Chase Madar 🍉
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Author, attorney, translator, adjunct teacher of law – and society! – at @NYUGallatin . @MakeTheRoadNY Legal alum.
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A clear, direct, 3-word message. You love to see it
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More good-government porn from South Korea:
In South Korea 🇰🇷, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy.
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Once you learn Parks was not a spontaneous solitary individual but a committed militant working with other organized, committed militants, it never stops annoying you how this usually gets erased from the story
Rosa Parks, who refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, Montgomery, Alabama, 65 years ago today:
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A police state is when society is made to adapt to the prerogatives of the police rather than the other way around
Texas students are now required to watch a video on how to avoid provoking a cop
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Most Americans don’t have the slightest clue that they are paying ~25% of the military budget of Israel, a wealthy nation assiduously committing ethnic cleansing
"Americans do not support Israel because
@AIPAC
is influential, says
@MeghanMcCain
. "AIPAC is influential because Americans support Israel."
This is actually 100% true!
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Amazing! Did you know ~180,000 Americans died fighting the
#AltRight
in Europe in the early 1940s?
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The anti-semitic remarks that Omar and Tlaib never made have swiftly become a load-bearing myth in U.S. politics, holding up the sky alongside troop-spitting hippies, death panels, welfare queens, and the Free Market
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BREAKING: Heir to Laurie Tisch’s $1.1 billion real estate fortune not into
@BernieSanders
– only on
@MSNBC
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Something that broadly liberal institutions are learning, suddenly very quickly, is that some sensitivities cannot and indeed should not be respected, and that some sensitivities are a form of aggression and an assertion of privilege
I’ve lived in London all my life.
I did 10 yrs of crowds and noise at Ministry of Sound.
But leaving parliament today did not feel safe.
I support rights of expression and protest.
But don’t other people have rights?
Can I pls have a right to go home without feeling threatened?
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I wonder how the author of this profile thinks the “violent and ugly rhetoric” she discerns around
@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
compares with the “Intellectual Dark Web” figures promoted by her girlfriend, Bari Weiss
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The Chapo crew are fundamentally earnest and serious people who happen to have a wicked sense of humor. Many people seem to find this unforgivable. Me, I love it.
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More people seem to be blaming Biden than Bush-Cheney for the Afghan debacle. That’s annoying, and wrong
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Imagine if
@BetoORourke
did something like this instead of wasting everyone’s time
The return of
@AndrewGillum
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NYC murders down 11.8% over last year so far, 19% lower than 12 yrs ago under Bloomberg. Shooting incidents down 12.6% ytd, 9.6% down from 12 yrs ago
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Liberal-centrist law professors lack a sense of consequentialism the way 18th-century sailors lacked vitamin c
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As old as he is, you can still hear the 30-yr-old newbie Senator reciting the talking points he’s just learned from an AIPAC lobbyist
As Biden proudly declares himself a zionist, he trashes the United States as not a safe place for jews: "You need not be a Jew to be a Zionist. I'm a Zionist. Where there's no Israel, there's not a Jew in the world to be safe."
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We Americans really need to find it in our hearts to not forgive some people
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Why is it left to
@AOC
and
@RashidaTlaib
to do this? Where the hell are
@SpeakerPelosi
,
@LeaderHoyer
and
@RepJeffries
? Be useful or get out of the way–
Meanwhile, one refrain we‘ve heard is that people are overcrowded in CBP concentration camps because the shelters (which are humane places where families can stay together) are full.
So we went to a shelter. They said that wasn’t true at all. Only 150/500 spots were filled.
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“the excesses of both,” like when Jane Fonda dropped 2.5 million tons of cluster bombs on Laos
Ken Burns’ Vietnam is the most important film I’ve ever seen. It challenges all ideological assumptions and treats those who fought the war and opposed it with extraordinary respect, while never shying away from the excesses of both. It is remarkable.
@KenBurns
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@WillHurd
A $2trillion 20-year military occupation of Northern Mexico followed by a chaotic retreat with the cartels back in charge?
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“From the river to the sea” does not have an exterminationist meaning any more than Sinn Fein’s calls for “one Ireland” has an exterminationist meaning. Intellectuals, especially those safely removed from the violence, should be less categorical if they want to help resolve this
@SallyGold
@AOC
@politico
Hi sally - she supported Marc Lamont's comments "from the river to the sea" which has literally no other meaning than the full massacre of the Jewish people. The protesters continue to chant that message alongside swatstikas. Is she in hiding bc if feels politically "incorrect"…
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“In [Tory-led] Britain, workers are receiving 80% of their pay & are guaranteed to get their job back once the shutdown is over. In America, the workers are laid off; they must then file for unemployment insurance & wait for the economy to start up again.”
