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Richard Yeselson

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Editorial Board @dissentmag . Think I started trend of labeling modern US Right as “revanchist.” Charming in person, but we’re not there. Also NBA/Warriors.

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@yeselson

Richard Yeselson

22 days

Continue to think *both*: centrist, Diaspora Jews should not tie their Jewishness to an unjust, brutal occupying ethno state that long post dates Judaism. And leftists (incl. leftist Jews) should not tie their leftism to theocratic fascists who hate cosmopolitan democracy.

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Richard Yeselson

8 months

“I got it because keeping myself safe, my family safe, the people in this building,” Kelce said. “I stand by it 1,000%. Fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.” Travis Kelcie isn’t Jonas Salk, but this is what a responsible public figure does.

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Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce laughs off Aaron Rodgers’ ‘Mr. Pfizer’ quip | CNN

Travis Kelce has laughed off Aaron Rodgers’ new nickname for the Kansas City Chiefs tight end after the injured New York Jets quarterback called him “Mr. Pfizer” during his weekly appearance on...

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Richard Yeselson

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Rodgers is a classic American type: the iconoclastic conformist. He thinks he’s “fighting the power” by invoking MLK while supporting crackpot anti-vax theories and bar stool demagogues like Joe Rogan. But he’s a just rich dude who rejects civic obligation—we mass produce those.

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Dov Kleiman

@NFL_DovKleiman

8 months

From FOX: Aaron Rodgers talked about his reputation and said to people who were against him: "Didn't work, couldn't keep me down." Great interview with @ErinAndrews

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

Thank god the Electoral College ensures that presidential campaigns pay attention to small states and rural populations.

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edburmila.bsky.social

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@DanCrenshawTX Presidential campaign visits by state, 2016

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

So we’re just doing de facto hard core herd immunity? With the risk tilted toward working class people and, within the working class, people of color? No national plan, no sense of moral or logistical urgency, just death for those who can’t afford to work behind a computer. Cool.

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

Quit immediately. Spend your millions on voting rights. Pay the poll tax of the ex felons in Florida being screwed out of their franchise by the state GOP. Think about a cause larger than your own ambitions.

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Tom Steyer

5 years

Last night, I left the debate stage even more determined to talk to Americans and push harder for a larger, more specific conversation on the climate crisis. We cannot continue to plan our future without concrete plans to deal with our global reality. Climate change cannot wait.

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3 years

Holy shit! He did it! Just to be clear: FDR never said this about any particular labor struggle, nor did he say workers generally should join a union (as the CIO cleverly attributed to him). So...this is, um, better than expected. And yes—the Bernie/Warren/AOC faction *matters.*

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President Biden

3 years

Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a vitally important choice – one that should be made without intimidation or threats by employers. Every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

This has to be the most righteous 72 seconds of Jon Ossoff’s life. Perdue looks like he’s in a lineup.

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Eric Feigl-Ding

4 years

🔥BLISTERING SPEECH. @ossoff completely destroys Perdue in Georgia senate debate—for Perdue dismissing #COVID19 pandemic as nothing but the flu, for ignoring health warnings, & voting 4 times to deny protections for pre-existing conditions. #GASenateDebate

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

Fetterman margin now 4.3%. No landslide, but not that close at all, solid win, bigger than Toomey—Larger than R’s winning margin in NC senate. Debate didn’t matter or maybe even helped Fetterman because Oz is so smarmy, made the abortion gaffe.

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Richard Yeselson

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@brianros1 A 24 hour warning for over a million people who have nowhere to go doesn’t really seem in good faith. How are is this suooosed to be logistically managed. Hamas committed premeditated mass murder. A 24 hour notice isn’t really a serious proposal though, is it?

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

What’s fascinating when listening to rightwing SCOTUS justices is that, despite their eminence and elite educations, they say the same crackpot stuff, repeat the same falsehoods that any nutter on his sofa watching Tucker would.

