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Meet our latest Zeteo contributor and a new guest co-host on our flagship podcast!
A household name. A man of the moment. A truly funny and brilliant guy.
Check out the trailer for the new Zeteo podcast 'We're Not Kidding', launching on Thursday April 25:
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Hey US media folks, here, I would argue immodestly, is how you interview a Trump supporter on Trump's lies:
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Well, there’s a G word
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Read this sentence. Then reread it. Then ask yourself how anyone is ok with this level of human suffering.
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago -
@Save_GlobalNews
Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed
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Cruz is a graduate of Princeton and Yale, a lawyer, a senator, the multimillionaire husband of a Goldman Sachs executive, who sends his kids to an exclusive school, but sure, let’s listen to him on ‘elites’!
The elites in society have the loudest megaphone when it comes to gun control.
They live in gated neighborhoods and have private security.
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To those of you demanding no one criticize or say anything insensitive about Trump today, just posting this for no reason whatsoever:
Donald Trump mocks Hillary Clinton over her pneumonia outbreak
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Trump should be remembered as the man who demanded Hillary Clinton be ‘locked up’ while wishing Ghislaine Maxwell ‘well.’
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Oh, they’re arresting and rounding up the rioters on the day itself and not letting them disappear back to their towns and homes? What a novel idea.
UPDATE : Bolsonaro Rioters Getting Arrested in
#Brazil
, Lula Signs Decree to Bring Them to Justice. Security clearing area, restoring control:
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“Look, it is true that Gazans did at one point elect Hamas. But if you think that makes them all complicit in war crimes their government commits, then boy, do I have bad news for you about decades of U.S. foreign policy.” -
@iamjohnoliver
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How are Palestinians in Gaza, who have had their electricity and internet communications cut off by the Israeli military, supposed to hear/receive this ‘urgent’ message from the Israeli military?
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Don’t forget,
@Kaepernick7
was lambasted by conservatives, and had his career destroyed, for the imaginary offense, and supposedly unforgivable crime, of ’disrespecting’ the troops.
And yet here is Trump calling dead US troops “losers” and there’ll be no backlash from the right.
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Super useful for pro-Israel sites to make video compilations like this and save time for the South African legal team at The Hague.
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A refugee camp
Israel confirms it carried out deadly air strike on Gaza refugee camp, and says it killed a senior Hamas commander
Follow updates on the BBC website:
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Election officials are saying they fear for their lives.
The president's son is calling for "total war."
The president's former top adviser is calling for the beheading of the FBI chief.
But yeah, those of us who talk of authoritarianism & fascism, we're the alarmists, right?
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It turns out democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies in plain sight.
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You tweeted a link to a homophobic conspiracy theory on a fake news website about an attack on the Speaker’s husband. You then quietly deleted the tweet, without explanation or apology. Does that count as something ‘in particular’?
@eltonofficial
I love your music. Hope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you’re concerned about?
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Most Americans - including educated, informed Americans; including people working in politics and the media - still don’t understand how close we are to fully losing our democracy in the next year or two.
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"Rule No. 1 in politics: Never invade Afghanistan."
British prime minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.
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Last night Trump called for the impeachment of Barack Obama - who hasn’t been president for three years. This batshit demand from the sitting president won’t feature on any front pages of any newspapers or any nightly news headlines on TV. We have normalized an abnormal person.
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In Lebanon
Credibility: The Israeli army said it had targeted “a suspicious vehicle containing several terrorists” The only people in the car were three girls, ages 14, 12, and 10, their grandmother, and their mother. All were killed except the mother.
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Me: "Did you not make 750,000 dollars?"
Vivek Ramaswamy: "Not at the time I had applied for the [Soros] scholarship."
Me: "Yes you did Vivek. This is awkward for you because you did. I've got the tax returns in front of my face."
#receipts
New clip 😉👇🏽
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Expand the court. Do it now, Dems. Run on it if need be, in the midterms.
