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Michelle, Deion, and Rickey.

cc: @michellebranch @deionbranch84 @Dodgers
I would pick this government over ours every day of the week and at 1 pm, 4 pm and 8 pm on Sundays.
Some people asked, "Who is Rickey Branch?"
It's Branch Rickey, the greatest baseball executive ever, who fought for Jackie Robinson and integrated baseball, and arguably helped integrate America.
(Let's set aside the whole Brooklyn to LA thing).
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It seems to me the Supreme Court got it right on the Wisconsin primary:
1) right on the narrow issue of a last-minute change to basic election timing
2) right on the broader question that one cannot make last-minute changes that deligitimize an election...

A good precedent, no?
Isn’t it an obviously big problem to give people an extra 5 days to cast votes, when counting & exit polls may be leaked?

Isn’t it the state’s fault for not having the capacity to mail out absentee ballots in time?

Isn’t this a lesson to states to get their act together?
3/ People are missing how narrow the question was before the Court, and how problematic it is to allow people to keep voting 5 days after "election day":
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Jed Shugerman
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More Georgia Insider Trading on Pandemic?
Not just @SenatorLoeffler
Also @sendavidperdue:
Compared with 2 prior years, his March trading was a 3x increase:
Buy: Dupont (med equipment), Netflix
Sold: casinos

This headline on "uptick" is misleading...
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"The report lists 112 transactions:
76 stock buys up to $1.8M
34 sales up to $825K

"Bought $65K of Dupont (medical) Jan 24, the same day that the Senate held members-only briefing on coronavirus."

...the same day Trump said "It will all work out well.”
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3/ "Perdue reported 10 different DuPont (med protective equipment) purchases through March 2, representing an investment of up to $185K"

"Perdue logged 82 transactions (of 112 total in March) dated March 3"

What happened on March 3?
*What did Perdue know? How did he know it?*
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Jed Shugerman
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Let's give Kushner a chance. He might have relevant expertise.

Who knows, maybe the cure for Covid-19 is luring it into an embassy, strangling it, and cutting it up with a bone saw.

Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed nyti.ms/2x1tlVc
Who knows, maybe Kushner can orchestrate a naval blockade around Covid-19 (Qovid-19?) and extort it into submission.
On the other hand, he'd probably see if Qovid-19 would be interested in bailing him out of 666 5th Ave first.

It's just in Kushner's RNA.
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I rarely directly share stuff from the British expat groups on Facebook as they are closed groups but I wanted you to see this. This is what we are up against.

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