Chase Madar
@ChaseMadar
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Author, attorney, translator and adjunct teacher of law ~ and society ~ at @NYUGallatin and @EugeneLang. @MakeTheRoadNY Legal alum.
Joined February 2010
A clear, direct, 3-word message. You love to see it.
Brooklyn Public Library, tonight
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More good-government porn from South Korea:.
In South Korea š°š·, 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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Itās really not fair to make students act like the adults in the room, upholding the most basic moral norms, while the adults in charge act like a bunch of grinning psychos.
Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":
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Part of what makes this guy refreshing is that while he has been and done many things, he has never been a lawyer. (If he does get the VP slot heāll be the first person on a Dem ticket who didnāt go to law school __since 1980__.).
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So many of Americaās Christians are content to not only see but pay for the ethnic cleansing of Christians from literal Bethlehem.
This Christian family is fighting to protect their land annexed by Smotrich in Bethlehem.The area is known for natural trails surrounded by fresh water springs,mountains,caves& relics of small structures,abundant apricot terraces that produce the most delicious apricots Beit Jala
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Coates is probably personally responsible for another 100-200k Americans turning against Washingtonās blank-check Israel subsidy. Thatās value
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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 donāt 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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Sheās lousy at politics, just an absolute stinker, and Iām at least happy we can say that out loud now.
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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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There is so much of this guy, all the way down, in so many American institutions, public and private, even the ostensibly liberal ones. Read this ghastly thread:
I have filed an ethics complaint against @OuttenGolden, the law firm that I hired to represent me when @Columbia launched an unfounded & politicized investigation of me because I condemned violent attacks ag pro-Palestinian student protesters on our campus.
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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 Tischās $1.1 billion real estate fortune not into @BernieSanders ā 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.
Iāve 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 donāt other people have rights?.Can I pls have a right to go home without feeling threatened?
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Whatās the argument for voting for Kamala if youāre a) against genocide and b) in a deep blue state? Frankly I donāt see a reason.
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Props to @CoriBush for fighting to the very end of her term.
NEWāReps. Rashida Tlaib & Cori Bush are pressing Biden to explain unauthorized involvement of US armed forces in Israel's military activity. They warn a member can force a vote to remove troops from the region. AndrĆ© Carson, Ilhan Omar, Summer Lee joined.
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Kind of funny that itās the Dem-Socalists and Bernie people who sound _less_ alienated in their post-mortems than all the lofty centrist hissy-fits.
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I wonder how the author of this profile thinks the āviolent and ugly rhetoricā she discerns around ā¦@CHAPOTRAPHOUSEā© compares with the āIntellectual Dark Webā 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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"Despite all the coverage of the protests over Israelās war in Gaza, it can be remarkably difficult to understand what the players are actually saying," @JillFilipovic writes
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More people seem to be blaming Biden than Bush-Cheney for the Afghan debacle. Thatās annoying, and wrong.
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Imagine if @BetoORourke did something like this instead of wasting everyoneās time.
The return of @AndrewGillum: heās launching a mammoth voter registration campaign in Florida after losing the race for governor by less than half a point.
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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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By this point I get the cult of Trump. Think itās messed up, but I get it. But a cult of Joe Biden you have to be fucking kidding me.
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Not to be a Sanguine Salvatore but I think Tapper and his producers have underestimated the reputational damage this is going to cost.
š§µ THREAD: . CNN anchor Jake Tapper joined ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt and others in blatantly mischaracterizing Rep. @RashidaTlaibās remarks, saying Tlaib accused Michigan AG Dana Nessel of bringing charges against U. of Michigan campus protesters ābecause sheās Jewish.ā. Read
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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 heās 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 wayā.
Meanwhile, one refrain weāve 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 wasnāt true at all. Only 150/500 spots were filled.
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This has become a load-bearing myth, that the only thing keeping Kamala from going on Rogan and ~positively sparkling~ was her twentysomething staffers, rather than her own unhideable deficiencies as a candidate and those of the entire institutional culture that promoted her.
Dem strategist James Carville absolutely obliterates Kamala's progressive staffers who kept Harris from doing the @joerogan interview: I would tell them, "Not only am I not interested in your f**king opinion, Iām not even gonna call you by your name.". "Youāre 23 years old. I
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āthe excesses of both,ā like when Jane Fonda dropped 2.5 million tons of cluster bombs on Laos
Ken Burnsā Vietnam is the most important film Iāve 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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āFrom the river to the seaā does not have an exterminationist meaning any more than Sinn Feinās calls for āone Irelandā 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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@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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āIn [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.ā
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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 ā 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 ā social collapse! We blame everyone ā 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 weāre 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 & Iranās 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 leadershipānot Schumer, Pelosi or Perezāhas 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. Bushās catastrophic sins.
George W. Bush took another step on the road to national redemption with his address and its delivery.
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Have never liked Joe Biden; his Palestine policy has made it impossible to fake a smile for him, to say the very least. But I did not know he was such a jumped-up piece of small trash in a deep and personal way.
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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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Donāt 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 āthe economyā 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 āHarvard McKinsey,ā 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 candyās been taken away if you tell them that even with the recent homicide spike, last yearās NYC homicide total was lower than in any of Giulianiās years in charge, and all but 3 of Bloombergās.
