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Nearly a month after Twitter suspended @drewharwell and other journalists who were reporting on Elon Musk, many still don’t have access to their accounts — and won’t unless they delete the tweets that got them booted.
“We’re not doing that," Harwell tells @mehdirhasan. WATCH:
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There are many parallels between the violent riots in Brazil and D.C. But @mehdirhasan can’t stop thinking about how neither could've happened without right-wing organizers rallying support on platforms like Twitter — and what Elon Musk's role is now that he owns it:
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“Asylum is a human right...We have to keep getting away from this myth that if we crack down...people will not flee when their lives are at risk.”
@ReichlinMelnick tells @mehdirhasan the Biden admin should expand alternate pathways to asylum, but asylum must remain an option.
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The Biden admin asked SCOTUS to lift Title 42, and now they’re expanding it instead. Are they trying to have it both ways?
“He has been using this to appease the Republican side,” @ErikaAndiola tells @mehdirhasan. “He needs to get rid of it.”
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The Covid-19 pandemic is over, right? I mean, that’s what the Biden administration said!
So, @mehdirhasan wonders, how is it that this same administration is expanding Title 42 — a controversial Covid border policy invoked by Trump — after they tried to end it?
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In the days since Brazil’s ‘copycat’ insurrection, we’ve learned lots of the organizing happened on Twitter, much like our own 1/6.
Is the site protecting our freedom of speech, or paving the way for violence? Watch @drewharwell discuss w/ @mehdirhasan: peacocktv.com/mehdi
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How can a pandemic be over…but also not over?
The Biden administration can’t seem to make up its mind when it comes to Title 42 — and @ErikaAndiola and @ReichlinMelnick join @mehdirhasan to help break things down. Don’t miss their conversation on @MSNBConPeacock.
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With wannabe authoritarian Gov. Ron DeSantis's war on campus free speech, "the temptation to want to leave Florida must be immense," @mehdirhasan says.
Why stay? The students, @j_mcox says: "They need this information."
Watch their full convo on @MSNBConPeacock.
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The violence in Brazil took place almost exactly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And @mehdirhasan shows how the two failed coup attempts aren't just similar — they're linked.
One plaza is home to Brazil’s three branches of government.
On Sunday, far-right protestors breached the buildings that house all three.
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"When it comes to standing for pro-Palestinian views on campus, or criticisms of Israel, there's a curious - and I would say shameful - silence."
My commentary on Harvard's decision to deny @KenRoth a fellowship, reportedly over his 'anti-Israel bias':
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“There are many younger academics who see this and say, ‘If I criticize Israel, this will be the end of my career.' That’s a terrible message for the Kennedy School to be sending,” @KenRoth tells @mehdirhasan about being denied a Harvard fellowship over his Israel criticism.
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When Harvard denied a fellowship to an Israel critic, the free speech brigade was nowhere to be found.
Why? Because, says @mehdirhasan, when it comes to standing for pro-Palestine or anti-Israel views on campus, there’s a curious and shameful silence.
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.@mehdirhasan asks: Does our DOJ’s failure to hold 1/6 rioters to account contribute to the export of the ‘Big Lie’ abroad?
“The message the U.S. is sending is, ‘Coup plotting works,’” @djrothkopf says. “We need to fix that if we don’t want it to spread...even more rapidly.”
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“This isn’t a Brazilian story. This is a transnational story.”
@VianaNatalia and @mehdirhasan discuss how far-right violence in Brazil and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol aren’t just uncannily similar — they’re connected. WATCH:
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For most of U.S. history, attacking the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an election seemed inconceivable, until it wasn’t.
Two years later, it’s happened in another major democracy. As @mehdirhasan points out, the two failed coup attempts are eerily similar:
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McCarthy’s deal with the GOP rebels left him with a weak speakership. @kurtbardella predicts he won’t even last one term.
“The bill is always due with these people,” he tells @mehdirhasan. “The minute that McCarthy even thinks about not doing what they want, they’ll dump him.”
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“This is McCarthyism all over again. Only this time, it’s Kevin and not Joe,” @mehdirhasan says of the deal the new speaker made with rebels in his caucus to secure the top job. Jim Jordan will lead a new Judiciary subcommittee that will investigate the investigators. WATCH:
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Harvard has denied a human rights fellowship to the former head of Human Rights Watch (yes, you read that correctly).
How is that possible, you ask? @mehdirhasan asks @KenRoth on @MSNBConPeacock. Tune in: peacocktv.com/mehdi
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Two days after the second anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Brazil had an insurrection of its own.
How much of a role did America’s far-right play in the attack? Watch @mehdirhasan ask @VianaNatalia and @djrothkopf on @MSNBConPeacock.
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Be sure to catch the full interview on @MSNBConPeacock!
Harvard’s Kennedy School refused to hire human rights expert @KenRoth because of his criticisms of Israel. And if the school can censor him, @mehdirhasan asks, is there hope for anyone else?
“If they can do this to me, imagine what they can do to lesser figures," Roth says.
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