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Trump & Barr broke the DOJ.

Silver lining: they also shattered the case for their extreme unitary executive.

It had little historical foundation & no moral foundation, even if it may have 5 votes on SCOTUS.

Thanks for the shouts out, @imillhiser
vox.com/platform/amp/2…
@imillhiser Here's @imillhiser's piece...
vox.com/2020/2/14/2113…
@imillhiser And here's my piece he generously credits:
I lay out 5 historical reasons why Scalia on unitary prosecution is wrong:

1) Private prosecution
2) Congress's role
3) Judiciary Act of 1789
4) Whiskey, Alien & Sedition, 1790s
5) Mixed state constitutions
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Nothing says "electable" like doubling down on praising Fidel Castro, twice in 72 hours.
If people are having a semantic debate about whether or not your positive assessment of Castro's literacy program constitutes "praise"...
you're losing.

Losing Florida.
Losing maybe 35 other states.
Losing the House of Representatives, too.
@SenSanders in post-debate spin, now quintupling down on praise for Fidel Castro's literacy program:

"Truth is truth. If you teach people to read, that's a good thing."
He uses the word dictatorship 3 times, "but he's done some good things."

This is crazy.
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Emergencies reminder:
Trump used the National Emergencies Act to divert $3.6B from the military (total $18B) & plans to divert $7B more...

for a flimsy partial border wall...

while a real global emergency is spreading that no concrete wall can stop...
1/
 washingtonpost.com/immigration/tr…
2/
 "In its 2020 budget, Trump admin proposed a further 10% cut in CDC funding... It zeroed out funding for epidemiology and laboratory capacity at state and local levels.

Funding will also dry up this year for a tiered epidemic response within the US."
theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
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Ironically, this 6-minute video on how to waste less time was 6 minutes of totally wasted time.

In fact, more than 6 minutes, because it was so bad, I felt the need to waste more time tweeting about its awfulness.
The closing: "You die. But you won the award for most lives lived in one life. No one knows quite what you did with all that time...
All they know is you sure didn't waste it, right?"

Apparently you spent 50 years obsessing about nutrition fads & "reading" summaries of books.
Virginia @page88 rightly historicizes efficiency. But I'd suggest it's progressive era capitalism:
Frederick Winslow Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management & the stop-watch time studies.

See David Montgomery; @JohnFabianWitt's Accidential Republic
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