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Richard Stengel Reveals 10 Things You Didn't Know About Nelson Mandela

Apr 21, 2022

I always told my journalists, there aren’t two sides to a lie. Yes, you should be non-partisan, but not neutral. Journalists must be biased in favor of the truth and facts. Biased in favor of democracy itself. We protect the press so the press can protect democracy. Let’s do that

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Lovely piece in

on "Mandela: The Lost Tapes" on Audible. He adored her.

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From escaping an arranged marriage to a stint as an amateur boxer, the host of the new podcast Mandela: The Lost Tapes shares surprising things many people don’t know about the South African aparth...

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Inflation has declined six months straight.

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This is what country before party sounds like. Thank you.

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Lindsey Graham

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Thank you to the men and women of the United States military who were responsible for completing the mission to shoot down the Chinese surveillance balloon. The Biden Administration did the right thing in bringing it down.

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Adam Kinzinger #fella

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Feb 5

I was in a meeting where Donald Trump asked a group of us to lay off XI and China telecom ZTE because he promised XI, and he doesn’t want to disappoint him. Bolton wrote about this, I can confirm. I was shocked.

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Roger Fisk

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Replying to @MonicaCrowley

1) according to John Bolton trump begged Xi for help in 2020. Tough to be strong when begging.

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One good thing about the whole balloon episode is that it taught people on the right that balloon has two Ls in it like folly and two Os like buffoon.

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They were unhappy when we didn’t shoot down the balloon—and now they’re unhappy when we did.

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And the difference is, Biden shot it down and Trump didn’t. Now, who is full of hot air?

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Hmm, yes, re your first question. According to defense officials, at least one Chinese surveillance balloon was tracked over the US during the Trump admin, according to the Associated Press. twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/sta…

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Just saying, but I don't think the 519,000 Americans who got new jobs in January are all that worried about inflation.

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Hmm, yes, re your first question. According to defense officials, at least one Chinese surveillance balloon was tracked over the US during the Trump admin, according to the Associated Press.

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Rep. Jim Jordan

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Would Trump have let China fly a spy balloon over our country? Would Reagan? JFK? Truman? No, no, no, and no. So why’s Biden letting China off the hook?

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United States government official

More jobs created in two years, than in ANY President's four year term.

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Chris Murphy

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Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Sandy Hook and Parkland were staged and the parents are actors and the kids are really still alive. Republicans just put her on the committee that oversees school safety. But Ilhan Omar…

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Trump Won’t Commit to Backing the G.O.P. Nominee in 2024

Not supporting the nominee is the flip side of overturning an election. If I don’t like the result, I won’t support it. In fact, I’ll undermine it.

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The former president faces several potential Republican challengers in his bid for the White House.

MANDELA THE LOST TAPES by Richard Stengel Ed Read by Nelson Mandela Richard Stengel | Audiobook...

Wonderful review of “Mandela:The Lost Tapes” on Audible from ⁦

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AudioFile Audiobook Review: This work is not a book--it's history. While hearing Nelson Mandela talk about his life and his work to achieve an inclusive South African government

The fear of knowledge comes from intellectual insecurity—and when you come to the marketplace of ideas without a penny in your pocket.

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Joe Walsh

@WalshFreedom

Feb 2

Just heard on TV a third grade FL teacher say that all books were removed from her classroom to comply with new state law. A state appointed “media specialist” will determine which books are acceptable. This is happening all over the state. Welcome to the free state of Florida.

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Deadline White House

@DeadlineWH

"The idea that the framers... would've put the Second Amendment so that people in Congress can bring loaded weapons to the place of debate, of harmony, of where democracy comes together, they would just be appalled" -

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Guns in the House? A raucous Natural Resources panel debate

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“I feel I need one everywhere here. There are often times we are harassed in the hallways.” —Rep. Lauren Boebert. Yes, if by harassment you mean getting questions from constituents and reporters. That’s your job.

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Rep. Jared Huffman led the push to reinstate an explicit ban on firearms in the committee's hearing room.

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Whatever you may think of critical race theory, or transgender kids playing sports, is there any one who really thinks these are even among the top 1000 issues we face as a nation?

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A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job.

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“What Nixon did was just an ordinary crime. What Trump has done is quite arguably the worst crime against the United States that a president could commit.” —The deeply conservative former Republican federal judge Michael Luttig

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Luttig, the retired judge who advised Mike Pence on Jan. 4 and testified before the Jan. 6 committee, envisions "the beginning of the end of Donald Trump."

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Government Remains Americans' Top Problem in 2022

Ever since Ronald Reagan said, "Government is not the solution to our problem, gov't is the problem," one party has relentlessly run down government while relentlessly seeking to run it and increase its size while enacting tax cuts that increase our debt.

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For the seventh year in the past decade, Americans name dissatisfaction with the government as the top problem in 2022, with economic issues close behind.

