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@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-07 (UTC)

06:25:29 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 02:50:15 Trump’s pronunciation of “anonymous” is the best video of the night. https://t.co/HCyo5fpN7a
15:07:42 Retweeted @DoctorWho_BBCA 15:01:24 The Doctor’s ready. Are you?
The #DoctorWho Global Premiere, Sunday, October 7 on @BBCAMERICA. https://t.co/qZeOPMKmSz
17:01:30 Retweeted @NBCNews 16:52:12 Former President Obama:вЂњHow hard can that be, saying that Nazis are bad?” https://t.co/DOJnJS9zCV in reply to NBCNews
17:03:55 Welcome back Obama. We missed you. https://t.co/jMT0RqnOv0
17:18:47 Retweeted @EmmyA2 17:11:40 Barack Obama is back and thank fucking god.
20:03:00 Retweeted @DLind 03:47:07 Just in case you are interested in reading some meaningful policy news before bedвЂ”or in case you saw one of the manвЂ¦ https://t.co/ERguWc6FoN
20:10:28 So she is Anonymous, and is now setting up her smoke screen. Right? https://t.co/rs1gswSQLI
20:17:56 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 14:00:01 Trumpworld sources tell Axios that officials rapidly shifted from trying to smoke out the author of the NYT op-ed,вЂ¦ https://t.co/gij9UhsUL5
20:22:38 Retweeted @nycsouthpaw 20:09:12 Papadopoulos’s lawyer Thomas Breen said a lot. Most notable maybe, he emphatically bellowed: вЂњThe President of theвЂ¦ https://t.co/mUEeGxEJIW in reply to nycsouthpaw
20:24:19 Retweeted @frankthorp 20:08:46 John Dean says in his view the difference between Nixon and Trump when it comes to the idea of resigning is that NiвЂ¦ https://t.co/P5vlLUh3wy
20:52:25 Retweeted @JuliaDavisNews 20:43:24 Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to FBI in Mueller probehttps://t.co/3SWJEUnI1m via @nbcnews
21:29:00 Retweeted @KimberLofgren 21:21:29 Keep burning your shoes, MAGA idiots. Nike’s sales are <symbol>. https://t.co/ZB8JkmQQPM
21:32:53 Retweeted @ComfortablySmug 21:24:40 Jeff Sessions personally arresting Elon Musk for smoking pot and using asset forfeiture to seize Space X and hand iвЂ¦ https://t.co/dXaFVc5U6x
22:48:36 Retweeted @AtticusGF 22:40:01 What conservatives don’t seem to realize is that after denying Garland a hearing, and now ignoring ethical questionвЂ¦ https://t.co/MmEvhoienG in reply to AtticusGF

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-06 (UTC)