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Aaron Rupar

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The flu kills about 30,000 Americans each year. I'm kinda surprised Gorsuch would broadcast his ignorance like this. I looked this up with help from Google in about 10 seconds.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

Actually Trump did confront a major domestic crisis and he completely screwed it up, damaging and costing many lives: Puerto Rico.

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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

6 years

Trump has been lucky: He hasn’t confronted a major domestic or international crisis during his first year as most of his predecessors have. Odds are his luck won’t last in Year Two. Multiple crises loom. Me in @ForeignPolicy :

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

So if Goldman is right, we’re going to condense the first three years of the Depression into six months. While tens of thousands of people are dying from a highly contagious virus. And a cross between Madoff, Mussolini and Krusty the Clown is president.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

Props to LeBron. Every left of center mega-wealthy person should join this effort. FL GOP, led by DeSantis, instituted a 21st c. poll tax to disenfranchise over one million citizens.

LeBron James Helps To Pay Fees Of Floridians With Felony Convictions So They Can Vote

His campaign is partnering with a Florida voting rights group to help formerly incarcerated people pay fines that block them from casting votes.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

@NateSilver538 Tbh, it’s not the Selzer poll, although Ernst winning would be very bad. It’s the Rs going into federal court to throw out 117,000 legally cast votes. That’s chilling.

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

Romney thing is just this: he’s ostentatiously shorting Trump, ie, betting he is impeached/convicted or forced to resign. And reminding party he would do all the usual stuff the donors and activists want without the drama. And figuring that’s how he wins nomination in ‘20.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Buried lede on Schumer interview on Maddie tonight is his priority to not only fill judgeship vacancies, but expand the federal courts below SCOTUS level. BFD.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Shocking—they’re going to poison pill this and millions of people will suffer, just because they wanted to tie Biden’s hands so that millions might suffer in the future. And then they will blame the Dems. Because this is who they are.

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Burgess Everett

3 years

New: McConnell tells Senate Republicans on conference call he’s holding firm on Toomey Fed language, sources tell me and @marianne_levine Cotton praised McConnell, Mnuchin and Toomey for not giving in to Dems and encouraged Senate GOP to rally around them

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

@AJentleson Dems have the leverage here if they hold their nerve. Market is going to decline 10-20% tomorrow, so Schumer and Pelosi have to be coldly implacable—no Mnuchin slush fund, Corp bailout along Warren’s lines, redirect/add money for workers.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

This is a useful reminder how profoundly transgressive union organizing is in the United States. Here is an internationally branded company with a huge market cap, panicking at the militant model that even one successfully organized Starbucks would demonstrate to other workers.

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Noam Scheiber

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Great reporting from @LaurenKGurley on Starbuck's mobilization against the union campaign in Buffalo. It's pretty rare to see an executive this senior turn up at chain stores in this context.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

Basically, Trump accused a female senator and possible presidential candidate of being willing to exchange having sex with him in return for a campaign contribution. It’s a measure of how endlessly grotesque he is that this isn’t even the biggest political story of the day.

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

The most persuasive pro-impeachment piece I’ve read. As ⁦ @AJentleson ⁩ says: if Dems impeach Trump and R Senate whitewashes him, that will **heighten** the necessity to vote him out in 11/2020. Which for Dems is **great** politics.

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The Political Costs of Not Impeaching Trump

Democrats are ceding legitimacy to Trump’s claims of exoneration by giving him a pass.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

This should be getting **much** more attention than it is: according to @nytimes , @USChamber and unnamed corporations are feverishly advising Trump ***not*** to implement the Military Production Act—advice he, Kudlow and Jared are accepting. The result is delays/chaos.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the heads of major corporations have lobbied the administration against using the act.” Times buries the lede here. Trump, Kudlow and the ⁦ @USChamber ⁩ have blood not just on their hands, but up to their armpits.

