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Podcast on politics, philosophy, and the left. Hosted by @ryanlcooper and @alexios13. Support the show & enjoy bonus episodes! https://t.co/uxFuJg0WCX
Philadelphia, PA Katılım Eylül 2018
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Left Anchor (@leftanchor.bsky.social ) retweetledi
Just debated Third Way’s Jonathan Cowan on @BrianLehrer over fake @hasanthehun controversy. He was broken record, repeating antisemitism/anti-American smears. He couldn’t respond to anything and refused to say whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. wnyc.org/story/should-d…
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Bears repeating that the target of these deranged intimidation campaigns, wether Claudine Gay’s “plagiarism” or Rama Duwaji’s art freelancing, are not the subjects themselves as much as a generalized menace for others to just shut up and go about their business
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people like to mock the triviality of Piker Discourse but it is useful to see it as an elite moral panic/disciplining exercise. Tanden hired not one but two architects of the Gaza genocide. CAP is bank rolled by Corporate America. These guys desperately need it to be 2015 forever
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Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.
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@schmap244 Yes they can read a poll like you and I can. Who nominally “pays for it” is morally irrelevant. It’s why the demand is and has been an *arms embargo** not cutting off “aid”. Read this explainer from last Jan when Netanyahu/FDD/Graham first pushed the idea imeupolicyproject.org/memos/israels-…
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wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers thenation.com/article/societ…
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Israel is explicitly committing ethnic cleansing against Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon (per the NYT) and western media, as they did with Gaza, keeps framing it as Israel “creating a buffer zone”
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The Hormuz crisis has been a wake-up call that relying on fossil fuels from volatile reasons is high-risk compared to renewable energy. The problem is that a lot of components to make solar and wind are stuck in the Persian Gulf, too. From Ryan Cooper:
prospect.org/2026/04/15/aft…
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Left Anchor (@leftanchor.bsky.social ) retweetledi
American men are more likely to have gambling debt than to have read a book in the last year.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
More than half of men ages 18-49 (52%) now say they have an active sports betting account with an online sportsbook like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM.
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Left Anchor (@leftanchor.bsky.social ) retweetledi
Kirkpatrick supplied, by rehashing Cold War typologies of totalitarianism and authoritarianism, the intellectual and moral justification for the support of death squads in Latin America. She was a monster.
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
"Jeane Kirkpatrick was our ambassador to the United Nations during the first Reagan administration. She was a Democrat. She did not change her registration until after she had left government. She was 59. Jeane remarked, 'I’d rather be a liberal.'” open.substack.com/pub/jaynordlin…
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Left Anchor (@leftanchor.bsky.social ) retweetledi
Again this was not “Netanyahu”— key Israeli policies that have alienated US democrats are majority opinions within Israel. Support for ethnic cleansing of Gaza (82%), support for starvation in Gaza (68%) and war on Iran (93%) are all MAJORITY opinions among Jewish Israelis.
Joe Scarborough@ScarboroughNow
Netanyahu has caused a generational collapse of US support for Israel. I say this as a lifelong supporter of Israel who has long feared Netanyahu’s maximalist—and ahistorical—view of geopolitical realities in the Middle East would cause a devastating blowback for Israel. It has.
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Neera hired not one but two architects of the Gaza genocide—Blinken and Finer. She also stopped disclosing CAP’s donors (under the absurd pretense she wanted to protect them from Trump, as if the president couldn’t find out?). Left-punching is the only reason she has her role.
Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸@HBendaas
I wish that Neera would just be honest that she is the lone head of a major think tank obsessing over this because she more than most owes her current status, down to her current job, to swearing fealty to Israel. Why not be upfront about it besides shame?
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Left Anchor (@leftanchor.bsky.social ) retweetledi
This is blatant illegality, but it shows again how blowback works on us: war overseas makes our rights at home far more contingent and precarious. By their logic who is next to have their permanent residency or even citizenship revoked: dissenters, of course.
Phil Stewart@phildstewart
MORE - (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have arrested the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday. "Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement," the State Department said in a statement after Rubio revoked their green cards.
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Respectfully, 80% of Democrats think Israel is committing genocide but Politico, the New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Semafor, etc, are all very pro Israel. That, not Hasan Piker, may be the problem.
Adam Wren@adamwren
New: @hasanthehun is driving a wedge in the Democratic Party. @playbookdc surveyed 14 potential '28 Dem candidates, asking whether they would appear on a livestream with Piker if invited. Only 3 definitively said they would. Plus: my interview w/ Piker. politico.com/newsletters/pl…
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There might not be a better single illustration of the moral and intellectual collapse of the Western liberal intelligentsia than this interview.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
Economist Editor-in-Chief: Clearly you and I agree, and we’ve both been critical of the Israeli government. Tucker Carlson: Well, I’ve been critical of the Israeli government. The Economist: I’ve been plenty critical. Tucker Carlson: What do you think of what happened in Gaza?
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Key architect and promoter of the Gaza genocide yucking it up with Stephen Colbert if you’re wondering if they’ll ever be accountability in liberal circles for Biden WH’s support for the crime of crimes.
Brett McGurk@brett_mcgurk
On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert discussing America’s fraught history with Iran and risks of unclear objectives in military affairs. Full segment: youtu.be/uZ1CEl3zpqQ?si…
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It's kind of stunning to see a major New York Times article clearly vindicating the Meirsheimer/@stephenWalt view of US Middle East policy.
Edward Wong@ewong
NEW from @nytimes: The definitive story of how Trump took an almost inevitable path to a new US war in the Middle East: Netanyahu repeatedly urged him to attack Iran with Israel, and no aides voiced opposition. Netanyahu also undermined diplomacy. Regime change became the goal.
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Underrated sociopathic element of US-Israel violence is after they kill The Bad Guy, typically along with 1000s of civilians, they feed the “inside story” to baby bird NatSec reporters at NYT or Atlantic who do a glowing Zero Dark Thirty write-up about how sexy and slick it was
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