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“The reaction was overwhelmingly positive from left, right, and center,” the @Monthly's Matthew Cooper told the @Washingtonpost about Joanna Chen 's essay that @guernicamag retracted and the @Monthly proudly published. wapo.st/3vO0UbY

NEW: UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of 'revolutionary suicide.'

We have obtained audio of the talk, which argued taboos on self-immolation serve 'the interests of power.'🧵
freebeacon.com/campus/revolut…

84 House Democrats validating a scurrilous conspiratorial narrative from Trump loyalists and risking national security. Shameful. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/11/pro…

I realize that Arnold claims that OJ Simpson was cast as The Terminator before we cast him. That is 100% NOT TRUE. And I should know. Jim and I never ever considered OJ. Not even for a nanosecond. #TheTerminator #OJSimpson

HOPE: 🇮🇩 largest Muslim country in world to normalize relations w/🇮🇱.

Another testament to potential of paradigm shift inherent to #AbrahamAccords - from 3 no’s to 3 yes’s - to recognition, negotiation & peace - paving path to a better future for ALL peoples of region & beyond.

Some famous professor in Geneva, New York wrote an article, duly published by Verso, as to why killing civilians is great & how she was so excited about 10/7.

What else is new? For these bored folks, we, the people of Middle East, only exist as subjects of their fantasies

Troubling racial disparities remain in our justice system, but we’ve narrowed the gap in the last 20 years. Today CCJ’s Pushing Toward Parity project released a package of 15 analyses examining imprisonment disparity through multiple lenses. Read on🧵: counciloncj.foleon.com/reports/racial…

This was my high school and this is nuts.

nytimes.com/2024/04/11/nyr…

Report card comparing Biden & Trump's accomplishments. Watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/h44jzt8p

If you want to boycott, go ahead. If you intimidate others into a boycott, this is what you're doing.

youtube.com/watch?v=y3HBDs…

In my recent episode, Barb McQuade delves into disinformation and the threat it poses on Americans both this election year and beyond.

Dive deeper into the negative effects of disinformation: bit.ly/3TJTX3C

Reupping this from nine years ago. Held up well, I think, about the great Washington Post Opinions columnist, @Petridishes, and the condition of humor in DC.

Alexandra Petri is Both Washington and Funny. That's no mean feat in the home of Mark Russell. washingtonian.com/2015/07/08/ale…

When you’re a totalitarian, every cubic inch of space is political.

This longer video of the confrontation at Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Fisk’s home shows in more detail just how insufferable these students are.

And Chemerinsky has confirmed it’s a private residence (see below), which, as you can see, they were asked to leave repeatedly.

Progressives Should Not Partner with Trumpers to Undermine FISA. Trump and his allies want to hamstring a critical counterterrorism surveillance program. Democrats shouldn’t help them. Bill Scher explains in The Washington Washington Monthly.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/11/pro…

Make sure to check out Garphil Julien's #mustread on Washington Monthly - y'all end up experts in trade policy after reading his article👌🏽

Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done on Foreign Policy? Trump served the interests of dictators. Biden boxed them in by strengthening the international liberal order. @jacobheilbrunn explains in the Washington @Monthly.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/07/tru…

Zeya was a career foreign service officer who resigned under Trump and, after being President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a network of organizations working to end violent conflict worldwide, returned to State.