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Richard Yeselson

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This discussion about the senate is goofy. *Of course* a 50-50 senate means an exact party split in committee assignment. But the *Dems will still control the body even prior to tiebreaker. Why? Because they will *chair every committee* and only Schumer can bring bills to floor.

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Richard Yeselson

2 months

Pro tip to Joe Biden: Netanyahu wants you to lose—he is, in effect, a Republican and an agent of Trump—and he’s going to kill/starve and immiserate a lot more people between now and November. He’s not on your side; don’t be on his.

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Erik Strobl 🦝

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can we finally stop doing everything this guy wants

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Richard Yeselson

8 months

This is insane. Hey mainstream media: Trump is visiting a *non union* shop! That’s the point! He’s not even doing a version of the “I was union president once myself” shtick that Reagan did. This is even lazier than that—he’s just bs’ing once again. Don’t fall for it.

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Alex Press

8 months

also: I’ve seen CNN and AP both run factually inaccurate articles today about Trump’s trip, and that’s just from looking at Twitter for like fifteen minutes. surely lots more examples. many journalists embarrassing themselves this week

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

Wait—when Dems in TX and Wisconsin pulled this stunt, Rs just outwaitrd them and passed their agenda anyway. But when Rs do the same thing in Oregon, Ds beg them to return and agree to *curtail* their agenda. Wtf?!?!

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

The Republican Party is opposed to majoritarian multi-racial democracy and dedicated to disenfranchising opposition voters before and after they legally cast ballots. This is unique today in advanced nations. But it is not unique in the US. It was the American South, 1890-1965.

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@brianros1 But it’s not Germany. These two peoples share the same space. If you kill, maim, or displace most of them, it’s not only horrific, but you have to manage the aftermath.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Hard to construct a moral template in which this isn’t evil. And from people who are surely vaccinated themselves.

@NikkiMcR

nikki mccann ramírez

3 years

Bret Weinstein and Tucker Carlson tell viewers the vaccine could actually make the COVID pandemic worse

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

Re: Clarence Thomas, conservatives defamed woman testifying under oath who had no reason to lie. Other women were willing to substantiate her claim. Yet at this fraught moment, no conservative writer has reconsidered this episode. Why? Maybe because CT still powerful justice.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Wonder when Joe Manchin will figure out that if the Dems end the filibuster he becomes the most powerful senator in the body—the Justice Kennedy of senators, you might say—and both parties (and Biden) will have to kiss his ring. If it’s retained, he’s a nobody— #50 out of 60.

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Richard Yeselson

9 months

Is this supposed to be a hard question? A: “Company bosses and Wall Street are screwing you; the pols follow from that. Stop marinating in barely veiled racial resentment of poor folks and organize a union with other working people, regardless of their race/gender/ethnicity.”

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Patrick Ruffini

@PatrickRuffini

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What’s the left’s answer to this?

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

@KevinMKruse @JDVance1 And federalized election standards and voting on the weekend? Sounds good!

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

Reminder: the AAA doesn’t block government research on car safety. The NRA is an extremist organization which should not be normalized as merely a typical affinity group. It isn’t. Lawful gun owners are one thing, the NRA, institutionally, is another.

@NormOrnstein

Norman Ornstein

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The scandal of Congress blocking reseach on gun violence, NRA puppets. Read @ThePlumLineGS

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Richard Yeselson

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@chrislhayes I actually think conservatives are right: investigative journalists are “going after” Thomas. But they are finding factually uncontroverted evidence that’s he’s corrupt! Over and over again. They’re not “smearing” him, as the cons allege. They’re *describing* him.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

The other thing about @AndrewGillum is that he’s as much from a working class background as any of the 80 zillion white voters sitting in Midwest diners that the media has interviewed. But the media has trouble understanding that non white people can be working class too.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

There’s value in Biden being stripped of any illusions that there is some halcyon “deal making”” possible with McConnell.

