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20 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I love how people think this is some great ‘own’ or ‘gotcha’ of my tweet.

So Obama being the first black president wasn’t worth celebrating even though he droned innocents?

Or is the new rule that only south Asians should never acknowledge their heritage or achievements?
Pretty sure I’ll be holding this administration to account on foreign policy more than most of the armchair generals on Twitter, but it doesn’t mean I can’t also acknowledge history and culture today.

Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Others just want to pose.
But apparently acknowledging that something historic happened today, and that the new Vice President of America eats idlis, now means I support drone strikes.

Hey, who knew?

You got me!

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16 Jan
*THREAD*
Last night, on the @MehdiHasanShow, I gave my top 5 reasons why I believe the far right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11.

At number 5:

Al Qaeda didn't have cable news channels endorsing its world view.
At number 4:

Al Qaeda didn't have the president of the United States or his daughter inciting them, or praising them during the attacks as "special people" and "American Patriots":
At number 3:

Al Qaeda wasn't umbilically connected to the U.S. conservative moment and the GOP; didn't have sympathizers in the House GOP caucus who spoke at its rallies and offered cover for them.
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16 Jan
I see the @KellyannePolls rehabilitation tour continues, with the aid of @RealTimers and @billmaher tonight.

Some of the audience cheered her entrance.

A 12-minute interview in which Maher mentioned the close to 400,000 dead Americans on her and her boss's watch... zero times.
Bill Maher, interviewing Kellyanne Conway tonight, didn't bring up any of her 100s of lies from the past 4 years.

He did however wish her a happy birthday, thanked her for picking him, and he thanked Trump for (defying international law) and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Clarification: I missed this, but this did happen *in passing* but doesn't count as an actual Covid question or holding of account:

Conway: “I mean, you can’t deny that many people are better off.”

Maher: “Well, they’re not better off now! A lot of them are dead.”
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12 Jan
"Too many in the media bottled it. At some point we have to own this. Donald Trump and his mob succeeded in getting this far because we, the media, failed. We failed you."

I have been waiting four long years to say this. It's important.

Pls watch/share:
"Many of us in the media have rightly been rightly slamming Republicans..for enabling the worst excesses of Trump. What we haven't done is taken a long hard look at ourselves, our own role in enabling him."

My mini-rant on the #mediafail of the Trump era:
"The sad reality is that a lot of black and brown voices in the media...we were calling out Trump long before others...and without much support from our peers...the U.S. media has been too white, for too long."

My mini-rant on the @MehdiHasanShow tonight:
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4 Jan
From trump's opening lines, very first remarks, in the 1-hour call is this

"We won very substantially in Georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. We’d be getting 25-30,000 people a rally, and the competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense."

Lol.
"You know, every single state, we won every state. We won every statehouse in the country. We held the Senate, which is shocking to people," Trump says on the call, not realizing how much this undermines his own argument of rigging by the Dems.
It's kinda astonishing just how many times Trump does his 'people are saying' 'people tell me' BS routine to Raffensperger on the call. Someone who
s been in as many court cases, on both sides, as Trump still doesn't get his unnamed 'people say' literally has no value whatsoever?
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2 Jan
If you don’t love @CobraKaiSeries, I can’t be friends with you.
Also, aside from all the dudes from the 80s exchanging kicks, @HenggelerCourt is great in it, too. Just every role is so perfectly cast.
Just finished @CobraKaiSeries on @netflix. So, so, good.

I spent the entire last episode with either my hands over my mouth or WHOOPING loudly at the TV.

That end scene. That Kreese backstory. The Phil Collins 'air tonight' drums.

Perfection. I feel like a kid again.
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1 Jan
I have to say that I’m only two episodes into the new season of @CobraKaiSeries but @WilliamZabka is, once again, hilarious. Forget the karate, his comedic timing is superb.
The John Kreese backstory is good, too
Watching Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso in the mechanic’s properly brought back memories of my childhood in the 80s. So soon after the Mandalorian finale, I feel utterly nostalgic and utterly spoiled. :-)
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