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The movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ eerily mirrored reality this week when a climate activist appeared on the UK morning show ‘Good Morning Britain.’
So we put real life and the movie side by side for all to see. 👀
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We’ve covered the global rise of the far-right on this show for some time. But if you think Le Pen and Orban are dangerous, let
@mehdirhasan
tell you a little about India's prime minister, Narendra Modi:
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Mike Pompeo is trying to rewrite history with Afghanistan. But don’t worry, we use the magic of TV to set the record straight.
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"Don't call yourself a free person if you can't make changes. If you can't stop a genocide that is still ongoing" -
@azaizamotaz9
's message to Americans.
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@mehdirhasan
: "The president of the United States has told more than 20,000 lies, untruths and falsehoods since coming to office nearly 4 years ago. And tonight he added to the list; oh, he added to it big time."
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@RashidaTlaib
responds to attacks on progressive Democrats:
"Look I want to feed the poor. I want to make sure we are not picking corporations over people. I want to make sure that we have equity in education funding in our school system...Nothing's going to change."
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In 2016, "We were told that we need to reach out to understand" Trump voters, says
@WajahatAli
. "I have not heard... anybody say, 'Hey Trump voters, reach out to 80 million of your fellow Americans and please understand *their* frustrations and why they voted for Joe Biden.'"
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Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan hasn’t come without controversy, but
@Hina_RKhar
wants people to focus on where the country is at today.
“1996 and 2021 Pakistan are very different...Please do not judge the Pakistan of 2021 by the role that Pakistan played in 1996.”
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@PeterHotez
responds to being asked to debate anti-vaxxer RFK Jr.
"Anti-vaccine disinformation...is now a lethal force in the United States. I offered to go on Joe Rogan but not to turn it into the Jerry Springer show with having RFK Jr. on."
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"What's happening right now is a total dismantling of our democracy... we are standing on the edge of darkness." Former Pakistani prime minister
@ImranKhanPTI
sounds the alarm to
@MehdiRHasan
on the state of democracy, freedom, and human rights in Pakistan.
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It's "claustrophobic to arrive here in the U.S. and to have people live in some kind of denial” about the rise of far-right Hindu nationalism in India,
@RanaAyyub
says."There is this comfortable and convenient ignorance about what’s happening."
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Dr. Monica Ganhdi has been outspoken, at several stages, about where she thought the pandemic would be headed.
@mehdirhasan
asks her if it’s time for her to stop making such broad forecasts. WATCH:
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“I was due to lose my life multiple times."
Palestinian photojournalist
@azaizamotaz9
talks to
@MehdiRHasan
about the reality of reporting from Gaza, where a record number of journalists have been killed.
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@kurtbardella
: “Let the record show that our national nightmare began with drunk Rudy espousing advice that the president of the United States decided to follow instead of listening to, oh I don’t know, everybody else in the room that was sober and telling him the truth.”
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When CEO
@DanPriceSeattle
lowered his salary so he could pay all his workers at least $70K a year, he got a lot of headlines. “I think it just shows how low the bar is,” he jokes. But the policy has had real positive impacts on his workers. He explains how to
@mehdirhasan
:
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Does
@mtaibbi
have anything to say about Musk’s Twitter agreeing to censorship requests from India’s gov’t?
“Why don’t you invite me on your show to talk about it?” Taibbi tweeted
@mehdirhasan
.
Here’s how that went. Full conversation later tonight:
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Across the country, with democracy under threat, the vast majority of the 361 voter restriction bills introduced by Republicans haven’t yet been passed into law.
@MehdiRHasan
says there’s still hope to fight back, but not if Dems and the media “both sides” the issue.
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The U.S. is committing $30 million in aid to Pakistan as the country is being devastated by massive flooding.
@BhuttoZulfikar
tells
@MehdiRHasan
Pakistan’s debt needs to be cleared though, saying “if it isn’t, people will starve.”
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@chefjoseandres
can live a life of leisure, but he travels the globe to feed the hungry. "Why do I do it?" he says. "Because I must... to make sure we are next to the people in their darkest hour to bring light and hope through food."
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“That’s where I failed," Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan tells
@mehdirhasan
about his clash with Pakistan’s military.
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“This is how countries slide slowly into authoritarianism, because small, mediocre men like Bill Barr believe they’re the smartest person in the room.”
