Jeet Heer

1. Writer, The Nation 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann *e4dccb3d

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Takeaway here is GOP allies have more money than they know what to do with -- and money past a certain point is diminishing returns.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

A Republican political group accidentally spent nearly $25,000 running ads to help Sen. Susan Collins in Portland.

Portland, Oregon, that is. Not Portland, Maine. https://t.co/ml9kuzjnUN

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@MattZeitlin Kenner (who was close to both McLuhan and Ong) talks about this -- Kenner thought that McLuhan basically came up with his theory as a way to explain why nitpicking pedants were always interrupting his lectures. From Kenner's "McLuhan Redux" in Mazes.

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@CharlesPPierce If you listen to the whole six minute audio, clear that what happened was Amacher kept pushing her to say Talarico was patient, she kept saying he's not on record, and finally she said maybe he was discharged today to get rid of bothersome caller.

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What makes this extra funny is he's using the Russian word for "bat" which is "mouse that flies." So Batman is Mouse-that-flies-man

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇷🇺 “Batman doesn’t want to end crime!”

— Dagestani Imams discuss Batman and if he truly trying to end crime and help people!

Does he, what do you think people?

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The smear campaign against Talarico is a byproduct of plutocrats dominating social media. https://t.co/XgKV9b5Y2H

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@MattZeitlin Churchill and FDR shouldn't have given him the high hat.

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@yeselson It's the logic of an apartheid state.

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@willmenaker I'm trying to picture the guy for whom your Digger tweet is the dealbreaker.

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@ettingermentum Horseshoe theory vindicated!

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@sethharpesq Write about this!

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The least surprising thing in the world is the Saudi regime is run by fuck-ups who can't even use the expensive war toys they've bought.

[Hussein Aboubakr Mansour @HusseinAboubak]

I don't understand how it is possible that Saudis can't move IAMD assets around — They spent billions on Patriots and THAADs — to protect their airports.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

My working theory is this is all revenge for how the Roman empire appropriated Greek culture.

[Davide Mastracci 🎃 @DavideMastracci]

We need to talk about what Greek Canadians have done to pizza.

Hawaiian pizza? Invented by a Greek in Ontario.

Prairie pizza? Invented by a Greek in Saskatchewan.

Boston Pizza? Started by a Greek in Alberta.

What are my Mediterranean brothers doing?

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@maxtempers Which party governed UK for most of 1945-1960?

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Socialist writer Charles Fourier died on this day 188 years ago.

Nearly two centuries later, his insightful, outlandish, yet oddly practical ideas still seem shockingly modern.

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Yeah, I don't think it makes sense to rely on AI for news just yet.

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@johnsemley3000 "digger nation has just gained a powerful member"

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@FreeQuebecLibre @hasanthehun I stand corrected!

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This ridiculous situation is being enabled by US allies, particularly in Europe, who are allowing Trump to walk all over them.

[Bruno Ma��ães @MacaesBruno]

The US now argues that no one can trade with Russia except the US, no one can trade with China except the US, etc: a version of the French imperial exclusif

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If you subscribe to the Globe and Mail I recommend this obituary of KD Miller, an immensely talented writer, too little known. It does her justice. cc: @biblioasis https://t.co/0omkxnxpmK

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@souljagoyteller @LucyKwiatek His wife is a very well known literary agent and can easily be reached. I do think they might resist because if they give him the award he won't show up for the ceremony -- as in the famous National Book Awards ceremony in 1974 when he sent a comedian to pretend to be him.