Jeet Heer
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1. Writer, The Nation https://t.co/jXzkyM3ou3… 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann *e4dccb3d
Joined June 2012
In 2016, Trump paid $129,250 more to Stormy Daniels than to the USA government.
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I want a ven diagram of people willing to argue "Give Kavanaugh a break, he was only 17" and "Trayvon Martin got what he deserved.".
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If this is what it takes for you to vote for Hitler, then I'm going to say you were always going to vote for Hitler.
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Fun fact: in 1957 many right-wing Americans thought Sputnik was fake because there's no way Russia could do something American hadn't done first. They started to nitkpick the Sputnik reporting in a pathetic display of cope.
If you believe DeepSeek only cost $6 million, bridge in Brooklyn.
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If you are an American and under 37, your entire adult life has been under the shadow of the Forever Wars, the Great recession, a pandemic, and, it looks like, another recession. This is what is shaping the generational divide on politics.
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It's just me but I think it's noteworthy that there are a lot of photos of the President of the United States hanging out with someone just arrested who is allegedly the procurer of a massive child sex ring.
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The real debate about Haitians we should be having is that the USA and France owe Haiti many billions in reparation.
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Dems should promote the hell out of these cooking videos. Like Obama talking about sports, it's a great way to reach normies who don't follow politics closely. Will feed into endearing image of a cool aunty.
Harris has a whole series of cooking videos on her YouTube and one thing I’ve learned so far is that she’s got the one-handed egg crack down.
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Remember when people got upset that a tiny number of climate activists were doing minor, easily repairable, damage to a handful of paintings. Will those people now acknowledge that climate change is itself a far bigger threat to the cultural inheritance of humanity?.
The grounds of the Getty Villa — home to 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities — are now burning. #PalisadesFire
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Canadian women remain sadly and pathetically deluded by his narcissistic charm. he's not on your side, girlies, and he never was. He's on his side. And you're too charmed and blind to see it.
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If Hillary Clinton won, there would currently be a Supreme Court with 7 judges. Who are we kidding here?.
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Mitt Romney is the first Senator in American history to vote to impeach a president of his own party.
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In all seriousness: Fox News is a network dominated from start by sexual predators & they've helped make a sexual predator president.
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I don't think people realize what a tragedy this is, how many lives it will cost, how many people will unnecessarily have chronic health problems for the rest of their lives because of this, and how it will damage America for decades to come.
“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up.” -European scientist.
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The people who run the Democratic party all achieved success within the political system 40, 50, 60 years ago. That system is crumbling and their instinct is to pretend it is still functioning rather than think about what new needs to be done to meet the moment.
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Someone obviously didn't finish reading a Mussolini biography.
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Free. It should be free. Medicine that can save lives should be free.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says any coronavirus vaccine should be "affordable.". "This would be a vaccine that is developed with taxpayer dollars. We think that should be available to everyone—not dependent on 'Big Pharma.'"
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Kind of hilarious to listen to a rabbi upset that Jewish kids took the rhetoric about human equality and justice too seriously.
To all our young people this #YomKippur: we tried to instill in you a sense of justice, righteousness and honor for all people. We are proud when your generation actively pursues these values. But we did not intend for some in your generation to turn their backs on our people…
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1. Harriet Tubman never said that. 2. This fake quote is actually pro-slavery since it implies that slaves deserved their condition because of ignorance or inherent servility. 3. Stop this.
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"rich history in genocide expertise" is one way to phrase this.
Germany, with its rich history in genocide expertise, will now join as a third party at the International Court of Justice, backing Israel and arguing that "there is no basis for the accusations.".
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I dream of a pro-life movement that cared as much about real migrant children as the hypothetical danger of time-travellers killing baby Hitler.
Ben Shapiro at March for Life: "The truth is no pro-life person would kill baby Hitler. Baby Hitler was a baby."
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This is what the violence we're seeing on campuses is designed to defend.
Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.
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Walz stopped with the "weird" stuff (or radically scaled it back) because the Harris campaign was taken over by Biden alumni, who didn't like it, and they pushed Harris/Walz to run a much more centrist, Cheney-hugging, civility campaign. With the results we see before us.
In retrospect, what was the point of picking Tim Walz as the VP nominee? He got picked because he was good on TV associating Trump and Vance with the weird fringes of the online right, and then almost soon as he got the nomination, he stopped doing that. So why pick him?.
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Guys. Guys. I'm starting to think giving the most powerful job in the world to a bigoted mobbed up reality show star with no policy knowledge & an abusive character wasn't a smart move.
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This is eugenics.
Alabama’s disaster preparedness plan says that “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support.”
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Weird how this moment didn't provoke a discourse about self-care, mental health, and the contagion effect.
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As promised, Joe Biden is uniting America.
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Trump says he's sanctioning the Ayatollah Khomeini, who has been dead since 1989.
