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Some of you are more mad about Fani Willis going on trips with a coworker boyfriend which both of them paid for than you are about Clarence Thomas going on trips that billionaires with business before the Supreme Court paid for.
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I asked
@JosephEStiglitz
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@Columbia
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She had a consensual love affair. He has been found liable for rape and accused credibly of various nonconsensual assaults and rapes.
She is a flawed human being who messed up. He is a fascist charged with racketeering to end American democracy.
Hope this perspective helps.
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I was invited to speak to The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council about democracy.
I wouldn't forgive myself if I didn't voice the truth about my host, the Murdochs.
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When people step down or die, there is pressure to speak well of them, to toast their service and longevity in power, and overlook the substance of what they did.
I will not be participating in that, because Mitch McConnell disemboweled America.
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The fallacy guiding Democrats is that you can beat fascism with logic and facts.
Democrats are great at speaking about and delivering policies. But they fall short in addressing the spiritual and emotional crises enabling fascism.
That must change.
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Bob Mueller was never going to save you. The Supreme Court was never going to save you. The special counsel was never going to save you.
Only you, plural you, organizing and voting, have a chance of saving you.
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Three theses from my discussion with
@chrislhayes
last night about 2024.
1. Tens of millions profess to be as mad as they’ve ever been about Trump, but if we’re honest, we don’t have a national pro-democracy movement commensurate with the threat or with the professed passion.
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What’s happening to Jerry is normal. You get older, and you feel some visceral discomfort at what people coming after you think and do. But then there’s a choice: you can presume they’re wrong, or you can realize you may not know everything and become curious.
Jerry Seinfeld says TV comedy is being hurt by "the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people."
“It used to be, you would go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, “Cheers” is on. Oh, “MASH” is on. Oh, “Mary Tyler Moore”…
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We revere the protests of the past, but we tsk-tsk the ones of the present.
Our country was founded in civil disobedience.
No intimidation, no antisemitism, no violence is ever OK.
But civil disobedience helps perfect us. Be curious about what young people are trying to say.
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America was built on civil disobedience.
It is possible to hold the line against violence and intimidation while insisting on protesters' rights -- and being curious enough to absorb what they're telling us that we may be too jaded to hear.
FULL VIDEO:
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Once you reach a certain age, a great way to go through life is, whenever you hear young people saying something that challenges you or that you don’t understand, presuming they may have a point and becoming curious about what you may not see. Just be curious. Avoid obsolescence!
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Heading into 2024, we have one party that is all story and no governing. And another party that is all governing and no story.
If Democrats want to win in 2024, they have to let go of the fantasy that policy and economics speak for themselves.
There must be a galvanizing story.
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Riot police with guns are more dangerous than students with signs. The kids are never right about everything, but they are always whisper-yelling what will become the accepted truth of the future. You cannot defeat fascist authoritarianism by mimicking it.
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In a nation full of grateful immigrants, Rupert Murdoch is perhaps the most ungrateful immigrant of all: He came, he profited, he served to destroy.
Anand Giridharadas was invited to speak at a Wall Street Journal CEO Council event, and used the opportunity to lay into the Murdoch empire.
"This is an extraordinary newspaper — owned by one of the most destructive men on Earth." -
@AnandWrites
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America is a country made of the world, and if you don’t get that, that’s on you.
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3. When you dig below the day-to-day issues, this is a country full of anxious, unmoored voters, of every background.
To me, the central problem in American politics right now is that the bad guys know how to speak to the psychologically adrift, and the good guys don’t.
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This is the optimistic truth at the heart of politics: a lot of seemingly deep convictions are, in fact, pretty shallow. And if you reframe and help people make different meaning, new possibilities quickly arise.
Great news! 71% of Americans think the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor"
... but call if you call it "welfare" that number drops to 30%
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Students have a long history of telling vital truths that others are too afraid or too paid to say.
Listen to them with curiosity.
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I've been getting lovely emails all morning from people of a certain generation who remember what it felt like actually belonging to movements -- Vietnam, civil rights, etc. They say what I said here: We don't have a real pro-democracy movement right now. We need one.
"We have to organize people into a movement that is so excited to not just defeat American fascism but build an incredible country in the wake of American fascism". --
@AnandWrites
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A society is an orchestra. We all play our instruments.
Historically, students have played a vital role: forcing moral questions that sometimes blinkered, jaded, habituated, corrupted elders refuse to face.
Let them. Their social function isn't to be as faultless as your CPA...
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Breaking news: Area judge rules that Trump can do whatever the hell he wants forever and always; is said to be in talks to sell a memoir on courage.
