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The Judiciary committee passed my bill (HR 6824) requiring FBI to provide demographic data of persons ruled ineligible to purchase a firearm by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
False denials disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities.
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This is one of the most extraordinary 5-minute clips I’ve ever seen on this app. An epoch-making exchange.
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Protesting against a war, advocating for war on a particular country, choosing a side in a war, and criticizing the tactics of war, are all protected speech in the United States.
Opinions on war need not be popular nor must they be approved by the government.
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Most US foreign aid is money laundering for the US military industrial complex and its beneficiaries.
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Is Nikki Haley aware that the Federalist Papers were written by founding fathers using pseudonyms?
Nikki Haley may be one of the most war-mongering and authoritarian candidates for president in some time. She's completely unhinged. This is blatantly unconstitutional.
NEW: Nikki Haley asserts that allowing people to post on social media anonymously is a "national security threat". She promises that as president, she will force "every person on social media" to be "verified by their name."
I am no lawyer but isn't this blatantly unconstitutional? Free speech includes anonymous speech.
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Perhaps regardless of the topic, I think it's notable that the Senator does not in any way portray himself as believing that
Well, yes, I am an elected legislator, sometimes I have to listen to citizens say things, go ahead young man.
Instead it's pure how dare you speak to me.
Sen. @ChrisCoons sat across from me on the train. With Israel using US weapons to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians, including 4600+ children, I asked him why he refuses to call for a ceasefire:
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“Far better is it for ourselves, and for the cause of liberty, that, adhering to our wise pacific system, and avoiding distant wars of Europe…”
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I love my country, but the collective ignorance of the American people empowers so-called public servants who abuse their positions of trust to push policies that further individual agendas at the expense of the nation they ostensibly serve. Fact-based logic no longer matters.
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All of this stuff before October 2023 was just fine, though?
It went on for decades
“I do not want my family’s name associated with the University of Pennsylvania — ever.”
Steve Eisman, famous for “The Big Short,” instructed @Penn to remove his family’s name from a scholarship at the university:
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There's like a total of 4 career paths that actually require a degree.
For everyone else, college is looking more and more like a waste of time
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All these years in which Israel, the ADL and pro-Israel groups distorted what antisemitism is and weaponised it against critics of Israel and conflated Israel and Jews has been absolutely catastrophic for the actual safety of Jews, as is now plain to see.
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People need to understand how the Arab and Muslim world is digesting these images.
You might say, “they’ve always been against Israel; I don’t care,” but that’s foolish.
Support can shift from being non-existent to very aggressive opposition on a broad scale in a short time.
Queen Rania of Jordan just posted this video for her 10 million followers.
These images radicalize people.
And by “radicalize,” I don’t mean turning two billion people into terrorists.
Rather, it can transform them from mild opponents to very dedicated ones very quickly.
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Washington gave Ukraine $100+ billion last year, claiming this would push the Russians out in a successful counteroffensive. In fact, the lines hardly budged; if anything Russia gained territory. Now DC claims another $60B will get the job done. You’re a fool if you believe this.
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The Harvard student groups who co-signed the anti-Israel letter are simple fools. But it’s not productive for companies to blacklist kids for being members of student groups that make dumb political statements on campus. Colleges are spaces for students to experiment with ideas & sometimes kids join clubs that endorse boneheadedly wrong ideas. I’ve been as vocal as anyone in criticizing left-wing cancel culture (see my first book “Woke, Inc.”), but it’s bad no matter who practices it. It wasn’t great when people wearing Trump hats were fired from work. It wasn’t great when college graduates couldn’t get hired unless they signed oppressive “DEI” pledges. And it’s not great now if companies refuse to hire kids who were part of student groups that once adopted the wrong view on Israel. This isn’t a legal point, it’s a cultural point. I say this as someone who vehemently disagrees with those Harvard student groups.
Those calling for blacklisting students right now are responding from a place of understandable hurt, but I’m confident that in the fullness of time, they will agree with me on the wisdom of avoiding these cancel-culture tactics.