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Why did Bari Weiss irritate so many more people than even-more-conservative Ross Douthat? My guess is that Douthat presents himself candidly as a conservative, whereas Weiss left a slimy trail of coy hypocrisy behind every move rightward.
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How are these Hillary 2016 staffers still so smug, given that they managed to fuck up the unfuckabble and with planetary consequences
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NY conservatives in 2008: Wow, only 522 murders this year – all thanks to Giuliani & Bloomberg's NYPD (and stop & frisk), the divine linchpin of social order
NY conservatives in 2021: OMG, there were 462 murders last year – social collapse! We blame everyone – except the police!
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Hillary Clinton May be impressively plastic in many respects but her belief in the Forever War, which she has been so instrumental in starting and restarting, is 110% authentic
Actions have consequences, and whether we’re in Syria or not, the people who want to harm us are there & at war. Isolationism is weakness. Empowering ISIS is dangerous. Playing into Russia & Iran’s hands is foolish. This President is putting our national security at grave risk.
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Sounds reasonable but no. The amount of coverage of the evacuation vs the lack of coverage of the flailing mess of the 20 yr occupation is a de facto endorsement of indefinite war. Media platforms are not neutral conveyor belts; the priorities they choose are a political message
Covering the fallout from Biden's Afghan decision and chaos in the evacuation is NOT the same thing as supporting "forever war," which many of the people peddling that disingenuous line on this website know very well.
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No one in the Democratic leadership–not Schumer, Pelosi or Perez–has congratulated Corbyn. Our Dems are tighter with Netanyahu than Corbyn.
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Tedious reminder that we in the United States do not have the power or authority to redeem George W. Bush’s catastrophic sins.
George W. Bush took another step on the road to national redemption with his address and its delivery.
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Scoop: A super PAC funded largely by tech billionaire
@reidhoffman
may launch a primary campaign against progressives
@RashidaTlaib
and
@CoriBush
.
Hoffman's political advisor is in touch with the PAC's leadership about the idea.
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What's the most depressing three-word phrase in American English? Here are my candidates, what are yours?
School lunch debt
Electoral College victory
Market-based approach
NatSec moderates
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Imagine if Steyer and Bloomberg had poured their billions into fighting stuff like this. Imagine if MSNBC covered post-VRA voter suppression as intensely and breathlessly as they've covered Russia stuff.
Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
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@HawleyMO
ehh not to be negative but it is very possible to both regulate railroads and to arm Ukraine against Russian invasion
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How Ilhan Omar's fictional antisemitism has become a load-bearing myth, holding up the sky alongside death panels and welfare queens My latest, in
@BuzzfeedNews
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@PGourevitch
Your magazine backed the Iraq invasion, printed fictional Saddam-Al Qaeda links and shook its monocle in approval at every failed counterinsurgency war since AND has yet to call for a ceasefire but thank you for the lesson in strategy
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Don’t make me tap the sign
I introduced a resolution today with 17 of my colleagues condemning the slogan, "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free." People who invoke this disgraceful, antisemitic slogan are calling for the mass murder of Jews, whether they know it or not. On October 7, the…
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They talk about “the economy” the way Aztecs talked about Tlaloc, the vengeful rain god in inexhaustible need of propitiatory offerings
.
@SenMikeLee
reacts to climate change report: "All of the proposals I've seen so far" that address climate change issues would be harmful to U.S. economy
#MTP
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This is the slowest, fattest softball for Democrats to smack but most will not even swing the bat
After meeting with pharma lobbyists, Trump abandons pledge to let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices
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may the red plague rid you Donald Trump for making me retweet Bill kristol
Lindsey Graham: A president who doesn't comply with Congressional requests for information is subject to impeachment.
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This dialect, known as “Harvard McKinsey,” has a wonderful lilt, a heavily syncopated syntax and is rich in colorful idioms. To me it is as legitimate, and as beautiful, as standard English.
Black lives depend on whether America can be what we want to believe it is. What we need it to be. What it could be. Systemic racism is so woven into the fabric of this country, facing it will take action, honesty, listening, and deep, deep change. And for many of us, humility.
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To understand NY state politics, know that half the state will feel like their candy’s been taken away if you tell them that even with the recent homicide spike, last year’s NYC homicide total was lower than in any of Giuliani’s years in charge, and all but 3 of Bloomberg’s
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The average age of the top 3 House Democrats is 81, btw
.
@JaneMayerNYer
"they say her short-term memory has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have. They describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said & getting upset."
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Were Ulster Protestants genocided and was their society “dismantled” when the Good Friday Agreement granted Catholics equal political & social rights? Most would find this ridiculous, apart from some diehard rejectionists. But that’s where many US Dems are now on Israel-Palestine
Fun Fact: 41 percent of Jews live in Israel. If you're talking about dismantling Israel, you're talking about dismantling the nation about half of them live in, which has overtones it would be smart to consider.
