@ggreenwald Your comments are valid. Still stick with the fact Ta-Neshi wrote a controversial book and it invites intense scrutiny.
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Michael Ray
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Michael Ray
@DelrayMike7
C student with ADD. Enjoy a good story and anything involving Vice.
Cook County, IL Katılım Temmuz 2009
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@DelrayMike7 I'm all for hard questions. Show me an interview with an Israel supporter with Tony Dokupil behaved similarly.
Moreover, pronouncing that Coates' book "would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist" is not a hard question or question at all, but a denunciation.
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Someone named Tony Dokoupil, married to an Israeli, angrily berated Ta-Nehisi Coates for his book about the repression of Palestinians in the West Bank, and Bari Weiss thought: "that'd be a great person to make the CBS News anchor and save the show."
Just a few months later:
Nick Field@nick_field90
"Weiss’ relaunched “CBS Evening News” with Tony Dokoupil is on track for its lowest-rated first quarter of the 21st century in both total viewers and the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings obtained by Status" status.news/p/cbs-news-rat…
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@boreskes @nytimes @SallyGold @JeffCMays Mamdani is like a 7th grader running for Student Council President by promising free Mountain Dew in the cafeteria. He makes de Blasio look competent.
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In proposing to raise property taxes, Mr. Mamdani appeared to have overestimated his power and underestimated the severe antipathy New Yorkers have toward a system that often disproportionately affects middle-class homeowners. W/ @SallyGold + @JeffCMays nytimes.com/2026/03/25/nyr…
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@SenDuckworth Tammy, you never have an original thought. Your constituents want you to fund TSA. And pay TSA employees. It’s not that hard. Please get this done.
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Mullin's confirmation doesn't change the fact that Trump's agents executed two Americans in broad daylight—or fix the issues at Trump's DHS.
And a pinky promise that ICE and CBP will stop terrorizing our neighborhoods isn't good enough.
We need serious reforms passed into law.
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@SenatorDurbin Hey Dick - you created stress on travelers with chaos at the airports and it didn’t produce the leverage you wanted. Just vote to fund TSA and pay the TSA employees. Stop with the stupid games.
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As Senate Republicans continue to block TSA funding to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda, I am on the Senate floor to call on my Republican colleagues to end this shutdown and oppose Senator Mullin’s nomination to lead DHS. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@JoyceCarolOates As an alternative, we could simply fund TSA and pay TSA employees
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would guess that many ICE officers have never been in a large international airport before. Proud Boys, MAGA recruits from Jan. 6.
seeing so many "foreign-looking" travelers must be a trigger for them since they have been directed to arrest a quota of "illegal immigrants" each day.
The Seneca Project@senecaprojectus
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@amyklobuchar It would be cool to see your team fund TSA and make sure TSA employees get paid. Amy, you are still receiving a check while voting against funding TSA. This is embarrassing. Get this funding done.
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March Madness at The Barn! Congrats to Amaya Battle on the game-winning shot and to the entire Gopher Women’s Basketball team on an incredible come-from-behind victory. On to the Sweet 16! 〽️
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@ABC7Chicago Tammy Duckworth @TammyDuckworth is still collecting her check while she voted to withhold funding of TSA and force TSA employees to work without pay. Shameful. Get this solved.
#tsa
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Some air travelers in Chicago waiting in long TSA lines expressed concerns after President Trump said he is planning to deploy ICE agents for security to major airports as soon as Monday if there isn't a deal reached to fund DHS. abc7chicago.com/post/long-tsa-…
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@simongerman600 Striking Iran could turn out to be a miscalculation but sometimes inaction and doing nothing is a greater risk.
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Who buys Qatar's LNG? Well, the two most populous countries on the planet. They probably aren’t loving the closed Strait of Hormuz. The Iran War looks like a gigantic miscalculation by Trump now.
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@JBPritzker JB is the new Madigan without the small time grift. He controls all IL Dem politicians and IL politics with his inherited wealth and bully tactics to force the party to obey his rules.
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@ddayen @Tyler_A_Harper Pritzker’s outsized influence on Illinois Democrats and IL politics is ridiculous. He is the new Madigan without the small time grift. His wealth controls races, candidates and endorsements.
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No idea what's going to happen in Illinois tonight, but I think we can safely say that almost $100 million spent in a handful of primaries is a full-spectrum disaster for democracy
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@CrainsChicago 79 year old Boss Toni Preckwinkle will stay in power. Cook County budget has increased by 46% from 2021 to 2026. It was time for a change. Missed opportunity.
