#WashingtonPost

"It was folly to grieve or to think." Today I re-read Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" (linked), which bears an uneasy resemblance to last Saturday's event in the Rose
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Mark my words. The Democrats are going to try to string this Wuhan China COVID-19 Chinese Coronavirus "crisis" out as long as possible, because it's the only way they can
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Reporter: "What did you do in February?"Trump: "A lot."Fact check: Golfed. Held rallies. Allowed virus to fly in from Italy and seed in New York. Failed to test as the
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Some of you may have heard that the President signed an Executive Order yesterday to “protect people with pre-existing conditions.” As a mom, I’m pretty good at sniffing out little
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SCOOP: In a meeting last week, the Trump administration discussed conducting the first U.S. nuclear test explosion since 1992 in a move that would have far-reaching consequences and reverse a
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All respect to Dan, but the bar for “right” here shouldn’t be set at “Trump attempts procedural coup and fails,” or “Dem landslide buries Trump’s election stealing ambitions.” Both of
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why are we just calling trump a fascist, but not biden - you know, the guy who wrote the crime bill and gave more funding to the military? i am
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I read maybe half the Philip Roth bio. I gave up when he talked about how his special "writer's intuition" told him about the affair between Malamud and his student
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This is important.The Trump Admin’s own analysis suggests violent extremists (like the Boogaloo Bois) - not Antifa - pose the greatest risk of violenceThe Trump Campaign is increasingly using Nazi-esque
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I just read a Washington Post article about Democrats running for the Senate in 2022 by @WaPoSean It demonstrates how structural racism and anti-Blackness infects journalism and political coverage.To wit:
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By now you've probably heard about how, for months, Trump failed to take the coronavirus threat seriously.Here are 5 things you may not know about Trump’s botched response: 1) In
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CENSUS CRISIS THREAD: As many as 225K NYC households (500K+ NYers) — and 6M households across the US — could be undercounted in the 2020 Census because Donald Trump is
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(Ongoing thread, will add more as I find it.)THIS MAN WAS ARRESTED MAY 7th 2020, for FORCIBLE SODOMY ON AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL.... You are not going to BELIEVE
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This is a very large retrospective study of patients around the world, showing an increased incidence of irregular heart rhythms in patients treated with CQ or HCQ compared to untreated
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"Russia and other adversaries may not need to hack the election if they can hack something else: our minds."From The Washington Post. Democracy Dies in Darkness. To be clear, this
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I've never met @pennjillette, but I know a couple of people who know him. One is that woman Meghan Vaughan-Strauss with whom I've argued here, and the other is Jeff
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