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Even within our own crowd, Hillary Clinton can be a somewhat polarizing figure... Say what you want, but she was sadly prescient about two main points: 1. Trump would indeed become "Putin's puppet" and bend to his every wish. 2. Trump supporters are indeed as deplorable as they come. Spot-on.

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The nice thing about having a newsletter is that when I say to editors "How about I write 1,600 words on how Trump's obsession with Jon Husted's ass is rooted in the fascist worship of the desexualized male body?" and they say no, I still get to write it. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trumps-lus...

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In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

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Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff just told Putin he is a humanitarian. This is completely fucking insane.

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