You watching the debate tonight? I will, if I have power. It’s off and on today due to thunderstorms. (I missed the second half of the last debate because of a thunderstorm!) Dave Weigel’s debate preview in The Post is here. My guess is Sanders will be extra shouty. But that’s like predicting thunderstorms in …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Hot Hot Hot
How hot is it in Kansas? Apparently hot enough to bake cookies in your car! Please stay safe and cool(ish), everyone. pic.twitter.com/EKBcVMOm4c — Rep. Sharice Davids (@RepDavids) July 20, 2019 I understand that the heat wave has broken for some of you lucky Jackals in the upper midwest, but here north of Boston, we’re still …
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Update On Barry And New Orleans – Open Thread
Eric Holthaus is retweeting a bunch of useful information: Pre-event analysis of #TropicalStormBarry projected rainfall in next 7 days compared to development in 1940 and 2019. Being repetitive here but clearly it's still an issue (e.g., Harvey, Florence). #BatonRouge #NewOrleans Expanding Bull's Eye Effect https://t.co/diGx2djXgb (1/2) pic.twitter.com/pFffiPzh3i — Stephen M. Strader (@StephenMStrader) July 11, 2019 …
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Open Thread: Report from Ground Zero
After all that, the general public can’t see the tanks. The VIP area also includes some cornhole sets. https://t.co/K4IkoxrgAN — Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 4, 2019 There's a huge perimeter around the Lincoln Memorial, where Trump will actually be speaking, that's closed to all but VIPs and press. See a tiny hump of camo in …
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New: at a recent Twitter all-hands meeting, an employee asked: Twitter has eradicated ISIS. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacists? One answer that is discussed internally, we found: because it would mean banning some Republican politicians too https://t.co/x6JRvdvJJG pic.twitter.com/VRnht57WkN — Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) April 25, 2019 Whose heart is having palpitations? Open …
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Oh Joy, It’s Pollen Season Already
Michelle Obama's publisher said that her book "Becoming" has sold almost 10 million copies and could be the most successful memoir in history, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. https://t.co/gw8LPN1876 — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 26, 2019 Betcha you don’t even have to ask how I can tell! But if I’m unusually disorganized or cryptic in the …
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President Obama: On Helping the Midwest, and Mozambique
"Maybe it’s a sign from God." Midwest floods devastate Nebraska farmers. https://t.co/Ff9b8sopje — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 19, 2019 ‘Everything is destroyed’: Mozambique fears massive human toll from Cyclone Idai: https://t.co/rAQGjrJnQK — Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) March 19, 2019 “Under models of climate change, a warmer atmosphere can hold more water, and thus the …
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