Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Where antifa came from — and what they really believe https://t.co/w5zH2TLtOn — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin you joke but i'm 100 percent sure someone will offer that argument in seriousness — PolitiTweet.org

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This is wild: "the elderly, often inert patients, were influenced, pressured and registered for mobile ballot voting without their consent to vote for Fidesz." Wonder how Orbán's Western fans will explain this one? — PolitiTweet.org

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New report finds "systematic erosion" of Hungary's democracy. Examples: "intimidating ballot counters, the threatening of elderly voters in care homes, vote buying, organised bussing of phantom voters and questions around the credibility of voter logs" https://t.co/eAOh05WkJi — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackmjenkins You're doing good work friend!! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The past few years, I've found myself attracted to my faith tradition in a way I wasn't in my teens and early 20s. Getting more engaged with organized religion has helped me understand how prescient some of @jackmjenkins' reporting on the "religious left" was. — PolitiTweet.org

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This Friday night, I attended a virtual service at my synagogue — with local mosques and churches both black and white — calling for racial justice. The message of love and moral righteousness I heard made the vindictiveness and preening that happens on this site feel so petty. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DamonLinker Appreciate it friend — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Yair_Rosenberg: I have found most coronavirus/racism analogies to be unhelpful. But this one from @ayjay is deeply perceptive, and I st… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DamonLinker This is not only false but honestly kind of insulting? — PolitiTweet.org

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James Bennet, the New York Times op-ed editor, has resigned after the Tom Cotton controversy. My interviews with a number of Times staff helped me understand why https://t.co/yrzr9JBr2O — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @deborahblum: This @zackbeauchamp piece is really good: The New York Times staff revolt over Tom Cotton’s op-ed, explained https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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@kcroninfurman @SevaUT oh wow i always say the second — PolitiTweet.org

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@KelseyTuoc Ty Kelsey!! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Spent the past two days speaking with Times staffers about the Cotton revolt. Here’s what I learned. https://t.co/7isMkx2tjX — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal @Bodyisturd i think i should stop expressing opinions on twitter about subject matters in which i'm not sufficiently informed to represent myself as an authority — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal @Bodyisturd hey i wrote that! but i really should have better at staying in my line here — i've read some of this stuff but i'm not an expert and it's dumb to mouth off so confidently when you aren't — PolitiTweet.org

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@jessesingal @Bodyisturd for what it's worth, i don't see it that way. i've been in pile-ons before and never apologized, because those people are assholes. this time, actual reasonable people persuaded me i was being uncharitable. note i never said my underlying view changed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GDSdebate @DylanNQuigley https://t.co/eKWaEX23NF — PolitiTweet.org

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@RafiLetzter @freedaaron When I wrote this, I was thinking of you two (among a few others). I think you were right and I was wrong. https://t.co/eKWaEX23NF — PolitiTweet.org

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Talked to a number of people I respect about the framing of the original tweet and I do feel like it was a mistake. It was far too dismissive and then I — ironically — complained about condescending replies. We all send bad tweets sometimes. This was one of mine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RafiLetzter @freedaaron "They can be dismissed" is not what I intended to convey, argh. But it's a clear reading of the text. I wish I had gone about this more subtly, as per usual on this site. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fordm Yeah I'm very open to arguments like this! — PolitiTweet.org

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@freedaaron @RafiLetzter I think we might disagree on this point — PolitiTweet.org

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I really appreciate the good faith replies here making the case for police abolition. Lots of good arguments! But the condescending assumption that I had never heard of the idea before today nor read about it before — because I think it's "poorly thought out" — is annoying. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman "popular on here" let's say — PolitiTweet.org

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@freedaaron @cojobrien @cjane87 Yeah this seems like a really great success story! It's just that you still end up with police, just radically reformed (in a pretty literal sense) rather than abolished in the way we'd conventionally understand the term. — PolitiTweet.org

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Similarly, this piece has a lot of good ideas on how to decrease the role of police in our lives but ends with "shrink and eventually abolish police." Those are different goals, one much more defensible (politically and substantively) than the former https://t.co/L7U9v5Jxuf — PolitiTweet.org

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@cjane87 @freedaaron I also find many of these ideas compelling, but it doesn't change my mind on the wisdom of a maximalist "abolish the police" slogan. The piece ends up with "shrink and eventually abolish police" — they're very different, and I think the former is much more compelling — PolitiTweet.org

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Lotta people telling me that this isn't to be taken literally, that it's a call for defunding or reform. That's not quite accurate; read interviews with police abolitionists and there's a weird motte-bailey maneuver on this point https://t.co/SaHq5UjiIM — PolitiTweet.org