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Danny Postel

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Politics Editor @newlinesmag | Übermenshevik | incurable tennis addict | pitch me: dpostel@newlinesmag.com | Also find me @dannypostel.bsky.social
Chicago, IL muckrack.com/danny-postel Joined October 2011
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Danny Postel @DannyPostel
🎧 On the new episode of the @newlinesmag podcast, I make sense of the midterms in conversation with my colleague @FaisalAlYafai and @LGeismer, author of Left Behind: The Democrats’ Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality. Listen on your podcast app or here ⏬

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www.youtube.com The Blue Wave and the Blame Game | The Lede Season 10 Episode 9 Few expected the Democrats’ midterm victory to be this big. Histori...
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Its name is a popular meme, and Merriam-Webster lists it as an adjective meaning “cringeworthy.” But Ohio’s outsize role in this year’s midterm election holds serious lessons for an America in flux.

A marvelous piece by Samer Badawi in @newlinesmag

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newlinesmag.com A View From Ohio on Election Day To many Americans, the Buckeye State, like its miles of flatlands, is an archetype of the middle ground, a kind of baseline for the ordinary. But as the midterm election frenzy comes to an end, the...
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“He’s a little bit of a smartass, which I kind of like too,” Groenenboom said. “The Muslim thing doesn’t fizz on me at all.”

From @minnaharshad's new piece for @newlinesmag on how the demonization of Abdul El-Sayed is landing with Michigan voters.

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newlinesmag.com Michigan Senate Race Tests the Power of Islamophobia Did the barrage of attacks on Abdul El-Sayed in the final stretch of campaigning work, or did it backfire?
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Michigan’s airwaves have been flooded with anti-Arab and Islamophobic attack ads targeting Abdul El-Sayed in the final stretch of the state’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race. @minnaharshad reports for @newlinesmag on how the messaging landed with voters.

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newlinesmag.com Michigan Senate Race Tests the Power of Islamophobia Did the barrage of attacks on Abdul El-Sayed in the final stretch of campaigning work, or did it backfire?
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The label of “Muslim Brotherhood” may be new to a U.S. voter, but governments in the Middle East have long leaned on it as a playbook for political foes — a revealing piece by my @newlinesmag colleague @erinclarebrown

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newlinesmag.com The ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ Playbook The label may be new to US voters, but autocrats in the Middle East have long applied it to those who challenge the illiberal status quo