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Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/
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Additional thread here, including why Mike Lee’s mockery of the political murders in Minnesota isn’t just ugly but also dangerous bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Also notable: exactly zero GOP senators appear willing to clearly reject Mike Lee’s behavior. Until this dynamic changes, the rising danger of political violence will continue.
“Lee’s Republican colleagues generally declined to criticize him directly for the posts” www.politico.com/live-updates...
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And even as Bondi’s statement says the horrific assassinations in Minnesota “shocked and united us in grief”… Trump—just like Mike Lee—now mocks Gov. Tim Walz and says he won’t call him to offer support. This further fuels a disturbing message about political violence www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...
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Mike Lee's lie that the MN killer was "Marxist"—he was a hardcore Trump voter, according to the killer's longtime friend—is no joke. It can inspire and give permission to dangerous people, e.g. those who might want to "kill commies" www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha... h/t @letsgomathias.bsky.social
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Lee’s staffers should also quit in shame bsky.app/profile/burg...
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"Lee, who regularly shares conspiracy theories online and has become a MAGA influencer, was at first unapologetic in the face of a firestorm of criticism for his early posts on the matter. He briefly pinned one of them to the top of his account." [2/x]
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As I’ve also long reported, this, from the article, gets to the why… www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
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A powerful must read by @jeanguerre.bsky.social - here’s a gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...
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‘His songs left their mark on a host of top artists, including George Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Michael Jackson, Outkast, Red Hot Chili Peppers, D’Angelo, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock…As the critic Joel Selvin said, “There was Black music before Sly Stone, and Black music after Sly Stone.”’
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“In a remarkable instance of successive longevities and late-in-life paternities, the Tyler family produced a genealogical marvel, if not a singularity: three generations that spanned nearly the entire history of the American experience.”
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“he withheld more than $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others who worked at his facilities under the pretext of using it for their Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes. Instead, he used some of the money to buy a $2 million yacht and to pay for travel…”
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“admitted use of money earmarked for employees’ taxes to fund an extravagant lifestyle”
his mom was “invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner that promised face-to-face access to Trump”
“Less than 3 weeks after she attended the dinner, Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon”
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Sobering thread on this from former federal judge @judgeluttig.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/judg...