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Don't get it twisted. Trumpism will not be the end of the American experiment; future Democratic administrations refusing to hold any of them accountable for their crimes will ultimately be the end of the American experiment.
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it's been a week since Trump began targeting Ilhan Omar and, unlike the raid on Bolton last year which saw condemnations from NYT, WaPo, WSJ on Day 1, theres been zero editorials in these outlets condemning it. It also went totally unmentioned on all four Sunday shows yesterday.
When Trump raided John Bolton last year it was met w/ immediate outrage in the opinion pages of NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic & New Yorker. Since Rep Omar was raided Mon––and subsquently threatened w/ deportation––these same outlets have been silent. I wrote about this double standard
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the President targeting a sitting member of the opposition party for arrest and deportation three weeks before the midterms would normally be a major story but it was ignored entirely by all four Sunday shows yesterday because the target is The Wrong Race, Religion and Ideology.
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News: The French are rioting over high cost of living and under-resourced high schools.
The rioters: Yes, that's what we are rioting over.
The French government: Yupp, they're rioting over that.
Everyone: Yepp, that's whats happening.
The far right: Da Blacks! Da Muzlims!
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You didn’t say he’s not a registered physician who’s never practiced. You said he’s not a doctor, which is flat false.
But you’re also the guy who made 109 false statements about WMDs in Iraq when you worked for Bush so I guess it not new for you to lie.
cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/23/…
He’d be arrested if he tried to treat a patient.
He’s not even allowed to write a prescription.
He’s unlicensed.
He wears a lab coat and pretends to be a doctor when he’s not one.
Just try to make an appointment with him and let me know how it goes.
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If your friends lock you out of the house because they think you being out there has something to do with their team winning ... then you need to find some new friends. That's just dumb.
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Cc @SenSchumer
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if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and i see your tesla loudly flip in the air and destroy my serenity, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher
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X has suspended the account of academic and researcher @MujammaHaraket whose writings and translation projects about Palestine are essential historical works that fall clearly within the public interest. This ban should be reversed immediately.
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"the option" 🤣
Breaking: President Trump says he has given Katie Zacharia the option to leave her job as White House press secretary after a rocky first week. on.wsj.com/4dH8GqK
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The guy who pretends to bend spoons with his mind has more powerful thoughts.
Opinion: When Obama speaks, millions of people listen. If he truly believes that it is “undeniable” that Jews “took land off people," then he is an antisemitism superspreader.
jpost.com/opinion/article-91…
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“Why doesn’t the US army do more to restrain the settlers in California harassing and killing Indians” asks the concern liberal c 1890. Buddy wait til you hear how all settler colonies manage their perpetual frontiers while maintaining the veneer of liberal, rule of law formalism
Heidi Levine, an American photographer for the Washington Post, was beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank today while covering an olive harvest by Palestinians. She’s now in a Ramallah hospital. This happens every day on the West Bank. Every single day.
Palestinians attacked, journalists attacked, Israeli & foreign observers attacked. When is the IDF going to start taking this seriously? And where is the US embassy & Trump administration?
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They carried me out and gave me a concussion.
Days like today show why daily press briefings really matter for accountability. No one at the WH, the Pentagon, or the State Dept out at a podium to answer basic factual questions about what the U.S. govt did or didn't do here.
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You literally had armed thugs drag a reporter out of the room for daring to challenge you at a press briefing...
Days like today show why daily press briefings really matter for accountability. No one at the WH, the Pentagon, or the State Dept out at a podium to answer basic factual questions about what the U.S. govt did or didn't do here.
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