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Apr 16, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEW — The Trump State Dept. is using the *same language* Columbia used to smear & punish the school's Students for Justice in Palestine & Jewish Voice for Peace groups (for a protest Mohsen Mahdawi condemned an antisemitic disruptor at) to *now* justify deporting him.

Read on —> So, State Dept cites alleged “threatening rhetoric and intimidation" as reason to deport Mohsen, without elaborating.

The phrase doesn’t show up much…except by *Columbia itself* when it suspended JVP & SJP after a Nov '23 rally where *Mohsen* shut down an antisemitic disruptor. Image
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Jul 14, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
FBI officially identifies shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
Voter records show Crooks was a registered Republican who made one singular $15 donation to a liberal PAC on January 20, 2021 — Biden’s Inauguration Day.
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Feb 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Wow—Girl scouts wanted to make bracelets to help aid Palestinian kids. @girlscouts leadership threatened them, saying they must "stay neutral."
After it was pointed out there've been similar efforts for Ukraine, they pivoted, saying the troop didn't follow "approval processes":
Image Sure, the Girl Scout troop may not have followed standard processes when they began their fundraising project for Palestinian kids.
But to immediately threaten legal action against a bunch of scouts & their parents — instead of just helping them do those processes — is appalling.
Feb 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
AP's Matt Lee: What leverage is US using?

State Dept spox Matt Miller: "The words of the President…matter"

Lee: "Over the top?' That's leverage?"

(2 days after Biden called Israel's behavior "over the top," it attacked the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians—killing 90+)
Feb 9, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: The Biden administration has issued a memo requiring foreign governments assure they won’t violate human rights with US weapons. The memo also affirms the “Leahy Law” which bars US military aid being used to violate human rights.

Memo applies to states in ongoing conflicts. Image For states in an “active armed conflict” in which U.S. weapons are being used, they will have 45 days to issue their assurances of not violating human rights.

If those appropriate assurances are not sent by the deadline, the transfer of weapons will be paused. Image
Jan 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
210 bipartisan members of Congress wrote to Antony Blinken, expressing their "disgust" at South Africa’s suit accusing Israel of genocide.

They praise WH spokesperson John Kirby calling the case "meritless, counterproductive, and completely without basis in fact whatsoever." Image
Jan 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Q: Do you condemn Netanyahu using the phrase “from the river to the sea”?

White House spokesman John Kirby: We don’t recommend using the phrase because it’s connotation with Hamas

Q: But this wasn’t Hamas, it was Netanyahu

Kirby: I understand–I don’t have anything more on that
Oct 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Nearly 300 former Bernie Sanders staffers are calling for him to support a ceasefire.

"You taught us to always speak the truth, and to be on the right side of history, even when it is lonely and especially when it is difficult."

w/ @ryangrim:
theintercept.com/2023/10/24/ber… @ryangrim "…we write to you today, fighting for those we do not know, as well as those we love who are literally trapped in the crosshairs," the Bernie Sanders staffers wrote.

"If not now, when? If not you and us, then who? We believe in you. We have your back."
theintercept.com/2023/10/24/ber…
Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Left: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after signing a law that guarantees free breakfast and lunch to all public school students

Right: Republicans' 2024 agenda, which prioritizes...stopping schools from giving free meals to all public school students
newrepublic.com/post/173668/re… ImageImage …and it's all part of an effort to also:
–Cut Social Security + Medicare
–Make Trump’s tax cuts for the top 1 percent permanent
–Impose work requirements on *all* benefit programs like food stamps + Medicare
–Extend work requirements on people aged 55-64
newrepublic.com/post/173668/re…
Jun 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Residents filed over 30 separate lawsuits against Norfolk Southern for its disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

And last night, the railroad giant moved to dismiss these cases, essentially arguing that the derailment wasn't their fault.
newrepublic.com/post/173224/no… Norfolk Southern's legal team argued that the claims against the company “would unreasonably burden railroad transportation" since it's already regulated.

In other words, how could Norfolk Southern be responsible when industry "regulation" already exists?
newrepublic.com/post/173224/no…
Jun 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Elon Musk isn't a free speech warrior fighting the "Elites." He is one!

He bows to India + Turkey & promotes content that punches down.