@costareports

Robert Costa

4 years

Based on McConnell's remarks, the leadership of the GOP does not view President Trump as defeated and will not address President-elect Biden as president-elect. And the defiant rhetoric of Trumpism infused the majority leader's speech.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

Ben—c’mon. There was never such a moment. There were just a lot of people, in and out of the GOP, who didn’t want to explicitly acknowledge that reactionary racial nationalism was the motor of conservatism. Also: Krauthammer debased himself too—look up his teleprompter remarks.

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Ben Smith

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There was a moment when ideological, rather than racial/nationalist, opposition to Obama seemed ascendant, and Krauthammer seemed like the key voice on the right

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Imagine if the Weather Underground in 1969–the year of Chicago’s Days of Rage-had led an insurrection, supported by leading Dems like Ted Kennedy and George McGovern, to take over Congress and overturn the 1968 election; 5 die. 60% of House Ds support overturning the election.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

I don’t think even a deformed democracy is possible when the rightist party is as dangerously, resentfully reactionary as this.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Flip 22k votes combined in three states out of 158+ million cast and Trump “beats” a guy who beat him by 4.5%, which isn’t a landslide, but isn’t close either ( = Truman, > JFK/Nixon 1/Carter/W both/Obama 2/Trump 1). That’s not just anti-majoritarian democracy. It’s irrational.

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Dave Wasserman

3 years

BREAKING: Biden's national popular vote lead just surpassed 7 million (4.5%)... Biden 81,264,673 (51.3%) Trump 74,210,838 (46.9%)

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Richard Yeselson

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This is all bs: Romney ran, in his own words, as “severely conservative” in ’12 and then an Ayn Rand fan as his running mate. Dems don’t support people like that. He’s a decent guy, but he ran as a right wing jerk. Totally standard politics to attack him as such.

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AG

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I disagree on some policy issues with Mitt Romney, but he is among the most decent people to ever run for President. The way Dems and the press smeared him in 2012 remains infuriating and was a major inflection point for our politics.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Here we go. Impeach/convict/remove. Today.

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Michael S. Schmidt

3 years

EXCLUSIVE: Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency, a move that would mark one of the most extraordinary and untested uses of presidential power in American history. w/ @maggieNYT

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

Had not seen this. JFK at his very best, but this also a reminder that the goal of universal health insurance was a primary goal of the mid century Democratic Party, even via a centrist like JFK.

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Richard Yeselson

6 months

Hamas is *objectively blocking* any hope for Palestinian justice and freedom. It wishes to stop any kind of imaginable remedy—one, multi-ethnic state, two sovereign equal states—and, like their Jewish supremacist counterparts, supports expulsion and/or extermination of the other.

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Richard Yeselson

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@baseballcrank @countvonsheep But, to be clear: you don’t support these programs for poor children either, correct? You think the dispersed burden on the taxpayers, ie, the community in aggregate, is too great for given taxpayers to bear, correct?

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Richard Yeselson

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@brianros1 Nah—it might be a bad thing, yes. But, c’mon—she’s mercurial, narcissistic, and kind of nuts. She always has been. It was entirely in their interest to kiss her ass and they did everything they can to do just that. She blew them off. It’s on her.

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

@chrislhayes Why would McCain do this? Why would they ask him to do this? By the grace of god, what is the matter with these people? All of them.

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

Reminder: Paul Ryan is a crackpot, a cruel libertarian fanatic. "Freedom" to go without basic human needs is the freedom of the grave.

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John Harwood

7 years

Ryan on health care under GOP bill: "you get it if you want it. that's freedom"

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Richard Yeselson

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Kelcie’s ethic of earnest, socially empathic community much > Rodgers’s ignorant, solipsistic freedom of the grave.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Arkansas state legislature made it “illegal for any state or local entity, including public hospitals, to require coronavirus vaccination as a condition of education or employment until two years after the Food and Drug Administration fully licenses a shot.”

