Editorial Board @dissentmag. Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.
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Very goofy to say that Mamdani "hates ambition and success." Dude: Mamdani is a 33 year old, no name ID socialist who beat *Andrew Cuomo* in a primary and is the odds on favorite to be the next mayor of the largest city in the US. What Portnoy really means is that his large
Weird then to turn and say I should stop acting like I care about NYC. If anybody is doing acting it ain’t me
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“I got it because keeping myself safe, my family safe, the people in this building,” Kelce said. “I stand by it 1,000%. Fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.” Travis Kelcie isn’t Jonas Salk, but this is what a responsible public figure does.
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Rodgers is a classic American type: the iconoclastic conformist. He thinks he’s “fighting the power” by invoking MLK while supporting crackpot anti-vax theories and bar stool demagogues like Joe Rogan. But he’s a just rich dude who rejects civic obligation—we mass produce those.
From FOX: Aaron Rodgers talked about his reputation and said to people who were against him: "Didn't work, couldn't keep me down."
Great interview with @ErinAndrews
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Thank god the Electoral College ensures that presidential campaigns pay attention to small states and rural populations.
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So we’re just doing de facto hard core herd immunity? With the risk tilted toward working class people and, within the working class, people of color? No national plan, no sense of moral or logistical urgency, just death for those who can’t afford to work behind a computer. Cool.
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ambition and success is in the service of other human beings, not merely ZM's own power, wealth and cruel fantasies. "He's subversively, maniacially dangerous to American life—but he's also a lazy, hippy slacker" is a primo argument, good stuff yeah.
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Dude: the senate majority leader is Jewish; the Secretary of State is Jewish; the Attorney General is Jewish; the leader of the leftist faction is Jewish; the *husband of the nominee* is Jewish. I’m Jewish/you’re Jewish so I ask you because Jews disagree: wtf are u talking about?
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Dude, you’re a *Dr.* and you had the key vote; you could have blocked this dangerous, demented charlatan. Now he’s busy destroying public health care and biomedical research. The tweet is a day late and a dollar short.
Your shame will last forever.
Not publicly known if the child was vaccinated, but almost certainly not. Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. No benefit to getting measles. Top health officials should say so unequivocally b/4 another child dies. foxnews.com/health/second-ch…
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Quit immediately. Spend your millions on voting rights. Pay the poll tax of the ex felons in Florida being screwed out of their franchise by the state GOP. Think about a cause larger than your own ambitions.
Last night, I left the debate stage even more determined to talk to Americans and push harder for a larger, more specific conversation on the climate crisis. We cannot continue to plan our future without concrete plans to deal with our global reality. Climate change cannot wait.
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Holy shit! He did it! Just to be clear: FDR never said this about any particular labor struggle, nor did he say workers generally should join a union (as the CIO cleverly attributed to him). So...this is, um, better than expected. And yes—the Bernie/Warren/AOC faction *matters.*
Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a vitally important choice – one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers.
Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.
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If Harris is elected and she has a Republican controlled senate—a likely outcome that this idea weirdly renders benign —she will have her “bipartisan council of advisers.” And it will advise her that she pass no legislation and confirm no judges or executive branch nominees.
Today, I am announcing that as president, I will create a bipartisan council of advisors to give feedback on policy and inform my administration.
Our democracy needs a healthy two-party system.
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This has to be the most righteous 72 seconds of Jon Ossoff’s life. Perdue looks like he’s in a lineup.
🔥BLISTERING SPEECH. @ossoff completely destroys Perdue in Georgia senate debate—for Perdue dismissing #COVID19 pandemic as nothing but the flu, for ignoring health warnings, & voting 4 times to deny protections for pre-existing conditions. #GASenateDebate
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Fetterman margin now 4.3%. No landslide, but not that close at all, solid win, bigger than Toomey—Larger than R’s winning margin in NC senate. Debate didn’t matter or maybe even helped Fetterman because Oz is so smarmy, made the abortion gaffe.
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A 24 hour warning for over a million people who have nowhere to go doesn’t really seem in good faith. How are is this suooosed to be logistically managed. Hamas committed premeditated mass murder. A 24 hour notice isn’t really a serious proposal though, is it?
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He’s just trying to run out the clock. Every week becomes another set piece that critics must wait to evaluate. And in a couple of more weeks, it’s just becomes, “Well, it’s too late now anyway.”
