Keith M. Harper
@ambharper.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Cherokee Nation Citizen. American. Lawyer. Progressive. Former US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Human Rights Council.
We would be better off but more importantly the world would be better off if we had Carney and they had Trump.
Where’s the lie?
Where’s the lie?
May 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
We would be better off but more importantly the world would be better off if we had Carney and they had Trump.
Where’s the lie?
Where’s the lie?
Proud to work at @Jenner&Block. Thank you for the support we have received from amici across the legal community.
May 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Proud to work at @Jenner&Block. Thank you for the support we have received from amici across the legal community.
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BREAKING: South Korean court upholds President Yoon's impeachment over martial law order www.nbcnews.com/news/world/s...
South Korean court upholds President Yoon's impeachment over martial law order
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief martial law declaration and subsequent impeachment trial have deeply divided South Korea, a key U.S. ally.
www.nbcnews.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
BREAKING: South Korean court upholds President Yoon's impeachment over martial law order www.nbcnews.com/news/world/s...
I am exceedingly proud to be at Jenner & Block
March 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I am exceedingly proud to be at Jenner & Block
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My latest: Trump Is An Authoritarian. Dems Must Fight Him Every Time. Chuck Schumer Must Go. Schumer surrendered one of the only legislative opportunities Democrats have to stop Donald Trump's authoritarian agenda.
Democrats Like Chuck Schumer Must Fight Trump's Authoritarianism Every Time.
Schumer surrendered one of the only chances Democrats have to stop Trump's agenda in this session of Congress. 38 Senate Dems voted against the GOP government funding bill, but Schumer didn't lead the...
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March 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My latest: Trump Is An Authoritarian. Dems Must Fight Him Every Time. Chuck Schumer Must Go. Schumer surrendered one of the only legislative opportunities Democrats have to stop Donald Trump's authoritarian agenda.
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Um, is Schumer aware of this??
March 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Um, is Schumer aware of this??
As someone who was skeptical of @AOC initially, I fully admit that she seems more than most others to be meeting the moment. She has a pulse on the public that people like Chuck Schumer simply do not have.
Trump and the GOP understand many Americans are fed up with the status quo. The problem with many Dem leaders is that they are addicted to it. Progress requires change...which requires not just courage but imagination and the willingness to ask hard questions. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
There is No Progress Without Sacrilege
The problem with the leaders of the Democratic Party is not what you think it is
open.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As someone who was skeptical of @AOC initially, I fully admit that she seems more than most others to be meeting the moment. She has a pulse on the public that people like Chuck Schumer simply do not have.
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AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.
March 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.
Leader Jeffries and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are La Résistance.
Let’s hope Senate Ds are not Vichy.
Let’s hope Senate Ds are not Vichy.
House Dems stand with our leadership in holding the line for working people.
NO to this Trump/Elon spending bill that aims to make massive cuts to programs that working families have earned in order to give billionaires tax cuts.
NO to this Trump/Elon spending bill that aims to make massive cuts to programs that working families have earned in order to give billionaires tax cuts.
March 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Leader Jeffries and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are La Résistance.
Let’s hope Senate Ds are not Vichy.
Let’s hope Senate Ds are not Vichy.
This is a time when you’re either Vichy or La Résistance.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi is plainly La Résistance.
We shall see what Senate Dems are.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi is plainly La Résistance.
We shall see what Senate Dems are.
In a rare moment of public disagreement with members of her own party, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called out Senate Democrats Friday for supporting Republicans' government funding extension www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
In remarkable split, Nancy Pelosi slams Chuck Schumer over budget deal
At stake is preventing a shutdown, but many Democrats argue there are much bigger-picture issues at play.
www.sfchronicle.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is a time when you’re either Vichy or La Résistance.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi is plainly La Résistance.
We shall see what Senate Dems are.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi is plainly La Résistance.
We shall see what Senate Dems are.
Rahm is the last person any serious Dem should support. He wholly deprioritized judges when Obama’s COS—ceding the courts to Rs. Utterly disastrous tenure as Mayor. He is textbook example of failing up and what is wrong with the Democratic Party. We need fresh, less cynical, more visionary leaders.
Column: Rahm Emanuel is gearing up to run for president. Could he be the one to save Democrats in 2028? Politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin takes a closer look 👇
Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President
The former Chicago mayor is already on the hustings, finding new ways to attack Trumpism from the center.
www.politico.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Rahm is the last person any serious Dem should support. He wholly deprioritized judges when Obama’s COS—ceding the courts to Rs. Utterly disastrous tenure as Mayor. He is textbook example of failing up and what is wrong with the Democratic Party. We need fresh, less cynical, more visionary leaders.
This is what capitulation and surrender to #Putin looks like. Incredible. Putin is a Soviet admiring chaos instigating figure and the US has just surrendered to Putin.
March 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is what capitulation and surrender to #Putin looks like. Incredible. Putin is a Soviet admiring chaos instigating figure and the US has just surrendered to Putin.