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

I really sense that the centrists supporting Biden think they can crush the left and still unify the party and the left thinks it can tell the “official party” to fuck off because Bernie can win without total institutional support. Two versions of militant sentimentality.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Yeah, this is a great point. California is only the home state of 1/8th of the US population and the fifth largest economy by per capita GDP in the world. I’d just write off the whole state---I mean who cares? It’s not like it’s got any more senators than any of the other states.

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Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci

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NBC's @ChuckTodd 's DC-focused perspective on display, saying CA seems "so distant from the political debate...how does CA fit in with the rest of the country?"

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

Trump hasn’t said a word yet about the Californian wildfires. Like brown PR, blue California is beyond his narcissistic needs.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

A 70-30 union defeat is a campaign that should never have been undertaken in the first place. And just as victory can beget victory, large defeats dampen militancy. And *of course* the company was manipulative/coercive/brutalist. But *that is always the case.* Have to figure out

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

The refusal of the Tibbetts family, even as they struggle with their terrible grief, to be used by demagogic racial-ethno-nationalists, from Trump on down thru his base, is extraordinarily powerful and moving.

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Richard Yeselson

6 months

Tonight makes Biden’s problems look worse. If Dems had done poorly, the political challenges would be seen as broadly based, multi-factorial. But, in fact, those problems are, essentially, specific to Biden. Dems don’t have a party problem. They have a Biden problem.

@ryanstruyk

Ryan Struyk

7 months

Stamina and sharpness to serve as president via new national @CNN poll: Donald Trump: 53% yes, has stamina/sharpness 47% no, no stamina/sharpness Joe Biden: 25% yes, has stamina/sharpness 74% no, no stamina/sharpness

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

Florida is the third largest state in the US. Its governor, with the full support of his legislating party, instituted a poll tax to prevent ex felons from voting—against the express wishes of the FL electorate. If this were 1910, we would call this an episode of Jim Crow. 1/2

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Sam Bagenstos

4 years

I was pleased to join three dozen other former DOJ Civil Rights attorneys in this bipartisan brief challenging Florida's pay-to-vote law as an unconstitutional poll tax.

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

@jonathanchait Bad news is that Kurt Suzuki wore Maga hat. Good news is that eight Nats didn’t show up, including superstar Anthony Rendon.

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

So how crazy/authoritarian/racially incendiary/McCarthyist (the president blacklisting a private citizen's job search?!?) is this?

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Haaland is not (only) a “diversity” first—she’s a genuine “left faction of the Party” first in the cabinet (endorsed Warren, not Biden) and in a crucial position where she will fight rapacious corporate interests.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

AOC’s strategically smart move is not just to run as a “democratic socialist” ie, social democrat, but to **be** an all in member of the Democratic Party. As the shrewdest conservatives understood two generations ago, the way to political power in the US is thru a major party.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

6 years

70 years ago: Jobs Guarantee, Universal Healthcare & Housing as a Right were all championed by the President of the United States. In fact, our campaign incorporates the legacy of 2 US Presidents. FDR‘s Economic Bill of Rights includes Right to Education, Fair Income & more.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

He’s not wrong.

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Acyn

3 years

Reporter: You won the state by 10 points Biden: I know we did but I was running against Donald Trump

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

cons like to say re electoral college: Don’t like it? Pass a constitutional amendment to repeal it. Same here: there’s no number of justices designated in the Constitution. Either party can expand it anytime *they have the power* to do so. Don’t like it? Pass an amendment.

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Dan McLaughlin

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That & the fact that it's an enormously consequential assault on judicial independence so it matters quite a lot beyond Election Day.

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

I don’t think any state has a “legitimate” procedural or normative interest in *wrongly* convicting a person of murder, thus permitting the wrongly convicted person’s execution.

@baseballcrank

Dan McLaughlin

2 years

Sotomayor's complaint misses the point. Thomas recites the nature of the crimes not to suggest bending the law but to remind the Court that there are legitimate interests in capital convictions, so it shouldn't just keep inventing custom-made exceptions.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

Pathetic. This is shaping up as the biggest failure of Pelosi’s career—both strategically re how to use her considerable leverage and normatively re the failure to grasp that we are headed into a depression and the biggest, smartest income support bill *must* be passed.

