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David Austin Walsh

@DavidAstinWalsh

25 days

Now available in bookstores near you.

Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right

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David Austin Walsh

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4 years

People are underestimating how popular an overnight train from New York to Los Angeles would be.

hero of kvatch

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I want her so fucking much

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David Austin Walsh

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Imagine traveling back in time to 2009 and explaining to people which one of these people would become a liberal icon and which one would become a neo-Nazi.

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we didn't know at the time but in retrospect this was the moment america's great divide opened up

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David Austin Walsh

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Elon Musk isn't managing Twitter any differently than any other company he's managed. It's just that the entire world has a front-row seat to his disastrously megalomaniacal management style in real time with Twitter.

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David Austin Walsh

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So, the Colorado shooter's father is a homophobic Mormon porn star named Dick Delaware who bragged to the media that he taught his son that violence is the answer?

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David Austin Walsh

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Fun fact for Holocaust Remembrance Day: this was the same tactic used to keep European Jews out of the United States in the 1930s.

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4 years

BREAKING: On 5-4 vote, Supreme Court lets Trump administration start enforcing new immigrant wealth test, designed to screen out green card applicants seen as being at risk of becoming "public charges".

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David Austin Walsh

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2 years

So… a libertarian.

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David Austin Walsh

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2 years

Baby Boomers seem very resistant to understanding that the living standards of the younger generations have declined in both relative and absolute terms.

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David Austin Walsh

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How much of Twitter is archived? Because it’s gonna be next to impossible to write about the last decade without using Twitter as a source.

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David Austin Walsh

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I was gonna vote for Biden in November -- for labor and also obviously to keep Trump out of office -- but after tonight... Man, I don't know.

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David Austin Walsh

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Just met with a landlord who informed me that he will not rent to me because I am married. When I told him this is a Fair Housing Act violation, he said “I own it, I make the rules.”

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David Austin Walsh

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4 years

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most British people.

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David Austin Walsh

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4 years

Funny how we talk about "cancel culture" all the time but not "at-will employment."

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David Austin Walsh

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Historian here. The blood libel refers to the antisemitic conspiracy theory in medieval Europe that Jews ritually kill Christian children to use their blood to make matzah, NOT accurately pointing out that the IDF just killed ~100 starving civilians seeking food.

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

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Blood libel. Those poor people were killed when they were crushed in a stampede and in some cases run over by the Gazan truck drivers as they tried to get out. But go ahead, blame Israel.

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David Austin Walsh

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Klippenstein got a lot of shit for posting about Feinstein’s staff, but here’s a POLITICO story about one of her staffers who concluded that Feinstein is senile and her CoS is acting as a shadow senator and quit by taking a selfie of himself smoking a joint in her office.

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David Austin Walsh

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4 years

Counterpoint: Flint, Michigan.

Laura Rozen

@lrozen

4 years

America is not Soviet Ukraine or China. The public is not going to stand for an extended Chernobyl like fuck up.

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David Austin Walsh

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I had the sickening realization yesterday that some of my Gen. Z students were open to the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory because the idea that the U.S. government could actually accomplish something big and complex was totally outside of their lived experience.

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David Austin Walsh

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Peter Baker

@peterbakernyt

1 year

Henry Kissinger turns 100 years old tomorrow and his son reflects on the secrets of his longevity. Hint: It's not the diet heavy on bratwurst and Wiener schnitzel.

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David Austin Walsh

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One of the key ingredients missing from the national conversation on antisemitism is that left-wing and anti-Zionist Jews are on the receiving end of institutional and state repression for their political beliefs.

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

21 days

Those cheering on the NYPD and Columbia's crack down like to invoke the safety of Jewish students and combating anti-semitism. Strangely, almost no mention is ever made of the many Jewish student protesters and their safety. Such as the 20 Jewish students arrested at Brown. 2/

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David Austin Walsh

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“Trump will be worse.” Well yes, obviously, but honestly I suspect what a lot of people mean by this is that Trump will (again) unleash state violence against good liberals and not the legitimate target of state violence, the left.

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David Austin Walsh

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The optics of pro-Israel demonstrators rallying at an area recently cleared of pro-Palestine protestors by the NYPD is… not great.

