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1 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The lawyer defending Texas’ abortion law just admitted under probing from (I think?) Breyer that a blue state could pass a bounty law getting around the second amendment with a $1 million bounty for anybody who sells an AR15
And, the lawyer said, the federal courts couldn’t step in, only state courts could.
He added that the gun seller could go to congress if he didn’t like it, but other Justices noted that A) Congress probably wouldn’t help and B) the point of a right is you don’t need Congress. That’s why it’s a right.
My guess is they strike the Texas law down but also uphold Mississippi’s heart beat bill and pretend they didn’t just overturn Roe

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1 Nov
The CPC changing course, and now pushing for a vote on both the bipartisan bill and reconciliation before Manchin is on board, feels like a caucus cracking under the threat of being (absurdly) blamed if McAuliffe loses VA /1
Some progressives seem worried that if McAuliffe loses then a spooked Manchin might run for the hills. But from the CPC perspective, that's all the more reason to hold the line, b/c as @AOC has argued, the fossil-heavy BIF without being paired with the other is a net loser
The question is: Do the chances of Manchin supporting the build back better act go up or down if the BIF is passed? There's an argument that he wants it done that way for alpha reasons, so he can prove he wasn't pushed around by a bunch of House members

Or he could just kill it
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28 Oct
Democrats are putting about 20 billion behind a top priority of @sunrisemvmt, their Civilian Climate Corps, but the legislation also throws some of those billions at traditional Americorps, which is causing consternation in the caucus /1
Americorps is a small ($1 billion) program that is poorly managed and doesn't have a ton of support in cities where its active. Some Dems want the DoL to run it instead. I talked to Jamaal Bowman about it in this week's podcast theintercept.com/2021/10/28/dec…
Also asked AOC and Bernie Sanders about it this week and both are supportive of keeping it in Americorps, despite the program's problems.
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27 Oct
It’s interesting how people are laser focused on the potential long term harms of the vaccine yet remarkably unconcerned about the long term harms of covid. On both, we simply don’t know, but there’s this weird confidence that the vaccine is obviously more harmful long term.
Like, maybe you’re right, but how do you know that? (You don’t; nobody does.)
It’s the tone of it that gets me, I guess. What must it be like to be so confident about something we by definition don’t know?
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26 Oct
Warren, Wyden, and Angus King unveiling their alternative minimum corporate tax that relies on corporate public claims of their profits Image
King estimates it would raise $400 billion over 10 years, noting the share of corporate tax revenue to the government has shrunk by 75% over the last 40 years
Warren says she and King wanted the tax to apply to profits above $100 million, but to get 50 votes they needed to put it at a billion.
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16 Oct
Absolutely wild that a guy who literally owns a coal producing business that generates millions for him — currently — can make this kind of decision for the whole country and it’s not illegal
It’s like how you go back and read about how Supreme Court justices in the Gilded Age were owners of train companies they’d rule in favor of
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28 Sep
On the Congressional Progressive Caucus conference call today, every member who spoke -- roughly 2 dozen -- said they were committed to opposing the bipartisan bill until reconciliation is ready, per a source. Not one member said they'd vote yes on Thursday.
Two frontliners (means they're in swing seats) argued that anybody who thinks Dems will pass reconciliation if they let BIF go through first are fooling themselves, and that they NEED the reconciliation bill for their re-election. It's filled with popular stuff they can run on.
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