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Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Brownstein, a 2-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, senior CNN political analyst & author of NYT best-seller Rock Me on the Water
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2012
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    #RockMeOnTheWater: how @JacksonBrowne, Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles; Beatty, Nicholson, @Janefonda, Spielberg, Altman; @TheNormanLear Carroll O'Connor, James L. Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Brown & more transformed music, movies, TV & politics in 1974 LA harpercollins.com/products/rock-…
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    If 20 high school students chanted this at a classmate how many would be expelled? If 20 employees yelled this at a colleague how many would be fired? If 20 Army soldiers aimed this at a platoon mate how many would be discharged? How much of US will accept this as a new standard?
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    Trump fans eventually break out in "send her back!" chants directed toward Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who serves in Congress who Trump viciously smeared.
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    One bloodstained toddler found orphaned; another thrust into a garbage bin for safety by his father. By now it's clear those opposing assault weapon & large magazine bans are explicitly choosing to accept such horrors on a regular basis so that gun ownership won't be restricted
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    Attorneys file ethics complaint against Graham over Georgia ballots
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    It's reasonable to ask how does #Kavanaugh continue serving as a federal judge, much less on #SCOTUS after delivering such an openly partisan attack and identifying so unequivocally as an opponent of the Dem Party? He has validated those who see him as a GOP operative in a robe
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    Clear words to me from former Trump DHS official Elizabeth Neumann on growing white nationalist threat: "The biggest thing that could help...is for the bulk of Republicans to come out & say the election was not stolen, Donald Trump lied, I was complicit in that lie & I apologize"
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    Denying a vote on Merrick Garland for almost a full year while rushing in a nominee closer to a presidential election than ever before in American history would qualify as what if not "court packing"?
    VP Mike Pence: "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to pack the court -- but we're not going to let it happen."
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    From the Sotomayor dissent: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied
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    Despite the outraged sugarcoating from @MittRomney @SenatorCollins @LeaderMcConnell @SenatorSinema @Sen_JoeManchin I think historians would agree the filibuster was used today to advance its most consistent purpose thru history: to block equal rights for Blacks & other minorities
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    Dr. Birx seconds Trump's insistence that hospital supplies are adequate & Americans can be confident they'll get a bed or ventilator: "As she spoke, medical staff in New York continued to say colleagues and patients are dying because they lack equipment in overtaxed hospitals."
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    The fact that so many GOP big state governors-in TX, FL & GA-all tightened statewide restrictions immediately after Trump finally let his advisers frame the full risk from the WH podium underscores how much his earlier minimizing contributed to the critical delays in those states
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    “Dad was a Republican. He watched Fox News, and he had voted for Ducey and Trump. When they told him not to live in fear, that very few people would catch the disease, that its effects weren’t serious, he believed them.”
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    Succinct director of Harvard Global Health institute: “People who are dying of this virus are not dying to protect the American way of life. They’re dying because their government has had a completely ineffective response to this infectious disease."
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    These images everywhere, unprecedented for a presidential call in my experience, look like what you'd see in a country that has overthrown a dictator or won a war, which in blue America may be exactly what it feels like, given that Trump has treated it as a foreign adversary.
    Huge Philly crowd singing and chanting, heading from Independence Hall to City Hall, with jubilant supporters along the way.
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