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July 19, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/republicans-expose-their-hypocrisy-on-abortion/670562/
https://archive.ph/qHBlB#selection-515.0-515.46
The anti-abortion movement spent decades citing state’s rights as an argument for overturning Roe. That façade fell away within weeks. For years, anti-abortion advocates have insisted that their cause was a federalist one—an effort to return decision-making power to the states. This was not just a legal argument but a political one. “Wouldn’t it be better if such a divisive issue were decided locally?” the advocates argued, pointing to the significant state-to-state variation in support for abortion.
These talking points persisted, briefly, in the direct aftermath of Roe v. Wade’s overturning. The day that the Dobbs v. Jackson decision was announced, Florida Senator Rick Scott—the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group tasked with winning Senate seats for Republicans—lauded the Supreme Court for defending “the foundational principle of federalism.” The Michigan Senate majority leader praised the decision as affirming “the importance of federalism and states’ rights.” Other senators and state elected officials also parroted this line. But in the few short weeks since then, it’s become clear that the anti-abortion movement won’t sit idly by while states enact the abortion policies their residents want.
Instead, anti-abortion advocates are now focused on enacting federal restrictions on the procedure. Senate Republicans are already discussing a potential national ban on abortion after just six weeks. After the Dobbs decision leaked, indicating that the Court was poised to strike down Roe, The Washington Post reported that the president of a prominent anti-abortion group has been in conversations with 10 potential Republican presidential candidates (including Donald Trump) in which most “assured her they would be supportive of a national ban and would be eager to make that policy a centerpiece of a presidential campaign.”
Right now, state and national Republicans are casting aside “states’ rights” as they seek to outlaw out-of-state abortions for people who live in places where they’re restricted. In a move reminiscent of Texas Senate Bill 8, Missouri Republicans have proposed that private citizens should be allowed to sue anyone who helps another person get an out-of-state abortion. One conservative legal organization, the Thomas More Society, is encouraging other states to adopt similar legislation. And last week in D.C., Senate Republicans blocked the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act of 2022, which would have made it illegal to “restrict or in [any] way sanction … any individual from traveling to another State to receive or provide reproductive health care that is legal in that State.”
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Faux Federalists: Republicans Expose Their Hypocrisy on Abortion
It’s become clear that the anti-abortion movement won’t sit idly by while states enact the abortion policies their residents wanthttps://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/republicans-expose-their-hypocrisy-on-abortion/670562/
https://archive.ph/qHBlB#selection-515.0-515.46
The anti-abortion movement spent decades citing state’s rights as an argument for overturning Roe. That façade fell away within weeks. For years, anti-abortion advocates have insisted that their cause was a federalist one—an effort to return decision-making power to the states. This was not just a legal argument but a political one. “Wouldn’t it be better if such a divisive issue were decided locally?” the advocates argued, pointing to the significant state-to-state variation in support for abortion.
These talking points persisted, briefly, in the direct aftermath of Roe v. Wade’s overturning. The day that the Dobbs v. Jackson decision was announced, Florida Senator Rick Scott—the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group tasked with winning Senate seats for Republicans—lauded the Supreme Court for defending “the foundational principle of federalism.” The Michigan Senate majority leader praised the decision as affirming “the importance of federalism and states’ rights.” Other senators and state elected officials also parroted this line. But in the few short weeks since then, it’s become clear that the anti-abortion movement won’t sit idly by while states enact the abortion policies their residents want.
Instead, anti-abortion advocates are now focused on enacting federal restrictions on the procedure. Senate Republicans are already discussing a potential national ban on abortion after just six weeks. After the Dobbs decision leaked, indicating that the Court was poised to strike down Roe, The Washington Post reported that the president of a prominent anti-abortion group has been in conversations with 10 potential Republican presidential candidates (including Donald Trump) in which most “assured her they would be supportive of a national ban and would be eager to make that policy a centerpiece of a presidential campaign.”
