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What can you say? Shot/chaser/glass of ice water pic.twitter.com/p5HOBbKGLI — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 7, 2017 This is actually worse than false equivalence, because the Times story on Clinton and Russia was a big nothingburger — Clinton didn’t make the deal, she didn’t have the authority to veto the deal, and there’s no evidence she intervened […]
Ezra’s discussion of Bartels and Achen and how it applies to the 2016 is very useful: I sat down with Bartels shortly after the 2016 election, and I had a dozen ideas for how his book helped explain the unusual results. But he wasn’t buying my premise. To him, the election looked pretty typical. The […]

Cleek’s revenge

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On June 6, 2017

I woke up this morning, and I wanted Hillary to run. This is: (a) The worst first line for a blues song ever. (b) Every RWNJ’s least lurid fantasy involving Hillary Clinton. (c) The actual menta

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The Intercept gets an F-. Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named “Reality Winner” was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted by the […]
Counting the same jobs dozens of times. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, appearing on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, casually asserted that the Trump administration has presided over a staggering increase in coal-industry employment. “We’ve had over 50,000 jobs since last quarter — coal jobs, mining jobs — created in this country. We had […]
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