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Ari Melber
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It's Sunday so let's have some real talk ok?
Avocado & tomato are consistently two of the most popular "vegetables" out there. You see them in the vegetable aisle & dominating vegetable roles in salads, sandwiches & wherever vegetables are at. Yet we *all* know they are fruits. Why not put them back in the fruit category?
How is putting avocado and tomato on bread *any different* than smearing peach and strawberry on bread? Oh, but that's not a healthy sandwich? These norms are arbitrary, and worse, probably stultifying.
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Ari Melber
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Some are missing this:

Mueller followed DOJ rules barring presidential indictment, but he *did* include factual conclusions about obstruction.

The Report lists 11 key incidents analyzed as potential obstruction by Trump...
Some end with Mueller giving Trump the benefit of the doubt:

Mueller concludes the Comey firing may *not* be obstruction because the “evidence does not resolve” whether Trump’s “real reason” for the firing was corrupt or not....
Others end with Mueller *detailing* the case against Trump:

Mueller concludes Trump’s demand that Sessions take the probe over & prosecute Clinton was for the illicit “purpose” of restricting the probe and to “shield the President” from the investigation.

That’s obstruction.
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Ari Melber
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Seeing some incorrect reports that Mueller found Trump's obstruction "failed" because staff resisted - no.

Mueller wrote some of Trump's goals did not "succeed," like having Mueller fired, which is distinct from whether obstruction of justice occurred, as a legal matter.
Admittedly a technical analytical point, but a real distinction.
See, eg, p 12 sec 2
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Ari Melber
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New: Barr was wrong, Mueller Report states DOJ rules don't allow indicting President so, as policy:

The Mueller probe avoided any approach that would "result in a judgment the President committed crimes."
Barr letter wrongly claimed Mueller Report "leaves it to the Attorney General" to determine whether Trump committed a crime

Today we see that is *not* what Mueller Report says

It states DOJ does not allow that - not for Mueller, not for AG- and thus the Report details evidence.
Mueller explicitly says as a matter of DOJ rules, "no charges can be brought" against POTUS.

No charges possible means no charges possible, not by Mueller or by Barr.

So Barr's letter was incorrect in its depiction of Mueller. (Barr can reach his own separate views.)
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Antisemitism serves different roles depending on who's pushing it out. the point of anti-Jewish oppression is to keep a Jewish face in front, so that Jews, instead of ruling classes, become the target for peoples’ rage, it works even more smoothly when Jews are allowed some success, and can be perceived as the ones “in charge” by other oppressed groups.” --April Rosenblum, The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere (2007)
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YUP

One of the farmers straight-up told @RyanLizza "if they were legal we'd have to pay them more."

If you're confused on why farmers keep voting for bad immigration policy (even though they swear they "don't agree,") that's it right there.
To your face they'll say oh, it's just so terrible that ICE is doing raids!

But if it weren't for threat of deportation, farmworkers would actually be able to fight for higher pay.

Deep down, farmers know this. If you watch what they DO, instead of what they say, that's clear.
They know their biz model can't survive w/o threat of deportation. So instead of fixing their biz model, they vote for ICE raids.

Then they cringe and fuss about how dreadful it all is.

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