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After it was reported that Delta Airlines lobbied the CDC to shorten quarantine time, @MehdiRHasan asks former CDC Director @DrTomFrieden if big business ever lobbied him when he was in charge: "All the time."
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If journalism is the first draft of history, what then is right-wing media?
“It’s the first draft of the new lost cause,” says @pastpunditry. “It’s an alternative history of January 6th.”
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With the sheer amount of Confederate imagery present at the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, you can’t really call it an unprecedented attack.
“Whenever someone says ‘unprecedented’, that means you just haven’t examined the history most of the time,” says @jelani9.
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.@rickhasen wrote a piece a year ago saying he’d never been more worried about American democracy. And now? Hasen tells @mehdirhasan “I have to say I’m just much more worried than I was.” WATCH:
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.@mehdirhasan became an American citizen less than three months before the insurrection.
“I chose to be here because I value freedom,” he says. “Now I choose to be in this fight. Which is a fight, as the president put it today, for the soul of America.”
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.@RepSwalwell says hearing the House Chaplain pray as insurrectionists descended on the chamber on Jan. 6th “felt a little bit like a last rites.” WATCH:
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One year after the insurrection, many Americans continue to believe an alarming number of lies about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. @mehdirhasan debunks the 4 most enduring lies:
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President Biden’s speech today had @RepSwalwell feeling like Will Smith in Bad Boys - Not a comparison you hear every day. WATCH:
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“It was shocking and unbelievable.”
Brittany Swalwell tells @mehdirhasan what it was like to see the Jan. 6 insurrection unfold as her husband @RepSwalwell was inside the Capitol.
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One year after a mob overtook his place of work, @RepSwalwell and his wife Brittany join @mehdirhasan to look back on the insurrection.
Don’t miss their conversation tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/Y5PQ6rcw3ls
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Countries that have had one civil war — gulp! — are vulnerable to having another one. This political scientist calls it “the conflict trap."
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TONIGHT: @TheChoice marks one year since the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Stream special coverage beginning at 6pm on @peacockTV and YT: youtube.com/Y5PQ6rcw3ls
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Top news execs say Americans don’t watch climate coverage.
“It needs to be baked-in to the day-to-day coverage,” prescribes @davidsirota. “Everything from a White House press conference on a normal, regular day… in a sense, everything is climate policy.”
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In #DontLookUp Leonardo DiCaprio plays a climate scientist inspired by @MichaelEMann.
The real-life expert weighs in on whether Leo did him justice on film, and if the doctor becoming a sex symbol in the Netflix hit was art imitating life.
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Omicron is now the dominant variant in the U.S. we’re told– 95% of all cases. So what happened to Delta? And Covid-19 O.G.?
@BhadeliaMD explains how the Delta variant “got beaten to the punch.”
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Children are being hospitalized in record numbers as the Omicron variant surges in the U.S. So why then are kids and teachers heading into classrooms in person right now?
@mehdirhasan has strong thoughts about the current state of the school closure debate:
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.@RepDanKildee has been open about the trauma of 1/6, compounded by GOP colleagues rewriting history to appease a base clinging to the Big Lie.
“They are unwilling to do the most important thing that any leader ever has to do, and that is tell their supporters a difficult truth.”
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