@JoyceWhiteVance
isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to the former AG.
“Now you don’t need to buy Bill Barr’s book.”
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Why did
@mtaibbi
launch the Twitter Files by suggesting that Biden officials got Twitter to delete tweets… without disclosing that the tweets included non consensual nude images of the president’s son Hunter?
@mehdirhasan
asked him:
Full interview:
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"60 Minutes is using that time [with Marjorie Taylor Greene] to elevate someone who we know is, at best, a bad faith actor and who, at worst, is God knows." -
@MollyJongFast
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@mehdirhasan
breaks down why we should care about the ongoing political turmoil in Pakistan and Imran Khan's ejection from the Prime Minister's office last year: "That country has been in the midst of an historic political and economic crisis."
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“We should impeach him every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” House Judiciary Democrat
@RepSwalwell
says of Donald Trump. But it won’t happen, so he’s supporting a censure resolution, adding that after Trump leaves office, we’ll need “a presidential crimes commission.”
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Thank you to everyone who tuned in for our first show tonight! Watch again tomorrow for more fearless questions and commentary with
@mehdirhasan
.
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“I see her and I feel sad because she uses her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points,”
@WajahatAli
tells
@MehdiRHasan
about Nikki Haley’s presidential bid strategy and how it falls short.
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"One word you hear a lot when you cover Israel-Palestine is the word 'clashes'. 'There are clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem tonight!' It's a word, personally, I cannot stand."
Let
@mehdirhasan
explain why:
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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has taken control of the national media, discriminated against minorities and expanded cronyism.
And he’s won a big, big fan in Fox’s Tucker Carlson.
It’s almost as if the U.S. right wing is looking for ways to dismantle democracy:
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“Let’s stop treating the GOP as the party of law and order and treat them, more accurately, as the party of gun violence, of school shootings, of mall massacres. For God’s sake, ban the damn AR-15.”
@MehdiRHasan
doesn't hold back in tonight's monologue on the TX mall shooting
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Tonight marks the end of
@MehdiHasanShow
and
@MehdiRHasan
's time with MSNBC. Thank you for watching us, week after week, over the past three years.
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"Biden knows you don't need voter I.D. to buy bread, he knows that he ran against Trump, not Barack Obama, and he knows we fought in World War II and won."
@WajahatAli
points out that despite concerns about Biden's age, it was Trump who recently made several embarrassing flubs.
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Three years ago,
@MehdiRHasan
launched his show with a stark warning about the danger posed to America by Donald Trump. Tonight, on his last show, Mehdi issues another dire warning ahead of the 2024 election:
“America’s crisis of democracy, sadly, is far from over.”
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When Trump says "go big or go home on stimulus,"
@RepKatiePorter
says, "To be clear, I would like to go big with the stimulus and have President Trump go home to Mar-a-Lago."
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@RepSwalwell
says he's not concerned about President Biden's age going into 2024. "He's 80... but you know what number is higher than 80? 91. 91 charges over 4 indictments and that's a lot more concerning to me than the president's age."
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"It's bad-faith actors who always demand civility but give cruelty,"
@WajahatAli
says of conservative critics trying to cancel him. "I want them to have health care. I want them to have jobs... They need me to suffer to feel great again. And that's the difference."
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Biden did not inherit falling border apprehension numbers from Trump. Find out what happened when
@MehdiRHasan
confronted GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw with the data:
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@CraigMokhiber
says that in his 32 years of work at the United Nations, he was never attacked for critiquing human rights violations in dozens of countries: “In the U.N., the only time you get criticized is when you dare to raise Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.”
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“Bannon, Trump, McCarthy, they’re circling the Capitol. They’ve got gas cans in their hands. They’re dousing the place. They’re ready to drop the match and we better be ready to extinguish it.”
@RepSwalwell
says those investigating Jan. 6 “can’t do their work fast enough.”
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“To understand what’s going on in Ukraine right now, what’s going on inside of Russia, too, and what’s driving Vladimir Putin, we need to talk about a man named Ivan Ilyin,” says
@mehdirhasan
. Let him introduce you to the Russian autocrat’s favorite fascist philosopher:
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Pakistan has descended into turmoil following ex-PM Imran Khan’s arrest.
