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Nou dan ben ik bij deze een trotse terrorist. Op zich wel fijn om zo vlak voor de verkiezingen een lijstje te hebben van welke partijen mij dood willen, omdat ze blijkbaar fascisten zijn en daarom anti-fascisten als bedreiging zien.
It's so disingenuous how "centrist" neoliberals like @mattyglesias try to pretend like the victory of Talarico is a victory of the "moderate" politics that they espouse.
Talarico never ran as a moderate, he campaigned on class warfare, following the example of Bernie & Mamdani.
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“So Poisoned I Wouldn’t Use It’ – The Man Who Drafted the Antisemitism Definition Slams Its Use in Schools”
In an exclusive interview, Kenneth Stern warns against David Bell’s recommendation that schools adopt the IHRA definition, saying it could encourage antisemitism and lead to teachers being ‘hunted’.
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If you govern like Obama (no punishment for Bush admin war criminals/Wall Street), you get a Trump. If you govern like Biden (no punishment for officials complicit in J6), you get Trump again. UPHOLD THE LAW. QUIT LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING
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Here we go. He’s been waiting for weeks for this. His first and second choice Michigan Dem candidates both got beaten by AES, then the Republican who he said AES would struggle to beat, got beaten by AES by 7 points, and so now he’s tweeting about margins the morning after.
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This is the definition of bad faith, sadly. Yglesias reluctantly conceded in his interview with me that it’s not a fair comparison between Michigan and North Carolina - given NC didn’t have AIPAC spending, Islamophobia, presidential interventions, Dem ratfucking, former incumbency, etc - but then he goes just straight back on Twitter, waits for the election, and then reposts the same tired partisan talking point.
Sigh.
Replying to @mattyglesias
Winning Michigan by seven is just a lot less impressive than winning NC by 20 or Ohio or Kansas (!) by 5 or Iowa and South Carolina by 4 or Texas (!) by 12 and you should not trust people who can’t acknowledge the plain truth about this.
He does look good compared to Flanagan!
Underperformer? Abdul beat two Republicans in one election!
He beat Mike Rogers AND he beat Haley Stevens. If that's not overperforming then idk what is.
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“I am glad Abdul won but…”
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Replying to @O__V__P
I am glad Abdul won but Talarico and cooper outperformed him in more conservative states. And Abdul won in part because Slotkin, Whitmer and kind of the normies - Obama - campaigned for him. These are facts. This was a normie election. But I am very very glad he won
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So glad Ta-Nehisi said this: it is one of my bugbears that everyone gets that McCain moment wrong; even card-carrying anti-racist liberals praise McCain for that remark that was unambiguously and obviously racist. I remember Ben Affleck rightly calling it out on Bill Maher’s show years ago.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Haley Stevens and anti-Arab racism:
vanityfair.com/story/ta-nehi…
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Working class people’s lives are on the ballot on Tuesday—their healthcare, their rent, their bills.
Haley Stevens just betrayed them by endorsing the very Republican she said she wanted to run against.
I love when they're honest.
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I did not and would never consent to this administration running my fanart through AI and posting it. Can’t even believe I’m saying these words.
There’s Magic in Learning 🪄
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This image is an AI recreation of an artwork done by @DevinElleKurtz and Devin further stated they did not give the
U.S. Department of Education permission to use their artwork.
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“We’ve built software to track Wikipedia editors,” says the head of the ADL.
We have an investigation publishing soon about pro-Israel manipulation of Wikipedia, and he just blurts it out
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Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing.
She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once (the victim in this 1974 indictment); she remembered Amy lived in a tent with Donna and Cledith; it's been terrible for her family to see Vivek's ad run in Ohio; and she heard rumors her father had victimized even more young girls.
NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973. The sheriff was then unable to locate him to serve him a summons in the county and nothing further happened in the case.
Donna Arthur, featured in Vivek Ramaswamy's still-running campaign ad, married Cledith the next year in a neighboring county.
Waarom denken Zionisten eigenlijk dat ze Israël kunnen verdedigen door het een democratie te noemen?
Het feit dat een overgrote meerderheid van de Joodse burgers voor genocide en voor expansionisme stemt maakt het juist erger dan als ze totaal geen verkiezingen zouden hebben.
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Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid"
All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watch👇)
Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power).
This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties).
Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks.
Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us".
They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid!
Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!
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We can’t give the poor money, otherwise they won’t have an incentive to work.
However, we need to give the wealthy as much money as possible, otherwise they won’t have an incentive to work.
And people actually fall for this scam.
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So you don't view Arab citizens as Israelis? Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Ambassador.
Today is election day in Israel, which is a national holiday. All voting is in person, ID required. No mail-in or absentee ballots. Arabs vote same as Israelis. Contentious process, but it's a democracy-not many of those in this region!
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The Arab voters are Israeli citizens. Listing them in contrast to Israelis is misconstruing the facts.
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