02:09:43 Retweeted @LorenRaeDeJ 00:08:03 This is, in theory, why we have Congress, and I’m not suggested people stop doing theirj ob advising the presidentвЂ¦ https://t.co/1OLoVV1QT3
02:13:38 Retweeted @markfollman 02:02:38 Just in the last 3 days alone Trump has suggested:
-The NYTimes вЂњmust turn overвЂќ the op-ed author, apparently for “вЂ¦ https://t.co/5Mebumd7ak
03:20:50 Retweeted @marinintim 2018-09-04 11:03:42 https://t.co/rPT1NLeXiC
03:23:11 Retweeted @K8brannen 2018-09-05 22:52:25 Talking to source inside admin about Times op-ed. His take:вЂњHaving been a part of some successful attempts to thwвЂ¦ https://t.co/I7lDgJXtfe
03:36:43 Retweeted @juliaioffe 03:05:20 вЂњTotal meltdownвЂќ https://t.co/9isJIN8LKb
06:46:12 Retweeted @BBCLBicker 05:26:06 Someone might want to tell Yonhap that the US NSA is John Bolton not Michael Bolton. https://t.co/NB5wSV5gP2
06:51:13 Retweeted @TaniaWalker 00:48:28 Sorry but I instantly read this in Scooby-Doo’s voice and now you will too https://t.co/jAe4blp73P
06:52:05 Retweeted @brianklaas 06:47:04 This is so dangerous. Cornered and distrustful of his entire White House, Trump may further elevate his unqualifiedвЂ¦ https://t.co/MTvzj5emVN
07:29:10 Retweeted @dataandpolitics 2018-09-05 23:21:06 Everyone in the world should be terrified the chain of command isn’t being followed in Washington.Everyone in thвЂ¦ https://t.co/g94Ae1Hzt3
14:36:20 Retweeted @natsecHeather 13:45:16 If this doesn’t merit a mention in your anonymous protest letter вЂ”or your coverage todayвЂ”you’re doing it wrong. https://t.co/aSCYVb45Qn
14:50:57 Retweeted @MelsLien 14:29:46 Holy shitCornyn reads a rule saying “any senator…who discloses the secret or confidential business or proceedinвЂ¦ https://t.co/b6BVvsW5Ak
15:05:03 Ok, I can see why Dems are jumping on this, but this was an accurate factual statement, not a statement of what heвЂ¦ https://t.co/IiNlLgu3od
15:19:57 Retweeted @ryanbeckwith 15:03:06 Didn’t take a brain surgeon to figure that out https://t.co/nbZL9vxvIQ
16:06:21 Retweeted @dwallbank 15:21:01 Notable: Mark Felt repeatedly and emphatically denied being Deep Throat.
16:26:35 Retweeted @MaxBoot 13:55:56 Both pro- and anti-Trumpers agree: Deep State Throat, the author of the anonymous NYT oped, is a coward. I’m not sвЂ¦ https://t.co/cFc8T3eD5t
16:45:18 Kitty! https://t.co/Zo33PlkQUA
18:36:14 Reading – In defense of the New York Times’s anonymous Trump official (Zack Beauchamp – Vox) https://t.co/Kvo8TEYc9x
19:32:55 Retweeted @TheDweck 16:02:19 I’m no HR professional but it’s prob a bad sign when an employee writes an anonymous letter calling you a brain-deaвЂ¦ https://t.co/QOSpvXeKJ5
20:06:26 Retweeted @naunihalpublic 01:28:35 Thread: Why I do not consider what Woodward is describing in the White House a coup. There has been neither an atteвЂ¦ https://t.co/YiWmBdixtv
20:26:04 Retweeted @MhairiMcF 08:38:26 ‘Stop looking at your phone’ is the new cheer up love. What’s wrong with looking at your phone? I have ВЈ500 worth oвЂ¦ https://t.co/zy8QJue6l2
21:25:37 This isвЂ¦ interesting. https://t.co/adAoOBDtI3

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-05 (UTC)