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"It's gross. It's racist."
Today is a good day to remember that time when legend
@BenAffleck
brilliantly and passionately called out Bill Maher's lazy and pernicious Islamophobia and anti-Arab bigotry on Maher's own show:
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Worth remembering tonight:
1) state crimes can’t be pardoned by a president in DC
2) in Georgia, even the GOP governor lacks the power to pardon
Oh and just for fun:
3) trials are televised in Georgia
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To be clear: there is no other Western democracy I can think of where armed men in camo and other military-style gear regularly turn up on the streets of cities and towns, who aren't themselves anything to do with law enforcement but who get left alone by law enforcement.
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Just on a practical point, in the current climate: what’s to stop anyone from claiming to be feds and pulling up in an unmarked car and grabbing/kidnapping a random person and driving off? And onlookers assuming it to be ‘feds’. Genuine question.
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This is a teachable moment for Dems, with McConnell not even waiting till the morning to make his move. I’m not saying Dems should be as vicious or heartless or amoral, but at least learn from GOP ruthlessness and their single-minded focus on winning, holding, & exercising power.
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Don’t forget: this isn’t just about Joe Manchin. It’s about the dark money and billionaires and coal interests behind him, which keep winning at ours and the planet’s expense. Manchin is a living breathing reminder that America is often more oligarchic than it is democratic.
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Anyone who thinks all these people are endorsing Joe Biden, suddenly, on the eve of Super Tuesday, because they believe Biden is the best candidate to face Trump, and not because they just want to stop Bernie, well, I have a degree from Trump University to offer you.
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Irony is dead. For months now, American politicians & pundits, Jewish community leaders & students, have obsessed over ‘from the river to the sea’; censuring Rashida Talib & accusing pro-Palestinian activists of genocidal language.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel says:
NOW - Netanyahu: "In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea."
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“The cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me. What I don't understand is why the cries of Palestinians sound different to you all.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) chokes up while condemning the resolution to censure her that the House is considering:
“Speaking up to save lives, Mr. Chair, no matter faith, no matter ethnicity, should not be controversial in this chamber.”
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Just a warning: I have no tolerance for people telling me that they’re ok with a 2nd Trump term or that ‘they’re all the same’. Some of us, especially those of us who are Muslims and immigrants, don’t have your privilege. So unfollow me, or prepare to be slammed and/or blocked.
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I’ve said it before and I will say it again:
Impeach him again.
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10,000-plus Palestinians killed, including 4,000-plus kids, and the U.S. House of Representatives is busy censuring… the only Palestinian-American member. Can’t make this stuff up.
Rashida Tlaib CENSURED w/ 22 Dems joining Republicans
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Some personal news: I've decided to leave MSBNC.
New year, new plans, new challenges:
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"No electricity, no food"
A reminder, from me, that 2 million innocent people live in Gaza, and half of them are kids.
"We're imposing a complete siege on Gaza".
Israel's Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, orders a total blockade of Gaza - leaving them with "no electricity, no food and no fuel".
Follow live updates:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Hunter Biden indicted. Wow, that would be so bad for him if he was running for president.
Imagine running for president and getting indicted.
Just imagine.
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A reminder that Hamas didn’t exist till 1987 but the Palestinians still had no state between 1967 to 1987.
As long as Hamas exists, there will be no Palestinian state. It’s really that simple.
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I wonder, in private, how much once-golden-boy Josh Hawley is regretting that raised fist.
It may be the photo that defines him... forever.
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I don’t think we quite comprehend how much danger American democracy is, on multiple, multiple fronts.
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What the past 48 hours or so has revealed is that there are a lot of people who mourn for dead Israeli civilians but not dead Palestinian ones, and a lot of people who mourn for dead Palestinian civilians but not dead Israeli ones.
What has happened to our collective humanity?
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Get more vaccines to India. Get more vaccines to India. Get more vaccines to India.
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Is she.... cancelling herself?
Marjorie Taylor Greene's account has deleted 19 tweets in the last 12 hours.
