Devin Nunes

Devin Nunes's family farm is hiding a politically explosive secret—and when @RyanLizza went to Iowa to investigate, things got a little strange https://t.co/k5NIsxg9HZ pic.twitter.com/1sNaLLVy8n

— Esquire (@esquire) October 1, 2018

Trump lied about how he built his wealth

It appeared that there were also crimes committed. How can Trump claim he supports the military when he hasn’t paid his share of the taxes that support the troops and their missions?

Thanks to the New York Times for exposing how phony he is.

President Trump has sold himself as a self-made billionaire but a Times investigation found that he received more than $400 million from his father’s empire, much of it through dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud. https://t.co/CciVkq5mDU

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 2, 2018

On today’s Daily: for an investigation this big, we did things differently. A cold open in the locked room where it happened with @DavidBarstow, @susannecraig & @russbuettner as we explore Trump, taxes and the truth about how he really got rich: https://t.co/LJJiYMfG2X

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) October 3, 2018

We hope you have time to read the complete investigation into Trump's wealth by @SusanneCraig, @DavidBarstow and @RussBuettner. But if you don't have time right now, here are 11 key takeaways: https://t.co/cdcE0VmpGN

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 3, 2018

This underscores how much we have normalized and even accepted fraudulent and even criminal behavior from the President of the United States. https://t.co/GEEMnGw99t

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) October 3, 2018

Report: Trump is a fraud. Trump: That’s old news. https://t.co/a541o23GLY pic.twitter.com/2xarHCKehK

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 3, 2018

Relevant today! "many Americans are unaware that he was born into great wealth. This misperception increases support for Trump…[T]reating respondents with info regarding the role Trump’s father played in his career…leads respondents to rate the president more negatively." https://t.co/Y4yg7jUbxU

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) October 3, 2018

That brutal, exhaustive Times report undercuts the Trump mythology in two key ways. https://t.co/V7tqLNuHX9

— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 2, 2018

No one is above the law. Not @realDonaldTrump, not his associates and not his family. https://t.co/ZiPUb8Qhzg

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 2, 2018

Sarah Sanders calls NYT tax investigation "false" and notes that Trump's dad used to say, "Everything he [Donald] touches turns to gold."

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) October 3, 2018

This tweet essentially says “people have written before that my wealth is a con and I still got elected so it shouldn’t be explored.” https://t.co/jB6kQxhiDL

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 3, 2018

Hmmm, this was Paul Manafort's defense too before he pleaded guilty, that the lawyers and accountants had vetted everything —> https://t.co/CmVDrgr0Sw

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 3, 2018

NYT: When his father was 85, Trump tried to change his father's will to benefit himself. His father was alarmed, wouldn't consent, stripped Trump of sole control over his estate. pic.twitter.com/vVmf4l4Kg2

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 2, 2018

The folks at @CrainsNewYork try to estimate what @realDonaldTrump might owe to NY State alone (not counting anything he owed the IRS). https://t.co/Zb2jC9LSzh

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 3, 2018

If this had been Obama, there would have already been impeachment proceedings. But of course it wouldn’t have been Obama. He is not a crook. https://t.co/8GlpOFxkNH

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 6, 2018

update 10/7

This story should have gotten a lot more attention but was overshadowed by Kavanaugh. The Times reprinted it again. It’s not over.

.@SusanneCraig says her and the NYT’s team of Trump tax reporters are continuing their investigation…"We’re definitely in the market for any information people wanna send us" pic.twitter.com/yG3SByMeXX

— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) October 7, 2018

Just published: A follow up to the big NYT Trump tax story. https://t.co/Rixd2dlaQC

— Matt Purdy (@mattbpurdy) October 5, 2018

Here’s how a Fox News host tried to dismiss Trump’s extensive tax dodging https://t.co/BeniVGGWW9

— Salon (@Salon) October 4, 2018

Trump added no value to his company, says finance reporter https://t.co/KalSwkDBYu