President Trump has just signed an executive order to deny Iran's Supreme Leader and his associates access to key financial resources and support.
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The big take away should be that no one really thinks abortion is murder, only say so for political effect.
Dana Loesch: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.”
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Ann Coulter is of course correct -- the next time JFK is on the ballot, his sexual misconduct should be considered by voters.
Hey Dems! JFK had an extra marital affair with 19-year old Mimi Alford when he was 45 years old.
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I'm no theologian but I'm pretty sure Jesus did in fact run into trouble with law enforcement.
Paula White: "Jesus did live in Egypt for three-and-a-half years. But it was not illegal. If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah."
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In all seriousness, why is Jacob Wohl not in jail?.
Jacob Wohl paid a woman to lie that Anthony Fauci assaulted her.
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It's good for a new generation of young people to see exactly what centrists and mainstream liberals are.
UPDATE: The NYPD have now arrested the legal observers at the Columbia University Palestine solidarity encampment
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If only there was a briefer way of saying "having sex with an incapacitated woman against her will.".
#BREAKING: Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Ellis has resigned from his state House seat immediately. The Republican representative was accused of having sex with an incapacitated woman against her will.
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Trump just threatened to exterminate a nation of 25 million people but don't worry, our pundits have roundly condemned Antifa violence.
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If only there were some sacred text, one most people at CPAC claimed allegiance to, that very explicitly warns against making golden idols.
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Okay, here's how this is going to go down. 1. At some point, Taylor Swift is going to endorse Harris. 2. Vance will then make some sort of statement about how as a childless dried up cat lady Swift can be completely disregarded .3. The Swifties will then launch a Galactic Jihad.
Unearthed audio: JD Vance says teachers who do not have biological children “disorient and really disturb” him: “She should have some of her own [children]”
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Remember the time Ginni Thomas left a nasty message on Anita Hill's phone demanding an apology. That was wild.
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This is the only time I've ever seen Trump show any curiosity in anything at all. It's a very strange and unexpected clip.
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Can someone at @Twitter tell me if inciting a Civil War is an offence that can get you banned? Thanks in advance.
. If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews.
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This sounds insane but it's entirely possible that the White House and Mar-a-Lago are important vectors for spreading the pandemic.
Australian official who met with Ivanka Trump and Attorney General William Barr last week tests positive for coronavirus
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Treat Trumpcare like a zombie: just because it's dead doesn't mean you stop killing it. Cut off it's head, limbs. Destroy it again & again.
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Biden is destroying his presidency (and possibly American democracy) on behalf of a government of fanatics that is carrying on war of retribution that his own military says has no coherent strategy and endgame.
Fully 70% of those 18 to 34 disapprove of Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas war in a new @NBCNews survey. “This poll is a stunner and it’s stunning because of the impact the Israel-Hamas war is having on Biden." @mmurraypolitics
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Strange but true, the policy of appeasing Hitler was rooted in the premise that anti-fascism was as bad as or worse than fascism.
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We're really having a debate on whether we have to be civil to people who tear babies & children away from their parents, leading to incalculable trauma? Fuck civility.
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I honestly thought liberals had learned something from the last election.
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Is white American evangelical Christianity in such a state of decadence that there's not at least a few in that community who see how obscene this is, how genuinely blasphemous?.
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This is not journalism.
CNN's @FareedZakaria on journalists who have embedded with the IDF in Gaza:. "As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms. "
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Guys, guys, I'm beginning to think America isn't a meritocracy but a place where money rules and the rich rig the system to stay on top.
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Doctors Without Borders is forced to do this because the Biden administration has decided that the normal laws about war crimes don't apply in Gaza & the West Bank -- and the supine allies of the United States have gone along with that.
Doctors Without Borders says they have to suspend operations in some parts of the WEST BANK. Israel has normalized attacking medical workers and obstructing access to healthcare.
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The majority of the American ruling class, indeed a majority of the ruling class in the West, supports this.
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The sad personal story here is that Don Jr. might have committed crimes as a way to get close to his distant dad.
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Many people, including myself, took Tucker Carlson's account of a protest at his house at face value. That was a mistake. This is an important thread.
One last point on the Tucker Carlson protest, you don't wanna believe the protestors, why not go with the police version of events?. Cause there is a police report. I'm gonna say that's a more reliable source than Mr. Carlson. And it completely contradicts him. Here goes.
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A question I'd ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles?.
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This hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but settlers and their allies in Netanyahu's government have been using the current conflict as cover for an ethnic cleansing of the Armenian Quarter.
🇦🇲 Over 200 Armenian Community members in Jerusalem gather in prayer as they continue to fight to defend their historic quarter in the old city from armed Israeli settlers. #Save_the_Arq
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Are people okay with letting this guy set the terms of free speech in the United States and other countries?.
Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. The world cannot stand idly by.
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So the preferred right-wing whataboutism for Cruz is "what about Andrew Cuomo?" So to be clear: Cuomo should resign and Cruz should resign.
