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Kevin Cook literally wrote the book on the '93 Waco siege and modern extremism.
By campaigning there, Trump's "followers understand the signal that he gave," Cook tells @mehdirhasan. "I think holding this rally at Waco is another way of saying 'stand back and stand by.'"
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Was Trump’s Waco speech a coincidence? Not to the current leader of the cult from the 1993 standoff, who calls Trump “the anointed of God.”
“Trump is not [fmr. cult leader] David Koresh,” @mehdirhasan says, “but we are in dangerous, apocalyptic, violence-glorifying territory.”
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Ignore the right-wing apologists. There are 70,000 reasons why today’s Manhattan Grand Jury indictment of Donald Trump matters. My insta-reaction to a historic day, with a nod to @JuddLegum.
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Kevin Cook literally wrote the book on how the 1993 Waco siege laid the groundworks for America’s modern militia movement. He joins @mehdirhasan to discuss the not-so-subtle symbolism of Trump’s 2024 kickoff rally being in Waco.
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.@RadioFreeTom says it’s wrong to compare Bush’s invasion of Iraq to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, arguing a key difference is that the Russians “laid waste” to Ukrainian cities.
But what about the U.S. siege of Fallujah? @mehdirhasan asks: Was that not a Putin-level war crime?
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Michael Moore looks back on his then-controversial Oscars acceptance speech from 2003, where he was booed for standing up against the Iraq War.
“We were not going to find any weapons of mass destruction. This was all a big lie." -@MMFlint
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Israelis are blocking highways and lighting fires in the streets over the government's judicial overhaul after 300,000 joined a rally in Tel Aviv, alone, last night. Israeli human rights lawyer @sfardm calls it a "collective civics lesson being taught and learned by the public."
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Is it time to talk about conditioning U.S. aid to Israel?
@JamaalBowmanNY tells @MehdiRHasan "we need to have a robust, full conversation on what's happening there as Israel remains an ally of the U.S."
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"We're not going to talk about banning Facebook, but we'll ban TikTok? It's absurd to have one conversation and not the other."
@JamaalBowmanNY on why he's against Congress' push to ban TikTok.
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.@ElieNYC tells @MehdiRHasan the media should cover Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis more thoughtfully going into 2024.
"The media needs to stop normalizing these fascists... they never faced accountability for how they created Trump in the first place and they're doing it again."
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.@OliviaTroye on Trump's threats against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and government institutions: "He knows exactly what he's doing... The people listening take that as a call to action."
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“Ron DeSantis is a wet noodle cosplaying as an Alpha MAGA man. He does not have what it takes." @WajahatAli on DeSantis' chances of beating Trump.
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"When I look at Trump v. DeSantis, I'm reminded of Lindsey Graham's infamous 2016 jibe at the Trump and Ted Cruz standoff: choosing between those two, he said, was like choosing between 'being shot or poisoned," @MehdiRHasan says of the escalating Florida Man feud.
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Wisconsin has a democracy problem - in that it barely has one! The state’s upcoming supreme court election could either help turn things around…or set democracy back for the rest of the country.
@mehdirhasan explains: youtube.com/mVzd5-JjtKw
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You might’ve seen Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina’s viral interview with Ari Melber, defending Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
But before Tacopina was for Trump, he seemed to be against him, on CNN.
Time for a #MehdiMash.
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"I don't have any regrets," says former Democratic Senator @DougJones of his vote for Trump-era rollbacks on banking regulations that progressives blame for SVB's collapse.
@mehdirhasan challenges him on that vote and the DC-lobbyist revolving door. Watch:
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Trump and his allies keep claiming that major Dem donor George Soros is behind Trump’s potential indictment in NYC. But Soros has never given money, or even talked to, the Manhattan DA investigating Trump. So what is this Soros name-dropping really about? @mehdirhasan explains.
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As a Democratic senator from Alabama, Doug Jones voted in favor of a 2018 law to roll back regulations on U.S banks, a law that some say contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank this month. @DougJones joins @Mehdirhasan to talk about his vote.
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“Not much.”
That’s what legendary scholar and activist Noam Chomsky tells @mehdirhasan the U.S. learned from the Iraq War, remaining as outspoken on the atrocities of the conflict as he was two decades ago.
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Is Iraq better today than it was at the start of the U.S. invasion in 2003? “Absolutely not” says @GhaithAbdulahad. He and @Yanar_Mohammed join @mehdirhasan to describe life in Iraq today.
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