01:37:32 The most striking thing in this chart continues to be that there are essentially no actual Libertarians. Socially LвЂ¦ https://t.co/4UqARzoecJ
02:54:16 Retweeted @tbonier 02:31:29 One party is looking more and more like America, the other party is mostly white men. https://t.co/1cd8ZLJWKm
03:03:09 Retweeted @selectedwisdom 01:35:59 Regarding Woodward book: usually shocking insider quotes reveal something unimaginable happening or said in the WhiвЂ¦ https://t.co/L71XXBKMR4
03:11:42 Retweeted @DaveAHopkins 01:55:03 Pressley beating Capuano is a big upset in a fascinating race, but it’s just not accurate to use it (plus AOC) as eвЂ¦ https://t.co/PXLWWjJqKl
06:09:45 Retweeted @AriFleischer 2018-09-04 16:31:16 I’ve been on the receiving end of a Bob Woodward book. There were quotes in it I didn’t like. But never once – neveвЂ¦ https://t.co/6TiMsLjGBy
15:08:10 Retweeted @dailydot 01:59:00 No, a Trump supporter didn’t burn his feet by setting his Nike shoes on fire: https://t.co/uZvbeKZNU1 https://t.co/NmjRmRuIrS
17:38:56 Alex once again shows why we don’t let kids pilot 747s… https://t.co/kkBxswLfgX
17:47:07 October 7th -> Doctor Who Season 11 Premiere Date Confirmed (Dan Auty – Gamespot) https://t.co/dixDdDKF7J
17:50:47 Reading – New Breath of the Wild glitch uncovers an undiscovered area with boiling water and ghostly cubes (LaurenвЂ¦ https://t.co/B4A39jYWiI
17:56:47 Reading – Weird hexagon on Saturn is way bigger than scientists thought (Mike Wall – NBC) https://t.co/nX3fHKwAMi
18:01:02 Reading – Engineering tour de force births programmable optical quantum computer (Chris Lee – ArsTechnica) https://t.co/imbgRn0lz6
19:26:23 Starting Third Grade! https://t.co/JkcPJQqohV https://t.co/06uhPLvH7h
20:38:46 This is stunning: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Anonymous вЂњSenior Administration OffвЂ¦ https://t.co/DlBxydq7Lv
20:54:44 This from yesterday resonates even more after that op-edвЂ¦ https://t.co/uvyJday9PG
20:59:56 Retweeted @ddale8 20:57:53 We’re at a place where there are extensive reports that the president is pretty much out of his mind and much of AmвЂ¦ https://t.co/cUqPZjVTtD
21:00:53 Retweeted @BakerLuke 20:50:41 I don’t think it will be long before someone’s textual analysis pinpoints who the anonymous @nytimes op-ed writer mвЂ¦ https://t.co/xIi0KSajgS
21:06:28 The guessing game on who wrote that op ed is nuts right now. But thinking we will know sooner rather than later. ThвЂ¦ https://t.co/8KaXtmrIc6
21:08:27 Retweeted @Yamiche 20:57:01 A former Trump administration official tells me that during budget negotiations with Congress, WH officials would tвЂ¦ https://t.co/fbxENCDf9b
21:11:18 @poniewozik Write an outline. Have a ghost writer do the actual writing. Then look for anything that sounds like yoвЂ¦ https://t.co/R2DEJdHGqY in reply to poniewozik
21:12:04 Retweeted @PeterAlexander 19:58:34 Just handed top Trump communications officials a printed copy of NYT op-ed. They say it’s the first they’re seeingвЂ¦ https://t.co/K89KU2IRGy
21:19:37 Retweeted @rauchway 20:01:53 Let’s put it this way: declining to use the Constitution and instead using unconstitutional means to run the executвЂ¦ https://t.co/uPjWkEAQV4
21:22:05 Thread https://t.co/hAF5MJWXlR
21:32:44 Retweeted @jbarro 21:22:34 “”To cover my tracks, I usually pay attention to other staffers’ idioms and use that in my background quotes. ThatвЂ¦ https://t.co/GrFL6lQKnF
21:40:11 Retweeted @jackiekcalmes 21:18:15 Trump looks desperate. With uniformed sheriffs as his backdrop, he’s virtually yelling his misleading boasts aboutвЂ¦ https://t.co/UKp7H5NyFD
21:41:10 Retweeted @abulsme 21:11:18 @poniewozik Write an outline. Have a ghost writer do the actual writing. Then look for anything that sounds like yoвЂ¦ https://t.co/R2DEJdHGqY in reply to poniewozik
21:46:54 Retweeted @BeschlossDC 21:10:13 This book was on bestseller lists as the 25th Amendment was debated in Congress: https://t.co/fRxZmEXPFf
21:47:43 Retweeted @chrislhayes 19:49:35 I can’t imagine anything more finely engineered to drive the president absolutely mad than that op-ed.
21:52:05 In a world where the VP and more than half the cabinet were going on record saying it was necessary and pushing thaвЂ¦ https://t.co/6F1y7ACj1B
21:57:00 @hootdad Let’s give it a week. :-) in reply to hootdad
22:10:49 Retweeted @mattyglesias 21:14:43 The funniest answer would be Ben Carson.
22:28:53 Retweeted @JasminMuj 22:25:23 Re: NTY op-ed. I’m astounded by continued “US is *on the brink* constitutional crisis” formulation. The constitutioвЂ¦ https://t.co/fQlhNGSFZG
22:36:18 Retweeted @DavidNakamura 20:17:53 Most DC journalists, incl. me, have quoted a “senior administration official” in stories. But I feel as though an oвЂ¦ https://t.co/zGF0O0XXXh
23:03:48 Retweeted @rebliv 23:02:23 This is exactly right. https://t.co/opoCB1HGwm
23:14:35 Retweeted @speechboy71 23:13:08 Nothing we’ve found out in the past three days will surprise anyone who has followed this administration. That’s thвЂ¦ https://t.co/rePDhuZA2u in reply to speechboy71

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-04 (UTC)

