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Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, idealist, hater. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. RTs = endorsement or scorn. (he/him)
nycsouthpaw.comJoined March 2009

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Now, we wait to see what the Biden admin does.
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JUST IN — U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has set aside his August 2021 ruling that forced the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era Remain-in-Mexico border policy. The administration can now legally terminate the policy (once again) due to a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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I at first saw this video and thought this was a Dem account tweeting it because of how sweet it is, and then I saw it was from the RNC Research account, apparently pissed off that the President is a compassionate human who isn't a raging asshole.
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BIDEN: "May I say something?" GOV. BESHEAR: "You're the president." BIDEN: "I still have to ask permission."
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DOJ says Eastman’s complaint that the investigation originated w the department’s inspector general — who only has jurisdiction over DOJ employees — is meritless. Probes of conspiracies to harm DOJ, they note, can clearly reach outside the department.
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The budget rule, by its own terms, can be waived with 60 votes. They had 57. You refused to supply one more.
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Parliamentarian nixed Dems price cap bc it didn't follow budget rule Vote on the cap was not abt insulin It was abt Dems ignoring budget rules  Dear colleagues join me in supporting the Collins-Shaheen bill to cap insulin at $35 & enact PBM reforms in bipartisan way
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Approximately two years' worth of text messages sent and received by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been turned over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, per ⁦
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Having written four books my take is that it takes a TON of time and zillions of interviews and careful writing, editing and checking to document something phenomenal and it’s not usually “held back” so much as not ready to be seen earlier.
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"Tornado Cash is a virtual currency mixer that operates on the Ethereum blockchain and indiscriminately facilitates anonymous transactions by obfuscating their origin, destination, and counterparties, with no attempt to determine their origin."
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The Sunday night climb down
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We removed a tweet promoting our recent doc, "Arming Ukraine," which quoted the founder of the nonprofit Blue-Yellow, Jonas Ohman's assessment in late April that only around 30% of aid was reaching the front lines in Ukraine.
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You can see in the last 72 hrs how deep GOPs are in the mode of 'this election is going to fall into our lap because of global economic crises that don't have much to do with the White House' and perhaps the more general 'nothing matters' of recent years. As the Dems ...
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After trying for decades, Democrats are finally succeeding at giving the federal government authority to negotiate drug prices. This is not the sweeping drug pricing measure originally envisioned, but it is the biggest political loss the pharmaceutical industry has suffered.
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There is nothing that is actually ultra-woke about Barnes' campaign, but there is one thing that is different about him that the New York Times Opinion writers seem to view with skepticism, and I can't qwhite put my finger on what it is.
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Wisconsin’s Senate race “may essentially boil down to the question of whether Mr. Johnson can moderate his MAGA-crazy brand more successfully than Mr. Barnes can moderate his ultra-woke one,” writes @mcottle. nyti.ms/3JA459s
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Abortion rights, climate action, voting rights, lower prescription drug costs, marriage equality — these are ALL on the ballot in November. Too much is on the line. We have to organize and show up to vote – for the sake of our future.
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This is wild to me as *checks notes* Legislative Director of the PA AFL-CIO… …who is constantly fighting against the commonwealth foundation, who have literally poured millions into trying to take away our union rights and jobs. + have been labor champs.
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