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As the old saying goes, if you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem, but if you owe them a billion dollars, the bank has a problem

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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

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Today marks Yom HaShoah — the day of remembrance for the six million Jewish lives who were murdered during the Holocaust. It’s our responsibility together to fight the rise of antisemitism, bigotry, and hatred wherever it is found. Never again means never again.

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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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Somehow the Times managed to get four sources on a group chat that had twelve of the people closest to Hegseth. Literally everyone must hate this guy.

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Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

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Fun meteorology lesson of the day: When you hear “cold front” you assume it will get colder after it passes through. Yet, Long Island’s temperature went up after the cold front once the wind changed from SW to NW. So how does it get warmer after a cold front?

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Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...

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It's really extraordinary to get a 1 a.m. order from the U.S. Supreme Court on litigation that didn't even exist until 8 hours ago. That suggests that (at least 7 of them) are taking this Constitutional threat seriously.

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I wrote about the attempted murder of Josh Shapiro, and how deceptions and double standards about Jewish politicians have consequences. Gift link:

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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Good article on the US court system and its failures to serve people who need it: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/m...

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Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online. The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.

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Arson at the home of the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania on the first night of Passover. Seems like the Trump administration might be looking for anti-Semitism in all the wrong places.

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Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

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Fantastic thread. ⤵️ tl,dr: LA’s real estate transfer tax, meant to fund affordable housing, is killing more BMR units than it funds (and loads of market-rate units to boot)

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There is perhaps no better understood metric in labor economics than the income elasticity of labor supply. It is small and very stable across time and place and we've known it for decades. We have never needed additional research on this impact of a basic income.

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If the courts lose jurisdiction because the government puts the prisoner in a black hole then there is no law.

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Hard to imagine any business using tariffs as a reason to bring jobs back to America when it takes months to years to reshore a business while you can’t trust Trump to stick to any policy position for more than a tweet.

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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

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New subway map! It's a lot like the '70s version that delighted design aficionados and annoyed traditionalists www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/n...

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For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

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Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, BBC

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BREAKING: I'm placing a hold on President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. For the past few weeks, Ed Martin has been a one-man wrecking ball. Threatening political opponents, firing public servants, and using his office to chill free speech. His nomination must be blocked.

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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

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Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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