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Published: September 7, 2024 23:09

This is always why he talks about Lecter: to say that dangerous lunatics are immigrating. The “he’s confusing asylum!!” thing is a function of people committed to the idea that Trump is an incomparable idiot noticing that the word “asylum” is used in both…

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Published: September 7, 2024 14:40

This is way at the bottom, but it’s my favorite chart from this week’s (free to read!) newsletter. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=66dc5c8bf1cf6e09443451c0&linknum=2&linktot=63

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Published: September 7, 2024 13:46

Trump rolled up with handwritten notes listing all the ways he planned to attack the E. Jean Carroll verdict, including by suggesting that a photo taken in the 1980s and published in 2019 was maybe “AI.”…

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Published: September 7, 2024 13:38

The other problems with JD Vance’s response to the Georgia school shooting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/06/vance-school-shootings-guns/?itid=ap_philipbump

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Published: September 6, 2024 18:23

This piece focuses on Trump's efforts to cast doubt in ridiculous ways but begins by noting that *his attacks on E. Jean Carroll were handwritten by him on Trump campaign stationery*.…

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Published: September 6, 2024 16:40

It wasn't just the "fact of life" bit. It was also the suggestion that states with tougher gun laws have more shootings (they don't per capita) and that school shootings are a function of "psychos" seeking out targets.…

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Published: September 6, 2024 16:25

If you're agreeing to run Trump's campaign in 2024 you know what you're signing up for, but, man, just imagine being that person as Trump spends half an hour reiterating all his indictments and accusations of sexual assaults in front of news cameras.

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Published: September 6, 2024 14:28

One way to cover Trump's viral child-care-cost answer is to clean it up. Another is to walk through it, using it as a stream-of-conscious look at how he approaches politics. Gift link: wapo.st/3ZxCJLt https://wapo.st/3ZxCJLt

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Published: September 6, 2024 03:27

Task Musk with figuring out where to cut costs in government? Sure, why not use the magic touch that was such a success at Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/05/trump-musk-government-commission/

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Published: September 6, 2024 03:20

The shooting in Georgia was very familiar. That’s in part because so many kids are killed by guns in the US: more were killed in Georgia alone in 2021 than were killed by guns in all of Western Europe.…

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Published: September 6, 2024 03:03

Lots of takeaways from the Russia-funding-a-right-wing-social-media-site story, but one important one is that it euthanized the delusional idea that Russia wasn’t trying to influence our politics.…

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Published: September 5, 2024 21:41

The New York Historical Society is selling Robert Caro’s books — with the option to have Caro sign and personalize them for you. https://shop.nyhistory.org/collections/robert-caro

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Published: September 5, 2024 21:05

Let’s imagine a world in which Elon Musk does to the U.S. what he did to Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/05/trump-musk-government-commission/?itid=ap_philipbump

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Published: September 5, 2024 19:26

If you exclude suicides, American kids are twice as likely to die from guns are as European adults. They are more than 20 times as likely to die from guns as European kids.…

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Published: September 5, 2024 16:00

In recent weeks, particularly as his position in the polls has weakened, Trump has repeatedly fallen back on one of his favorite campaign tactics: accusing his opponents of things he's been accused of.…

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Published: September 5, 2024 15:12

Russian interference was never a "hoax," of course. But when such efforts began a decade ago, they never could have imagined a GOP that was so receptive to their rhetoric.…

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Published: September 5, 2024 14:37

As I wrote earlier this year, it's because it's a useful blend of "elections are insecure" and "the border is insecure" that also leverages the GOP's enthusiasm for great-replacement-style rhetoric.…

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Published: September 5, 2024 11:48

Suddenly remembered that the aesthetic at Banana Republic stores 30 years was less “young upper-middle-class man or woman starting a new job” than “Jimmy Buffett stars in Heart of Darkness.”

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Published: September 5, 2024 10:54

Probably helpful to Comer’s reputation that Harris replaced Biden, since people who weren’t paying attention to his “investigation” will offer hand-wavey summaries like this instead of seeing how thin the gruel actually was.

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Published: September 4, 2024 20:21

A reminder that in 2014-2016, Russia echoed and elevated narratives aimed at dividing America, they didn’t originate them. No reason to think that the situation more recently is significantly different.

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Published: September 4, 2024 15:13

One of my wife’s covid activities was tracing our family trees, which led to the discovery that my mother’s father’s mother’s father’s mother’s mother’s father’s father was buried in small cemetery about a mile from our house.

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Published: September 3, 2024 20:58

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty AI: the cup is a chef’s hat that has a blurry “HALFF FLLLL” written on the brim [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 3, 2024 12:53

no no no i was told that walter reed was overflowing with cases of this real illness https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3l3atcgdrr32z [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: September 3, 2024 01:59

Lots of people think the Coen Brothers are good but they probably don’t know that it was not snowing in New York City on New Year’s Eve 1958 despite the presentation in the opening scene of Hudsucker Proxy.

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Published: September 2, 2024 13:48

Finished my NaNoWriMo already. 240,000 words and 292 scenes in which the protagonist incorrectly counts the number of Rs in strawberry and/or refuses to explain how to make a simple explosive.

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Published: August 31, 2024 17:37

Sad to see all these people pandering to new Brazilian users instead of doing what I’m doing: enjoying a nice Saturday afternoon sipping a caipirinha and vibing to the bossa nova stylings of João Gilberto.

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Published: August 31, 2024 14:24

From now on, I recommend everyone read AI as “AL” and feign bemusement when people use the alternative term. Who made this picture? Al. This poem is awful. Al wrote it.

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Published: August 31, 2024 14:21

The newsletter this week looks at that viral thread of bad charts — not all of which were actually bad. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=66d3221b97ff550effc26a3d&linknum=2&linktot=58

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Published: August 31, 2024 13:36

How do you get Trump to bash Fox? Have it present objective information. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/30/trumps-team-moans-about-bias-fox-newss-most-objective-component/

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Published: August 31, 2024 13:24

Even if Trump’s record generally meant there was no reason to take his IVF promise seriously, his habit of making unfulfilled campaign-trail promises on health care is more than enough reason. Gift link: wapo.st/3yQsjLY https://wapo.st/3yQsjLY

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Published: August 31, 2024 02:03

Let’s hope this is not the first example of rhetoric being taken to its logical conclusion. https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c

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Published: August 30, 2024 21:03

And since I’m not writing anything else this month, I’ll use my last gift link to share my piece about how Trump’s IVF pledge is just the latest iteration of his making late-campaign promises to solve health care issues. wapo.st/3yQsjLY…

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Published: August 30, 2024 20:30

It's Friday of Labor Day weekend and I have some gift links left this month so here's a no-cost link to the column I wrote this morning about why Harris's interest in "turning the page" on Trumpism isn't solely dependent on defeating Trump. wapo.st/3X3gcDj…

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Published: August 30, 2024 18:59

There is one aspect of Fox News that is clearly objective and reliable: its polling. But those polls show Harris gaining so, naturally, the Trump campaign decided to attack them as "atrocious."…

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Published: August 30, 2024 15:11

Harris's pledge to "turn the page" on the past decade was an echo of her boss's 2012 prediction that the GOP's fever would break. But there's a significant difference this time.…

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Published: August 30, 2024 11:59

The funniest part of his chat with Trump was that Musk kept insisting the problem with inflation was rooted in government spending (which he doesn't like and can't control) while Trump insisted it was gas prices (which, unlike spending, he can try to blame…