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1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK:
Yoni Appelbaum
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Yoni Appelbaum
@YAppelbaum
Deputy Executive Editor @TheAtlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity."
- BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law
- 1. Soldiers serving overseas in 1944 were—based on polling—presumed to be such a decisively Democratic constituency that congressional Republicans fought hard to limit their access to the ballot.There are so many reasons this is ridiculous, but here's one: Who do you actually think the gross majority of the men who stormed the beaches at Normandy would vote for? The answer is obvious: Donald J. Trump.
- The Pentagon flagged an image of the Enola Gay—the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima—for removal, on DEI grounds, because of its name.EXCLUSIVE: The @AP has obtained and tonight published a database of the file names and descriptions of more than 26,000 military images flagged for removal --because the pictures highlight contributions by women or minorities, or celebrate heritage -- or "DEI." A team of us went
- "To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve.” If any endorsement still matters, it’s this. @CTmagazine just came out in favor of impeachment christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/decemb…
- NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error."
- "One analysis of 61,998 stock trades made from 2004 to 2010, for instance, showed that politicians outperformed the market by 20 percent, with the portfolios of high-ranking Republicans beating the market by a whopping 35 percent.”
- Mark Avila did five combat tours and lost a leg in Afghanistan. When he sang at a Pentagon event, Trump asked, “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.” Never let Avila appear in public again, Trump told Milley.
- New from me: The Mueller Report is an impeachment referral
- Honored sirs, I am PRINCE KIELSEN and I am contacting you with exciting opportunity. I recently inherited an island but need a small amount of cash. Send a money order for $600,000,000 to my account and I will give you “Greenland.”
- "Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to [White House Chief of Staff John Kelly] and said, 'I don’t get it. What was in it for them?’” Stop what you’re doing. Read @JeffreyGoldberg
- Replying to @YAppelbaumTrump volunteered to pay for the funeral of a murdered U.S. soldier. When the bill came, Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!”
- "Through all the scandals and crimes and disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too,” writes @davidfrum:
