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“Sometimes,” Mehdi says, “it seems like the only thing protecting our democracy is the sheer stupidity of its enemies.” He’s got a few specific recent examples in mind:
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What the President Bidens and Senator Manchins of modern-day Washington, DC forget as they seek increasingly elusive deals with the GOP, @MehdiRHasan points out, is that bipartisanship is a relatively recent phenomenon:
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Journalist @m7mdkurd and his sister were detained by Israeli police this weekend for reporting on the situation in Sheikh Jarrah. Mehdi asks him: What message, if any, would you give to U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken? Listen to his answer:
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Many Americans -- including liberals, Mehdi points out -- are fine with admitting “genuine refugees, but not economic migrants,” to the U.S. But @AymanM says his experience reporting from Guatemala shows how that distinction is virtually meaningless to the needy:
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“We need to eliminate the filibuster,” @RepDean says. And for Democratic senators who defend the filibuster, she asks: “Where are the solutions in the Senate to the many bills we have sent over to the Senate?”
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There will be new congressional investigations into the Capitol insurrections, because “the national security threat continues to this day,” @RepDean says. “It is not as though 1/6 happened in a box, and we turned the page to 1/7, and we do not risk anything further.”
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Did you hear about the Italian plot to use military satellites to flip Trump votes to Biden? Of *course* it’s bunk. But @mehdirhasan explains why it, and the ex-president’s latest election conspiracy theories, are in the news, again, today:
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Donald Trump may have been banned from social media, but that doesn't mean his messages have stopped reaching his Republican base.
@RepDean joins @mehdirhasan to discuss the continuous spread of Trumpism now and in the future.
Live tonight at 7pm ET.
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It’s no secret @naftalibennett isn’t enthusiastic about a two-state solution. So what hope is there for an Israeli-Palestinian resolution? Bennett’s Chief Strategist tells @MehdiRHasan the broad new coalition may still be able to achieve peace.
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After years of far-right rhetoric against Palestinians and Arabs, is @naftalibennett up to the job of becoming Israeli PM? His Chief Strategist tells @MehdiRHasan “I’ve seen him evolve as a leader, as a politician, as a man.”
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Is it time to grant Reality Winner clemency? @bjwinnerdavis, the mother of the ex-NSA contractor who leaked classified documents that were the first we learned about Russian interference in 2016, tells @MehdiRHasan “the continued silence” is “a continued persecution.”
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30 days after the Biden Admin. first announced plans to send surplus vaccines abroad, they finally followed through with the first shipment of doses. In those 30 days, 100,000 Indians died. In this #minirant @MehdiRHasan asks, what took so long? Start the clock!
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What does @SenBobCasey think about his colleague Sen. Joe Manchin’s opposition to the ‘For the People Act’? Sen. Casey tells @MehdiRHasan that he disagrees with Manchin and says what state-level GOP lawmakers are doing is “partisan ideological warfare.”
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In a new op-ed, Sen. Joe Manchin came out against the ‘For the People Act’ and defended his support for the filibuster. @MehdiRHasan dispels the 5 greatest myths about the arcane Senate rule. WATCH:
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.@mehdirhasan: Is there an overlap between white supremacists and white evangelicals?
@kathsstewart explains how it’s like a Venn diagram.
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Counterculture can be tracked by what people want to burn (bras, flags, etc.)... So what are Republicans doing, right now?
They are burning masks to own the libs. 🤩
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Could Liberty University be considering distancing itself from Trump and Trumpism, @MehdiRHasan asks, as it eyes naming the less controversial of Jerry Falwell, Sr.’s sons as its next chancellor?
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It’s out with the old, and in with the new.
@mehdirhasan introduces you to Israel’s possible new prime minister, right-winger Naftali Bennett.
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Did Covid-19 originate in a lab or in nature? Jury’s still out, apparently.
@angie_rasmussen says the evidence points to nature, while @Ayjchan says “the current evidence is all circumstantial, and it is consistent with both a natural and a lab origin.”
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