Right now, state and national Republicans are casting aside “states’ rights” as they seek to outlaw out-of-state abortions for people who live in places where they’re restricted. In a move reminiscent of Texas Senate Bill 8, Missouri Republicans have proposed that private citizens should be allowed to sue anyone who helps another person get an out-of-state abortion. One conservative legal organization, the Thomas More Society, is encouraging other states to adopt similar legislation. And last week in D.C., Senate Republicans blocked the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act of 2022, which would have made it illegal to “restrict or in [any] way sanction … any individual from traveling to another State to receive or provide reproductive health care that is legal in that State.”
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July 19, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/05/12/spiced-fried-toast-transforms-egg-in-a-hole-into-something-exceptional/
So many dishes start with warmed olive oil in a skillet: You could be sautéing garlic and onions, frying an egg, searing chicken or fish or shrimp. You could be blooming spices, toasting nuts or making tortilla chips. In this way, olive oil is a great unifier: It’s a moment in cooking that connects so many things we want to do, and as a result, allows us to multitask. For instance, let’s take two of the most basic of foods: eggs and toast.
You know how to make toast. In a toaster, in the toaster oven, something like that. You might butter it before or after toasting. But the ideal toast resembles a giant crouton: golden outsides with a center that still gives. So, if you make your toast how you make your croutons, good things happen: By sizzling the toast in warm olive oil, the outside gets crispy-crackly while the middle softens and warms. Whereas butter risks burning at high heat, olive oil can stand it, and your (fried!) toast is better for it.
The same goes for eggs: Frying eggs in butter is your low-and-slow weekend route. Because butter will burn at a high temperature, you’ll coddle your egg over a lower temperature and end up with a soft, tender egg. In a medium-high pan of hot olive oil, an egg’s cook time is so fast that the white cooks without the yolk having a chance to cook through. It stays warm and runny, which is ideal for mopping up with your toast-size crouton.
You could salt and pepper your olive oil-fried egg and toast, learn — again — how useful olive oil is, and be happy with breakfast. But that olive oil in your skillet can work harder yet. Olive oil is not just a cooking medium that happens to have a silky feel and fruity flavor. It also can carry flavor. When whole or ground spices — or other aromatics, such as garlic and onions — settle into warm oil, they bloom.
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Spiced fried toast transforms egg in a hole into something exceptional
Spiced Bread Egg in a Holehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/05/12/spiced-fried-toast-transforms-egg-in-a-hole-into-something-exceptional/
So many dishes start with warmed olive oil in a skillet: You could be sautéing garlic and onions, frying an egg, searing chicken or fish or shrimp. You could be blooming spices, toasting nuts or making tortilla chips. In this way, olive oil is a great unifier: It’s a moment in cooking that connects so many things we want to do, and as a result, allows us to multitask. For instance, let’s take two of the most basic of foods: eggs and toast.
You know how to make toast. In a toaster, in the toaster oven, something like that. You might butter it before or after toasting. But the ideal toast resembles a giant crouton: golden outsides with a center that still gives. So, if you make your toast how you make your croutons, good things happen: By sizzling the toast in warm olive oil, the outside gets crispy-crackly while the middle softens and warms. Whereas butter risks burning at high heat, olive oil can stand it, and your (fried!) toast is better for it.
The same goes for eggs: Frying eggs in butter is your low-and-slow weekend route. Because butter will burn at a high temperature, you’ll coddle your egg over a lower temperature and end up with a soft, tender egg. In a medium-high pan of hot olive oil, an egg’s cook time is so fast that the white cooks without the yolk having a chance to cook through. It stays warm and runny, which is ideal for mopping up with your toast-size crouton.
You could salt and pepper your olive oil-fried egg and toast, learn — again — how useful olive oil is, and be happy with breakfast. But that olive oil in your skillet can work harder yet. Olive oil is not just a cooking medium that happens to have a silky feel and fruity flavor. It also can carry flavor. When whole or ground spices — or other aromatics, such as garlic and onions — settle into warm oil, they bloom.
