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1. Writer, The Nation … 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann *e4dccb3d
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In 2016, Trump paid $129,250 more to Stormy Daniels than to the USA government.
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I want a ven diagram of people willing to argue "Give Kavanaugh a break, he was only 17" and "Trayvon Martin got what he deserved."
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If this is what it takes for you to vote for Hitler, then I'm going to say you were always going to vote for Hitler.
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If you are an American and under 37, your entire adult life has been under the shadow of the Forever Wars, the Great recession, a pandemic, and, it looks like, another recession. This is what is shaping the generational divide on politics.
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It's just me but I think it's noteworthy that there are a lot of photos of the President of the United States hanging out with someone just arrested who is allegedly the procurer of a massive child sex ring.
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Canadian women remain sadly and pathetically deluded by his narcissistic charm... he's not on your side, girlies, and he never was. He's on his side. And you're too charmed and blind to see it.
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If Hillary Clinton won, there would currently be a Supreme Court with 7 judges. Who are we kidding here?
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Mitt Romney is the first Senator in American history to vote to impeach a president of his own party.
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In all seriousness: Fox News is a network dominated from start by sexual predators & they've helped make a sexual predator president.
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I don't think people realize what a tragedy this is, how many lives it will cost, how many people will unnecessarily have chronic health problems for the rest of their lives because of this, and how it will damage America for decades to come.
“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up.” -European scientist.
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The people who run the Democratic party all achieved success within the political system 40, 50, 60 years ago. That system is crumbling and their instinct is to pretend it is still functioning rather than think about what new needs to be done to meet the moment.
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Someone obviously didn't finish reading a Mussolini biography.
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Free. It should be free. Medicine that can save lives should be free.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says any coronavirus vaccine should be "affordable."
"This would be a vaccine that is developed with taxpayer dollars...We think that should be available to everyone—not dependent on 'Big Pharma.'"
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1. Harriet Tubman never said that. 2. This fake quote is actually pro-slavery since it implies that slaves deserved their condition because of ignorance or inherent servility. 3. Stop this.
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"rich history in genocide expertise" is one way to phrase this.
Germany, with its rich history in genocide expertise, will now join as a third party at the International Court of Justice, backing Israel and arguing that "there is no basis for the accusations."
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I dream of a pro-life movement that cared as much about real migrant children as the hypothetical danger of time-travellers killing baby Hitler.
Ben Shapiro at March for Life: "The truth is no pro-life person would kill baby Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby."
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Guys. Guys. I'm starting to think giving the most powerful job in the world to a bigoted mobbed up reality show star with no policy knowledge & an abusive character wasn't a smart move.
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This is eugenics.
Alabama’s disaster preparedness plan says that “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support.”
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Weird how this moment didn't provoke a discourse about self-care, mental health, and the contagion effect.
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Trump says he's sanctioning the Ayatollah Khomeini, who has been dead since 1989.
President Trump has just signed an executive order to deny Iran's Supreme Leader and his associates access to key financial resources and support.
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The big take away should be that no one really thinks abortion is murder, only say so for political effect.
Dana Loesch: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.”
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Ann Coulter is of course correct -- the next time JFK is on the ballot, his sexual misconduct should be considered by voters.
Hey Dems! JFK had an extra marital affair with 19-year old Mimi Alford when he was 45 years old.
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I'm no theologian but I'm pretty sure Jesus did in fact run into trouble with law enforcement.
Paula White: "Jesus did live in Egypt for three-and-a-half years. But it was not illegal. If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah."
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In all seriousness, why is Jacob Wohl not in jail?
Jacob Wohl paid a woman to lie that Anthony Fauci assaulted her.
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It's good for a new generation of young people to see exactly what centrists and mainstream liberals are.
UPDATE: The NYPD have now arrested the legal observers at the Columbia University Palestine solidarity encampment
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If only there was a briefer way of saying "having sex with an incapacitated woman against her will."
#BREAKING
: Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Ellis has resigned from his state House seat immediately. The Republican representative was accused of having sex with an incapacitated woman against her will.
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Trump just threatened to exterminate a nation of 25 million people but don't worry, our pundits have roundly condemned Antifa violence
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If only there were some sacred text, one most people at CPAC claimed allegiance to, that very explicitly warns against making golden idols.
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Remember the time Ginni Thomas left a nasty message on Anita Hill's phone demanding an apology. That was wild.
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Can someone at
@Twitter
tell me if inciting a Civil War is an offence that can get you banned? Thanks in advance.
....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress,
@FoxNews
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This sounds insane but it's entirely possible that the White House and Mar-a-Lago are important vectors for spreading the pandemic.
Australian official who met with Ivanka Trump and Attorney General William Barr last week tests positive for coronavirus
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Treat Trumpcare like a zombie: just because it's dead doesn't mean you stop killing it. Cut off it's head, limbs. Destroy it again & again.
