daniholtz

Historian of ideology, conservatism, white supremacy, U.S. politics, foreign relations, science & medicine

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Speaking on white fragility in US foreign policy @ OSU: https://t.co/hTieGmqrrT

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It is dangerous for any industry to wield this kind of power— impunity from consequences—it is courting genocide when police are granted it.

Officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks is reinstated https://t.co/d5iQhfMhur

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the 30th anniversary of my mom's death is next week & Duolingo is trolling me

[Black Disability Collective @BlackDisability]

The use of tear gas on the apartments in Brooklyn Center will have long lasting health impacts, mental and physical, on the primarily Black families and young children who live there. This is how disability is manufactured in Black communities through state violence.

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The history of violence against Black vets in the US stretches as far back as US history goes
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[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

More on Daunte Wright’s death and Caron Nazario’s violent traffic stop: https://t.co/rTaRiZBlAr

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Police out here shooting children & we're debating about whether "defund the police" is too radical a slogan. #defundthepolice

'Justice' sought after Chicago police ID dead suspect, 13 https://t.co/CAPMljZmab

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⁦⁦@RobinGivhan⁩ masterful coverage

The witness would not be described as angry https://t.co/Ng0llWIpR4

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White supremacy wins again.

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Less than a week after he voted to acquit Trump. That’s nice. https://t.co/6AjWzdhgT6

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Now is the time to tell the story of what happened. The 45th prez incited a white-supremacist insurrection to overturn the results of a democratic election.

If the Senate doesn’t take this moment to describe what happened & why it was wrong, it is courting right-wing violence

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A trial with witnesses & evidence would literally set the record. If Congress can’t balance its legislative imperative with its constitutional duty to enforce accountability, it is failing at an institutional level. https://t.co/NC3pmEiJV4

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a reminder: Lincoln undercut the radical potential of the Civil War with a compromise that he made in the name of moderation & unity-- & to create political distance from his "radical" flank-- bringing on Andrew Johnson as his VP on the 1864 ticket

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Three of our last four presidents were born within nine weeks of each-other in 1946:

Trump: June 14, 1946
Bush II: July 6, 1946
Clinton: August 19, 1946

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Weathervane for fascism

Arizona Republicans Censure Party Leaders At Odds With Trump https://t.co/81otW3EUE7

#Fascism

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Wondering if the prez pulls an eleventh-hour Whiskey-Rebellion style pardon of the Capital insurrectionists

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Hawley’s now publishing with a press founded by a Nazi-sympathizer, owned by a “Christian values” media group, & distributed internationally by Simon & Schuster, the publisher that dumped his book contract in the first place.

So fresh & so clean, clean https://t.co/Bg1wXt6O4x

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Very much why the pressure to install Ellis tonight? https://t.co/edpeOsCdt4

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Advanced intelligence warned that white terrorists were planning attacks for 1/6. Why was the Secretary of Homeland Security in the Middle East?

Chad Wolf resigns as homeland security secretary https://t.co/OwuQlOZlZJ

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Even when we predict an outcome, it's still a shock watching it unfold

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What would Barr be unwilling to do? What line would a man like him draw, that he would resign now?

William P. Barr to depart as attorney general, Trump announces - The Washington Post https://t.co/ydmgn7Iy2a