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8 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Was doing some Googling after watching "Gomorrah," the show based on the book about the Camorra, and it turns out that there is an anti-racketeering activist in Southern Italy named Luigi Cuomo.

dw.com/en/italy-camor…
Not a super uncommon last name in the Naples area, apparently: forebears.io/surnames/cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, were also fierce opponents of organized crime and celebratory depictions of it in U.S. entertainment.

sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-20…
The mob allegedly tried to assassinate Mario Cuomo during a trip to Italy in 1992: theguardian.com/world/2016/mar…

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8 Mar
In recent memory, has there been a more measurable impact of the effect of intellectual debate on policy than Democrats essentially adopting the left's critique of Obama-era fiscal politics and policy? ...
... People like @paulkrugman, @eliselgould and @joshbivens_DC, @DeanBaker13, @AdyBarkan, @StephanieKelton, @DanielAlpert, and @TheStalwart all argued -- often as it was happening -- that risk of fiscal stimulus being too small was far greater than the risk of runaway inflation.
These experts' success in changing how Democratic elites conceived of policy should be a source of inspiration to people pushing for change in other areas and temper some cynicism people feel about politics.
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At a @USJewishDems forum for Ohio-11 special election, each candidate was asked whether they support BDS.

@ninaturner: "No, I personally do not, but I also do not support the criminalization of people who are peacefully organizing for political change."
This is, to my knowledge, the first time Turner has clarified her position on BDS.

She supports tougher conditions on U.S. aid to Israel. Anti-BDS, pro-conditions is the stance Bowman took in NY-16 and it is already quite bold in a very Jewish seat: jewishinsider.com/2021/02/ohio-s…
Also interesting choice of tone and emphasis in Turner's climate answer: She talks about "kicking our addiction to fossil fuels," a "just transition" for fossil-fuel workers and "eradicating" environmental racism ...
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5 Mar
New: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) covered up the scale of COVID-related nursing home deaths.

His counterpart in New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy (D), tried to learn from his mistakes.

I looked at what the neighboring governors did differently:
huffpost.com/entry/andrew-c…
-- Nursing home medical professionals and advocates for residents felt that they had an audience with Gov. Murphy's team.

Not so in New York.

“It was like talking to a wall. We told them to give [our members] a call. And we got nothing,” @PALTC_Chris.
-- On paper at least, this insight translated into smarter policy.

New Jersey took a more lenient approach toward nursing homes, offering help adhering to COVID guidelines. The state did not explicitly forbid turning away COVID-positive hospital patients.
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New: Progressive Democrats have pushed for reforms based on Edward Snowden's leaks, but they have been relatively silent amid a campaign to get President Trump to pardon him. huffpost.com/entry/democrat… via @HuffPostPol
Very unlikely Trump will do it, but advocates think it is the best window they may ever have.

He said in August that he is considering it: reuters.com/article/us-usa…

Why this is a story: Progressive Dems have been at the forefront of efforts to end or curtail the mass surveillance programs Snowden uncovered.

But while 3 Republicans and Amash have called for a pardon, just @TulsiGabbard has on Dem side.
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A lot of the post-election debate over the direction of the Democratic Party has been between the "center-left" and the "left" ...
... But there is also a more obscure, though fervent and important debate between what is sometimes called the paleo-left or conversely, "post-left," and both the neoliberal center and the intersectional, activist left embodied by the Squad ...
... Figures on the "post left" -- or traditional, Marxist or labor-oriented left -- believe that the intersectional left has become too focused on cultural movements and symbolic causes that lack a mass, working-class constituency ...
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John McCain said the exact same thing in 2014 as part of a media blitz designed to pressure Obama into intervening more directly in Ukraine. Obama more or less didn't bite, refusing the Ukrainians lethal aid until the very end. politico.com/story/2014/03/… Image
Incidentally, when Romney called Russia the United States' biggest threat in 2012 it was also cause for mockery: washingtonpost.com/news/fact-chec… Image
The facts about U.S.-Russia relations have since changed, but some of the fundamental questions about how to preserve peace in a world dominated by a handful of nuclear-armed nations remain roughly the same.
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