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Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I didn’t have room to get into it here, but while the main target of this “crack pipe” thing is def white suburbanites, there’s something about yelling “THE GOV'T WANTS PEOPLE SMOKING CRACK” that speaks to long-standing conspiracies in Black communities

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
So in highlighting the ‘equity’ part of the HHS harm reduction grant, the GOP and Fox News get a twofer!

- Biden is wasting money on Black drug addicts
- Biden wants Black people to be drug addicts

Truly, what a perfect storm of a nontroversy

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…
In any case, I’m almost glad this blew up on the right because I learned a lot about harm reduction principles in the process of looking into it, including why safe smoking kits definitely deserve funding

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-… Screenshot: "The kits ...Screenshot: "The use o...
(shoutout to @DrugPolicyOrg in particular for their explanation of why safer smoking kits make sense contra the noise being made over it)

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Feb 13
Riddle me this: how is the US saying “Russia better not invade Ukraine” a case of being -for- war? It feels like for some people trying to avert a war counts as warmongering and I really don’t get it.
NATO members haven’t issued “deterrent sanctions” that some hawks are calling for

US intel that’s made it into reports has all been about the things that Moscow -wants- to pull, neutralizing potential Russian pretexts

Ukraine isn’t gonna invade Russia, so what am I missing?
I’m just saying, there are some gaps in the logic here to get to “the US is spinning the media into a war between Russia and Ukraine”
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Jan 11
[screams into the abyss]
Sinema concluded her remarks by "urging other senators to contact her if they wanted to discuss the issue further.” And I would love to be a fly on the wall for one of those meetings. Or maybe present at one of those meetings. I could make charts.
"Manchin and Sinema need to let legislation live or die by the majority's will. If they truly want bipartisanship to have its day again, they need to be unafraid to let bills come to final votes, even if they find themselves voting with the minority.”

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Jan 10
It. Has. Not. Been. Tradition. The. Whole. Time. You. Dink.
The filibuster is a mistake of the rewritten rules, which deleted the rule for “previous question,” a loophole exploited by the Southern slaveholding class and later the Dixiecrats. That is the history of the filibuster.
The idea that the Senate rules were built around — where the esteemed gentlemen of the Senate will just cordially decide to have a majority vote once debate is naturally exhausted — is not anywhere close to reality
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Jan 10
You know how you can register to vote at the DMV? Mitch McConnell fought against that bill in 1992, calling it a “solution in search of a problem.”

He’s saying the exact same thing now about Dem bills making it easier to vote

msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-…
From 1992, again on the National Voter Registration Act: "Republicans, who twice in the last year used the threat of a filibuster to block the measure from coming to the floor, say the bill will encourage vote fraud.”

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McConnell DID say a lot of good things about the Voting Rights Act — before the Supreme Court gutted it. This was him in 2004, arguing for making DOJ preclearance permanent instead of needing reauthorization

msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-… Screenshot: "Republican Sens. Bill Frist of Tennessee,
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Sep 29, 2021
SCREAM.

msnbc.com/opinion/sinema…
TO REPEAT MYSELF: “We should understand this effort as plastering the veneer of technocracy onto her already shallow version of moderation, where aesthetics are more important than policy.”

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When I wrote this I considered the potential that it’d turn out Sinema has PLENTY of specifics and policy ideas! Or that she’d use the technocracy as a cover for caving to leadership’s plans! But no. She still has no idea what she actually wants except “big number get smaller"
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Sep 28, 2021
New from me: I wrote on the most benignly weird thing that we’ve learned about the Trump era to date — WH staff using the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber to calm down the former president’s rages — and why it makes perfect sense

msnbc.com/opinion/trump-…
Come for the AMAZING art from @chelseastahl, stay for my extremely on-brand discussion of the Trump-ALW overlap

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"Everything is overwrought” in a Webber hit. "If there isn’t a parade of dancing cats following the loosest plot heretofore discovered by man, there’s an entire chandelier crashing on stage, and a legion of exhausted first sopranos strewn in his wake.”

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