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Biden is destroying his presidency (and possibly American democracy) on behalf of a government of fanatics that is carrying on war of retribution that his own military says has no coherent strategy and endgame.
Fully 70% of those 18 to 34 disapprove of Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war in a new
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@mmurraypolitics
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Strange but true, the policy of appeasing Hitler was rooted in the premise that anti-fascism was as bad as or worse than fascism.
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We're really having a debate on whether we have to be civil to people who tear babies & children away from their parents, leading to incalculable trauma? Fuck civility.
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Is white American evangelical Christianity in such a state of decadence that there's not at least a few in that community who see how obscene this is, how genuinely blasphemous?
Fox & Friends preview an interview with Rick Perry, where he says that Trump is "the chosen one" and "sent by God to do great things"
Pete Hegseth: "God has used imperfect people forever," but what Trump "has withstood is unlike what really any other mortal could understand"
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This is not journalism.
CNN's
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"As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms...."
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Guys, guys, I'm beginning to think America isn't a meritocracy but a place where money rules and the rich rig the system to stay on top.
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The majority of the American ruling class, indeed a majority of the ruling class in the West, supports this.
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The sad personal story here is that Don Jr. might have committed crimes as a way to get close to his distant dad.
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Many people, including myself, took Tucker Carlson's account of a protest at his house at face value. That was a mistake. This is an important thread.
One last point on the Tucker Carlson protest, you don't wanna believe the protestors, why not go with the police version of events?
Cause there is a police report.
I'm gonna say that's a more reliable source than Mr. Carlson.
And it completely contradicts him.
Here goes.
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This hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but settlers and their allies in Netanyahu's government have been using the current conflict as cover for an ethnic cleansing of the Armenian Quarter.
🇦🇲 Over 200 Armenian Community members in Jerusalem gather in prayer as they continue to fight to defend their historic quarter in the old city from armed Israeli settlers.
#Save_the_Arq
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So the preferred right-wing whataboutism for Cruz is "what about Andrew Cuomo?" So to be clear: Cuomo should resign and Cruz should resign.
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It' all going to be memory-holed, but we should remember there was a vast discourse over last 10-15 years about Putin/Russia are strong/manly and the West is weak/effeminate/gay. All the vile implications of that discourse are worth remembering
Holy crap.
Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea....
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Thanks to Trump, conservatives now hate football and the FBI while they love rap music and talking to North Korea. That's a major achievement.
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Man boasts on tape of committing sexual assault. Multiple women say he committed sexual assault. Millions will question women. What a world.
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One crucial difference between USA & France is in France center right (Fillon) acted responsibly & endorsed Macron. GOP rallied to Trump.
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"The first war crimes were committed by Hamas" is such an interesting sentence if you stop and think about it.
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If you are an American, you are paying for this. If you live in Western country, it's almost certain your government is supporting this.
A man is holding a little girl after he extracted her from under the rubble of her destroyed house by the Israeli war planes.
This photo have been taken by me from my street today.
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Credit where credit is due: the argument that it's okay to be racist against a socialist who is critical of America was pioneered in the 1960s by National Review in their many attacks on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm sorry if you can't impeach a president for inciting a mob to attack congress, then you are saying a president can do anything.
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To be clear, the Israeli governments allegations against UNRWA were, like so much of what they've said during this war, complete bullshit. But Western governments went along with it, contributing to the famine now unfolding in Gaza.
The EU has announced it will reinstate funding to UNRWA after having suspended it due to Israels allegations (for which they provided zero evidence)
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This is something I was wrong about. I thought if Trump was deplatformed he'd find a way to get his message out through alternative means. I underestimated how lazy he was and dependent on those platforms.
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There's no free speech in the West for anyone who believes that Palestinians are human.
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Mysterious, Badgeless federal officers rounding up citizens without reading them their rights and putting them in unmarked vans kind of puts the whole "cancel culture" thing into perspective.
This is happening on the streets of our hometown of Portland, OR.
We will continue to resist. They are fucking with the wrong city 👊
#TheResistance
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To be honest, I was expecting a very different Matt Gaetz sex scandal.
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One of the consistently surprising things about the 21st century is how many homophobic cake makers there are.
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I like how the New York Times reporter describes an open avowal of fascism as a "lack of a sense of political correctness." That tells you something about the Times.
NYT interview with a West Bank settler, she proudly admits that she is a fascist. I wonder if this mentality is pervasive among the illegal settler community.
#Gaza
#Gaza_Genocide
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Elon Musk and Grimes have had (to date) 3 kids together:.Their names are Exa, X Æ A-12, and Techno Mechanicus. This is what we're dealing with.
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This isn't a presidential bid, it's a hostage-taking situation.
Howard Schultz’ challenge to Democrats: Nominate a centrist for president and I’ll abandon my independent campaign
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Remember when Cheryl Hines was on that show where she played a woman whose husband was an endless source of mortifying embarrassment?
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I actually prefer to live in a world where the young can play games rather than die in wars. But that's just me.
