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Michelle Alexander, author of THE NEW JIM CROW, will be a @nytimes columnist starting in September. This is phenomenal news, through and through. My goodness. nytco.com/michelle-alexa…
Had no idea that there were so many Michelle Alexander dissenters on the left. Two things: Making her responsible for her U.S. attorney husband’s inaction on the John Crawford III shooting case is asinine and sexist. Canceling her over one critical Hillary column is also foolish.
If people like Michelle Alexander are simply going to be invalidated in the economy of ideas because of an opinion that proved to be wrong or one that made people uncomfortable, well, shit, we should all just quit. I also have disagreed with her in the past, but come on, folks.
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I wrote a lot of words in 2018, and I had arguably my most successful year as a writer. I also had one of my most unhappy years as a human being. But I did good work on the page, and on myself. And that’s why I will always be thankful for this lovely, terrible year.
I thought that I’d start 2019 by adding some context to this, looking back on a complicated year of successes and strife with more than just a list of my favorite bylines.
I started 2018 out of sorts. Caught walking pneumonia in Vegas last New Year’s Eve while going there to see a Bruno Mars concert with my wife. Spent January essentially incapacitated, but recovered sufficiently to interview the great @AnnaDeavereS and later, to take a meeting.
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John Kelly made news with “To be honest, it’s not a wall,” but I was struck more by what is absent here. An apology to @RepWilson for his lies about her. Accountability for his role in Trump’s immigration crusade. Recanting his Confederate apologism. Alas. lat.ms/2GOzY1o
“What happened was Jeff Sessions, he was the one that instituted the zero-tolerance process on the border that resulted in both people being detained and the family separation,” John Kelly told @mollymotoole. “He surprised us.” That is such a fascinating quote, for many reasons.
One, Kelly appears to concede that Trump’s family separation are both inherently bad policies. This is someone seeking to avoid looking having he and @POTUS appear like villains. Ignoring his own role, he displays a consciousness of guilt while simultaneously trying to avoid it.
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This @jmartNYT and @melbournecoal report is full of quotes from people who seem as though they don’t want to just come out and and say that Bernie Sanders should sit this one out, for any number of reasons. I agree. O’Rourke, for me, isn’t the reason why. nyti.ms/2RfuaCd
This argument sums up the main reason that I feel Sanders shouldn’t run again. Any white challenger to Trump will have to prove her or his bonafides on issues specific to voters of color. Sanders may not have the widest credibility gap, but it’ll be close. slate.trib.al/kkcDfiW
Alluded to but left underexamined in this @jonathanchait argument is the fact that a significant part of Bernie’s support came from white guys unwilling to vote for a woman. Those men may have just found a new white, male candidate to back in Beto. nym.ag/2CCwuLb
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Q: Can Trump declare a national emergency and then build his wall?

A: Of course not.

The real question is how to deal with Trump's very effective “flood the zone with shit" ploy.👇

Look what happens when Trump says things like that.
1/Legal scholars like Lawrence Lessig theguardian.com/commentisfree/…, Yale Law prof. Bruce Ackerman nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi… & @steve_vladeck have to spend time explaining what’s wrong with Trump’s ridiculous idea.
2/ Lawyers love to dissect these kinds of questions. Discussing hypotheticals is what we do!

Invariably a reporter will quote a lawyer who says something like: “it’s maybe not totally out of the realm of possibility.”
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

People will panic, even though . . .
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The third day of Kavanaugh hearings is underway. Booker is currently telling the committee he'll release some emails that have been marked "committee confidential." (Feel free to mute this thread.)
Cornyn just described Booker's announcement as "outrageous" and compared it to releasing classified information.
Cornyn, to Booker: Running for president is "not an excuse to violate the rules of the committee."
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I too finished @MehrsaBaradaran 's The Color of Money recently. (Also: first heard her on @jeremyscahill' s Intercepted). Extremely good book. Highly recommend. 4 me especially good for understanding institutional racism.
institutional racism seems to be a term that a lot of people say but it's taken me few books worth of reading to start to appreciate the real idea. I talk to people who have vague impression that "X is institutionally racist" means "collection of people who work in X are racist"
where X is police force or the judicial system or banking
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5 books every #Resistance member should read.

1.1984 Geo.Orwell

2.The Femine Mystigue.Betty Friedan.

3.A Peoples History of the Uninted States. Howard Zinn

4.The New Jim Crow.Michelle Alexander.

5.The Grapes of Wrath.John Steinbeck.

Please add your own.
This is such a great thread.I am going to pin it to my profile.
The View from Flyover Country @sarahkendzior. Is the most important book I have read this year.
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1. QAnon June 21 2018:

Organized riots being planned.
Counter measures in
place.

#QAnon @POTUS #News #Trump #TrumpTrain #Patriots #Pray #Fight #PainComing #EVIL #Immigrants #Children #BewareOfPlannedRiots
2. Rush: Border Separation 'Entirely Manufactured Crisis'.
"This has been going on for years. It happened during the Obama admin. Nobody said a word.. newsmax.com/politics/borde…

#QAnon @POTUS #News #Trump #Patriots #Pray #Fight #EVIL #FakeNews #Immigrants #BewareOfPlannedRiots
3. Liberal Hacks Attack Gov Mike Huckabee for Denouncing MS-13 Killers and Rapists thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/figure…

#QAnon @POTUS #News #Trump #TrumpTrain #Patriots #Pray #Fight #Parents #Immigrants #Illegals #Children #BewareOfPlannedRiots #EVIL
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A thread of books I’m reading this year.
The Entitlement Cure by @drjohntownsend is an insightful look at the way we enable people, and facing our own entitlements. A good read offering solutions to leaders, parents, and those trying to work on their own weak spots.

amazon.com/Entitlement-Cu…
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by @AdamMGrant
Interesting look at the social science behind creativity, dispelling some old axioms. Chapters on application of principles make this a how-to manual.

amazon.com/Originals-How-…
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