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17 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is crazy. He knows that Putin wants him dead and that he is likely to be arrested as soon as he lands. The media attention might keep him alive for a little, but this still seems unwise.
Navalny is now at the airport giving a statement. Starts by apologizing to the passengers on the flight and at the airport for Russian authorities shutting things down to prepare for the flight's arrival. He says that this is his best day in 5 months & he's not afraid.
Navalny is now at passport control, but the authorities at the airport are trying to take him away and separate him from his wife. Someone who I believe is his attorney is pointing out to them that she has all the necessary documents. He says goodbye to his wife & goes w them.
In the extended video of Navalny being detained below you can hear him pleading with the cops to let his lawyer go with him. They refuse.

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17 Jan
These people weren't murdered. They were legally executed after convictions for horrendous crimes, being sentenced to the death penalty, and going through countless appeals.
You can oppose the death penalty as a punishment without pretending that the people executed were victims or that carrying out those executions is comparable to murder.
As an example: Daniel Lee was a white supremacist who murdered a family (including an 8-year-old girl) by suffocating them with bags and then dumping their bodies in a swamp.

That's whose name @CoriBush wants you to remember.
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AOC is clearly a dishonest demagogue so this stuff from her isn’t surprising. It’s far more concerning that alleged reporters promote this dangerous nonsense without any pushback.
The worst one out of those is smearing Capitol Hill police that risked their lives fighting off a much bigger mob to protect her and her colleagues.
I wrote about this awful smear/conspiracy theory in this week's AG report.

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The people who make minimum wage are those that have yet to develop skills that would make sense to pay them a much higher wage.

When you increase it significantly, you reduce the number of jobs & price them out of the market so they never have a chance to develop those skills.
So the high school student or someone without the right educational credentials is far more likely to end up without a job or a job where their potential for growth is much more limited. Some people will get around this by working for free, but others can't make that choice.
When my family first came to America, my parents each worked several jobs at around the minimum wage. They obviously worked for more than 40 hours a week, but those experiences allowed them to provide for our family while also developing needed language skills for the future.
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A very good point. The argument is nog longer whether what Trump did is defensible, but whether he should face any consequences for it. Hard to take people seriously when they insist the answer is no, but then want to punish others for lesser or non-existent offenses.
If you want to unify, then everyone should unify against Trump. Including Trump voters. What he did was a betrayal to the country and indefensible on any sane level. Regardless of specifics regarding punishment, that's the path forward.
As I've always said, noting hypocrisy and trying to hold others accountable is not wrong and is not whataboutism. But that differentiation depends on a willingness to actually also call out bad behavior on your own side. That's where it has to start.
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He doesn't have success!

He got 74 million bc of huge increase in voter access, which was only 47% of the vote. He lost by 7 m voters to Biden (& even the least likable Dem nominee in recent history got 5M more votes than him). He lost the race to a guy that barely campaigned.
You can take some policy and arguments from him to appeal to some of the new voters he brought in (though many were simply alienated by Dems move to the far left), but he as a person is toxic to any future electoral success.
And most of his voters, except for a very small minority of cultists, will have no issue with that once they realize he's a loser politician that threw them under the bus. And obsessing just about keeping those cultists will cost you the rest.
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People need to understand how conspiracies become mainstreamed. All it takes is someone with a platform and trusted audience to tell them it's true.

That's all it takes for good people to believe it. Those who spread that conspiracy are betraying the people who trust them.
An example: my parents asked me if there was any truth to the claims that the election was stolen via massive voter fraud. I told them there wasn't.

As they trust me, they no longer believed it. But most Trump supporters didn't have anyone they trust telling them the truth.
Part of that is because the press had no credibility with those people (& that lack of credibility was earned). The other part of it is that many of the people who did instead promoted, or at least ignored, those lies.
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