NEW: Senior administration official confirms on call with reporters that Biden's solo press conference will take place next THURSDAY afternoon
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What’s fascinating when listening to rightwing SCOTUS justices is that, despite their eminence and elite educations, they say the same crackpot stuff, repeat the same falsehoods that any nutter on his sofa watching Tucker would.
The flu kills about 30,000 Americans each year. I'm kinda surprised Gorsuch would broadcast his ignorance like this. I looked this up with help from Google in about 10 seconds.
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Actually Trump did confront a major domestic crisis and he completely screwed it up, damaging and costing many lives: Puerto Rico.
Trump has been lucky: He hasn’t confronted a major domestic or international crisis during his first year as most of his predecessors have. Odds are his luck won’t last in Year Two. Multiple crises loom. Me in @ForeignPolicy: atfp.co/2oLiRVl
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“Nominally Jewish.” Ossoff has now become a test case for the Dems. Mainstream Jewish reactionaries and apologists for Israel want to ensure US Jews bend the knee. He’s making a bet he can win statewide in Georgia and maybe beyond. Important that he does and that AIPAC/ADL fail.
Ossoff thinks he can thread this needle because he’s nominally Jewish. I look forward to helping prove him wrong.
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Schumer and DSCC want to run a signee of this letter as the senate nominee in *Michigan.*
30 House Democrats sign a letter led by Rep Jake Auchincloss criticizing countries for recognizing Palestine
They praise the Arab League’s recent statement condemning Hamas, while not realizing the statement was part of the French-Saudi push for recognizing Palestinian statehood
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No bs: just an unsentimental, coldly practical leftist politician, constructing a coalition while operating within a two party system. Dirty hands are better than filthy hands.
Bernie Sanders on Meet the Press: "Cheney and I agree on nothing. No issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its democratic foundations ... I applaud the Cheneys for their courage in defending democracy."
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So if Goldman is right, we’re going to condense the first three years of the Depression into six months. While tens of thousands of people are dying from a highly contagious virus. And a cross between Madoff, Mussolini and Krusty the Clown is president.
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Props to LeBron. Every left of center mega-wealthy person should join this effort. FL GOP, led by DeSantis, instituted a 21st c. poll tax to disenfranchise over one million citizens. huffpost.com/entry/lebron-ja…
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Tbh, it’s not the Selzer poll, although Ernst winning would be very bad. It’s the Rs going into federal court to throw out 117,000 legally cast votes. That’s chilling.
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Buried lede on Schumer interview on Maddie tonight is his priority to not only fill judgeship vacancies, but expand the federal courts below SCOTUS level. BFD.
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Romney thing is just this: he’s ostentatiously shorting Trump, ie, betting he is impeached/convicted or forced to resign. And reminding party he would do all the usual stuff the donors and activists want without the drama. And figuring that’s how he wins nomination in ‘20.
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Shocking—they’re going to poison pill this and millions of people will suffer, just because they wanted to tie Biden’s hands so that millions might suffer in the future. And then they will blame the Dems. Because this is who they are.
New: McConnell tells Senate Republicans on conference call he’s holding firm on Toomey Fed language, sources tell me and @marianne_levine
Cotton praised McConnell, Mnuchin and Toomey for not giving in to Dems and encouraged Senate GOP to rally around them
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Dems have the leverage here if they hold their nerve. Market is going to decline 10-20% tomorrow, so Schumer and Pelosi have to be coldly implacable—no Mnuchin slush fund, Corp bailout along Warren’s lines, redirect/add money for workers.
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This is a useful reminder how profoundly transgressive union organizing is in the United States. Here is an internationally branded company with a huge market cap, panicking at the militant model that even one successfully organized Starbucks would demonstrate to other workers.
Great reporting from @LaurenKGurley on Starbuck's mobilization against the union campaign in Buffalo. It's pretty rare to see an executive this senior turn up at chain stores in this context. vice.com/en/article/v7ekp8/i…
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Basically, Trump accused a female senator and possible presidential candidate of being willing to exchange having sex with him in return for a campaign contribution. It’s a measure of how endlessly grotesque he is that this isn’t even the biggest political story of the day.
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The most persuasive pro-impeachment piece I’ve read. As @AJentleson says: if Dems impeach Trump and R Senate whitewashes him, that will **heighten** the necessity to vote him out in 11/2020. Which for Dems is **great** politics. gq.com/story/democrats-impea…
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This should be getting **much** more attention than it is: according to @nytimes, @USChamber and unnamed corporations are feverishly advising Trump ***not*** to implement the Military Production Act—advice he, Kudlow and Jared are accepting. The result is delays/chaos.
