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[Jelfman @Jelfman2]

@TRyanGregory Not just silent and ineffectual, but complicit. They continue to use whatever voice and power they have to stifle any actual resistance, silence any voices within their party presenting an alternative, and help to approve appointments and legislation that legitimizes the agenda.

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@EvilPlantLady @adamwren @playbookdc No, they just want to be republicans

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@Jodi7768 @TRyanGregory Quite literally the supposed purpose of that money. It’s the rainy day.

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@delaneypv15 @amazoncause Hey I’m not sure you’ve got DM’s open but I’d love to donate a few hours

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@BlighttownNIMBY @alexnpress Is my working theory.

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@harrisonjaime Fuck all the way off

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@CarisAdel Literally the same reaction

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@gallymeroreboot @brandonrogersLA @Ruth_Mensch This is not true. The protests are anti-genocide and in some cases anti-Israel. Continuing to characterize any opposition to genocide as antisemitic is dishonest and alienates a growing population of anti-Zionist Jews as well as a *majority* of Dems who are pro-ceasefire.

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@soulkhan @Sarcastibot3000 Or just acknowledge the reasons and justification for the protest. The bar is on the fucking floor

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@NGrossman81 @katewillett Seriously. And the administration has been concerned and troubled the whole time. I don’t understand why people aren’t satisfied by that. It’s like they don’t read Barak Ravid’s press releases.

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@dcharette43 @CTMathewes I had assumed that was in this article, but the quote was from "Police raid UVa encampment, arrest anti-war protesters." I'm not sure I understand what would be preferred -- to not describe the police in this situation? How else would this be described but militant?

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@dcharette43 @CTMathewes I understand “the militant VSP,” point taken, though I think it is accurate.

But press divorcing the message of protest movements from the reporting on the protests is a huge issue with coverages of these events. I don’t think it makes sense to flatten them in that way.

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@CarisAdel I’ve got to say that the daily progress reporting really has been an example of excellent local reporting we’re so sorely missing.

Expectations are abysmally low, but it’s been oddly comforting to see that standard still exists.

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@dcharette43 @CTMathewes What in the article do you view as editorializing? I’m not sure I see anything past giving voice to eyewitness accounts and descriptions of video recordings that refute the easily disprovable claims from police and administration

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WOW. Another resignation from the Biden Admin just hit, this time from a uniformed officer, U.S. Army Major Harrison Mann. Read is letter here:

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@adamjohnsonCHI @JeffSharlet Meaning that some might like the idea of a ceasefire but have a distorted perception of what is holding it up, and might not be open to (supposedly) leaving Israel vulnerable.

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@adamjohnsonCHI @JeffSharlet This is my own interpretation (from personal conversations, not polling), but I think that this plot could undermine a support for ceasefire which comes from ceasing to arm Israel.

It has been a lot of “I wish Hamas didn’t ___, so that innocent people didn’t have to die.”

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@adamjohnsonCHI @JeffSharlet Sorry for my laziness. Could you link me to this?

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@Cinder39 @pancrasofrome @fred_guttenberg @JerrySeinfeld This guy is a white supremacist trying to stoke division and antisemitism. Don’t take his statement as anything close to fact or representative of the protests.