04:43:44 Retweeted @BadAstronomer 2018-09-02 19:27:58 I love Anne (and Wil), and she has some important things to say here about social media and harassment. Please takeвЂ¦ https://t.co/QeQoOWOJSD
15:53:54 New anecdotes, but sounds like it just adds color to the general picture of this Presidency that has been clear forвЂ¦ https://t.co/hWv38Fhl71
16:07:00 At least at this point we can feel pretty confident that if he gets mad one day and wants to nuke someone on a whimвЂ¦ https://t.co/ytr7G2L7MQ
17:57:34 Reading – Google Wants to Kill the URL (Lily Hay Newman – Wired) https://t.co/1gpsRZgZdk
18:00:09 Reading – Cosby actor responds after being ‘job-shamed’ at Trader Joe’s (BBC) https://t.co/Uo4qmh5p2F
18:08:02 Reading – Russia is trying to figure out how a tiny hole showed up in its Soyuz spacecraft (Loren Grush – Verge) https://t.co/BvoIO2HobC
18:53:17 Retweeted @andyharnik 18:04:36 Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg who was killed in the shooting in Parkland, Fla., left, tries to shвЂ¦ https://t.co/6RWYF0rswm
19:22:24 I’m guessing calling him a вЂњfucking idiotвЂќ does not count. https://t.co/ByDAFZecNi
20:43:55 On reflection, I’m willing to give Kavanaugh the benefit of the doubt here. It was a loud chaotic place, there hadвЂ¦ https://t.co/fh3W1AdyZF
20:48:25 Also thinking the stuff about a white power handsign being thrown by Zina Bash in the background is people seeing wвЂ¦ https://t.co/ITMXnT7cno
20:55:54 @kelz_dc I think about myself at long boring meetings. I regularly adjust how I am sitting or holding my hands to aвЂ¦ https://t.co/pGDc6wFRme in reply to kelz_dc
21:07:13 @kelz_dc No. That one was clearly intentional. Bash’s might be too. I’m not excluding that possibility. But I don’tвЂ¦ https://t.co/encI7Yl9rd in reply to kelz_dc
21:32:31 Retweeted @DavidPriess 21:04:01 THREAD: I’m seeing claims that Woodward’s excerpts show unprecedented acts by POTUS advisors to undermine presidentвЂ¦ https://t.co/DsCWaqerh2
21:49:45 @kelz_dc On that we completely agree. It was treated as a joke and not something serious. But there is plenty hereвЂ¦ https://t.co/HJ4mUn0R0L in reply to kelz_dc
21:57:00 @kelz_dc To be clear, my opinion is based on only having one short video clip of her doing that. If more evidence iвЂ¦ https://t.co/rDHKdKotCK in reply to abulsme
22:07:15 @kelz_dc I am cautious because too many times, people have jumped on something, and it gets debunked later, and theвЂ¦ https://t.co/WwzyreJAM5 in reply to kelz_dc
22:07:59 Retweeted @Jevholution 2018-09-03 00:47:22 i noticed there was a blank wall at mcdonald’s so i decided to make this fake poster of me and my friend. It’s nowвЂ¦ https://t.co/xKMFFQzBKG
22:17:29 Retweeted @stuart_manning 19:11:45 BBC Studios needs to have a word with themselves. Threatening fans with legal action for repeating information releвЂ¦ https://t.co/Ddax3vEckN
22:24:48 Retweeted @Laurie_Garrett 22:19:20 Now @MaxBoot says, “If you take seriously the revelations in Bob Woodward’s book ‘Fear’ then it’s time for #POTUSвЂ¦ https://t.co/QZeglcCckf
23:06:42 Good back and forth between me and @kelz_dc below this one, so check it out if you didn’t see it earlier. :-) https://t.co/K4L3BWiEBf in reply to abulsme
23:31:00 @imbou Hey, 50/50 is 50/50. Him not doing it is no more or less surprising than him doing it. :-) in reply to imbou
23:32:15 @kelz_dc You made some good points and it was a good discussion. So worth highlighting. Followed you too. Hope to sвЂ¦ https://t.co/uHfxgfTPBG in reply to kelz_dc

@abulsme tweets from 2018-09-03 (UTC)

22:08:11 Waiting in line for the ferry to get us back to the Seattle side of Puget Sound. 2 impatient kids. Alex: вЂњAll of thвЂ¦ https://t.co/lXwkpPeXBJ

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-31 (UTC)

