Katrina vandenHeuvel Profile
Katrina vandenHeuvel

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3 years
Historian Eric Foner’s wise suggestion- Instead of impeachment, 4 which there is no time,they should invoke section 3 of 14th Amendment,barring from office anyone who took an oath to constitution & subsequently engaged in or encouraged insurrection or rebellion.Majority vote.
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The NYC Taxi Workers just called for a work stoppage, starting at 6 pm. No pick ups or drop offs to JFK.
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Today @thenation endorses Bernie Sanders & the promise & possibility of his movement campaign. 'Whether you call him a democratic socialist or a New Deal Democrat....his program is both realistic and radical enough to meet the challenges of our time."
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My father some ten years ago….. file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/43/03/2CB569A2-2E73-47D6-A448-1F3BC8854B7E/MOV_1380.mov
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3 years
“Make no mistake: Trump has already moved B52s, submarines, and other military assets to the Persian Gulf. He is planning to start a war with Iran on bogus charges in order to prevent Biden from taking office. Iran is not the real target. American democracy is.” @tparsi
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“I am passionate about everything in my life — first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society.” — bell hooks
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Pramila Jayapal, House Progressive Caucus leader, nails it:“We can't call people moderate Dems if they vote against child care, paid leave, health care, & addressing climate change.This is the Democratic agenda, it’s the president's agenda,it’s what we promised people across US.”
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My beloved Steve — we had 42 years together ✍️
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Nicole Wallace, no bystander to Afghan debacle, admits that Biden speech will be supported by vast majority of Americans and will be unpopular and criticized by majority of journalists/ Think hard about her divide /
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Value this moment...in DC, just minutes after ⁦ @AOC ⁩ introduced Green New Deal—
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. @RepKatiePorter has lost her seat on House Financial Services Committee. As Naked Capitalism’s Yves Smith observed, this will likely bring “joy and gratitude to every crooked bankster on Wall Street.” Let’s ask @SpeakerPelosi & House leaders to give Porter waiver, get her back!
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Pandemic Inequality— 56 new billionaires. 8 million fall into poverty.
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US will pay salaries to thousands of Ukrainians during government shutdown --That would create a situation where U.S. federal employees will be waiting on paychecks, while U.S. taxpayer money will be paying the salaries of Ukrainians.
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7 years
Maybe Best slogan/chant of day: “WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY WELCOME TO YOUR FIRST DAY”
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Beto & Bullock— please do your service and run for the Senate-
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Media Malpractice 2018/ Why is Anthony Scaramucci on MEET THE PRESS this Sunday?
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4 years
Go Maya. If anyone has emerged as “star” during this impeachment hearing, it’s @mayawiley
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Maya Wiley talks impeachment politics w/ me on #PoliticsNation .
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Charles Barkley-- This win is a wake up call for Dems/ "They have taken Black vote and poor vote for granted for too long"/
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7 years
Jeff Sessions omits decades of records for his AG confirmation hearing --He once argued that doing this was a felony/
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It is must watch—And credit to Fareed Zakaria who you may disagree with but he understands history of region—and how barren most US tv discussions of global policy truly are/
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That AOC felt free to shame Mr. Yoho from the House floor signifies a powerful shift in our politics.
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6 years
Forever let it be recorded that American cable news led with & devoted more air time to RussiaGate, broadly defined, than to truly historic day of deescalation, peacemaking between South & North Korea—
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What you think of Tulsi Gabbard isn’t the point. What matters is we’re witnessing influential media outlet equating dissenting foreign policy thinking with the Kremlin, essentially stigmatizing anyone who thinks differently-/ via @nbcnews
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3 years
Why are those who led us into, and defended this war, overpopulating tv shows? Where’s Andrew Bacevich,Maj. Danny Sjursen or Rep. Barbara Lee…enough of Clapper, Petraeus,Brennan & ilk. Those who ran the Afghanistan war lied. They must be held to account.
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Russiagate story represents what Matt Taibbi has called this generation’s WMD media scandal. The narrative was challenged from beginning by few intrepid independent journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi & Aaron Maté.
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The D word — when did diplomacy become a dirty word?
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4 years
All power—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers a searing indictment not only of Mr. Yoho but also of a culture that allows men to use abusive language and supports violence against women.
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7 years
Today's #WomensMarch was absolutely massive, probably biggest demo in US history, it shows that the opposition to Trump is only beginning.
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3 years
Maybe most powerful, straight talking, clear eyed speech Biden has given.
