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Judd Legum
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1. Steve King just openly embraced white supremacy

I'm waiting for A SINGLE REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF THE HOUSE to speak out against this

Seems like a pretty easy call

So far, nothing
2. Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) said a Congresswoman saying the word "motherfucker" crossed the line.

What about Steve King embracing white supremacy?

Other GOP members of Congress who criticized Tlaib but are silent on King include:

@RepBryne
@Jim_Jordan
@RepLeeZeldin
@GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepLeeZeldin UPDATE: A few GOP members, including McCarthy, have spoken out against King popular.info/p/8-gop-politi…
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Judd Legum
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1. There is a lot of focus on the damage Trump is doing to the country and the world.

But, as folks pay attention to that, there is an opportunity cost as we ignore larger systemic problems

Exhibit 1: The accelerating concentration of wealth worldwide

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2. The stats from the new OxFam report are stunning.

In 2018, just 26 people owned as much wealth as the 3.8 BILLION PEOPLE who make up the poorest half of humanity

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3. In 2018, the world's billionaires got $900 billion richer.

The poorest half of humanity saw their wealth DECREASE by 11%.

The entire health budget of Ethiopia, a country over over 100 million, is equal to 1% of Jeff Bezos' wealth

popular.info/p/obscene-weal…
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Judd Legum
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1. After being banned from entering the U.S. for 12 years, this man showed up at the Trump Hotel last Thursday.

The previously untold story of how he got there illustrates how you can buy influence in Trump's Washington.

Let's go.

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2. You might have heard of Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria, because the FBI alleged he demanded a $500K bribe from former Rep William Jefferson. That was the guy with cash in his freezer who is currently serving a 13 year jail sentence popular.info/p/what-does-a-…
3. Abubakar was also featured in a 2010 Senate report called "KEEPING FOREIGN CORRUPTION OUT OF THE UNITED STATES." It detailed how Abubakar funneled $40 million in "suspect funds" into the U.S.

Siemens admitted to sending a $1.7 million bribe

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Judd Legum
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1. Some perspective on the BuzzFeed controversy

The central claim in BuzzFeed's story that Mueller disputes is this: Cohen "told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie"

Mueller says Buzzfeed's "description" is "not accurate"
2. We know Cohen talked to Mueller's office and we know they discussed Cohen's decision to lie to Congress about when the pursuit of Trump's Moscow ended.

But what did Cohen say?

This isn't a mystery. There is a transcript. Sometime soon, the transcript should be released.
3. There is clearly some ambiguity about what Cohen told Congress. His lawyer wrote at one point that Cohen lied about the Moscow project "in accordance with Client-1’s directives" (Client-1 is Trump)

But in his allocation to the court, Cohen did not say he was directed by Trump
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Lis Power
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I can't find a single mention of Steve King on Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC so far today.

How/Why is this not a bigger story on cable TV?
Fox News devoted just 42 seconds to King's comments yesterday, framing it as 'King fighting back against a New York Times article.'

Overall, coverage across national news networks yesterday was severely lacking.

mm4a.org/4d7
Cable news (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC) covered Rep. Rashida Tlaib's 'impeach the motherfucker' comments 5 times more than they covered Rep. Steve King's embrace of white supremacy.

Fox News had *74* times more coverage of Tlaib than King

Cable news is broken. mm4a.org/4d6
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Wajahat Ali
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Republican Steve King is trending. Im going to do a quick thread on his rich history of racism. In Oct 2018, he endorsed white supremacist & anti-semite Faith Goldy for Toronto mayor. She attended the Unite the Right rally & promotes the White Genocide conspiracy theory. 1/
In Oct 2018, Steve King defended his association & support of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, started by a Nazi & whose current leader is popular in neo-Nazi circles. “If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans,” King said. 2/
In Dec 2017, Steve King tweeted "Diversity is not our strength." He also sahres the quote of Viktor Orban, the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, authoritarian leader of Hungary: "Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life but a lower one.”

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Richard ⛄️ Spencer
@RichardBSpencer
Steve King’s comments about “White Nationalism” and “White Supremacism” to the New York Times were, of course, politically unwise.

But the fact is, he’s getting at something true, particularly true for men of his age.
As a young man in the ‘50s and ‘60s, King was inundated with Cold War propaganda about the greatness of “Americanism.”
America was assumed to be a White country, with roots in Great Britain and Europe. But it expressed a universalistic value system that was the great hope of all mankind. King was told he was blessed to live in the greatest country ever.
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Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific 🏳️‍🌈
@chimeracoder
White vegan colonialism at its finest: A vegan insulting Asian cuisines - which include the most vegan-friendly cuisines in the entire world - while also including the Sanskrit word for nonviolence (and the cornerstone of the Jain religion) as the first word in his bio. https://twitter.com/jonaweinhofen/status/1078512183393148928?s=19
Hey @jonaweinhofen, just so you know, अहिंसा (ahimsa) and cultural appropriation are incompatible. Appropriation is violence.
Inb4 someone tries to debate the statement "appropriation is violence": go study what himsa is in Hindu/Vedic/Jain philosophy before you even try to deny this.
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🍑Lucy McBath @LucyWins2018: Mother, Wife, Businesswoman, Activist for Social Justice.

🗣️You might recognize her from the 2016 #Democratic Convention: she represented Mothers of the Movement, a group of women whose African American children have been killed by gun violence.
🍑She intended to run for the #Georgia Legislature, but after the Parkland #Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, she decided her aspirations weren’t high enough. #NeverAgainMSD #BeAVoter
🍑She’s running for Congress in George’s 6th District and could use your help because she’s in a tight race. She’s running against the SAME NRA-backed, A-rated Republican that Jon Ossoff ran against in a runoff election in June 2017. Ossoff should have won back then.
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molly 🐶
@socialistdogmom
steve “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies” king, who has unapologetically RTed david duke, is just a few days away from tweeting out the 14 words.
y'all remember the time steve king asked what non-white people have ever contributed to civilization?

or the time steve king compared immigrants to livestock?

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