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Waleed Shahid 🪬
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Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Spox, . Former: , , . YNWA.
Brooklyn, NYjusticedemocrats.comJoined July 2011

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"While our diversity is what makes the U.S. the greatest country in the world, it also poses our biggest challenge to putting a successful soccer team on the field." Subscribe to @AlexiLalas' State of the Union Podcast: foxs.pt/2nApPt2
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Around the millionth time I read that the Jewish "mainstream" is insisting to the Biden admin that the IHRA def of antisemitism is the one and only, I decided to expose the power play of the "mainstream."
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So…what then would fix the current problem? The thing you absolutely cannot get, ie, actual negotiations where both sides get something of value, rather than one side agreeing not to do something existentially insane? Wake up!!!
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“It is not going to fix the current problem that we have right now,” WH spox Karine Jean-Pierre says of using the 14th Amendment to avoid default, throwing cold water on the push from many Dems
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The Pentagon announced in March its largest-ever budget: $842 billion. Almost half will go to defense contractors. A six-month 60 Minutes investigation found that contractors are overcharging the Pentagon on almost everything.
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Along U.S. highways, roadside Punjabi restaurants called dhabas are popping up to serve American truckers, almost 20% of whom are of Punjabi descent. I visited one along the I-40 in Vega, a small town in the Texas Panhandle. Read the story here:
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Interesting study of how the transition to proportional representation in Norway, shortly after women were granted the franchise, reduced the gender turnout gap. "Electoral systems, more than gender, made women peripheral voters."
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Can certain electoral systems reduce the gender gap in voting? Dawn Langan Teele finds transitioning from a majoritarian system to a proportional representation system produces a "dramatic fall in the gender turnout gap." #APSRNewIssue #PoliSciResearch ow.ly/mBCL50OkACz
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants her base to fear because he’s building a multiracial coalition capable of making her billionaire GOP donors pay their fair share and provide health care for all. Her divide-and-conquer politics must end.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says that when people like Jamaal Bowman call her a white supremacist it's "like calling a person a color the n-word" "His physical mannerisms are aggressive ... I feel threatened by him," Greene adds of Bowman
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Most Americans probably don’t realize that the United States is one of the *only* developed democracies in the world with a semi-permanently gridlocked government because of its perpetually divided executive and legislative branches.
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