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· 19 Elul 5781 (Friday 27 August 2021) · 1 minute to read

South Dakota AG gets fines, no jail time in pedestrian death by Stephen Groves

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg pleaded no contest Thursday to a pair of misdemeanor traffic charges over a crash last year that killed a pedestrian, avoiding jail time despite bitter complaints from the victim’s family that he was being too lightly punished for actions they called “inexcusable.”

Republicans who have spent decades stomping their feet in righteous outrage over Ted Kennedy are so far strategically silent.

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· 19 Elul 5781 (Friday 27 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Trumpism Has Entered Its Final Form by Peter Wehner

In today’s Republican Party, Trump is becoming what was once unthinkable—conventional, unexceptional, even something of an establishment figure.

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· 19 Elul 5781 (Friday 27 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

Thread by @djrothkopf on the intellectual dishonesty of some of the critiques of the withdrawal from Afghanistan

Thread by @djrothkopf: The intellectual dishonesty that we have seen in critiques of Biden's handling of the exit from Afghanistan has been spectacular. That's not to say some critiques are not warranted. They cert...…

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· 19 Elul 5781 (Friday 27 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

The Conservative Case against Qualified Immunity

Republicans should be leading the campaign to ensure police accountability, not thwarting it at every turn.

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· 19 Elul 5781 (Friday 27 August 2021) · 0 minutes to read

The dark future of far-right Trumpist politics is coming into view by Greg Sargent

The combination of anti-mask derangement and ethnonationalist cruelty bodes badly.