Andrew Zelman
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Abdul El-Sayed said on a conference call that members of his team were worried about the supposed “risk” associated with condemning the antisemitic attack on Temple Israel. He says he decided to make the statement because he viewed making the statement as an act of leadership. From the article: “‘It was a risk,’ El-Sayed said. ‘All of our team was really worried about saying something, but leadership is being willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true that nobody else is going to say.’” Additionally, the article contains a link to an unlisted YouTube video. That video is the snippet of the Zoom call where he says this. While he is talking about this, one of the call’s participants comments “the synagogue raised funds for the IDF,” in an apparent effort to justify the attack. El-Sayed ignored this comment, refusing to give oxygen to the idea that there was any sort of justification for the attack. That’s good. But it’s also not good that there are people in high places within his campaign who would believe, let alone say, such a thing. I think Dr. El-Sayed is a good man. But I am supporting McMorrow in this primary, in part because I prefer a campaign that is not staffed by people who waver on whether antisemitism is bad.
THREAD: (1/13) A foreign-linked influence network has been running coordinated operations against the Trump administration for 22 months. I know it's real because they ran one against me. I was targeted in something I knew was far from organic. This level of media is isolating, unwanted, and unwarranted. There was nobody to help, nobody to jump in and say, this is a false OP and help me. Well, I don’t believe in problems without solutions, so I’ve spent the last few months learning to build programs to utilize publicly available information to prove that this is way bigger than me. This is about creating chaos in the Republican Party. It's about the organized effort to lose Republicans the midterms and subvert President Trump's agenda, and I have the data for you to see 🧵
Hegseth: We negotiate with bombs.
New WSJ article calls for US troops on the ground as the only way to achieve success in Iran. "President Trump must put boots on the ground to open the Strait of Hormuz and demonstrate the unquestionable supremacy of American power."
#Guardians Stephen Vogt on Austin Hedges’ injury: “We don't know. We’re gonna scan in the morning, just with where we are in spring and it being spring training, so. It got him good in the hand. There's some bruising, but so we'll, we'll get a scan tomorrow. We'll know more in the morning... You never want to get hit, you know that's scary… you can't be tough, you know what I mean. It’s when there's a lot of little bones. But we're hoping for the best.” #GuardsBall x @WEWS
TRUMP: He always came back here? GRACELAND WORKER: He always came back to Memphis. This was home. TRUMP: And now it's safe again
Dodgers probables to open the season: 3/26: Yamamoto 3/27: Sheehan 3/28: Glasnow 3/29: OFF 3/30: Sasaki 3/31: Ohtani
Quote: "Mueller’s family didn’t deserve the president’s grave dancing. None of Trump’s many enemies do. But Trump also didn’t deserve Russiagate. Nearly a decade after that phony scandal, our republic is still trying to recover." thefp.com/p/robert-muell…