01:51:59 Retweeted @tomwatson 2018-08-30 22:49:15 Every mile of every highway should have guardrails. No simpler way to save lives. #lowtech https://t.co/jJ8VmAhbWG
05:24:54 Retweeted @PhotogGriff 2018-08-30 18:53:25 Mystery of the Mine Solved – @USNavy вЂњIt has been confirmed the device destroyed Tuesday was a positively buoyant,вЂ¦ https://t.co/pjyABueJir
06:46:37 In my own eyeвЂ¦ https://t.co/6uiyj7G4Eq https://t.co/OUs2oT7v5W
07:19:56 Retweeted @shockproofbeats 2018-08-30 21:26:20 Did….did…. Skeletor write this? https://t.co/naai8fDYMN
07:20:52 Retweeted @KevinMKruse 2018-08-30 16:36:40 This will surely hurt the GOP in the long term, but the short term impact largely depends on when and how millenniaвЂ¦ https://t.co/HiE9OhCDxp
08:25:55 Retweeted @mattyglesias 2018-08-30 20:50:14 Really worth emphasizing that there’s a good (~25%) chance Republicans hold the House, gain a senate seat or two, rвЂ¦ https://t.co/M51HXrnu6E
15:04:59 Retweeted @RobbieGramer 14:56:35 Rare rebuke of a story from the State Department spokesperson here:
Her second tweet includes handout that seeks tвЂ¦ https://t.co/CR2RXYhI1X
16:27:39 I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/2Bg7KCPPNW “Bendy and the Ink Machine: Chapter Five” – Reveal Trailer 2018
17:14:25 Retweeted @hilzoy 16:13:20 You might think that the summary is exaggerated. It’s not. https://t.co/NGBaxd3I1o
21:30:20 Curmudgeon’s Corner: Useful Thing https://t.co/7mYO6HIBWf https://t.co/PEL9yXEnxK
23:00:17 Heading to family camp for the long weekend. No internet. Or at least not much. So try not to let the world blow up while I am gone. Thanks!

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- Bruce: Manafort trial and jury nullification
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- Sam: Election 2020

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@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-30 (UTC)

04:06:42 Retweeted @nytimes 2018-08-28 22:47:02 An ex-CIA officer running for Congress in Virginia accused a GOP super PAC of leaking her security clearance papersвЂ¦ https://t.co/28boJRpMTa
15:07:15 Retweeted @jonathanchait 13:04:24 Trump is a coastal snob who secretly hates his own supporters https://t.co/HHPDnXPGrQ https://t.co/XgtLX941lM
17:44:04 Retweeted @ShaneGoldmacher 16:50:29 Related: Virginia is no longer seen as a swing state https://t.co/IYBQp7xtzz
17:46:45 Retweeted @tackettdc 17:22:40 BREAKING: Postal Service Accepts Blame for Release of Candidate’s Security File and Asks for It Back https://t.co/2Q9rQutab0
17:47:26 Biden on right now. Listening. https://t.co/C3VVKkLoxe
21:00:50 Reading – Apple Watch Series 4 revealed вЂ” massive display, dense watch face, more (Zac Hall – 9 to 5 Mac) https://t.co/9AxCXu5hdC
21:02:05 Reading – This is вЂiPhone XS’ вЂ” design, larger version, and gold colors confirmed (Guilherme Rambo – 9 to 5 Mac) https://t.co/DWDRvbZjJw

@abulsme tweets from 2018-08-29 (UTC)

00:08:12 Retweeted @intelligencer 2018-08-28 21:45:01 Trump’s trade deal with Mexico is totally fake, but it has the potential to reshape not just trade, but U.S. politiвЂ¦ https://t.co/vGmOnfyxxP
01:22:17 @BYUfan Um, uh… in reply to BYUfan
07:08:29 Retweeted @Matt_Kiser 05:32:01 Inside McCain’s surprise eulogy invitation to Obama
https://t.co/7iWsW1oZbz via @CurrentStatus
14:12:55 Reading – Republicans can’t even agree to take a segregationist’s name off a building (Rubin – WaPo) https://t.co/2WwRGjYTQZ
16:14:18 Retweeted @TheRickWilson 14:43:39 Well, this is off to a good start. https://t.co/5KIB4idr0S
18:08:08 Surprise! https://t.co/PAgzZ251wR
18:10:36 Retweeted @HowellONeill 17:23:48 FBI pushes back on unfounded Trump claim that China hacked Hillary Clinton’s email https://t.co/R9lmwVhkwg
18:43:55 A growing number of Democrats now disagree with this too. It is unhealthy on both sides, and will lead to results tвЂ¦ https://t.co/SxL7M1YNoe
20:14:42 Nice. Nice. https://t.co/HUYrjjsqL6
21:10:54 Sigh. https://t.co/HHXlrXPdPi
21:11:00 Retweeted @SJGrunewald 20:56:14 The time to argue about candidates is during the primary. Once the winner is selected you line up behind whoever woвЂ¦ https://t.co/tIl6H8Ol2z
21:25:05 The writers for this season need to get more creative. https://t.co/oPivuaaSLo
21:44:07 Retweeted @kylegriffin1 21:20:56 Mueller’s prosecutors want more time to decide whether they’ll seek to re-try Paul Manafort on the 10 counts the ViвЂ¦ https://t.co/tKn8kAMCeG

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