The guy who plays “Dollar” Bill Stearn on “Billions” sure doesn’t sound like a billionaire! “I don't think that every regulation means that you're a socialist,” @KellyAuCoin77 tells Mehdi, adding, “I don't believe that infrastructure is simply bridges and roads”:
DHS and local law enforcement worked together to arrest a PA man under suspicion of building “weapons of mass destruction.”
Mehdi: “Imagine if it were a Muslim guy making bombs in his apartment?”
@WajahatAli: “It would be a war on apartments. That’s what would happen.”
Some Taliban leaders have vowed to be more gender-progressive, and some want to go back to draconian discrimination. NBC News analyst @AtiaAbawi breaks down what the future might look like for Afghan women -- and why their war isn’t over.
How did a leading doctor on a panel that guides the FDA's Covid vaccine approval process end up equating masks with child abuse and advising Ron DeSantis? @mehdirhasan explains, and reminds you that "not all experts are equal."
“It is about time” for the feds to tackle white domestic terrorism, says @MsPackyetti, but she reminds us that terror laws "are often written about white people but end up targeting Black people."
Where is the balance? Class is in:
The GOP is hitting the WH hard over the Afghan withdrawal, but remains silent on the previous 20 years.
"This is what the people who profited off of this war want to happen," says @LucasKunceMO, "so that we don't focus on the war profiteering and the people who kept us there."
Oh look, another former Trump administration official has a tell-all book to hawk.
@mehdirhasan has a brief look at what *this* book tells us about the former first lady...and the predictable stages of a Trump official’s life cycle:
"9/11 was a tragedy. But so was what came after," says @MehdiRHasan in tonight’s #minirant.
“Let’s please learn the lessons of the past 20 catastrophic, violent years.”
Think not getting the Covid-19 shot only affects you? Think again, @angie_rasmussen tells @mehdirhasan. "It affects a lot of people in your community and in your household, since not everybody is eligible to get vaccinated at this point."
Where do negotiations on voting rights legislation stand right now?
“I think that if we’re not successful getting 10 Republicans to do the right thing, then we have no choice but to revisit the rules of the Senate,” @AlexPadilla4CA tells @MehdiRHasan.
Britain is celebrating the U.S. Open win of Emma Raducanu, born in Canada to parents from China and Romania, and being hailed as the face of a diverse UK.
But as British-American @mehdirhasan asks, wouldn’t it be great to celebrate even the immigrants who don’t win trophies?
Earlier this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was open to filibuster reform but now she's not sure it’s needed, claiming Democracy isn’t “in jeopardy.”
Her fellow Senator from California, @AlexPadilla4CA, shares his take with @MehdiRHasan:
Senate Dems are nearing a compromise on voting rights legislation, if Republicans refuse to sign on, will Sen. Manchin finally budge on filibuster reform?
@AlexPadilla4CA tells @MehdiRHasan he thinks decision time will come “sooner rather than later.”
Tune in at 8p ET for more.
In this special episode, @MehdiHasanShow explores all that was lost on September 11th and the 20 years since, including how the ensuing domestic and foreign policy decisions reshaped global relations.
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=8eDzavor…
Mehdi Hasan reflects on the two decades since the September 11th attacks, and how the War On Terror only succeeded in giving the world more war and more terror.
youtube.com/watch?v=rS1Mdzwf…
@keithellison tells @mehdirhasan that in terms of responding to terrorism, “when you’re responsible for running a society, you gotta respond with a little bit more thought and a whole lot more humanity and reason.”
Is the U.S. safer now than 20 years ago?
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson says no: “I think we’ve created more terrorists in the world.”