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Business columnist for . Host of KCRW's Left, Right & Center. Cohost w/ of LRC Presents: All the President's Lawyers.

New York, New York
Joined September 2008
Born 17 July

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    9 hours ago

    I say this in all seriousness — the conservative obsession with AOC is one of the more enjoyable trivial parts of this website these days.

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    Yeah, to steal from , this is going to end with people marching on the White House. Relatedly, kind of wild to watch a president self-immolate out of sheer pique.

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    12 hours ago

    New Congress, who dis? are joined by: - on the latest from Congress and the ongoing shutdown - on Elizabeth Warren's presidential exploratory committee - on Trump’s feud with Jerome Powell

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    Somebody needs to tell Cuomo about ’s blog and then suddenly New York could make real progress (he should maybe delete the Cuomo-bashing posts first).

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  6. 13 hours ago

    Is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority staffed by idiots? I do not mean that as a rhetorical question. There is no non-embarrassing analysis of the L-Train shutdown cancellation. But I am ready to believe Cuomo made the right call, too late.

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    13 hours ago

    Remember that "pro-pedophilia" account whose tweets were being bandied about on Twitter in an "I can't even" manner last week? Yup, a 4chan troll.

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  8. 13 hours ago

    Note also this, about how JFK airport manages the shortage of TSA officers: "Officers from a morning shift were required to work extra hours to cover the gaps." The strategy is to require those workers who do show up to work more hours, but not pay them. How sustainable is that?

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    CNN: : “Spoiler alert here—this is how it ends: something gets passed at some point. Pelosi & Schumer come out, give a press conference that says, ‘we have reopened the government & haven't given him his wall’... then Trump signs it & says, ‘they gave me my wall!’

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  10. 13 hours ago

    TSA sick callouts at 300% of normal at DFW. You know who flies a lot? Members of Congress. I don't think Trump will be able to hold the GOP congressional line as long as everyone seems to expect -- shutdown is for symbolism, but its effects will get more real for MOCs & voters.

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    Obviously nobody would have argue that the videos should stay up (in their original context, with comments and links intact) BECAUSE a future Congresswoman might be in them. But that sort of unforeseen conversation is exactly what fair use enables!

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    15 hours ago
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    You could probably get the necessary GOP votes in the House to override a veto by promising the $1.6B to accelerated renovation on gate 35X at DCA instead of the Wall.

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  13. 15 hours ago

    Because they're required to, and because they have a strong expectation the shutdown won't persist that long and they'll collect their pay in arrears pretty soon ... unless they cease to have that strong expectation.

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  14. 15 hours ago

    "Who needs the government anyway?" is a good glib line when all the "essential" employees are still working without pay. But it turns out, there are parts of the government that we will notice fairly quickly if they go missing.

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  15. 15 hours ago

    I'm telling you, this thing ends with work stoppages at the airports and federal workers marching on the White House.

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  16. 15 hours ago

    they keep recycling these ideas that they previously rejected because they don't work and will reject again because they don't work

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    Trump on whether he said shutdown could last months or years as Schumer related: "Absolutely I said that"

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    Notable absence in the Rose Garden as the President speaks. Senate Majority Leader McConnell.

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    What does an excellent jobs report mean for the economy as a whole? and discuss

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  20. 19 hours ago

    Yes, but in part because there would be a clearer answer to "why didn't you think of this earlier"

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