Zaid Jilani
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Something missing from the 2020 Democratic debate: labor law reform. What’s the new Employee Free Choice Act?
Zaid Jilani - 2020 Watch 5h 1 tweets
Smart academic Richard Yeselson has a review of a book about American strikes in The Nation. The strike once one a great American tradition but it gradually declined, as labor unions themselves hav…
Zaid Jilani Something missing from the 2020 Democratic debate: labor law reform. What’s the new Employee Free Choice Act? 5h
Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test
Nytimes.com 14h 7 tweets
There are multiple ways to achieve universal coverage.
‘Middle-Class Joe’ rakes in millions
POLITICO 12h 1 tweets
The former VP on the brink of a likely presidential campaign has done quite well financially since leaving office in 2017.
Zaid Jilani Biden has been doing $100,000-a-pop speeches since leaving office, and if he declares for the presidency, we will get to who is paying for them. (Although the speech transcripts are up to him to release.) 12h
Membership
Democratic Socialists of America 475d 6 tweets
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is prepared to meet this challenge. We invite you to...
2020 Democrats are dropping like flies from pro-Israel AIPAC conference
VICE News 14h 1 tweets
Seven Democratic presidential candidates so far have confirmed they won't attend.
Zaid Jilani The Vice headline is wrong. Nobody dropped because nobody who is nota ttending was schedule to speak in the first place, something that takes place far in advance. 14h
Basically everyone is getting the AIPAC and 2020 Democrats story wrong, and the left is curiously declaring victory
Zaid Jilani - 2020 Watch 14h 1 tweets
Earlier this week, the liberal group MoveOn started a petition asking 2020 Democrats to not attend the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee event. They have learned that basically no Dem…
Zaid Jilani Basically everyone is getting the AIPAC and 2020 Democrats story wrong, and the left is curiously declaring victory 14h
Former DNC head Donna Brazile says she considered replacing Clinton with Biden as nominee
The Salt Lake Tribune 14h 1 tweets
Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated setting in motion a process to replace Hillary Clinton as the party's 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Joe Biden in the...
Zaid Jilani Jen O'Malley Dillon, hired to be Beto O'Rourke's campaign manager (CNN) just broke news), was at one of the consulting firms Donna Brazille perceived as taking huge amounts of DNC money 14h
Imran Khan: Pakistan cannot afford to snub Saudis over Khashoggi killing
Middle East Eye 14h 1 tweets
Pakistani PM tells MEE he will attend Riyadh investment summit because country desperately needs Saudi loans to stave off economic collapse
Zaid Jilani To be fair to Imran Khan, at least he's honest that he feels he has no choice, rather than trying to cover up what Saudi Arabia did...which is what America is doing? 14h
Georgia's 6th Congressional District
Ballotpedia 14h 1 tweets
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
Zaid Jilani Perhaps McBath's race was too localized to get the same level of national attention, but her campaign spoke to a lot of issues that district cared about and she won in a district Republicans held since post-1979 election. (Georgia had D governor in 2002) 14h
Where 6th Congressional District candidates stand
ajc 14h 1 tweets
Where the candidates in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, Republican U.S. Rep. Karen Handel and Democrat Lucy McBath, stand on the issues.
Zaid Jilani While we're talking about Lucy McBath, I once briefly served on the Congressional youth council for that district under Tom Price. Price was really into cutting Medicare /Social Security. McBath wants to lower the Medicare eligibility age! Huge difference. 14h
Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory
Quillette 4d 9 tweets
In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates was catapulted to intellectual stardom by a lengthy Atlantic polemic entitled “The Case for Reparations.” The essay was an impassioned plea for Americans to grapple with the role of slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining in the...
Zaid Jilani As always, read on the futility of this elite dialogue about race as a category of history rather than people and their contemporary situation and needs 15h
More on Glenn Greenwald, 'Israel-Firsters,' and Idiot Editors (Updated)
Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic 15h 1 tweets
There have always been Jews who define themselves in opposition to Judaism; Glenn Greenwald is nothing new.
Zaid Jilani Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, which is a decent magazine that has written about a number of free speech fights, once implied Glenn holds his worldview because he was abused in Hebrew school. What kind of dialogue is that? That's juvenile 15h
Second top Gillibrand aide quit over sexual harassment but was kept on staff
Naomi Lim - Washington Examiner 4d 2 tweets
A second top adviser to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has made advocacy for women and the #MeToo movement central to her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, departed over an allegation of sexual harassment, the Washington Examiner can reveal.
Zaid Jilani Remember that genre of story of highly moralistic, judgemental religious zealots being outed as hypocrites? Perhaps we're developing the same genre of story for the secular kinds of these people 17h
Bernie Sanders’s reparations comments cause rift over DSA endorsement
Vox 18h 2 tweets
"There is still a disconnect in his approach to economic issues often failing to comprehend how race and class are intertwined."
Zaid Jilani This article is written with an implicit implication that most people in ethnic minority groups support reparations, which they don't. 18h
Bernie Sanders Expands His Iowa Caucus Operation
Iowa Starting Line - Iowa Starting Line 18h 1 tweets
Bernie Sanders continues to build out his Iowa Caucus operation, adding operatives skilled in mobilizing progressive communities.
Zaid Jilani Iowa Starting Line suggests Bernie Sanders "could probably win the Iowa Caucus with around the same 25% that he’s garnering in the latest Des Moines Register poll thanks to the fractured field" 18h
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Policyconference.org 18h 2 tweets
Zaid Jilani There are lots of Members of Congress, including liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer attending AIPAC. Maybe they should petition lawmakers who are actually planning to attend? 18h
Zaid Jilani Who is attending the AIPAC conference? Basically everybody else 14h
MoveOn.Org | Democracy In Action
MoveOn.Org | Democracy In Action 714d 24 tweets
MoveOn is a community of more than 8 million Americans from all walks of life who use innovative technology to lead, participate in, and win campaigns for progressive change.
Zaid Jilani which endorsed Sanders immediately apologized to Huerta, without investigating, or even asking its own side what happened. Partisans are very quick to simply believe their validators without evidence. Collect evidence! 18h
Civil Rights Legend Says Sanders Supporters Yelled 'English Only' At Her
Elise Foley - HuffPost 18h 1 tweets
Watch the video for yourself.
Zaid Jilani which endorsed Sanders immediately apologized to Huerta, without investigating, or even asking its own side what happened. Partisans are very quick to simply believe their validators without evidence. Collect evidence! 18h
Dolores Huerta: Sanders supporters chanted "English only" when I spoke Spanish at caucuses
Dara Lind - Vox 18h 1 tweets
The labor leader says she was trying to provide a Spanish translation of the instructions.
Zaid Jilani Remember in 2016 when there was a claim that Sanders backers chanted "english only" at a Latina Hillary Clinton surrogate? Vox wrote it up with a headline even though there was video showing that this was false. 18h
This Is The World's Happiest Country -- And Here's Why
Tess Riley - HuffPost 38h 2 tweets
To be the happiest country, having the top economic growth isn't necessarily the answer. Are you listening, U.S.?