You won't see Musk boost content challenging fossil fuel or weapon companies the same way he does anti-trans content.
newrepublic.com/post/173184/el… Food for thought for you or any people in your life who feel strongly or are ambivalent of Musk, and this “free speech” discourse generally

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May 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump:
–Impeached twice
–Lost popular vote twice
–First ever criminally indicted president
–Convicted sexual abuser
–Faces numerous investigations into his efforts to overthrow democracy

…and CNN is hosting an exclusive town hall with him tomorrow
newrepublic.com/post/172342/wh… After nearly eight years of think-pieces, reflections, and “important conversations” within media circles, CNN is doing exactly what prompted so much reflection in the first place: giving open air to a man who warrants none of it.
newrepublic.com/post/172342/wh…
May 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: After another Texas mass shooting, Ryan Guillen (Democrat-turned-Republican + friend of Henry Cuellar) is blocking a Uvalde family-backed bill to raise the age to buy AR-15 style guns.

Cuellar voted against a similar bill last year, after Uvalde.
newrepublic.com/post/172526/fo… Families of victims of the Uvalde shooting have rallied for months behind gun safety bills, including one to raise the minimum age to buy semiautomatic guns from 18 to 21.

The bill was filed back in February but wasn't given a hearing until April 19.
newrepublic.com/post/172526/fo…
May 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine killing someone in broad daylight, seen on camera, and the city's Tough on Crime Mayor isn't calling for your immediate arrest Truly, what is this? Whipped up chest-beating about sending 1000 cops to go round up fare-hoppers, but when someone kills a homeless person by putting them in a chokehold for 15 minutes, all the Tough Mayor has to say is Alas, people die when Mental Health
May 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Still mulling over the complete soullessness not just of someone murdering a desperate and hungry homeless person by putting them in a chokehold, but the soullessness of bystanders just watching it all happen. For 15 minutes. Both the callousness of a city that embodies the stark contradictions of American society, yet also the wonderful humanity & willing kindness often felt in the wide melting pot that it is makes this all the more dispiriting: that the former won over the latter.
May 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“If ‘low ratings’ CNN ever went Conservative, they would be an absolute gold mine, and I would help them to do so!”

This is what Donald Trump posted on Truth Social last September.

Within a year of the post, CNN took him up on the offer.
newrepublic.com/post/172342/cn… Trump:
–impeached twice, criminally indicted, on trial for rape
–whipped up a conspiracy that led to Fox forking over $787.5 million to stop further inquiry into its own lies
–faces numerous investigations related to overthrowing democracy

…and CNN is welcoming him back anyways
May 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Lots of ink has been spilled trying to figure out what motivates Kyrsten Sinema: sincere belief? being a villain? nothing?
What if we take her word for it—that she truly thinks her approach is good?
Taking her at face-value, I wrote a letter to her.
newrepublic.com/post/172314/ky… What Sinema views as some unique approach is what the powerful have pushed on us for years: you can dream of a better world when you’re young, but you better wise up when you get old enough to become a cog in the machine that prevents such a world at all.
newrepublic.com/post/172314/ky…
Mar 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are protesting the country’s authoritarian escalation.
Israel has killed nearly one Palestinian every day so far in 2023.
…And former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is launching an organization called “Progressives for Israel.”
newrepublic.com/post/171143/an… It's not clear what exactly is "progressive" about Andrew Cuomo tying concern for the welfare and safety of Jewish people to unequivocal support for a state that acts as an occupying force, and which even many of its own citizens deem out of control.
newrepublic.com/post/171143/an…
Mar 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A DeSantis-backed bill makes it a felony to have an undocumented person in your home—or to even give them a ride in your car.

It also orders checking patient citizenship—and more DNA tracking of undocumented people.

772,000+ Floridians are undocumented.
newrepublic.com/post/171137/ro… The DeSantis-backed bill criminalizes anyone who transports an undocumented person.
As in, anyone—co-worker, friend, neighbor, classmate—giving a simple ride to someone they know or care about who is undocumented would be guilty of a third-degree felony.
newrepublic.com/post/171137/ro…
Mar 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Josh Hawley tweets "SVB = too woke to fail," distracting from how "too big to fail" really happens: deregulation.

After all, Hawley himself helped a company fight off a $109 million CFPB fine for an alleged kickback scam & overcharging customer loans.
newrepublic.com/post/171117/re… Ron DeSantis and Representatives Virginia Foxx, James Comer, and Andy Biggs have all come out with “woke” statements a-blazin’ too.

…And all of them voted to roll back Dodd-Frank rules that would've subjected SVB to stronger regulations and stress tests.
newrepublic.com/post/171117/re…
Mar 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New: 33 Senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting 81-14 to overturn Washington, D.C.’s criminal reforms, dismissing months of work that residents and officials invested to update codes that haven’t been dusted off in over 100 years.
newrepublic.com/post/171049/co… Senators Booker, Cardin, Duckworth, Durbin, Hirono, Markey, Merkley, Murphy, Reed, Sanders, Van Hollen, Warren, Welch and Whitehouse all voted No.

Every other Democrat and Independent voted with Republicans.