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As I told , the debt ceiling is like the appendix of the American economy -- many experts have a hard time seeing why it exists, but if left untreated can blow up and lead to devastating consequences
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House Republicans are using their new majority and the threat of the debt default to leverage the Biden Administration and Democrats to make deep spending cuts.
For more on this, we talked with @JStein_WaPo, White House econ reporter for @washingtonpost bit.ly/3J0hidl
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Ahem β> How The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture Was Created newsclick.in/How-The-Myth-W #SPQR
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Wow. Thoroughly researched and documented article on how the Durham investigation is not only a big nothing-burger, but Durham and Barr conspired to re-characterize Durhamβs lack of criminal findings to make it seem like there were, WHILE IGNORING THOSE THAT APPEARED ABOUT TRUMP.
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Even by the standards of trumpβs swine-filled administration, this takes the cake. A gift to you, no paywall
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The Bar Associations and Disciplinary Prosecutors in several states, have a compelling rationale to emulate the action of California bar regulators and initiate proceedings against Trump attorney John Eastman.
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NEW: California state bar regulators announced they've filed a disciplinary case against Trump lawyer John Eastman re: 2020, and will seek to disbar him. More to come.
Announcement: calbar.ca.gov/About-Us/News/
Doc: assets.bwbx.io/documents/user
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Something not mentioned in this NYT story is that Andrew DeFilippis, who was involved in some of the most unethical parts of the Durham investigation, left w/o explanation shortly before the Danchenko trial.
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conservative legal scholars ranked the worst Supreme Court decisions and felt that the cases establishing rights to gay marriage and contraception were worse than the one upholding concentration camps for Japanese-Americans
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Conservative legal minds @MDH_GFU and @MatthewJFranck rank the worst twenty Supreme Court decisions of all time in a new essay. lawliberty.org/supreme-failur
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Absolutely unbelievable. Per NYT, Durham starts investigating *Trump* after hearing a tip too troubling to ignore. But the story leaked to the press ends up making it seem as if the investigation is closing in on the deep state βΒ for over a year. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/
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This Memphis video of the lynching of Tyre Nichols must be awful. Basically everybody who has seen it is like "Please don't riot when you see this like you probably should." I've never seen a reaction like that.
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The economy is growing. Unemployment is at record lows. 11 million jobs were created in the past 2 yearsβincluding 750k manufacturing jobs. Inflation is coming down. Wages are up.
Letβs build on this progress to further reduce costs and create jobs for Virginians and Americans.
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No recession here...
U.S. economy expands at 2.9% annual rate in fourth quarter axios.com/2023/01/26/gdp
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Despite all this harm and danger, the tentacles of the fossil fuel industry reach so far into the Republican Party that Republicans not only do nothing, but block Democratic efforts to solve the climate problem.
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Jaw dropping reporting. Lots here including an explanation of why Durham's colleague resigned: under pressure from Barr to release an "interim" report damaging Clinton & the FBI as the election drew near, Durham had a draft prepared that wasn't factual.
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Republicans havenβt changed their key narratives and dirty tricks over the last couple yearsβ¦ and decadesβ¦ and centuries.
Hereβs a brief history on how uninspired conservative pundits and lawmakers truly are:
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Somebody explain how the MAGA House crew throws Adam Schiff off a committee over βintegrityβ and then stands by this serial liar and cheat.
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I'm so glad to see Zeynep's piece today. I've followed the targeted harassment against Markle since 2018. All along I've maintained people need to take this more seriously. It's the nexus of online harassment, media, disinformation, culture wars, pop culture, and government.
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Gift link to my NYT piece on why the Harry/Meghan stuff is not mere celebrity kerfuffle and what the *actual* news there.
Maybe this is why Spare sold so well, despite the dismissive media coverage that largely skipped over the actual matter at hand.
nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opi
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Well, I didn't think they would eat MY face. π
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Facial recognition tech being used to ban people from entertainment events? This is really scary stuffβall part of a mass surveillance society that we should all be condemning and working to dismantle.
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For all the ignorant, too scared to live in reality, conspiracy theory nutjobs:
Keep Damar Hamlin's name out of your mouth. Go outside and touch some grass & find someone who loves you to explain why you're a clown.
Signed,
All of Buffalo
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This is so profoundly fucked up and shows just how little "pro-lifers" care about women, and how eager they are to make them suffer. They want to apply different standards to pregnant women than to everyone else -- a higher standard of potential injury before getting treatment.
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LOL their lack of ability to get the joke is even funnier than the joke itself
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Fox Business responded to this news by lamenting the "woke police cancel culture" twitter.com/awrestaurants/β¦
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Modern day book burning.
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1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
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Part 1: Lay out the simple argument that Republicans are recklessly inviting an economic meltdown even by talking about a possible default. Part 2: Force House Republicans to put forward a plan on the table and watch as they struggle with the fallout.
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Biden: Putin expected Europe and the United States to weaken our resolve. He expected our support for Ukraine to crumble with time. He was wrong. He was wrong. He was wrong from the beginning and he continues to be wrong
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A remarkable thing is about to happen. With Biden's climate and chips bills set to pump huge sums into green and tech manufacturing, two new reports find much of this will be noncollege work in Trump country. This wrecks some of MAGA's ugliest mythologies:
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Wow. The last person in the world that I thought would write about the Royals is . But sheβs done us all a great service, connecting the dots in a way that ultimately proves Harry and Meghan have a point.
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I couldn't care less about royal news.
But don't dismiss Harry/Meghan brouhaha as mere celebrity tittle-tattle. Want to discuss Brexit? This is related.
And they make a good case. It's not fluff.
I wrote it up, straight, without the celebrity stuff.
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The best way to understand these comments by is as a shameless attempt to get a big contract advising the Saudi military or some $100,000 paid speaking gig in Riyadh. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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"Don't slash Medicare and Social Security" is actually the least contentious part of American politics and is only rendered "controversial" b/c Republicans speak in code & journalists let them get away with it in most cases--or even lend their "arguments" unearned credibility
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I understand why parents want to know every detail of their children's lives. But as kids grow up, they should be allowed to grow more independent -- and that means having some privacy as teenagers, including the ability to come out as gay, bi, or trans at their own pace.
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"[P]art of being an adult is advocating for rules and laws that are the best for everyone, and not just the rules and laws that reflect what you individually would like for yourself," writes @JillFilipovic cnn.com/2023/01/25/opi
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