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Rachel Murphy Azzara #DemsWork4USA @RachelAzzara
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1. Obama makes two very important points in this address a) the success of GOP’s emotional messaging and b) the strength of the GOP’s party infrastructure up and down the ballot.

Obama: ‘You are right to be concerned’ - POLITICO apple.news/AKefZsgkRTGeQX…
2. As grassroots activists, we were also acutely aware of these issues. Addressing them was the foundation for forming @DemsWork4USA. At the ground level we are identifying and filling gaps in the infrastructure, coalition-building and focusing on community messaging.
3. Through rigorous assessment and targeted grassroots support, we are cultivating a strong Dem bench up and down the ballot - bringing Democratic nominees that can #WinBlue against the GOP in their district and providing a rich field for future offices.
4. In our 1st year we’ve shown this approach to be successful. You can add 10 more to the list of races won after last Tuesday’s primaries.
5. Obama is right. This isn’t about a perfect candidate or message. It’s not about Mueller or even DT. It’s about the nuts and bolts of winning elections at the local, state and national level. That’s what we’re doing and will keep doing with your help.
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1. The founders believed that the synergy of free, informed individuals with three independent branches of government would make democracy thrive. They didn't consider that the synergy of a campaign, a foreign power and a complicit majority party could destroy democracy.
2. The knew a free press was integral to our success, but they couldn't have envisioned the mass spread of propaganda - spawned and disseminated by foreign entities - through social media. Nor could they anticipate a major news network becoming a propaganda arm of the WH.
3. Further, they didn't likely imagine that our country would become so powerful that the choices of a rogue administration could inflict significant and lasting damage on a global scale - impacting economies, alliances and stability. Yet, here we are.
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1. We are offered two distinctly different messages in response to the political actions and climate of the Trump era. Two fundamental philosophies that will shape the course of our country:

We Are Better Than This
vs.
It Doesn't Matter, We Won
2. One, an optimistic appeal to the integrity of the people of our country, offers hope for the future. The other hints at a slippery slope with no bottom. The end justifies the means no matter the cost. I find it doubtful this dark message is what Republicans teach their kids
3. There's no daylight between Trump and #GOP leaders who've have had 2+ years to decide who they are - those of character have already left the party. The rest have gladly molded themselves into Trump’s vision, fully embracing fear-mongering, nationalism, division and lies.
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1. I am one of a majority of women in America. Yes, I am angry. And disgusted. And fearful over the direction of our country. But, I am far from powerless and with my sisters I make this pledge:
2. I am not ok with cruelly caging children, tearing them from their parents with no plan for reunification. I am not ok with creating orphans as a matter of government policy. I refuse to accept traumatizing children as an act of deterrence against immigration.
3. I am not ok with sitting by in denial while our planet faces certain peril and our children face uncertain futures for small economic gains from blind deregulation. We should be leading the world in our quest to stop climate change and protecting our precarious environment.
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Modern halakhists who permit abortion in cases where mother's life isn't threatened:
R. Yosef Haim (Rav Pealim EH 1:4)
R. Eliezer Waldenberg (Tzitz Eliezer 6:48 et al)
R. Shneur Zalman Fradkin (Torat Hesed EH 42)
R. Gedalia Felder (Sheilat Yeshurun 1:39)
1/
R. Yaakov Emden (Sheilat Yaavetz 1:43)
R. Ouziel (Mishpetei Ouziel HM 3:47)
R. Shaul Yisraeli (Amud Hayemini 32)
Maharit (Rabbi Joseph di Trani; 1:97)
R. Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg (Seridei Esh 3:127)
R. Ovadiah Yosef (Yabia Omer EH 4:1)

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Multiple fetuses where the mother's life is not in danger: ALMOST ALL poskim PERMIT aborting one or more fetus to save the rest.
R. Elyashiv (see Tzitz Eliezer 20:2)
RHD HaLevi (Mayim Hayim 1:61)
RSZ Auerbach (see Nishmat Avraham 425:1:30)
R. Nahum Rabinovitch (Siah Nahum 116)
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1/ It is appreciated that people like @GoodwinMJ want to finally have an open debate about immigration. It is unhelpful though that rather than checking the facts they casually repeat myths. Singling out specific groups like Romanians & Bulgarians
2/ when talking about low/unskilled two very important points need to be taken into account:
a) the Govt definition of skill levels
b) how the ONS statistics determine the skill level of migrants
3/ first, what is the Govt definition of high skilled - the ones @GoodwinMJ advocates more of. This is clearly defined in the Tier 2 visa requirements. A salary of at least £30k. In the Govt eyes earnings = skill level.
gov.uk/tier-2-general…
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Two things I'll never forget. Arriving in Dublin, first visit to the land my ancestors fled post-Famine. An elderly priest and nun walked up and down the median strip, nun saying the Rosary, priest carrying anti-abortion placard.
On a bus in Sydney, pro-life march walking in street. Elderly women on bus gets v angry. Shouts about how her backyard abortion in her youth nearly killed her, the terror and poverty of a pregnant teenage girl, how dare those sanctimonious bastards judge her.
Everyone in bus looks away, tries to ignore the embarrassing mad woman. I'm young and not brave enough to speak (I wish I had been) but I look at her directly and listen. She's bottled this up for years. She has to speak her fear and anger.
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Two very important/interesting election science journals article just came across my desk. I'll be writing about them in the coming days, but until then, take a look yourself.
“'It’s Largely a Rigged System”: Voter Confidence and the Winner Effect in 2016" by @BetsySinclair1 @ProfStevenSmith and Patrick Tucker. More evidence on the "winners effect" and voter confidence, plus some important nuances. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
3-part symposium about the impact of voter ID on minority voters. Start with a critique of Hajnal et al's earlier paper, by @justingrimmer and team journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/69…; follow by rebuttal by Zoltan Hajnal + . journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/69… @bcburden finishes journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/69…
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The threat of a Runaway Convention: Myth? Lie?

Paranoid argument invented by the left wing?

Nope, it’s REAL.

Let’s break this down.
#NoConCon
A lot of people think that fighting against a Constitutional Convention is tinfoil hatty. A lot of people are saying to me “oh, that will never happen” or “they need three-fourths of the states and they can’t get that,” or they just ignore me. #NoConCon
Well, it can happen and if it doesn’t, it’s because people are fighting like hell for it not to happen.
#NoConCon
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.@katecrawford makes many very important points. Here is my attempt to translate some of them into engineering terminology. 1/
As ML researchers and practitioners, we tend to formulate the problem as learning a mapping from inputs X to outputs Y. Crawford's point about bias in the data is that we aren't observing the real inputs or the real outputs 2/
For example, in crime prediction, X is not a sample from the population but instead from the subset of the population investigated by the police. 3/
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