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July 15, 2022
The senator just worsened climate change—and inflation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/joe-manchin-energy-climate-change-bill/670538/
https://archive.ph/WDBEt
For its many flaws, the world of cryptocurrency has bequeathed to the English language a vivid new verb: rug-pulling. As its idiom-derived name suggests, rug-pulling is when a crypto developer hypes up a new coin or new project, gets ordinary people to invest in it, and then—all at once—shuts it down in such a way that they take all of their investors’ cash with them. It is a spectacular act of bad faith, a breach of trust so severe that it casts doubt on the entire cryptocurrency community, so-called.
Yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia rug-pulled Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, committing a betrayal that could shape the character of climate politics in this country for decades to come. Manchin reportedly told Schumer that he could not support any energy or climate investments in the comprehensive Democratic bill meant to enact President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. He also said that he could not support any new tax provisions on corporations or the wealthy.
I have been somewhat sympathetic to Manchin’s concerns in the past, criticizing Schumer earlier this year for ignoring his worries about inflation and the deficit. Even though Manchin had every reason to obstruct climate action—he receives more donations from the oil-and-gas industry than any other politician, for instance, and he and his family have made millions of dollars selling coal to a single power plant in West Virginia—he was right that the process has generally been a mess, and that neither Biden nor congressional Democrats have taken inflation seriously enough since it began to boil over last year.
But this reversal has burned through any remaining goodwill for Manchin among the press corps and, I suspect, the rest of his caucus. That’s because adopting a climate-and-new-taxes framework for the bill was Manchin’s idea, and Manchin has spent the past few months negotiating its specifics with Schumer. For Manchin to back out now, so late in the process, reveals his profound fickleness as a negotiator. Manchin looks not like a levelheaded voice of fiscal moderation, but as windblown and capricious as the weather vane on his houseboat.
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1547968447698505737
https://twitter.com/CoreyBCantor/status/1547993179588218887
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Joe Manchin's Fickleness Is a Needless Catastrophe
The senator just worsened climate change—and inflation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/joe-manchin-energy-climate-change-bill/670538/
https://archive.ph/WDBEt
For its many flaws, the world of cryptocurrency has bequeathed to the English language a vivid new verb: rug-pulling. As its idiom-derived name suggests, rug-pulling is when a crypto developer hypes up a new coin or new project, gets ordinary people to invest in it, and then—all at once—shuts it down in such a way that they take all of their investors’ cash with them. It is a spectacular act of bad faith, a breach of trust so severe that it casts doubt on the entire cryptocurrency community, so-called.
Yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia rug-pulled Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, committing a betrayal that could shape the character of climate politics in this country for decades to come. Manchin reportedly told Schumer that he could not support any energy or climate investments in the comprehensive Democratic bill meant to enact President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. He also said that he could not support any new tax provisions on corporations or the wealthy.
I have been somewhat sympathetic to Manchin’s concerns in the past, criticizing Schumer earlier this year for ignoring his worries about inflation and the deficit. Even though Manchin had every reason to obstruct climate action—he receives more donations from the oil-and-gas industry than any other politician, for instance, and he and his family have made millions of dollars selling coal to a single power plant in West Virginia—he was right that the process has generally been a mess, and that neither Biden nor congressional Democrats have taken inflation seriously enough since it began to boil over last year.
But this reversal has burned through any remaining goodwill for Manchin among the press corps and, I suspect, the rest of his caucus. That’s because adopting a climate-and-new-taxes framework for the bill was Manchin’s idea, and Manchin has spent the past few months negotiating its specifics with Schumer. For Manchin to back out now, so late in the process, reveals his profound fickleness as a negotiator. Manchin looks not like a levelheaded voice of fiscal moderation, but as windblown and capricious as the weather vane on his houseboat.
https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1547968447698505737
https://twitter.com/CoreyBCantor/status/1547993179588218887
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July 15, 2022
Video: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Zf9gbD9t
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to ignore rumors about a potential 2024 presidential bid. Instead, he turned his ire to “woke math” at a Friday gathering in Tampa for the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
He boasted that, after a recent Department of Education review, woke math books in Florida were sent back to publishers, who “took the woke out and sent us back normal math books.”
“I’m just thinking to myself, like, two plus two equals four, right? It’s not ‘two plus two equals four, well, how do you feel about that? Is that an injustice?’” DeSantis riffed.
