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30 May, 6 tweets, 3 min read
1) This is not a bad provision, guys. If you can prove that there were 10K illegal votes in an election won by 9K, you SHOULD be able to void the election

2) That's how most states do it already

3) The proof issues for Trump weren't "how individual voters voted
Judd Legum is freaking out, and more importantly freaking his readers out, but he's dead wrong. This is EXACTLY the standard that got Trump suits tossed in Georgia and Pennsylvania and Arizona and ...
It's not unprecedented. It's not radical. I'm not sure what else is in the bill, and judging by history I'm sure it's got other objectionable provisions, but this isn't one of them. Judd, how do you imagine anyone could ever prove how individuals voted?

Oh, hey, yes, plenty of other bad stuff for the opposition votes to hang on. "You don't have to pierce the secrecy of the secret ballot to prove an election fraud case" isn't one of them.

That said, "drive through voting" is not going to be a needed thing in 3 years, please God. It was a pandemic only thing.

The rest of this is voter suppression 101
So of course @JuddLegum will be focusing left-wing fire at the most defensible and rational part of the bill.

Of course.

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28 May
When you absolutely, fundamentally, and enthusiastically refuse to understand Jewish history.

It's not bigotry. It's not particularly specific to Palestinians, or Arabs.

It's 2000 years of persecutions, expulsions, and murders conducted under the auspices of gentile governments
We're done with that. We're not going back to that. And if the best you can offer is "that won't happen this time" or "the world won't let it happen again" ...

Tell that to the Uighurs. And Yazidi. And Darfuri. And Tutsi. And ...
Oops, skipped the Rohingya. My bad.

You get the point.
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13 May
People don't seem to understand that you can AND SHOULD stand with innocents under fire no matter what you think of their government.
And if you're going to respond to this by posting a video of something you're mad at the IDF for doing, YOU are the problem
And if you're going to respond to this by talking about how Hamas deserves it YOU are the problem
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28 Apr
So let's talk about this Idaho law, because this is not at all a fair description of it. Not even in the stretchiest sense.

In fact, the law is ... not terrible. It won't actually do what it's intended to do (bar schools from exploring & teaching critical race theory). Read it
Here's the full text, it's really short
Note: Nothing in there, AT ALL, about "no teaching that past racism or sexism is responsible for anything"

Let's take it section by section
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13 Apr
Did Chauvin's defense attorney just elicit testimony from his own expert that a suspect who is prone and face down on the ground is LESS of a threat than in any other position?
Claims keeping him on the ground is "not a use of force" and was just "keeping him under control" ... holy shit.
Backed away from this on cross as though shot out of a cannon: If Floyd was feeling pain as a result of it, then it's a use of force
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24 Mar
He does.

But there's also a whole history of women being believed when they falsely accuse Black men of misconduct that also exists, and needs to be reckoned with as well. Bottom line - let the process play out. But it does not look good for him.
When the first accusation came out, I suggested people ought to hold their opinions for more info. With the sheer number of accusations, in similar situations, and with at least some corroborating details of him actually communicating with them ... I lean toward "it's true"
I mean, it's either that or Watson has the remarkable bad luck of having randomly selected evil people willing to lie about him for money as his non-team-provided masseurs. Which would be weird. So my #Jets should stay away. But ...
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23 Mar
It's worth unpacking *EXACTLY* how screwed up Beinart's perspective here is.

He is a proponent of a "one state solution" - the end of Israel as a Jewish state. 1
He was invited to give a talk in a lecture series typically sponsored by the local Jewish federation and other strong supporters of the 2 state solution. Without notice to those entities, VCU simply listed them as sponsors. Of a talk whose views they oppose. 2
Unsurprisingly, they reached out to VCU and said "we don't support this person's views and don't want to be associated with them. We won't be sponsoring his speech unless a contrary view is presented. Take us off the list." 3
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