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stevesilberman, to random
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The "failure" comment makes sense in context, b/c Graham is saying Hitler should have been stopped sooner. But that underlines the fact that this simpering hypocrite is one of the most shameless and opportunistic apologists for the aspiring American Hitler. Now it's people like Trump and Graham who must be stopped. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7_8sgegp9M

JamesGleick,
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@stevesilberman I still don’t get it. It was right-wingers like Graham who appeased Hitler, just as Graham and his party are now appeasing Putin. What lesson does he expect us to draw?

JamesGleick, to random
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TIL that—as of 1954—an original van Gogh painting hanging in the bedroom of a woman working as a telephone operator and sharing a Manhattan apartment with two others would be enough to raise suspicion that she had another source of income but not enough to suggest that she was wealthy.

[Extra credit for identifying my source.]

JamesGleick, to random
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Trump is testing the mainstream press. He’s saying in every way possible: Yes, I really am going to be a dictator. Yes, I really am going to dismantle the democratic institutions that have defined this country for 250 years. Yes, this really will be the last election, if I win it. And by the way, of course that means the end of a free press.

Now, how are you going to cover this political season? https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/112576597337880208

JamesGleick, (edited ) to random
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Having solicited and received millions in bribes, Justice Thomas is willing to admit he should have “disclosed” some of them. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112576540140314979

JamesGleick,
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@nitpicking Of course you’re right. Corrected.

JamesGleick, to random
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New Yorkers: Hochul is now extremely vulnerable to a primary challenge. Who should be the next Governor? https://mastodon.social/@davidzipper/112575202302871721

JamesGleick, to random
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Of course Biden won’t pardon his son. It would be scandalously corrupt for the president to use his pardon power in behalf of a family member.

The only reason anyone even asks is that Trump used his pardon power corruptly, in behalf of cronies, donors, and—literally—his own criminal co-conspirators. By and large the news media gave him a pass. Just Trump being Trump.

https://wapo.st/3yQWQZy

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(Credit to Tom Gauld) https://mastodon.social/@claasgefroi/112569959558506923

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