@heatherscope

Heather Caygle

4 years

House Dems say they’re still working on their own “phase 3” bill. But they know the reality of the situation — House members don’t even want to come back to DC so fighting the Senate next week would be a tough sell. This way they get their priorities in the bill on front end.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

So: one of the country’s great national newspapers, @washingtonpost , is publishing this generation’s version of The Pentagon Papers—a tail of Empire’s arrogance, stupidity, incompetence and even misapplied institutional self-interest—and the nation yawns. American decadence.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

Being as intellectually generous to Kavanaugh as possible, this list of his misstatements and untruths doesn’t per se prove he’s lying about the incident Ford alleged, but does show how desperately implausible are his denials that he was a heavy drinker.

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Analysis | Here’s where Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony was misleading or wrong

From obvious falsehoods about his drinking to misrepresentations of exonerating evidence.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

He’s not this stupid, but apparently he is this mendacious. Burdens put on *individual voters* rights has zero to do with election security measures—which Dems supported last year (and still support) and Rs *opposed*! Completely dishonest argument, lazily tossed out.

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Dan McLaughlin

3 years

Maybe the most bizarre feature of voting-law controversies is the people who 1) spent four solid years arguing that we should be terrified about hostile foreign actors meddling in our elections but 2) now say we need no safeguards for our voting process.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

This is not just a horrific non policy and an abdication of political responsibility: it’s the unmasking of an ideology—the libertarian god that failed. Why not remove traffic lights too? There is no solipsistic “freedom” that impedes the freedom of others to live safely.

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Jacob Heilbrunn

@JacobHeilbrunn

4 years

Red state governors reject Biden on mask orders - POLITICO

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Richard Yeselson

3 months

These leaks rightly make Biden seem feckless and weak. It’s really weird that anybody around him thinks they benefit him. Biden refuses to use the power he has to counter Netanyahu, so telling the world that he doesn’t like him is pathetic. It just underscores the old/frail meme.

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Jonathan Allen

3 months

SCOOP: In private, Biden often describes Netanyahu as obstinate — calling Israel’s PM an ‘asshole’ in at least 3 instances — and the main obstacle to US efforts to promote de-escalation. via ⁦ @carolelee ⁩ ⁦ @Petereporter ⁩ ⁦ @ckubeNBC ⁩ & me

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Richard Yeselson

8 months

This doesn’t sound like much—and in a way it isn’t. But to support a “record contract” for the workers is pretty much as publicly supportive—more—than any president in US history, very much including FDR (who used to do some back channel stuff, but didn’t publicly take sides).

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More Perfect Union

8 months

Joe Biden just spoke about the autoworkers' strike. And he was very clear. "I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the @UAW ."

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

This is such an interesting tweet. Part of the reason that Democratic Party politics are so confusing is that the two most prominent Democratic socialist, working inside the party, are stronger extollers of the history modern US liberalism than many liberals themselves are.

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Bernie Sanders

5 years

“It’s time that we become the party of FDR again. It’s time for us to become the party of the Civil Rights Act again. It’s time for us to become the party that fights for queer liberation again, the anti-war party, a party that establishes peace and prosperity.” - @AOC

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

All true. But what’s really horrible is that if Kemp wins, there’s no remedy. He will have just been permitted to fix his own race for governor by acting as its corrupt referee. It’s astounding, as big a scandal as is imaginable in a contemporary American election.

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b-boy bouiebaisse

6 years

Kemp’s open attempt to steal the election is a big story but it feels like it should be an even bigger story. And if he wins, I think any responsible report on his victory should include his dedicated efforts to keep as many voters from the polls as possible.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

There is a police report—9/25/85. Chad Luddington is telling the truth. Kavanaugh threw a cup of ice on the guy, and then bro, Chris Dudley, (a hacker in the NBA too) punches the guy in the ear. Guy goes to hospital bleeding, Yale bros walk.

