Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a social and political commentator. Watch Mike Barnicle at http://t.co/TezGTdIXle
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An Independence Day Wish for the Disunited States of America
We are a nation of strivers, dreamers, heroes. And yes, most of us do want to get along. Sadly, we have a leader who needs us to hate one another.
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Mike Barnicle
No paywall here. I would appreciate a moment of your time to read this piece. Thank you.
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Symone Sanders Bet on Biden, and Herself
No one is telling her to wait her turn now.
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@MarkLeibovich @nytimes on a pretty good bet: “I wanted to have my own show one day,” Ms. Sanders, a senior adviser to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., was saying in a recent interview”
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Widower Asks Jack Dorsey to Remove Trump’s False Tweets. Twitter Says No.
President Trump has pushed a baseless conspiracy theory about the death of Lori Klausutis, who worked for Joe Scarborough. Her husband wrote to Twitter’s C.E.O. asking that the false tweets be removed.
An Obituary for an Extraordinary Ordinary Man
Cesar Quirumbay worked for some of America’s most prominent men. Very few blessed by his handiwork ever knew his name.
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@nytimes Every life has value. And every life is attached to a story. Here is a story well worth reading and a life to be admired.
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Cab driver. Harvard dad. Covid-19 victim.
This is the story, writes John Avlon, of an immigrant father fromThe Bronx who did everything right and died in the Covid pandemic.
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@JohnAvlon and a compelling story about coming to America, success, heartbreak and one man who carved a path for his children in this land of ours that will always offer hope.
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How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
The Senate Majority Leader’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.
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@JaneMayerNYer @NewYorker
A devastating indictment of a man with huge personal ambition and no conscience.
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An American Catastrophe
The scale of death and economic damage that the coronavirus is bringing to the U.S. could have been avoided—if only we had started testing for the virus sooner.
Why Sanders Will Probably Win the Nomination
Democrats already see reality through the Bernie lens.
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@nytdavidbrooks writing about something - actual lives of Americans far from politics - that the candidates for president have difficulty talking about in a genuine, meaningful way.
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Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists
Left and right agree on one point. The president’s re-election campaign is way ahead online.
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As always @edsall @nytimes with a really interesting and somewhat frightening piece on how digital sophistication can be used to win an election.
nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opi… via @NYTOpinion
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Is a Good-Enough Candidacy Good Enough for Joe Biden?
He doesn’t want a revolution. He doesn’t have a movement. He could still win this thing.
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@MarkLeibovich @nytimes on one of Joe Biden’s strongest assets: decency and a calming presence to so many voters. “The number of people with whom Biden has forged similar little bonds is mind-blowing. I met them everywhere.”
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Biden, Sanders, Social Security and Smears
Lying about a rival is bad, even if you don’t like his past positions.
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“... right now, Sanders and his campaign are behaving badly, and they need to be called on it.”
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Donald Trump Made His Own Impeachment Inevitable
The president’s narcissism renders him unable to comply with his duties to the nation.
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@gtconway3d @TheAtlantic: “Trump’s exceptional narcissism defines him, and it’s what makes him wholly unfit for his job.”
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2020 Democratic Candidates Wage Escalating Fight (on the Merits of Fighting)
For all the emphasis placed on the various divides among the candidates, the question of “to fight or not to fight” might represent the most meaningful contrast.
Putin’s Good Year Keeps Getting Better
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has had a good year, and it just keeps getting better. He now is collecting his winnings on multiple fronts.
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“Even Mr. Putin must be amazed at how well he is achieving his goal of sowing discord within the U.S. political system.” @WSJ
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Elizabeth Warren Has Done the Hard Part. Now Comes the Harder Part.
All summer, she was soaring, slinging buzzy plans and climbing in the polls. It’s not summer anymore.
Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War
Over a frenzied few days in the spring, an internal White House debate led to turnover in staff and a turning point for the president’s immigration agenda.
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The following news story revolves around the behavior of a crazy person who is still at-large. You might want to read this @nytimes piece twice. This man is deeply disturbed.
nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/… via @NYTimes
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Why Does Trump Fan the Flames of Race-Based Terrorism?
The president is making the F.B.I.’s job harder.
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@FrankFigliuzzi1 wrote this prior to El Paso and Dayton. And there will be other massacres to come.
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How Lindsey Graham Went From Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick
“What happened to me?” the senator asks. “Not a damn thing.”
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Mike Barnicle
If America wants to know what happened to Lindsay Graham @MarkLeibovich is here to tell them in a great @nytimes piece.
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Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington
The former Senate majority leader on President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer, and on why he doesn’t regret ending the filibuster for judicial appointments.
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The latest and greatest piece from @MarkLeibovich @nytimes about a guy who could both take and throw a punch.
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2019: The Year of the Wolves
Can the Constitution withstand the partisans?
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More from @nytdavidbrooks on the inevitable choice facing the silent, complicit GOP:
“At that point congressional leaders will face the defining choice of their careers: Where does their ultimate loyalty lie, to the Constitution or to their party?”
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