“No, we gotta teach the kids to get the right answer.” The anger directed at arithmetic comes as Trumpworld pundits have begun attacking DeSantis for still leaving the door open to a potential presidential primary challenge against Donald Trump.
Read it at The Daily Beast
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Goes to War Against 'Woke Math'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-gov-ron-desantis-goes-to-war-against-woke-math-in-speech-to-moms-for-liberty-in-tampaVideo: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Zf9gbD9t
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to ignore rumors about a potential 2024 presidential bid. Instead, he turned his ire to “woke math” at a Friday gathering in Tampa for the conservative group Moms for Liberty.
He boasted that, after a recent Department of Education review, woke math books in Florida were sent back to publishers, who “took the woke out and sent us back normal math books.”
“I’m just thinking to myself, like, two plus two equals four, right? It’s not ‘two plus two equals four, well, how do you feel about that? Is that an injustice?’” DeSantis riffed.
“No, we gotta teach the kids to get the right answer.” The anger directed at arithmetic comes as Trumpworld pundits have begun attacking DeSantis for still leaving the door open to a potential presidential primary challenge against Donald Trump.
Read it at The Daily Beast
July 15, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/15/biden-saudi-mbs/
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Biden greeted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump Friday as he arrived here for a controversial meeting with the Saudi leader, a high-stakes diplomatic engagement that marked a reversal of Biden’s promise to make the kingdom a “pariah” state for its human rights violations.
Biden and bin Salman, along with their top aides, met Friday night at a large rectangular table in the Al Salam Royal Palace, where they were expected to address a range of issues from oil production to human rights to the war in Yemen. The meeting followed Biden’s two-day visit to Israel.
Neither leader, however, answered questions from reporters, who sought to ask Biden if Saudi Arabia was still a “pariah” and the crown prince if he would apologize to the family of Jamal Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for the Washington Post and an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia who was murdered in 2018. U.S. intelligence officials have determined the crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi agents, though he has denied that.
Biden arrived in Jiddah from Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, descending Air Force One on a light purple carpet, and was greeted by a small coterie of Saudi officials. Unlike the elaborate and effusive welcome ceremony that greeted him Wednesday when he arrived in Israel, Biden was only on the tarmac at King Abdulaziz International Airport for one minute before entering the presidential limousine and departing.
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News Alert: Biden fist-bumps Mohammed bin Salman as he arrives for controversial meeting with Saudis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/15/biden-saudi-mbs/
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Biden greeted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump Friday as he arrived here for a controversial meeting with the Saudi leader, a high-stakes diplomatic engagement that marked a reversal of Biden’s promise to make the kingdom a “pariah” state for its human rights violations.
Biden and bin Salman, along with their top aides, met Friday night at a large rectangular table in the Al Salam Royal Palace, where they were expected to address a range of issues from oil production to human rights to the war in Yemen. The meeting followed Biden’s two-day visit to Israel.
Neither leader, however, answered questions from reporters, who sought to ask Biden if Saudi Arabia was still a “pariah” and the crown prince if he would apologize to the family of Jamal Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for the Washington Post and an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia who was murdered in 2018. U.S. intelligence officials have determined the crown prince ordered Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi agents, though he has denied that.
Biden arrived in Jiddah from Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, descending Air Force One on a light purple carpet, and was greeted by a small coterie of Saudi officials. Unlike the elaborate and effusive welcome ceremony that greeted him Wednesday when he arrived in Israel, Biden was only on the tarmac at King Abdulaziz International Airport for one minute before entering the presidential limousine and departing.
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July 15, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/15/house-abortion-roe-v-wade/
https://archive.ph/IlLEP
The House on Friday passed legislation that would protect access to reproductive health care, including the ability to travel across state lines for an abortion, as part of Democrats’ efforts to minimize the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last month.
One bill, the Women’s Health Protection Act, would enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law. The House already passed the bill last year, but it failed to advance in the Senate. The House passed the bill, 219-210, prompting applause from Democrats in the chamber. All Republicans voted against the measure.
