Matt Duss
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EVP at @CIPolicy . Co-host of @UnDiplomaticPod . Former foreign policy advisor for @SenSanders .
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Maybe having a supreme council of unelected clerics with lifetime appointments was a bad plan.
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Radical cleric issues fatwa supporting assassination of foreign leader.
Pat Robertson calls on the US military to take out Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro with a drone strike.
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Everyone who keeps saying “The war ends today if Hamas releases the hostages” has been lying to you.
Israel won’t end war for deal to free all hostages, PM’s aide said to tell families
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Pelosi applauded some truly awful portions of the speech but at least she gave you suckers a good gif at the end.
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Weird how he just always seems to show up when authoritarians are around.
SPOTTED: Elon Musk is in the Capitol.
He just walked into the House. He wouldn’t say why he’s here.
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Have you considered that God is intervening but not on your side
Trump arraigned, Marxist wins Mayoral race in Chicago, and Democrats flip Supreme Court in Wisconsin. Very bad day. No spin, no bs. Country is in collapse. We need God and dutiful action.
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Saudi Arabia decides it’s in their interest to cut oil production, fine. Maybe the US decides it’s in its interests to ground the Saudi Air Force. For starters. I don’t know, just thinking out loud.
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Hey journalists, if you're not quoting actual Palestinians in your pieces on Trump's plan for stealing their land and denying their rights, you're not doing journalism, you're doing PR.
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You accused Obama of having a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview. You accused him of playing "a wonderful con" to become president. You spent 8 years stoking racism against him. The insult is you thinking we wouldn't remember.
Does Bernie Sanders not know that Barack Obama was elected President twice? Sanders’ comment that America is a “racist society from top to bottom.” Is an insult to a country that is promoting Americans of every background.
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I suspect most Americans would not accept this answer if another country was bombing us.
Q: "Is it now fair to say that the US is at war in Yemen?"
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh: "We don't think that we are at war."
Q: "We've bombed them five times now...If this isn't war, what is war?"
Singh: "We are not at war with the Houthis."
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The fact that Tapper, Greenblatt, and others can engage in a multi-day defamation campaign against
@RashidaTlaib
by blatantly misquoting her and face zero repercussions for it is a great example of the institutional anti-Palestinian bias she called out in the first place.
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Tomorrow marks 28 years since George H.W. Bush pardoned six defendants as part of the Iran-Contra cover up, one of whom, confessed criminal Elliott Abrams, was brought back into government by George W. Bush, and now serves as Trump’s Iran/Venezuela envoy. Corruption is the rule.
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Can't remember anyone getting more liberals to out themselves as bigots more quickly and effectively than Ta-Nehisi has done simply by applying the same principles to Israel-Palestine that he does to America.
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Keeping military forces there against the wishes of the people who live there is called occupation.
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As a Ukrainian-American I am immensely proud of the bravery of Ukrainians and of the support being shown by Americans.
As a Middle East analyst I am floored by the blatant double standard on resisting occupation and repression.
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We can argue all day that Trump is worse, and he is, but we need to understand that for a lot of people withholding their vote is the last tool they feel they have toward a president who simply refuses to hear them.
In our focus group of Michigan voters, Thasin tells
@margbrennan
he "was a champion" for President Biden, but now feels Biden has "disowned" and "disenfranchised" Muslim Americans with his stance on Gaza.
"I was never a single-issue voter...but for me this is a deal-breaker."
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Maybe withdrawing from a nuclear agreement we negotiated alongside them and then waging economic war on them because they continued to honor it wasn’t a great way to get their help.
JUST IN: Pompeo after Soleimani strike: "The Europeans haven't been as helpful as I wish that they could be"
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To every Democrat who said nothing about the anti-Muslim bigotry, harassment, and bullying Rep. Ilhan Omar has been enduring over the past months, and longer, but only spoke up to criticize her: You are part of the problem.
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Radical cleric calls for holy war.
Pastor: God wants Trump to "take out" Kim Jong Un
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The fact that Tapper, Greenblatt, and others can engage in a multi-day defamation campaign against
@RashidaTlaib
by blatantly misquoting her and face zero repercussions for it is a great example of the institutional anti-Palestinian bias she called out in the first place.
🧵 THREAD:
CNN anchor Jake Tapper joined ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt and others in blatantly mischaracterizing Rep.
@RashidaTlaib
’s remarks, saying Tlaib accused Michigan AG Dana Nessel of bringing charges against U. of Michigan campus protesters “because she’s Jewish.”
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Congrats to whichever grifter consultant convinced Bloomberg to appear at this debate. You are an American hero.
