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Back in 2020, after Donald Trump lost the presidential election, the official account of the Arizona Republican Party started getting a little... wild.

In late night tweets, they started asking followers if they were ready to die for Trump.

phoenixnewtimes.com/news/die-for-s…

Real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh...wait. Nevermind.

I mean.

Not very Christian of the speaker

buried on p 554 of a GOP plan for a 2nd Trump term is a call to execute every person on federal death row + expand the death penalty to non-homicide cases

meanwhile, Biden's made little progress on his promise to work to abolish the federal death penalty huffpost.com/entry/gop-plan…

Maggot Brain

Kennedy’s chaotic candidacy has been more George Clinton than Bill Clinton. Can the heart-warming story of a worm’s mothership connection to his head pull his campaign out of a deep funk?

by Maureen Dowd

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So... 1 in 5 Indiana Republican primary voters just voted for someone other than Trump huffpost.com/entry/indiana-…

holy shit, congressman

THE question, via John Harwood

'Long as I've been a reporter, maintaining neutrality while covering politicians has been journalists' mandate. But 2024 presents a different issue: Should reporters also be neutral about the fate of American democracy?' zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran…

Donald Trump is the first American presidential candidate to explicitly threaten the democratic system on which a free press depends. That ought to be the campaign issue that dwarves all the rest

my new Zeteo column

zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran…

Trump: Declares nine different 'Infrastructure Weeks,' derails them all with various antics and scandals, fails to sign any major legislation because everyone in Congress hates him.

Biden: Negotiates with Congress to pass a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

Result:

Rudy Giuliani can't find an accountant who will help him in his bankruptcy case, say his lawyers huffpost.com/entry/rudy-giu…

so uh about that

well good morning!

Trump appears to be ditching his son Barron's high school graduation for a Minnesota political event huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…

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