'Weird Alex' Pareene

@pareene

Staff Writer, The New Republic

Brooklyn
Joined June 2009
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  1. 2 hours ago

    i resisted making this tweet for like five hours

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  2. 2 hours ago

    We used to have a president who was good "from way downtown." Now we have a president who wears "The Beltway Clown Crown."

    We had a president who was “nothing but net.” Now we have one who is “nothing but debt.”
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    7 hours ago

    So, uh, mercenary firms are definitely recruiting armed special operations veterans in Minneapolis for doing election-related security work. got the goods.

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  4. 7 hours ago

    I have been forced to eject a "friend" from my chateau after he refused to accept that Emily Ratajkowski's breasts have an insouciant charm

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  5. 20 hours ago

    "Countries are exchanging an ideal category (citizenship) that provides a set of rights over time against an amount of money now, equal to the net present value of the bundle of these future advantages."

    globalinequality: Is citizenship just a rent?
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    Oct 31

    "Due to the situation at the event, officers elected to effectuate a tactical child-brutalization measure due to safety concerns."

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    Oct 31

    The Democrats are the only people in a position to protect us from the Republicans' relentless assault on our basic human rights. I wish they thought of themselves in that way, instead of as the Republicans' valued colleagues.

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    Oct 31

    just teargassing voters and then crying big crocodile tears when people say they hate the police

    Organizers in Graham, NC are reporting that local police attacked a march to the polls, pepper-spraying children and arresting at least 2 people including a reporter. Situation is ongoing.
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    Oct 31

    if you're in nc and you're unenthusiastic about voting, at least turn out to vote for cheri beasley for state supreme court chief justice. she's a legitimately great candidate who has already done great things on the bench, and her opponent is a reactionary who rants about aoc.

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    Oct 31

    The grand irony of the Ruth Shalit saga is that her career arc, right through this latest episode, shows that the longest-running and most detrimental-to-quality affirmative action program is the one for white people. - 30 -

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    Oct 30

    The CIA has been passing on information from warrantless surveillance programs to the FBI, which has been using it to arrest and prosecute people, all the while lying about the origin of the information used to arrest people. This should be a huge scandal.

    In the next , I look at a culture of retribution against whistleblowers under Trump—and a new complaint implicating CIA director Gina Haspel and Donald Trump’s nominee for the top legal job in the intelligence community in a retaliation campaign.
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    Oct 31

    Comparing US war in Vietnam & militarized policing at home, Carol Brightman (1968): “It is still widely believed that institutionalized racism is an aberration in an otherwise tolerably humane social policy toward disadvantaged communities.”

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    Oct 31

    A sequel to Children of Men which makes it clear the rest of the world is dealing with the whole situation fine and it's only Britain that has absolutely fucked it but convinced its citizens that it's the only country still working.

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  14. Oct 30

    can't believe this Cornyn story. he's definitely going to lose to the creator of Popeye

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  15. Oct 30

    not even mad

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  16. Oct 30

    The YouTube recommendation engine has just caused me to very much miss a) being in an enclosed room with people from outside my household for extended periods of time and b) Michael Brooks

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  17. Oct 30

    the future of journalism is if a national outlet doesn't send someone to look into it you gotta hope a local attorney uncovers something in discovery and sends it to a high school paper

    Jaw-dropper from the journalism students at ⁦⁩: A Kentucky State Police training slideshow obtained via open records request quotes Hitler, advocates being ‘ruthless killer’
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    Oct 30

    TODAY: Activist Judges' Assault On Democracy & Glenn Greenwald Leaves The Intercept w/ Alex Pareene

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    Oct 30

    In which a "Lt. Col. Wingblade" commuting home from Ft. Belvoir relays orders to helicopters to commit a wee bit of a LOAC violation against protesters and nobody can figure out whether just him or other officials should be reprimanded for it

    SCOOP: The initial investigation by the D.C. National Guard into the two Guard helicopters that flew low over protesters on the night of June 1 found they weren't properly authorized to be there & were directed by a Lt. Col. who was driving home in his car.
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    Oct 30

    Watching the PROMESA board's meeting. It's the first for Trump's new appointee Justin Peterson, who spent years as a consultant for vulture funds on sovereign debt in Puerto Rico and Argentina. Amazing how at this level of predatory technocracy partisan divides almost melt away

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