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Can we stop using “not safe” to mean embarrassed or uncool? The threat inflation that defines US foreign policy is bad enough without seeping into our everyday social interactions.
Twitter CEO says conservative employees "don't feel safe to express their opinions"
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The
@FT
editorial board says Zelenskyy may renounce NATO membership to negotiate a peace deal – which sure is funny given all the very savvy people who have assured us that NATO membership has absolutely nothing, nada, niente whatsoever to do with Russia’s invasion
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Not to be vulgar but The Atlantic is publishing exactly what you’d think a magazine run by an American volunteer for the IDF (who deployed him as a prison guard no less!) would publish
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There are 11 states with fewer people than the Bronx and they each get two U.S. senators, what is this crap
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Governor who flies Confederate flag at SC capitol says "we’ll never understand what motivates"
#Charleston
massacre:
http://t.co/OQcgGjm5Af
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This latest off-putting NYPD sulk is a moment of vulnerability and progs in the city and state government should ruthlessly exploit it to shrink police budget and authority
Over at The Rant, a popular message board for cops, contributors have issued wanted posters for O'Neill, and described the Garner family as "savages" and "ghetto dwellers."
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A constitutional republic?
What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
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We are all truly fortunate that Jeffrey Dahmer did not attend Yale Law School
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The catastrophic damage Nixon did to Southeast Asia is really down the memory hole of pundits like Ioffe. Even tho Trump does seem worse to me on the purely human level we’re not judging abstracted, denatured humans (cocktail party impressions), we’re judging presidencies
So after this week, we can all agree, right, that Richard Nixon was a more moral president than Donald Trump?
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Chuck Schumer voted for the Iraq invasion, against the Iran nuclear deal, and worked behind the scenes to get John Bolton appointed UN ambassador in 2005. He is unfit to lead the Democrats.
A pinpointed, limited action to punish and hopefully deter Assad from doing this again is appropriate, but the administration has to be careful about not getting us into a greater and more involved war in Syria.
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Love the human interest angle of this Times hed. Hope the guy gets through this OK!
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It’s swell that
@PeteButtigieg
is smart, reads Joyce, speaks Lithuanian etc. That he frowns on Ed Snowden & is “troubled” by Obama’s commutation of Chelsea Manning means he’s a bit of a war pig with a Beltway-funhouse sense of “national security”
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@AOC
That’s a bad tweet. A peace deal with N. Korea is a good thing and enjoys overwhelming support in S. Korea, which has much more skin in the game than we do here. Don’t use that for lame partisan points. Your comms team cld use a seminar in foreign policy, I recommend
@QuincyInst
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It is amazing that some people mistake this project – replacing the current FBI with an entirely MAGA-fied version – for a civil libertarian critique of overzealous policing
WATCH: GOP presidential candidate
@VivekGRamaswamy
says he wants to "shut down the FBI" and develop a new replacement.
@chucktodd
: "It does sound like you're just replacing the FBI with the FBI."
Ramaswamy: "The problem is there's people who have worked there for decades."
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meet Oberlin sophomore Donald ❄️. Trump
“You are creating violence by your questions,” Trump tells a reporter asking him a question at the White House
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@chrislhayes
Still, important to *make* the Court do it and then face consequences for what would be nationally unpopular, no?
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I am so tired of tweeting this but universal healthcare is not "utopian" it is the only practical, humane, cost-effective way to do medicine
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A small matter amid so much horror but I have a feeling that “leftist defender of atrocities committed by Palestinians” will shortly be a new major fictional folk-devil, a whipping boy and load-bearing myth, for American centrists with absolutely no other ideas or solutions
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Hawley, who is a fraud in general but a true
#WarEnthusiast
, was part of the Senate minority that voted to help the Saudis keep bombing Yemen last year
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“Condemn their one Palestinian-American colleague” seems to be the genius plan congressional Democrats have hatched for defusing the current crisis. Very popular with Blue Checks!
As the only Jewish member of MI’s congressional delegation, I have worked to reach out to Arab & Muslim constituents who I know are feeling fear and anguish right now, & I have tried to reflect that empathy in my approach to this crisis. I ask the same of
@RepRashida
. (1/3)
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A senator who voted for the Iraq invasion, and 17 years later can only come up with this, is unfit for the presidency
I’m going to hold off on commenting on the news tonight until we know more, but there is one thing I will say: Jill and I are keeping our troops and Americans overseas in our prayers. We hope you’ll keep them in yours.
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If Bernie lied/confabulated like this it would be a major story but with Biden it’s just part of a beautiful sunset
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Murders and shootings in New York City hit a historic low for the month of January in 2017
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Government should be making insulin and providing it at cost. That’s the only economically rational solution and I’ll stand on Milton Friedman’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
#MedicareForAll
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Biden’s refusal to stand down from 2024 increasingly looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg-level selfishness
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Police personnel need to be removed entirely from primary and secondary school discipline. No role whatsoever.
