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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@michaelbd @EsotericCD That makes sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EsotericCD @michaelbd Did your kid's speech therapist ever try transparent masks? The one at our school was using them. (I am very much not an expert in speech therapy so I have no idea how much those work, but I'm surprised I never see them come up in these discussions.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mariyamanzhos: Looking for the safest car routes from Kyiv to the west to evacuate my family tomorrow. Any tips on the road situation i… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @geneweingarten: The very first inquiry I got after leaving The Post was immediate, from the magazine of the Deseret News, an aggressive… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss I think he means the members of Congress, but uh still questionable — PolitiTweet.org

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Today is my 7yo son's first day of going to school without a mask. He and his friend made a plan to keep their masks on until they get to their class, then rip them off and reveal their faces to each other at the same time. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @darylaustinUT: This is exactly what @mckaycoppins warned about in his @TheAtlantic story concerning Alden Global Capital last October: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @peterbakernyt: For Romney, who was mocked by Obama for declaring Russia the top geopoltical rival in 2012, recent days have been a mome… — PolitiTweet.org

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@14erVibes @peterbakernyt Something people forget is that Romney actually called Russia America’s biggest geopolitical “foe,” not threat. He said the biggest “threat” at the time was a nuclear Iran. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's wild that Trump's theatrical embrace of Putin will somehow end up looking even worse to history than it did when he was president. (And it looked pretty bad at the time!) — PolitiTweet.org

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@EGoldish @mattyglesias A lot of people on the internet today forgot that if you click the link you can read the article before responding to it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "I don’t think that, by any means, I was the only person who saw Russia’s intent. I remember John McCain said he looke… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "Romney... didn’t seem especially interested in taking a victory lap. But he did express frustration that the past sev… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McCormackJohn: Romney tells @mckaycoppins in this interview: “Clearly, today, China is a greater threat to our security and our economi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdrienneLaF: Senator Romney to @mckaycoppins: "This is not a war. It’s not a battle between two militaries. This is a brutal invasion o… — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney told me he believes Putin will struggle even if he achieves regime change in Ukraine. "If they install the puppet government, I think Ukrainians will go to the streets and tear down the seat of government brick by brick if they have to." https://t.co/bwUsnApEKD — PolitiTweet.org

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I also talked to Romney about the Putin "hero worship" that's emerged in certain segments of the Republican Party, and his own aversion to authoritarian personalities—including Trump. https://t.co/bwUsnApEKD https://t.co/pJ5eOhwzCv — PolitiTweet.org

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@SterlingRettke @allahpundit He said he believes China is now America's greatest geopolitical foe, but that wasn't the case in 2012. https://t.co/bwUsnApEKD https://t.co/IoWhVfSLVm — PolitiTweet.org

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Ten years ago, Mitt Romney was ridiculed for saying Russia was America's number one geopolitical foe. I spoke with him last night. "You know, it’s hard for me to believe that they didn’t realize that I was right at the time. Because it was so obvious." https://t.co/bwUsnApEKD — PolitiTweet.org

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@jademc07 Oh good — PolitiTweet.org

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@tunkuv “Trained”? — PolitiTweet.org

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I've tried to be careful about not amplifying unconfirmed reports/feel-good rumors. But it strikes me that, at least outside of Russian, the narrative of the war is being driven by Ukraine & allies (See: Zelensky's videos, casualty numbers, Snake Island, "I need ammo not a ride") — PolitiTweet.org

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@MiriamElder This is what I was wondering about (and was hoping you'd weigh in!) Do you have any sense of how well the message is being received in Russia? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MiriamElder: @mckaycoppins The #1 focus is always domestic: they’re going after outlets for calling it a war vs a “military operation,”… — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaking just as a media consumer, I've been kind of surprised by the inefficacy of Russia's propaganda efforts so far. People who know more about this than I do: Are the Russians just not even trying to shape Western perceptions of the war, or are they shockingly bad at it? — PolitiTweet.org

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“It can’t be” — PolitiTweet.org

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CNN has lots of good, dedicated journalists covering important stories. I've been on the network many times and will keep going on as long as they'll have me. But man, the the Cuomo/Zucker/Gollust stuff is really bad and deserves to be more widely called out. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The allegations against Zucker and Gollust undermine the work of CNN’s excellent journalists. And because CNN is a dominant player in the mainstream media, the allegations also undermine the rest of the press." Read @GrahamDavidA on the scandal at CNN: https://t.co/xvlozvyuit — PolitiTweet.org

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"The alphas had me expelled from their conference. I had unwittingly become too dominant in their arena." A harrowing dispatch from something called "Alpha Con," courtesy of @MegMorleyWalter: https://t.co/TcRloSqsQB — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems like a problem. — PolitiTweet.org