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Bloomberg saw a draft of the address. It does not indicate emergency powers.
Serious Republican pushback against idea of invoking war powers. For instance: Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said the standoff over funding the wall “is an imminently solvable problem.”
Key point: Admin appears to believe SCOTUS will bail out POTUS and if it doesn't, the Republican base will blame SCOTUS.
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1. Odds are the president is going to go on television tonigh to announce that he’s going to agree to reopen the government after 17 days of closure while simultaneously invoking national emergency powers allowing him to bypass Congress to start building a wall on the border.
2. If this happens, and it’s still an if, you’re going to hear plenty of people react in ways that range from concern to alarm to fear to outright panic. Some will accuse Donald Trump of trying to be an American dictator.
3. Others will argue, I think correctly, that the president is abusing the constitutional powers of his office, reinforcing the claim that he’s unfit to rule and sending him one further step toward removal.
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1. @billscher touches a conventional wisdom that I keep chewing on. "Loyalists always seem satisfied ... so long as he is fighting. Winning has been secondary." I said the same two weeks ago, but the longer this shutdown goes on, the more I think the wall really matters.
2, If fighting were all that mattered, he would have caved already, no? If the wall really matters, then this could go on for a long--long--time. I guess we'll see.
Lately, I always profit from reading @billscher. You should too. politico.com/magazine/story…
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There's been a lot of talk about the missionary killed by the natives of North Sentinel Island. They're probably so aggressive because of this weirdo, Maurice Vidal Portman. So here's a big thread about this creep and some facts from my decade-long obsession with the island.
The Sentinelese are often described as “uncontacted,” but this not strictly true. They had a very significant contact in 1880 with Commander Portman.
Portman, the black sheep third son of some minor noble, was assigned by the English Royal Navy to administer and pacify the Andaman Islands, a job he pursued from 1880-1900 with the full measure of his own perversity.
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#Editorial: Don’t underestimate @Ocasio2018

I know many like to meme her, but right should FOCUS

Mass campaigns 2 lobby congressman/senators on issues like immigration and gun confiscation nonsense by calling them will accomplish more than memes

Memes great
Action better
Making a funny meme?

Why not consider calling your congressman?

202-224-3121

Etch that number into your memory. It’s the DC switchboard, and they will connect you to anybody.

The left has organizations that are paid to organize and lobby citizen action
What does the right have? We have ourselves basically.

I know it’s easy to get frustrated by inaction on many things, but THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOW IT IS.

The regressive left got pissed at Obama for not going far enough on health care. And they’ve been pushing harder ever since
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Please indulge me for a moment while I break down this trash-ass, concern trolling editorial in the @thenewstribune.
First, it's worth pointing out that the News Tribune's editorial page has been dead-ass silent about local white supremacist activity but now has decided to speak up in order to criticize efforts to oppose them.
Next, it's also worth pointing out that @thenewstribune editors have made the choice to refer to the owners of the tattoo parlor in question as "alleged" neo-Nazis or white-supremacists, despite them being covered in white supremacist tattoos, as noted by @WANaziWatch.
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[1] As @The_War_Economy has pointed out, in the past there has been at least one conference where #AlexanderDowner ( #Downer ) and #StefanHalper had both sat on the panel during the presentation . A+ discovery here..
[2] If they sat on the panel here, it is reasonable to conclude that #Downer and #Halper have met before. Perhaps many times. Perhaps #AlexanderDowner and #StefanHalper go back years !
[3] The topic of the specific session in the conference that #Downer and #Halper were are presenting at is best summarized as the global and economic threat of .... China. He even wrote a book, "The Beijing Consensus" (review below)
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We're in the historic Redpath museum auditorium this morning @mcgillu for another excellent talk by Jan Marco Muller @IIASAVienna which we organized w/ @McGillMSSI & TISPP! A continuation of #SPESciDip events of the last few days, #THREAD below ⬇️
#scidip #SciComm #scipol
When #science meets #politics on #GMO ➡️ when faced with the same evidence, some countries overwhelmingly agree, others overwhelmingly against #scipol #scidip
The mechanisms of #scienceadvice in the #EU is... complex
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Please RT to let the new @LAWeekly owners and their public face @briancalle know that the city of Los Angeles will not tolerate their attempts to destroy one of its most important civic institutions. #BoycottLAWeekly
Going to keep going here because I think it's important to keep highlighting how entrenched and pernicious the conservative consolidation of the media has become.
For much of its history, LA's print media was controlled and defined by the Otis Family, who for the first 70 years of the last century were fervently anti-union and ultra right wing conservative.
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