Talia Jane ❤️‍🔥

@taliaotg

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@Columbia Earlier, the same Zionist agitators who show up to everything at Columbia gathered at the lawn after it was cleared. They rallied to an empty lawn for a long time before figuring out people had moved, at which point they intentionally moved closer.

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David Austin Walsh

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This is quite literally how Italian liberals reconciled themselves to fascism.

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David Austin Walsh

@DavidAstinWalsh

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The single most revealing document I have ever read about the New Deal was a letter from one of the DuPonts complaining about how the availability of federal jobs meant his all-black labor force on his SC estate now had other options than to just work for him.

Moshik Temkin

@moshik_temkin

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FDR and his New Deal were so popular among African-Americans that his presidency was when black voters, for the first time, began to abandon the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln and Emancipation, in favor of the Democratic Party

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David Austin Walsh

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Kyrsten Sinema is the Ted Cruz of the Democratic Party, in the sense that she’s personally unpleasant and no one seems to like her.

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David Austin Walsh

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tfw you're a liberal who says that you'll actively participate in Trumpist death squads summarily rounding up and killing leftists.

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David Austin Walsh

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I’ve been thinking about the mistakes the electoral left made in the 2020 campaign, and going scorched earth against Elizabeth Warren and her supporters really was one of the biggest ones.

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David Austin Walsh

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Something that I don't think most people really get is that we've never really seen abortion laws this draconian in the history of the United States, even pre-"Roe v. Wade."

Georgia Just Criminalized Abortion. Women Who Terminate Their Pregnancies Would Be Subject to Life...

Women who miscarry or get legal abortions out of state could also be imprisoned.

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David Austin Walsh

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These tweets basically epitomize the modern generation gap.

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David Austin Walsh

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@KevinMKruse @darrengrimes_ But Johnson has a plan to beat coronavirus! It's called "just let your nan die already."

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David Austin Walsh

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Just read the Biden White House statement, and hoo boy that is not the statement to put out if you want the DNC in Chicago to go smoothly...

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David Austin Walsh

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1 year

Former Dianne Feinstein intern suggests bringing lynchings back

Michelle Tandler ✍🏼️⚔️⚖️

@michelletandler

1 year

Our society seems to have become seriously complacent. 100 years ago in SF people were publicly hung for their crimes. Often by vigilante groups that wanted to send a message. The hangings worked. Crime would plummet after a few of them. Often for many months at a time.

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David Austin Walsh

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The reason why I am adamant that Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment or mint the coin is that essentially no ordinary person actually gives a shit about any of this.

Erick Erickson

@EWErickson

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I gotta be honest. I kinda wish Biden would use the 14th Amendment. The fallout would be awful, but that fallout would generationally destroy the Democrats with suburbs and the middle class.

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David Austin Walsh

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As a historian who writes about antisemitism—including the Protocols—in America in the 20th century... this is absolutely the case.

Blake Hounshell

@blakehounshell

4 years

Fiona Hill says the Soros smears are the "new Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

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David Austin Walsh

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This—THIS—was the offending tweet that started it all?

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@briebriejoy

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This is a good start, but is it ok to die from cancer or diabetes becuase you’re poor?

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David Austin Walsh

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This is a portrait of MAGAism that'd be too on the nose for an introductory political science textbook.

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David Austin Walsh

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Imagine thinking “no one on Capitol Hill likes him” is effective political criticism in 2020.

Kasie Hunt

@kasie

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HILLARY ON BERNIE: “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

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David Austin Walsh

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What if I told you *how* America was founded by WASPs?

Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187

@ScottMGreer

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What if I told you America was founded by WASPs?

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David Austin Walsh

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Well, I managed to talk him into at least considering me and to be fair the apartment looks super nice, but… red flag.

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David Austin Walsh

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So I broke down my tax bill under Trump's "Cut Cut Cut" proposal. My taxes won't be cut. My tax bill will quadruple.

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David Austin Walsh

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Who could have predicted that the generation which is materially worse off than its predecessors would not adopt their same right-wing political views?

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

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millennials aren’t getting more right-wing as they age: fascinating statistics via ⁦ @jburnmurdoch ⁩

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David Austin Walsh

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*sips beer* Personally if I were a university president committed to academic freedom and student safety I wouldn’t call the fucking NYPD to arrest my kids, but that’s why they don’t pay me the big bucks.

