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Elon Musk has long claimed the so-called “Twitter Files” prove that govt worked with the platform to censor ordinary Americans. And @mehdirhasan has long said, No, they don't. But don't just take his word for it – here's what Twitter's own lawyers are now saying about it:
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Is Chris Christie an afterthought in a crowded GOP primary field, or could he still do serious damage for Trump’s prospects in the general election?
@DelPercioS and @TaraSetmayer debate the former Trump ally’s role in 2024.
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Whether or not SCOTUS upholds student loan forgiveness, @mehdirhasan says, the whole *system* of treating students as "ATMs for loan investors” needs changing. If you’re not convinced, let Mehdi tell you about the life – and death – of borrower-activist Jessica Madison. WATCH:
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Former Vice President Mike Pence announced his candidacy Wednesday, and said Trump should never be president again. The comment was particularly remarkable given his long history of cringe-worthy praise for Trump.
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Chris Christie is running for the GOP nomination as the anti-Trump candidate. He may want us all to forget the years of fawning praise he heaped on Trump, but we remember.
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.@nazahmad126 tells @MehdiRHasan her former CUNY Law student has had to go into hiding since being attacked for criticizing Israel in her commencement speech. "She had to leave and explain to her parents why this is happening."
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In tonight's #handover, @MehdiRHasan and @AymanM discuss Ron DeSantis' thin-skinned disposition since he's been on the campaign trail.
"He's a real snowflake which probably makes him a very easy target for Donald Trump's attacks."
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"It turns out the people who claim to care about cancel culture don't mind cancelling people they don't like."
@MehdiRHasan calls out the attacks a CUNY Law graduate is facing for criticizing Israel in her commencement speech.
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“If the Department of Justice is going to do that kind of thing against mothers who had their children separated from them, then we will lose that battle for the soul of the nation.”
@JulianCastro on new court filings that show the DOJ defending Trump’s family separation policy
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“I think it’s important to distinguish between hatred against Israel and hatred against the Jewish people and not to conflate these two things.” @DovWaxman defends a CUNY Law School graduate who criticized Israel in her commencement speech, prompting backlash from NY politicians.
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.@WajahatAli was kicked off a tech company Zoom meeting for getting real about trans children being bullied, Black people being shot by police & Asian people being blamed for Covid. But he hasn't heard a word from the right who claim to hate cancel culture: "I wonder why."
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.@BarbMcQuade lays out the charges we could see in the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents and estimates that it could be “a year or so before it comes to trial, right in the middle of the 2024 election.”
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"To say there's a separate tier of justice where you have 11-year-old being shot in the chest after complying with police officers is an overwhelming understatement." @DaveHendersonJD on Trump evading responsibility for actions that anyone else would be punished for.
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"I for one am fed up of us normalizing and accepting both Donald Trump's alleged criminality and his brazen racism." @MehdiRHasan on Donald Trump continuing to escape accountability for his actions.
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We're celebrating a winning streak here at The Mehdi Hasan Show. Thanks for watching us and @mehdirhasan every Sunday on @MSNBC!
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Julian Assange deserves jail because "he is not a member of the free press," @jamil_n_jaffer tells @mehdirhasan.
But @JameelJaffer says: "If you can charge Julian Assange" with publishing U.S. secrets, "you can charge any national security journalist with that."
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.@ArianMoayed ends up playing a lot of unlikeable characters, like Stewy on “Succession,” and Torvald in “A Doll’s House.”
@mehdirhasan asks, “What is it like for you to play these awful characters? Especially when everyone who knows you says you're such a nice sweet guy?”
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“I felt like there was no longer any room for anyone not to be political. Push had come to shove,” says @j_smithcameron, who played Gerri on “Succession.” She and @ArianMoayed, aka Stewy, discuss their own activism with @mehdirhasan.
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To mark the end of HBO’s hit show, “Succession,” @mehdirhasan recounts some of his favorite moments over the last four seasons and unpacks his love-hate relationship with the Roys.
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“When you face an existential threat to democracy, cowardice is complicity,” Yale professor Jason Stanley tells @mehdirhasan about Democrats’ weak response to the right’s growing fascism.
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