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((Lincoln Mitchell))

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((Lincoln Mitchell))

@LincolnMitchell

Professor @Columbia, analyst,writer&kibitzer of American politics, foreign policy,Eurasia, baseball&San Francisco. lincolnmitchell.substack.com/subscribe

New York City & San Francisco

Joined May 2010

((Lincoln Mitchell))
@LincolnMitchell
Aug 6, 2020
Replying to @RuthGotian and @tufkaa
A US Ambassador once told me he had access to classified information and knew more than me. Turns out the information was an article I had written for a news site that the USG had deemed classified for internal purposes.
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@LincolnMitchell
Jul 9, 2023
The harassment and arrest of children by the SFPD occurss at a time when the mayor and her allies and backers have been fear-mongering about crime for several years, and yet this is how the Mayor, or somebody, chose to use police resources. It is a reminder than in 1/
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@LincolnMitchell
Sep 23, 2018
Replying to @DrPaulGosar
So you’re siblings are Stalinists because they don’t want Arizona to run out of water and want poor people to be able to see a doctor?
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@LincolnMitchell
Jul 21, 2024
Biden is out. Let's drop the mini-primary, open convention fan fiction bs and get behind the @VP. Kamala Harris is the GOP's worst nightmare.
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@LincolnMitchell
Jan 23, 2018
Replying to @blakehounshell
The evangelical movement has never been about values. It has always been about intolerance. If you have been paying attention to American politics the last half century or so, this should not come as a surprise.
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@LincolnMitchell
Jul 9, 2023
Replying to @LincolnMitchell
San Francisco the crime discourse is never really about crime. It is about who gets to decide how public space can be used. It is about perceptions about disorder and ultimatley about what, and who, the city is for. This is San Francisco, if you have a problem with kids on 2/
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@LincolnMitchell
Jul 27, 2020
Replying to @rtraister
When I read that quote from @KamalaHarris, I thought to myself that is exactly why she should be VP. I want a VP candidate who understands politics and is willing to play hardball-and who understands when to move on. That article only made me like her more.
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@LincolnMitchell
Oct 29, 2017
Replying to @newsguyusa @W7VOA and 4 others
Right on. I do the same thing every time I ride by the Trump International Hotel in Manhattan.
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@LincolnMitchell
May 14, 2023
The national media is beating up on San Francisco and exagerating problems here because the mayor and much of the media and political leadership here has been exagerating those problems for their own political purposes. It is apparent that this is now coming back to create 1/
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@LincolnMitchell
Oct 24, 2020
Thanks for the great rating. The architect who designed our house is respsonsible for those bookshelves.
Room Rater
@ratemyskyperoom
Oct 24, 2020
A book wall to aspire to. Could be ladder worthy. Great brick. 9/10 @LincolnMitchell
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@LincolnMitchell
Feb 24, 2017
My new piece @Medium on why the #GOP congress & #JeffSessions are too enmeshed in #russiagate to do an investigation
Why Congress Won’t Investigate Michael Flynn, Russia and Donald Trump (Yet)
From medium.com
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@LincolnMitchell
Mar 10, 2023
If you want to understand how race works in America, look at the coverage of Lauren Boebert's son and how Boebert herself is handling it and think of how young African American women who get pregnant out of wedlock have been portrayed in the US.
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@LincolnMitchell
Jun 15, 2020
Replying to @CaslerNoel @ViudaAlegre13 and @realDonaldTrump
It looks like a good read, but like so many things in the Trump era will change little. Cult members rarely leave the cult because of a tell all book.
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@LincolnMitchell
Jun 6, 2022
The effort to recall @chesaboudin is not, as the @nytimes, suggested a battle between progressive forces in San Francisco. It is an attempted power grab by the right.