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Preckwinkle staves off Reilly to keep county’s top job #Echobox=1773798493" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">chicagobusiness.com/politics-polic…
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@BruceWolfChi Bailey seems like a nice guy and would probably be a good neighbor but Bailey can’t win and Dan is being a realist. Doubtful anyone can defeat Pritzkers wealth and the advantage of massive public Union money and built in voters.
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If I ever hosted again on WIND — I put the odds at about the same as actually speaking to Dan again (we haven’t in 11 years, though there has been written communication, some of it nasty!) — I would want this woman to challenge anything I said that she felt was off.
Shannon Adcock 🇺🇸@Shannon_A_IL
🚨Breaking: After @IllinoisReview exposed @MorningAnswer’s/AM560’s weaponized attacks on GOP gov candidate Darren Bailey (vote comparisons + parody poem mocking him), the station quietly deleted the posts from their official Facebook page amid growing backlash & boycott calls from grassroots conservatives. This comes after the station turned into nonstop Bailey-bashing / unofficial Ted Dabrowski HQ—despite Proft & Ives having massive airtime to build up a strong alternative to Pritzker instead of tearing down fellow Republicans. Illinois Review's reporting forced accountability: No conservative outlet should smear the movement it claims to serve. The deletions are a clear rebuke to the tactics. I don’t see any real unity against Pritzker—just infighting & conflict-of-interest drama. Grassroots deserve better. What a joke. Link to story: illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview…
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@LasVegasLocally Dreaming about my epic craps table run at Bellagio in 2009 and wishing I was there right now in a comped room somewhere on the strip.
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What are you doing today, Vegas-wise?
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@IainMacBets Good stuff, Iain. I enjoy these betting challenges. Tip of the cap to Richard Roeper @RichardERoeper as one of the first on the scene with this schtick.
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Betting $100 Every Day for a Year: Day 69 (nice)
$25: Vanderbilt +8.5 (-108)
$25: Arizona -2.5 (-110)
$25: UConn -2.5 (-110)
$25: Duke -8 (-110)
Yesterday: 5-0 (+$89.67) 🧹
YTD: 124-137-1 (-$200.68)
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@Austin__Berg @Austin__Berg & @paschutz great work by you two. Thank you. Keep the spotlight on all of them. Johnson, CTU and CPS hate transparency and accountability.
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WATCH: Today I called on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Teachers Union to denounce Chicago Public Schools’ taxpayer-funded investigation into how exactly Chicagoans learned of a vote to hike their property taxes (not a joke).
Austin Berg@Austin__Berg
Chicago Public Schools—the largest municipal junk-bond issuer in the United States—is paying a law firm to investigate how journalists learned of the school board's plan to pass a $25M property tax hike. This "investigation" was initiated by CPS Board President Sean Harden. Harden was hand-picked by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and backed by the Chicago Teachers Union.
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@WGNMorningNews Preckwinkle is 79 years old and still clinging to power. Sad. Reilly wouldn’t be a huge upgrade but time for a change. Boss Toni needs to go.
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Preckwinkle seeks fifth term as Cook County Board President, talks political future | The Point
wgntv.com/news/preckwink…
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@johnarnold @CliffordAsness Everything is roses for the political class including public sector unions. Regular folks get the thorns and need to work until 67 for small SS so we can keep paying for the political class.
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I can’t believe New York State has a $10 bln deficit, NYC is facing its own $10 bln FY27 deficit, and 31 school districts are designated to be in fiscal stress and yet the state legislature is seriously considering doing this.
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@MarkLazerus @axsmithsports Way too soon to give up on Dach. He has been outplayed by Slaggert as of late but Dach has good upside, leads the Hawks in hits by a wide margin and only guy with any size on the team.
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Colton Dach was about to be crowded out of the lineup by Nick Lardis, Anton Frondell and Roman Kantserov, among others. No shock if the Blackhawks are sending him to his hometown team in Edmonton.
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@paschutz What would be worse: attending a full WNBA game without your phone or watching this entire debate with the sound on?
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A race watched all over the country with significance for the future direction of the Democratic Party. Millions in outside $$$ flooding the airwaves with attack ads galore. Tonight - the top candidates in the 9th Congressional District democratic primary face off - 6pm LIVE only on @fox32news
fox32chicago.com/news/us-house-…
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