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Michael Tomasky
@mtomasky
Editor, The New Republic (tnr.com), Democracy journal (demjournal.org).
Washington DC
Joined March 2010
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    We should never underestimate the stupidity of the Trump circle. So maybe they just didn't get the significance of June 19 and Tulsa put together. But if they did--it's a sick, vile, aggressively white supremacist gesture.
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    The next Democratic president will be charged with cleaning up the fourth consecutive Republic economic calamity. When will the American people catch on? Maybe, for starters, when the Democrats start pointing it out.
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    Most French media ignoring the hack. See? It can be done. It's called news judgment.
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    That DeJoy guy is still in charge of the Post Office, right? He couldn't help steal the election, but it sounds like he's fucking up Christmas pretty good.
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    I'm sure Susan Collins will find the decision to confirm Matt Gaetz a very painful one.
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    So we now have a president who mainly wants to be reelected to ensure that he can stay out of jail for the next four years. Let that one sink in.
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    "Hillary Clinton's AG Fires SDNY Prosecutor Who Is Investigating Hillary's Lawyer." Just imagine that headline. Imagine the reax. Imagine.
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    The really striking number from this WaPo-ABC poll isn't that 60% disapprove of Trump. It's that 53 percent *strongly* disapprove. A majority. Don't think I've ever seen that of a president. washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019…
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    Hey look! On the TV! An American president is having a press conference in Helsinki and not betraying his country!!
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    I can't believe I used to sit in Room 9 in NY's City Hall and listen seriously while this man gave a press conference.
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    Me, half an hour ago, to nine-year-old daughter: "Lemme ask you. Would you ever consider taking a swig of Lysol?" Nine-year-old daughter: "NO! Why are you asking me *that*?"
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    Imagine how the owner of this site feels when Des Moines Register and Saturday Night Live are trending. Keep it going!
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    Just so we're clear here, the people who screamed that Obamacare was done in secret are rewriting their health care bill IN ONE NIGHT.
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    Dear New Zealanders, what's it like to live in a sane country?