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19 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Nice try “Congressman” but...

“‘I Thought I Was Going to Die.' How Donald Trump’s Immigration Agenda Set Back the Clock on Fighting Human Trafficking”

time.com/5905437/human-…
As for ‘Remain in Mexico’, from @hrw:

“Asylum seekers swept up in the MPP program face kidnapping, sexual assault, exploitation, lack of basic necessities, abuse and other dangers in Mexico”

hrw.org/news/2020/01/2…
Also, remember when @PolitiFact rated your claims on asylum seekers as “false”? Not sure you have much credibility on this issue, “Congressman”:

politifact.com/factchecks/201…
Finally, @DanCrenshawTX, while I have your attention: why did you trade in stocks at the start of the pandemic and then not mention them in your annual disclosure or within 45 days, in violation of the law?

thedailybeast.com/texas-rep-dan-…
Last but not least, @DanCrenshawTX, you’re welcome to come on my @MSNBC or @peacockTV shows and talk/debate immigration with me. If that is, you’re up for it.

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22 Mar
Me: "Since the pandemic... border apprehensions have gone up month after month. Joe Biden did not inherit falling numbers."
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't know where you're getting figures from."
Me: "Those are CBP numbers."

Watch our exchange on @MSNBC:
On @MSNBC tonight, I asked GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw why he said on Fox, twice, that Biden has been telling migrants "we're not gonna deport you," given 72% of migrants apprehended at the border in Feb were expelled straight away.

Watch his, ahem, response:
Me: "Do you know many migrants were sent to Honduras & El Salvador under what you call 'very important' Asylum Cooperation Agreements?"
Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't have the numbers."
Me: "Roughly?"
Crenshaw: "I don't have that data on me."
Me: "Zero."
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10 Mar
Yes, the UK’s Ofcom has more regulatory power than the USA’s FCC; no, Ofcom is not ‘the government’.

Also, worth noting that the FCC has investigated and fined everyone from Howard Stern to CBS for Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’.
Also, until 1987, the FCC enforced the Fairness Doctrine, backed by the courts: “In 1969 the United States Supreme Court, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, upheld the FCC's general right to enforce the fairness doctrine where channels were limited.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairn…
But @jaketapper is right to highlight the very different media regulatory - and cultural! - environments in the US and UK media right now.

I just personally think it’s more complicated than ‘freedom’ or ‘First Amendment’.
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19 Feb
"This [Texas] disaster, this crisis, has helped to reveal that, these days, the United States is less superpower & more failed state. That's what we'd call another country going through what we're going through."

From my @MehdiHasanShow monologue tonight:
"Is [American] exceptionalism that we are now exceptionally bad at handling crises? Exceptionally inept when it comes to basic governance?"

My 'failed state' opening monologue, on the Texas crisis and beyond, from the start of the @MehdiHasanShow tonight:
Impeachment. Insurrection. Half a million Covid deaths. Lack of universal healthcare. Mass shootings. Crumbling bridges. Shoddy roads.

Is America a failed state?

My post-Texas opening monologue tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow:
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20 Jan
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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