the new housing facility for homeless people and families that was recently built

Bolton book passages of interest—an idiosyncratic thread.(1) p. 6 (2) p. 45 (3) For those who think the Trump admin leak problem is principally about deep state folks or Obama

I am hereby formally designating Antifa an elephant. While I'm at it, there are some other designations I would like to make. I am formally designating the elephant as an

.⁦@emptywheel⁩ has this exactly right.There are a few key points related to this “unmasking” list:(1) This almost certainly has little or nothing to do with the Flynn-Kislyak call.https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/13/of-over-40-potential-unmaskings-