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David Austin Walsh

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*sips coffee* We need to talk about how a key element of both Israeli and Russian strategy is waiting it out until Trump is president again and he gives them both a complete carte blanche.

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David Austin Walsh

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You know, one of the first things I learned as a union organizer is that the opposition—usually with the tacit support of the employer—always wants a big public debate. This is so they can capitalize on your hard organizational work to spread THEIR message.

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David Austin Walsh

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The issue with AI is not that it will actually replace us, but that it will be used to justify catastrophic business decisions that will destroy entire industries precisely because AI cannot actually replace us.

Brian Merchant

@bcmerchant

1 year

Annnnnnd there it is — it's subtle, but unmistakable. In the same memo in which he dispatches the News team, Buzzfeed's boss heralds the company's future as being "creators..." and "AI." Even if he's not replacing jobs outright, the calculus of mentioning it here is clear.

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David Austin Walsh

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It, uh, seems significant he’s going after Ilhan Omar’s kid here.

Theo Baker

@tab_delete

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Putting aside whether this decision is right, I just want to note that an educated student who says she is against genocide and violence has a literal hammer and sickle in her bio. This seems incompatible, no? The Soviet Union is responsible for the genocide of millions…

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David Austin Walsh

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Has anyone commented on the fact that Donald Trump is actively whipping up hysteria over the FL elections, to the point that crowds of his supporters are mobbing election offices, less than three weeks after one of his Florida supporters was arrested for a mail bombing campaign?

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David Austin Walsh

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JAKE TAPPER: “Senator Warren, would you please attack Senator Sanders?” WARREN: “Let me talk instead about how the big banks are bloodsuckers.”

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David Austin Walsh

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Lots of folks are already dragging this horrendous column by Bret Stephens and that one of the two sources he cites in it was co-authored by a eugenicist who speaks at white supremacist conferences.

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

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"Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different," says Bret Stephens.

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David Austin Walsh

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@ijbailey It's emotive logic, admittedly--it's an emotional moment!--but a lot has to do with a Democratic mayor sicc'ing the cops on peaceful protestors who are out there in the first place because of the morally repugnant and politically idiotic support Biden has given to the Gaza war.

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David Austin Walsh

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When *I* say this has gone too far and puts my vote in jeopardy, I don't do it lightly.

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He also cryptically mentioned being forced out of Yale a decade ago.

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Look, man, I was *at* Charlottesville and the atmosphere was night and fucking day different than what's happening on the Columbia campus right now.

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

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On the broader point of the situation at Columbia. It's important to know who's doing what. Students vs hangers-on, activists from off campus etc. But let's not kid ourselves. Think abt this situation from the perspective of a minority group you actually care about. Students…

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David Austin Walsh

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No big deal, the cops just nearly beat a history professor to death at WUSTL today.

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Contemporary liberal politics is not about winning but rather fantasizing that leftists get marched off to the camps before you do.

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@doublefml

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@DavidAstinWalsh I mean if Trump wins again then before I die after losing my healthcare housing and disability I absolutely hope I get to witness a couple of you "leftists" who helped him in that win get marched off. That would be somewhat cathartic and I would at least smile momentarily.

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David Austin Walsh

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I am beyond outraged that the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who fought the Nazis at Charlottesville are being called Nazis by many liberals today.

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David Austin Walsh

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I’m exactly the kind of left voter that the Trump campaign should be trying to target to keep me at home on Election Day. Instead, they’ve made me like and respect Joe Biden as a compassionate and loving father.

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David Austin Walsh

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At least my dad is a civil servant, not a New Yorker editor, asshole.

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@willmenaker

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Just discovered this guy and I already hate him more than anyone on Earth

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David Austin Walsh

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You could write a pretty good history of neoliberalism using the privatization of “Sesame Street,” a longtime public good, as a case study.

The Verge

@verge

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HBO Max locks down exclusive access to new Sesame Street episodes

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The key to understanding the American right is that, since the 1930s, they have consistently understood communism, socialism, and liberalism to be basically the same thing.

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David Austin Walsh

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Joe Biden pushed through (limited) student debt relief -- over the objections of older moderates in the Democratic Party -- and was rewarded with the best first-term midterm results for a Democrat since 1978, fueled by the youth vote.

