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My name is Jamelle Bouie. columnist. Co-host of . Upgrade your grey matter, ‘cuz one day it may matter.
Charlottesville, VAnytimes.com/column/jamelle…Joined March 2008

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yep. i’m kind of a broken record on this but trump was a major celebrity with a popular network television show and a decades-old persona as “affable but ruthless businessman.”
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trump couldn't have won without intense personal charisma and defection from unpopular gop orthodoxy, I'm sure these pretenders, who can do neither, will do great
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impossible to take someone named “buck sexton” seriously
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Buck Sexton on Fox: "They are sending a message now to President Trump and to his supporters that THEY WILL COME FOR YOU if you stand against the machine. This is a chilling moment in the country's history."
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striking although not surprising that police “training” here has less to do with investigations or community relations and more to do with how to inflict violence on other people
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Great, the police department of a major American city is having Eddie Gallagher train its officers
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Many Democrats in Congress are thinking about supporting Biden's call for 100,000 more cops, so long as they get billions more for "training." It's vital to understand that the for-profit world of police "training" is one of the most ugly, extremist corners of our society.
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Great, the police department of a major American city is having Eddie Gallagher train its officers
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completely out-of-touch with reality. studies have shown direct connections between unfair police stops and lifelong psychological trauma ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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I'd love to ask some of these people saying "unless you're a criminal, you have no reason to worry" what they think of stop-and-frisk laws or no-knock warrants (I'd much rather be unfairly frisked than unfairly audited) 4/
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This is sort of a master class in how CRT panic pieces operate. (1) Find some cringy jargon-laden passages in supplemental materials for educators, and conflate this with curriculum for students, as though teachers are banging on about white supremacy in math class.
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Woke math? How critical race theory found its way into math curriculum via @JJ_Poff @washexaminer Critical race theorists are changing the conversation from ‘how can we help children succeed’ to ‘America is oppressive.’ All the while failing our children. washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer
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This is doomer rhetoric divorced from the substance of the bill and the real-world political programming needed to build power and get better legislation.
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I love how people on this site are saying “grow up!” and “RePuBS BAd DemS gOoD!” because Im wondering if big money may have possibly turned this bill into empty theater like it has every other single piece of legislation for the past 30 years.
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Mitt Romney has shown real political courage the past few years. He broke with his party over Trump, marched in support of BLM, and thinks climate change is real… … and yet, like every other Republican, he voted against the Democrats’ climate bill. An unserious party.
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People pay a huge premium to live in walkable, lively communities. The 4 essential ingredients: slow/low car streets, nearby shops, apts, transit. Fun fact: NYC has 20k surface parking lots. 100s of 1 story buildings. And a freeway circling Manhattan. That’s a ton of housing.
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It Finally Happened: @aarmlovi and I saw one of the fabled long lines to tour a NYC rental. 3BR/1BA in Williamsburg, no dishwasher or washer-dryer, 24” range, $3,950. Good location.
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sinema’s open contempt for her voters and brazen devotion to private equity is kind of breathtaking, even by the standards of the senate
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I’m told that Sinema is feeling positive about a Thune amendment that would carve out private equity subsidiaries from the 15% corporate minimum tax. Manchin doesn’t want it in the bill, kicking off discussions between him, Thune and Sinema on changes
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love our fun, self-effacing, moderate republican governor
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BREAKING: The Youngkin administration is now attempting to ban the mention of homosexuality in all Virginia schools- using an outdated and unconstitutional section of code to define "sexually explicit content" to bypass the General Assembly.
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can you imagine the hell that would break loose — the mob rule!!! — if all it took to pass something into law were winning majorities in the house and senate, as well as winning the white house, over two consecutive election cycles?
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