@sayedzbukhari
, a former minister in Khan’s cabinet, tells
@MehdiRHasan
members of his party are facing “fascist treatment."
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In tonight's final edition of the
#handover
,
@MehdiRHasan
and
@AymanM
remember Al Jazeera journalist, Samer Abu Daqqa, who was killed in Gaza this week.
@AymanM
: "He was truly a remarkable guy and an amazing friend."
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An individual right to self-defense with a gun isn’t actually provided by the Second Amendment,
@ElieNYC
argues. Its original purpose was to preserve white supremacy and slavery. You’re going to want to hear him explain it:
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Many international observers have – rightfully – expressed horror at the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine. However, as
@MehdiRHasan
and
@AymanM
point out, there have been more than a few instances where certain commentators’ shock at the war in Europe ebbs into outright racism.
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One-third of Pakistan is underwater. The crisis has opened up the conversation on the responsibility shared by the country’s elites.
@BhuttoZulfikar
joins
@MehdiRHasan
to discuss how corruption and capitalism in Pakistan led to this moment.
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Mehdi asks
@natsechobbyist
, wife of impeachment witness Lt.Col. Alex Vindman, what she would tell Donald Trump tonight.
She looks at the camera:
"You need to leave. You had four years. We're not better off. You are not a leader."
She has more to say. You'll want to see it.
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Justice Samuel Alito garnered severe backlash online after joking about Black Santa and children in KKK robes during Supreme Court arguments this week.
@ElieNYC
’s take: “Alito is basically a 4chan troll that’s been given a lifetime appointment.” WATCH:
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@MehdiRHasan
: "I want to talk about how [the Claudine Gay scandal] serves as yet another example of conservatives' uncanny ability to make a Mount Kilimanjaro out of a molehill, because it's a talent that liberals don't appear to have the skill or inclination to mimic."
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Last night,
@mehdirhasan
had a very important personal announcement… and a lot of thoughts on what it means to be an American at this moment in history.
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How is
@IlhanMN
holding up amid Islamophobic comments from Rep. Lauren Boebert and new death threats?
WATCH what she tells
@mehdirhasan
in a
@TheChoice
exclusive:
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Biden said he would send aid to help rebuild Gaza after Israeli airstrikes. But wait, didn’t the U.S. help pay for those bombs? In this
#minirant
@MehdiRHasan
argues we wouldn't need to spend so much on aid for Gaza if we didn’t spend so much on arms for Israel. Start the clock!
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Mehdi poses a hypothetical about a 2024 Republican-controlled Congress certifying a Democratic elected president, and, well,
@ruthbenghiat
and
@NormOrnstein
’s answers speak for themselves...
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Some Republicans, in this case Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, are denying their repeated denials of the 2020 election results. But you know us, we’re not going to let him get away with that. Repeatedly.
Roll the tapes!
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“We’re done rolling over and just trying to ignore it. … That playbook is gone.”
@kurtbardella
tells
@mehdirhasan
it’s about time we see Democrats, starting with President Biden, stop “tak[ing] the higher road” and call out Republicans for their hypocrisy:
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“They are so desperate to distract away from the crimes, the information that the Jan. 6th committee is unearthing, from the financial information that SDNY is coming up with,” says
@kurtbardella
of Durham & Trump, “that they are just creating this smokescreen of nonsense.”
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"I for one am fed up of us normalizing and accepting both Donald Trump's alleged criminality and his brazen racism."
@MehdiRHasan
on Donald Trump continuing to escape accountability for his actions.
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The tides of opinion on Israel are turning,
@JeremyBenAmi
tells
@MehdiRHasan
, as the majority of the Democratic caucus is calling for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza. “It’s morally reprehensible and runs counter to not only Democratic principles but also to Jewish principles.”
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This week, Donald Trump said that the Constitution should be thrown out. “If Barack Obama, if Hillary Clinton, if Joe Biden said something like that, the right would be having a meltdown right now and talking about impeachment or something,”
@kurtbardella
tells
@MehdiRHasan
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As the
@MehdiHasanShow
comes to a close, we look back on some of our favorite moments from the last three years.
Roll the tape!
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@MehdirHasan
on Trump: In four years, he's gotten more racist, not less. What does that say about America in 2020?
@IlhanMN
"It's quite depressing...the work we have to do to bring our country together is a generational work"
More of Mehdi's conversation with
@IlhanMN
below.
