Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay Twitter profile

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

Spotted in rural Pennsylvania: Two white men at a bar yelling about how essential Roe V Wade is.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 months

Hi @EricAbbenante , I have a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Linguistics. I am ABD in Hearing and Speech Sciences. I invite you to please list the grammatical errors that Representative Crockett made. I also invite you to precisely indicate what your metric for "diction" is. Thanks

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Jasmine Crockett truly has the worst grammar and diction of anyone I've ever heard in Congress. Here she is triggered to respond to Nancy Mace's statements that Hunter Biden exhibited white privilege

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Magdi Jacobs

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I know there's a lot going on, but I think it's odd that the fact that the President's supporters beat a cop to death with a fire extinguisher is not bigger news.

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Magdi Jacobs

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3 years

"Blue Lives Matter" is just code for saying that Black lives don't

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Magdi Jacobs

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4 years

So I see the right-wing is converging on the stunningly coherent narrative that Kamala Harris is both a scary African American woman & simultaneously not really an African American woman while also being a radical socialist & a notorious COP.

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Magdi Jacobs

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3 years

How many Black parents have been interviewed by the media about how history, race, & racism are taught to their children in the public education system? Cause I sure feel like, when I look at even the mainstream media landscape, I'm seeing a sea of undifferentiated whiteness.

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Magdi Jacobs

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4 months

Do people realize that Netanyahu desperately wants Joe Biden to lose the election?

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Magdi Jacobs

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6 years

29/ Oh, and one more thing: If you are going to write about a person who participated in Charlottesville, there is one additional question you should really ask: "How do you feel about the murder of Heather Heyer?"

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

Women are authorities on how men treat women. Black people are authorities on how white people treat black people. Black women are authorities on both. Is this clear?

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

Just pause and reflect on how freaking bizarre it is that we have a president who has not tried to give a single unifying message during all this grief and chaos and that, simultaneously, all of us would really prefer he keep not speaking.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

3 years

@clay_mcch Pay teachers more

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

5 years

@STEPHMHAMILL @iamcardib #MeToo is about fighting sexual assault & harassment. It's very telling that you would conflate this w/ women celebrating their sexuality.

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Magdi Jacobs

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6 years

3/ If you are doing a profile of someone based on their ideology, your job is to get to the heart of that ideology. Your job is to challenge the subject to describe & defend their position. Your job is to then place that position w/in a broader socio-cultural context.

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

One man was a Catholic and said abortion makes him very uncomfortable. He still very forcefully said, "It's up to the woman to choose. It NEEDS TO BE ON THE BOOKS."

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Magdi Jacobs

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6 years

4/ Otherwise you are just giving a racist an unchallenged platform. The Times failed in many respects, but, above all, they failed by enthusiastically allowing Horvater to drive the narrative of his own white supremacy.

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Magdi Jacobs

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3 years

I really would like to see more headlines that express, "GOP Senators are fighting to make U.S. default on debt." That is, in very neutral terms, what's happening.

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Magdi Jacobs

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6 years

@McAllisterDen It says a lot that you are arguing black americans should have been satisfied w/ a movie that was written by white people, directed by a white man, had a cast that was 95% white, was universally panned by critics, and was released. . . when? Oh right: 14 years ago.

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

I don't know how anyone can look at the historical arcs of civil rights, labor rights, LGBTQ rights, and women's rights and then think to themselves, "Well, I tried voting once and nothing changed, so I guess I'm not going to vote again."

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Magdi Jacobs

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6 years

I, like Dinesh D'Souza, was once very confused by the fact that the Democratic party used to be more racist than the Republican party and that fascists had the word "sozialistische" in their party name. I was 7. And my dad cleared it all up for me in about 4 minutes.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

I have extensive research training in both the domains of developmental psychology and speech/language disorders. Let me be clear: Joe Biden has a stutter. When you mock him for this or turn it into something else, you are causing harm to other people who stutter.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 months

The Democratic Party has never been as progressive as it is right now & the Republican Party has never been as openly racist fascistic. I increasingly do not understand how people are constructing this completely alternate reality in good faith.

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@katrosenfield

4 months

2024 presidential election is gonna be like walking into a restaurant with just two items on the menu: a large bowl of lukewarm watery gruel, and a flaming hot cheeto someone dropped under the couch in 2014 that has been slightly nibbled on by mice

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

I wrote about the disconnect between Biden's approval rating--which appears to be slumping--& approval for his agenda--which remains high. This isn't just a problem for Democrats. It's a problem for democracy. The media has a role to play.

Biden’s policies are more popular than he is. For the first time in the modern era, the link...

