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Pod Save The World, NYT, MS, Author - All We Say: The Battle for American Identity. Substack:

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1Jan 6, '21If you don't impeach and remove a President for staging a coup, what's the point of impeachment.12.3×0378k64k825
2Nov 4, '20Looking at Black voters in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, it's striking that people who have been treated the worst by our democracy consistently do the most to sav4.1×0116k22k675
3Mar 4, '17No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.3.6×070k35k1
4May 26, '20Guess what they don’t do in South Korea? Make fun of people for wearing masks in a pandemic. They’ve had 300 deaths.3.1×095k15k211
5May 29, '20It's not just Trump. None of this - the 100,000 dead, the tens of millions unemployed, the social fabric shredded, the global reputation collapsed - would have happened without the2.9×080k18k291
6Aug 23, '24Kamala Harris continues to demonstrate impeccable judgment.2.9×1.7M64k5.1k507
7Aug 28, '20Vote for Joe Biden like your life and democracy depends on it.2.8×072k11k59
8Jan 6, '21The fact that Mitch McConnell - a man with an unrelenting commitment to undermine America's first Black president - could lose his veto power over American democracy bc of Raphael 2.8×090k11k348
9Mar 6, '21It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.2.8×078k17k411
10May 11, '20Trump being defeated by Obama's Vice President is the most appropriate way for this to come to an end.2.6×082k10k109
11Mar 19, '20When you hear that China did a better job containing COVID-19 because it’s authoritarian, remember South Korea. The issue is competence, not democracy.2.5×075k14k331
12Sep 15, '20Reminder that the Republican Party is the only major political party anywhere in the world that denies the reality of climate change.2.5×069k16k250
13Jun 30, '19Trump is lying. I was there for all 8 years. Obama never sought a meeting with Kim Jong Un. Foreign policy isn’t reality television it’s reality.2.4×064k14k110
14May 29, '20We really need a new President.2.4×077k9k62
15May 31, '20Getting an 8pm curfew alert on my phone during a pandemic and Depression while Trump invites Putin to the US is about where I thought we'd be in year 4 of Trump.2.3×068k13k451
16Mar 12, '20Obama left Trump a growing economy, a shrinking deficit, an office on global health security to manage pandemic preparedness, and an Iran Deal.2.3×064k14k373
17Jun 9, '20This is not a democracy. It's also the Republican strategy for November.2.3×054k19k304
18Mar 10, '20It has not gotten enough attention that Trump literally closed down the White House office created to deal with global pandemics two years ago for no good reason.2.2×054k17k250
19May 3, '22George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote and appointed five of these judges who will shape American life (and, on climate, life on Earth) for decades. Some democr2.2×063k11k480
20Feb 24, '22It is not partisan to point out that it's profoundly disturbing that the former President of the United States was calling Putin a genius on the eve of the largest invasion in Euro2.2×066k10k510
21Jan 16, '21Trump, Kushner and their circle will walk out of government knowing a tremendous amount of very classified and very valuable information. Does anyone really think they won't try to2.1×060k11k217
22Oct 9, '20Donald Trump demands long form birth certificates but can’t produce his negative tests.2.1×066k9.9k97
23Sep 30, '21It says a lot that’s not good about American politics and society that $7.5 trillion for a decade on defense gets almost no debate while less than half of that investing in people 2.0×056k12k328
24Mar 18, '20If you want to understand how catastrophically Trump has failed in this response, consider that the first cases were in the US and South Korea on the same day. And because of testi2.0×045k17k605
25Oct 3, '20My three year old daughter just did an outdoor ballet class in 80 degree heat where all the kids wore masks the whole time. Three year olds being more responsible than the White Ho2.0×061k5.9k59
26Aug 10, '22The strangest thing about this epoch of American history will always be that tens of millions of grown ups decided to form a cult like devotion to, of all available people, Donald 2.0×058k7.9k344
27Nov 10, '18I helped plan all of President Obama’s trips for 8 years. There is always a rain option. Always.1.9×052k11k66
28Jun 26, '18The breakdown in civility and our politics occurred when a sitting President couldn't even get a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee for 8 months. Not when someone couldn't eat at R1.9×044k14k41
29Oct 5, '20In a world of narcissistic authoritarians, we got saddled with the absolutely dumbest one.1.9×060k7.7k124
30Mar 9, '20It wasn’t a good idea to elect Donald Trump President of the United States of America.1.8×051k6.1k62
31Aug 15, '18John Brennan was the point person for the Obama White House on the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. He knows a lot more about defending our nation than someone who uses secur1.8×045k13k48
32Sep 25, '20Imagine fighting for this democracy for almost 250 years. All the lives lost and sacrifices made. And giving it away for Donald J. Trump.1.8×051k11k137
