Andy Kroll
Staff reporter, @MotherJones. Contributing writer, @CalSunday. Talk to me on Signal, Confide, or Hushmail.
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Donald Trump Is the Mad-King President Our Founders Feared Most
The Framers knew exactly what to do with a president who believed he was a monarch. Do we?
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The Framers knew exactly what to do with a president who believed he was a monarch.
Do we?
My latest — on our Mad-King President
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Meet the Lawyers Beating Back Trump’s Reckless Environmental Policies — and Winning
On the front lines of the David-and-Goliath battle to thwart Trump’s planet-wrecking agenda
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Last night, @NRDC filed its 100th lawsuit against Trump administration.
Here's the inside story of how a small group of lawyers has beat back the planet-wrecking policies of this president
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Republicans Are Waging War on Reality to Defend Dear Leader Trump
The GOP is essentially doing the Russians’ work for them
Julián Castro: If Democrats Don’t Elevate Voters of Color, ‘Why the Hell Are We Democrats in the First Place?’
The Texas Democrat blasts the nomination process, but he says he’s staying in the race
Adam Schiff’s Hair Is Not on Fire
The Democrat’s point person on impeachment hopes to take his case, calmly, to the American people
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"Will the hearings led by @RepAdamSchiff educate and outrage Americans like the Watergate hearings?
"Or will they descend into chaos that bewilders people who don’t live and breathe national politics while prompting partisans to further dig in?"
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Justin Amash: The Last Republican in America
He was the first Republican to call for Trump’s impeachment. Now, he’s quit the GOP, and is betting his political future that there’s room in conservative politics for anything ot…
Trump’s Takeover of America’s Courts Just Hit a Terrifying New Milestone
Trump has now appointed one out of every four appeals-court judges — more than Obama did in eight years in office
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About 1 out of every 4 appellate court judges in America is now a Trump appointee.
Long after Trump and McConnell are gone from this earth, we'll be living with the consequences of their takeover of the American judiciary
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McKinley Impeachment Inquiry Interview
Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Andy Kroll (Rolling Stone).
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House Democrats released the transcripts for two depositions in their impeachment probe:
Ex-Amb. Masha Yovanovitch
Michael McKinley, an advisor to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo
I'm reading — and annotating! — McKinley's transcript as I go. Follow along 👇👇
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E. Jean Carroll Sues Trump for Lying about Sexually Assaulting Her
The veteran advice columnist says Trump “smeared her integrity, honesty, and dignity” by calling her rape accusation against him a lie and political propaganda.
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NEW: Revered advice columnist @ejeancarroll is suing @realdonaldtrump for having “smeared her integrity, honesty, and dignity” by calling her rape accusation against him a "totally false accusation" and damaging her reputation and livelihood.
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How Instagram Became A Hotspot For Vile Conspiracies And Election Disinformation
The platform's latest influencers are election hoaxers and conspiracy theorists.
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Instagram isn’t just hosting disinformation — it’s promoting it.
Good @HuffPostPol read
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What Does PewDiePie Really Believe?
The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it’s all a misunderstanding.
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This @kevinroose @NYTmag piece on YouTube and megacelebrity PewDiePie is so well done.
The world of YouTube creators and celebrities still feels impenetrable to me. But this story explains it better than any other I've read nytimes.com/interactive/20… pic.twitter.com/kGFqFbqWrJ
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Why We Must Impeach
The president’s abuse of power has surpassed any we’ve seen in our history — and Congress must act
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"The time is fast approaching," @seanwilentz writes, "for all Americans to decide which side they are on: the United States of America or Donald J. Trump."
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The Shadow Cabinet: How a Group of Powerful Business Leaders Drove Trump’s Agenda
The full member list of the Trump Leadership Council, a group of corporate influencers who guided the president’s anti-regulatory policy blitz
Inside the Making of Andrew Yang 2.0
The dark-horse Democrat just raised $10 million. He’s on a hiring spree and building a legit campaign. But how far can he go?
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He's got 10,000 volunteers (and counting)
He raised $10 million this summer
He's outpolling Beto, Booker, and Klobuchar
How far can @AndrewYang actually go?
NEW: Inside the making of Yang 2.0
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Trump’s Latest Attacks Place Him in the Company of Authoritarian Strongmen
“This is the kind of thing that gets democracies into trouble,” says one political scientist
Elizabeth Warren Is Making All the Right Enemies
Mark Zuckerberg says a Warren presidency could “suck” for Facebook. Seems like good news for the rest of us
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Mark Zuckerberg
Wall Street
Peter Thiel
Elizabeth Warren is making all the right enemies
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CNBC: "Mike Bloomberg keeps talking to allies about running for president as Joe Biden struggles against Elizabeth Warren"
Ahem
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There Have Been 800-Plus Political Cyberattacks in the Past Year Alone
2020 is shaping up to look a lot like 2016 when it comes to election interference
Warren’s Plan to Check Lobbyists’ Influence? Make Lawmakers Smarter
With too many lawmakers lacking in expertise, lobbyists have filled the void. Warren wants to reverse the trend
The Most Troubling Revelations in the Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump
It’s not good, folks
What You Need to Know About Trump’s Crowdstrike Conspiracy Theory
Our conspiracy-theorist-in-chief pressed the Ukrainian president to investigate a debunked claim about the 2016 DNC hack
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Our conspiracy-theorist-in-chief pressed the Ukrainian president to investigate a debunked claim about the 2016 DNC hack.
I explain why the name Crowdstrike is currently trending
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The Trump-Ukraine phone call proves at least one thing:
President Trump is a conspiracy theorist in public and in private, with American and foreign leaders.
This is not an act, folks.
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One of the central pieces of the whistleblower complaint is Trump asking Ukraine to investigate Crowdstrike.
I explain what's going on here
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