Zaid Jilani

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    Sep 17

    It’s hard to imagine that a series about a sex addict from New Jersey who lives with his parents could do so much for Islam’s image in the U.S., but Ramy may very well be my faith’s best ambassador.

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  2. 12 minutes ago

    The American general who ran NATO's war in Kosovo offered a warning after the conflict ended without American casualties

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  4. 47 minutes ago

    "Guns don't kill people; bullets do," he told the Senate as he introduced his legislation today. "It is time the Federal Government began taxing handgun ammunition used in crime out of existence."

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    3 hours ago

    Progress does not come from longer sentences. Even for murderers. Progress comes from less violence, which comes from better policing and better prosecution.

    The death of an 11-year-old boy in a drive-by shooting in upstate New York inspired a bipartisan bill that would impose a life sentence without parole for fatal drive-by shootings.
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  6. 4 hours ago

    I think most Americans think the filibuster means holding the floor and speaking to the people for as long as you can. There have been only a few people who have done that in recent times. The modern filibuster is...pretty lazy if nothing else.

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  7. 4 hours ago

    It's not less often used than when she first came...

    FEINSTEIN on ending filibuster and expanding SCOTUS: “I don't believe in doing that. I think the filibuster serves a purpose. It is not often used, it's often less used now than when I first came, and I think it's part of the Senate that differentiates itself.” ht
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  8. 6 hours ago

    We have a Space Force and yet Japan beat us to this. This is why Trump is unlikely to be re-elected. The broken promises.

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    Life-sized Gundam in Yokohama is now in testing mode.
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  9. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    NYPD officer accused of spying on ethnic Tibetans for PRC

    NYPD officer arrested for allegedly acting as agent of China.
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  10. 8 hours ago

    In a better functioning democracy an incumbent U.S. Senator would maybe boast about legislation they've passed, important information they've uncovered through the powers of government-backed hearings and investigations, or communities they've uplifted. In ours...we get this.

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    Now here's an ad for you: Sen. Kelly Loeffler's new spot is all about how she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun," and includes an actor portraying a grunting Attila who delivers orders to, among other things, "eliminate the liberal scribes."
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  11. 10 hours ago

    The problem with the 1619 project's description of how immigration reform was passed is the same problem with the rest of the project: in an attempt to reframe American history as white vs. black, it ignores the complexity of both groups, and everyone in between.

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  12. 10 hours ago

    The 1619 Project's description of how the 1965 Immigration reforms were passed is overly-simplified, erasing the contributions of Americans of Eastern European descent, Asian Americans, and Jewish Americans to the revolutionary bill

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    13 hours ago

    The latest casualty of Atlanta’s “revitalization”: Kingdom Doors, a church/food pantry in the gentrifying Pittsburgh community. “One minute we’re handing out groceries,” said Pastor Anthony Shaw, “and the next a realtor is telling us that we have 30 days to be off the property.”

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  14. 23 hours ago

    As postal workers are shot in chicago, the union is warning it may have to halt delivery to keep its workers safe

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  15. 24 hours ago

    Having had both this one is a tough call for me. Which state has better non-authentic Americanized Mexican food?

    Also, less good Mexican food! Cali Mexican < Tex-Mex.
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  16. 24 hours ago

    During the Cold War there was actually a group of nations who didn't want to be involved with the blocs and conflict of the Soviet Union or the United States and they formed the Non-Aligned Movement

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  17. 24 hours ago

    George Bush also had a whiff of Kendism

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  18. 24 hours ago

    Ibram Kendi's "you're either racist or anti-racist" has an echo of mid-century anti-communism fervor. In the Pentagon, there were officers who hated how right-wing the country was getting but didn't want to be seen as "against anti-communism."

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  19. 24 hours ago

    Id be curious if in Germany, where routing people to trade school and not pushing everyone into what we consider higher education, they're more amenable to Freddie's argument. Germany has a more equitable economy than America's partly because they don't focus so much on higher ed

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  20. 24 hours ago

    If you acknowledge that education isn't someone's worth, then it's easier to acknowledge that not everyone can be booksmart, and that there's plenty of other things to be good at.

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  21. 24 hours ago

    I'd have to ask Freddie what he thinks about this directly, but I think the reason progressives have an attraction to the blank slate is because the current progressive class is so over-educated. They value education too much to admit not everyone can be academically talented.

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