For their latest Now & Then episode, & discussed a key Progressive Era White House figure & other presidential advisors:
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is all I needed to read about the balloon bust, which somehow blew all the great economic news out of the news. Squirrel!
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#UPDATE Heavy fighting was underway Sunday in the northern parts of the frontline hotspot Bakhmut, while Ukraine's defence minister said the reluctance of Kyiv's Western allies to send jets would cost it "more lives."
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A #SundayMorning reminder that the are actively committing crimes against humanity with forced pregnancies
#RoeVsWade
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Here's a groovy thing I'm doing online later this month.
See you there?
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Well, it sure looks like turned the tables by wisely leaving the Chinese spy balloon afloat long enough to gather information on its technology & capabilities, and then shot it down in a location where its hardware can be recovered. Impressive.
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The military jets using the call sign “FRANK” is significant. Frank Luke Jr. was an American fighter ace in World War I better known as the “Arizona Balloon Buster.” He is credited with shooting down 14 German surveillance balloons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luke
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NEW: With vulnerable to having his migrant flight declared unconstitutional, his office is asking FL Legislature to revise the law to allow Florida to transport migrants from anywhere in the U.S., w/
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When you’re caught breaking the law so you call a special session to change the laws 🤦🏽♀️
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NEW: With @GovRonDeSantis vulnerable to having his migrant flight declared unconstitutional, his office is asking FL Legislature to revise the law to allow Florida to transport migrants from anywhere in the U.S., w/ @anaceballos_ miamiherald.com/news/politics-
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As the March 2021 seminar outline instructs: “Many references to teachers’ unions as major enemy.” Now Desantis’s new legislation:
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The plan to use the CRT hoax as a tool to dismantle the public school system was formulated well in advance, was extremely cynical, and its architects have been brought into FL by Desantis to implement it. The plan:
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“The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.” - Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Civil Rights Speech DNC Convention. Philadelphia. PA 1948 #BlackHistoryMonth #allies
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Supreme Court justices using private email to conduct official business? Surely the same reporters who hounded Hillary Clinton out of politics will cover this non-stop for the next 2 years 🙄
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DNC Members will vote on the bylaws and rules change that will move the DNC presidential nomination calendar. Moving the first in state from Iowa to South Carolina. Iowa is objecting. #DNCWinterMeeting #FirstinState #utpol #democrats #DNC
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The hardest piece I've had to write, from a grim and harrowing night in Bakhmut last month.
For me, five days in Bakhmut hammered home the fact that the fate of Ukraine will be decided in Donbas, in the streets and basements of cities like this.
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THIS IS THE STORY WHICH WILL RUN ON CNN SUNDAY NIGHT! Pain is the name and opioids are the fix leaving a trail of death across the Country. If Rs want to put their House in order than can investigate this!
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This would violate me. I protect your right not to participate in the National Anthem or Pledge of Allegiance.
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NEW: George Santos wants us to forget he lied about being Jewish while pretending he's a voice for our community. As a Jew, granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and native of his district who's been covering his every move, I won't allow it.
Read here: thehandbasket.substack.com/p/george-santo
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Check out the full piece for much more on Jordan’s chief of staff odyssey. And listen to & on this week’s Now & Then episode for much more on influential presidential advisors:
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Who have been America's most talked-about chiefs of staff? Read Now & Then Editorial Producer 's Time Machine article & archival thread, a look at Carter chief of staff Hamilton Jordan inspired by & 's episode on presidential advisors: twitter.com/DavidKurlander
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Every time I read about Hungary, I remember its GDP is tiny — between the state GDPs of Arkansas and Kansas. twitter.com/hannahgais/sta
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Don't count on institutions to oppose the rebirth of American authoritarianism. Historically, churches, corporations, universities, the press, etc. have at best acquiesced & were very often complicit. The pre-WW2 response of white institutions to Jim Crow is a good example. twitter.com/SaraWeissman/s
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Breaking news: Trump companies cut two checks last week totaling $1.6 million to NY courts.
I spoke to a clerk who noted, dryly, that the checks didn't bounce.
Another exclusive:
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Not quite accurate to say the Nazi homeschooling group *slipped through the cracks* when the cracks are the point. Also GOP in Ohio and elsewhere is working feverishly whatever limited oversight there is usatoday.com/story/news/edu
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PG&E has been ordered by a California state judge to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and other charges tied to the 2020 Zogg wildfire
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𝟮.𝟳 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 jobs have been created since before the pandemic. Gains almost everywhere, except leisure, hospitality, and government.
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517,000 jobs created in January. Biden creates jobs the way Trump created chaos.
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Some Jan. 6 defendants who have expressed remorse in court for joining the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol have later struck a different tone or downplayed the deadly riot publicly.
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WOW: U.S. employers added a whopping 517,000 jobs in January. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest since 1969.
Data: bls.gov/news.release/e
Full coverage: nytimes.com/live/2023/02/0
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Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) has secured $2.5 million in federal funding for two community projects in Santa Monica for the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill, recently signed into law by President Biden.
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5th Circuit: The Second Amendment protects your right to possess a gun while under a restraining order for domestic violence.
Vacates the conviction of an alleged domestic abuser charged with illegally possessing a firearm.
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To be clear—the reason there weren't laws disarming domestic abusers in 1791 or 1868 is because women were not equal citizens and domestic violence was not deemed a criminal offense by the men who made and enforced the laws. slate.com/news-and-polit
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There is no real doubt that the 5th Circuit's decision is going to lead to more abusers murdering their wives and girlfriends. It will also increase mass shootings. Domestic abuse are vastly more likely to commit heinous acts of gun violence. slate.com/news-and-polit
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SCOTUS held that gun restrictions are only constitutional if they have historical analogues from 1791 or 1868. But domestic violence was widely accepted in those eras. So, the 5th Circuit says, the government can't disarm alleged domestic abusers today. twitter.com/JacobDCharles/
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Doing such a good job here, time to learn about George Cortelyou & the universe of presidential advisors in history with the great & on Now&Then... twitter.com/cafedotcom/sta
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Am I mad? I’m livid. Passing permitless carry on the five year anniversary of parkland, coming after gay young people and terrorizing them, banning African American studies? Why can’t he focus on things that actually mater like rent or how expensive insurance is in FL?
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When the servicemen died in Niger in 2017, I asked myself the same question Newsweek asked. Four servicemen died and yet there was NO Benghazi-like hearing!
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1/ Remember the Benghazi hearings? "the House committee probe into 2012's Benghazi attack was especially lengthy. At 2 years & 4 months, it was longer than Congressional probes into 9/11, Watergate, the JFK assassination and Pearl Harbor."
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