Zack Beauchamp
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I'm really excited to announce that I have written my first book!
THE REACTIONARY SPIRIT, coming next year from
@public_affairs
, explains why so many long-stable democracies are in danger today. It's a crisis I trace back to a conflict at the heart of democracy itself.
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I don't understand why the extremely serious sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden are not getting significant attention outside of left media
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Weird how critics of "cancel culture" don't talk about the contemporary celebrity who has suffered the greatest professional consequences for his views — Colin Kaepernick
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I know “imagine what Republicans would say if Obama had done it” tweets are a little stale.
But imagine Obama had invited the Taliban to Camp David literally days before the 9/11 anniversary. Just fucking imagine.
Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to..
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I'm sorry, but "abolish the police" seems like a poorly-thought out idea that's gotten popular with shocking speed
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Two things that are both true:
1) The Occupation and its routine cruelty towards Palestinians is at the root of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict
2) Hamas is an evil organization that did not have to respond by murdering civilians, and bears full moral responsibility
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I know I shouldn't be, but I'm genuinely shocked by how cavalier people are about the prospect of nuclear annihilation
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If there's anything to be learned from this Portland saga, it's that the critics of the post-9/11 security state and War on Terror were absolutely right and ignored by far too many people in power
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I want to say unequivocally that my friend
@MattGertz
is innocent of all the allegations against him, and that justice will be done when this witch hunt ends
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My simple plan for solving the "border crisis:"
1) Let the immigrants in
2) Treat them like human beings
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The shift from "cancel culture threatens free speech" to "our children must never hear about critical race theory" sure is remarkable
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So who had “Arya invents colonialism” in their end of show pool
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The director is English, so now I want to troll him by making a movie about a UK civil war where Northern Ireland teams up with the English north and Cornwall against a Welsh-Scottish-London front
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Bernie: Dictatorship is bad, but it's also the case that Cuban social policy isn't all terrible
Bloomberg: Praises Singapore's execution of drug dealers and locked up protestors during the 2004 RNC
Moderate Dems: Bernie loves authoritarianism, gotta vote Bloomberg
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In this call, Trump links foreign aid to Ukraine directly to an investigation of the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory. He's basically openly admitting to doing what he's been accused of!
The Fox and Friends hosts seem to know, too. Watch their faces.
Remember, "Crowdstrike" is the conspiracy theory that Ukraine and the DNC framed Russia. Here's President Trump again pushing this claim, supported by Republicans: that Russia is innocent, didn't interfere in the 2016 election. Who did it? Ukraine and the DNC.
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The fact that voting-by-mail in the middle of a pandemic is a partisan issue proves that our political system is broken
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Perhaps the single most revealing quote in recent memory about the state of American politics
“If he is the nominee, if he was up against Biden, I’d vote for him again” — Rusty Bowers on Trump, who he also said orchestrated an illegal and unconstitutional scheme to steal the last election.
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There are people in the quote tweets and replies yelling at a Jewish senator for marking the five year anniversary of the worst anti-Semitic massacre in American history.
If this is where your "left" principles brought you, you need rethink everything.
Today, we remember and mourn for the victims lost five years ago in the devastating massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue.
We must remain committed to fighting all forms of bigotry, antisemitism, intolerance, racism, and xenophobia.
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How are you "baffled," you literally called her an Assad apologist in February
.
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doesn’t treat people who disagree with her like deplorables, is a combat veteran who enlisted after 9/11, and values free speech and religious freedom. I am baffled by how intensely threatened so many are by her voice in the race. She does it all on her own terms.
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Nothing has made me more inclined to get fully on board the Bernie train than thinking about the prospect of a Bloomberg candidacy
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I just keep thinking “this could have been my synagogue.” I’m hardly the only Jew in America thinking that.
And that’s the point.
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Plenty of peer democracies have jailed former heads of state - France, Israel, and South Korea come to mind immediately. It’s accepted because, in democratic states, leaders are not above the law.
That Republicans seem incapable of tolerating even an investigation is dangerous.
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This has got to be the most influential comments section post ever written
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I just can't get over this. It's a thing the Washington Post actually published — a thing that is so completely and indefensibly wrong that anyone who has taken a single intro to philosophy course could explain why
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Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane.
A MOB ATTACKED THE CAPITOL AND TRIED TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION! THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE AREN'T SORRY AND WOULD DO IT ALL AGAIN!
And somehow we're all going about our business like things are normal?
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Unbelievable that Democrats have let the Senate Republicans and the White House own unconditional cash transfers. Pure political malpractice.
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Why is the Canadian infection rate half of America’s? Because its political system actually works.
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There's a weird disconnect in the way the post-Iowa conspiracy theories are being covered.
It's true that Bernie supporters on Twitter are behaving badly. But the Sanders campaign itself has been extremely careful, in distinct contrast to teams Biden and Buttigieg.
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This failed Mississippi bill banning the 1619 Project has a tiny problem
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"I'm not like Hitler, and if you say I am then you're going to the camps"
Spokesman denies that Trump rhetoric echoes that of dictators like Hitler and Mussolini and declares that those who say it does will find "their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House."
