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Jill Lawrence

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Opinion writer. Former editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal. Former campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock."

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"Since he left office, his bigotry, overt and implied, has only gotten worse"—and it's spreading. My new @theatlantic.bsky.social Daily piece on Black jobs, racism, and presidential fitness🎁(or you can subscribe to the newsletter to get The Daily free as an email) theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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👀 @govwesmoore.bsky.social will issue a mass pardon of 175,000 marijuana convictions, a sweeping move he called "a real opportunity...to right a lot of historical wrongs" by removing economic barriers that have disproportionately affected "communities of color."🎁
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David French: I was scheduled to speak about the challenges of dealing with toxic polarization, but I was considered too polarizing. 🎁www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk0.JPlU.5e_9A8Ed7DQX&smid=url-share

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"It would, in truth, be bracing and wonderful to participate in Maryland elections. But being our own state would be better." Why DC is an international outlier and what I'm doing after 40+ years without congressional representation. (It involves recipes.) jilllawrence.substack.com/p/democracy-...

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Worried about democracy? Check out the 'pretend power' of Washington, DC. Residents of the nation's capital are unique across the world in their lack of voting rights and congressional representation. My new "History Keeps Happening" substack post. #HKH open.substack.com/pub/jilllawr...

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I agree, but it's still amazing that his own party doesn't care about winning a majority. Spectacularly self-defeating. Just like the GA Senate runoffs in Jan. 2021.

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.@maxboot.bsky.social on American complacency, with this especially chilling line if you, like me, are watching "A Gentleman in Moscow": "Russia itself has ended its brief experiment with democracy to return to a level of despotism not seen since the days of Stalin." 🎁 wapo.st/3RaDMMm

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Wow. Could Washington be the only state with one of the most obvious, common-sense laws imaginable? A law that says felons can't run for office?www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/plot-twist-for-trump-wa-has-a-law-against-felons-running-for-office/

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Celebrate, mourn or rage? What's the right way to feel when a former president is convicted on 34 felony counts? You can't name a newsletter "History Keeps Happening" and then not write about that, even if you'd rather read a mystery novel. So here you go: jilllawrence.substack.com/p/celebrate-...

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Democrats for the win—> Biden to be nominated virtually before the convention in order to get on Ohio’s ballot (The roll call at the virtual pandemic convention was spectacular.) politi.co/4byOC6Y via @politico.com

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"History Keeps Happening: Political analysis for people who can't stop paying attention." Here's my new substack, because why not. Most of you know who I am. But do you know what I'm watching on TV? Also, the 51-star flag we will fly on Memorial Day. jilllawrence.substack.com/p/living-in-...

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Yes, I launched this thing the night of a holiday weekend, then rushed out to dinner. But I'm back and it's here👉 History Keeps Happening: Political analysis for people who can't stop paying attention. 1st dispatch: Living in fraught times, and how to survive them open.substack.com/pub/jilllawr...

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New national Q poll: 48-47 Biden-Trump matchup. 41 Biden-38 Trump in a 5-way race, with 19% saying they're very or somewhat likely to change their minds. AND: 72% say they are likely to watch the June debate. So, very close, very fluid and who knows. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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New Quinnipiac U poll of Wisconsin: SMH as usual re confusing economy responses. On the other hand, Biden-Trump at 50-44 in a two way race, and Baldwin has a solid lead in the Senate contest. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Sen. Schumer torches Trump and his yes-people for unfathomable hypocrisy and cynicism in torpedoing a tough bipartisan border bill so he could campaign on the chaos, says their failure will linger like "stink on garbage." I sure hope so. Democrats, your move. www.democrats.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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Call me crazy, but maybe presidents who get themselves indicted shouldn't have their criminal trials presided over by judges they themselves appointed.

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I had exactly the same reaction. But my husband watched it all.

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.@radiofreetom.bsky.social wonders how to make the prospect of Trump 2.0 as visceral as the car crashes they used to show us in driver's ed: "We can better imagine alien invasions than we can an authoritarian America." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Lacovara and Aftergut on the Supreme Court and Trump immunity: Any hopes for recovering its reputation now rest entirely on a speedy ruling that allows the case to go to trial sooner rather than later. (Fact check: True.) www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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.@demfromct.bsky.social in today's Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: "It can't be said enough" that "Trump personally sandbagged the border security bill to make it a campaign issue." 💯. Make him own it. Like on abortion, the ads write themselves. Tagline: Trump did this. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

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Republican & former U.S. representative Liz Cheney: "It cannot be that a president of the United States can attempt to steal an election and seize power but our justice system is incapable of bringing him to trial before the next election four years later. ... [H]e seeks to break our institutions."

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Republican Voters Against Trump cuts straight to the heart of the absurdity of it all. Here's the press release, rvat.org/trump-hidden... with a link to the new ad:

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.@maxboot.bsky.social with the Ukraine battlefield state of play. The House circumvented Trump and MAGA "just in time to avert Ukraine's defeat." This should never, never have taken so long. Gift link: wapo.st/49NcMss

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Charlie Sykes tackles how the news media can solve the Trump problem when, "To put it mildly, the arc of social media does not bend toward Edward R. Murrow–style journalism." For a start, he writes, relentlessly emphasize the truth and Trump's "abnormality." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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