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I will miss my father so very much—He inspired me, as he did our family & many others— reminded us every day of what a life of great adventure,some misadventures! of public service & purpose could be.vanden Heuvel, Diplomat & Kennedy Confidant, Dies at 91
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Tulsi Gabbard is right to indict bipartisan support for regime change wars— and right to call out NYT, others for smearing her for ending sanctions— another form of warfare- and for dissenting views
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6 years
Great Ocasio-Cortez quote: “I can’t name a single issue w roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications & I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications.The idea that we have 2 separate them out & choose 1 is a con”
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After days of meetings with disaffected Democrats in Michigan, Representative Ro Khanna of California said that President Biden cannot win the state without changes to his Middle East policy.
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7 years
The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun via @thenation
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Jimmy Carter Calls for Single Payer via @thenation @NicholsUprising
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My take this am-- The Sanders movement is only just beginning
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Bernie Sanders for President/With integrity & principle, he's calling Americans to a political revolution/ @thenation
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3 years
Sen. Sanders opens Budget Committee hearings on wasteful Pentagon spending with a rarely asked and vital question— “Why is it that the Pentagon remains the only agency in the federal government that cannot pass an independent audit –30 years after Congress required it to do so?”
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2 years
Why hasn’t this received more attention?
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Diplomacy Watch: Why did the West stop a peace deal in Ukraine? /A recent piece in Foreign Affairs revealed that Kyiv and Moscow had a tentative deal to end the war all the way back in April.
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7 years
Must read: The Guardian's summary of Julian Assange's interview went viral and was completely false by @ggreenwald
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3 years
Renegade John Bolton on @CNN —given much time—lecturing us about interest of country—Bolton has done as much in last decades as anyone to undermine US national security/
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3 years
On this day in 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law that prohibited teaching evolution in public schools. (The conviction and an attendant $100 fine were later overturned on a technicality.) Science still under attack.
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How Bernie Sanders Delivered the Most Progressive Platform in Democratic Party History via @thenation
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Rev.Barber/"Our war machine is out of control...Our moral priorities are wrong..And we see early signs of fascism..Silence is not an option"
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The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016 via @thenation @ariberman
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Poll: Americans support quick diplomatic end to war in Ukraine/More voters also said they want Washington to actively engage in diplomacy as a condition for sending military aid.
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7 years
Wash. Post Doesn’t Disclose Writer Supporting Syria Strike Is A Lobbyist For Tomahawk Missile Manufacturer
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4 years
Sanders’ spokesman Mike Casca tweeted after Matthews’ segment that he “never thought part of my job would be pleading w/ a national news network to stop likening campaign of a jewish presidential candidate ... to the third reich. but here we are.”
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5 years
My daughter is clerking for 9th circuit— she is of an independent, intelligent and insightful mind— So proud-/
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8 months
Today,Sen. FETTERMAN will drive his UAW-made Ford Bronco from Braddock, Pennsylvania to Wayne, Michigan to walk the picket line with striking UAW workers at the Ford factory where his Bronco was built. Fetterman has been an unflinching supporter of UAW.
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Christine Blasey Ford is showing us the meaning of civic duty and courage.
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4 years
Eternal shame and a demand he repay this country for his dismantling of our true security— that should be John Bolton’s just deserts — Not a book.
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Stacey Abrams & team ran such a fierce, visionary, decent campaign. The ache and pain and grief and rage of the injustice of this loss is searing— must move us to fight to end voter suppression, tear down obstacles to genuine and inclusive democratic participation-Onward.
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Chuck Jones called it right/ He 'lied his a- off': Carrier union leader on Trump's big deal
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Arrest of Journalists & Filmmakers Covering the Dakota Pipeline Is a Threat to Democracy—and Planet via @thenation
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Sanders wins big tonight, on calendar organized by DNC (natch, a weekend) & CNN has Jesus doc & MSNBC doing Lockdown/Up? Take back airwaves!
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CNN under Ted Turner was a complicated media entity. CNN tonight is a disgrace, and its lying interview should lead to movement to restore Fairness Doctrine, and a stripping of conglomerate ownership of what are The People’s Airwaves.
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Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Create Jobs, They Enrich CEOs via @thenation
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Americans deserve the only replacement plan that 's truly simple, fair & cost-effective -- Medicare for All.
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Very good news that @ninaturner will head @OurRevolution . She inspires action, instills hope, understands power of movements to make change
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. @ggreenwald on cable tv tonight warning that charges against Julian Assange, and treatment of @Snowden , are a direct threat to journalists,media freedom is powerful, shamefully unreported & important news to watch —
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one of critical reasons to defeat Trump
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"We have confirmed a record number of 187 new federal judges," Pres. Trump says, "and we have many in the pipeline."
