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In news deserts across the country, Facebook groups are filling the void. But what happens when moderation fails and the groups spin out of control? @BrandyZadrozny joins @mehdirhasan tonight to discuss at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV peacocktv.com/channels/the-c…
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“We were given a voter registration card, but we can’t use it.” As @cmhdaprincess tells @MehdiRHasan, she was given the tools to try to vote after she was released under supervision for tax fraud. Now she faces more prison time. Watch:
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Matt Gaetz is handling "this scandal like he's handled every element of his career," says @Mdixon55. Listen as he answers @MehdiRHasan’s question about where the scandal is headed next:
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Republicans “are angry because they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar”, @JRubinBlogger says. Watch as she explains why, to @MehdiRHasan, here:
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When it comes to raising taxes Joe Biden is being both “a very radical president” and also “quite modest in the details.” Listen as @RBReich explains to @MehdiRHasan:
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Find out why @MehdiRHasan says some of the punditry surrounding the voting rights fight is “nonsensical.” And “missing the forest for the trees.”
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Georgia’s voter restrictions may already be law but @MehdiRHasan asks @MsLaToshaBrown what it’s going to take to prevent similar measures from passing in Texas or Florida and other states. Watch:
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If the trickle-down economics of the Reagan era were a failure, @RBReich tells @MehdiRHasan that what Joe Biden is trying is “bottom-up economics” that invests in people, not just profits. Watch:
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Many believed Biden would legislate as President as he’s legislated his whole career, from the center. “It really is surprising,” @RBReich tells @MehdiRHasan. “Joe Biden turns out to be much more like Franklin D Roosevelt than *anybody* who followed his career would've assumed.”
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Russian opposition leader @navalny is on hunger strike over his prison conditions. In a bizarre twist he’s been visited by convicted Russian operative Maria Butina who taunted him over his complaints. @juliaioffe explains:
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The DOJ is investigating Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz over possible sex trafficking. But even before the probe was revealed, @MehdiRHasan has a 60-second-rant reminder that Rep. Gaetz is no stranger to scandal. Start the clock!
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During week one of the Chauvin murder trial, the defense tried to put George Floyd on trial instead. When you put Floyd on trial “you’re putting Black people on trial,” @CornelWest explains to @MehdiRHasan, “so imagine that policeman my neck.”
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With Biden’s $2T infrastructure bill on the line, Sen. Bernie Sanders shares with @MehdiRHasan what’s going on behind the scenes in the Senate to pressure WV Democrat Joe Manchin on the filibuster. “There is a lot of work being done internally,” he said. WATCH:
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“I think it’s a serious problem,” @SenSanders tells @MehdiRHasan about the threat Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ power & wealth presents to representative democracy in this country. We need to “bring the power back to ordinary people.”
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The Bessemer, AL Amazon warehouse could see a milestone union election vote as early as Monday. @SenSanders, who strongly supports the move, tells @MehdiRHasan if they win “it will be a shot in the arm for union organizing” across the U.S.
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Pres. Biden unveiled his $2T infrastructure plan this week but some Dems, like Rep. AOC, say it's "not nearly enough". @SenSanders agrees, telling @MehdiRHasan “i don’t think it goes far enough in terms of climate”.
Catch the full interview tonight at 8p on @msnbc
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Should we “cancel" Stephen Miller?
“No one in our public life deserves it more richly,” writes @SykesCharlie. Read more about how Trump’s immigration architect is attempting to rehab his image in @MSNBCdaily msnbc.com/opinion/trump-immi…
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Courtney Ross teared up today as she recalled boyfriend George Floyd and their struggles with drugs. With her testimony, @CFColemanJr says, the prosecution “did their job with a potential landmine within their case”: the theory that drugs, and not police brutality, killed Floyd.
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Some activists may boycott companies that don’t fight Georgia’s new voting restrictions, but “we've found them to not be as effective as other tools,” says Color of Change’s @rashadrobinson. He favors “a wide range of other pressures” that will disrupt “business as usual.”
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One thing quietly looms over the Alabama Amazon union fight: automation. @byjacobward says Amazon employees speak to him in “automation-style terms” like “time on task...All the people that we spoke to recognize that robots are coming, they’ll be part of this in the future.”
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