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1. Some very smart people, notably @michelleinbklyn & @mattyglesias, have been calling for protest movements to support the cause of impeachment. An in fact, groups like Indivisible are pushing for an Impeachment Eve marches. But worth thinking about the goal here.
2. As @dana_fisher has shown in her research on anti-Trump protests, the big marches of Trump era have been sparked by outrage at specific things (Trump's election, immigration, attempted ACA repeal). With impeachment, outrage should be about GOP as much as Trump
3. There's been a certain tampering down of protests after the first big one, the woman's march. But impeachment offers an occasion to recharge protest efforts under an umbrella that brings together disparate grounds for outrage.
4. House Democrats are pursuing a narrow impeachment strategy but protest movement doesn't have to: protesters can (and should) bring up wider case against Trump. And also focus pressure on Senate GOP. More thoughts here: thenation.com/article/impeac…
5. Correction: the scholar of Trump protests (and author of the fine book American Resistance) is @Fisher_DanaR
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This @AdamSerwer survey of the 1619 is, as one would expect, very fair minded, informed, and accurate theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
One thing I noticed was the letter written by Wilentz and co was cc'd to all the top NY Times editors and the publisher. This is some prime "let me talk to your manager" bullshit. I hate this sort of big footing intervention.
In the @AdamSerwer, Sean Wilentz is quoted as saying the Dunning School was “not a white point of view; it’s a southern, racist point of view.” William Dunning was born in New Jersey, taught at Columbia University & his ideas were echoed in textbooks all over USA
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1. If you are looking for a nifty little Christmas gift for a reader, I'd recommend The Sayings of Jesus by Guy Davenport & Benjamin Urrutia -- a feat of translation so daring it amounts to creativity counterpointpress.com/dd-product/the…
2. The Sayings of Jesus gives us Jesus as earliest followers knew him, not contextualized by the gospels but as the sayer of memorable aphorisms which passed word of mouth: "What goes into your mouth cannot defile you, but what comes out can."
3. "Beware of scholars who like to wear fancy clothes." Good advice. I often think about this with regard to Allan Bloom.
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I would also like to see the text. Based on the NY Times summary, it does seem to go far beyond Obama-era guidelines which were pretty careful about constitutional protection of speech.
Here's the text of Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism & Title VI. I leave it to the legal experts to settle this, but I think the Times article gave the wrong impression about how significant this is. jewishinsider.com/2019/12/exclus…
The key thing here is that anti-Semitism was already covered by Title VI (thanks to earlier Obama executive order). This new executive order seems more superfluous than anything else.
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A note on #impeachment #Ukraine

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Very curious & incredibly coincidental that Rep. Justin Amash is 1st #Republican to call 4 #impeachment and represents the district in Michigan that includes Spectrum Health and the DeVos family. Remember the weird Trump-Alfa Bank comms #countryoverparty
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Vigorous #impeachment discussion yesterday between polls and elections expert @NateSilver538 (con) and former Harry Reid person @AJentleson (pro). The subject is worth a thread.
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3...will do mortal damage to American democracy if tolerated. Not proceeding toward impeachment proceedings means tolerating all of these things, though it is possible to deceive oneself on that point. The political argument @NateSilver538 makes is about American voters.
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Democrat Beto O'Rourke lies a lot right here:

-Trump said “we have an 'infestation' of MS-13 gangs in certain parts of our country”
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In this article, @Sulliview argues that "talk of impeachment, all-but-taboo in Big Media’s coverage of Trump, [has] moved from the margins into the mainstream." She attributes that development mainly to a prominent essay in @TheAtlantic. That's not right. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
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1. Westchester politics thread. Pay attention regional and national political reporters, because it's about White House too.
2. Meet @GeorgeLatimer37 - who won the Democratic primary for county executive yesterday. George is a State Senator and nice guy.
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