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@adamjohnsonCHI Couldn't even bother to write the post themselves too, that's AI slop

@porcyk @wrappingline @crampell Dawg you should go work at a movie theater with how much you are projecting

@rscottri @wrappingline @crampell Nope. Not in the slightest .Sorry your heroes are textbook invaders and you're an illiterate Nazi moron.

Because this is circulating again: Mr. Abu Toha is a gifted writer who has endured tremendous loss. But with all due respect, he lied extensively in our interview, specifically about his past comments on social media. And those lies have since gone viral because they have been excerpted and shared without context. Here is some of the context. Most of our interview was about his personal story of grief and suffering, and his writings about this topic, which were honored with a Pulitzer. His award was controversial at the time, however, because of some of his social media posts excusing or rationalizing violence on Oct. 7. The controversy surrounding his honor was readily apparent from any basic Google News search about him at the time. Among other things, he said that the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas, a recognized terrorist group, were not really “hostages,” and essentially had it coming. For example he mocked one specific hostage by name (Emily Damari), who was abducted from her home on a kibbutz on Oct. 7; shot; and subsequently starved and abused underground for 500 days. (She released an open letter to the Pulitzer Board after Mr. Abu Toha's prize was awarded.) In another post, Mr. Abu Toha criticized the BBC and CNN for “humaniz[ing]” Israeli Jews. I am including screen shots of examples of those posts. Mr. Abu Toha has since deleted these posts, which may tell you something about whether he thinks they were wise to publish. In our interview, I asked Mr. Abu Toha if there was anything he would like to clarify about the Facebook posts he had deleted. He responded by lying about what he had said. “First of all, I did not question her status as a hostage, because she is a hostage,” he replied, adding that he had said only that Palestinians should be treated with compassion. This representation is false. If that anodyne statement had been entirety of his prior Facebook remarks, it indeed might look outrageous that a journalist would ask him about any “controversy.” But that is not the case. Mr. Abu Toha is a poet awarded a prize specifically for his words; some of those words have attracted substantial criticism because they countenanced violence. To not ask about those words and the ongoing storm surrounding them would be a dereliction of our jobs as journalists.

@TOliveFern Multiple 1000 to 1 ratios on that post, I haven't seen that in a long, long time lmao

Brianna Wu after meeting a Black woman who doesn’t share her genocidal views

@EricMTerrill1 That's why you always include the units of measure!

this is what twitter is all about

@RichardHanania The fact that you make more than 60k a year being a midwit "reformed" racist is more of an indictment on society than whatever point you're trying to make

Graham Platner says he and his wife make $60K a year combined. Isn't this an indication you've failed at life? Why would this be something you brag about?

@AJentleson @AbdulElSayed @SearchlightInst Wait, I thought ideological purity tests were bad though, why are you forcing candidates to pigeonhole themselves?

Here’s the question for @AbdulElSayed: if you were a senator and a bill to enact free primary care for all plus an aggressive public option (like the American Health Gateway @SearchlightInst proposed) came to the floor, would you vote for it? To his enormous credit, Bernie Sanders voted for the ACA. He has also been a driving force behind policies like capping the price of insulin, getting Medicare to cover hearing aids, and empowering the government to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors. These are all extraordinarily good polices that could be transformative for many American families. Yet none of them can be called “revolutionary.” Bernie has always pushed the system to think big, but when push comes to shove, he votes for what he thinks will do the most good for the most people.

@porcyk @wrappingline @crampell You contradicted yourself twice in 3 sentences lmao

@wrappingline @crampell Only one invasion happened on October 7th. You don't get to violate borders and take "prisoners of war" when you aren't at war. Also, Israel gets to respond to the war you started. This is basic stuff, moron tankie.

@crampell Just another smear by a zionist

@lukeisamazing It was inevitable that they would have to get rid of KAT when they traded for Gobert and you can't win a championship these days with a player that one dimensional at center

that’s cheap ownership forcing it, not the CBA. if you’re really trying to win, pay for the aprons or stfu

@Jeffery1313 @BenBurgis @RachelAzzara @AbdulElSayed Hard to say that when he was running the Detroit Health Department and was health director of Wayne County

@BenBurgis @RachelAzzara @AbdulElSayed Written by people who have never actually worked in healthcare.

Brilliant. How about we just do…free healthcare for all Americans?

@RachelAzzara @AbdulElSayed You do know AES wrote an entire book about the subject right

@AbdulElSayed It’s not enough to just dangle a general idea like free healthcare out there. You need to show the policy and the path to paying for it and passing it. People are in desperate need for actionable solutions.

@LilMoody608 @ettingermentum Yeah i wasn't using "socialist" as a pejorative, white baseball players tend to be very conservative as a whole

@rscottri @ettingermentum Well I was told that the mayor of NYC is a socialist and he’s making every other major cities mayors look like complete buffoons

Literally nobody can compete with him he’s the Babe Ruth of wokeness

@LilMoody608 @ettingermentum For a white dude who plays baseball for a living he's basically a socialist

@ettingermentum Fucking insane we live in a world where this is considered “woke” and treated like some out of pocket take lol

@EricMTerrill1 All that work to just dump a bunch of coke in it lmao

jack daniels does not deserve all this churchin up and i say this as a lifelong tennesseean

@treeaston An expansion of the existing essential health services codes is the definition of incremental change lmao

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@JamesMiles21 @th3witn3zz @sahilkapur @SearchlightInst Its literally just a slight expansion of the ACA policy that makes going to your doctor for a yearly checkup free. Once anything expensive or complicated happens you're still on the hook for it.

@th3witn3zz @sahilkapur @SearchlightInst It’s a better idea than gripping on to Heritage Foundation healthcare plan for dear life, as Republicans turn against it

Scoop: Democratic think tank @SearchlightInst is pushing the party to embrace a new idea: Free primary care for all Americans. The group wants Dems to rethink their approach to health care and break out of the M4A vs ACA rut. They’re unimpressed with CAP’s proposal and warn that Dems need to have a vision beyond opposing Trump and restoring expired subsidies. “This is still our best issue, but we have not been on offense in a way that’s capturing people’s imaginations and getting them excited,” says @AJentleson. “We don’t need to be on defense or just advocating for incremental reforms.” Story w/ @BerkeleyJr: nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

10 years after Medicare For All entered the policy discourse and nearly 20 years after Obama ran on a public option this is the crap centrists are proclaiming as transformative. It's a slight expansion of getting a free check up once a year, the truly crippling costs still remain

@NBCNews I mean come on, drop him off on your way to work at least!

An Oregon emergency room physician was sentenced to prison on Tuesday after hitting a man with his car and leaving him for dead. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…

@Micah_Escobedo @sahilkapur @SearchlightInst Sure are out here winning hearts and minds with this communication strategy

@sahilkapur @SearchlightInst love the reply guys rejecting a transformative policy proposal because it’s nOt goOD eNoHGh