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

When a white man in Alabama in 2017 puts together a bi-racial coalition—one heavily dependent on huge black turnout—and cites Dr. King’s old chestnut about the moral arc of the universe it’s not trite, it’s very moving.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

No! Hate this cynical shit, where conservatives project their anti-majoritarian cynicism onto the left. Let the people decide—all of them. *Including every R.* No weighted votes, no “only ten swing states’ votes count.” Every vote matters/counts equally. Democracy for all.

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Jonah Goldberg

4 years

@EWErickson Imagine if Biden takes Texas. There will be so many "WTF, I love the Electoral College now" takes.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

Yup. Where’s the voter fraud charges in Wyoming?

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Steven White

@notstevenwhite

3 years

This is an important point. Biden did nearly 5 percentage points better than Clinton in Wyoming. No one cares because Trump still won Wyoming in a blowout. But the point is Biden improved in all kinds of places, not just the states that proved to be pivotal.

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Richard Yeselson

19 days

So the most salient example of physical violence against persons—resulting in 25 people hospitalized—was caused by pro Israeli thugs, observed and denounced by Jewish professors. This doesn’t evoke “Europe in the 1930s” as @DanaBashCNN has it—but rather Peekskill, NY 1949.

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Dov Waxman

19 days

This piece by my @UCLA colleague, Prof. David Myers, accurately describes what I also witnessed on UCLA's campus on Sunday. To keep the peace, we both put ourselves between some pro-Palestinian protesters (who were mostly disciplined and non-confrontational) and a small

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

One more point to add here, an important one: “Voter fraud”, one vote at a time by disaggregated voters, not only rarely happens, but **its a completely ineffective way to steal an election.** By contrast, election fraud aggregates votes by those with access to them, eg, NC-9.

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Chris Hayes

5 years

I've seen a bunch of Republicans attempt to spin it this way so it's worth responding to head on.

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Richard Yeselson

6 months

So not via every stray remark but, yes, any extended memorialization of the situation should denounce Hamas theocratic fascism (as well as Israeli exploitation and occupation) *on behalf* of Palestinian self-determination. Universalist solidarity against fascist

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

So two Dems—a Black preacher from EBC and a Jew—win in the Deep South; they are *significantly more to the left* than the previous Dem senators from that state decades ago. And the reactionaries ran the usual red baiting/race baitingcampaign—and they lost. This is all wonderful.

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Richard Yeselson

8 years

Dems Left (Bernie), Center (Biden), and Right (Bloomberg) coalesce against demagogic crackpot, Trump. This is the logic of a popular front.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

@RonBrownstein @JohnCornyn @GregAbbott_TX Ok? They’re trying to get 117k legally cast votes thrown out. What aren’t they ok with?

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

Oh ffs!!! Will this idiotic argument ever die? How are Wyoming and Vermont doing in presidential elections as revered, respected small states? Lot of campaigns paying attention to them? How about Idaho? Or Delaware?

@EricLevitz

Eric Levitz

5 years

The Democratic governor of Nevada vetoed a bill that would have committed his state to the National Popular Vote Compact because his "conscience" wouldn't let him "diminish the role of smaller states." That's dumb as hell.

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

Dem senators blowing Gorsuch fight by taking about his record. Point is it's *not about him.* They must ignore him as Rs ignored Garland.

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

Georgia still important. Allows Dems to lose Manchin or Sinema on any given confirmation vote. Also: If Warnock loses, McConnell incentivized to make strong pitches to Manchin and/or Sinema to switch parties. Would they do it? Don’t know, but it’s happened before, more than once.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the heads of major corporations have lobbied the administration against using the act.” Times buries the lede here. Trump, Kudlow and the ⁦ @USChamber ⁩ have blood not just on their hands, but up to their armpits.