Another bill, the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, would reaffirm the right for someone seeking an abortion to travel freely across state lines. The House passed that measure, 223-205. Despite passage in the Democratic-led House, the bills are almost certain to fail in the Senate, where they would require 60 votes or the suspension of filibuster rules and a simple majority. Both are unlikely in the face of Republican opposition.
The debate in the House underscored the deep divide between the two parties, with Democrats warning that Republicans will impose further restrictions on women, including a national abortion ban, and Republicans insisting that they are protectors of “unborn children.”
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Politics Alert: House passes two abortion rights bills, but GOP opposition will doom them in Senate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/15/house-abortion-roe-v-wade/
https://archive.ph/IlLEP
The House on Friday passed legislation that would protect access to reproductive health care, including the ability to travel across state lines for an abortion, as part of Democrats’ efforts to minimize the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last month.
One bill, the Women’s Health Protection Act, would enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law. The House already passed the bill last year, but it failed to advance in the Senate. The House passed the bill, 219-210, prompting applause from Democrats in the chamber. All Republicans voted against the measure.
Another bill, the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, would reaffirm the right for someone seeking an abortion to travel freely across state lines. The House passed that measure, 223-205. Despite passage in the Democratic-led House, the bills are almost certain to fail in the Senate, where they would require 60 votes or the suspension of filibuster rules and a simple majority. Both are unlikely in the face of Republican opposition.
The debate in the House underscored the deep divide between the two parties, with Democrats warning that Republicans will impose further restrictions on women, including a national abortion ban, and Republicans insisting that they are protectors of “unborn children.”
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July 15, 2022
https://prospect.org/politics/democratic-partys-biggest-problem-conservative-wing/
Several months ago, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) announced that she won’t be running for re-election. Recently, she explained why in a worshipful interview with Rachel Bade at Politico, excerpted in its Playbook newsletter (“Presented by PhRMA”): She’s mad about Democrats criticizing her for not supporting President Biden’s agenda. “I am surprised at how short the memory is. It’s as short as being celebrated for having flipped a seat and then excoriated for taking votes that help you keep that seat,” she said.
This is a crock. Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is dead because a handful of the party’s most conservative members, including Murphy, killed it. Now the party has nothing of legislative substance to run on, and members in swing districts are looking down the barrel of a possible midterm electoral bloodbath. The culprits are starting to head for the exits, scapegoating everyone but themselves for the consequences of their horrible decisions.
Let’s review some recent history. Last year’s floor time in Congress was taken up by debate over two measures: a bipartisan infrastructure bill and Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. The infrastructure package was basically a gussied-up highway bill, with some money for Amtrak and a few other things, but overall a minor achievement at best. BBB, meanwhile, contained virtually the entire Biden agenda: a permanent extension of the Child Tax Credit that has slashed poverty, a half-decent climate policy package, and a bunch of other goodies, paid for with prescription drug cost controls and tax hikes on the rich.
It’s important to be clear that despite its relative ambition, BBB was a massive compromise compared to, say, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign platform. There were only modest reforms on health care; the paid leave program was butchered so Rep. Richie Neal (D-MA) could shovel money to his life insurance company donors; and the bill provided maybe 10 percent of what any sane party would spend to fight climate change. But leftists in Congress figured it was as much as they could reasonably expect—Biden had won the presidential primary, after all, and they have only a handful of socialists and maybe half of the party caucus consider themselves progressives.
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https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1547783626338623489
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1547759554003288068
https://twitter.com/Leahgreenb/status/1547038034088058881
Howard Daniel Pfeiffer was the senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama for strategy and communications from 2013 to 2015. Pfeiffer was a long-time aide to Obama, serving in various press and communications roles on the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, on his presidential transition team, and in the White House Office.
