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13 Aug, 4 tweets, 3 min read
“Think about that message: If you go and die for the cause, the president will promote you as a great patriot. All in the service of Donald Trump's self-centered big lie. That he won."

From my @MSNBC opening monologue on the lionization of Ashley Babbitt:
"Babbitt was a conspiracy theorist. A devout believer in Donald Trump's election lies. A devout believer in QAnon. And it is a tragedy, a tragedy, that she lost her life for those beliefs."
"Donald Trump was impeached for inciting an insurrection... and that statement [praising Ashley Babbitt] is yet more incitement. To violence. To terror."

More from my opening monologue on @MSNBC tonight - please do watch & share:
Watch my full opening monologue on @allinwithchris, on @MSNBC earlier tonight, on how the Republican Party created a monster - from Trump to Babbitt to people threatening election officials - they can no longer control.
msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-…

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5 Aug
One of the most annoying things in this pandemic is folks on left & right only using metrics of ‘hospitalizations’ and ‘deaths’, as if that’s all that matters, as if #longcovid doesn’t exist, as if the data showing even ‘mild’ Covid cases can have cognitive effects doesn’t exist!
Some of us, rightly, sensibly, wisely, don’t want to get Covid - a brand-new disease with unknown long term consequences for the human body! - even if it won’t lead to us getting hospitalized or dying. Forgive me for having a higher bar than that.
The willful downplaying of #longcovid is both morally wrong and bonkers from a public policy perspective given the healthcare costs of tackling it in the coming years and maybe decades.
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26 Jul
So, I opened the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC last night with a monologue outlining the *five* main unanswered questions I'd like the House select committee on January 6th to get to the bottom of.

Please do watch & share:
1. Were certain GOP members of Congress involved in organizing the January 6th rally, as claimed by far-right pro-Trump activist Ali Alexander?
2. Were certain GOP members of Congress in contact with insurrectionists, or militias involved in the insurrection, and even giving them tours beforehand?
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7 Jul
To get in the mood for today:
To get more in the mood:
To get EVEN more in the mood - Barnsey rapping, Italia 90:
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10 Jun
Salams @Ed_Husain, it's been a while but I just read this and the opening sentence is pretty offensive and insulting, given there are Muslim political prisoners in Dubai and Muslims were pogromed in Delhi just last year.
thejc.com/comment/the-ev…
Also, you suggest "radical Muslims" should leave Britain if they don't like it but, per your logic, if you don't like British cities and towns like Derby or Doncaster, maybe you should be the one leaving the UK, for India or Dubai. Good luck with Modi.
thejc.com/comment/the-ev…
I'll be honest, @Ed_Husain, I'm also personally insulted by your suggestion that those of us Muslims who are republicans and democrats and not monarchists and don't 'pray' for the Queen are somehow unpatriotic or unBritish. That's BNP-type language tbh.
thejc.com/comment/the-ev…
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10 Jun
To be clear, Omar was referring to two specific ICC investigations involving the US & the Taliban in Afghanistan & Israel & Hamas in Gaza.

Maybe these House Democrats should read beyond the Fox/Daily Mail headlines & faux outrage & not help incite more hate against Omar.
House Democrats lining up to suggest their colleague @ilhanmn of supporting or giving cover for terrorist groups are not just willfully misrepresenting her remarks, but engaging in clear Islamophobic tropes and sadly helping to once again increase murderous threats against her.
Muslim Americans are fed up of constantly being accused of supporting terrorism - including by liberals and Democrats! - when they/we simply make factual points about international law or foreign policies or war crimes.

It’s cynical, dehumanizing, and, yes bigoted.
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21 May
This is the kind of crap I've been dealing with for the past 24 hours.

As a Muslim journalist, criticize Israel and you get called antisemitic.

But also as a Muslim journalist, criticize antisemitic tropes and you get called a 'sellout' and a 'Zionist apologist' etc etc.
This isn't actually that hard or complicated:

1) Criticism of Israel, a country, and/or Zionism, a political ideology, isn't in and of itself antisemitic.

2) Criticism of Israel and Zionism can sometimes be antisemitic.

Both these statements can be true.
Btw, much of the trolling & abuse I've had on here over the past 24 hours has had little to do with Israel/Palestinians. This tweet is a reminder that it's all to do with *Pakistan* & a lot of nationalists not liking anyone criticizing their government:
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