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27 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Is he ever *not* adorable?
Sweetness overload!

Dave Weigel says it was non-reporters who made the 'ooooh' sound about Biden's chocolate chip ice cream after a reporter asked him what flavor he got. I'll take his word for it, though the WH press corps does often swoon at Biden's cuteness:

They re-posted the sweet clip here, with the correct context:

Whether excessive giddiness between the press corps and a politician is (a) an important indictment of journalistic failures or (b) just a trivial objection from people who hate fun depends entirely on the party identification of the politician:

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28 May
Appellate Court Strikes Down Racial and Gender Preferences in Biden's COVID Relief Law

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This judicial ruling about the raging debates over group-based benefits vividly highlights the social, political and culture divisions driving U.S. politics.

The judge who authored the opinion, Amul Thapar, is the first-ever South Asian federal judge. His reasoning: ImageImage
The majority ruling also emphasized the bizarre, now-common aspect that racial and ethnic groups who earn the most in the US are given preferences, while groups earning less (including whites and Middle Easterners) are "sent to the back of the line" for COVID relief). Image
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25 May
Please take the time to watch this video in which Russell Brand (@rustyrockets), long associated with the left, explains why the united pre-election censorship by the corporate press and Silicon Valley of the Biden Family laptop archive was so dangerous:

Brand uses clips of the interview I did with him, but this is his 15-minute monologue -- very insightful and plain-spoken -- about why this was such a menacing event.

US media & tech giants united to bar millions of Americans from hearing this reporting before they voted.
Relatedly: this @DouthatNYT column is very smart and important. As the liberal-left gains cultural hegemony and political power, they no longer need or want anti-authoritarian theorists like Foucault. Factions that become dominant turn authoritarian:

nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opi…
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25 May
Yet another huge vindication of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and the reporting it enabled:

The European Court of Human Rights rules the mass surveillance program of GCHQ (the UK version of NSA) illegal: violating both privacy rights and press freedom.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
While the west is currently wallowing in an orgy of self-righteousness over Belarus' thuggish arrest of a dissident journalist, realize that the two people who arguably did the most to expose the truth about the US Govt -- @Snowden & Assange -- are exiled & imprisoned.
Assange and Snowden are the west's Roman Protasevich, and are treated exactly the same as Lukashenko treats him, up to and including the lawless forced landing of a Bolivian plane in order to nab Snowden. The US/UK have no moral credibility to preach.

greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-tow…
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24 May
As Anger Toward Belarus Mounts, Recall the 2013 Forced Landing of Bolivia's Plane to Find Snowden

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What Belarus did, while illegal, is not unprecedented. The dangerous tactic was pioneered by the same U.S. and E.U. officials now righteously condemning it.

At the time, EU states falsely denied that they forced the downing of Bolivia's plane, but ultimately admitted the truth.
The whole world suspected who was behind this dangerous and illegal downing of the Bolivian President's jet: the US.

In 2013, it was left to the US State Dept spokesperson -- Jen Psaki -- to answer questions. As always, she refused even basic transparency about the US role.
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21 May
The only reason Pelosi's More-Capitol-Police-Funding bill passed is because @AOC, @JamaalBowmanNY & @RashidaTlaib spent a year demanding "Defund the Police!" for everyone else, but then did what they had to (voted "present") to ensure they got more police funding for themselves:
It's one of the most cynical, opportunistic and deceitful things I've seen in awhile. Credit to @CoriBush, @IlhanMN & @AyannaPressley for voting with all GOP House members to try to stop this bill, but at least 3 Squad members ensured more police funding.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-squad-en…
DEFUND THE POLICE!

DEFUND THE POLICE!

DEFUND THE POLICE!

Oh wait. What's that? Pelosi, Schumer and the Democrats want $1.9 billion more in spending for the Capitol Policing to protect *us*?

Hell yeah. Tell us what we have to do to make that happen.
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21 May
The Squad Enables Pelosi's Massive Capitol Police Spending Bill While Cynically Feigning Opposition

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Three Squad members -- all of whom recently chanted "Defund the Police" -- all had the power to kill a $1.9 billion increase in Capitol Police and security spending.

Instead, @AOC, @JamaalBowmanNY and @RashidaTlaib ensured its passage.
Three other Squad members -- @IlhanMN, @CoriBush and @RepPressley -- joined all GOP members in voting "no." But all Squad members previously said they opposed this.

So just enough of them voted "no" to create an appearance of radical resistance while achieving nothing.
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