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Trump Bets Business Will Answer Call to Fight Virus, but Strategy Bewilders Firms (Published 2020)

It remains unclear if the effort to enlist companies like General Motors, Apple and Hanes constitutes an effective strategy.

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Richard Yeselson

7 years

What’s interesting—and deeply cynical—is that Pence planned this—knew some @49ers players would kneel. Culture war/racial resentment stunt.

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Jake Tapper

7 years

After some @49ers kneeled during part of the National Anthem to protest racial injustice, @VP left the stadium.

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

This is what historians call an “emblematic quote.”

@thenation

The Nation

3 years

“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

Yup. The country has a large, anti majoritarian movement driven by racial-ethno nationalism + plutocratic upward redistribution. Understanding it lacks national, electoral support, this movement grows ever more desperate and authoritarian—a danger many analysts waved away.

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Brian Beutler

4 years

Republicans are explicit about the fact that if they have to compete for votes in elections, they will lose rather than adapt, so they must try to control who is allowed to vote instead.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

This is why @nytimes is reporting that Trump officials are asking states not to report UI claims! The corruption and lies never stops.

@michaelsderby

Michael S. Derby

4 years

Goldman Sachs warns data point to a historic and frankly apocalyptic surge in unemployment insurance claims, from current 281,000 to 2,250,000 in next week’s report. Yes you read that right.

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

Took six months and being embarrassed by the Post.

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Glenn Kessler

@GlennKesslerWP

5 years

Addendum: the NYT has now corrected and updated the article

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Richard Yeselson

3 years

One of the smartest things coming out of the leftist/social dem/dem soc faction of the Democratic Party is that the *practicing politicians* themselves, Bernie/AOC/Omar—vilified by the right, adored (mostly) by the twitter left—understand how important **party partisanship** is.

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Ilhan Omar

3 years

Finally some straight talk.

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

@chrislhayes It’s really gratifying. The worst kind of American “rebel”—anti-intellectual in the name of being some kind of faux organic intellectual; freedom as anti-social pathology; privileged self-absorption performed as a cry of persecution from the “real” elites.

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Richard Yeselson

5 years

I don’t get this stuff with Sanders and his tax returns. I realize his ultra-fans don’t care. (I think he is very useful, but not at all indispensable.) But they ought to—he’s the effing leftwing, anti-plutocratic candidate and we still can’t be sure if he is gaming his taxes.

@JoshuaHol

Joshua Holland

5 years

Why would anyone expect the reactions to be comparable? He had been a candidate for like 20 minutes and Sanders didn't release his throughout 2016.

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Richard Yeselson

4 years

Somehow this seems a bit off, given what he spent on his last big project.

@thehill

The Hill

4 years

Bloomberg to donate $40 million to fight coronavirus globally

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Richard Yeselson

8 months

What’s great and important about AOC is that, as a practicing politician with a dem soc/social dem world view, she is all in as both an *advocate* and here as a *partisan*. She knows the Democratic Party is the complicated vehicle for leftist politics and she owns her party ID.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

8 months

Yes, because strengthening someone who voted to overturn the election, held the entire US economy hostage, launched a baseless impeachment inquiry without a vote, and refuses to honor his word is what is in the best interest of this country. Do some of you hear yourselves?

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Richard Yeselson

6 years

From law prof: Reason why WH doesn’t want FBI to interview Kavanaugh’s Yale classmates about his drinking there: because that would likely lead to an investigation that he perjured himself on this subject in his Committee testimony.

@rroiphe

Rebecca Roiphe

6 years

@PGourevitch This is to avoid referral for a criminal investigation into perjury. Even GOP would have a hard time confirming someone under criminal investigation

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Richard Yeselson

2 years

Over 97%. Mandates work.

@BostonGlobe

The Boston Globe

2 years

Nearly 1,000 state workers, out of a total of 41,000, left jobs over vaccine mandate

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