— Salon (@Salon) October 9, 2018

High-end tax-dodging — by rich liberals and rich conservatives and every variety in between — is the sausage factory of wealth inequality. It’s technical and no one really wants to fix it, as Matt points out, which is why it persists. https://t.co/4bAWcuN0nZ

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) October 10, 2018

Actually, I'd guess that relatively few people are wondering about this. The odds are very strong that this is exactly what is happening. https://t.co/T0Bmwv4KMw

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 10, 2018

Inside the 18-month New York Times investigation that revealed how the president engaged in dubious tax schemes in the 1990s. pic.twitter.com/SXoAuEDudb

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2018

Covers: Homework

The great blues artist Otis Rush died on September 29, 2018.

The great Otis Rush has died . . . https://t.co/GCpS6sph0f pic.twitter.com/XHzIAyLxny

— Living Blues (@LivingBlues) September 29, 2018

Guitarist Otis Rush, a founder of Chicago's West Side blues sound, has died. He was 84. https://t.co/6TffZTGt2R pic.twitter.com/TXZvlkTIoE

— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) September 29, 2018

Otis Rush, blues singer and guitarist with intensely emotional style, dies at 83 https://t.co/MyWkJMiNZp

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 1, 2018

Here are his original recording of “Homework” (1962) and a version from 1994.

I have also added a few covers that are not close to Rush’s originals.

Homework (1962)

Homework (1994)

Fleetwood Mac (1960s?)

J Geils Band (1970)

American people reject Trump’s nationalism

One of the big, under-appreciated stories of the Trump era is how decisively the American people are rejecting Trump's xenophobic nationalism.

Here's a bunch of polling that shows support for immigration and global trade is strong.

New piece: https://t.co/d0446IUYGG

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 25, 2018

from the article:
“An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll this week found that an astonishing 61 percent of voters believe immigration helps the United States as opposed to hurting, while only 28 percent say it hurts as opposed to helps. ”

“An NBC poll in August found that voters say by 50-23 that free trade has helped, as opposed to hurt, the U.S. — a massive shift since 2016. A Pew poll taken over the summer, just as Trump’s trade wars started to take hold, found that a plurality of Americans, 49-40, thought tariffs against our trading partners would be bad for the country. A recent Post/ABC poll found Americans oppose Trump’s tariffs by 50-41 (though in fairness the polling has been somewhat mixed on them).”

Most college assault victims do not go to the police

Trump doesn’t have a damn clue. He only cares about sexual abusers like Moore and Ailes, not the victims. Of course, over a dozen women have accused Trump of assault. I think Trump is lying like he does on many other issues.

Here are the numbers. https://t.co/NAo6PWKAH4 pic.twitter.com/zeGWkxT2R7

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 21, 2018

This tweet has inspired the #WhyIDidntReport hashtag. Well worth reading the accounts there — a depressing chronicle of how our society has failed to support women who have been attacked. https://t.co/KKXSuyHlBq

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 21, 2018

The Trump administration stopped tracking the juvenile justice race gap

This is what happens when you elect a racist to be president.

A Trump appointee at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has stopped tracking the juvenile justice race gap.@elibhager looks into it for @MarshallProj: https://t.co/2HmLCOr3Pf

— Justin George (@justingeorge) September 20, 2018

Obama-Trump voters

1: In light new WI poll, I see some are discussing how Dems are winning back Obama-Trump voters (@HotlineJosh @HeerJeet @Bencjacobs). We did some research on OT voters in early 2017 for @prioritiesUSA. A look back at it provides interesting insight into what's happening today…

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

3: All Obama-Trump voters align with Dems on need to protect Medicare & Social Security, and on health care access for all (maybe why you continue to see ads on that!?) Only the strong OT voters cared deeply about immigration and trade. pic.twitter.com/CTq0EOeTlY

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

5: The reluctant Obama-Trump voter was willing to give him a shot way back in early 2017 but didn't have confidence he'd be a good President. Wanna bet these numbers have shifted bigly since we did this in February of 2017? pic.twitter.com/0Td8XhPjDL

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

7: The list of things that concerned reluctant Obama-Trump voters about what the President might do is like a list of things that have happened… tried to repeal Obamacare, will cut programs people depend on, tax on imports, he'll act like a maniac, etc. pic.twitter.com/g4QGTQjjdj

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

Kansas woman told her birth certificate is not proof of citizenship

Trump has unleashed a monster.

