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1. Contributing Editor, The New Republic 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Profile drawing by Joe Ollmann

Joined June 2012

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  1. 8 hours ago
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  2. 10 hours ago

    tbh, "motherfucker" is too kind.

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  3. 14 hours ago
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  4. 14 hours ago

    This is why either praising or blaming Trump for his isolationist gestures is besides the point. The military is disregarding his words. He's a Potemkin president.

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    Jan 3

    "If fascism is a death cult, then opposing it has to include not just political organizing, but also a positive alternative of a good life." A terrific observation inside an overall lovely review by of Jason Lutes' "Berlin":

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  6. Jan 3

    Policy questions aside, I like the swagger of the new Democrats. It's welcome.

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  7. Jan 3

    This is perhaps the logical end of a political movement that also asks its adherents to believe codswallop like supply side economics and climate denial. The war on expertise has become the war on eyesight.

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  8. Jan 3
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  10. Jan 3

    "Hail Red Army!" -- Workers Vanguard, 1980. “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia.They were right to be there" -- Donald Trump, 2019

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  11. Jan 3

    This Twitter account prides itself in bringing people together.

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  12. Jan 3

    "if ever a country deserved rape it’s Afghanistan. Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics...." -- Alexander Cockburn 1980 “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia.They were right to be there" -- Trump, 2019

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  13. Jan 3

    Man, IBM is really committed to defending its 1930s business practices.

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  14. Jan 3

    We finally have a president who agrees with Alexander Cockburn! It's too bad it had to be Trump.

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  15. Jan 3

    5. The current president of the Ethics and Policy Center is of course Ed Whelan, recently seen trying to smear a classmate of Brett Kavanaugh as the true attempted rapist.

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  16. Jan 3

    4. Abrams, former President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, also played a key role in helping cover the El Mozote massacre in El Savador in 1981, which saw death squads kill 800 civilians.

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  17. Jan 3

    3. From 1996 to 2001, the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center was Elliott Abrams, who had perviously been convicted for lying to Congress during the Iran/Contra scandal.

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  18. Jan 3

    2. The founder of the Ethics and Public Policy Center was Ernest Lefever who was rejected for a Reagan administration nomination in 1981 because of testimony of 2 of his brothers, one who said he was incompetent, the other who said he was a racist.

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  19. Jan 3

    1. I think it's time to do another thread on this history of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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  20. Jan 3

    My thoughts on Jason Lutes daunting, impressive and unsettling graphic novel about the Weimar Republic.

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