How the press distorts political reality.

www.editorialboard.com

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

Some "why vote for Dems?" arguments are making the rounds, so let me say that, while I think there are many positive reasons to vote for Dems, the fact that the GOP is passing bills placing bounties on women's heads & others ensuring women will die from pregnancy should be enough

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

Wow. Thank you to the @JoeBiden campaign. This is meaningful.

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4 years

Judy and Dennis Shepard, the parents of the late Matthew Shepard, cast Wyoming’s vote at tonight’s DNC roll call.

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

The Catholic guy started up by saying to the other guy, "Abortion is a sensitive topic and it makes me uncomfortable. . ." and I put myself in a crouching position, mostly to try to suppress myself from getting kicked out of the bar, before he continued, "IT'S THE RIGHT LAW"

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

Both men are in support of Roe, to clarify.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

1 year

There is an electoral challenge in PA that has received little national attention. Dems on the ground have asked me to amplify this, as the local GOP is trying to seize the narrative. The locus of the GOP challenge is House District 118, which could tip the balance of power

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

Seriously, outside the context of explicitly political conversations, I have never before stumbled upon two men passionately saying ROE V WADE back and forth. Bizarre and interesting to see in the wild.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

How many Americans understand that the Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to the separation of church & state yesterday?

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

3 years

@katewillett Biden's been POTUS for a month & has a 1.9 trillion dollar bill in Congress. They're working on the procedures to get the bill passed with 51 votes Frankly tweets like yours are frustrating. Young people will listen to this & be discouraged from voting, which will hinder change.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

28/ Instead, the Times gave us a profile of a racist, his eyebrows, his ordinariness, and allowed that racist to drive the narrative. They didn't challenge him. They didn't place his ideology w/in a broader context. They just elevated him.

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

I can't believe that Roe V Wade will be gone in less than a month and people on the left are still arguing about whether or not we should vote

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 months

"Biden is a fascist" is just a bad take. It is false. Laughably so. It would be a bad take even if Trump didn't exist; it's an even worse one because he does. I am completely and utterly baffled by why anyone is claiming this w/ a straight face & why anyone else would defend it.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

Why aren't more journalists explicitly saying that someone tried to *assassinate* two Democratic ex-presidents, a Democratic ex-SoS, an Democratic ex-AG, a sitting Democratic Congresswoman, and a Democratic donor? The devices were functional. These were assassination attempts.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

Don't compare things that are not like the Holocaust to the Holocaust. I don't know why this is hard.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

Others have already made this point, but I will reiterate it: the same people who said you couldn't be in the same room with a gay man during the height of HIV are those who are now mocking people for wearing masks. Cultural conservatism is not just irrational, but also wicked.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

3 years

The solution to Joe Manchin being terrible is not primarying Joe Manchin. It's electing more Democratic senators from other states. We don't have a ton of battleground to work with, but we have enough to make a difference. Vote in 2022.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

2/ First, what did they do wrong? Well, a lot of things. The article reads like a soft-focus profile of a racist who’s really just a normal dude w/ thoughts and feelings. You can write profiles like this about coal miners.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

I'm going to say some controversial: I do find Joe Biden inspiring. I think he's genuinely empathetic and caring and that inspires me. I also think he wants to do good things. That's inspiring too.

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Magdi Jacobs

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3 years

Yesterday Duante Wright was shot and killed by police. I keep seeing it mentioned that he had a warrant out. 1. A warrant is not an excuse for deadly force 2. We should all pay attention to how many headlines, tweets, & ledes mention the warrant w/out saying what it was for

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Magdi Jacobs

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4 years

Hi, y'all. Today is hard. I could really use some love and kindness if you have any to spare.

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@magi_jay

4 months

You guys. Joe Biden wants the Palestinian people to have a state. Benjamin Netanyahu does not. We can argue about everything else but let's please not ignore this central fact.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

@RichardEngel The West is not watching in silence. We are engaging in a historic act of financial warfare, as well as supplying arms. Direct military engagement is not the only option and the press should recognize that.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

3 years

@commieswag I don't know why y'all are so committed to eradicating all meaning from the term "war criminal." Doesn't seem like something people who cared about war crimes would do.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

3 years

It's actually okay to demand ideological conformity on some issues, such as "people shouldn't commit rape" or "Black people deserve equality." When we socially ostracize people who oppose these views, we're not being authoritarian, we're being moral.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

Areas in both Minnesota and Alabama have reached ICU capacity. I don't think the national media is doing a good enough job at capturing the urgency of the current moment.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

9/ So, the Times wrote about how Horvater helped found the Traditionalist Workers Party (TWP). And then basically wrote NOTHING about the ideology or history of the party. What could they have done differently?

