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Learning to Love Bernie Sanders, or Trying To | The New Yorker

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Opinion | A Trump Plan Breaks a Great Deal for Ranchers and Park Lovers - The New York Times

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Doubts Linger as Democrats Vote: ‘I Don’t Think We Have a Perfect Candidate’ - The New York Times

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Doubts Linger as Democrats Vote: ‘I Don’t Think We Have a Perfect Candidate’ - The New York Times

I'm so depressed about this I can hardly breathe. Doesn't anyone vote for who they actually believe in? "Well, I really like Warren, but I don't know if she can win, so I'll vote for [the Republican trying to buy the primary]." With a public like this, we would have never given women the right to vote -- we'd be too scared that someone might disagree.

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Elizabeth Warren’s popularity is concentrated among educated whites - Vox

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I'm so depressed about this I can hardly breathe. Doesn't anyone vote for who they actually believe in? "Well, I really like Warren, but I don't know if she can win, so I'll vote for [the Republican trying to buy the primary]." With a public like this, we would have never given women the right to vote -- we'd be too scared that someone might disagree.

You would think that given the brilliant successes of Hillary Clinton's first term the attractiveness of a safe moderate democrat would have warn off by now.

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Well that was fast...

Michael Bloomberg Quits Democratic Race, Ending a Brief and Costly Bid - The New York Times

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I'm so depressed about this I can hardly breathe. Doesn't anyone vote for who they actually believe in? "Well, I really like Warren, but I don't know if she can win, so I'll vote for [the Republican trying to buy the primary]." With a public like this, we would have never given women the right to vote -- we'd be too scared that someone might disagree.

I already compromised by caucusing for Bernie. It's pretty damn sad that I have to move further right just to prevent fascism.

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Trump Screams at Pence for Not Praying Hard Enough to Make Biden Lose | The New Yorker

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There's Finally Real Hope for Public Lands Funding | Outside Online

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Washington, D.C., Man Linked to Community Spread of Coronavirus Misinformation | The New Yorker

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Opinion | Could a College Degree Save Your Life? - The New York Times

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On January 20, 2020 at 8:20 p.m. PDT I received a communication from a reliable source. This person had interactions earlier that evening with high level party members and associates of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) who said that they have now selected Biden as the Democratic Party nominee, with Warren as the VP. They also said the plan is to smear Bernie as a Russian asset. So the DNC has coronated Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren as the presidential and vice presidential nominees.

This was published on Jan 28th. Party Insiders Talk: Cheating, Rigging, and Smearing

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This was published on Jan 28th. Party Insiders Talk: Cheating, Rigging, and Smearing

well that could get fascinating fast

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"...WeWork’s financial backers kicked the Neumanns out of their ice bath-equipped corner office — only to burn another $1.7 billion bestowing upon the couple the biggest golden parachute in history. It was a relatively victimless grift, graded on the generous curve of modern corporate meltdowns, but it symbolized magnificently the deranged notion that young idealists can solve the world’s problems by wearing vegan shoes and delivering triple-digit returns to a small clique of Silicon Valley billionaires."

Rebekah Neumann's Search For Enlightenment Fueled WeWork's Collapse

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Trump ‘didn’t know people died from the flu.’ It killed his grandfather.

In Atlanta on Friday, President Trump talked about the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in other countries vs. the United States. He also compared coronavirus disease with influenza.

“Over the last long period of time, you have an average of 36,000 people dying” a year, the president said, gesturing toward National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci, who nodded confirmation.

Trump continued: “I never heard those numbers. I would’ve been shocked. I would’ve said, ‘Does anybody die from the flu? I didn’t know people died from the flu.’ … And again, you had a couple of years where it was over a 100,000 people died from the flu.”

The president is correct. Seasonal influenza has killed 12,000 to 61,000 people in the United States every year since 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been several years where more than 100,000 Americans were killed by particularly nasty influenza strains.

One of those episodes was the 1958 pandemic, which killed 116,000 in the United States.

Another was 1918.

That is the year Trump’s paternal grandfather died.

He died of the flu.

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Susan Collins Unable to Decide Whether to Wash Hands | The New Yorker

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One more time on privacy but apropos this group’s interest... Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.

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Opinion | President Trump Is Unfit for This Crisis. Period. - The New York Times

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Opinion | Trump Can’t Handle the Truth - The New York Times