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He is a weak man who longs to be a strongman and is seeking to win by making his followers think him a victim.
He is a leader of those who imagine themselves as victims and who find in his company a simulation of strength.
Trump, the Victim King.
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Our blood is better with the blood of many in it. Our country is better when more people are here.
Stop playing defense on immigration.
America is a country made of the world. What we are trying to build is awesome. And small-hearted fascists will lose.
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If your government leaves you alone, but your boss underpays you, stores you buy things from overcharge you, banks spring fees on you, and finally a private-equity-owned nursing home kills you off through negligence, you may not be as free as you think.
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America today has plenty of villainous characters. But it's hard to think of anyone who has done as much damage to this country as Murdoch, waging his war on democracy, pluralism, and the truth itself.
He should be allowed nowhere near a real newspaper.
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Your tweet is a great illustration of why replacing lead pipes is so important.
Biden wants to replace lead pipes. He failed to mention that the unfunded mandate sets an almost impossible timeline, will cost billions, infringe on the rights of the States and their residents – all for benefits that may be entirely speculative.
#sotu
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Your daily reminder that supremacy is a hope, not a description.
😂White Nationalists who consider themselves "the master race" struggle to figure out how to operate turnstiles that millions of New Yorkers use everyday.
We blame poor genes.
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A strange thing: When people come around to a belief activists have been saying, and trying to get them to say, then activists yell at them for not getting there sooner. You converted someone! Pour them a welcome drink. Pour yourself one, too. Claim successes! Then back to work.
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2. Trumpism is brilliant in its grasp of, and ability to play to, human feeling, passion, psychological adriftness.
The pro-democracy movement needs to catch up fast, and get over its squeamishness about reaching people on levels “below” those of data and facts and reasoning.
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This is a thread about one voter in one divided state, and how the pro-democracy movement should not despair but rather buck up and get to work, because a lot of people’s seemingly dangerous convictions are more shallow than we think.
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New interview:
@RebeccaSolnit
wants a left that is joyous, welcoming, and strategic — not angry, hairsplitting, and Puritanical.
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We should cover the climate crisis with the same wall-to-wall intensity as we cover the hurricanes it helps cause.
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This is great -- and an example of the kind of "show, don't tell" approach to re-establishing trust in government so that even bigger things become possible politically. Pairs well with the noncompetes and the debt relief. Show people tangible reductions in pain.
BREAKING: Airlines will now have to pay you when they mess up.
The Department of Transportation has issued a new rule requiring airlines to give you an automatic refund if your flight is canceled or delayed or if they lose your bags.
It’s a game changer for U.S. travel.
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Tweeting isn’t building a movement. Asking for $5 repeatedly isn’t building a movement. Touting the economy isn’t building a movement.
We need a real pro-democracy movement, and that starts with the Democratic Party listening to organizers who know how.
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I appreciated the invitation, because they know what I believe about Murdoch.
I appreciated being told by three different
@WSJ
staffers before going on to be provocative and tell truths that needed saying.
And I believe WSJ staff should refuse to work for a nation wrecker.
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Our profession needs to reckon with these weird habits. One side wants to take away recreational sex and books, and the other takes notes. Both sides.
🚨🚨Scoop: Biden’s cheat sheets - use of note cards, pre-screened questions worries donors.
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The way to beat Trump is building a bigger, better movement.
Let the courts do their thing. But it should not be our focus.
The pro-democracy cause must offer a thrilling, inspiring vision of where it wants to take America. It’s not right now.
It’s not enough to be Not Them.
Three theses from my discussion with
@chrislhayes
last night about 2024.
1. Tens of millions profess to be as mad as they’ve ever been about Trump, but if we’re honest, we don’t have a national pro-democracy movement commensurate with the threat or with the professed passion.
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Students throughout history have often been telling us something really vital that almost everybody else in the society is too afraid or too paid to say.
We should listen to them with curiosity, while holding the line against violence and intimidation.
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Why do we revere protests only when they exist at the safe distance of decades ago?
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I would love to see a collective workers movement at the
@WSJ
demand its liberation from the empire of lies.
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The crisis of democracy in America isn't just the risk of authoritarian government.
It's also the rise of a thousand mini-tyrannies -- employers, retailers, banks, and other companies subjecting you to their whims, making you less free.
@linakhanFTC
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Everything is terrible, so I offer you this poem by my eight-year-old little guy.
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This is better than coffee
Well composed. Mantel view. Nice depth. Strong chair and pillow work. His best yet. 10/10
@AnandWrites
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The key to beating Trump is understanding the deep inner life of this country in an age of anxiety.