Plus, do not forget the absolute gutting of the BIF
The Infrastructure Plan: What’s In and What’s Out
Biden's original plan:
What was left after Manchin and Sinema (with the usual conservative Dems in the House signing off on it all) took a 2+ trillion USD hatchet to it
The Democratic Party's Biggest Problem Is Its Conservative Wing
Rep. Stephanie Murphy got everything she wanted, and it’s a disaster, so she’s retiring.https://prospect.org/politics/democratic-partys-biggest-problem-conservative-wing/
Several months ago, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) announced that she won’t be running for re-election. Recently, she explained why in a worshipful interview with Rachel Bade at Politico, excerpted in its Playbook newsletter (“Presented by PhRMA”): She’s mad about Democrats criticizing her for not supporting President Biden’s agenda. “I am surprised at how short the memory is. It’s as short as being celebrated for having flipped a seat and then excoriated for taking votes that help you keep that seat,” she said.
This is a crock. Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is dead because a handful of the party’s most conservative members, including Murphy, killed it. Now the party has nothing of legislative substance to run on, and members in swing districts are looking down the barrel of a possible midterm electoral bloodbath. The culprits are starting to head for the exits, scapegoating everyone but themselves for the consequences of their horrible decisions.
Let’s review some recent history. Last year’s floor time in Congress was taken up by debate over two measures: a bipartisan infrastructure bill and Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. The infrastructure package was basically a gussied-up highway bill, with some money for Amtrak and a few other things, but overall a minor achievement at best. BBB, meanwhile, contained virtually the entire Biden agenda: a permanent extension of the Child Tax Credit that has slashed poverty, a half-decent climate policy package, and a bunch of other goodies, paid for with prescription drug cost controls and tax hikes on the rich.
It’s important to be clear that despite its relative ambition, BBB was a massive compromise compared to, say, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign platform. There were only modest reforms on health care; the paid leave program was butchered so Rep. Richie Neal (D-MA) could shovel money to his life insurance company donors; and the bill provided maybe 10 percent of what any sane party would spend to fight climate change. But leftists in Congress figured it was as much as they could reasonably expect—Biden had won the presidential primary, after all, and they have only a handful of socialists and maybe half of the party caucus consider themselves progressives.
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“Manchin, Murphy, and the other conservative Dems got everything they wanted, and promptly stabbed the other 98 percent of the party in the back.”
BREAKING: Manchin tells Dem leaders that climate, tax hikes OUT of ever-shrinking economic package. Deficit reduction, prescription drug reform & ACA subsidies believed still in play
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1547783626338623489
Worth recapping just how much has fallen out since this all started:
❌Universal prek
❌Childcare
❌Public housing
❌Paid family leave
❌Dental, vision care for seniors
❌Free community college
❌Child Tax Credit
❌Climate plans
& a lot of other stuff I cant even remember now
❌Universal prek
❌Childcare
❌Public housing
❌Paid family leave
❌Dental, vision care for seniors
❌Free community college
❌Child Tax Credit
❌Climate plans
& a lot of other stuff I cant even remember now
This was the Manchin-Schumer document
@burgessev scooped last year. Hard to overstate how far we are from it now
@burgessev scooped last year. Hard to overstate how far we are from it now
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1547759554003288068
I need people to understand this: if you were a saboteur whose only purpose was to destroy Democrats policy goals and electoral chances, you would behave exactly like Josh Gottheimer does.
Trying to sink legislation to deal with climate change and the cost of Rx drugs bc you love the Trump tax cuts would be one of the moronic acts of political sabotage in history. It would also be on very on brand for @JoshGottheimer
https://twitter.com/Leahgreenb/status/1547038034088058881
Howard Daniel Pfeiffer was the senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama for strategy and communications from 2013 to 2015. Pfeiffer was a long-time aide to Obama, serving in various press and communications roles on the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, on his presidential transition team, and in the White House Office.
Plus, do not forget the absolute gutting of the BIF
The Infrastructure Plan: What’s In and What’s Out
Biden's original plan:
What was left after Manchin and Sinema (with the usual conservative Dems in the House signing off on it all) took a 2+ trillion USD hatchet to it
July 15, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/local-prosecutors-cant-protect-abortion-rights/670529/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220715014812/https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/local-prosecutors-cant-protect-abortion-rights/670529/
National Politics, Local Battles
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning the decades-old right to abortion, offers an unusually broad glimpse into the vagaries of the American system of federalism. The federal government, in the form of the Court, has ruled that abortion should be a matter for states. A different branch of the federal government, the Biden administration, has sought to preempt state laws against abortion, at least in cases that require emergency care.
