Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Only Texas could come up with this twist on COVID-19 testing -- the equipment was stolen the night before a test site was slated to open in the Dallas area: https://t.co/HeYXsVGV4n — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jackmokan I gave up on precise geography when I realized that writing "KC area" would put me over 240 characters. Sorry for all my friends in KC. — PolitiTweet.org

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Man in a MAGA hat walks into a KC BBQ without a mask. "The man said he had an exemption to the mask order: He then lifted up his shirt, revealing a gun in a holster on his hip." Threatening the 18-year-old counterman who makes $8.50 an hour is so manly. https://t.co/bkBBtbtCYq — PolitiTweet.org

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Just another Trump gift to the Republican Party. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PolitiPlunger I am not sure that point was in the LA Times article that I was highlighting. But thanks for passing it along. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, I assume that the Jacksonville Convention will have a robust absentee ballot strategy -- stressing the need to vote exceedingly early. — PolitiTweet.org

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My morning Trump fund-raising email: "I have a HUGE announcement that I’m only sharing with my TOP supporters. We will be celebrating the 2020 Republican National Convention in the great State of Florida and I’ve requested that YOU be there with me." Yeah, tickets are going fast. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 You're right. I officially retire from this topic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now that the Washington football team has finally retired its terrible and outmoded name, I strongly vote for the team to now be called the Washington Lobbyists. The headline, "Lobbyists Lose in Fourth Quarter" can be either political or sports news. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Great events make possible the social reconstruction of reality, the reordering of things-as-they-are so they are no longer experienced as given but rather as willed, in accordance with convictions about how things ought to be." Robert Darnton in 1989. https://t.co/cvlksPNsyc* — PolitiTweet.org

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@KatzOnEarth I assume that Ann Coulter believes that Haitians are coming ashore in Arizona where cases are also surging. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard Fascinating. I wonder when the Times initiated the policy of "we don't pay for interviews." By the way, did the Times explain exactly how Lindbergh could write a diary while aloft over the Atlantic at the controls? — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard Can't resist asking, what did the spirits whisper to Lindbergh? Was it: "You can't go wrong with that guy Hitler in Germany. He's a comer"? — PolitiTweet.org

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A terrific piece on what went wrong in a state that (unlike Texas or Arizona) had a Democratic governor and pro-active big city mayors. The LA Times article is about the breakdown in testing and contact tracing with ominous implications for the future. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarkHarrisNYC: Yesterday was the first day since March that there were no new Covid-19 deaths in New York City. Keep wearing your masks… — PolitiTweet.org

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I should add that people who know far more than I do like @MelindaKCMO are cheering this outcome because it's so much better than Alden ("Strip the Carcass to the Bones") winning the auction. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another breathtakingly sad development in the destruction of our leading newspapers. The only hope is that maybe Chatham would allow a few papers to be sold to public-spirited local owners. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger @jwgop @jamespmanley Dying to see the GOP press releases on November 4. I wonder who will be the first to claim that he or she always opposed Trump “in my heart.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@opinion_joe @jackshafer True. No mockery. But there aren’t many of us left in journalism who remember the visible hair plugs era. — PolitiTweet.org

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AP's GOP Convention story: "Organizers now plan to provide COVID-19 testing to all attendees daily..." Remember: Baseball can't get the results of daily testing back in time to prevent infected players from working out with club (see Chapman, Aroldis). https://t.co/OYvSFr33bq — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkZepezauer You deserve it. It is a great piece that helped me understand Tucson as something more than a place where my elderly relatives lived out their final days. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer @opinion_joe I have covered Biden from the days he was balding, then had visible hair plugs, then had a thick head of hair, then watched it grow grey, then watched it grow white and then grow sparse. — PolitiTweet.org

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In @JournalYear, I recommend an excellent rundown of the libertarian nightmare that Arizona has become in its denial under Governor Doug Ducey to face up to COVID-19. The well-done article is by Tucson writer Mark Zepezauer: https://t.co/MFphPZaz6C — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman @KFILE And Larsen spent the early 1950s with the Browns and the Orioles. He went 3-21 for the Orioles in 1954 as Ford was going 16-8 for the Yankees. While Ford missed two years for the Korean War, he went 9-1 as part of the 1950 team that swept the Phillies in four games. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you read one thing today, read the @StevenLevy interview with epidemiologist Larry Brilliant. All the right questions are asked and the answers are fascinating. Brilliant's depressing in the Trump short term, but still optimistic in the long term: https://t.co/FEmuGXPb3w — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman @KFILE It also helped that I was left-handed. Ford, at 91, is probably the last living link to the early Casey Stengel years in the Bronx. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman @KFILE Whitey Ford. It is still stunning to me that the advanced metrics (which I believe in) only say that he was a very good pitcher and not a great one. But as a kid, I was deeply impressed that he had a 43-15 record after his first three years with the Yankees. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 When it could comes to grammar, the apostrophe doesn’t fall far from the tree as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ron_fournier: Wonderful writer, wonderful lede: “This is truly the cul-de-sac presidency. Every avenue of potential accountability is… — PolitiTweet.org

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Great @JillDLawrence column: "On Friday night after the Stone commutation, lying awake as I know many people do these days, I made a resolution: Donald Trump will not break me. And I made a wish: Donald Trump will not break America." https://t.co/MNYL9GUzkz — PolitiTweet.org