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Julian Assange deserves jail because "he is not a member of the free press," @jamil_n_jaffer tells @mehdirhasan.
But @JameelJaffer says: "If you can charge Julian Assange" with publishing U.S. secrets, "you can charge any national security journalist with that."
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.@ArianMoayed ends up playing a lot of unlikeable characters, like Stewy on “Succession,” and Torvald in “A Doll’s House.”
@mehdirhasan asks, “What is it like for you to play these awful characters? Especially when everyone who knows you says you're such a nice sweet guy?”
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“I felt like there was no longer any room for anyone not to be political. Push had come to shove,” says @j_smithcameron, who played Gerri on “Succession.” She and @ArianMoayed, aka Stewy, discuss their own activism with @mehdirhasan.
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To mark the end of HBO’s hit show, “Succession,” @mehdirhasan recounts some of his favorite moments over the last four seasons and unpacks his love-hate relationship with the Roys.
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“When you face an existential threat to democracy, cowardice is complicity,” Yale professor Jason Stanley tells @mehdirhasan about Democrats’ weak response to the right’s growing fascism.
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Governor Ron DeSantis says he will “destroy leftism” if he’s elected president. @Mehdirhasan explains why his language - and that of other right-wing Republicans - is so dangerous.
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Banning TikTok is a national security need, not a threat to First Amendment freedoms, says @jamil_n_jaffer: "We're talking about dance videos and the like."
But @JameelJaffer tells @mehdirhasan that banning the platform has much more crucial consequences.
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What does the future hold for Succession's Gerri and Roman? @j_smithcameron tells @mehdirhasan why she thinks the show left open the possibility of a relationship after the series finale.
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Watch Mehdi's full commentary here: youtube.com/DQ1zm8Vd0O0
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https://nitter.vloup.ch/t.co/oWnUNLV20n As Elon Musk meets with the Chinese foreign minister in China today, it's worth remembering how Musk's deep financial ties pose a danger to the rest of us.
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.@MehdiRHasan: “Conservatives who love to engage in doomsday histrionics whenever a homeless person shoplifts a loaf of bread from a San Francisco grocery store, those people, have no issue with maniacs tearing through Target stores... and menacing minimum wage retail workers.”
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.@MehdiRHasan: "You can't win a Democratic presidential primary, you're essentially a spoiler candidate."
@marwilliamson: "Isn't that what people said about Donald Trump? I will win if people vote for me."
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"If the deal does hold, let's hope and pray it does because the alternative is Armageddon, then there is a lot for Biden to crow about" @RBReich on the positives of the newly released debt ceiling bill.
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“There’s a pundit-industrial complex that’s waiting for them, with book deals and cable news contributorships,” @MollyJongFast shares her take on why some of the lesser known potential GOP presidential contenders, like North Dakota’s Doug Burgum, may be mulling a 2024 run.
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What does @stuartpstevens have to say about billionaire Larry Ellison planning to spend millions to back Tim Scott’s presidential campaign?
“That’s not enough money. It’s like when I was asked to help with Sarah Palin’s debate prep, my response was ‘I'm not good enough.’”
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.@DavidJollyFL: "90 years ago FDR addressed millions of American on AM radio, but Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis couldn't address a couple hundred thousand on Twitter Spaces? What a humiliating night for Ron DeSantis."
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.@BarbMcQuade says recent moves from Fulton County DA Fani Willis signal charges may soon be on the horizon in her election interference probe: “I don’t think you have to be a soothsayer of any type to realize what’s going on there.”
Does @lawofruby agree? WATCH:
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How has Henry Kissinger been able to evade responsibility for his crimes?
@DavidCornDC says the foreign police elite wants to give him a "pass" while @nickturse says he's done it by "courting the press."
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"If you're gonna say to a hostage-taker 'I'm glad I bid you down from $100,000 to return my child to only $50,000,' well that's a pretty good deal I guess, except the hostage is still there." -@BruceBartlett debating @djrothkopf on the debt limit compromise.
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