“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the heads of major corporations have lobbied the administration against using the act.” Times buries the lede here. Trump, Kudlow and the @USChamber have blood not just on their hands, but up to their armpits. nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/po…
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This discussion about the senate is goofy. *Of course* a 50-50 senate means an exact party split in committee assignment. But the *Dems will still control the body even prior to tiebreaker. Why? Because they will *chair every committee* and only Schumer can bring bills to floor.
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Pro tip to Joe Biden: Netanyahu wants you to lose—he is, in effect, a Republican and an agent of Trump—and he’s going to kill/starve and immiserate a lot more people between now and November. He’s not on your side; don’t be on his.
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This is insane. Hey mainstream media: Trump is visiting a *non union* shop! That’s the point! He’s not even doing a version of the “I was union president once myself” shtick that Reagan did. This is even lazier than that—he’s just bs’ing once again. Don’t fall for it.
also: I’ve seen CNN and AP both run factually inaccurate articles today about Trump’s trip, and that’s just from looking at Twitter for like fifteen minutes. surely lots more examples. many journalists embarrassing themselves this week
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Wait—when Dems in TX and Wisconsin pulled this stunt, Rs just outwaitrd them and passed their agenda anyway. But when Rs do the same thing in Oregon, Ds beg them to return and agree to *curtail* their agenda. Wtf?!?!
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But it’s not Germany. These two peoples share the same space. If you kill, maim, or displace most of them, it’s not only horrific, but you have to manage the aftermath.
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The Republican Party is opposed to majoritarian multi-racial democracy and dedicated to disenfranchising opposition voters before and after they legally cast ballots. This is unique today in advanced nations. But it is not unique in the US. It was the American South, 1890-1965.
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Hard to construct a moral template in which this isn’t evil. And from people who are surely vaccinated themselves.
Bret Weinstein and Tucker Carlson tell viewers the vaccine could actually make the COVID pandemic worse mediamatters.org/fox-nation/…
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Re: Clarence Thomas, conservatives defamed woman testifying under oath who had no reason to lie. Other women were willing to substantiate her claim. Yet at this fraught moment, no conservative writer has reconsidered this episode. Why? Maybe because CT still powerful justice.
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Wonder when Joe Manchin will figure out that if the Dems end the filibuster he becomes the most powerful senator in the body—the Justice Kennedy of senators, you might say—and both parties (and Biden) will have to kiss his ring. If it’s retained, he’s a nobody—#50 out of 60.
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Is this supposed to be a hard question? A: “Company bosses and Wall Street are screwing you; the pols follow from that. Stop marinating in barely veiled racial resentment of poor folks and organize a union with other working people, regardless of their race/gender/ethnicity.”
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Reminder: the AAA doesn’t block government research on car safety. The NRA is an extremist organization which should not be normalized as merely a typical affinity group. It isn’t. Lawful gun owners are one thing, the NRA, institutionally, is another.
The scandal of Congress blocking reseach on gun violence, NRA puppets. Read @ThePlumLineGS washingtonpost.com/blogs/plu…
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I actually think conservatives are right: investigative journalists are “going after” Thomas. But they are finding factually uncontroverted evidence that’s he’s corrupt! Over and over again. They’re not “smearing” him, as the cons allege. They’re *describing* him.
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The other thing about @AndrewGillum is that he’s as much from a working class background as any of the 80 zillion white voters sitting in Midwest diners that the media has interviewed. But the media has trouble understanding that non white people can be working class too.
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This very smart and very able libertarian, Christian nationalist crackpot fanatic is, arguably, the most powerful White House staff member in the history of the country. He is destroying the American state and he knows how to do it.
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There’s value in Biden being stripped of any illusions that there is some halcyon “deal making”” possible with McConnell.
Based on McConnell's remarks, the leadership of the GOP does not view President Trump as defeated and will not address President-elect Biden as president-elect.
And the defiant rhetoric of Trumpism infused the majority leader's speech. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Ben—c’mon. There was never such a moment. There were just a lot of people, in and out of the GOP, who didn’t want to explicitly acknowledge that reactionary racial nationalism was the motor of conservatism. Also: Krauthammer debased himself too—look up his teleprompter remarks.
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Flip 22k votes combined in three states out of 158+ million cast and Trump “beats” a guy who beat him by 4.5%, which isn’t a landslide, but isn’t close either ( = Truman, > JFK/Nixon 1/Carter/W both/Obama 2/Trump 1). That’s not just anti-majoritarian democracy. It’s irrational.