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"Three of the most destructive events of my lifetime - the Iraq war, the Brexit vote, and the rise of Trump and his Big Lie simply could not have happened without Rupert Murdoch."
@mehdirhasan
looks at Murdoch's decades of moving world events.
Watch:
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“It was clear from day one that a Trump presidency would be authoritarian, bigoted, serially dishonest, outside the bounds of any previous modern presidency. It was clear that we shouldn’t normalize him. But we did.”
@mehdirhasan
calls out the media's complicity... and whiteness.
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@MehdirHasan
: "I think we in the media have to say, minority rule in the Senate, minority rule on the Supreme Court, minority rule in the presidency — this is not democracy, and maybe some Republicans are okay with it not being democracy."
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Listen to what GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw had to say when Mehdi asked him how many migrants were sent to Honduras & El Salvador under eliminated Trump policies that he says must be revived:
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The current violence in Israel and Gaza is “enabled by Netanyahu's racist and anti-Palestinian rhetoric,”
@RashidaTlaib
tells
@mehdirhasan
. “This is an apartheid system. Israel's own prominent human rights organization has declared it, and so has Human Rights Watch.”
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As a former federal prosecutor, what does
@renato_mariotti
think about Rep. Matt Gaetz’s media-blitzing reaction to his investigation for sex trafficking?
“He has the right to remain silent,” Mariotti tells
@mehdirhasan
, “but apparently not the ability to remain silent.”
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@MollyJongFast
: "I do think the larger problem here is that the mainstream media is not built to be able to sort of protect democracy from fascism... With Hillary Clinton, [the media was] so focused on the odds that they forgot about the stakes."
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“The former President knowingly, repeatedly invokes dual loyalty tropes that are harmful and dangerous. ... Anti-Semitism is on the rise and all of us have a responsibility to condemn it,"
@IlhanMN
says to
@MehdiRHasan
in reaction to Donald Trump's latest bigotry.
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Not all Democrats are fighting back against GOP nonsense the way
@RepSwalwell
does. He tells
@MehdiRHasan
that he believes Democrats have to do better “because it’s existential” and he’s “afraid that never before has it all been on the line.” WATCH:
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"Have we become numb to the Trumpian threat? Have we normalized it? Have we continued to grade Trump and his authoritarian acolytes on a curve? Have we become the frog in the boiling fascist pot?"
@mehdirhasan
asks whether Americans recognize the danger of a second Trump term.
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COVID contrarians claim that closing schools was a mistake, in part because of the impact on their mental health. But that’s not what the data says at all.
@mehdirhasan
speaks to
@tylerblack32
about one of the most pervasive myths about COVID, kids and remote learning.
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"What's the expression? 'Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty, and the pig gets 40,000 new followers on Twitter.'"
@MehdiRHasan
explains why world-renowned, peer-reviewed vaccine scientists should most certainly not debate anti-vax cranks on podcasts. WATCH:
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As the global rise of the far-right takes hold in India,
@mehdirhasan
asks: are western governments complicit?
“I think we’re very complicit,” genocide expert Gregory Stanton says. “What we have here is...genocide denial by our leaders in which they want to look the other way.”
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Lindsey Graham used to be independent, Harry Reid tells Mehdi, but "he became a sycophant for Donald Trump, goes golfing with him, and says all these nice things about him. It's hard for me to say this, but I hope that Lindsey loses the race, because he certainly deserves to."
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Noam Chomsky on casting his vote for Biden and against Trump: "When you have one candidate who is dedicating himself with fervor to destroying the prospects of human life on Earth, the decision is easy. You vote against him."
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A reminder that, Pakistan – currently 1/3 underwater – is responsible for 0.4% of the world’s CO2 historic emissions since 1959.
The US: 21.5%. China & the EU: 16.5% & 15%. If you don’t think climate change is a social justice issue, says
@MehdiRHasan
, think again.
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Members of Congress felt real terror this week, but
@IlhanMN
"lived with fear for my life for the last two years" thanks to Trump's rhetoric. There must be consequences: "It is important for us to remember that what we do today will matter for the rest of this nation's history."
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Remember these names: Senators Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Kennedy, Roger Marshall, & Tommy Tuberville, because "even after rioters stormed the capitol... [they] still voted in favor of objecting to the election results in Arizona," says
@mehdirhasan
.