@marianne_levine
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I’ve followed American and international politics for quite a few years now. Trump’s debate performance used the kind of rhetoric you typically from dictators and warlords.
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"I see nothing wrong with drawing the only Jewish candidate with a giant nose" — this cartoon
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Biden's collapse with young voters is kind of mysterious. I've heard a lot of theories, but I'm not sure any one of them is all that convincing.
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Malcolm you literally cheered the October 7 massacre
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Okay but Russia has nuclear weapons whereas Saddam very famously did not
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This is just insanely dishonest.
The reasons that there had been no US service deaths since February 2020 — that very specific date he chose — is *because the US had a deal with the Taliban*.
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"One party remains much more popular and could likely win the upcoming elections, but the other one can just rig the rules in their favor so it doesn’t matter"
Overlooked: Dems hold 7 point lead on generic ballot, in new poll from GOP firm Echelon Insights.
Consistent with analysis that Rs can win House on redistricting but aren’t benefiting from the typical tailwinds for the party out of power.
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Two things that are both true:
1) Sondland appears to be hiding his own personal complicity in the push to investigate Biden
2) The evidence Sondland chose to present on the existence of a quid-pro-quo is absolutely devastating
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This, from
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TRUMP, holding a gun to Zelensky's head: I'd really like your money, but I'm not robbing you
ZELENSKY, nervously: He's not robbing me
CASTOR: See? Everyone agrees that there's no robbery
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Romney has schooled basically every other Republican on how to talk about what happened today
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What do you even do with a party like this? It's one thing to say he shouldn't go to jail, quite another to actively celebrate him
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Author of a book on how minorities are becoming Republican needs to use AI art to find an actual picture of it
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At least three House Republicans have already said they want Kyle Rittenhouse to be their intern
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@Grace_Segers
Yes! A more plausible version is a rural insurgency against urban/federal forces nationwide
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Omar is a leading critic of Israel who literally deported by its government in retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights.
That he can muster true sympathy for Israeli civilians, when so many comfortable Westerners cannot, tells you everything you need to know.
Reports coming out of south Israel are appalling—civilians shot en masse, homes set on fire, kids & older ppl taken as hostages. We're investigating. Nothing can justify such atrocities, nor can they justify committing atrocities in Gaza. New
@hrw
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Americans who haven't been to Canada recently may not understand the context for this trucker thing. Pandemic restrictions there are, in general, far stricter and far more deeply supported by the general public. The truckers and far-right allies are angry because they have lost.
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Let's not sugarcoat this: The Biden administration is stealing $3.5 billion from starving Afghans to purchase political cover. It's disgusting and immoral.
Breaking News: President Biden is moving to split $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets between 9/11 victims’ families and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. The highly unusual set of moves is expected to be announced on Friday.
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If you asked an AI to generate a song about how racism works to split the working class, you would get this
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From the Breitbart "fact check" screenshotted in the above tweet. You can't make this shit up
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Talked to a number of people I respect about the framing of the original tweet and I do feel like it was a mistake. It was far too dismissive and then I — ironically — complained about condescending replies.
We all send bad tweets sometimes. This was one of mine.
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Two things that are both true:
1) January 6 public hearings probably won't alter polls or lead to a Trump indictment
2) It is extremely important to document what really happened that day and create a complete record of one of the country's darkest hours
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"The biggest public health threat to Canada right now is importing cases from the United States” is a truly remarkable statement
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A no fly zone over Ukraine would bring the world to the brink of nuclear war. At a time when Russia has just elevated its nuclear alert level, it is the worst idea in Washington.
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I am continually perplexed by the Anglophone divergence on transphobia. Why is there so much more TERF representation in the UK elite than in their US and Canadian peers?
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Looking forward to Bret Stephens' outraged column about Trump's use of eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric
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The two most undercovered stories in the Western press, for my money, are the slide towards Hindu supremacist authoritarianism in India and the extermination of Uighur culture and society in China.
They are related in one especially obvious way.
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For people who say things like "America needs to make Vladimir Putin scared of us," ask yourself: Why do you think Russia hasn't struck the NATO depots in Poland housing all the advanced weaponry Ukrainians are using to kill his soldiers and foil his invasion?
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Amazingly, this is a real headline and not a parody of false equivalence journalism
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I read Chris Rufo’s book and spent an hour on the phone with him talking about it. I learned a lot about his dubious methods - and the illiberal project increasingly at the heart of the modern right
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John Wilkes Booth, a clever actor undermined by assassination
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This dispatch from inside Gaza is a must-watch. It's important to see, with your own eyes, what it really means to cut people off from water and other essential supplies — the hell it creates for ordinary people
This is what is happening in Gaza.
