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Within hours of their failed insurrection, the master and his children warned that this was no time to be looking backwards, seeking scapegoats or playing “the blame game.” They chose instead to look forward—toward peace, prosperity, and impunity. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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This story all appears in my father’s 2002 memoir, “Secrets.” He was reluctant to hand over the papers to Sheehan without assurance NYT would publish. Eventually he handed them over, not knowing Sheehan had already copied. Otherwise, the final 2 grafs of the story are nonsense.
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Neil Sheehan, The NY Times reporter to whom my dad leaked the Pentagon Papers. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/01/07/busin…
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After the previous day’s incitements to mayhem, the master’s wife directed the servants to confiscate all pens and pencils in the manor. Regrettably, she had forgotten the crayons still in the nursery. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Yesterday I got a call from an SSND nun, Sr Judith Best, who shared with me 3 stories about her experience of being arrested with Dorothy Day while picketing with the United Farmworkers in 1973. (They spent 10 days in a California prison camp.) 1) Dorothy gave the women in
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her cell a little talk on “Jail 101.” She told the Srs the first thing they should do was clean the toilets. Secondly: beautify the cell. Some of the women had lipstick or dental floss and they made mobiles of little signs with words like Hope and Peace, hung from the ceiling.
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2) She was beside Dorothy as she was waiting to be arrested. Dorothy engaged in conversation with a policeman who was being pretty abrasive. She asked where he was from and when he said Pennsylvania, she asked if his father was a coal miner. He said yes, and she said,
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"Oh, was your father a coal miner?" When he said yes, she told him, “I walked on the picket line with them.” And suddenly his whole manner changed and he became very protective and solicitous toward her.
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3) While they were on a bus waiting to go to the courthouse for release, the Sister was asking the women for their favorite scripture quotes. Dorothy said, “Isn’t it obvious? ‘With God nothing is impossible.’”
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As always from @mbayer1248 a very important thread on the legacy of the bishops in the now-waning era of Trump.
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Maybe we should invoke the Zuckerberg Rule: If you are too dangerous for Facebook maybe you are too dangerous to have access to nuclear codes.
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Warning! Some (@SenSusanCollins?) will suppose that Trump has been chastened and learned his lesson. But on the contrary--now that he is seething over his "betrayal" by Pence and Twitter, he will spend every minute plotting how to utilize his powers to exact revenge.
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This scripted statement will go the way of the initial condemnation he was "forced" to issue after Charlottesville. After a day of seething, he will cast off restraints and say what "he knows and everyone knows," that these were very fine people who just love their president.
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Electoral Certification:
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our...
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