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Author @NaomiAKlein gets confused all the time with right-wing conspiracist Naomi Wolf… so Klein used her latest book project to chart her doppelganger’s – and millions of other Americans’ – descent into far-right horseshoe politics:
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Though some rioters were convicted of “seditious conspiracy,” legal scholar Michael McConnell says that’s “totally different” than insurrection.
@IlyaSomin disagrees - he says it’s obvious: “It was an insurrection against the Constitution and against the United States.”
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“Every victory of the fascist right is also a story of fragmentation on the anti-fascist left.”
@NaomiAKlein unpacks how to break through the bigotry of the far-right in order to find common ground and make real progress. “It’s an issue we need to take incredibly seriously.”
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.@NaomiAKlein’s past work has exposed very real conspiracies to manipulate financial crises and energy shortages. So what’s the difference between *that* and the nonsense peddled by “conspiracy influencers” like Steve Bannon and Joe Rogan? Watch Klein explain to @mehdirhasan.
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"With more than 400 days to go, losing your marbles over a couple of 'meh' polls isn't good for your health and isn't at all justified." @MehdiRHasan says history shows Joe Biden and Democrats shouldn't sweat over 2024 polls just yet.
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This 9/11 marks 50 years since a coup in Chile against Salvador Allende, a democratically-elected leader the U.S. actively undermined under Henry Kissinger's guidance. @MehdiRHasan calls the lack of accountability for Kissinger “one of the great injustices” of our time.
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In tonight's #handover, @MehdiRHasan talks to @AymanM about his viral interview with Vivek Ramaswamy.
"He, Ayman, is a guy who's gotten away with being super confident and talking really fast. The problem is so do I."
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.@NYSenatorRamos says Mayor Adams' remarks that the migrant crisis will destroy the city are a scapegoating tactic to avoid addressing long-standing issues. "It's just been a domino effect and a reflection of all the crises that New Yorkers were suffering before this situation."
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.@michelleinbklyn says it's time for Democrats to turn the Republican attacks about Biden's age on its head and start calling out Donald Trump who "is a fairly easy target for that kind of attack."
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.@SimonWDC correctly predicted there wouldn't be a "red wave" in the 2022 midterms. On the prospect of Democrats' chances in 2024, he says, "I feel really good about where we are, and I would much rather be us than them as we head into 2024."
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“You cannot win an information war unless you are willing to acknowledge that you're in one.”
@LeeCMcIntyre explains how the media and American public need to approach online disinformation and demagoguery as we approach another election year.
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“It’s incredibly dangerous, it’s incredibly authoritarian and it’s very, very anti-democratic.”
@jenmercieca explains how Elon Musk may have supplanted Donald Trump as the king of online demagoguery and disinformation.
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Donald Trump was unrivaled in his ability to inject disinformation and conspiracy theories into the U.S. conversation. Now, there’s a cottage industry built around disinfo, and it’s getting a big boost from people like Elon Musk. @mehdirhasan looks at the threat ahead of 2024.
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Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/8UgCe_k8aR8
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Vivek Ramaswamy has called race-based college admissions “a cancer” and he is a primary candidate in a party that hates the Soros name. So why, as a student, did he accept a Soros family scholarship for the children of immigrants?
Watch how he responds to @mehdirhasan.
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Watch the full interview here:
youtube.com/watch?v=8UgCe_k8…
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Vivek Ramaswamy touts his business experience as a qualification for president, but critics say his success was driven by a classic “pump and dump” scheme. Watch @mehdirhasan question him about whether his business record is really something to brag about.
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Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/8UgCe_k8aR8
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Is Trump the best president of the 21st century, or someone who did “downright abhorrent” things on January 6th? @mehdirhasan presses Vivek Ramaswamy on his flip flops when it comes to the former president.
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.@bjoewolf calls Ron DeSantis a "petty and vindictive person" for turning down millions in climate funding months before Hurricane Idalia.
"He will probably come back and make life hell for Floridians in order to generate the kind of hysteria bait he needs."
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