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johnknefel
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    johnknefel
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    Jun 13, 2023
    NEW: Over the past few months, hosts at the Daily Wire have called for a massive expansion of state violence to be directed against their enemies: more capital punishment, police raids, prisons, and bans on LGBTQ culture & health services. Me at @mmfa
    The Daily Wire’s authoritarian vision for increasing state-sanctioned violence against oppressed...
    From mediamatters.org
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    johnknefel
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    Sep 10, 2017
    Trump: There are good folks at Nazi rallies Everyone: WTF? *4 weeks pass* NYT & WaPo: Trump is a pragmatic independent looking for wins
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    johnknefel
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    Oct 31, 2023
    Journalistic malpractice at every level
    NYT breaking news: Israel hit a dense Gaza neighborhood, saying it killed a Hamas leader. A nearby hospital reported many deaths
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    johnknefel
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    Sep 8, 2023
    The crew at @mmfa watched 258 PragerU Kids videos. The content is even worse than you think. The dominant themes are denying climate change, celebrating capitalist exploitation (& demonizing socialism), and distorting the histories of Black & indigenous people in the US. Thread:
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    johnknefel
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    Mar 5, 2020
    Fuck it, I’ll say it: my class interests supersede the fight for universal healthcare
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    Michael Ian Black
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    Mar 5, 2020
    Fuck it, I’ll say it: I prefer Biden to Bernie.
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    johnknefel
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    Jul 27, 2023
    NEW: Florida just approved PragerU Kids’ right-wing propaganda videos for use in public school classrooms. There's copaganda, celebrations of colonialism, and more. Follow along for some lessons DeSantis et al are foisting on students. Me at @mmfa
    The lessons Florida public school students will learn from PragerU Kids
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    johnknefel
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    Jul 18, 2019
    One of the many reasons to directly antagonize Trump is that contrary to popular imagination he doesn't like confrontations. He is an insecure coward who seeks to please whoever is in front of him.
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    Steven Portnoy
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    Jul 18, 2019
    JUST IN: Trump tells reporters he disagrees with the "Send Her Back" chant. "I was not happy with it - I disagree with it," he said, per pooler @djusatoday.
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    johnknefel
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    Oct 27, 2023
    The massive Palestine solidarity rally at Grand Central has spilled out onto 42nd & Vanderbilt
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    johnknefel
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    Sep 8, 2023
    Replying to @johnknefel @lawton_sophie and @jacktwheatley
    In fact, Grant wrote in his memoir that Lee’s cause was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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    johnknefel
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    Jun 29, 2022
    AOC proposed impeaching justices who lied under oath. The right - led by Murdoch-owned outlets - freaked out. They are terrified of any reduction in SCOTUS' power, signaling how central the Court is to their larger reactionary project. Me, at @mmfa
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    The right is freaking out because AOC is calling for limits on SCOTUS’ power
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    johnknefel
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    Jan 28, 2017
    "No ban! No registry! Fuck white supremacy!" At JFK terminal 4.
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    johnknefel
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    Sep 10, 2020
    I wrote about the long, symbiotic relationship between law enforcement and racist vigilante organizations. The degree of overlap, which is virtually unbroken from the end of the Civil War to the present, is astonishing.
    Police and Racist Vigilantes: Even Worse Than You Think - The American Prospect
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    johnknefel
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    May 21, 2024
    The Biden admin never had an actual red line on Rafah. It was all PR, laundered through mainstream media. This is the outcome, as was widely predicted
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    The Associated Press
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    May 21, 2024
    BREAKING: The United Nations halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city. apnews.com/article/israel…
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    johnknefel
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    Jul 27, 2023
    Replying to @johnknefel
    The overriding theme of PragerU Kids is that schools have made white children feel uncomfortable by teaching them about forms of oppression, and that that anxiety must be alleviated by alternately burying and sanitizing the past
    As this episode shows, the overriding theme of Leo and Layla’s adventures — and PragerU Kids in general — is that schools have made white children feel uncomfortable by teaching them about racism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression, and that that anxiety must be alleviated through a rigorous disavowal that the past plays any role in ordering the present. If historical wrongs committed by white people in the United States or Europeans must be acknowledged, we must teach that those injustices were undertaken with good intentions. Even more importantly, the past must remain firmly in the past, lest Leo and Layla lose their innocence and be forced to confront continuities of domination.
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