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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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If you illiberally ban student groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace you donāt get to act surprised when the students respond with civil disobedience and disruption.
Acting President Shipman describes the unacceptable disruption of Butler Library, the steps the University took to address it, and the strength and determination of Columbia not to let this moment define us.
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Were Ulster Protestants genocided and was their society ādismantledā when the Good Friday Agreement granted Catholics equal political & social rights? Most would find this ridiculous, apart from some diehard rejectionists. But thatās 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 ānot safeā 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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I was right and many of you people are STILL wrong with your undimmed Bidenphilia.
Bidenās refusal to stand down from 2024 increasingly looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg-level selfishness.
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Biden should step down now to conserve his strength for 2028.
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The ā¦@FTā© editorial board says Zelenskyy may renounce NATO membership to negotiate a peace deal ā 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 Russiaās invasion
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Not to be vulgar but The Atlantic is publishing exactly what youād 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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Thatās right, every single Dem ticket since 1984 has been stacked with 2 lawyers (minus Al Gore, who went to law school for 2 yrs before running for office), an unalleviated streak of mitigation-&-compliance-brained weirdos who by and large have struggled with executive function.
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Not to sound like an old fart but how on earth do we expect young people in America to develop any sense of civic or personal responsibility if this is what editors at the journal of record not only think but write and publish? Lord have mercy
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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 "weāll 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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One thing the Wikileaks-leaked State Dept cables showed was foreign pols at very high levels having private meetings with US officials to further their own domestic agendas and intra-cabinet squabbles. Easy to see why a foreign head of state would want to shut that shit down.
NEWā Mexico's new President imposes a straitjacket on the US Ambassador Ken Salazar closing direct access to members of the Mexican Cabinet without doing so through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An unusual move showing the power of a radical wing inside the governing coalition
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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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Minor point, but the career of Antony Blinken is like a kryptonite dart to our super-charged faith in American meritocracy.
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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 weāre not judging abstracted, denatured humans (cocktail party impressions), weāre 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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Thereās a real cost to making a temperamentally conservative South Carolinian lobbyist the head of your party, especially in time of crisis ā people see this, no?
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Love the human interest angle of this Times hed. Hope the guy gets through this OK!
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Itās swell that ā¦@PeteButtigiegā© is smart, reads Joyce, speaks Lithuanian etc. That he frowns on Ed Snowden & is ātroubledā by Obamaās commutation of Chelsea Manning means heās a bit of a war pig with a Beltway-funhouse sense of ānational securityā
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Shocking lack of vision, ambition, judgment, wisdom.
NEW. @AOC tells us she has had extensive conversations with Joe Biden and supports him as the Democratic nominee against the convicted felon Donald Trump.
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@AOC Thatās 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. Donāt 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 ā replacing the current FBI with an entirely MAGA-fied version ā 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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MSNBC has been breached.
In his new book āThe Message,ā Ta-Nehisi Coates journeys to three sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell and the ones we donāt shape our realities. This morning I asked him about his comparison in the book of the treatment of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South.
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meet Oberlin sophomore Donald āļø. Trump.
āYou are creating violence by your questions,ā Trump tells a reporter asking him a question at the White House.
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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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@chrislhayes Still, important to *make* the Court do it and then face consequences for what would be nationally unpopular, no?.
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Iām intrigued by the Biden bitter-enders. Not the Beltway hacks but the rank and file: their backgrounds, demographics, worldview and belief system, their emotional logic and folk narratives.
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A small matter amid so much horror but I have a feeling that āleftist defender of atrocities committed by Palestiniansā 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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Iām not the biggest fan of American nationalism but why does it skitter off and hide under the sofa whenever this jumped-up ethnic cleanser is involved? All our dipshit patriots really like being shoved around by this twerp so much?.
BREAKING: Netanyahu attacks the Biden administration in a new video: "I told Secretary Blinken it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel"
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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
What a group of corporatists and war enthusiasts - and #BigTech sellouts.
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āCondemn their one Palestinian-American colleagueā 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 MIās 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.
Iām 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 youāll keep them in yours.
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I know people want to be optimistic but this is the kind of dishonest rhetoric that Samantha Power had been spouting for twenty years, essentially a high-sounding denial that US policy is actively causing a great deal of the suffering āwe [!?] must not become numb to.ā Por favor.
āWhat has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating ā¦ā VP Harris said in remarks after meeting Israeli PM Netanyahu. āWe cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent.ā
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Bidenās refusal to stand down from 2024 increasingly looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg-level selfishness.
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If Bernie lied/confabulated like this it would be a major story but with Biden itās just part of a beautiful sunset.
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All civil libertarians should know that for Vivek & friends the goal of shutting down the FBI is to remake it afresh purged of any staff less than 100% loyal to Trump along with any lingering professionalism. This is the goal, not something else. Donāt be a fucking chump.
Ramaswamy: Shut down the FBI, shut down the ATF, shut down the CDC, shut down the Department of Education, fire 75% of the federal bureaucratsā¦
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Midwestern heiress to hotdog fortune not comfortable with āoligarchyā; in other news: Pope, Catholic?.
Slotkin tells me Democrats should stop using the term "oligarchy"āno one knows what it means.
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