Here’s how the brittle narcissist who will be President of the United States in nine days spent his morning so far: So the man who owes his squeaker EC victory in part to fake news is shrieking that he’s the victim of fake news. We’re supposed to dismiss the intel reports on the say-so of …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Golden Opportunities
Tinkle, tinkle, little czar. Putin put you where you are. — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 11, 2017 . I think we may have found the perfect chant for the Women’s March! (Sure, like you could resist.) *********** Apart from putting on our hip waders and rubber gloves, what’s on the agenda for… (uh oh)… Hump …
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Long Read(s): Jared Kushner, the Half-Bright Prince
Trump's campaign pledge to clean up corruption is looking a lot like Nixon's pledge to end the Vietnam War https://t.co/6hfDgmRPmU — Gabriel Snyder (@gabrielsnyder) January 8, 2017 BettyC posted about some of Kushner’s most glaring conflicts earlier. As with every comic-book crime cartel magnate, there’s a varied if mostly banal JKush backstory. From the NYTimes …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Transition Notes
.@KellyannePolls: I'm concerned that somebody with a platform like Meryl Streep's is inciting people's worst instincts pic.twitter.com/QjITaedKnV — FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) January 9, 2017 She asked everyone to practice empathy and to allow freedom of press as a check on our government, as our founding fathers had allowed. https://t.co/xRYLC7s1PI — Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January …
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Late Night Open Thread: Back to the ’60s Future!
We Await Silent Trump's Empire pic.twitter.com/1G0WzySQQ2 — Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) January 1, 2017 Couriers… . A Trump presidency could inspire 1960s-like protests & the conviction that “democracy is in the streets." @jelani9 https://t.co/syH1rWuMgo — Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) January 2, 2017 Jelani Cobb, in the New Yorker: … Last summer, the A.C.L.U. issued a report highlighting …
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Open Thread: Bullshit to Satisfy the Angry Rubes
What sort of freaking bizarro-world have we entered? https://t.co/8Ui0gouepq pic.twitter.com/fhMeRC2icW — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) January 1, 2017 And by “angry rubes” I mean, of course, the Very Serious Media Village Idiots. The full clip doesn’t quite do justice to the sleight-of-hand on display: Trump’s new press secretary, Sean Spicer… was asked if President-elect Trump accepts …
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Last 2016 Saturday Morning Open Thread
2017: The year the American president openly cheers for the Nazis in Casablanca. https://t.co/bgKnOFb9xD — Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) December 31, 2016 For New Year’s Eve 1942, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt privately screened new film "Casablanca” at White House: pic.twitter.com/U2v6LoOJO0 — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 30, 2016 “I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on …