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So, if you've been a contestant or host on The Apprentice and you've committed a federal crime, you're in luck.
Feel like it would be better for Martha's brand to decline a pardon than to accept it. Prison made her more relatable. On the other hand, I'm sure she hates Comey's guts almost as much as Trump does.
How are we not yet discussing a pardon for Teresa Giudice??
You bet the Giudices are working the phones right now trying to figure out how the hell they didn't make the cut.
I think commuting Blago's sentence might actually hurt Trump politically. He's still in prison, he's a Democrat, his corruption was simple and brazen. What's the GOP talking point in defense of it?

The other pardons don't matter, politically.
In particular, I wouldn't want to be Peter Roskam or another R seeking re-election in a tough Illinois congressional seat if Trump lets Blago out of prison.
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The complete bad faith of all the conservative commentators claiming to now think billions of dollars for barrier funding inherently important is that Republicans, over and over, chose not to make it a priority in policymaking over the last two years and they didn't care.
It's insulting that we even have to have this conversation -- it's the same as conservatives claiming for YEARS that there was a Republican health care policy agenda and getting all huffy when I would say it didn't exist. ("We have lots of plans!" etc etc)
Republicans could have put this money in any number of spending bills. They could have even used the reconciliation process to fund additional border security with a simple majority. They would have not needed one Democratic vote. They didn't because it's not actually important.
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So I’ve tweeted some about Kavanaugh and evidentiary standards and how sure we have to be someone committed a very bad act to reject his nomination. But I haven’t really given my thoughts. Here they are.
I think people are thinking about this through a frame of whether Kavanaugh deserves to be punished. But that’s a mistake. It’s more a prudential question.
Life isn’t always fair, and we may have a good prudential reason not to confirm a person — an action that will harm him, but is not for the purpose of punishment — even if we do not have enough evidence to impose even an informal punishment for its own sake.
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I think there are some reasons, laid out here, to be optimistic about the so-called "uber cap" bill, and that if the regulatory framework in the bill is effective, there won't be any cause to extend the cap beyond a year.
Essentially, the bill empowers the TLC to penalize Uber/Lyft if their cars spend a lot of time cruising around congested areas (e.g. Manhattan below 96th) with no passengers in the backseat. That should reduce congestion, and encourage operation in the outer boroughs.
Normally, you would say this sort of stuff should be left up to the market. The problem is that cars impose an externality, by slowing traffic. Congestion pricing would be a better solution. But this might work, too.
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there's a rather viral thread that argues people from 4chan and SomethingAwful have been duped by folks from 2ch into believing that japan is a depoliticized paradise of rightwingers
and uh, i understand why folks want to believe in that but that's fucking nonsense
for example, the thread confuses contemporary japanese right-wing rhetoric (historical denialism) with how the LDP gained power (the 1955 System or 55年体制 which split the dissenting votes into many parties)
we can't also ignore how the US saw japan as an ally in the cold war
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after ww2, japan was viewed as a "developing country" that needed a lot of help from the united states and so on
and development in the cold war (and even now) tends to depoliticize countries
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L’alphabétisation, l’instruction, l’école obligatoire, la diffusion de l’écrit, du livre et des dictionnaires ont largement contribué à ce qu’une langue française à peu près universelle, la même pour tous, praticable par tous, accessible par tous, soit mise en place.
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One of Scott Pruitt's former top aides says Pruitt used secret schedules to hide meetings and calls, including with officials at companies EPA-regulated industries.

In doing so, he may have committed a federal crime. @TedLieu and I asked the Inspector General to investigate: 1/
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I wonder if Trump will try to pardon Jeffrey Epstein?

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(THREAD) This CBS interview all but confirms Don Jr. can—and likely will—be charged with a crime, sometime in 2018, for lying to Congress. In fact, the best-case scenario for Trump is now that his VP—not his son—will be charged. Hope you'll read and share. cbsnews.com/news/pence-i-k…
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