DavidASuper
@DavidASuper1
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Law prof, Georgetown; former CBPP, Community Legal Services, UFW; interested in law, legislation, the budget, and social justice, not necessarily in that order.
Joined August 2018
This is the entirely predictable result of single-mindedly focusing on cutting even modest costs.
CNN: According to four officials inside FEMA. a new rule that any expected expenditure over $100,000 needed sign off from Noem slowed the federal response. The sources tell us that FEMA's deployment of urban search and rescue teams, which are typically deployed in
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Sequence not clear here: he may have died after being dismissed or he may have been dismissed because he was dead (and hence even less able to do his job). They all are corrupt: their corrupt peers wouldn't trust them if they weren't. But he couldn't keep the planes flying.
Russia's transport minister died on Monday in a suspected suicide, hours after Vladimir Putin fired him, @NastyaStognei reports. Initial details of Roman Starovoyt's death remain murky, but it seems he was facing charges in a major corruption case.
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My latest on how Senate Republicans are out-doing themselves in the dishonesty of how they are representing their budget bill to the public.
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My latest on how the pending budget bill likely will make food assistance completely unavailable in some states, resulting in a massive resurgence of hunger and making SNAP politically unsustainable nationally.
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Cynicism layered on top of more cynicism. Utterly indefensible.
Senate Republicans are simultaneously using current policy scoring to pretend $3.8 trillion in tax cuts are free - and using current law scoring to get away with having temporary tax cuts appear $1.5 trillion cheaper. Literally never seen a bigger budget gimmick in my life.
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My latest on why Russell Vought's notion of "pocket rescissions" is utterly without legal foundation.
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It's almost as if they never cared at all about water, fraud, and abuse. .
The House LegBranch bill dropped tonight ahead of a subcommitte markup tomorrow. — Funds LegBranch $51m below current level .— GAO gets biggest cut, nearly 50% from the watchdog that goes after waste, fraud & abuse in gov't. Background on GOP vs GAO:
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And what do we go do? Get the Straits of Hormuz blocked to send oil prices souring and bail this guy out. It's almost as if the Administration wanted a cruel dictator to succeed in his goals of imperial conquest.
"Russia is on the verge of a recession, its economy minister said on Thursday, the first public admission that the country’s war economy is starting to cool three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Maxim Reshetnikov said at the
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RT @RALee85: "Russia is on the verge of a recession, its economy minister said on Thursday, the first public admission that the country’s w….
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My latest on the ghastly reconciliation bill gliding through Congress. Both the substance of the bill and how it has transformed the legislative process will have dire consequences for many years to come.
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My latest on GOP attempts to hide extraneous (bad) social policy in their already-ghastlybrecinciliation bill.
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My latest explainer on the political and procedural status of the Trump budget reconciliation bill.
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My latest on how congressional Republicans are trying to sneak devastating Medicaid and nutrition assistance cuts through with minimal scrutiny as journalists and the public are distracted by DOGE chaos and self-destructive trade wars.
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RT @emptywheel: Alright, this is downright grotesque. The adjudged terrorists and cop assailants who attacked Congress:.Got loads of disco….
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Even in their terms, foreign students are good for our balance of trade.
I feel like we're doing everything we can to deter foreign students from coming to study here. What's the strategy? Isn't that going to have obviously negative effects on our competitiveness, just on a purely capitalist level?.
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RT @Kasparov63: Putin and Trump plan to divide Ukraine between Russia and the US. Then Trump and the media will lose interest as Russia att….
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Don't some shoplifters claim to be "liberating" the items that they steal?.
Trump's "Liberation Day" wiped $6,6 trillion off Wall Street. That’s 80x more than total US aid to Ukraine since 2022. Ukraine aid = 1,24% of the value his tariffs just torched in 48 hours. So remind me again - who’s bankrupting America?
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My latest on the rapid advance of the GOP initiative to gut Medicaid, nutrition assistance, and student loans while blowing an unprecedented hole in the federal budget.
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My latest on themes in the illegality of the Administration actions. In short, watch the implementation more than (most) of the EOs; lots of gratuitously unlawful conduct when they could do most of it legally; and prolific violations of court orders.
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Lying this grotesquely is indeed morally degenerate. It also says nothing good about our society that people believe him simply because he is saying what they want to believe, not because he is in any way persuasive or has ever offered proof of his past extreme lies.
Agreed. Lying on this scale is gravely evil.
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