Matthew Yglesias

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Guys ... Prump Tutin ... think about it

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“I like Brett Kavanaugh and believe he will make an exceptional Supreme Court Justice and look forward to voting to confirm him as soon as the president makes some meaningful financial disclosures.”

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The question isn’t what McCain, Flake, and Corker will say it’s what will they do and the answer is “nothing.”

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“I have a detailed opinion about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,” said John, 63, a retired autoworker, “and I completely back up what the president said and definitely don’t just respond to overall partisan cues.”

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Who will be the first to report back from a diner on whether Trump voters still like Trump?

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Good piece by @EricLevitz https://t.co/amk0OR6nso

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I feel like a smart political strategy for Trump would be fewer weird apologetics for Russia, more defense of plastic straws.

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I think Trump doesn’t say that invading Crimea, shooting down MH-17, bolstering Assad, etc. are bad because he … doesn’t think that stuff is bad.

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After two weeks of traffic doldrums, I am finally basking in a bounty of pee tape clicks.

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I totally believe that the Russian government routinely records what celebrity visitors do in luxury hotel rooms.

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The only alternative to this cruelty and chaos was to elect a person who used a personal email account for work, so you can see why it was a tough call for so many people.

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Trump says pretrial detention is too harsh for Paul Manafort.

Trump has thousands of children separated from their moms and dads, held in internment camps because he has ordered pretrial detention for every asylum-seeker who arrives at the border.

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The theft of Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court seat is legitimately the greatest heist in world history.

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For all the talk of liberal bubbles, it can’t be said enough that the anti-immigrant panic is being led by people who have little personal experience living alongside immigrants and immigrant communities.

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There’s a sort of glaring contradiction involved in labeling MS-13 public enemy number one while also maintaining that people fleeing MS-13 aren’t legitimate refugees.

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A restaurant owner declined to serve SHS.

In response Trump lied about the restaurant’s cleanliness and his supporters threatened violence against unrelated restaurants with the same name.

Today, the national press has us in a debate over whether liberals are uncivil.

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Who is going to cook the food at Republican-only restaurants?

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Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there who aren’t complicit in an illegal and morally appalling scheme to separate children from their parents to deter asylum applications and gain leverage in legislative negotiations.

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Remember last week when the Senate GOP caucus decided to celebrate July 4 in Moscow?

Kinda weird call.

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The see-sawing between “we need more civility” and “we need less political correctness” is really something to behold.