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Congrats to everyone who declared the Bolivia coup a victory for democracy.
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Does this mean you'll be tweeting out directions for it
Packing the Supreme Court is an act of political terrorism.
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Blaming Hamas for every Israeli atrocity is the argument of an abusive partner: “Look what you made me do!”
Hamas bears responsibility for Oct 7. Israel bears responsibility for its indiscriminate assault on Gaza. Neither justifies the other.
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The only one who should be more embarrassed than Ben Shapiro about that BBC interview is every American TV host who’s ever had him on.
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No. It gives me no pleasure to say it but Biden chose this path. So many have been sounding the alarm for months, both inside and outside the administration. Biden thought he knew better, and stubbornly refused to change course. This is on him.
Democrats fear Netanyahu may have undermined Biden’s image among voters
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Imagine giving a shit what these two guys think Democrats should do.
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Counterpoint: not only should we impeach Trump, we should reopen the books on torture and try, convict, and imprison John Yoo.
"We should beware that rushing into an impeachment may do long-term harm to the presidency and our national security," writes John Yoo
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Aggressively investigating powerful officials is good and our democracy would be much healthier if we did way more of it.
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This story alone would've ended any normal presidency.
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If the DC foreign policy establishment got as agitated by a school bus full of kids getting blown up as it does for an oil refinery, the Yemen war would be over.
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Jackson got demoted and shitcanned for being drunk on duty, sexually harassing subordinates, and running a WH pill mill, if you want to know what disgracing the uniform actually looks like.
Fraud Tim Walz is a lying coward who NEVER deployed and was NEVER in harms way.
He never deployed to Iraq.
He never deployed to Afghanistan.
Your “war stories” disgust me and disgust most other veterans that actually deployed in defense of this country!
SIMPLY PUT, YOU ARE
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To every guy telling AOC she didn't see what she saw, feel what she felt, or know what she knows: please go straight to hell.
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One consequence of the Solemani assassination that shouldn't be missed: the US just greenlit every authoritarian regime in the world to assassinate any foreign official it deems a threat.
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Elite impunity is so powerful our criminals can just blurt it out on TV.
John Bolton: “As someone who has helped plan coups de etat — not here but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work”
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Imagine the administration had intel on an imminent terrorist attack that would kill over 100,000 people, and chose to do nothing because it was politically easier. That’s what we have here.
We need to be talking about accountability. For all of it.
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Turns out that the strategy of having some wealthy Emiratis post selfies in Tel Aviv will not in fact bring peace to Israel-Palestine.
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Consultants are going to get paid a lot of money to help pretend the problem is more complicated than failing to pass extremely popular legislation after promising to do that.
Democrats have faced brutal midterm climates and slim margins in Congress before. But the current iteration of the Democratic Party has rarely, if ever, been on such shaky ground with young people.
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We go to the same church, Hugh.
Every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else. Catholics should vote accordingly, whether or not a Democrat is Catholic. The left controls the party.
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These seem like labels
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We’re in an absurd situation where both Hamas and Israeli officials agree that Netanyahu is blocking Biden’s ceasefire proposal, Netanyahu publicly rejects key elements of it, but Biden and Blinken continue to insist that Netanyahu supports it and Hamas is blocking it. What.
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Standard Trump play: create an unnecessary crisis, claim credit for it not becoming an even worse crisis, sit back and watch pundits clap like seals.
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Bernie was right.
Two years later AIPAC has endorsed over 100 pro-insurrection candidates, including some who promote the great replacement conspiracy theory. Still proud to work with them? You haven't said. You seem to have lots of time to go after progressive activists though.
It’s offensive that
@BernieSanders
denigrates the
@AIPAC
policy conference as a platform for bigotry. At a time when we see a surge of real hate across the US, it’s irresponsible to describe AIPAC like this.
@ADL
proudly will be there.
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You hear that applause for Palestinian rights at the Democratic debate? Yeah you do.
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Cheney's group Keep America Safe launched a series of attacks against Obama that were so inflammatory and racist that she had it scrubbed from the internet before she ran for Congress.
.
@RepLizCheney
says she voted against the anti-hate resolution this week because she saw it as "an effort to protect Ilhan Omar" by Democrats, rather than call her out specifically
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Every Democrat who helped pretend that BDS is a threat requiring Congressional condemnation owns a piece of this.
It’s official: Israel will bar Congresswomen
@RashidaTlaib
and
@IlhanMN
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This is apparently hard for some folks to grasp because it's not true in many other areas of foreign policy, but a responsible progressive position on Ukraine is basically what Biden is doing right now.