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@MehdiRHasan
brings the receipts on Tucker’s long history of racism and white supremacy. Roll the tape!
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We hear it all the time: Americans are *over* Covid. But the pandemic keeps reminding us: Covid is *not* over you.
It’s a message the Biden administration and the CDC need to be sending. So,
@mehdirhasan
asks, why aren’t they?
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.
@mehdirHasan
hones in on the president's White House speech:
"What we just saw is not normal. It's not democratic. It's not constitutional. Maybe not legal, given he's in the White House doing a campaign event. And none of it was true!"
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On top of the Israeli bombardment and human suffering in Gaza,
@MehdiRHasan
looks at how the Israeli military and extremist settlers are carrying out a campaign of violence and displacement in the occupied West Bank.
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is making a big show of challenging Biden’s $3.5T infrastructure bill and calling for “bipartisanship.”
But the American people “don’t care about an antiquated Senate process or Washington procedures,”
@AyannaPressley
says. “They care about impact.”
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"We should thank black women for doing what a bunch of white guys have failed to do for years: hold Donald Trump, hold a former President accountable... and the fact that they're the ones doing it must be killing Trump." -
@MehdiRHasan
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In Duval County, Florida, where Trump got 48% of the vote in 2020, only 4% of kids have opted out of a school mask mandate.
Even in very conservative FL counties, says
@NikkiFried
, "parents are saying 'Listen: When it comes to my kids, I'm putting my kids before politics.'"
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.
@SenWarren
drops the mic in her reply to
@mcuban
: "Mark Cuban's problem is not that I don't know what I'm talking about. Mark Cuban's problem is I know exactly what I'm talking about. And what I'm talking about is Mark Cuban and his kind need to pay their taxes."
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“Well, that, then, is an error.”
–
@mtaibbi
, confronted with previously unacknowledged mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting, by
@mehdirhasan
.
Watch the full conversation later tonight:
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"There is no doubt that the Israeli government has committed war crimes."
@OmarSShakir
says Israel's actions in Gaza, including the cutting off of electricity, water, fuel and food to a population of 2.2 million "textbook collective punishment."
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Does
@RepSwalwell
believe the Democratic Party has a messaging problem?
“We’re getting a lot better,” he tells
@MehdiRHasan
, but warns his party needs to “start taking credit and discrediting.”
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On the eve of Election Day, watch
@mehdirhasan
try to cut through the BS and summarize the Trump years in two minutes flat. Start the clock:
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Journalist
@BDUTT
isn’t just reporting on India's Covid surge, she’s living it. Right now, her father is hospitalized and on a ventilator. As what’s happening to her happens to everyone, she tells
@MehdiRHasan
she’s “hoping for a miracle”, describing it as “the news coming home.”
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Israel’s assault in Gaza has killed nearly 23,000 people, including at least 72 Palestinian journalists.
@MehdiRHasan
points out that without these journalists on the ground, there would be no one to tell the world about the ongoing horrific tragedies in the enclave.
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Two minutes. Just give
@KarenAttiah
two minutes to parse the media's responsibility for the Trump catastrophe, and how many of us in the industry have misunderstood and underestimated "how white violence in this country has shaped the country as we know it."
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@RevDrBarber
blasts white evangelicals' obsession with abortion and homosexuality over Jesus' Gospel lessons on helping the least among us: "If we were in the ancient world, we would have had a Nicaean council by now and declared white evangelicalism a form of heresy."
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In tonight's 60-second rant,
@MehdiRHasan
looks at how the humanitarian situation inside Gaza has grown increasingly dire under Israel's bombardment three months after October 7th.
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“Trump’s running on white grievance.”
@ElieNYC
says Trump is where he is in the polls “because he plays into the racism of his fans.”
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In a new poll, more than half of Republicans say the Capitol insurrectionists were “peaceful,” and the violence was done by “left-wing protesters.”
Rep. Ted Lieu lived through it and has a PSA:
“The pro-Trump mob who attacked on January 6 were, in fact, pro-Trump.”
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Ford’s pardon of Nixon “didn’t heal the nation, it only aggravated the sense that Nixon had escaped justice,” says
@KevinMKruse
. “Furthermore, the pardon only emboldened Nixon,” a lesson many presidents of both parties took to heart.
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