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Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social |
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senior politics reporter @ Rolling Stone magazine // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati (go Bearcats 🐻 🐱) // volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul - Cincinnati // Rolling Stones obsessive
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Fav thing to mention about the director of this upcoming horror movie that’s being acclaimed as a “masterpiece” etc isn’t that the director is the son of the star of Psycho, but that the director is the male dork in Legally Blonde
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longlegs
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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For one thing, they weren’t expecting the court’s conservative majority to start pulling that many teeth, preemptively, out of Jack Smith’s case before it ever got to trial
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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EVEN Trump lawyers and advisers were genuinely surprised at how close the Supreme Court majority got to his absurd “total” immunity argument. They expected a partial victory. They did not expect this kind of technically partial but also massive win: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“There was no more laughing left to do” is a sentence I haven’t been able to get out of my head ever since early 2016 when I first read it
qz.com/624065/a-tip...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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It’s the most republic-ending form of “liberal so open minded they don’t even believe their own arguments”
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Oh fuuuuuuuck offffff
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ryan cooper
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Increasingly convinced Lawyer Brain is what paves the path to ruin more so than any other category of Brain
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Kate Shaw
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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take:
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Since Steve Bannon is back in the news: www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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If you don’t coronate K Hive it will take power
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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the K Hive it’s coming for us all
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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…but I’m sorry. President Trump already tried to order his pentagon to do it! It’s not hysterics or resistance fan fic, the concerns are rooted in Things That Factually Occurred. Would Trump order the assassination of chuck Schumer? I wouldn’t bet on it. But I don’t feel like rolling the dice
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…
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Matt Novak
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L O L G O P
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Um. From May.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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also, as we point out in this piece, Trump repeatedly told senior officials in his administration (thank goodness there wasn’t a “yes sir” uttered in these cases) to shoot protesters or migrants in the legs… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chances are high that would kill them!
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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again, Simpsons voice: GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR ADMINISTRATION aurora borealis
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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oh god the K Hive that’s… mah gawd it’s…
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Ed Burmila
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.
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Marisa Kabas
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i have some bad news
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Quinta Jurecic
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the repeated citations to Trump v Hawaii were what really sent me round the bend. the sheer smugness of it!
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Chris Geidner
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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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I think I was at that show? Jagger said something mocking Trump’s “tanks on the lawn”?
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I think people are overreading that Jim Clyburn quote x.com/MSNBC/status...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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That, and his sexual appeal
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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lol the latest cnn poll, president Kamala lfgggg
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Is Harvard still doing this dumbass thing, because 2024’s would/will be… something else
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-hi...
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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And: Kamala Harris' Dishonest Campaign To Destroy Backpage youtu.be/rjR-gkW6Nfs?...
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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Also from @pauldetrick.bsky.social: This video about the 2021 mistrial
youtu.be/0AsPFWKupKg?...
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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The doc comes from @pauldetrick.bsky.social, in collaboration with me & Reason's video team. Paul has made several previous videos about Backpage & sex work, including "The War on Backpage Is a War on Sex Workers" youtu.be/DPchvgMsjl8?...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Well they can’t all be correct predictions
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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He is so fucking stupid. addendum: even his statement denying our story (shocker) misrepresented what we reported so I guess he technically wasn’t denying it?
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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…sources who were in the room for this stuff couldn’t tell us how they’d do what he was bitching about them doing when he was president. then he ended his statement with “2024 or before!” which was the first time he publicly kinda confirmed he was privately talking about getting “reinstated” in 2021
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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My fav part of this was after the story ran, Trump’s office blasted out a statement denying the story but then… adding HOWEVER I do think what they are doing is crimes and this is the novel legal theory I’d use to prosecute (which tbh was a component in the reporting we were missing, our…
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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…claiming it was Off record which I told him, uh … no, man. To which he replied ok I “don’t care if it was on the record”
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Flashing back to my fav interview I ever conducted with Giuliani: www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giulian...
It was getting crazy enough that I was like… I have to pause this to patch in our national security reporter to start asking questions. It was all clearly on the record.
He called the next day…
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Do itttt
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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If you're in NYC, come to a screening of @reason.com's new mini-doc about the Backpage prosecution, followed by a panel chat with @nickgillespie.bsky.social & Kaytlin Bailey & me
July 23, 6:30 p.m. @ Sovereign House
Tickets for sale here: www.eventbrite.com/e/premiere-o...
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Dave Weigel
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He wasn't a median voter but I remember Doug Schoen, a Clinton hanger-on who hasn't done anything real in decades, going on Fox to say that the Comey letter clinched it: He could not possibly vote for Clinton. If she won nobody would remember the Comey letter! It didn't lead to shit!
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Dave Weigel
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I keep thinking of the medium-info swing voter in 2016 who, at the last minute, decided not to go for Hillary bc she'd be consumed by scandals and investigations. The "actually it's defying the constitution and will of the voter to investigate the president" CW came too late!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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well in a second term trump can just drone strike lorne michaels
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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She’s got a BRAND to maintain folks
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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This may be a bad time to mention but if you’re Taylor Swift, concerns about the constitutional order aside, do you wanna hitch your wagon to that now
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Chris Hayes
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And the SCANDAL of Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch !!!!
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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…further while he was in office. So to the writers room… I apologize?
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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…is not going to upset President Trump. Armando Iannucci is not going to drive him crazy because his work is too exceptional, and Donald Trump is insanely stupid and could barely follow the premise of an awesome MadTV sketch Alec Baldwin as Trump was the only way it could have shredded his brain…
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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Hmm wonder how this could boomerang
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