Mehdi traces the right-wing extremist movement from Ruby Ridge to Waco to Oklahoma City to the Trump era: “The violent far-right has anointed him their patron saint.”
Oct 9, 2020 · 11:41 PM UTC
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Michigan is home to a large Arab-American population that's been targeted by law enforcement since 9/11, even though far-right extremism has claimed more lives in the past decade. "Why the double standard?" Mehdi asks. @MIAttyGen answers: "I mean, I think it's pretty obvious."
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Mehdi: “Do you have confidence in [Attorney General Bill Barr]?”
@MIAttyGen: “No.”
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“TikTok's whole thing for a while was lip-syncing to pop songs and dance videos. What made you think, in the middle of a pandemic, in the final year of the Trump term, "Let me do that, but let me do it to this crazy president?"
@sarahcpr: “Because I can’t dance.”
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“People are sick of seeing his face.” -- @Sarahcpr
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"There's not even a question about it. I would actually be incredibly concerned about that patient's health and their state of cognition." @kavitapmd worries about Trump's insistence on holding public events while still in his COVID "ten-day window."
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