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Fairness means giving Dem candidate Randy Bryce equal time-CNN to host Paul Ryan town hall in Wisconsin @CNNPolitics
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Stopping ND pipeline also demanded independent media's sustained coverage of protest & organizing --while corporate media averted eyes/
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If you voted for Trump because he's 'anti-establishment,' guess what: You got conned
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If Clinton is opposed to TPP, how is it that Dem platform isn't?
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Tulsi Gabbard in New Hampshire/ Gabbard’s emphasis on transforming US foreign policy gives her campaign an appeal that cuts across party lines—and defies traditional definitions of left and right. via @thenation
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If debates a measure, Sen. Warren is the comeback woman-
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Moving forward— Time for term limits for SCOTUS Justices-
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National scandals mount--this is a grave one/
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Once again, another week has gone by, and Louis DeJoy is still postmaster general. I repeat: How on Earth is this not a national scandal?
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Doing same thing over & over again=insanity/Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Create Jobs,They Enrich CEOs @thenation @ddayen
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Ugly hypocrisy in slamming the doors to Syrian refugees while simultaneously using them as justification for dropping bombs.
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What @repkatieporter taught us at DeJoy hearing:”The degree to which Trump administration cares not one wit about good governance. It’s a govt. designed to serve Trump’s grudges,conspiratorial paranoia while allowing cronies to feather their own nests. “
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A Long List of What We Know Thanks to Private Manning via @thenation
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. @peterdaou --I Was Bernie’s Biggest Critic in 2016—I’ve Changed My Mind/Bernie Sanders can beat Donald Trump—and it would be an epic act of self-destruction for Democrats to try and hobble his campaign. via @thenation
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Makes me sick & sad
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh is at tonight's Federalist Society convention dinner, he just received a lengthy, enthusiastic standing ovation when he was introduced
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Former President of Brazil Lula— Charges against Glenn Greenwald reveal the rot in Brazil’s democracy
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This is the time to read this-- Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ via @thenation
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In @CJR Bob Woodward tells Jeff Gerth the Russia probe "wasn't handled well" & accuses mainstream press of having "cheated" public out of truth. Urges newsrooms to "walk down painful road of introspection" & review failures with Russia-collusion stories.
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For first time Democratic Party platform explicitly calls for repealing Hyde Amendment. 'Bout time.
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Tom Hayden's work & writing will always remind us of why a democratic society needs movements that value peace and justice. I will miss him.
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My father, at 90, signs his memoirs,HOPE AND HISTORY— He keeps it real and alive, seen so very much.
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The Supreme Court will be lost for a generation if Biden loses, dooming almost all progressive policy ideas. But no Democrats are talking about it. [[The DNC Refuses to Address the Elephant in the Room]] via @thenation @ElieNYC
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Clinton gets it wrong; Sanders offers better alternative: The temptation of expanding U.S. military involvement
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Largest Mass civil disobedience NYC has seen in two decades
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HAPPENING NOW AT NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL STATION: HUNDREDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES ARE GETTING ARRESTED IN THE LARGEST MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE NYC HAS SEEN IN TWO DECADES. NO GENOCIDE IN OUR NAMES! CEASEFIRE NOW TO SAVE LIVES! NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!
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My view-- Edward Snowden is the perfect candidate for a presidential pardon
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Elie Mystal @ElieNYC “This is the lowest-hanging fruit (or, mushroom, to hear some tell it) in the Trump criminal matrix. This isn’t getting Al Capone for tax evasion; this is getting Al Capone for illegally serving alcohol at his underground poker game.” @thenation
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Diplomacy Watch: Why did the West stop a peace deal in Ukraine? /A recent piece in Foreign Affairs revealed that Kyiv and Moscow had a tentative deal to end the war all the way back in April.
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Trump fired acting AG-- Monday night massacre? -- Week two, we got a Trump/Bannon/instigated Constitutional crisis/
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Shameful-/ He fought federal mine safety regulations for years. Former coal CEO Robert Murray files for black lung benefits - ABC News via @ABC -
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For first time since invasion, prospect of prolonged proxy war is starting to unnerve some of Biden's Democratic allies.Rep. Ro Khanna:Ukraine has become a "prolonged never-ending conflict that is wreaking havoc on the US economy & planet.” by @aaronjmate
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Robbie Mook continues,pathetically,to call for investigation into (alleged) Russian interference/ fake news in elections-- Stop blame game/
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No we are done. @Chuckgrassley , after seeing your disgusting behavior to Dr. Ford we are not waiting for your vote like @senatorcollins . We are running a campaign NOW to fund your future opponent in 2022. Game over.
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Nine years after she was brutally assassinated--Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & her courage/ | The Nation http://t.co/iaN8gskkWx
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My beloved father home after 8 weeks in hospital— What a fighter— and a fighter he deeply admires looks over him....
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Trump lied and thank you Lester Holt for calling out Trump on stop & frisk--
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