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If you are looking for evidence of the sabotaging of democracy, it’s all out in the open. No subpoenas needed. — PolitiTweet.org

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We are talking this week about the anti-democratic terrorism of January 6. People are asking: What actually happened? Did he actually subvert democracy? Didn’t he? What’s the evidence? And I value that inquiry. But I also think that the tree can distract us from the forest here. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great majorities of Americans don’t want their kids to die in school, want a habitable planet, want help in a pandemic, want an economy that works for them, want workplaces that respect them, want to be safe, and again and again and again and again we can’t get what we want. — PolitiTweet.org

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Like generals fighting the last war, pro-democracy Americans are on guard against prior incarnations of tyranny. But it may not look like here and now what it looked like there and then. The suffocation of democracy is nothing more and nothing less than permanent minority rule. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s not mince words: for the extreme political right, children *are* varmint. The far right will defend children until they leave the womb. After that, they’re on their own. It is time for the pro-democracy movement to step up and learn how to wield power to protect our kids. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m back on @Morning_Joe today at 6 a.m. ET, to talk about democracy. https://t.co/REIs4xcPGb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EmilyGould: Home Birth (Keith’s Version) https://t.co/SrXoTnebG4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoeNBC: The will of Americans is ignored by politicians because senators care more about protecting an arcane Senate rule than preservi… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Take Ronald Reagan's theory...that rising tides lift all boats. Well, it raises the boats for the wealthy. For the rest of us, those tides turn into tsunamis." https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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"When you get power, your first job is maintenance. Otherwise, you're a dead duck, and somebody more powerful than you is coming after it. That's why the powerful always use art." https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Art will be used by power because the powerful need to try to get into people’s heads. That's where the arts come in. Get in that head. That's why artists have to keep trying to challenge power." https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Art is never casual. Art is always powerful. Art is not about pretty shit. Art is about beauty, not pretty shit, because beauty is not pretty." An interview with the painter and prophet Dewey Crumpler. https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@abell_elise Wow! Thank you so much! Dewey is amazing. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The hoodie became an instrument of empowerment in the Black community. It closed off the outside by adorning itself with a covering...It could let you shape your own dimension to ward off the psychosis coming at you 24/7" -- Dewey Crumpler https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ https://t.co/GpbBIdY17f — PolitiTweet.org

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@bthesnek @kombiz @mattyglesias I preferred your first tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardCRogers Exactly. And to take the point further, your community might have been better off if that money had been dumped into the sea. Strange to think, but true? — PolitiTweet.org

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The founding fathers "didn't have the courage to do exactly what they said. They didn't have the courage to stand up and say, 'We mean this from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet, and we mean it for every breathing human being.'" https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbf1755: Yes. Blatant lying & propaganda The end of political accountability Unapologetic grifting Open suppression of voting rights D… — PolitiTweet.org

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Because this kind of "giving back" becomes lubricant in the engine of continued taking. The generosity becomes a wingman for injustice. The making a difference becomes a wingman of continuing to make a killing by degrading the commons. https://t.co/nG8ifKvHCz — PolitiTweet.org

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.@winnerstakeall tried to answer this. When Mark Zuckerberg buys nice stuff, it is what it is. When he spends $300 million on "protecting" the election he also, through for-profit activity, helped make insecure, he is laundering his reputation in a way that hurts the common good. — PolitiTweet.org

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Philanthropy is not a random act of kindness. It is an exertion of power over others that, yes, sometimes can be even more problematic than buying yachts. I'm happy to send you a book if your curiosity on this is genuine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Should art that offends certain communities be taken down, better contextualized, or kept up and answered with more art? https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@TJMcBrideNBA Thank you, T.J.! That's very kind. All credit to the brilliant Dewey. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the 1960s, students at a San Francisco high school wanted to tear down murals depicting George Washington with Native Americans and enslaved people. The artist Dewey Crumpler had a different idea: supplement the murals with a response mural. https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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"The founding fathers...had truly noble ideas about liberty and equality. And all those words were spoken while those shiny patent leather boots stood firmly, with all the weight of their historic contradiction, on the necks of thousands of Black people." https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Should we tear down murals of George Washington with enslaved people -- or supplement them? Is art up to the task of defending liberal democracy in this moment? What is the psychosis at America's heart? Dewey Crumpler has something to say about it all. https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Dewey Crumpler was painting hoodies long before they acquired the haunting significance they now hold. He was painting shipping containers fallen into the sea long before the crisis of fragile, disrupted global supply chains. He is an oracle. https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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I interviewed Dewey Crumpler, a painter and a prophet for our time, about his paintings of hoodies and Black liberation, about his prescient works on shipping containers and supply chains, and about how art can stand up to power. Trust me and read this. https://t.co/ERGPNMTgJZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anniehgalvin: We at the #EzraKleinShow are hiring! Looking for a researcher who knows the show well and loves coming up with ideas, de… — PolitiTweet.org