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#Mariupol. A year ago this used to be people's homes. Then russia came

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Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

Trump goes all in on preferring Putin to the U.S. government. It’s good to have clarity on this. And it’s an opportunity for all those Republicans who plan to run against Trump and all those who say they want to move beyond Trump, to step up publicly and say: Never Again Trump.

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Daniel Goldman

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The voters of NY-3 have spoken: if they had known about George Santos’s lies, they would not have voted for him.

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SienaResearch

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Special Newsday / Siena College NY 3 Congressional District Poll: NY 3 Voters Say Santos Should Resign 78-13%, Including 71% of Reps conta.cc/3Dt4itv

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Gavin Newsom

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Texas' gun death rate is 67% higher than California's.

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Senator John Cornyn

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California Has More Than 100 Gun Laws. Why Don’t They Stop More Mass Shootings? nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/

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BILL NOAKES

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If you’re a Black man, there’s nothing “routine” about a traffic stop. As the General Counsel of a major company, I was stopped because my car’s tinted windows were too dark. The officer wanted to know how I could afford such a car: Was I a drug dealer?

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Commercial use of the presidential seal is prohibited by 18 USC 713[6] of the United States Code, and further defined by Executive Orders 11916 and 11649 to prevent exploitation.

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Trump doesn’t look too good.

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Covering the 2024 campaign as a horserace is a disservice to voters. Treating an illegitimate candidate as legitimate is a disservice to democracy.

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Bill Kristol

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Coverage I've seen of Trump campaign trip is all 2024 horserace. Jan. 6 not mentioned. Understandable but suggests the price we've paid for no indictments, no trial, no real reckoning for Jan. 6. Trump treated as normal candidate, not a president who tried to subvert an election.

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Kyle Griffin

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Not an anomaly: 2020's red states have higher murder rates

The murder rates in Trump-voting states from 2020 have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000.

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The issue has plagued Democrats for years, but they hope new data will change the crime narrative.

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Analysis | Independent voters wary of investigations, want House GOP to deliver results

Independent voters want House GOP to get things done, not get-even.

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In several focus groups in battlegrounds, independents worry the new House majority's focus on investigations is just part of a "get-even" culture.

Czech Republic Elects Retired NATO General as Its President

The populist authoritarian fever is breaking. Truth over falsehood. Calmness over tempestuousness. Support for democracy rather than undermining it. It can happen here.

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Petr Pavel, a political novice, defeated Andrej Babis, a populist business tycoon and former prime minister, in the first of several important European elections this year.

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When the consequences of lying are zero, you get more lying.

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Chris Murphy

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How much more respected is America around the world under Joe Biden? This much.

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Opinion | Ukraine Belongs in NATO

It’s a good question: If the principal argument against Ukraine joining NATO—that is, not provoking Russia—no longer exists, what is the value of a “neutral Ukraine”? #StandwithUkraine

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Henry Kissinger now says the idea of a neutral Kyiv is ‘no longer meaningful.’

Marc E. Elias

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If the Santos' campaign fabricated donors, I would expect federal indictments soon. That would be a serious crime and an easy one to prove and prosecute.

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Noah Lanard

@nlanard

New: We've identified more than a dozen top donors to Santos' 2020 campaign who do not seem to exist. I also spoke to a friend of Santos' who says he did not give the $2,800 donation attributed to him. motherjones.com/politics/2023/

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Sherrilyn Ifill

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This convo abt the ofcrs who killed #TyreNichols being Black is a red herring.We’ve been saying the problem is systemic.We’ve been saying “diversity”is not the answer.Anyone can absorb the messages of white supremacy, we said. Now the “bad apples” crew is back w/more ignorance.

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“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.” —Isaac Asimov. Especially books banned by this crew. What is it that they don’t want you to know?

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Stephen King

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Hey, kids! It's your old buddy Steve King telling you that if they ban a book in your school, haul your ass to the nearest bookstore or library ASAP and find out what they don't want you to read.

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WEBINAR: ‘Mandela: The Lost Tapes’ podcast series breathes new life into an icon’s legacy

Terrific piece about a terrific interview on

@dailymaverick

about "Mandela: The Lost Tapes," on Audible. Hear why Mandela was truly great, and we need his like now. adbl.co/thelosttapes

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‘Mandela: The Lost Tapes’ documents Richard Stengel’s discussions and his journey with Nelson Mandela as Stengel sought to ghostwrite the South African icon's autobiography ‘Long Walk to Freedom’....

Steve Benen

@stevebenen

Jan 27

Remind me, senator, which one of us unveiled a plan to raise taxes on millions of working-class families, drawing rebukes from both parties? Hint: It wasn't me on.msnbc.com/3H6qF8Y I also wasn't the one who blew a hole in the budget with ineffective tax breaks for the wealthy

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Rick Scott

@ScottforFlorida

Jan 27

Liberals like @stevebenen hate tax cuts. They want hard-working Americans to pay more taxes so they can spend more money. But he’s right about one thing, tax breaks are in my 12-point plan to rescue America. Read it at rescueamerica.com msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-

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