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19 Feb
1/ On the 25th Anniversary of @democracynow I will share one of my favorite memories: being Amy Goodman's producer on election day 2000 when she interviewed President Bill Clinton, who called into WBAI for what he thought would be a routine GOTV call. democracynow.org/2000/11/8/demo…
2/ I was in grad school, living in NYC, and had run out of money. I owed Amy a few huge favors after breaking a $1200 digital tape recorder of hers, and ran into her on election eve, telling her if she ever needed a producer I could help. She said "can you come in tomorrow?"
3/ I came in the next day and was given curt instructions: cut and paste headlines for Amy to read at the start of the show, keep my head down, and don't screw anything up. We literally cut the daily papers and taped headlines together, writing intros and transitions.
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18 Feb
1/5 So 17 years ago I was living in a house in cooperative in Chicago with 18 of my closest friends. It happened to be international pancake day, and the famous Dr. Patch Adams was in town. Some of my housemates knew him and went downtown and clowned with him all day long.
2/5 They had said they would be coming back at night, and we were wondering what to do to make the visit of Patch Adams special. One of my housemates noticed it was international pancake day, so we decided to hold a pancake Olympiad that night.
3/5 We spent several hours making hundreds of pancakes, told our friends, about 40 of whom showed up. We waited until around midnight when Patch and my housemates came back. Patch Adams walks in at 12am, sees dozens of people and hundreds of pancakes and was like, no big deal.
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8 Jan
1/4 The issuing of a State Department Dissent Cable directed directly at the US government itself is, to my knowledge, unprecedented. The Dissent Channel was created in 1971 to give diplomats the ability to voice unpopular views about US policy elsewhere without retaliation.
2/4 Here is the full text of the cable itself.
3/4 @lizzyshackelfor, a former diplomat who resigned in protest in 2017, has written a definitive history of the dissent channel in an important book: publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/elizabe…
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7 Jan
Lou Dobbs referring to “enthusiastic Trump supporters who tried to gain entry to the Capitol,” but says it’s basically Antifa who did all of the bad things. Image
Calls this a “rare and tragic exception” to Trump supporters normally peaceful and nonviolent nature. John Solomon, his guest, calls them patriotic, loving Americans. They have no idea how to cover this.
Now Dobbs is denouncing teachers and other representatives of socialism, while he and his guest discuss how to meet the grievances of the armed thugs who stormed the Capitol.
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10 Dec 20
1/11 A short thread on the US and Western Sahara, which Donald Trump has never heard of and could never have found on a map until one of his advisers showed him. Morocco and Mauritania invaded Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara) in 1975: un.org/Depts/Cartogra…
2/11 After Spanish dictator Franco stepped down in 1974, Spain began decolonizing Spanish Sahara. Morocco and Mauritania both threatened to invade. They rejected self-determination for its mostly nomadic, indigenous people, and coveted it resources, especially phosphate.
3/11 The US also rejected self-determination for Western Sahara. Henry Kissinger told Algerian officials in late 1974 "I want it to go away! I can’t get excited about 40,000 people who probably don’t know they’re living in Spanish Sahara." Read more here: history.state.gov/historicaldocu…
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8 Dec 20
1/10 If the Pentagon Budget were a country it would rank 20th in terms of world GDP, right behind Saudi Arabia and ahead of Switzerland and 191 other countries. worldpopulationreview.com/countries/coun…
2/10 Focusing on the connections between the latest Def Sect nominee and military contractors misses the forest for the trees. The US has had a political economy of war since 1950, with bases and military contractors in every one of 435 Congressional districts.
3/10 Any serious discussion about ending US militarism, as @mbrenes1 new book shows, must envision a reorganization of the US economy, and not just an end to Forever War, overseas base closures or troop redeployments. umasspress.com/9781625345219/…
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