Greene is also scrubbing her Facebook of old posts and videos from 2018 and 2019 where she spread conspiracies and endorsed violence against Democratic lawmakers.
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The president of the United States is trailing in the polls, can’t possibly win the popular vote, and wants to install a judge who supports him to the highest court in the land in order to help guarantee his re-election.
What would you call this if you saw it another country?
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
He *actually* said that. He did.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Actually just said by Donald Trump Jr: "I wish my name was Hunter Biden. I could go abroad and make millions off my father's presidency. I'd be a really rich guy"
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Heroes. Nothing but awe and admiration for these people. Heroes.
Some of Italian nurses & doctors after long hours of work in intensive care. ❤️🇮🇹
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Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets.
Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.
A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter& YouTube activity.
Repression has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can hand down the death penalty for nothing more than tweets. Saudi authorities should quash the verdict.
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Erm, the figure for Tesla employees is 93.9%, according to that same graph…
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Serious question: how does American democracy survive when in times of controversy or crisis you have 100s, if not 1000s, of public figures willing to publicly and repeatedly lie about basic demonstrable facts; and carry on lying even after they’re confronted with those facts? 🤷🏽♂️
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So folks have been comparing the weird
@GMB
morning show interview with the climate activist in the UK with *that* scene from
#DontLookUp
.
So we at the
@MehdiHasanShow
put them side by side & the results are.. astounding. Reality mirroring art!
Watch:
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1. It's astonishing how wrong so many of the predictions of a 'red wave/tsunami' were. I for one am fed up with pundits and commentators getting things so, so wrong & then just... moving on.
So here's a thread/reminder of some of the worst midterm predictions. Read/share/enjoy:
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Donald Trump has now helped the Republican Party lose the Senate twice in two years.
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Just got an email from my kid’s school saying they had their ‘lockdown’ drill today.
You know schools in other countries don’t do this, right? You know other countries don’t scar entire generations of kids to appease the gun lobby, right?
This. Is. Not. Normal.
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Reposted without comment.
Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes.
Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror.
And we have to call it as such.
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Me: "It's just error after error, Matt?"
@mtaibbi
: "Well, that is an error."
Watch me confront Matt Taibbi with multiple, unacknowledged, and glaring mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting.
Full
@MehdiHasanShow
interview later tonight. Preview:
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Let’s do a deal.
Donald Trump gets to ignore the 14th Amendment and run for president again in 2024.
But Barack Obama gets to ignore the 22nd Amendment and also run for president again in 2024.
Republicans cool with that?
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So hold on, wait, wait, you’re suggesting by Shapiro just switched his position on indicting presidents once it was a Republican president who actually got indicted? No way? But that would make him completely unprincipled and hyper partisan 🤔
Ben Shapiro in 2014 on indicting presidents: "If we start treating them as criminals, maybe they'll think twice before they act so criminally in the future"
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist but how do you explain a headline/tweet that reveals a new poll showing Trump beating Warren and Biden in Iowa but *not mention* that the same poll shows Sanders *beating* Trump there? How do you explain that? How? How? No, seriously, how?
Poll: Trump holds slim leads over Warren and Biden in Iowa matchups
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It’s been a day and I still can’t quite get over the fact that the Israeli military itself proudly published these pictures.
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.
So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
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She wants to turn a refugee camp “into a soccer field” and wants “all 2 million [Gazans] to leave” - how is this not an open call for ethnic cleaning?
Former Israeli Interior Minister Shaked:
"After we turn Khan Younis into a soccer field…we need to take advantage of the destruction to tell the countries that each of them should take a quota, it can be 20K or 50K. We need all 2 million to leave. That's the solution for Gaza"
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Anyone who watches my show knows I am as critical of Manchinema as the next person - if not more so! - but why do we give *50* GOP senators a pass? Why aren’t they constantly being asked by reporters why they don’t support popular & necessary measures on climate or paid leave?
