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True. It’s awful.

.Rep. Mikie Sherrill rightly warns that Trump will try to sabotage U.S. foreign policy for partisan gain this year, which may be easier for him to do if he’s given classified briefings. newrepublic.com/article/180733…

Good episode. The pundit performance on this was terrible. Rebecca Roiphe explains why Bragg's prosecution is legit: 'New York has an interest in making sure that businesses are not keeping records intended to fool regulators in the future.' That makes the Trump case 'run of the mill.'

New on Politix: A bunch of liberals without relevant subject-matter expertise rushed to position themselves against Bragg and the hush-money case. I interviewed Rebecca Roiphe, one of the few lawyers who’s enforced the laws Trump broke, about why they’re wrong. politix.fm/p/alvin-bragg-…

This is literally you

You’d expect your average American not to know the outcomes of these cases, but quite something for a SCOTUS justice to just say something factually wrong on the bench when it’s about incidents that happened in their own workplace.

If he ever *does* fart himself awake, I expect reporters in the courtroom to describe the disturbance with similar, cinematic detail.

NEW: Joe Biden should end his vow of silence and be heard on Trump’s hush-money trial—if only to rebut Trump’s slanderous lies. offmessage.net/p/biden-end-si…

If there was ever an oral argument in which he should have kept his mouth shut, it's this one. For decades he never said a word. Now he can't shut up.

It’s just ridiculous that Thomas is allowed to be on this case. Absolutely corrupt and ridiculous.

JUST IN: Judge Howell upholds the jury's defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani in a 48-page opinion.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

A huge part of Trump’s strategy is to baselessly assert “[bad thing] would not have happened if I’d been president,” never defending the assertion, and counting on the press to amplify his bullshit. Some thoughts on how to grapple with that mendacity. offmessage.net/p/how-to-beat-…

When Trump says inflation/Iran attack wouldn't have happened if he were in WH, 'reporters shouldn’t quote it without noting he was president and neither his record nor his agenda supports the claim.'

Via Brian Beutler, Trump was president once, we saw it
offmessage.net/p/how-to-beat-…

150 years ago today, at precisely 8pm, the world of art changed forever.

What happened? A small, independent art exhibition opened in Paris.

It was a financial failure and barely 3,000 people went — but, in time, these artists would come to be known as 'the Impressionists'...

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'In Biden’s America, oil production is up, while emissions are down. Police still face scrutiny, but murder is falling. Taxes and spending created jobs and increased wages.'

Great Brian Beutler look at why GOP propaganda works (tees off my Bannon piece):
offmessage.net/p/political-ef…

The media tell us they have to defer to perceptions in their reporting, as though they would report on the flat earth if it turned out that most people held that view.