Dan Mishkin

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Freelance writer (self-unemployed); Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival; husband, father, zayde

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Dan Mishkin

"Despite countless past warnings, the Secret Service failed to heed the real threat posed to the former president by the hundreds of millions of firearms in the hands of everyday Americans."

Investigation Finds Secret Service Failed To Account For Nation’s 393 Million Gunswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—In a damning report that raised pointed questions about the federal agency’s security procedures, an investigation by the House Committee on Homeland Security concluded Monday that the Sec...

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Tortuos Wes

Worth looking at: slate.com/business/202...

How to Build High-Speed Rail in Americaslate.com Policy ideas that can turn a pipe dream into a reality.

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"We know how Donald Trump thinks America should be united: by reelecting him and allowing him and his cronies to ransack the country’s institutions." I wrote about the depressing aftermath of the assassination attempt newrepublic.com/article/1838...

Nothing Has Changed: Trump Is Still Trumpnewrepublic.com After being shot at a rally on Saturday, Trump is a bigger threat to American democracy than ever before. Why aren’t Democrats acting like it?

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véronique emma houxbois

The word "allowed" says everything about his post.

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J¡m Vaughn

It's interfering to see in the Commission meeting transcripts how courrly these men born in the late 19th century were. I saw deference more than compromise, as when junior staff who knew more nitty-gritty stuff about the investigation were excluded from the interview with Mrs. Kennedy.

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J¡m Vaughn

They also deserve credit for acting on the realization that to do their job properly, they'd have to conduct their own investigation, not just rely on the flimsy material Hoover gave them. But yes, plenty of wrongheaded moves, even when well-intentioned (like deference to Kennedy family feelings).

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J¡m Vaughn

My very big complaint about the Warren Commission is the lack of humility in their report. Although some staff advised otherwise, they took a stance of Olympian certainty that soon left them open to attack.

After researching and writing about the JFK assassination and the Warren Report, I've reached the conclusion that most (not all) supposed conspiracies can be better explained by incompetence and ass-covering.

The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination: Mishkin, Dan, Colón, Ernie, Drozd, Mr. Jerzy, Reeves, Richard: 9781419712302: Amazon.com: Booksa.co The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination [Mishkin, Dan, Colón, Ernie, Drozd, Mr. Jerzy, Reeves, Richard] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers...

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-indy ✨

I've long thought the fact that I don't have a middle name means I could never be a good assassin.

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Jonathan Cohn

How about if they first put money behind making sure everyone who has difficulty securing an ID gets one?

Unbelievably so!

OK, I'm showing my age, but...

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Dan Mishkin

This photo is pure 2024.

About Biden supposedly "weaponizing" the DOJ (i.e., doing what Trump has vowed HE actually will): The current Court wouldn't have cleared a path for presidential lawlessness if they thought for a moment that BIDEN would take that path. A backhanded admission of who is and is not the criminal here.

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Jonathan Cohn

Up until the debate, I was an enthusiastic Biden supporter. Now I wish he'd resigned beforehand...in which case, we could have seen Harris mop the floor with Trump.

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Joseph Fink

It was not for nothing that Ta-Nehisi Coates called Trump "the first white president"—not a return to the default, but elected because he was white.

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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CJ Lemire

Of course it's likely that if the GOP has a working majority under a second Trump administration, they'll suddenly realize that ending the filibuster is a *fine* idea before the Dems get their shot.

Not so hilariously, this piece was written twelve years ago.

The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.

Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v. Wrong'www.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Striking down the judicial precedent that established the legal supremacy of right over wrong more than two centuries ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned Right v. Wrong.

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Jay Willis

The "backpacker on vacation" line calls to mind (though apparently not Gorsuch's) the famous line from Anatole France about the law, in its majestic equality, forbidding both rich and poor to sleep under bridges.

One of my first thoughts after the debate was how well Harris would have handled Trump. I believe she'd have been right there with everything folks now say Biden should have said.

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Jerzy Drozd 🧸🐷🐢

Hope you're moving a lot of those ARCs!

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James Fallows

Unfortunately, this seems way less reassuring after last night's debate.

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Alex Shephard

I was until last night that rare thing, an enthusiastic Biden supporter, and I still believe he would be an effective president for another four years. Now I agree completely with your essay, especially with Trump listening to his advisors and seeming normal as he lies and lies (and lies).

My favorite too. And I like how the later perception of Cochrane maps onto the later perception of Roddenberry.

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Dan Mishkin

Would you like to a donorschoose superhero for fourth grade nyc kids? We would love a projector to be able to display visuals to learn in a visual way. Please retweet our project. Thanks for your support. www.donorschoose.org/project/ligh...

Have you read the original novel? It's terrific!

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scott⚡️mccloud

I've been arguing for a long time that Raina and others like her (rather than superheroes) represent the true mainstream of comics. I do have one small beef with the intro, however: THE BEATLES were "The Beatles for teenagers."

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Kashana

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I Was a Public Servant. I Wouldn’t Even Accept Clementines as Gifts.slate.com The largesse that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received is lavish to an unfathomable extent for most government workers.

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Jonathan Cohn

Not up to that episode yet. Gotta keep bingeing!