“That [Rubio] appears perfectly comfortable to work within a party that is developing a racist paramilitary wing is the clearest sign of the party’s complete surrender to extremism.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I'm tweeting this Franklin Foer story, hopeful some would-be patron will read it, and Mikhail Voskresensky, 87, will find an affordable New York City apartment that can accommodate the loaner piano Steinway & Sons has offered him. bit.ly/3NcrtMi

Marco Rubio seems to be comfortable letting the Republican party develop a paramilitary wing nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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I'd be interesting in reading an objective reported take on Ross Douthat's allegation that DOJ is overcharging pro-life crimes and undercharging pro-choice ones. (I am neither accepting nor rejecting his claims) nytimes.com/2022/10/26/opi…

They think a public servant with a temporary health issue is qualified but they think the violent lunatic who doesn’t know anything about public policy isn’t? Weird

Biden's rejection of eliminating the debt ceiling was a dangerous gaffe, and now he has to correct it before it's too late nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Biden's gaffe about refusing to abolish the debt ceiling sets himself and the country up for disaster. Now it's on Biden and Democrats to fix it. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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when I am told I have to file a story

Happened to be re-reading Putin's 3/14 speech illegally annexing Crimea.

This line stood out:

Hear me, my dear friends. Do not believe those who want you to fear Russia, shouting that other regions will follow Crimea. We do not want to divide Ukraine; we do not need that.

The evidence is not 'nebulous.' it's a pretty widely-held theory within the literature, i.e., jstor.org/stable/45095168

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