Streaming weekly on msnbc.com/mehdi, and Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on @MSNBC.
Joined October 2020
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Nowhere has President Biden’s foreign policy rhetoric failed to match his actual foreign policy more clearly than in Israel and the occupied territories, @mehdirhasan says, where the U.S. simply stood by Israel after its deadly incursion in Jenin.
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.@PeterBeinart tells @mehdirhasan that a “mass movement of Americans of conscience” is needed to ignite real change when it comes to U.S. policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Check out The Beat’s special podcast episode, featuring Alfre Woodard reading Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s full affirmative action dissent.
shorturl.at/aFHR8
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.@mehdirhasan breaks down why we should care about the ongoing political turmoil in Pakistan and Imran Khan's ejection from the Prime Minister's office last year: "That country has been in the midst of an historic political and economic crisis."
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“That’s where I failed," Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan tells @mehdirhasan about his clash with Pakistan’s military.
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"What's happening right now is a total dismantling of our democracy... we are standing on the edge of darkness." Former Pakistani prime minister @ImranKhanPTI sounds the alarm to @MehdiRHasan on the state of democracy, freedom, and human rights in Pakistan.
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.@MehdiRHasan: "Democrats, it's time to wake up and smell the Roe v. Wade settled precedents destroyed around you. This is a rogue political institution, and it's not going to right itself."
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“Nobody should get away with corruption simply because their dad is the president. Nobody should get away with dodgy foreign dealings, simply because of their last name.”
No, @mehdirhasan isn’t talking *just* about Hunter Biden… even if the GOP is. WATCH: youtube.com/pM0Y_y6Wjl8
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“First they came for voting rights. Then they came for abortion rights. Today, they came for affirmative action at colleges.”
@mehdirhasan reacts to the Supreme Court’s decision on race and admissions.
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“People realize even if they don’t like Putin all that much, at least he’s the devil they know.”
@juliaioffe and @TVietor08 weigh in on the claims that Putin is weakened after Wagner’s short-lived uprising.
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“They don’t care about diversity. They don’t care about the 14th amendment's racially ameliorative programs.”
@ElieNYC & @importantmeagan break down the Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action.
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The Republican-captured SCOTUS is aggressively legislating from the bench. But remember when conservatives said that was the worst thing a judge could do? @mehdirhasan has 30 years of receipts… and more on this activist court: youtube.com/E48IgW301Lc
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As student debt forgiveness, affirmative action, and fair elections hang in the balance, @mehdirhasan surveys all the ways SCOTUS has ceased to be a court... and begun to legislate from the bench as "politicians in robes."
WATCH: youtube.com/E48IgW301Lc
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Despite his long opposition to affirmative action, Justice Clarence Thomas was once fairly liberal on the topic, @byjoelanderson says. He tells @mehdirhasan how Thomas became "radicalized" against the program.
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Democrat @SenWhitehouse “very much” wants to get Clarence Thomas & Samuel Alito in front of a judiciary hearing. @mehdirhasan presses him on holding SCOTUS justices to account.
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South Carolina high school teacher Mary Wood responds to having lessons on racism shut down by administrators after student complaints: “There was a censorship of the material, but there was also a censorship of proper engagement in classrooms.”
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In tonight’s #handover, @MehdiRHasan calls out Ron DeSantis’ laughable declaration that he could have been one of Jesus Christ’s disciples:
“The truth is that the Jesus of the Gospels and his disciples were way too left-wing for Ron DeSantis,” he tells @AymanM.
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.@PeterHotez responds to being asked to debate anti-vaxxer RFK Jr.
"Anti-vaccine disinformation...is now a lethal force in the United States. I offered to go on Joe Rogan but not to turn it into the Jerry Springer show with having RFK Jr. on."
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"What's the expression? 'Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty, and the pig gets 40,000 new followers on Twitter.'" @MehdiRHasan explains why world-renowned, peer-reviewed vaccine scientists should most certainly not debate anti-vax cranks on podcasts. WATCH:
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.@pbump debunks conservative talking points accusing Joe and Hunter Biden of a bribery scheme. “They haven’t actually uncovered any evidence…all that there is to this point is this allegation that is sitting at the FBI which is a secondhand conversation with someone else.”
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