Amien Essif
@AmienEssif
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Journalist @DWNews. Co-creator and co-host of News Desk. Reports from Ukraine, Lebanon, Israel, and EU. EN/FR/DE ☕📓🛹
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Joined November 2013
"This man is a grifter and a thug," a resident arriving with his dog at the Kennedy Center shouted. "Where is Congress? Are you as upset as I am? This is a desecration of this building!"
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"nostalgia for a time when America bothered to hide its corruption"
The politics of resentment that drive our authoritarian present are Nixon’s revenge on the nattering nabobs of negativism. Three recent movies court nostalgia for a time when America bothered to hide its corruption and incompetence. https://t.co/D73nPo9YMO
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Just for the record, Hegseth's boat strikes are likely human rights crimes with or without the second strikes. The people in the boats are not combattants by any established definition of the term.
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So now BBC is deceptively editing videos to *flatter* Trump?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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I'm not saying it's wrong to tell soldiers to disobey the president, I'm just saying it's radical, and most Americans will probably recognize that.
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It's true that officers (not personnel) take an oath that requires them to disobey illegal orders. But that's not assumed to be orders from the president, which are considered legal until deemed otherwise by a court.
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"It's actually pretty radical for lawmakers to tell military personnel 'we've got your back' if they disobey orders from the president, knowing full well they'll probably be court-martialled if they do."
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Steve Bannon wanted Lina Khan to stay on for Trump's 2nd term. Now she's working for Mamdani.
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You have to understand that Democrats believe fighting *itself* is valuable because it shows voters what you believe in and gets you re-elected. Winning is an occasional outcome of "the good fight."
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Is the White House going to take this down now that Trump has hosted the former head of Syrian al-Qaida? (Photo of Obama is from 2006 in Kenya. They apparently just wanted a pic of him in a turban.)
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It's quite disturbing that the mainstream media is going with the line that Trump wasn't actually directing the crowd to go to the Capitol and fight like hell. He did. It's on record.
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Coke and Pepsi products kill about 20,000 Americans per year. Are they terrorist organizations too?
Trump signs an Executive Order designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations “They’re k*lling our people. They’re k*lling 250,000 to 300,000 American people a year.” https://t.co/m9W4FjfaY1
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Why is my "for you" feed all xenophobic anti-Mamdani posts while my "following" is mostly excitement?
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Kevin Bacon better lawyer up
"Ms. Jacobs said Pentagon officials said they needed to prove only that the targeted people were connected to designated terrorist organizations, even if the connection is 'as much as THREE HOPS AWAY FROM A KNOWN MEMBER' of a designated terrorist organization."
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It is actually very important that the "Hitler was bad" people in the MAGA movement win. It's an extremely low bar, but it's an extremely important bar.
JUST IN: Ted Cruz BLASTS Kevin Roberts’s Tucker Carlson defense: “Now is a time for choosing. If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very cool and that their mission is to defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit
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It's funny that the Ezra Klein-Coates debate has "gone viral" yet it's one of Klein's least-viewed shows. Does that mean people didn't... watch the whole debate??
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Do you think the concept of a library would be passed, funded and implemented countrywide in 2025?
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The first 100 days of Trump's second term have been a flurry of executive actions that have left Democrats reeling. Is he "flooding the zone" as Steve Bannon once allegedly advised him to do? Or is he simply fulfilling his promise to overhaul American government and society?
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The left has always argued that the stock market is a bad metric for judging policy. So if there's a leftist argument against tariffs, it can't be that it's hurting the S&P 500 - or what am I missing?
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