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It' all going to be memory-holed, but we should remember there was a vast discourse over last 10-15 years about Putin/Russia are strong/manly and the West is weak/effeminate/gay. All the vile implications of that discourse are worth remembering.
Holy crap. Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea. .
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The Biden White House has October Surprised their own candidate. A historical first, I think.
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Thanks to Trump, conservatives now hate football and the FBI while they love rap music and talking to North Korea. That's a major achievement.
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Man boasts on tape of committing sexual assault. Multiple women say he committed sexual assault. Millions will question women. What a world.
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One crucial difference between USA & France is in France center right (Fillon) acted responsibly & endorsed Macron. GOP rallied to Trump.
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"The first war crimes were committed by Hamas" is such an interesting sentence if you stop and think about it.
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If you are an American, you are paying for this. If you live in Western country, it's almost certain your government is supporting this.
A man is holding a little girl after he extracted her from under the rubble of her destroyed house by the Israeli war planes. This photo have been taken by me from my street today.
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Credit where credit is due: the argument that it's okay to be racist against a socialist who is critical of America was pioneered in the 1960s by National Review in their many attacks on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm sorry if you can't impeach a president for inciting a mob to attack congress, then you are saying a president can do anything.
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To be clear, the Israeli governments allegations against UNRWA were, like so much of what they've said during this war, complete bullshit. But Western governments went along with it, contributing to the famine now unfolding in Gaza.
The EU has announced it will reinstate funding to UNRWA after having suspended it due to Israels allegations (for which they provided zero evidence)
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This guy is so close to understanding something.
Notice how Palestinian flags are always paired with Irish flags, while Israeli flags are paired with UK flags.
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This is an account maintained by the State of Israel which is slandering American students as terrorists. It's amazing that this is regarded as acceptable behaviour.
(a) Terrorism is an ideology. (b) They are openly supporting terror. (c) They are terrorists.
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This is something I was wrong about. I thought if Trump was deplatformed he'd find a way to get his message out through alternative means. I underestimated how lazy he was and dependent on those platforms.
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There's no free speech in the West for anyone who believes that Palestinians are human.
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Mysterious, Badgeless federal officers rounding up citizens without reading them their rights and putting them in unmarked vans kind of puts the whole "cancel culture" thing into perspective.
This is happening on the streets of our hometown of Portland, OR. We will continue to resist. They are fucking with the wrong city 👊. #TheResistance.
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To be honest, I was expecting a very different Matt Gaetz sex scandal.
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One of the consistently surprising things about the 21st century is how many homophobic cake makers there are.
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I like how the New York Times reporter describes an open avowal of fascism as a "lack of a sense of political correctness." That tells you something about the Times.
NYT interview with a West Bank settler, she proudly admits that she is a fascist. I wonder if this mentality is pervasive among the illegal settler community. #Gaza #Gaza_Genocide
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Elon Musk and Grimes have had (to date) 3 kids together:.Their names are Exa, X Æ A-12, and Techno Mechanicus. This is what we're dealing with.
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This isn't a presidential bid, it's a hostage-taking situation.
Howard Schultz’ challenge to Democrats: Nominate a centrist for president and I’ll abandon my independent campaign
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Remember when Cheryl Hines was on that show where she played a woman whose husband was an endless source of mortifying embarrassment?.
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I actually prefer to live in a world where the young can play games rather than die in wars. But that's just me.
Young men in the 1940s liberated Europe from Nazism and the Pacific from the Japanese Empire. Today, too many stay home playing video games.
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Mexico's president regularly has approval ratings approach 70% or nearly twice that of Joe Biden in the USA.
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Credit where credit is due, this is a good paragraph.
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How difficult is it to say: "Look, I drank a lot in high school and college. I did a lot of stuff I'm not proud of, some of which I might not even remember. I'm genuinely sorry to anyone I hurt. I'm a different man today.".
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Keep in mind that there have been no leaks yet from Mueller's office (a very tight ship). This is just stuff from . the White House.
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"Kidnap survivors of Somali pirates & the Taliban trying to shame the USA government" isn't something I would've predicted.
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Imagine having so much racism in you that writing for Breitbart doesn't use it all up & you need to moonlight.
Breitbart writer caught running secret, virulently racist Facebook group
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1. There's a big push for amnesia on the Trump era in the name of healing ("let's never talk about this again") so I want to keep insisting that not only was the authoritarian threat real but also that we're in the beginning of finding out how extensive it was.
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2015: We're going to build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. 2019: We're going to get Canadian television to show Home Alone 2 unedited.
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This is in part because a lot of left-leaning kids stayed home. Don't let anyone tell you Gaza wasn't a factor. They're lying.
Democrats had the worst performance with the youth vote since John Kerry in 2004. Harris: +12.Biden: +24.Clinton: +19.Obama: +23.Obama: +34.Kerry: +9.
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