BREAKING: Biden's national popular vote lead just surpassed 7 million (4.5%)...
Biden 81,264,673 (51.3%)
Trump 74,210,838 (46.9%)
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Imagine if the Weather Underground in 1969–the year of Chicago’s Days of Rage-had led an insurrection, supported by leading Dems like Ted Kennedy and George McGovern, to take over Congress and overturn the 1968 election; 5 die. 60% of House Ds support overturning the election.
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I don’t think even a deformed democracy is possible when the rightist party is as dangerously, resentfully reactionary as this.
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This is all bs: Romney ran, in his own words, as “severely conservative” in ’12 and then an Ayn Rand fan as his running mate. Dems don’t support people like that. He’s a decent guy, but he ran as a right wing jerk. Totally standard politics to attack him as such.
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Here we go.
Impeach/convict/remove. Today.
EXCLUSIVE: Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency, a move that would mark one of the most extraordinary and untested uses of presidential power in American history. w/@maggieNYT nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/po…
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Had not seen this. JFK at his very best, but this also a reminder that the goal of universal health insurance was a primary goal of the mid century Democratic Party, even via a centrist like JFK.
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Hamas is *objectively blocking* any hope for Palestinian justice and freedom. It wishes to stop any kind of imaginable remedy—one, multi-ethnic state, two sovereign equal states—and, like their Jewish supremacist counterparts, supports expulsion and/or extermination of the other.
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But, to be clear: you don’t support these programs for poor children either, correct? You think the dispersed burden on the taxpayers, ie, the community in aggregate, is too great for given taxpayers to bear, correct?
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Nah—it might be a bad thing, yes. But, c’mon—she’s mercurial, narcissistic, and kind of nuts. She always has been. It was entirely in their interest to kiss her ass and they did everything they can to do just that. She blew them off. It’s on her.
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Why would McCain do this? Why would they ask him to do this? By the grace of god, what is the matter with these people? All of them.
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Arkansas state legislature made it “illegal for any state or local entity, including public hospitals, to require coronavirus vaccination as a condition of education or employment until two years after the Food and Drug Administration fully licenses a shot.”
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Kelcie’s ethic of earnest, socially empathic community much > Rodgers’s ignorant, solipsistic freedom of the grave.
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Note Dan—who understands how to evaluate and categorize evidence—doesn’t say that the remarks that Coates attributes to Kirk—are *false.* Because they aren’t.
Coates admits in the interview that he had to research Kirk's views, and the citations in his column made clear that just about 100% of his research came from Media Matters.
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I really sense that the centrists supporting Biden think they can crush the left and still unify the party and the left thinks it can tell the “official party” to fuck off because Bernie can win without total institutional support. Two versions of militant sentimentality.
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Yeah, this is a great point. California is only the home state of 1/8th of the US population and the fifth largest economy by per capita GDP in the world. I’d just write off the whole state---I mean who cares? It’s not like it’s got any more senators than any of the other states.
NBC's @ChuckTodd's DC-focused perspective on display, saying CA seems "so distant from the political debate...how does CA fit in with the rest of the country?"
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Basically, if they all come forward, he will quit. But instead, they *want* him to quit, but won’t do anything about it. So they bitch and moan in private. Our wise, courageous Solons!
NEW: Frustrated w colleagues’ loss of faith after a tearful mtg, Fetterman asked senators who still want Biden atop the ticket.
Only 3-4 said they did.
How a week of fevered diplomacy & damage control left POTUS and his party about where they started. politico.com/news/2024/07/13…
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Trump hasn’t said a word yet about the Californian wildfires. Like brown PR, blue California is beyond his narcissistic needs.
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A 70-30 union defeat is a campaign that should never have been undertaken in the first place. And just as victory can beget victory, large defeats dampen militancy. And *of course* the company was manipulative/coercive/brutalist. But *that is always the case.* Have to figure out
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The refusal of the Tibbetts family, even as they struggle with their terrible grief, to be used by demagogic racial-ethno-nationalists, from Trump on down thru his base, is extraordinarily powerful and moving.
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Tonight makes Biden’s problems look worse. If Dems had done poorly, the political challenges would be seen as broadly based, multi-factorial. But, in fact, those problems are, essentially, specific to Biden. Dems don’t have a party problem. They have a Biden problem.
Stamina and sharpness to serve as president via new national @CNN poll:
Donald Trump:
53% yes, has stamina/sharpness
47% no, no stamina/sharpness
Joe Biden:
25% yes, has stamina/sharpness
74% no, no stamina/sharpness
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Bad news is that Kurt Suzuki wore Maga hat. Good news is that eight Nats didn’t show up, including superstar Anthony Rendon.