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David Austin Walsh

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This is flat-out wrong, and it is dangerous for liberals to continue to cling to this analysis.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at Amherst College this evening, is asked by a student how to characterize this period in U.S. history. Her quick response: "As an aberration." #SCOTUS #RBG #NotoriousRBG

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TIL I learned that the age gap author’s parents are right-wing Catholic doctors in Miami who are heavily involved in anti-abortion politics. Lots of things about the worldview in that article are clicking now.

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David Austin Walsh

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As no less than Abraham Lincoln said: "When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

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David Austin Walsh

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Looked him up: a cancer researcher. Which makes his comment even more baffling, especially considering he also said “when they forced me out I decided to buy up property to start making real money.”

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@DavidAstinWalsh

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He also cryptically mentioned being forced out of Yale a decade ago.

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You know, I always suspected that Resistance libs only ever embraced the scholarship on fascism and the far right because they wanted neat prepackaged ideas about how they’re the goodies and never wanted a more nuanced and complex historical understanding of U.S. politics.

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here's the thing -- posting bad tweets is a disincentive to read your writing. post better stuff and let's talk then maybe

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David Austin Walsh

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Lots of people are dunking on this Bernie Sanders voter in Wisconsin for saying this to the @nytimes , but... this is an entirely predictable consequence of a Biden nomination.

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David Austin Walsh

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A mediocre white man angrily yelling he’s the greatest in front of his suburban McMansion at a bunch of broke Millennials and Muslims really is the epitaph for a generation.

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OK, millennial: boomers are the greatest generation in history:

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We are facing looming ecological collapse in no small part because in the mid-20th century United States white people did not want to live next door to black people.

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(This was a landlord in New Haven, not Charlottesville, to be clear.)

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One of the most depressing things about 21st-century politics is that young people have almost no meaningful voice in determining their future.

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A truly stunning age divide: 57% of 18-24-year-olds voted Labour, only 18% of over-65s did.

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David Austin Walsh

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I am absolutely delighted to see tech bros started to slowly realize how much the rest of us fucking hate them.

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David Austin Walsh

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I was 12 once, and I didn’t fucking blackmail people for nudes.

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Wait, he did this stuff when he was 12? And we’re just done with him forever?

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The problem for Musk is that he *willingly* exposed himself to more real-time scrutiny by more ordinary people than any rich guy has ever done, ever, and it predictably backfired on him.

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The super-wealthy have a mystique for the average person that rarely, if ever, survives first contact with actually interacting with one of them outside of a carefully moderated environment.

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David Austin Walsh

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I don't think people really understand just how much worse conservative politics have gotten since 2016.

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David Austin Walsh

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Yeah, yeah, people are quibbling that when you factor in stops, it's probably closer to 24 hours. Still, I've been on the crummy overnight trains from the East Coast to Chicago several times. They're surprisingly popular, and the runs are about that long.

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It is pretty remarkable how Matt Yglesias’s brilliant idea for how to Revive The History Major™ is to simply do more Boomer Dad History to appeal to 18-year-olds.

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David Austin Walsh

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Twitter's algorithm recommending dunks on me "based on your likes" is a new level of meta-masochism.

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David Austin Walsh

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Just finished teaching about January 6 and holy fuck, all that shit actually happened and our entire political system has basically memory-holed it.

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David Austin Walsh

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I'm not even going to bother to respond in detail to the hornet's nest in my replies, but look: I've voted the straight Democratic ticket my entire life. I've *never* missed a major election. And I wrote an entire goddamn book about the fascist tradition in American conservatism

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Which should say something about how bad the situation is and how desperately we need a course correction from the White House.

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childish, irresponsible stuff coming from someone who has the credentials to know better

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Genetic diversity.

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David Austin Walsh

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Newt Gingrich defended the Belgian occupation and plunder of the Congo in his PhD dissertation, so this is very much on-brand for him.

Newt Gingrich

@newtgingrich

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The NY Times 1619 Project should make its slogan “All the Propaganda we want to brainwash you with”.it is a repudiation of the original NY Times motto.

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David Austin Walsh

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Seems worth pointing out that this is EXACTLY how conservatives in Italy and Germany reconciled themselves to fascism.

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Yikes.

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Holy crap. I have a PhD.

