“[Republicans] have also been trying … to change people’s perception of violence … It’s a very dangerous moment,” says @ruthbenghiat, after Michael Flynn called for the U.S. to become a theocracy.
The U.S. has been added to a list of “backsliding” democracies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. 😳
@ruthbenghiat and @jelani9 join @emarvelous to discuss this alarm bell tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/GWcuiSi4n1g
Day One in the books! Feeling grateful to everyone who sent well wishes and tuned in…hope you can join again tonight as I guest host @MehdiHasanShow on @peacockTV at 7p EST 💜
Birtherism questions are now being asked about VP Kamala Harris.
"Only people of color even have that question posed to them," says @Yamiche. "At least some of our lawmakers are born in Canada, other places. We don’t have that sort of conversation about whether they're eligible."
As long as Biden runs again, scuttlebutt reporting about Biden and Harris is a non-issue, says @DrJasonJohnson.
If he doesn’t? "Nothing that VP Harris could end up doing or accomplishing short of curing cancer with a pill that would magically make her able to win against" Trump.
Rep. Ro Khanna reacts to reporting that internal Facebook documents show the platform knew it radicalized some users and that hate speech policies came at the expense of Black users:
What needs to happen in Washington to save the John Lewis voting rights bill now languishing in the Senate?
@JNelsonLDF has three words for @emarvelous: “End the filibuster.”
“This case just speaks so profoundly to the inherent, fundamental inequities in the system, where property is valued over human life, @ProfCAnderson tells @emarvelous about Rittenhouse. “‘He was protecting the property in his community.’ He wasn’t. He was part of a gang.”
New reporting about Facebook shows how the company’s algorithms had a bias against people of color.
@RoKhanna joins to discuss tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/21zyypyOaKg
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The U.N. Special Rep. for Afghanistan sees small signs of progress being made by the Taliban.
@BarakPashtana sees it differently: “I know about my country more than a U.N. representative would ever know, but they won’t let us do the talking...What does she know about my country?”
“If you could imagine for a moment if that were a young black man,” says @CkHoffler of Kyle Rittenhouse. “He would not have had this dream team of defense attorneys.”
“He probably wouldn’t be on trial if he was a young black man,” follows @mehdirhasan. “He’d probably be dead.”
Reporting by The Intercept raises questions over the NIH’s funding of research in China.
@mehdirhasan pushes Dr. Anthony Fauci on whether or not he thinks there were issues with the research.