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Investigative Journalist. email lee.fang@theintercept.com

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Joined August 2007
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  1. 13 hours ago

    How to love this freaky country!

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    Jul 3
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    Where do people get this lunatic idea that the speech police will benefit the powerless instead of the powerful? What world do you live in?

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    Jul 3

    29 years ago today the US shot down a civilian Iranian airliner. The NYT said this raised "stern questions for Iran"

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    Jul 2

    Pro-Saudi columnist cites 9/11 as reason to punish Qatar. Remind me who was on those planes?

    14 replies 173 retweets 290 likes
  5. Jul 2

    "the fundamental ideas that once sustained racial thinking..." persist via new left and new right culture wars

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    Jul 2

    McConnell/Ryan did the same thing on Obamacare repeal. 70 votes because they knew itd be vetoed. Now have power, all of a sudden can't do it

    Calif Speaker Fabian Nunez passed stronger single payer bill in 06, only bc he knew it would be vetoed. Now he works at insurer lobby firm.
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  7. Jul 2

    Lol Charles Koch parties with George Soros, and all the leading Trump and Clinton people are there as well

    This is fucking obscene
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    Jul 2

    This is fucking obscene

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    Jul 2

    mum. MUM. jeremy corbyn's alarming me mum. he's wearing a tie. make him stop

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  10. Jul 2
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    Nunez wasnt acting in good faith, just used the issue to mobilize lefty support. Later enrich himself from industry. Something to consider.

    7 replies 51 retweets 141 likes
  11. Jul 2

    Calif Speaker Fabian Nunez passed stronger single payer bill in 06, only bc he knew it would be vetoed. Now he works at insurer lobby firm.

    7 replies 210 retweets 334 likes
  12. Jul 2

    I want more thoughtful debate about a path ahead for CA healthcare: real single payer ballot measure, Medicaid expansion, public option, etc

    30 replies 45 retweets 166 likes
  13. Jul 2

    Very nice to see CNA's response, and 's further response, added to the end of the piece. Spirited debate:

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    Jul 1
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    A brutal 2015 look at Dick Gephardt, the populist milkman's son-turned-lobbyist for the government of Turkey

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    Jul 1

    Gephardt: U.S. health care system is "best in the world, bar none." Another example of why rank-and-file progressives are cynical about Dems

    Ex-Dem. Leader Dick Gephardt, who's made $$$ as a lobbyist, laughs at single payer at insurance conference
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  16. Jul 1

    Democratic Superdelegate, in room full of health insurance executives, laughs off prospect of single payer

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  17. Jun 30
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    Single payer would rely on pretty much the same type of cost saving mechanisms.

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  18. Jun 30

    Boggles the mind that so few people in CA stepped up just months ago when there was a drug price initiative that couldve passed.

    31 replies 67 retweets 225 likes
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    May 8

    Ted Kennedy in 1970s, Calif Dems in 2006, Anthony Weiner many times, all used single payer/absolutism for cynical base politics.

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    Jun 30
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    I think this completely valid working through of the rationale is undercut by employing Weimar Germany-era stabbed in the back imagery

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