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If you read the actual article, as opposed to Eitan's breathless tweet, you'll see it's an argument against "the temptation to close off the Egyptian economy and redistribute its shrinking spoils by nationalising private industries or raising tariff barriers." Don't tell the DSA!
Breaking: I've uncovered an apparently unreported 2012 Al Jazeera article coauthored by Abdul El-Sayed that praises the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral success in Egypt and portrays the Islamist movement in remarkably flattering terms.
At the time, the Brotherhood-led bloc had just won approximately 47% of Egypt's parliamentary seats, while the ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nour bloc secured another 24%.
Together, Islamist parties controlled roughly 71% of the elected seats.
Yet El-Sayed and his coauthor (a Harvard scholar, because of course) enthusiastically described Egypt's political transformation as looking "more promising than ever."
They also argued that the Islamist parties' electoral successes reflected their domestic platforms and "histories of social justice" more than popular support for their Islamic ideologies.
El-Sayed wasn't merely celebrating the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. He was expressing optimism about Egypt's political future AFTER the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists had overwhelmingly won the parliamentary elections.
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Guys, don't do this. You dug up literally the only time Stephen Miller was right about something. That was a hoax.
FLASHBACK: Unearthed Video of Stephen Miller Defending Duke Lacrosse Players Accused of Rape
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Stephen Miller advocated for the presumption of innocence of the Duke lacrosse players in 2006 amid rape accusations. The players were exonerated in 2007; the accuser later admitted fabricating the allegations.
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🎬On November 1, 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system was officially introduced with the ratings G, M, R and X
2001 was crazy.
A mysterious bag of white powder is found in the waiting room of the Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, California.
Fearing anthrax, the building is evacuated and the bag is held by security personnel, but before police can arrive, a security guard tastes the powder and declares it harmless.
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Plague is treatable with antibiotics, so why are they responding with lockdowns instead of giving people antibiotics?
A couple of disturbing possibilities.
Amazing this guy saw 9/11
Mike Mansfield, U.S. Congressman (D-MT) from 1943 to 1953; U.S. Senator (D-MT) from 1953 to 1977; and U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988 dies in Washington, DC. He was 98.
At age 14, after achieving only a middle school education, Mansfield enlisted in WWI and served in the US Navy throughout the war, and then he served in the Army and Marines until 1922, when he retired from military service aged 19.
He married his wife, Maureen, in 1932, and they remained married for 68 years until her death last year.
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Mike Mansfield, U.S. Congressman (D-MT) from 1943 to 1953; U.S. Senator (D-MT) from 1953 to 1977; and U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988 dies in Washington, DC. He was 98.
At age 14, after achieving only a middle school education, Mansfield enlisted in WWI and served in the US Navy throughout the war, and then he served in the Army and Marines until 1922, when he retired from military service aged 19.
He married his wife, Maureen, in 1932, and they remained married for 68 years until her death last year.
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The U.S. Supreme Court suspends former President Bill Clinton’s license to practice law in Arkansas after he failed to complete continuing legal education requirements.
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Clinton's Arkansas law license was suspended for 5 years in Jan. 2001 for knowingly misleading testimony in the Paula Jones deposition, not CLE failure. The U.S. Supreme Court suspended him from practicing before it on Oct. 1, 2001, following the Arkansas discipline.
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Gloria/Gregory Hemingway, hunter, physician, and child of Ernest Hemingway, dies in jail in Key Biscayne, Florida. He/she was 69.
On the day of his/her death, Hemingway was due in court on charges of indecent exposure and resisting arrest. Like Ernest, Gloria/Gregory suffered from alcoholism for many years.
The child was born Gregory Hemingway in 1931, but cross-dressed throughout childhood.
Ernest Hemingway was almost entirely ambivalent about his child’s cross-dressing, and commented “this clothes business is something that I have never been able to control.”
In 1993, Gloria/Gregory underwent surgery, but did not identify as a woman.
In 1999, the surgery was reversed and Gloria/Gregory began calling him/herself “Greg” full-time, but continued cross-dressing.
At the time of his/her death, Gloria/Gregory identified as both a man and a woman but did not identify as transgender.