Newly released footage shows Montgomery County, Maryland police officers berating and handcuffing a five-year-old who ran away from school
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I hope all the threat inflation has been good for your ratings, assholes
62% of Americans, up from 48% in March, say North Korea poses a very serious threat to US, new CNN poll finds
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Gotta love actually existing capitalism
The company that took U.S. money to develop a cheap ventilator, then did not deliver a single one to the national stockpile, has just inked ANOTHER contract with the government.
This time, it is selling ventilators for quadruple the price.
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“Ruling class” should not be in scare quotes, “turned against it” should be
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I’ve been in Bernie’s corner since 2016 but open to voting
@ewarren
for strategic reasons, for instance if Bernie tanked. I hope Warren supporters consider voting Sanders now for the same strategic reasons. And I hope Warren has a role in the next administration, whoever wins.
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Does anyone seriously think Ukraine will _not_ have to cede Crimea at this point? It’s unfair and unpleasant but denying the fact does not help anything.
Cornel West on CNN says NATO "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calls for "concessions of territory" to stop the war, and says the US "bears significant responsibility." But he adds that he's not "pro Putin," so there's that.
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Ahh the charity of our prison state. All of this is fucked-up beyond belief
High security inmates at the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office rarely get to see family members while incarcerated. The staff decided to give a few of the inmates with exemplary good behavior a chance to have a few minutes in-person with their families.
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Respect to 93-year-old Chomsky for making fairly bland statements that get people hopping mad
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Condolences to Max and all Bootniks on this tragic outbreak of peaceful diplomacy between North and South Korea
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It’s like the White House is absolutely determined to have their own Chicago ‘68. What is up with that?
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Hypothesis: the more Democrats rub Trump’s depravity into the noses of Republicans, the worse the latter will later behave to externalize their guilt. And yet the Democrats have to do it; there’s no other way
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What’s so amazing. This graf describes how people learn ~anything~ about the world. Americans need more of this, not less.
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This sucks
@RexChapman
The senate compromise bill appears to include $5B to fund 'Active Shooter" training in schools. There is *zero* evidence these trainings work, and lots of evidence they cause real harm.
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Price of an
#EpiPen
in…
US $300
Canada $94
Germany $107
France $43
But remember, "we can't afford socialized healthcare."
#SinglePayer
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Then demand a ceasefire and a cut-off of US military aid to the IDF. The handwringing and learned helplessness in the face of massacre are absolutely horrid
Justin, I’m terribly sorry for your horrible loss. We must do everything in our power to protect the lives of innocent civilians throughout the region. Sending sympathy and love to your family.
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Will never forget then-NYU Law Professor Noah Feldman telling a group of us students in early 2004 that the invasion of Iraq was “morally the right thing to do” but “probably not in our national interest” and that he hoped that we too would follow morality over mere interest
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My favorite twitter joke and the only thing I can think of when someone earnestly uses the word
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I’m not bothered by the current president so much as by 43% of the country thinking he’s just marvelous. The rot here is deep and wide!
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In other very important health news, I managed to jog around Prospect Park yesterday for the first time since my open-heart surgery in February
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Not a single document leaked by Manning was "top secret." You support every foolish war yet blame a soldier/whistleblower for risking lives.
Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets.
My full statement ↓
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There were more Trump voters in New York’s five boroughs than in all West Virginia, but whatever
Buttigieg also spoke about Trump supporters & the idea that ppl on the coasts “have trouble believing that Trump voters actually exist.”
Trump supporters, he said, are "just human beings making choices on their situations, sometimes their biases & we need to talk through them."
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Counterpoint: this is nuts, and Bernie would be insane to hostage himself to our natsec panjandrums
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Former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo supports commutation for Chelsea Manning:
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Scrape off the edgelord frosting and it’s the same pot-bellied drivel about shiftless proles we’ve been hearing for two centuries
I've known people who have held down jobs and who are generally fine until the fortnightly paycheck comes, then it's a 3 day bender until they end up passed out somewhere or arrested. The cycle continues. This is not a problem caused by a lack of money.
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No more Clintons.
No more Bushes.
No more Kennedys.
No more McCains.
Please god no more Trumps.
No more political dynasties, they're like brain cancer on the body politic.
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Big divide in the U.S. between those who take Atlantic Monthly editor Jeffrey Goldberg seriously as a journalist and intellectual and those who not only cannot but rub their eyes in disbelief that anyone could
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“Individuals close to the former Vice President also blame Sanders for Biden’s Iraq war vote, treatment of Anita Hill, flip-flopping on abortion rights, and services to the credit card industry.” Dang, he must be sore as hell at Bernie!
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Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush are all free. Chelsea Manning is not.
Reminding folks that Chelsea Manning continues to sit in jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Julian Assange
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