Touting policy achievements is not enough. Many people are in a bad way, and it is a historic organizing challenge to walk with them into the future.
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If you think this is beautiful, wait for the eclipse in November.
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We ought to say it more on the pro-democracy side: the genuine multi-racial democracy America is trying to become is an awe-inspiring ambition. The bigger “we” has prevailed time and again over the small-hearted faction. It can again.
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I am tired of us being on the defensive.
America is an awesome country. It is made all the more awesome by people from every part of this world.
We are trying to do an extraordinary thing. And those who would stop us are small-hearted and un-American.
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I am reliably told that Joe Biden not only uses note cards but has also been known to screw around with three-ring binders, ball-point pens, glue sticks, and Wite-Out.
I am deeply concerned, to say the least.
🚨🚨Scoop: Biden’s cheat sheets - use of note cards, pre-screened questions worries donors.
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It may be time for your dog to strap you to the roof and drive off into the sunset.
In a good way, the delivery was over-the-top, out of character—Biden’s, of course. Katie Britt’s too. The media overreaction to hers not his tells us who liberals most fear as VP nominee.
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We are not able to run our company effectively.
Therefore, we would like to run the world.
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Living in a democracy doesn’t just mean your president not being a dictator.
It also means your boss not screwing you over, drug companies not gouging you, nursing home owners not prematurely killing you.
On trust busting as freedom.
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Joe Biden crushed it last night.
But 2024 won't be decided by how well he does. It will be determined by how much you're willing to do.
Here is The Ink's list of 12 things that need to happen by November -- from citizen action to media reform.
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There is no moral comparison between the January 6 insurrection and the campus protests over Gaza.
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The things students clamored for 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago are now largely things that the most encrusted establishmentarians support and take for granted. So always approach student protests with humility.
And curiosity.
Take your own view. But be curious, not certain.
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@anatosaurus
’s advice to Democrats:
Don’t merely be against border chaos, because you will never get credit for it.
Be FOR immigration, a humane and orderly immigration system, because immigration is the force that gives our country flavor.
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One of the many things I learned reporting THE PERSUADERS is that you don’t have to do Trump’s dirty work of marketing his shoes or his ideas, even if you think you are doing so within a quote-tweet frame of outrage. You don’t need to be his distribution network.
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Not being the right is no longer an effective political strategy against the right. What is the pro-democracy movement for? What does the world look like when it wins?
It is time for a real movement.
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Mitch McConnell had a simple life philosophy.
It broke America.
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Don’t miss this interview with
@ChrisMurphyCT
. He is a rare legislator who takes the time to step back and really think.
And he has a vision for getting Democrats to learn how to speak to the deeper substrate crises of masculinity, future shock, etc.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the question of whether the rule of law is still, like, a thing.
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Yesterday was the day Katie Britt finally became Sarah Palin.
Trump cultist Katie Britt smiles as she talks about how American families are hurting.
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This is fun
You may’ve heard I’ve got a big speech coming up.
So, I thought I would hear from some folks who have done the job before – sort of.
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This is not the time, cicadas. Read the room.
Hyper-sexual "zombie cicadas" that are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this year.
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Senator
@brianschatz
with trenchant words for extremely online nihilists in American politics.
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I am deeply concerned about age. I do not want to live in a new age of fascism.
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America is a country made of the world.
Our blood is better with the blood of many in it. Our country is better when more people are here.
Stop playing defense on immigration.
Go on offense.
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On this, he’s not wrong. And that’s why this is an organizing challenge of epic proportions, not just a dethroning one.
interviewer: don’t you see why many americans see such talk of dictatorship as contrary to our most cherished principles?
trump: “i think a lot of people like it.”
(whole article worth a read)
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Something deep in the American psyche whispers to us, It cannot happen here.
But it is happening here. Right. Now.
How to take off the blinders of American exceptionalism.
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Three propositions:
1. Trump is in this position because he built an actual movement.
2. The pro-democracy cause doesn't have an actual movement.
3. It can; and when it does, it will smash Trumpism and realize the country America was meant to be.
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Biden’s age is taking people’s phones and doing the selfies for them instead of waiting for them to figure it out.
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We overly despair. We think fascism is rising because millions of people have deeply thought through it. In fact, lots of people are ambling into it because they are victims of disinformation, don’t spend a lot of time thinking about this, and have convictions all over the place.
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One of my biggest takeaways from reading the Georgia decision this morning is that more of you need to go on cruises like Fani and Nathan did, so you calm your brain and get some perspective and stay focused on what matters. Which is a conspiracy to end democracy.
