Wajahat Ali
@nytimes Contributing Oped Writer; @CNN Contributor; @TheLavinAgency Keynote Speaker; President, Before Columbus Foundation; Tired Dad.
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End Minority Rule
Either we become a truly multiracial democracy or we cease to be a democracy at all.
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End Minority Rule
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America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’
In its destruction of American lives, treasure and well-being, this pandemic marks the greatest failure of U.S. governance since Vietnam.
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.@NickKristof does an excellent job here tracing the epic failure of leadership that has so far cost over 220,000 lives. So much could have been avoided.
America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’
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If Amy Coney Barrett Were Muslim
It’s not hard to imagine how conservatives would smear her religious beliefs.
Talk Radio Is Turning Millions of Americans Into Conservatives
The medium is at the heart of Trumpism.
Brad Parscale cried during arrest, told officers his wife won’t have sex with him
Brad Parscale reportedly broke down in tears while in police custody last month — admitting to an officer that his wife was not being intimate with him. President Trump’s former campaign mana…
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Brad Parscale cried during arrest, told officers his wife won't have sex with him nypost.com/2020/10/07/bra… via @nypost
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Obamacare Returns as Galvanizing Issue After Ginsburg Death, Barrett Nomination
The health law had slipped in voter priorities, but the Supreme Court vacancy and November arguments in a case challenging its constitutionality, have given the Affordable Care Act new urgency.
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This is death for Republicans. Trump has again promised to repeal Obamacare and he has no replacement plan. 21 million will lose insurance during a pandemic. And Amy Coney Barrett wants to dismantle it.
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Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
The Times spoke to two dozen experts who said decisions made now would spell the difference between a difficult future and something far worse.
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We destroyed ourselves for a handful of corporations. Madness.
Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
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ICE Hysterectomy Doctor Wasn’t Even a Board-Certified OB-GYN
Dr. Mahendra Amin has been accused of performing unnecessary uterus removals on detained immigrants.
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I just want to retweet this horrific news. This is what's at stake this election: humanity.
Hysterectomy Doctor Wasn’t Even a Board-Certified OB-GYN thedailybeast.com/ice-hysterecto… via @thedailybeast
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‘Kill All You See’: In a First, Myanmar Soldiers Tell of Rohingya Slaughter
Video testimony from two soldiers supports widespread accusations that Myanmar’s military tried to eradicate the ethnic minority in a genocidal campaign.
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Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims and the world didn't care.
“We wiped out about 20 villages,” he said in video testimony, adding that he dumped the bodies of ethnic Rohingya in a mass grave.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls former White House colleague a ‘foulmouthed Jew’ in memoir
The ex-White House spokesperson said she and Josh Raffel later became close friends
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Just sharing this again because...wow. Also the rampant anti Semitism in the right wing that just gets a convenient pass.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls former White House colleague a ‘foulmouthed Jew’ in memoir
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Two Self-Described “Boogaloo Bois” Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to Hamas
The Justice Department today announced a federal criminal complaint charging Michael Robert Solomon, 30, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (Hamas).
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Has Trump, Barr or Republicans talked about this today? Members of the Boogaloo Boys also killed 2 cops in California earlier in the summer.
Two Self-Described “Boogaloo Bois” Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to Hamas
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What Will You Do if Trump Doesn’t Leave?
Playing out the nightmare scenario.
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He won't leave. He'll contest the election. It's about January 20th & making sure the majority get him out. Regardless, a third of this country will call it a Deep State plot. There will be violence. I hope I'm wrong.
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Black Man Died of Suffocation After Officers Put Hood on Him
Relatives of the man, Daniel Prude, said the police officers involved in his death in March in Rochester, N.Y., should be charged with murder.
We Will Emerge: Community and Unity - PEN America
These submissions for “We Will Emerge” talk of community and unity, expressing a belief that we are all far more deeply connected than we know.
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For COMMUNITY & UNITY, writers reflect on how the pandemic has revealed how much we rely on one another.
Read @JuddApatow @ReignOfApril @rabiasquared @sr_simone @rabbijilljacobs @RevJacquiLewis @rafiazakaria @SarahAWildman & see @jaketapper's drawing
pen.org/we-will-emerge…
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Duncan Hunter’s Wife, Margaret, Is Sentenced for Stealing Campaign Funds
Unlike her husband, a former congressman, she quickly admitted her guilt and cooperated with investigators, officials said.
We Will Emerge - PEN America
We Will Emerge is a project bringing together 111 writers, activists, academics, poets, and public servants to imagine a blueprint for a post-COVID America.
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If you want some hope, I'd like to share the WE WILL EMERGE project. We brought together over 111 writers to imagine how we as America can confront the pandemic, white supremacy, police brutality, a corrupt Presidency and, hopefully, emerge better.
pen.org/we-will-emerge/ pic.twitter.com/sT8BBVwG2I
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Sharing this great project again. For WE WILL EMERGE, over 100 writers contributed mini-essays imagining how America will emerge from the pandemic, this corrupt Presidency & our ongoing reckoning with white supremacy. If you have a few moments, dive in: pen.org/we-will-emerge 1/
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An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son
"Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons," anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said in a YouTube video earlier this year.
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Abby Johnson, who said she's so appalled by racism, said it would be smart to racially profile her biracial son. Awesome, Republicans.
An RNC Speaker Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son vice.com/en_us/article/… via @vice
#RNC2020
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Biden campaign says China's treatment of Uighur Muslims is "genocide"
The U.S. has only used the formal label on rare occasions after extensive documentation.
California Fires Live Updates: State Seeks Help as 560 Blazes Burn
Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged that California was “putting everything we have” on the wildfires ravaging the state, while acknowledging that even that was not enough to blunt their spread.
The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed.
“Cooperation” or “collusion” or whatever. It was a plot against American democracy.
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This is such a huge story. Please don't let it get lost.
The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed.
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