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@ProfDBernstein
May 1 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Don’t expect to learn from the NY Times or NPR that Mohsen Mahdawi, whose deportation has attracted very sympathetic coverage, was reported to the FBI in 2015 for bragging to a gun shop owner about killing Israeli Jews and that he loved to kill Jews. 1/2 Image
The judge downplayed this evidence because the FBI investigated and didn’t charge him, but unless he had existing plans for violence, it’s not clear what crime he committed. But it’s crazy that the FBI didn’t refer him to ICE for deportation.

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Apr 11
The flaw here is that we are talking about non-citizens. The 350 million American people doesn't include non-citizens. We have to tolerate all sorts of awful people who are our fellow citizens. We don't have to import more of them. If we take FIRE's position here literally, we would not be able to ask green card holders to take an oath as part of the naturalization process. After all, we don't ask "Americans" to take an oath, right?
Now, one could argue that we don't want to give the US government *too much* authority to exclude aliens for ideological reasons for fear the government will abuse that power. But that's different than saying that it's somehow *forbidden* by the First Amendment to in any way screen visa holders and potential immigrants, which is absurd.
EG, does any rational person think that the First Amendment prohibited the feds from deporting visa holders who started an Al Qaeda fan club on 9/12/2001?
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Apr 4
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of Berkeley Law exemplifies the paradoxes of freedom of expression in the current era. /1
He is a strong, principled, civil libertarian. Most recently drafting a letter signed by 79 law school deans denouncing attempts to punish law firms for the clients they represent. /2
But I'm reluctant to join any "free speech" campaigns led by Erwin, because it seems like in practice, his version of progressive civil libertarianism leaves no room for non-progressive voices like mine. /3
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Dec 4, 2024
I've seen many postmortems on how the public health establishment botched Covid, but none of them mentioned what I think was the most obvious error, discouraging the use of pulse oximeters. 1/
Once doctors recognized that big doses of steroids could combat Covid-induced pneumonia, it was critical for Covid sufferers to get treatment before the pneumonia had become too severe. 2/
The best way to measure this was via a pulse oximeter, a simple and inexpensive device that measures your blood oxygen levels. For the average person, the "normal" measurement is 95 or higher. 90-95 is a warning sign, and under 90 is dangerous. 3/
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Nov 20, 2024
I'm an adjunct scholar @CatoInstitute, this post, "Nonprofit Tax Code Weaponization Alert," is ridiculous Yes the proposal to give the Treasury Department broad authority to revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits that support terrorism raises civil liberty concerns. 1/

(cont.)cato.org/blog/nonprofit…
Serously? The author, Patrick Eddington, is "a senior fellow in national security and civil liberties" and is entirely unaware of, just for example, the allegations, backed by a lot more than mere assertion, of ties between Students for Justice in Palestine, American Muslims for Palestine, and Hamas? 2/ cont.Image
No awareness of the State of Virginia's investigation of these ties? No awareness of the lawsuit filed by relatives of 10/7 victims alleging such ties? 3/ cont.timesofisrael.com/virginia-order…
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Nov 13, 2024
When pieces of rope vaguely resembling nooses occasionally appear on campuses, pandemonium ensues, including cancelling classes for teach-ins and calling in the FBI. This, actual threatening behavior, is being met with a relative yawn.
Just eg. clarksvillenow.com/local/display-…
"The university has confirmed that the student acted alone in creating the noose and left it hanging in a public space for an undetermined amount of time. Although it was learned through the investigation that the student’s actions were not directed at another member of the USF community, the impact caused extraordinary distress, hurt, and fear for health, safety, and well-being. USF does not and will not tolerate actions that have such an impact, regardless of intent or underlying reasons." myusf.usfca.edu/announcement/o…
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Nov 10, 2024
The JStreet poll of American Jewish voters, a thread. Topline result: 79% of American Jews voting for Biden according to JStreet's 2020 poll, 71% for Harris. So there was a significant, but not huge, decline in support for the Democratic candidate.
jstreet.org/wp-content/upl…
The poll's survey sample skews a bit to the left. The pollster purports to match the population to Pew's 2013 sample, but that 2013 sample had 10% Orthodox (the most-right leaning constituency) and 20% Jews, but not by religion (the most left-leaning). JStreet has 8% and 24%, respectively.
Relatedly, in using the Pew methodology, JStreet includes people with extremely tenuous ties to Jewishness, eg atheists with one Jewish parent who call themselves 'half-Jewish' but were neither raised Jewish nor participate in Jewish life. By contrast, the polls from Fox and NBC, showing a bit higher Jewish vote for Trump, include only people who say their *religion* is Judaism, which is a more right-leaning sample.
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