Mitchell Harris
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@oldestfogey
Gobert is basketball and Itzy is music. Just here to shout into the void and support anyone who's making the world better.
Baby boomers: "I'm 62 years YOUNG!" "oh, I'm turning 21, for the 31st time!" Millennials: "I am incomprehensibly ancient. I have watch countless eons go by. To try and grasp my age would be to stare madness in the face.... what? Oh, yeah, I'm 28."
The No Labels 24 plan is based on assumption that about 6 in 10 Americans would consider a generic moderate third party ticket, and that 61% of those voters would vote NL, allowing victories in red states like Tx, Fla, blue states like Ill, Wash. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
Remember the "hungry judges" study, which has now been included in two huge bestselling books by Daniel Kahneman (among many other places)? Now we have another relevant study, and it reminds us that the original one was just too good to be true: inews.co.uk/news/do-judges…
In Opinion "Every local prosecutor in the country will now feel that he or she has free rein to criminally investigate and prosecute presidents after they leave office," Ankush Khardori, a former federal prosecutor, writes about Donald Trump's indictment. nyti.ms/3zq2H58
Republican minority leaders from both houses says the Democrats in the legislature don’t want to make any changes to bail, and that is the reason the budget is late. @SenatorOrtt says the bail changes proposed by @GovKathyHochul are reasonable
Pretty remarkable that America temporarily constructed a safety net during Covid — including major health care coverage, food benefits, anti poverty funding for families & kids, etc — and then just systematically and slowly demolished it