33Jul 14, '19Trump launched his political brand 8 years ago saying the first African American President was born in Africa. It has always been about racism, and the fact that this has ever been1.8×052k10k108
34Apr 26, '20Trump's weird obsession with the Nobel Prize seems entirely rooted in the fact that Obama won it.1.8×056k6.4k68
35May 6, '20The thing about Trump is everything leads back to one thing: how profoundly unfit he is for the job. And that’s awkward because of what it says about America and how someone like h1.8×045k8.4k129
36Jun 10, '20Stacey Abrams would have won a free and fair election to be governor of Georgia. If this was happening in other countries we'd insist on independent monitors.1.7×051k9k83
37Jan 6, '21I don’t have the words to convey how important it would be for Mitch McConnell to not be in charge of the Senate. For Americans. For democracy. For the planet.1.6×057k5.4k70
38Oct 9, '20Donald Trump is doing whatever he can to ensure that Hillary Clinton wont win the 2020 election1.6×055k5.4k60
39Feb 23, '21It’s really beyond parody that the entire Republican Party could vote against Senate confirmation bc of tweets after four years of backing up Trump. Just bottomless hypocrisy.1.6×050k8.1k105
40Jun 27, '20How would Fox, Lindsey Graham, and the GOP react if any other President knew for months that Russia was paying bounties on our troops, did literally nothing about it, praised Russi1.6×043k11k123
41Aug 5, '18I worked on the Obama campaign and we would never, ever, have held a meeting with a foreign power to "get information on an opponent." It doesn't happen "all the time in politics" 1.6×040k10k44
42Jan 5, '20This is a lie, offensive, obscene and an absolute disgrace. This man and his boss have destroyed America’s reputation and made a shambles of Iran policy in part because of their pa1.5×033k9.2k113
43Jan 3, '21What's happening in the Senate has nothing to do with polarization. It's a far right attempt to overthrow an election and institute authoritarian rule. The frame of "polarization" 1.5×043k9.2k321
44Aug 27, '20A Black man was shot in the back by police in front of his kids, a Trump-inspired vigilante shot peaceful protestors and the propaganda network of the Republican Party is celebrati1.5×040k10k147
45Apr 14, '20Losing to Obama’s Vice President is going to do wonders for Trump’s Obama inferiority complex1.5×048k5.4k69
46Oct 2, '20There was an entire campaign built around dunking on Joe Biden for wearing a mask, not allowing big crowds, and doing virtual events from his home.1.4×044k7.3k99
47Oct 17, '20Few countries with fascist autocrats get one last chance to vote them out. This is our last chance. Let’s do it.1.4×039k8k143
48Jun 7, '17Terrible attack today in Iran. Whether in Tehran or London, we should stand in solidarity with innocents who are targeted by terrorists1.4×035k12k0
49Mar 20, '20What kind of person goes along with their Party calling something a hoax while they dump millions in stocks because they know they're lying?1.4×038k8.4k93
50Sep 9, '20Imagine the things we don’t know.1.4×042k6.8k60
51Mar 24, '20So weird how the Tea Party isn’t rising up in opposition to all this government spending.1.4×041k6.2k89
52Jul 24, '20Yoho is a reminder that Trump did not takeover the Republican Party, he is a product of where it’s been headed for a long time1.4×042k7k82
53May 3, '22I’m sorry but no one who came of age with Bush v Gore (eg anyone under like 50) has ever seen the Supreme Court as “apolitical”1.4×047k4.4k300
54Oct 3, '20It started with lies about crowd size. That’s the reality we’ve been living ever since.1.4×043k6.4k82
55Mar 12, '20Republican leaders knew better. They knew this man was not at all up to this job, and yet they've supported him, defended him, literally voted to keep him in office despite that kn1.4×036k8.9k107
56Feb 18, '20Things Obama did and Trump didn’t: - won over 50 percent of vote (twice) - rescue economy - initiate longest stretch of job growth in history (still going) - extend health care to 1.4×037k8.3k148
57Jun 20, '20None of this would be happening without Senate Republicans. They are worse than Trump bc they know just how extreme this is. Vote them out.1.4×040k7.8k41
58Nov 4, '20I think Biden will win. I also think the problem in this election is not the polling industry getting it wrong, it's the fact that this many Americans took a hard look at Trump and1.4×042k5.1k185
59Jul 19, '20Whoever is doing this fascist secret police stuff in Portland should be prosecuted under a non-Barr DoJ.1.4×041k6.8k45
60Sep 28, '20The most uncomfortable thing about Trump's presidency has always been what it says about America. He is basically all of our worst and most absurd traits manifest in one person.1.4×041k6.5k150
61Oct 25, '20Imagine if we had a system where the candidate who got the most votes in the election became President.1.3×029k3.6k53
62Mar 22, '20If Biden wins, he is going to inherit a Great Recession and no money to do anything. This time it only took them 4 years instead of 8.1.3×037k7.3k120
63May 29, '19It's very strange in a democracy that a President can't be charged with a crime.1.3×035k6.2k53
64Jun 28, '201. I have trouble believing it, but as someone who got the presidential daily briefing for more than 7 years the idea that a POTUS wouldn’t be briefed on a Russian bounty on US tro1.3×036k7.6k234