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Republicans spent 2 1/2 years and 33 hearings investigating Benghazi and yet somehow the Obama administration wasn't too distracted to lead a successful global effort to contain Ebola.
McConnell just said on
@hughhewitt
that impeachment diverted the attention of the government in Jan while virus was developing. - paraphrasing but thrust is correct
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Bernie voted against the Russia sanctions because they were added to an Iran sanctions bill at the last minute. Bernie stated at the time that he supported Russia sanctions but voted against the bill to protect Obama's Iran deal. Biden knows this.
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This is so dishonest. The Palestinians said yes and recognized Israel in 1993.
The entire Arab League offered normalization in 2002 in exchange for Israel adhering to UNSC resolutions. Israel said no.
Palestinians still say yes to a 2SS. Netanyahu offers them bantustans.
For 72 years Israel has extended its hand in peace to its neighbors.
When Egypt said yes, there was peace.
When Jordan said yes, there was peace.
When UAE & Bahrain said yes, there was peace.
It’s
#ANewEra
in Israeli-Arab relations.
It’s time for the Palestinians to say yes.
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Lindsey Graham as asking Russians to show far more courage in the face of Putin's violence than he could ever muster in the face of Trump's tweets.
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It's so weird how creeping sharia stopped being an existential threat to America once right wing funders lost interest in it.
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There was a protest movement that kicked off in Seattle 1999 that warned you about exactly this and you mocked them as "a Noah's ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960's fix."
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"As the nation watches a disgraced Donald Trump departing the White House for the last time-- hold on, it appears that someone is clinging to the helicopter's landing gear as it flies away. Is it -- yes, it's Lindsey Graham."
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The idea that Trump is a break from the status quo rather than a product of it is the most dangerous one in American politics right now.
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In addition to keeping the planet habitable, another good reason to aggressively transition to green energy is we wouldn’t have to go hat in hand to beg our corrupt authoritarian petrostate partners for help against corrupt authoritarian petrostate enemies.
SCOOP: Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned.
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If the White House suppressed intelligence warning of an imminent terror attack, it would be a huge scandal. This should be treated similarly.
White House blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony saying human-caused climate change could be "possibly catastrophic"
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Others have made this point but it bears repeating: $6 trillion and counting on a global war on terror, additional millions plowed into the antiterrorism grifter complex to keep us scared and paying, and yesterday actual, literal Nazis just walked right in the front door.
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People who say we need to move past the Iraq war are wrong. When you really consider the scope of the disaster -- to the region, to its people, to our politics, to our military, and more -- we have barely started to talk about it.
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Dear centrist friends, the progressive left put differences aside and worked extremely hard to help get Biden elected. 2022 is not far off. If you want to keep folks energized and mobilized maybe don't blame them for your tough races.
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@TheAtlantic
@davidfrum
If history shows us anything it's that militias are helpless against modern armies. This is why Vietnam and Iraq are the 51st and 52nd states.
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Absolutely condemn this with every fiber of my being. Oct 7 wasn’t just an offensive against Israel, it was an offensive against our shared humanity. Anyone who cannot state that plainly is not a progressive. Go cosplay somewhere else.
“The amazing, brilliant offensive waged on October 7th.”
This is real, Natalie Knight at a Pro-Hamas rally in Vancouver, Canada.
To see people celebrate the massacre of Jews only a few minutes from where I grew up makes me sick to my stomach.
@KenSimCity
@CIJAinfo
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It’s hard to overstate what a massive miscalculation it was for Biden to yoke his presidency, and our country’s security, to a corrupt authoritarian racist whose only hope of political survival is prolonging the Gaza war as long as possible.
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One of the most ominous phrases in Washington is "I agree with you, but let's be smart about this." It's a signal that you're about to hear a clever sounding justification for absolute cowardice.
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Amused by claims that 10 days in Israel-Palestine doesn’t qualify Ta-Nehisi to have an informed opinion given that most members of Congress’ sole experience is a week-long AIPAC junket, which apparently qualifies them to vote for billions in new weapons every year forever.
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Except for the one you worked for.
“I’ve gone toe to toe with autocrats and strong men to defend America’s values.” —
@nikkihaley
#iwfgala
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Wild to see folks who encouraged Trump to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal insisting that no one will believe America's promises after Afghanistan.
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Right. This is not a humanitarian gesture. This is about humiliation and control. Because that's how the occupation operates.
I think to the average person headlines like these read as “Glad they patched things up and let her in” and not “Israeli won’t allow a Congresswoman to do her job and attend meetings.”
