Political scientist, contributing editor for the Atlantic, contributor to The Contrarian, cohost of the podcast Words Matter.
Washington, DC
Joined November 2013
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Grifter to the core
In the final hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as homeland security secretary, her department approved the purchase of five aircraft for $304 million from a company led by one of her political donors.
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Max is absolutely right. this is woke culture war nonsense. Appointing a gay person as your chief of staff is an unconscionable offense. Trump would never do that. He'd just make them secretary of the Treasury.
It did not take long for @RobSandIA to betray his campaign promise that he won’t do culture war stuff. This is his new chief of staff.
Chuck Grassley, a disgrace to Iowa and the Senate.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is blowing up the committee's bipartisan norms to jam through Trump's court picks in the lame duck, ahead of the GOP losing their Senate majority in Jan. huffpost.com/entry/live-upda…
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This is why Trump wants Sullivan.
New: American contractors have been gathering data in the frigid Beaufort Sea for a natural gas project off Alaska’s coast. But the CEO of the firm resigned, claiming it’s all a Russian ploy to gain control of Alaska’s natural gas reserves. propub.li/4j9XJks
I would love to see Madeleine Dean in the Senate!
Madeleine Dean ‘considering’ Senate bid against Fetterman politi.co/4zOSa0T
Disgusting grift, selling out Ukraine and American national security for boodle.
While negotiating peace in Ukraine, Trump’s envoys agreed to work on a $20 billion Russian oil deal involving investors tied to their business networks and requiring U.S. approval.
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Also hearing the Jets have left the door open to winning the Super Bowl this year.
Outgoing GOP Rep. Mike Lawler leaves door open for NY governor run after stinging re-election defeat trib.al/kAA9LNy
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If Biden was president, republicans would impeach him based on the Nvidia scandal
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A woman enduring a miscarriage is heartbroken, confused, terrified, often alone and in pain. She's in no shape to sift through blood and tissue in her toilet bowl. The authors of this bill should be named, shamed and never allowed to escape condemnation for their depravity.
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Hegseth has killed at least 199 people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. Not one was charged, tried, or even named. After one strike, the military went back and killed the survivors.
Under your logic, anyone suspected of touching drugs can be executed without a trial. Your own mother would have qualified. teapaw.org/JDVance/status/2120193…
Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.
Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).
The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.
This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.
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Maria Flores Garcia was her high school’s valedictorian & is a student at UMD. Her arrest is the latest example of how Trump lied when he said that he’d only go after the “worst of the worst.”
I’m seeking answers on Maria’s detention & working to get her released.
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Comments I’ve seen brought about by the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Lakes don’t get 20’ waves
- How tf would you fit a 1,000’ boat on a lake
The coastal elites will never understand the scale of the Great Lakes
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Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes edited its latest interview with Donald Trump to make the octogenarian’s responses appear much more sane than they actually were. mrf.lu/2YYdT
