Zaid Jilani
@thinkprogress, @unitedrepublic, @boldprogressive, and @alternet in my past, @theintercept in my present. Love cats, the South, and cheesecake
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Rush: "All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around"
"Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore."
Zaid Jilani
If Congress passes tuition-free college, universal health care, or universal child care and anyone complains about the deficit, just respond with this Limbaugh quote hotair.com/archives/allah… pic.twitter.com/rHiOh8QlpW
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Your Political Opponents Aren’t as Radical as You Think They Are
Democrats and Republicans misjudge each other's beliefs, a new report suggests.
Zaid Jilani
Democrats and Republicans tend to over-estimate the extremism of the other side. The "Perception Gap" is most extreme in two groups on both ends: Democrats with a postgraduate degree and Republicans who watch Fox and read Breitbart
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Valuing Differences and Reinforcing Them: Multiculturalism Increases Race Essentialism - Leigh S. Wilton, Evan P. Apfelbaum, Jessica J. Good, 2019
A substantial body of research on diversity philosophies has shown that multiculturalism (i.e., emphasizing and valuing cultural/ethnic differences) is a more e...
Zaid Jilani
" Study 1 (N = 165) shows that participants exposed to multiculturalism expressed greater race essentialist beliefs compared to those exposed to color blindness."
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"Across two experiments, we present evidence for an unexpectedly negative outcome of multiculturalism: increased belief in race essentialism, or the notion that racial group differences are valid, biologically based, and immutable."
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Trump’s New Top Labor Official Is Expected to Advance an Anti-Labor Agenda
One of Mr. Pizzella’s White House admirers describes him as a “movement conservative” more likely to agree with the White House on cutting labor rules and weakening unions than his predecessor.
Exploring the differences between pet and non-pet owners: Implications for human-animal interaction research and policy
There is conflicting evidence about whether living with pets results in better mental and physical health outcomes, with the majority of the empirical research evidence being inconclusive due to methodological limitations. We briefly review the...
Zaid Jilani
It's not income, the racial gap is much bigger than the income gap journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… pic.twitter.com/82gGESzlpP
11h
Large Study Finds Pet Owners Are Different
New research helps explain health differences between pet owners and non-owners.
Zaid Jilani
If you're in the twitter circles you saw the white slaveowners want dogs tweet. But it does raise an interesting question, why is there a big racial gap in pet ownership?
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Planned Parenthood Has Ousted Its President, Leana Wen, In A Dispute Over The Organization's Direction
Wen had worked to focus on Planned Parenthood's health care work, leading to concerns among some staff that the organization was moving away from politics.
Money Gap Among Democrats Grows as Inslee, Castro and Gillibrand Report Small Hauls
The politics world awaited the total for Beto O’Rourke, whose campaign started strong in March but has since lagged behind other leading contenders.
CNN Invites Avowed White Supremacist to Talk About Trump
A man who wants ‘peaceful ethnic cleansing’ and invokes Nazi slogans was allowed to represent racists. It’s the latest instance of the press struggling to cover the far right.
Zaid Jilani
Nutpicking takes over cable news -- elevate someone with really no constituency to argue guilt by association. (David Duke praised Ilhan Omar, too, it doesn't really mean anything)
12h
Ilhan Omar seizes spotlight to push pro-BDS resolution
Rep. Ilhan Omar plans to introduce a pro-BDS resolution days after President Donald Trump invoked Israel to defend his racist tweets that put her in the national spotlight.
'Cocaine Mitch' Swag Buys Years More Marijuana Prohibition
People are buying Cocaine Mitch t-shirts because they think they're funny, but what most might not realize is they are supporting continued marijuana prohibition in the United States.
Zaid Jilani
Mitch McConnell's own campaign team has embraced the "Cocaine Mitch" label because they think it's cool, but the man himself is a long-time drug prohibitionist, supporting putting people in jail for consuming drugs
13h
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Zaid Jilani
The original passage in the tweet comes from the newspaper Appeal to Reason, the populist midwestern publication which Debs, Helen Keller, and others wrote in
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New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage history
Although she has legally corrected the discrepancy, she has declined to say anything about how or why it happened.
Zaid Jilani
Ilhan Omar should respond to legitimate questions about this legitimate story. She should have all the information to rebut any charges but you can't ignore to make a story go away when your home towns journos are dogged about it
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Definition of BORK
to attack or defeat (a nominee or candidate for public office) unfairly through an organized campaign of harsh public criticism or vilification… See the full definition
Ayanna Pressley: I Call Trump 'the Occupant,' Not President
Progressive freshman Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) referred to President Donald Trump as the "occupant of the White House."
Shaun King: The Antifa terrorist who was killed while attacking an ICE detention facility is a martyr
"Willem Van Spronsen just became the first martyr attempting to liberate imprisoned refugees..."
Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep considers presidential run against Trump
Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman ousted from office after President Donald Trump urged voters to toss him out, is considering a run for president.
Netflix Removes Controversial Suicide Scene From ‘13 Reasons Why’
A controversial scene from an episode of the first season of the popular teen drama was edited following a sustained controversy over whether the show increased the risk of teen suicide.
‘Is Bernie going to come?’ Warren seizes on Sanders' Netroots absence
The gathering of political progressives found itself almost spoilt for choice by the Democratic presidential field for 2020
Zaid Jilani
Exactly the voter Elizabeth Warren is cultivating.
Arlene Geiger, from New York, said she wanted to elect the “smartest person in the room”.
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