Ask yourself why ICE is conducting these raids in cities like LA and Chicago where they face vociferous opposition but huge agribusinesses in places like @KristiNoem’s South Dakota go untouched.
Jonathan Weisman
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Jonathan Weisman
@jonathanweisman
Chicago-based national editor for The New York Times, author, (((Semitism))) - Being Jewish in the Age of Trump, and the novel No. 4 Imperial Lane
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2009
- Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead over Trump stands at 1,720,053 and still climbing. A strange history is being made here, very quietly.
- Just to be clear, the president is thanking @MarshaBlackburn for blocking a unanimous consent request to pass legislation that would have required a candidate who is approached by a foreign entity offering opposition research to contact for FBI.Thank you Senator @MarshaBlackburn for fighting obstructionist Democrats led by Cryin' Chuck Schumer. Democrats continue to look for a do-over on the Mueller Report and will stop at nothing to distract the American people from the great accomplishments of this Administration!
- After white supremacists declared their comeback, Virginia has an African American lieutenant governor, Charlotte has its 1st black mayor, & the Va. House of Delegates has a transgender member.
- Howard Schultz says Ronald Reagan is the best Republican prez of the past 50 years, in part because “he never took his jacket off in the Oval Office” due to his respect for the office.
- A reminder that Rep. Matt Gaetz brought a Holocaust denier to the State of the Union address. He's upset by anti-Semitism.
- Trump just said quarterly GDP growth under Obama never reached 3%. It was 4.5% Q2 2014, over 5% in Q3 2014. Over 3% in '13 & Q1, 2015
- Oh wow, watch this. Pete Hoekstra, former representative, now ambassador, asked about something he said, accuses journalist of “fake news.” Then shown the clip and says it’s fake news that he denied saying it. We live in the Post-Truth era.Just perfect. Dutch journalist to new US Ambassador: you said there were 'no go zones' in Netherlands, where are they? Ambassador: That's fake news, I didn't say that Journalist: We can show you that clip now. Ambassador: Err 😳🤥
- As someone who edited a story on his comments, I listened to them live. I read the transcript. Occam’s Razor: don’t overthink this. The real problem was that our president speaks in non-sequitur gibberish. There was no direct linguistic link btwn MS-13 and his “animal” remarks.Awful lot of reporters screwed up re: Trump’s “animals” remark. It’s the result of a media climate that feeds on outrage and speed and re-tweets. But it’s also the result of Trump’s own history of using racially-charged language and the total erosion of any benefit of the doubt.
- Outrageous. If you want to see how the neo-Nazis use the term "shekels" take a quick glance at The Daily Stormer. Eric Trump’s ‘three extra shekels’ attack on Bob Woodward is not some accident any more than Hillary Clinton's image over a Star of David.
- Mnuchin’s June flight to Miami cost $43,725.50. Treasury sent a note that a commercial flight would cost $688.
- A blockbuster story from @NYTLiz. New depositions show how Alex Jones promoted Newtown conspiracy theories, including one that baselessly claimed Avielle Richman, a first-grader killed at Sandy Hook, was still alive. Her father killed himself this week.
- To put cost of $14 b border wall into perspective, Obama final request for entire EPA was $8.2 b. and Congress said it was unaffordable.
- This is a remarkably false statement, @mschlapp. The Senate twice passed comprehensive immigration reform, once under Bush, once under Obama. Twice, the House let it die. Can’t we at least recognize the same history? #FactsMatterDems say they want deal on immigration but Obama killed the last bipartisan attempt and Durbin may have killed this one. They want the issue