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

Are people seriously mad about the White House telling voluntarily unvaccinated people about the harm they're doing? When did telling the truth become a bridge too far?

Read Let This Radicalize You

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2 years

Still struggling to believe this is real, but it is.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

3 years

@BillieJeanKing I think Osaka's relationship with the media is likely different than yours, given racism. I also don't understand the idea that athletes have a responsibility to speak to the press. I don't see the ethical argument here. They're not public servants.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

7 months

I'm not Jewish. I will say from an outsider's perspective that I have never seen this level of socially accepted anti-semitism in my life and it is deeply disturbing.

Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER)

@speechboy71

7 months

Just an observation: I've never seen or heard American Jews more pissed off than over the past week. There is palpable anger in the American Jewish community at the response to the 10/7 pogrom and a new-found willingness to speak out against antisemitism. It's long overdue.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

@mattduss Do you realize you need Democrats to win the nomination? Do you further realize you need more people to win the general? Do you also realize you need the House and Senate to get anything done?

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

I was a Sanders supporter in 2016. I believe in everything he believes in and more. I am more intersectional than he is. I stopped being a Sanders supporter because I saw the way my fellow supporters treated black people who voted for Hillary--especially black women.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

21/ The Times could have mentioned how many people deny the Holocaust, the reasons they do so, the denialist arguments they advance, and how Horvater fits into this broader pattern. All of this would have ACTUALLY shined a light on the nature of white supremacy in America.

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Magdi Jacobs

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4 years

Do white Democratic men ever think about what it's like for women to have seen Hillary Clinton win the popular vote against a sexual predator but also lose the presidency and then for us to see white men trash our female Speaker when she is taking on this very same monster?

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

I met a punk the other night who was wearing anarchist patches all over his pants combined with two confederate flags at the top. I was like, "What's up with those flag patches?" And he was like, "I'm against SYSTEMS" and I was like, "LMFAO what do you think the Confederacy was?"

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

In December 2020, someone left a severed pig's head in Nancy Pelosi's driveway but we never talk about it because menacing Democrats isn't viewed as a societal aberration

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

6 years

1/ I'm seeing a lot of "what about Obama" tweets going around w/ respect to recent reports on 1. the mistreatment of minors by border patrol & 2. the separation of minors from their parents by border patrol/ICE. So, let's get some facts straight. . . . .

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

5 years

This is so heartbreaking to me, as a woman. Women do have to worry about being perceived as "weak." But then we also have to worry about our strength being interpreted as anti-joy. It's an impossible position. I think she did great in 2016 & took a lot of hits for other women.

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. @HillaryClinton on what she could've done differently in 2016: "I probably came across as too serious. I believed that as the first woman to go as far as I did -- I had to have people feel good about a woman commander in chief. So I may have over-corrected. #TheView

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I supported Sanders early in 2016. I was *always* planning on voting for the Democratic nominee. I have wrestled w/ this question, tho I suspect many others have not. I think the most significant impact on me was a quelling of how loudly I was willing to express support for HRC.

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

@oneunderscore__ I do not understand at all why you are centering the toothache in this thread. And, no, he didn't massacre people because he wanted healthcare in prison.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

Until any of the Democratic candidates proposes taking away people’s healthcare, banning Muslims from entering the country, torturing immigrant children, preventing POC from voting, or reimplanting ectopic pregnancies, maybe we should stop saying they’re acting like Republicans?

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

@ddale8 There are a handful of leaders in the world who are as evil as Trump. There are none who are so deeply, deeply stupid.

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Magdi Jacobs

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6 years

27/ The inclusion of ANY of these factors could have allowed the Times to *actually* shine a light on white supremacy, the people who engage in it, and the people who cast a blind eye.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

4 years

I remain curious as to why so many journalists can hear that the Russian government intentionally manipulated them in order to disrupt our democracy and not pause for one moment to ponder, "Is there anything I should have done differently?"

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Magdi Jacobs

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2 years

@DouthatNYT Also, as a group, fathers are way more involved in their children's lives than they were 50 years ago. Educational involvement is up. Child abuse is down. More divorced fathers co-parent. Maybe--just hear me out here--it's actually good for kids when people *choose* to be parents

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

5 years

I say this as a huge Elizabeth Warren fan: people who are not Native *really* need to stop defining the boundaries around the ancestry/DNA story. Do not say it's silly. Do not say it's overblown. Do not say nobody cares. JUST STOP. You are grossing me out.

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Magdi Jacobs

@magi_jay

2 years

@mattyglesias This has been going on for two years and people still don't understand the extremely basic principle that public health is not catered to individuals, but rather to community protection.

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