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Could you continue to include clips of music that you like. The late great Eric Boehlert used to include music vids of artists he'd found and recommended. It was the perfect addition to his unparalleled reporting and insights. I found so much good music through him.

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WXPN is a gem of a station! I live in the Philly area but if you don’t, you can stream. Raina Douris is the host of World Cafe and I could listen to her voice all day.

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What Becky said!!!

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Regarding Josh Marshall's comment on McConnell's political legacy, I would phrase it this way: Mitch McConnell emerges as an indelible, perhaps even historic figure whose strategic acumen casts a long shadow, one that is as remarkable in its genius as it is devastating in its effects on the fabric of American politics. To speak without euphemism, ​McConnell has been a maestro of political destruction. While it's true that McConnell is a remnant of a previous political era, the claim of him as an institutionalist couldn't be further from the truth.

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The slow moving irony of lawyers using laws to avoid justice, over decades; All abetted by corporate media:

Reagan was the Teflon President because our society wanted him that way, no effective prosecution. Democrats are complicit by being “too polite” again over decades.

Our society observes or ignores while power brokers game us.

One could ask, “there were more slaves in the South than white owners, why didn’t they conquer?” The majority is overpowered by a continuing minority.

We subscribers of TPM appreciate the stories and news you provide but we are modern slaves watching lawyers.

https://youtu.be/Xs-UEqJ85KE

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I confess: I have no idea why the primary MAL defendant proposed any trial dates, certainly one at that time.

IIRC, I’ve made clear how much I respect fPOTUS’ litigation in this and the other cases — if I haven’t, it’s effectively no respect — but I’d like to think that any MAL prosecution would have to make clear what was, and maybe still is, at risk national security-wise which… wouldn’t work well for a POTUS candidate IYKWIM.

Of course, time will tell.

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