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TWITTER FILES update

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I can't believe the Biden administration did this: Late-night host Stephen Colbert said his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was pulled from Monday night’s broadcast over network fears it would violate regulatory guidance from the Trump administration on giving equal time to political candidates. Colbert’s statements overshadowed...

The Quackistocracy

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The Sultan of Shrill observes that one reason that the Trump administration is Making Infectious Diseases Great Again is that actual scientific cures might interfere with the "wellness" business, of.

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An oral history of the Trump shock

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This (gift link; h/t commenter Shirley0401) looks like a really interesting oral history of the reaction of people in and around the Obama administration to Trump's win in 2016. Oral histories can be extremely useful, because they allow historians and others to compare the reactions and...
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Reconstruction, Not Restoration

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Any appeal to the Old Norms is useless politics. Things have to totally change when Democrats next take power. Any attempt to just return to "how things used to be" will lead to the sweeping of a new generation of crazy Republicans, in part because the...
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,084

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This is the grave of Lawrence Eagleburger. Born in 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Eagleburger grew up in an upper middle class household. His father was a doctor and his mother taught school. Don't believe the mythology of the past that women didn't work outside the home....

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Jesse Jackson has passed. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, America’s most influential Black figure in the years between the civil rights crusades of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and.

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