Andrew Weinstein

Attorney • Presidential Appointee • Former
U.S. Public Delegate to the United Nations • Civic Advocate • Music & Hockey Fan

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You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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There’s a strategy behind Trump’s unhinged Truth Social posts: push the boundaries, normalize the degradation, and hope the public eventually shrugs. But democracies don’t survive on numbness. They survive on people refusing to let cruelty become the standard.

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Donald Trump lies with the confidence of someone who’s never been burdened by the truth.

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Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. A disgraceful lie that disrespects the memory of every life stolen on September 11th.

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Jared Kushner calling Russia’s war on Ukraine a search for a “win‑win” is outrageous. Russia launched an unprovoked, full‑scale attack that’s devastated an entire country. Putin doesn’t get a path to victory. He gets consequences, and Ukraine gets peace.

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Notice how the biggest diplomatic missions are being run by Donald Trump’s son‑in‑law and his real‑estate buddy instead of the actual Secretary of State. And make no mistake: Marco Rubio knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s already positioning himself for 2028, trying to slip out from under the wreckage of this administration’s disastrous foreign policy before it caves in on him.

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Remember when Donald Trump spent an entire campaign swearing he’d end the Ukraine war in 24 hours?

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While Russia assists Iran in targeting Americans, Witkoff is busy ingratiating himself to Putin with the enthusiasm of a man who’s forgotten what country he lives in. It’s a disgraceful performance.

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Antisemitism has always been a warning sign of democratic erosion. History shows that when a society tolerates antisemitism, it rarely stops there. It spreads into broader racism, xenophobia, and other forms of dehumanization. Defending democracy means confronting every form of hate early, loudly, and unequivocally.

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And I’ll say this upfront to head off the inevitable replies: Criticizing the Israeli government is legitimate democratic debate. Treating Jews as a collective stand‑in for that government is not. That’s the point: antisemitism isn’t about policy disagreements, it’s the act of turning an entire people into a target.

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To take a day dedicated to shared national grief and use it to take petty, sarcastic swipes at Joe Biden says everything you need to know about JD Vance. No charisma. No substance. Just small-minded malice and desperate insecurity.

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How are we "easily winning" a war we’ve supposedly won ten times over?

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The Trump administration is literally flying five industrial factories to D.C. to plead for survival funding in an Apprentice‑style knockoff judged by Nicki Minaj and hosted by Dean Cain.

Not parody. Not an Onion headline.

This is our actual federal government.

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At this point, I’m no longer convinced this administration exists outside a writers’ room.

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We didn’t fight a revolution so Donald Trump could plaster his face onto money like a personality‑cult souvenir.

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Pete Hegseth’s conduct is flat‑out disgraceful and a grotesque collapse of basic decency. If we don’t call this out loudly, we’re telling the world there’s no line left to cross.

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So… it’s been nearly six months since Donald Trump said that we’d won the war with Iran, and somehow the war is still happening. Anyone else noticing this.

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Meanwhile 39% of families in Florida are using "Buy Now, Pay Later" apps to purchase groceries. This is Donald Trump’s America. A playground for the mega rich built entirely on the credit card debt of hungry children. What are we even doing?

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ABC paid millions to settle Trump’s defamation suit. Meta paid millions over Trump’s suspended accounts. And now Google is upending centuries of cartography just to appease him. When one corporate giant after another bends, pays, or pivots to stay in his good graces, the collapse of public trust isn’t an accident, it’s inevitable.