The fact this is all being portrayed as a “humanitarian gesture” is embarrassing.
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Or maybe we just have some wrong ideas about the sort of people West Point and Harvard produce.
What is depressing about Pompeo’s legacy at State is he knows better. He graduated first from West Point and went to Harvard Law. Still he plays down to the ignorant autocrat tearing away at the heritage of America’s political and constitutional norms.
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If we’ve learned nothing else over the past week, we’ve learned how deeply committed our elite media is to the US imperial project.
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Renaming torture “enhanced interrogation” was good practice for renaming concentration camps “not concentration camps.”
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It’s funny hearing old folks blame TikTok for young people’s support for Palestinian rights, as if their own views weren’t shaped by decades of pro-Israel messaging. The young have access to a far greater range of views than you ever did, they can see what you refused to see.
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Bolton now considering releasing the Iran war on his own independent label.
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Majority of Senate already voted in favor of similar amendment, but didn't pass because McConnell used procedural shenanigans to require 60 votes. Key point is: Bipartisan majority of Congress has now made clear that Trump has no authority for war with Iran.
House votes to restrain Trump on war with Iran, setting up showdown with the Senate
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Jealous of my Israeli colleagues for having an attorney general who isn't a totally corrupt political hack.
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This is pretty standard procedure for the Israelis. Drop a big pile of intel, allies spend time trying to verify, and when they can’t just give them more to make them waste more time. The bet is that allies will be too nervous to call bullshit. Usually works.
“Israel says it has shared intelligence detailing Hamas operations at Al-Shifa with Western allies. One Western security official said there was “no way to verify the truthfulness” of Israel’s allegations.”
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.
@LindseyGrahamSC
: "I didn’t sign up for Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy.” If you did you might've gotten it right on Iraq, Senator. Or Iran. Or Yemen. Or North Korea. I'll put
@BernieSanders
' foreign policy judgement up against yours any day.
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Violent pro-Israel extremists attacking Palestinian rights defenders while police do nothing is a pretty familiar scene from the West Bank.
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There's no such thing as "hands off" when you're giving one side $3.8 billion a year in military aid. There's just deciding that Palestinian lives don't matter.
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“Intruding”? They attacked them. They beat them. The Secretary of State should be able to say this clearly.
We were deeply troubled by the images of Israeli police intruding into the funeral procession of Palestinian American Shireen Abu Akleh. Every family deserves to lay their loved ones to rest in a dignified and unimpeded manner.
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One of the best questions journalists can be asking about Gaza right now is why we’ve been ok with a fifteen year long blockade that violates the most basic principles of civilian protection.
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On one side, a white supremacist president who openly supports and encourages authoritarian racists. On the other, a black Democratic Congresswoman who criticized a powerful lobby group. But sure, both sides.
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It also shamed a corrupt DC establishment that has been complicit in the rehabilitation of his career.
Ilhan Omar's cross-examination of Elliot Abrams honored thousands of Central American dead:
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I'm curious whether Gov. Josh Shapiro thinks that the racist, dehumanizing views expressed by student Josh Shapiro should've been tolerated on campus.
Josh Shapiro wrote in his college newspaper that peace “will never come” to the Middle East and expressed skepticism about a two-state solution, describing Palestinians as “too battle-minded” to coexist.
A spokesman says his views have changed.
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Absolutely astonishing when you consider the amount of deference this administration has shown these regimes. Also a sign that they’re confident they have DC completely bought off and thus won’t face real consequences.
Leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates declined requests to speak to President Biden during the Ukraine crisis, officials say. They both took calls from Putin.
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Folks, if your "anti-imperialism" leads you to nod along with Henry Kissinger it might be good to step back and take a moment.
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The socialism just got ten feet higher.
Trump: "America will never be a socialist country."
Bernie:
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I’ll never forget how you stood there grinning behind Trump as he signed the Muslim ban.
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Carlson calls Zelensky "Sweaty and rat-like, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians"
I don't care if his ersatz populism gives you a little thrill, no decent or effective antifascist left can have anything to do with this antisemite.
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"Gazans." Not Hamas. Not Islamic Jihad. "Gazans."
The constant attribution of collective guilt as justification for collective punishment by people with actual power is obviously far more dangerous than offensive chants by protesters, but receives a tiny fraction of attention.
If Gazans don’t want their people killed in
hostage rescue missions, they shouldn’t take hostages in the first place.
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Lots of outrage over positive comments about Cuba's education system from the "MBS is a bold reformer" crowd.
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