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The people who shout and complain loudest about ‘when will the pandemic and the restrictions end?’ are, ironically and annoyingly, often the ones most responsible for prolonging the damn thing.
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They’re trying to get Ilhan Omar killed. It’s that simple.
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Most Muslims born and brought up in the west - including, erm, me - have been waiting our whole lives for a politician who is Muslim to get elected and deliver an answer like this to the ‘usual’ Qs. I felt like cheering as I listened to
@IlhanMN
deliver this powerful riposte.
'As Muslim legislators we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to.' — Watch
@IlhanMN
shut down this biased, 'appalling' question
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AOC was born in the Bronx; Ayanna Pressley in Cincinnati; Rashida Tlaib in Detroit.
Your regular reminder that the president of the United States is not just a brazen racist but the laziest and most unoriginal (‘go back to where you came from’) of racists:
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Let that sink in: the top infectious disease scientist in the US government in the midst of a pandemic needs a security detail because the president’s supporters, egged on by the president - his boss, head of the government - hate him and want him gone.
Once an avid runner, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 79, power walks. Since receiving death threats, he is now accompanied by a security detail.
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The Democratic president of the United States is on live TV right now making the case for a $15 minimum wage.
That is a huge win for progressives.
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724 kids. Beyond horrific.
At least 2,215 Palestinians, including 724 children, have been killed and 8,714 others wounded in Israel's bombardment, the health ministry in the Gaza Strip has updated.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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For months, all we’ve heard from Israel is that Hamas commits war crimes by disguising themselves as civilians & not wearing uniforms.
And now we see Israeli soldiers/assassins “disguised as medics and other civilians making their way through a corridor”:
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Yes the
@MehdiHasanShow
has ended on
@peacock
& will be ending on
@MSNBC
*next* month (still a few weeks left!)
Thank you all for watching over the past 3 years.
Going forward at
@MSNBC
, I'll serve as a guest anchor across prime shows and beyond, & as an on-air political analyst.
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Literally the only Tucker Carlson interview you ever need to watch - with the brilliant
@rcbregman
. Still makes me chuckle:
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Dark day for minorities in the UK. Especially for British Muslims who watched as a man who said "Islam was the problem," mocked veiled Muslim women, & also turned a blind eye to massive anti-Muslim hatred in his party, was just given a landslide majority by their fellow Britons.
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Gaza, in the words of an ex-Israeli intel chief, is an "open-air prison."
"Hell on earth," per the UN Secretary-General.
2.2. million people. 50% kids. 50% in poverty. 90% without access to clean drinking water.
I shared some important background & context on
@MSNBC
tonight:
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Let me be clear: there's no scenario in which someone who looked like me, with my name, could get away with even six seconds of behavior like this at an airport, let alone sixty. Where on earth are the police? Security?
Last night at Miami Int’l Airport. Another FL anti-masker covidiot. (Strong language).
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There are literally five pages, 59 to 64, in the suit which just lay out all the statements made by Israeli officials, in their own words. It’s all there. In black and white. With footnotes. Kirby can disagree with the suit but he can’t say it is ‘without any basis in fact’.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
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This conflict for me has always been about morality.
Morally, you cannot justify the killing of Palestinian civilians, even if you say it’s fighting terrorism.
But morally, you also cannot justify the killing of Israeli civilians, even if you say you’re fighting occupation.
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Did we all get to raise our hands when your father immigrated to the United States from Colombia?
Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town?
America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations.
No more…
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The United States, our country, is currently helping starve, literally starve, half a million innocent people.
But hey, let’s talk more about Harvard University…
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It is difficult for the uninitiated to fully comprehend how much poison Fox News injects into US public life on a nightly basis, and how much damage it has done - and continues to do - to US politics.
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So the GOP just got rid of their own Speaker after bringing the country to the brink of a government shutdown, while their presidential frontrunner is in court for fraud and getting gagged by the judge for defaming the clerk.
The big question then: what about Joe Biden’s age?
