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Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
From David Sedaris on Trump vs Biden:
"I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?"
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Which part of the Civil War “could have been negotiated”? The slavery part? The secession part? Whether Lincoln should have preserved the Union? Question for members of the GOP—the party of Lincoln—who have endorsed Donald Trump: How can you possibly defend this?
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
It’s long past time to stop romanticizing U.S.-South Africa relations, or pretending that a one-sided enthusiasm for cooperation with the South African government is a critical linchpin in U.S.-Africa policy, writes Michelle Gavin. on.cfr.org/43iIknz
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Dear @IZWI: Thanks again for your excellent narration of my book. PS. An Azhar official has reached out to a friend of mine saying that the Azhar was not behind the ban on my book. So, it may be a governmental restriction.
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community...in a fundraising email, for herself.
Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won't.
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Happy news: My Islam book is now an audiobook. Thanks to Simon Barber (@IZWI) for his engaging narration. You can listen the Preface as free sample. Available in @audible_com audible.com/pd/Islam-Authori… & @amazon amazon.com/Islam-Authoritari… & @AppleBooks.
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
“[Judge Jackson] wasn’t groomed in partisan petri dishes. She learned practical courtroom experience ... how the judicial system works."
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) strikes back against Republican attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Watch this extraordinary denunciation of the modern Republican Party by Reagan's former solicitor general Charles Fried. He was born in Prague in 1935 and says today he hears "the same tunes -- and it scares me."
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
.@Liz_Cheney on new information revealed tonight before the @January6thCmte:
“Mr. Meadows received numerous text messages...these text messages leave no doubt the White House knew exactly what was happening here at the Capitol.”
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Jack Dorsey is quitting Twitter to focus on his duties as advisor and court sorcerer of Tsar Nicholas II.
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
The essence of high US government spending "abroad" is to spend most of the money in Washington. It is only called abroad. If it did not go to Washington itself, such large public expenditures would not be allowed. "Consultants" are usually the main beneficiaries.
How could the US spend $2 Trillion in #Afghanistan-- and still lose?
Perhaps the most under-appreciated factor: Cultural illiteracy.
For 20 years, I tried to bring #anthropology to the effort. But Afghan interpreter Baktash Ahadi explains it better:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
Social media is the news-informational equivalent of those ads in the back of old comic books promising live sea monkeys and 100 rare postage stamps for a dollar. And incredibly we are educating our electorate with this horseshit. We are so done.
Social media users are sharing a misleading video they claim shows U.S. President Joe Biden falling asleep in a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister. However, the clip was cropped and moments later, Biden responded reuters.com/article/factchec…
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
RIP Charlie Watts (1941-2021), Rolling Stones drummer.
Here’s Keith Richards on an incident in 1984 when Watts punched Mick Jagger, who (naturally) had it coming:
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
This report is head-spinning, but everyone who ares about the future of the country should read it:
democracycorps.com/download/…
New focus group report on Trump-loyalists/aligned and non-Trump conservatives and moderates @StanGreenberg @BillKristol @SykesCharlie @Timodc @JonahDispatch @JRubinBlogger @RonBrownstein
What will Trump loyalists’ sensed powerlessness mean for politics? democracycorps.com/republica…
Simon Barber 🐇 (εκεινος, εκεινου) retweeted
White privilege is violently storming the US Capitol and just...being sent home.