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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
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Breaking News: Three mainstream political parties in Austria have agreed to form a government that excludes the far-right Freedom Party.
Austrian Parties Reach Deal to Form Government Without Far Right
The announcement was a victory for mainstream political parties, after earlier talks involving the hard-right Freedom Party broke down.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Breaking News: Three mainstream political parties in Austria have agreed to form a government that excludes the far-right Freedom Party.
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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
Basically complete capitulation and surrender.
Trump and Hegseth are rewarding Putin for his aggression. It’s incredibly ill advised because it will merely invite additional lawless aggression.
Trump and Hegseth are rewarding Putin for his aggression. It’s incredibly ill advised because it will merely invite additional lawless aggression.
Hegseth: "We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective ... the US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement."
February 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Basically complete capitulation and surrender.
Trump and Hegseth are rewarding Putin for his aggression. It’s incredibly ill advised because it will merely invite additional lawless aggression.
Trump and Hegseth are rewarding Putin for his aggression. It’s incredibly ill advised because it will merely invite additional lawless aggression.
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@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: “Friday we learned that last year, Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by a Russian propaganda operation to attack the FBI… what could possibly go wrong?”
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: “Friday we learned that last year, Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by a Russian propaganda operation to attack the FBI… what could possibly go wrong?”
Witkoff seems the very embodiment of hubris and ignorance. Many peoples around the world—including many Americans of all types in the interior West—have a particular relationship to a place that is sacred to them. Palestinians do as well. So the idea that they can settle elsewhere will be anathema.
Steve Witkoff: "Peace in the region means a better life for the Palestinians. A better life is not necessarily to tied to the physical space that you're in today ... that doesn't occur because you get to pitch a tent in the Gaza Strip."
February 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Witkoff seems the very embodiment of hubris and ignorance. Many peoples around the world—including many Americans of all types in the interior West—have a particular relationship to a place that is sacred to them. Palestinians do as well. So the idea that they can settle elsewhere will be anathema.
The power this and any court has to stand for rule of law is to personalize the consequences of wrongdoing through contempt powers. Order DOGE head Musk to appear in court or send out the marshals. Detain under civil contempt until compliance is guaranteed.
This is the moment we’ve always been headed towards. If the President refuses to follow a court’s order we are in deep crisis. The GOP has courted this disaster.
JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted.
Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.
Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.
February 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The power this and any court has to stand for rule of law is to personalize the consequences of wrongdoing through contempt powers. Order DOGE head Musk to appear in court or send out the marshals. Detain under civil contempt until compliance is guaranteed.
While unsurprising, this withdrawal is ill advised. The Council has flaws but ceding it to Russia and China is a grotesque error for human rights.
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Trump will issue an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council and prohibiting future funding for the UN relief agency for Gaza, Politico reports.
February 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
While unsurprising, this withdrawal is ill advised. The Council has flaws but ceding it to Russia and China is a grotesque error for human rights.
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Not surprising. Empowering the inexperienced is not a bug, it’s a feature. These individuals in an ordinary world would never amass this kind of power. So they owe their allegiance to Elon and Trump. They will be the ultimate yes men.
February 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Not surprising. Empowering the inexperienced is not a bug, it’s a feature. These individuals in an ordinary world would never amass this kind of power. So they owe their allegiance to Elon and Trump. They will be the ultimate yes men.
We cannot hope that these companies will act courageously or expect that they will do so. We have to draw lines of what we will do in response. We have agency.
As a lifelong 60 Minutes watcher, if Paramount capitulates, I will not watch the show nor anything on Paramount.
As a lifelong 60 Minutes watcher, if Paramount capitulates, I will not watch the show nor anything on Paramount.
The entire staff of 60 Minutes should resign.
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
This would be a dangerous, historic act of cowardice. It requires an extraordinary, historic response.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
We cannot hope that these companies will act courageously or expect that they will do so. We have to draw lines of what we will do in response. We have agency.
As a lifelong 60 Minutes watcher, if Paramount capitulates, I will not watch the show nor anything on Paramount.
As a lifelong 60 Minutes watcher, if Paramount capitulates, I will not watch the show nor anything on Paramount.
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Pilots in the r/flying community are saying similar things.
One regional jet pilot:
“This would be the very FIRST place I would expect this to happen”
One regional jet pilot:
“This would be the very FIRST place I would expect this to happen”
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Pilots in the r/flying community are saying similar things.
One regional jet pilot:
“This would be the very FIRST place I would expect this to happen”
One regional jet pilot:
“This would be the very FIRST place I would expect this to happen”
It is extraordinarily and inherently racists - let’s be clear - to suggest as Trump does here that there is this binary choice between competence or excellence on the one hand and diversity on the other. It’s a prevarication grounded in white supremacy.
January 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It is extraordinarily and inherently racists - let’s be clear - to suggest as Trump does here that there is this binary choice between competence or excellence on the one hand and diversity on the other. It’s a prevarication grounded in white supremacy.