Young men in the 1940s liberated Europe from Nazism and the Pacific from the Japanese Empire. Today, too many stay home playing video games.
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Mexico's president regularly has approval ratings approach 70% or nearly twice that of Joe Biden in the USA.
Mexico's list of demands in exchange for cooperation with the US on migration is so based
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How difficult is it to say: "Look, I drank a lot in high school and college. I did a lot of stuff I'm not proud of, some of which I might not even remember. I'm genuinely sorry to anyone I hurt. I'm a different man today."
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Keep in mind that there have been no leaks yet from Mueller's office (a very tight ship). This is just stuff from ... the White House.
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"Kidnap survivors of Somali pirates & the Taliban trying to shame the USA government" isn't something I would've predicted.
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Imagine having so much racism in you that writing for Breitbart doesn't use it all up & you need to moonlight.
Breitbart writer caught running secret, virulently racist Facebook group
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1. There's a big push for amnesia on the Trump era in the name of healing ("let's never talk about this again") so I want to keep insisting that not only was the authoritarian threat real but also that we're in the beginning of finding out how extensive it was.
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2015: We're going to build a wall and Mexico will pay for it.
2019: We're going to get Canadian television to show Home Alone 2 unedited.
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To be clear, this is a war crime. If you are American, you are complicit in this.
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While everyone is mocking the pudding brain Putin conspiracy theory here, worth adding that Pelosi is making a serious & dangerous policy suggestion: that FBI investigate antiwar groups. This echoes LBJ/Nixon abuse of law enforcement.
Nancy Pelosi: Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza "is Mr. Putin's message... Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see...
"I think some of these protesters are spontaneous and organic and sincere. Some I think are connected to Russia."
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A ceasefire is supported by all but three nations in the world (USA, UK, Israel) and also by strong majority of American voters. But here's how NY Times frames it.
The international community has overwhelmingly voted for ceasefire, global orgs like Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International call for ceasefire, a majority of American voters support ceasefire. It’s not Arab nations, the world condemns the U.S. government.
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I suppose we all have our own ways of remembering 9/11, but I was taken aback by Ted Cruz's approach.
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1. In 1991, the 22-year old Tucker Carlson described himself in his college yearbook as a member of the Dan White Society. White was the homophobe who in 1978 assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
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Ben Shapiro: killing a 12 year old for carrying a pellet gun is justified.
Also Ben Shapiro: not admitting someone into an exclusive university because they used a racist slurs is a crime against humanity.
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"We have to let Spencer speak because of free speech." Ok, can I go in and cover his speech. "No."
University of Florida has given Richard Spencer full control over which journalists will be allowed inside the venue to cover his speech.
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Reminders: the Republicans currently control all three branches of the government. They're shutting it down on themselves.
BREAKING: Speaker Ryan says President Trump will not sign short-term continuing resolution passed by Senate.
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One thing I like about Bernie Sanders is that he's been right about almost everything for the last 50 years.
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We all owe Sinead O'Connor an apology.
When was the first time you heard that the Catholic Church was teeming with child abuse? If you're my age, it was Sinead O'Connor on SNL. She was almost universally treated like a crazy person who had said something bizarre and unforgivable.
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The whole student debt discourse really illuminates how many trust fund brats and legacy beneficiaries populate elite journalism and think tankery, including among putative progressives.
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Remember when the New Yorker reported out evidence that a powerful senator is suffering from early stages of dementia and people were sharing the story for a day and then nothing happened?
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The joke here is that the Trail of Tears was a genocide. Get it? Get it?
Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!
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No matter how low your opinion of Alan Dershowitz is, you still don't have enough contempt for him.
Alan Dershowitz: I want to have a list of all the radical feminists who are pushing hard to get the names from the Epstein list revealed.
I want to know, how many of them have ever actually condemned hamas for the rapes.
@Acyn
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I hope people pay attention to what Saudi Arabia, UAE & Israel are doing and remember it.
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People aren't noticing enough that that is Ken Burns in the center of this photo.
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1. "What a minute," yo might ask, "Isn't Milei a self-proclaimed libertarian, even an anarcho-capitalist who who wants to abolish the state? How can he be using police power to repress free speech & protests?" Well, the history of anarcho-capitalism has the answers.
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1. I realize that getting mad at people on the internet is silly but I was listening to a fine film podcast & they made a common error about Killers of the Flower Moon, claiming its not explained why Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) & other Osage women marry (bad) white men
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I'm old enough tor remember when people making a dangerous trek in a caravan across a desert wasteland was something Mormons admired.
Jason Chaffetz, speaking about Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7 year old girl who died in the custody of US Border Patrol: "That should be the message, don't make this journey, it will kill you."
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Just give people money. Just give people vaccines. Roll out stuff as fast as possible. Trying to means test these things in an emergency is bad governance.
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I don't think there's been a worse retail politician in our lifetime. It's a real talent, a kind of anti-Obama.
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A lot of people are going to have a restless night because of the Epstein news. That's good.
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