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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is finally getting angry. Last week, the Washington Post editorial published a harsh dismissal of Sanders’s presidential campaign, saying he was just telling progressives what they wanted to hear. “That’s not a new argument,” Sanders told reporters on Thursday. “I know the Washington Post may think I’m radical, but I’m not.” This is the latest attempt to distance himself from the political establishment—and it will probably go better than his “establishment” critiques of Planned Parenthood.
Say What?!
“Look, Ted Cruz is a total liar. I am so against Obamacare. I’ve been saying it for two years in my speeches, I’m going to repeal and replace Obamacare. I don’t even know where he gets this.”
– Trump was pretty upset Cruz suggested that he was a fan of Obamacare.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “As a counter point to the discussion about activist takeover of Federal facilities and how stupid the activists are and how the action ought to be punished, I want to draw everybody’s attention to a situation 45 years ago here in Milwaukee when AIM (American Indian Movement) occupied an abandoned Coast Guard facility in the downtown lakefront of Milwaukee. No shots were fired, no mass arrests (maybe none?), and the occupation went on for years funded, in part, by the State of Wisconsin and the US government. Please read about sane and constructive conflict in a time of madness.”
Related: Police claim that the militia leader killed Tuesday night in Oregon defied an order to surrender.
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What We’re Reading
We’re the only animals with chins, and no one knows why. (The Atlantic)
Bernie Sanders aides accused of posing as union members to access hotels in Las Vegas. (Gawker)
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