65Sep 18, '19Bibi backsliding. Boris flailing. Hong Kong rising. The authoritarian trend is not inevitable. Fight back. It will work.1.3×035k7.9k86
66Jan 8, '20This didn’t need to happen.1.3×036k5.1k49
67Jun 6, '20Our country really can't take 4 more years of this.1.3×033k3.8k30
68Feb 3, '20News analysis: “Democrats argued that Kansas City is in Missouri. But they failed to convince Republicans that it is not in Kansas.”1.2×037k6.2k95
69Mar 21, '20No other country on Earth calls it the China virus. Hard to overstate how dumb, racist and pointless this must look from abroad - like Trump’s entire presidency. Damage to US stand1.2×033k5.6k64
70Jan 3, '21Pretty remarkable how much more commitment to democracy the Georgia Secretary of State has than almost the entire House and Senate Republican caucus1.2×039k5.6k56
71Oct 21, '20The President having a secret Chinese bank account and paying hundreds of times more taxes in China than the US seems like it should be a bigger thing.1.2×031k7.5k80
72Jul 30, '19This is a lie. McConnell refused to sign a bipartisan statement opposing Russian interference in the fall of 2016 and is refusing to protect our elections today.1.2×029k8.9k48
73Jun 11, '20We would think it was really dark if Germany had monuments to Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler all over. This is not complicated. Take them down.1.2×036k6.5k98
74Jun 24, '18The President of the United States is threatening to do away with the rule of law. His press secretary didn't get served at a Red Hen. One of these things matters and the other doe1.2×030k7.8k27
75Sep 25, '19So the Barr DoJ was suppressing a whistle blower complaint that apparently implicates Barr in Trump’s Ukraine scheme. The corruption is everywhere in this Administration.1.2×031k7.9k77
76May 17, '21This should not exist in a functioning democracy.1.2×035k6.2k260
77Nov 1, '20Stacey Abrams and Beto O'Rourke didn't stop organizing and registering voters in Georgia and Texas after the 2018 elections. Now those states are in play in a presidential election1.2×036k5.4k89
78Sep 24, '20It will never not be insane and devastating that 40+ percent of Americans are totally cool with junking democracy.1.2×035k5.3k86
79Apr 30, '21People like Giuliani and Gaetz are being investigated because they’re criminals not because they’re Republicans.1.1×037k4.8k51
80Apr 24, '20It would be good to have someone who isn’t a complete moron as President1.1×038k4.3k32
81Dec 9, '20Trying to imagine the GOP reaction if 17 blue states sought to invalidate the will of the people in red states based on an insane conspiracy theory. Polarization is asymmetrical in1.1×034k5.2k186
82Feb 27, '20It’s still amazing to see how a rambling, semi coherent and contradictory presser from Trump gets repackaged into headlines, stories and tv clips that turn him into a normal Presid1.1×031k6.4k106
83May 29, '21It’s going to look totally insane to history if we end up losing democracy bc a couple of people wanted to protect the filibuster.1.1×033k4.9k108
84Aug 7, '20Imagine what Republicans would say if Obama was President and we had 22 percent of the world’s deaths from a pandemic. Reminder: 2 people died in the US from Ebola.1.1×032k5.7k88
85Sep 2, '21It's almost impossible to get your mind around how much is currently being sacrificed in favor of a Senate procedural rule that appears nowhere in the Constitution and emerged to b1.1×029k6.5k165
86Sep 15, '19Turns out a weekend FBI investigation that talked to almost no one wasn’t the best way to vet someone getting a lifetime appointment to the most powerful court in the world.1.0×031k6k51
87Sep 28, '19The speed of all this info coming out about Trump’s corruption is a good reminder that treating everyone like shit ultimately catches up to you.1.0×033k4.9k45
88Jun 5, '20The irony of the Trump era may be that it leads to a much more progressive America. Let's make that happen.1.0×033k4.3k40
89Nov 8, '18Strange that the media isn’t all over the caravan story anymore.1.0×029k5.9k24
90Jul 4, '20What you’re watching in South Dakota needs to be the last gasp of a dying order.1.0×034k3.9k66
91Nov 6, '20Stacey Abrams should have been Governor but for voter suppression. A lot of people would have been turned off politics. Instead she went back to work and here we are.1.0×033k3.7k77
92Oct 3, '20Why on Earth would we trust these people to protect the country when they can't even protect themselves?1.0×030k5.4k51
93Sep 26, '20It’s very strange to see all these GOP condemnations of attacks on Catholicism when I haven’t seen any attacks on Catholicism and the Democratic nominee is Catholic.1.0×030k5.3k64
94Apr 6, '20Why does anyone even pretend like we have a normal government?1.0×032k4k34
95Oct 3, '20Republicans should not be in any positions of responsibility for other people. Vote them out.1.0×031k5.1k47
96Oct 16, '19I doubt there’s been a more flattering picture of a Speaker of the House in recent in American history.1.0×032k3.5k61
97Jun 29, '22The whole point about putting people under oath is that it’s about a million times more credible than an anonymous source.1.0×032k3.2k51
98Jul 21, '20An incoming Biden Administration should give serious thought to breaking up DHS.0.9×030k3.6k50
99Jul 30, '20Remember having an actual President.0.9×029k2.7k25
100Aug 18, '20Michelle Obama rises to every major occasion and speech.0.9×031k2.6k18

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