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Florida is the third largest state in the US. Its governor, with the full support of his legislating party, instituted a poll tax to prevent ex felons from voting—against the express wishes of the FL electorate. If this were 1910, we would call this an episode of Jim Crow. 1/2
I was pleased to join three dozen other former DOJ Civil Rights attorneys in this bipartisan brief challenging Florida's pay-to-vote law as an unconstitutional poll tax. politico.com/states/f/?id=00…
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So how crazy/authoritarian/racially incendiary/McCarthyist (the president blacklisting a private citizen's job search?!?) is this? nitter.app/shaunking/status/84402…
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Haaland is not (only) a “diversity” first—she’s a genuine “left faction of the Party” first in the cabinet (endorsed Warren, not Biden) and in a crucial position where she will fight rapacious corporate interests.
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AOC’s strategically smart move is not just to run as a “democratic socialist” ie, social democrat, but to **be** an all in member of the Democratic Party. As the shrewdest conservatives understood two generations ago, the way to political power in the US is thru a major party.
70 years ago: Jobs Guarantee, Universal Healthcare & Housing as a Right were all championed by the President of the United States.
In fact, our campaign incorporates the legacy of 2 US Presidents.
FDR‘s Economic Bill of Rights includes Right to Education, Fair Income & more. nitter.app/rortybomb/status/10156…
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cons like to say re electoral college: Don’t like it? Pass a constitutional amendment to repeal it. Same here: there’s no number of justices designated in the Constitution. Either party can expand it anytime *they have the power* to do so. Don’t like it? Pass an amendment.
That & the fact that it's an enormously consequential assault on judicial independence so it matters quite a lot beyond Election Day.
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So: one of the country’s great national newspapers, @washingtonpost, is publishing this generation’s version of The Pentagon Papers—a tail of Empire’s arrogance, stupidity, incompetence and even misapplied institutional self-interest—and the nation yawns. American decadence.
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Pathetic. This is shaping up as the biggest failure of Pelosi’s career—both strategically re how to use her considerable leverage and normatively re the failure to grasp that we are headed into a depression and the biggest, smartest income support bill *must* be passed.
House Dems say they’re still working on their own “phase 3” bill.
But they know the reality of the situation — House members don’t even want to come back to DC so fighting the Senate next week would be a tough sell.
This way they get their priorities in the bill on front end.
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I don’t think any state has a “legitimate” procedural or normative interest in *wrongly* convicting a person of murder, thus permitting the wrongly convicted person’s execution.
Sotomayor's complaint misses the point. Thomas recites the nature of the crimes not to suggest bending the law but to remind the Court that there are legitimate interests in capital convictions, so it shouldn't just keep inventing custom-made exceptions.
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Being as intellectually generous to Kavanaugh as possible, this list of his misstatements and untruths doesn’t per se prove he’s lying about the incident Ford alleged, but does show how desperately implausible are his denials that he was a heavy drinker. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This is not just a horrific non policy and an abdication of political responsibility: it’s the unmasking of an ideology—the libertarian god that failed.
Why not remove traffic lights too? There is no solipsistic “freedom” that impedes the freedom of others to live safely.
Red state governors reject Biden on mask orders - POLITICO politico.com/news/2020/11/13…
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He’s not this stupid, but apparently he is this mendacious. Burdens put on *individual voters* rights has zero to do with election security measures—which Dems supported last year (and still support) and Rs *opposed*! Completely dishonest argument, lazily tossed out.
Maybe the most bizarre feature of voting-law controversies is the people who 1) spent four solid years arguing that we should be terrified about hostile foreign actors meddling in our elections but 2) now say we need no safeguards for our voting process.
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These leaks rightly make Biden seem feckless and weak. It’s really weird that anybody around him thinks they benefit him. Biden refuses to use the power he has to counter Netanyahu, so telling the world that he doesn’t like him is pathetic. It just underscores the old/frail meme.
SCOOP: In private, Biden often describes Netanyahu as obstinate — calling Israel’s PM an ‘asshole’ in at least 3 instances — and the main obstacle to US efforts to promote de-escalation.
via @carolelee @Petereporter @ckubeNBC & me nbcnews.com/news/investigati…
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Lol—Dem presidents all *cravenly appointed Republicans* to the position! There has *never* been a Democratic FBI director! Dems pathetically neutered their own appointment authority and Tim thinks it wasn’t enough, that still they abused their power. 🐐tweet here.