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She is still here!!! Truly amazing.
Hey Columbia protesters! If you’re so proud of what you’re doing, why are you covering your faces?
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By taking up the question of whether a single American citizen is above the law — by entertaining a question that shouldn’t be — the right-wing justices are undermining the idea of a nation of laws.
The Supreme Court is attempting to end its own life.
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I would read a 3,000-word analysis of this photo by the right writer.
To the American people: Our future starts around kitchen tables just like this. With moms and dads just like you.
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When we exaggerate in our mind the depth of other’s convictions, we give up on democracy and persuasion. This was a particularly easy conversation. But I think there are millions more people like this man than we realize. We need to help them sense make. Let’s get to work.
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They want to bring back 1864.
BREAKING: Arizona Supreme Court allows near-total Arizona abortion ban created in 1864 to go into effect, reversing appeals court ruling.
It says plaintiffs have 14 days for further challenges.
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It’s possible to learn from young people who are questioning their allegiances instead of presuming that the lessons of 1992 speak eternally to the future.
Be curious!
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Shame won’t defeat Trumpism. Jail won’t defeat Trumpism. Outrage won’t defeat Trumpism.
Building an actual pro-democracy movement can. And we don’t have one right now.
But we could. I wrote a book about how:
@Morning_Joe
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Donald Trump should be prosecuted. But Trumpism will not be prosecuted out of existence. It must be out-organized.
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Here’s an idea. Will the
@TheDemocrats
set a goal of getting 100,000 people trained in deep canvassing this year?
Use the same email list you use to ask for bucks. But instead ask people to do something. People are ready to act.
Thanks,
@AnandWrites
!
#DeepCanvassing
is one of the only tactics proven to be able to lastingly reduce prejudice, inoculate people against fear-based messaging, & change hearts & minds on our most divisive issues.
Our next training is Feb. 6!
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@ChrisMurphyCT
.
@ChrisMurphyCT
offers an example.
Parents feel loss of control over kids. For many reasons.
The right intuits this and offers them hogwash parental rights stuff on book banning etc. It works.
There is a way for the left to see that need and meet it with good policy instead.
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Today’s American fascism is personal crisis inverted into chest-thumping, status anxiety exploited by the powerful, lostness seeking easy answers, weakness chasing a strongman.
We need to understand the brokenness and confusion around us to beat these anti-democratic forces.
The fallacy guiding Democrats is that you can beat fascism with logic and facts.
Democrats are great at speaking about and delivering policies. But they fall short in addressing the spiritual and emotional crises enabling fascism.
That must change.
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The theocrats are coming for IVF next.
They just won in Alabama.
They have their sights on the whole country.
Here is how you can stop them.
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Donald Trump is a weak man who wants to be a strongman by conning the most gullible Americans to think he is a victim they should worry about instead of caring if he worries about them.
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On a sports field, you may pray for an injury or own-goal to hurt the other side and help you. But it’s not a strategy. Your strategy must be beating the other team by playing better. So in 2024. Let the courts and ballot fights play out. But beat American fascism by beating it.
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It didn't get much attention, but last night Biden hinted at what could become a central project of a second term: a care agenda.
When he asked Americans to "imagine a future" in which billionaire tax receipts were reinvested, that's what he conjured.
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Trump is a weak man trying to be a strongman by cosplaying as a victim.
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Um, what is that Zach Woods is reading on THE AFTERPARTY??
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There is a historic opportunity right now for the pro-democracy movement to claim the idea of freedom and claim love of country.
But it’s going to require going beyond the skills of wonkery and appeals to the brain, and a Democratic Party that knows how to speak to emotion.
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If American fascism is to be beaten, it will require a political left more interested in finding converts than heretics.
@RebeccaSolnit
on the organizers who do it right and the “disorganizers” who do it wrong.
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@ChrisMurphyCT
There is a crisis of lostness, of disconnection, of not being able to conceive of one’s place in the future that’s coming, of a sense of loss of control over one’s kids, of male confusion about roles and status. This is the actual stuff driving our politics now.
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@ChrisMurphyCT
Anger is what pain looks like in public,
@kristatippett
says.
To beat fascism, we need to a plan to see and hold and alleviate the pain.
This is hard because the anger is ugly.
But it’s vital work.
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Sure, students get things wrong. But they rarely have mortgages, salaries, speaking engagements, lobbying contracts, revolving-door jobs, board seats, advisory gigs, and all the other things that somehow cause older folks not to see clearly what they otherwise would.
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