Meanwhile, at the local level, a few prosecutors in states with abortion bans have announced that they will not bring charges under those laws, as reports from The Washington Post, Axios, and other outlets have noted. I have found this fascinating and surprising: Prosecutors don’t often publicly pledge not to enforce state laws. Can they do it? And will it actually work to protect abortion rights?
The answers are yes and probably not, respectively. The legal system is built on discretion, which is why you typically won’t get ticketed for driving 57 in a 55 zone. In some cases, prosecutors may decide a case is unlikely to succeed, as then–FBI Director James Comey explained when he announced that he wouldn’t seek charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information.
“This is just a more contentious example of a more normal phenomenon,” George Fisher, a Stanford law professor and former prosecutor, told me. “Prosecutors can and do exercise discretion over the cases they bring all the time. They have to: It’s simply impossible to prosecute every crime that’s committed in one’s jurisdiction.”
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Local Prosecutors Can't Protect Abortion Rights
Some district attorneys in conservative states have promised not to bring charges post-Dobbs.https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/local-prosecutors-cant-protect-abortion-rights/670529/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220715014812/https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/local-prosecutors-cant-protect-abortion-rights/670529/
National Politics, Local Battles
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning the decades-old right to abortion, offers an unusually broad glimpse into the vagaries of the American system of federalism. The federal government, in the form of the Court, has ruled that abortion should be a matter for states. A different branch of the federal government, the Biden administration, has sought to preempt state laws against abortion, at least in cases that require emergency care.
Meanwhile, at the local level, a few prosecutors in states with abortion bans have announced that they will not bring charges under those laws, as reports from The Washington Post, Axios, and other outlets have noted. I have found this fascinating and surprising: Prosecutors don’t often publicly pledge not to enforce state laws. Can they do it? And will it actually work to protect abortion rights?
The answers are yes and probably not, respectively. The legal system is built on discretion, which is why you typically won’t get ticketed for driving 57 in a 55 zone. In some cases, prosecutors may decide a case is unlikely to succeed, as then–FBI Director James Comey explained when he announced that he wouldn’t seek charges against Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information.
“This is just a more contentious example of a more normal phenomenon,” George Fisher, a Stanford law professor and former prosecutor, told me. “Prosecutors can and do exercise discretion over the cases they bring all the time. They have to: It’s simply impossible to prosecute every crime that’s committed in one’s jurisdiction.”
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July 14, 2022
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Just saw this threatening Trump/RNC text from July 4th weekend. "Payment is due," or "face possible
suspension.”Payment. Not donation. Payment.
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July 14, 2022
The price of living in Manhattan ballooned all the way up to a new record last month, according to a report.
The average monthly rent—which is the sum of all rents divided by the number of all the rents counted in the data—was $5,058 in June, according to analysis from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants.
The brutal figure is the first time the average has crept over $5,000 for the NYC borough. The firm said the overheating rental market was getting hotter in part because prospective buyers are deciding to hold off on purchasing a property in the current housing market.
“You have more people pivoting, they were on the margin to buy a home, but now with mortgage rates spiking, they are in the rental market,” said Miller Samuel CEO and President Jonathan Miller. “The market is already tight. This makes it tighter.”
Read it at CNN
It's Official--the Average Rent in Manhattan is $5,000 a Month, a New Record
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-average-rent-in-manhattan-is-now-dollar5000-a-month-a-new-recordThe price of living in Manhattan ballooned all the way up to a new record last month, according to a report.
The average monthly rent—which is the sum of all rents divided by the number of all the rents counted in the data—was $5,058 in June, according to analysis from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants.
The brutal figure is the first time the average has crept over $5,000 for the NYC borough. The firm said the overheating rental market was getting hotter in part because prospective buyers are deciding to hold off on purchasing a property in the current housing market.
“You have more people pivoting, they were on the margin to buy a home, but now with mortgage rates spiking, they are in the rental market,” said Miller Samuel CEO and President Jonathan Miller. “The market is already tight. This makes it tighter.”
Read it at CNN
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