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26 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Wow — moderator asks Va. LG candidate @Sam_Rasoul about his reliance Muslim donors from out of state (before adding that there’s nothing wrong with that).

“Can you assure Virginians that if you’re elected, you’ll represent all of them regardless of faith or beliefs?”
Rasoul is Virginia’s first Muslim lawmaker and if elected, would become the highest-ranking Palestinian-American in the country ...
... I broke news of @ewarren endorsing Rasoul a few weeks ago: huffpost.com/entry/elizabet…
... And more recently got the Post endorsement: washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-p…

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21 May
I re-booted my 2018 piece about George H.W. Bush's showdown with Israel in 1991. It now has updates for the current situation and quotes from @JoelMartinRubin, @jjz1600, @YousefMunayyer, and @_waleedshahid.

huffpost.com/entry/george-h…
First, the details of the story (originally reported out with help from @DanKurtzer and others):
--Bush secured Arab support for the first Gulf War, which ended Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, in part through assurances he'd also end Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands
Other key factors for what occurred:
--The Cold War had ended, and the U.S. was the sole superpower
--Israel needed massive loans to absorb ~1 million new immigrants from the former Soviet Union
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21 May
.@liamstack has a very interesting look at how Andrew Yang locked up the support of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn (and mainly the ultra-Orthodox or Haredi community).

nytimes.com/2021/05/21/nyr…
It was mainly his promise to take a hands-off approach to yeshivas.

Advocates comprised of people schooled in Haredi/Hasidic yeshivas, but often no longer in the fold, got the city to investigate the adequacy of the secular education.
The city has found a lack of adequate secular education at 26 out of 28 schools investigated.

Haredi leaders point out that that's a tiny fraction of all yeshivas and argue that failing public schools don't get the same scrutiny.
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15 Apr
Scoop: Democratic Reps. Jimmy Gomez (Calif.) and Veronica Escobar (Texas) used a DCCC-sponsored call with donors to seek help fending off progressive challengers. huffpost.com/entry/house-de… via @HuffPostPol
This was a call for Frontline members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Reps. Mike Levin, Charles Gonzalez and Antonio Delgado fit that description.

Gomez and Escobar do not. dccc.org/dccc-announces…
But thanks to California's top-two, nonpartisan primary system, Gomez came within 6 points of losing to a left-wing lawyer, David Kim, in the general: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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14 Apr
New: Rana Abdelhamid, a progressive activist and founder of a women's self-defense group, is challenging Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) from the left. huffpost.com/entry/rana-abd… via @HuffPostPol
Abdelhamid, an Astoria, Queens, native, told me that the pandemic exposed inequities she's experienced her whole life.

“It’s time for ... a representative who will fight for all of us ― not just certain groups or certain neighborhoods.”
Abdelhamid had to move six times as a kid due to rising rents and her dad had to give up on a deli he owned for the same reason. Her mother was hospitalized with COVID.

She wants to focus on housing. "It’s an issue that impacts gender justice, racial justice, climate justice." Image
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11 Apr
New for @HuffPost: How New York progressives raised taxes on the rich to up public school funding, provide emergency rental assistance, and give unemployment benefits to undocumented immigrants.

It took a decade to defy Cuomo's opposition to tax hikes: huffpost.com/entry/new-york…
This story is a sequel to my January piece looking at the comparatively conservative fiscal policy of blue states in contrast with their leaders' rhetoric.

At the time, Cuomo was holding the line against tax hikes: huffpost.com/entry/budget-c…
How much has Cuomo been forced to change his tune since first taking office in 2011?

Back then, he compared his insistence on letting a millionaire's tax expire, despite the tax's popularity, to his father's principled opposition to the death penalty: nytimes.com/2011/10/18/nyr…
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9 Apr
Yes, @EricLevitz, looking at the source material now, it was a debate over whether the Brooklyn Commons, a private venue, should host an anti-semite. Nathan makes all the maximalist free-speech arguments I still believe in ...
... The public square now consists largely of private spaces, so even if constitutional, encouraging professed open fora to pick and choose is harmful; who gives authority to censors; nothing to be feared from bad ideas; good speech defeats bad. currentaffairs.org/2016/09/let-th… ImageImageImage
Nathan's free to change his opinions. But there's a lack of self-awareness in going from lamenting his firing from The Guardian -- and mobilizing colleagues against it -- to poo-pooing Substack's openness ... without acknowledging the parallels to Brooklyn Commons. Image
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