The notion of a 10-year term for the FBI director was born in 1976. Not one of the Democratic presidents over the next 40 years honored that norm.
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This doesn’t sound like much—and in a way it isn’t. But to support a “record contract” for the workers is pretty much as publicly supportive—more—than any president in US history, very much including FDR (who used to do some back channel stuff, but didn’t publicly take sides).
Joe Biden just spoke about the autoworkers' strike.
And he was very clear.
"I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the @UAW."
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This is such an interesting tweet. Part of the reason that Democratic Party politics are so confusing is that the two most prominent Democratic socialist, working inside the party, are stronger extollers of the history modern US liberalism than many liberals themselves are.
“It’s time that we become the party of FDR again.
It’s time for us to become the party of the Civil Rights Act again.
It’s time for us to become the party that fights for queer liberation again, the anti-war party, a party that establishes peace and prosperity.” -@AOC
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There is a police report—9/25/85. Chad Luddington is telling the truth. Kavanaugh threw a cup of ice on the guy, and then bro, Chris Dudley, (a hacker in the NBA too) punches the guy in the ear. Guy goes to hospital bleeding, Yale bros walk. nytimes.com/2018/10/01/us/po…
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All true. But what’s really horrible is that if Kemp wins, there’s no remedy. He will have just been permitted to fix his own race for governor by acting as its corrupt referee. It’s astounding, as big a scandal as is imaginable in a contemporary American election.
Kemp’s open attempt to steal the election is a big story but it feels like it should be an even bigger story. And if he wins, I think any responsible report on his victory should include his dedicated efforts to keep as many voters from the polls as possible.
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When a white man in Alabama in 2017 puts together a bi-racial coalition—one heavily dependent on huge black turnout—and cites Dr. King’s old chestnut about the moral arc of the universe it’s not trite, it’s very moving.
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No! Hate this cynical shit, where conservatives project their anti-majoritarian cynicism onto the left. Let the people decide—all of them. *Including every R.* No weighted votes, no “only ten swing states’ votes count.” Every vote matters/counts equally.
Democracy for all.
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Yup. Where’s the voter fraud charges in Wyoming?
This is an important point. Biden did nearly 5 percentage points better than Clinton in Wyoming. No one cares because Trump still won Wyoming in a blowout. But the point is Biden improved in all kinds of places, not just the states that proved to be pivotal.
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Mamdani wasn’t boosted by pro Palestinian slogans—he didn’t run on that, he ran on class driven affordability issues.
It’s just that guys like Mandel kept inserting his views on I/P thinking it would *hurt* him. But mist people don’t care. They live in NYC, not Israel.
If Mamdani was boosted by the "globalize the intifada" incident and Platner is up 34 after bragging about a Nazi SS tattoo for years, I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps US politics is in a bit of a rut.
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So the most salient example of physical violence against persons—resulting in 25 people hospitalized—was caused by pro Israeli thugs, observed and denounced by Jewish professors. This doesn’t evoke “Europe in the 1930s” as @DanaBashCNN has it—but rather Peekskill, NY 1949.
This piece by my @UCLA colleague, Prof. David Myers, accurately describes what I also witnessed on UCLA's campus on Sunday. To keep the peace, we both put ourselves between some pro-Palestinian protesters (who were mostly disciplined and non-confrontational) and a small contingent of very aggressive and provocative pro-Israel counter-protesters. Meanwhile, campus security and LAPD largely stood by and looked on. It was clear then that outside agitators were looking to cause trouble, which is why there should have been more done to prevent the mob violence that took place last night or at least to quickly stop it. "I'm a UCLA professor. Why didn't the administration stop last night's egregious violence?" forward.com/opinion/608479/u…
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One more point to add here, an important one: “Voter fraud”, one vote at a time by disaggregated voters, not only rarely happens, but **its a completely ineffective way to steal an election.** By contrast, election fraud aggregates votes by those with access to them, eg, NC-9.
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So two Dems—a Black preacher from EBC and a Jew—win in the Deep South; they are *significantly more to the left* than the previous Dem senators from that state decades ago. And the reactionaries ran the usual red baiting/race baitingcampaign—and they lost.
This is all wonderful.
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So not via every stray remark but, yes, any extended memorialization of the situation should denounce Hamas theocratic fascism (as well as Israeli exploitation and occupation) *on behalf* of Palestinian self-determination. Universalist solidarity against fascist
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