One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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AAUP ENDORSED! These candidates are fighting to make higher education a public good—affordable, accessible, and a driver of democracy. They will defend higher ed from political capture, fight to restore public investment, respect worker rights, and recenter student learning.

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Dogs of New York, or, the Rise of the Goldendoodles. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

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