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Do a poll of Americans tonight. Ask them if they know:
1) who the Houthis are,
2) where they live,
3) why we are bombing them, and
4) whether the president has the authority, under the constitution, to bomb them.
Go!
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Separate to the injustice & illegality of it, there is a fundamental racism to suggesting Gazans just up & move to Egypt & other Arab countries. Folks, Arabs aren’t all the same. No one asked Northern Irish Catholics to just relocate to France because they’re all white Europeans.
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In recent days, Republicans have taunted Democrats over Andrew Cuomo, and accused them of hypocrisy, and engaged in much Trump-related whataboutism.
Thing is, Dems called for Cuomo to resign. And he did.
Republicans never called on Trump to resign. And he didn't.
#bothsides
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Surprise!
BREAKING: Netanyahu says he has told US that he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario
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Given how confident they are about who is to blame for the hospital deaths, Israeli authorities should allow foreign journalists & international war crimes investigators into Gaza to see for themselves; to gather evidence at the scene; to interview eyewitnesses.
And yet…
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So Fox cancelled Lou Dobbs.
They literally cancelled him.
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Americans should be furious with the governments of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, which told us, for 20 straight years, that we were winning in Afghanistan, that the billions we were pouring into the Afghan government & military were worth it.
It was all a lie.
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I don’t know if I can overstate how much it means to me and to millions of others, and what a big bloody deal it is, that today we learned the Muslim ban will be gone in January 2020. Lifted. Repealed. Reversed.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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On a serious note, no Democratic politician from the coasts could ever go visit a Republican-led city in the South & then go on a liberal media outlet & call it repulsive, smelly, & disgusting. No way. A reminder of the double standards, & asymmetry, in our politics & our media.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on New York: It’s disgusting… It was repulsive, it smells bad. I think it's a very terrible place.
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Here’s the harsh reality for Americans who’ve long believed we lived in the greatest democracy on earth: if Raffensberger wasn’t Sec of State in GA and/or if GOP controlled both chambers of Congress, there’s more than a high chance that Biden wouldn’t be president come Jan 20th.
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Imagine if a Muslim did this at an airport, just imagine.
Our girl preached in the airport on our way home from our mission trip and she proclaimed passionately, full of the Spirit and love! This is how we catch flights ✈️
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Hold on, Breitbart just put out the names of the FBI agents who did the search? Are you kidding me? And presumably Breitbart got leaked this search warrant from Trump, unredacted?
Wow good luck to those agents & their families. Sheesh the right don’t give a damn about ‘the blue’.
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Every single Dem candidate from Sanders to Bloomberg has pledged to lift the Muslim Ban. Trump has pledged to expand it.
So, yes, do please tell me, a Muslim, with all your non-Muslim privilege, that there's no difference between the Dems & Trump & a 2nd Trump term ain't so bad.
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A senator, and former leader of his party, announces he is retiring and reveals he was paying 5,000 dollars a month for security to protect his own family from his party’s own voters.
Totally normal. No fascism here.
America and the GOP in 2023.
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I see some folks on this hellsite claiming whatever happens to Gazans in the coming days is on them for electing Hamas.
1) There hasn't been an election in Gaza for 17 years.
2) It's literally the same unhinged argument Bin Laden made to justify killing American civilians.
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Let's be clear, in the context of Trump, there is no
#Never
anyone.
Trump vs Warren. It's Warren.
Trump vs Biden. It's Biden.
Trump vs Gabbard. It's Gabbard.
Trump vs your mailman or Uber driver. It's your mailman or Uber driver.
Trump vs Nixon's ghost. It's Nixon's ghost.
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This will be a stain on Joe Biden and America’s record for decades to come.
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
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$3.5 trillion over *ten years* versus $2.1 trillion in one year (2019).
The dishonesty. Oh the dishonesty.
The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend spree is 67% higher than the $2.1 trillion spent by all 50 states combined in 2019. Let that sink in.
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