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Remember Scott Walker? His attack on teachers and public sector unions, the capital protests, his narrow recall victory, his Presidential run? He's in the fight for his political life and I don't see people talking about it much #here: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
If Walker goes down—to a school superintendent no less—it would be one of the most symbolic upsets. Maybe more than even Cruz loosing to Beto. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Also a new governor would be able to help roll back the kinds of voting rights attacks that cost the Dems the state in 2016: motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
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Remember, @brianstelter's network was the dung beetle that started rolling this shitball.
This has nothing to do with tradition. It has to do with the refs being worked. And maybe ratings. Though I'm betting most non journos will just watch Netflix.
How many reporters and podcasters will decry this move publicly or privately, only to collect their "analyst" checks?
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.@AOC would drive the right insane, so there's that. And she'd probably realize what everybody else should: This isn't an opportunity to rebut the speech, but to lay out the vision/promise of the party.
Whoever does this speech should proceed from this piont: This is usually a boring awkward asymetrical exercise. Fuck that. Let's get real.
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As a historian specializing in the #Holocaust, #Nazi Germany, and #Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of #fascism in Europe.
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As I already said, good morning to everyone but Grassley who just wished us good morning.
Senator Kamala Harris interrupts Grassley to object to the opening of the hearing. Grassley talks over Harris. Klobuchar joins in. Grassley continues with the introduction of Kavanaugh
Sen. Whitehouse just moved to adjourn and the chambers breaks out into applause
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This Day in Labor History: August 3, 1981. The nation's air traffic controllers go on strike. Reagan fires him and the modern era of unionbusting begins. We have so much to learn from this, much of which you might not expect. Let's talk about that.
Air traffic controllers worked a stressful job. Hundreds of lives were in their hands at all times.
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1) Both are big for different reasons. Trump v. Hawaii was big because it solidified Trump's authority to deal with immigration that wasn't coming by land via Executive Order, which was a national security issue. But Janus? That's strategery.
2) Strategery, just to recap, is the art of winning by destroying your opponents ability to defeat you, as opposed to strategy, which is the art of winning by defeating your opponent.
3) Rendering an opponent unable to beat you comes in many forms. Luring them into traps to destroy their ability to faithfully argue their point, preparing your actions around their predictable reactions and then actively causing their reactions
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The Janus decision makes it harder for public sector unions to organize, by reducing the logic for collective action. We can look at Wisconsin's Act 10, which also targeted Act 10, to see what that means 1/
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There's an interesting parallel between the record industry's experience with file-sharing services and the GOP's experience with public sector unions.
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