@jondonnisonbbc
@mgisholtminard
& Jimmy Michael's latest BBC report. "This is Jabalia, once one of the world's most densely populated neighbourhoods, and where those who've survived are clinging on"
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Perhaps the biggest fallacy in foreign policy debates is this: that there must be a better alternative to a bad situation
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The juxtaposition between the image and the caption is so, so funny
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The clip is, if anything, worse than it sounds. This isn’t watered down white nationalism - it’s the undiluted, 100 proof, genuine article
Tucker Carlson gives an passionate defense of “white replacement theory”
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Two things that can both be true:
1) The prosecution did not meet the burden of proof against Kyle Rittenhouse and his acquittal was legally correct
2) A society that encourages teenagers to pick up arms and put themselves in dangerous situations is deeply, profoundly unjust
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Spent a lot of time talking to First Amendment lawyers yesterday. Based on what they told me, Jones' comments — if true — would make it quite a bit easier to prosecute Trump for criminal incitement.
Here’s Alex Jones admitting the orders were coming from Donald Trump.
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Like how do you write this paragraph without noting that these actions might bring about a nuclear apocalypse
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This piece of dangerous critical race theory came from the letters of Abraham Lincoln
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This is, no exaggeration, the greatest gaffe in history
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
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Meanwhile,
@maggieNYT
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Santorum just now: "I can't imagine that the president wanted this."
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I think the only master narrative that makes any sense at this point, given how much of the vote count and even results are still unclear, is that extreme polarization is a lot more extreme than even pessimists like me thought
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The right-wing "populists" in Hungary, who allegedly show the way to a working class conservatism in America, have introduced a new law that brutally oppresses actual workers
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I see this photo every Christmas and it remains the best, most 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 document that exists
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What do you think is the stupidest idea that is popular among very smart people? My vote is degrowth, but I’m sure there are lots of other candidates
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This Barron/Baron thing is a test of just how gullible mainstream reporters are
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1. This right wing media meme that Neil Ferguson "walked back" the Imperial College report's findings in Britain are utterly and completely false
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The notion that citizens of a state are collectively responsible for their government's policies is the exact logic used to justify terrorism
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There is probably no single philosopher more associated with the celebration of reason and rationality than Kant, especially in his moral theory. This is *humiliating* for
@marcthiessen
, who has basically admitted in print he doesn't know the first thing about Western philosophy.
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In military terms, a "single point of entry" is better known as a chokepoint: a point through which you can funnel enemies, neutralize superior numbers, and subject them to concentrated fires.
Basically, the new GOP proposal is turning school entrances into killing zones.
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It's very jarring to hear Scott retell the Trump years as some kind of bipartisan paradise where the politics of race were better than they are now
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No, you don't get to play this edgy game where you celebrate "resistance" October 7 and 8th and then backtrack when it's clear that stance is indefensible. Sorry, but we all can see what you said
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I want to be clear: There is a part of this that's very explicable, which is that mainstream outlets are going to be very, very thorough in reporting before writing up something this explosive. I know for a fact some are looking into the allegations.
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NBC exit polls has Dems winning with voters who "somewhat disapprove" of Biden's performance as president. Might very well be the story of the night.
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A weird thing I think about a lot: the time Joe Biden walked into a Greek diner and declared "I'm Joe Bidenopoulos"
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IMO, Democrats' first priority now should be convincing Manchin that the John Lewis Voting Rights Act should also contain strong non-partisan redistricting rules
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This extremely well done video reminds me of so many things I like about Bernie — and how shitty some of The Discourse about him is
Think what you will of Bernie, I'm hardly a fan myself, but this ad is the bomb.
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It's easy to joke about Zelensky's entertainment career, but his sense of theatricality seems to have played a significant role in Europe's surprisingly harsh response to Russia
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What we saw today was the most important testimony in recent memory — and quite possibly one of the most important in American history
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Every single academic attempt at measuring party ideology, including those developed by researchers in Sweden: Republicans are turning against democracy
Conservatives: the problem, to me, are the academics
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I've called this the "look what you made me do" theory of conservatism, and it's just getting more and more popular
The Left's campaign against religion and American history is making the Right think illiberal thoughts. At some point, this might get out of hand, and somebody has to stand down. NEW from Michael Warren Davis:
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I cannot think of a good reason for the Times to publish information about the whistleblower's identity. I read the piece, I read Dean Baquet's defense, and none of it makes any sense.
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Increasingly being radicalized into an anti-anti-Hamilton position
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It's really important that people recognize this isn't just Cheney. Across the party, including key positions that protected against election interference in 2020, Republicans who opposed Trump are being punished
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The way settlers pervert Judaism's traditions to justify their racist abuses of Palestinians fills me with rage
Earlier today, dozens of settlers celebrated the holiday of Hanukkah by stealing crops from Palestinian-owned olive trees outside the village of Awarta. After the theft, which was escorted by Israeli soldiers, the settlers proceeded to cut down several trees.
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This is an unintentionally damning statement about the conservative movement
If you know a conservative under the age of 35, Limbaugh influenced them. Whatever you think of his career trajectory, and I have my frustrations in the Trump era, he was a profoundly important check on Democratic narratives in the press. A true legend. Rest in peace.
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