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It is remarkable, albeit unsurprising, that after nearly a year of national police riots, where cops routinely beat unarmed protestors and members of the press, we're having a debate about whether the slogan "defund the police" is too politically radical.

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David Austin Walsh

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It is utterly enraging that a week which saw a bullshit media debate about the ethics of liberals peacefully protesting in front of a judge's house ended with the massacre of a dozen people by a white nationalist militant.

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David Austin Walsh

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SHORTER VERSION: “we allied with the religious right to overturn the New Deal order but now we’ve lost control of the people we assumed were our puppets.”

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

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"The conservative legal movement," Lee Epstein and Eric Posner write, "has been hijacked by the religious right"

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David Austin Walsh

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Now, if that's how long it takes to get to the other side of the freakin' CONTINENT... yeah, doable. Especially if they wised up and introduced a modern version of the Pullman sleeper as a halfway between coach and a cabin.

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David Austin Walsh

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Sanders/Warren voters make up something like 35-40% of the Democratic Party. The Never Trumpers, 5-10%. The lesson here is that elite networks trump mass mobilization.

How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party

Anti-Donald Trump activism among conservatives — known informally as the “#NeverTrump” movement — started in early 2016 as a way to stop the businessman from …

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David Austin Walsh

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I mean, if one of the lessons of 2021 is that Donald Trump's social and cultural power evaporates the moment he's deplatformed by social and mainstream media, then it stands to reason these media companies were the single most important factor in his rise in the first place.

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David Austin Walsh

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Underrated reason for the panic on UK Twitter over Americans cracking jokes about the queen is that the whole point of the monarchy since no later than 1970 has been to appeal to American tourists.

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@NJ_Timothy

2 years

Quite a bit of this today from a certain kind of American, who might want to show a little respect, but also contemplate - if they’re capable of it - why our head of state bridges social and ideological divides, and commands such loyalty and love.

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David Austin Walsh

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Whoa, this blew up… and I didn’t even include the moment when he started talking about how the condos down the road are renting to too many Chinese postdocs, who brought over their families and illegally built gardens on Yale property, which he called communism.

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David Austin Walsh

@DavidAstinWalsh

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My hottest history take is that political historians have yet to really grapple with the absolutely *staggering* amount of sexual abuse perpetrated by America’s political elites.

the inquilābi hot dam historian

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what's your hottest history take?

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David Austin Walsh

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This was not how Joe McCarthy was “done in” and demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of McCarthy’s place in American political history. (THREAD)

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@Gladwell

6 years

Joe McCarthy was done in when he was confronted by someone with intelligence and guts, before a live audience. Sometimes a platform is actually a gallows.

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Confession: it took me living on the East Coast for a number of years before I understood the visceral hatred so much of the left has for the Democratic Party, because the DFL, while it ain't great, is exponentially better than the New York Democrats.

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David Austin Walsh

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I keep saying, the fascist threat in America was real in the 1930s and 1940s but it was New Deal social democracy that defeated it, NOT the national security state.

Moshik Temkin

@moshik_temkin

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I see people all excited about an MSNBC podcast about how a fascist takeover of America was foiled during FDRs presidency. I can tell you that FDR foiled a fascist takeover of the US by forcing through policies that helped the overwhelming majority of the people, who adored him

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Sure would be nice if NPR had interviewed the baristas instead of just their boss.

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@NPR

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The government is now offering $600, the equivalent of $15 an hour, or double the federal minimum wage, to people who've lost their jobs because of the coronavirus. A Kentucky cafe owner says she's had to close because her workers make more staying home.

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Historian here. This is absolutely 100% correct.

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Calling people who believe in democracy, civil + economic rights, and racial justice “communist” has a long + rich history w/ white supremacy in the US. It was one of the preferred smears against integrating schools, & one of the main attacks segregationists used against MLK Jr:

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Like Nixon's sabotage of the '68 peace talks in Paris, this meets the constitutional definition of treason.

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WOW. With Mr. Carter now 98 and in hospice care, Mr. Barnes said he felt compelled to come forward to correct the record. “History needs to know that this happened,” Mr. Barnes tells ⁦ @peterbakernyt ⁩.

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Getting real sick of people who keep insisting that the IDF doesn't deliberately target civilians.

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