A woman born and raised in Kansas learns her birth certificate is not proof of her citizenship. https://t.co/GFhsy78LhV

— Esquire (@esquire) September 18, 2018

Covers: Rocks Off

“Rocks Off” is the first song on the Rolling Stones’ best album Exile on Main Street (1972). It was covered by the Old 97’s in 2010.

Rolling Stones

Old 97s

Kavanaugh update 9/14/18

Now imagine knowing 65 girls, none of whom went to your high school https://t.co/laMyA0eiCo

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) September 14, 2018

My latest on Kavanaugh "categorically" denying sexual misconduct accusations, the vigorous GOP defense and how that letter with 65 women came together https://t.co/wrugm9iMBL

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 14, 2018

Women were 18 points less likely than men to say that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed to the Supreme Court, according to an ABC News/Washington Post survey. https://t.co/QRppS3e64Y pic.twitter.com/FtyaVXEQZq

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 7, 2018

As you may know, President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Do you think the U.S. Senate should confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court?
Yes 41%
No 42%
Unsure 17%
(Quinnipiac U. Poll, RV, 9/6-9/18)
trend: https://t.co/aEf7FA0Oi0

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) September 10, 2018

CNN POLL: 38% of Americans say confirm Kavanaugh; 39% say don't.

That's the lowest net approval for a SCOTUS nominee since Harriet Miers (who was also -1); even Robert Bork was +3.https://t.co/w5LlWgcJDr

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 11, 2018

It’s easy to see why @SenFeinstein was in a quandary here. It could distract from issues of executive power and women’s autonomy and is based on a decades-old allegation. Yet it echoes other veracity concerns and is, after all, about the rights of women. https://t.co/PolTejQ26a

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 14, 2018

Collecting the signatures of 65 women who were contemporaries of a student at an all-boys school 35 years ago necessarily takes a lot of work. and it was all ready to go. https://t.co/D4ZDHIXM6y

— Luke Johnson (@johnson) September 14, 2018

This proves Republicans who acted like they had no idea what Feinstein was forwarding to law enforcement yesterday were lying. They knew; they were just busy working to try to discredit the victim.https://t.co/7AYLolVzMa

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 14, 2018

A thread on the @weeklystandard versus @thinkprogress controversy and why it makes me worried about the future of fact-checking, especially on Facebook.

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 11, 2018

It seems noteworthy to me that after the Federalist Society provided a list of judges who they believed would deliver reliably conservative verdicts, Mitch McConnell specifically warned Kavanaugh was least-confirmable and then Trump liked him anyway.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 14, 2018

Dems submitted 1,278 questions for the record, Republicans submitted nine. Here is the breakdown of the Dems’ questions pic.twitter.com/kEuX62oWwm

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 12, 2018

If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed, the Supreme Court could move dramatically to the right of the American people. Hear what that means on this week’s At Liberty. https://t.co/usjNaFUKYz pic.twitter.com/p56ZKPSGTv

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 11, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh used materials stolen from Democratic senators to advance President Bush's judicial nominees. He was asked about this in 2004, 2006 and this week. His answers were not true. https://t.co/YNYOyJUiDC

— Sen Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) September 7, 2018

Read and share your opinion.

What to Know About Kavanaugh’s Record on Civil Rights https://t.co/0xRdZDdW2g

— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) September 7, 2018