Patrick Gaspard
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@amprog. Forever @OpenSociety Former Amb South Africa. Obama alum. UNION! Owner of views. “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” - Whitman
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Joined July 2011
I took this photo in Cape Town when I hosted Cong John Lewis on his return to South Africa. He and Archbishop Tutu couldn’t wait to embrace one another. Brothers in struggle. Benders of the arc of justice. Joined in eternity. They’ve done the hard work and leave the rest to us
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So many horrors. We have a national leader incapable of meeting the moment. We are doing a violence to our own spirits by continually lifting up his ugly words. That’s his power. The is a moment when we need to heal together. Stop circulating his vileness. Lead with love.
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Stop "looking for a job" and start receiving interview requests from companies. JJ didn't spend months applying; he used Fonzi’s Match Day to go straight from an interview request to a signed offer in just 3 weeks. No ghosting. No low-ball offers.
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It was inspiring to join Mayor-elect @ZohranKMamdani all day in this unique direct engagement with everyday New Yorkers who got to share their hopes, concerns, and brilliant suggestions for how to solve our challenges. A little democracy in action.
Zohran Mamdani is doing a sort of open house at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens - folks who signed up get 3 to 5 minutes to talk to the mayor-elect, and can sit down with some of his top aides too. “I just felt like I met the Beatles,” Gabriela Gonjon said about Mamdani.
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“The First Amendment is not partisan and neither is standing up to defend it. Even conservative leaders have warned that the administration is operating outside legal and ethical bounds” The inimitable @Janefonda with brilliant sounding of alarm
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What terrifies me — and should terrify anyone who cares about a free society
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I no longer know what to say about the Republican leaders and their many enablers who sit silently or encouragingly in the face of this vulgar racism. One day they’ll pretend it never happened on their watch. Solidarity with Somali-Americans
nytimes.com
President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.
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I want to be able to praise @abbydphillip for dunking on this ignorant racism. But we all know that the man spouting this stuff doesn’t truly believe it and knows nothing about South Africa. CNN knows this as well. This man is cynically put on for the racial mud wrestling that
When you are misled by Afriforum but you dont have anything to back your lies up.
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What a triumph for Haiti against all odds! First time into the World Cup in fifty years! We. Needed. This!
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1974 HAITI IS GOING TO THE FIFA WORLD CUP 🇭🇹
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Remember the Madden Curse? For the uninitiated, it’s the belief that any NFL player who appears on cover of the Madden video game is doomed to suffer a decline. There ought to be a prohibition against stories like this one three years out from an election!
politico.com
For years, Democrats and pundits have rolled their eyes at Gavin Newsom. But he’s positioned better than anyone else for the future of politics.
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I’ve never been more in support of recinding a visa and deporting a non criminal in my life than for this little twat
A Boston University student bragged that he called ICE to raid a local car wash. Zac Segal, president of the BU College Republicans, said he snitched because “immigrants are taking American jobs.” Then the lawyer for the workers hit back with the obvious: Segal wasn’t born in
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This garbage from Megyn Kelly tells you three things: 1) what’s in the Epstein files has got to be insanely gross and must expose trump to such a degree that his flunkies are trying to get ahead of it to try to minimize. 2) they know it’s gonna get out 3) we better keep
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Let’s be real about the election results in Cali and elsewhere - Dems didn’t flip the Hispanic vote. Donald Trump’s cruelty on full display flipped that vote. Dems have so much organizing, policy making, and narrative building to do to make the flip endure
politico.com
Juan Rodriguez wants Democrats across the country to take heed of how the California's redistricting campaign embraced the issue and won.
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Mayor-elect Mamdani is pulling together an A team and this announcement is the perfect combo of a steady hand with a movement punch. Dean Fuleihan has been a shoulder to the wheel public servant who has always moved the levers of govt with working families front of mind. Elle
“A New Era” transition announcement from Zohran Mamdani incoming — Dean Fuleihan returning as first deputy mayor from the de Blasio administration and Elle Bisgaard-Church as chief of staff. We’re at the Roosevelt House on the UES, where FDR did his own transition, Mamdani says.
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This is so much BS. This man is a doctor. He is either cynically pretending not to understand how insurance risk pools work, or he has no grasp of his own profession - either as a Dr or Rep.
Up to 40% of Obamacare enrollees never file a claim. That’s billions in taxpayer dollars flowing to insurance companies for people who don’t even use the system. Republicans are committed to ending the fraud and making healthcare truly affordable.
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I’ve never seen someone try as hard as Trump to not feed hungry people.
JUST IN: Trump administration files emergency stay motion at 1st Circuit, seeking to block judge's order to pay full SNAP benefits for November. DOJ says the ruling 'makes a mockery of the separation of powers.' Doc: https://t.co/Lfbwe8usPZ Earlier:
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As a Jew & son of a Jewish refugee, I'm alarmed by the rise of antisemitism. The ADL's mission is to call it out when they see it. But I found their response to Mamdani's election shockingly gratuitous, inflammatory and deeply irresponsible. https://t.co/cwC6hpGzaZ via @NYTimes
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The group, which has taken aim at Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani over his criticism of Israel, is facing backlash after unveiling a website where New Yorkers could report incidents of antisemitism.
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This is gross. Trump has actual neo nazis who have gone through senate approval. But this is what this org is continuing to perpetuate - after a historic night when a large percentage of Jewish New Yorkers actually supported Zohran Mamdani. Just gross.
👀 Inbox: The Anti-Defamation League announces launch of initiative “to track and monitor policies and personnel appointments of the incoming Mamdani Administration and protect Jewish residents across the five boroughs.”
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I just heard all of Brooklyn erupt at one!!!! Hell yeah.
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Tonight Dems from the center to the left will beat back the Trump authoritarian movement that’s bankrupting the US. More evidence that we are unbeatable when we have EVERYONE in our tent. Let’s stop writing all these damn memos and let’s instead go talk to people at their doors.
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Donald Trump’s preferred candidates will go down in flames tonight - because of his drowning numbers - and he’ll then put out an EO tomorrow to increase voting restrictions. He can’t take his L like a man, so he’ll take it like an autocrat.
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Mood Bringing it on home. Running (and dancing) through the tape.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. This is what billionaire conmen Trump and Elon Musk want you to believe. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
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