Molly Redden
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New: Weeks before she struck down the federal mask mandate in spring 2022, U.S. District Judge Mizelle attended an all-expenses-paid retreat where a conservative group gave her a crash course in the niche legal theory propping up her opinion.
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New: In an open letter, Congressional interns accuse their bosses of having "suppressed" and downplayed demands for a ceasefire. A survey of 71 offices recorded *693,170* emails, voicemails and calls for a ceasefire since the bombing of Gaza began:
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New: A Koch-funded organization called the Judicial Education Institute is flying Trump judges to luxury resorts around the country where they huddle over a new strategy to advance "history and tradition" as the law of the land
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"This building isn't listening." Congressional staff say the mood inside the Capitol is tense, stifling and bewildering as members brush off constituents’ demands for a cease-fire.
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New: Progressive Dems are assailing Squad challengers for taking "toxic" AIPAC money, noting that much of it comes from GOP megadonors. Rep.
@CoriBush
just became the first to call on her challenger to reject the money outright.
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Many Democratic offices are getting a deluge of angry calls and have no idea how to respond. In some offices, "Let it go to voicemail" was the prevailing guidance for the first weeks of the siege. Others misrepresented their member's stance.
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NEW from me: A rare look at how NYC's elite try to work the criminal justice system — like when famed former prosecutor Linda Fairstein asked for leniency for a friend-of-a-friend of her "Vineyard best friend" after he upskirted women on the subway.
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I reported on this group in March. Conservative slush funds write them checks to send mostly Trump judges to luxury hotels. The kind of legal analysis they evangelize is supposed to offer a rationale for making "history and tradition" the law of the land.
New: A Koch-funded organization called the Judicial Education Institute is flying Trump judges to luxury resorts around the country where they huddle over a new strategy to advance "history and tradition" as the law of the land
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In response to these new revelations,
@SenWhitehouse
said: "The multi-pronged billionaire-funded scheme to influence the judiciary includes flying amenable judges to luxury resorts to bathe them in the latest fantastical right-wing legal theories…
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…At the very least, the public ought to know when judges are attending lavish ‘seminars’ promoting the agenda of partisan special interests. The Judicial Conference should take a close look at tightening its rules to ensure transparency around such junkets."
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NEW and first on HuffPost: Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the unusual step of traveling with a medic in 2018 and with medical gear in 2021 and 2022, according to records obtained by
@FixTheCourt
, deepening questions about her health:
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These lavish working vacations, at luxury mountain resorts like Deer Valley, can cost more than $5,000 a head — but judges are allowed accept them for free with hardly any oversight.
Here's every federal judge who disclosed attending a JEI retreat or serve on its board
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Why Cop Go Fast?
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The wave of transphobic laws wouldn't be possible without a tiny group of "experts" who make serious money defending them in court.
"They're hired guns," and they're paving the way for courts to roll back rights across the country. My latest:
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What are they learning when they're not golfing? Legal corpus linguistics — a way to keyword-search historical documents, and, critics say, cherry-pick examples of what the founders believed and dress it up as big data.
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Members of Congress led by
@AyannaPressley
and
@brianschatz
are demanding that the Biden administration enact broad bans on transfers of surplus military gear to local cops:
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NEW: The Biden administration allowed a top official to keep $15mil in future Microsoft stock while overseeing a federal department that hands out massive tech contracts. Ethics experts say it’s an extraordinary exception to conflict of interest law.
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New: Wesley Bell is the latest Squad challenger raising money from Republicans for his Dem primary campaign.
He's even raised money from donors to GOP Sen. Josh Hawley — who he was challenging right up until switching races to take on Rep. Cori Bush.
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NEW: Exclusive documents show hundreds of police departments requesting surplus U.S. military gear to police racial justice protests and do routine police work — traffic stops, warrants, and responding to domestic violence and people threatening suicide.
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When management sets these ridiculously low salary floors, it's sending one of two messages: we only want to hire people from rich families, or, we don't care if our workers suffer.
Solidarity with
@bfnewsunion
✊
We've been bargaining our contract for almost 2 years, but BuzzFeed won't budge on critical issues like wages — all while preparing to go public and make executives even richer.
So TODAY, we're walking out to send a reminder that there's no BuzzFeed News without us.
#BFNWalksOut
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This is not even the first person named Jo(e) to sneer about how HuffPost is some bygone news outlet in the last week. It's an insult to the incredible ways my colleagues are impacting the world, so I'm going to highlight some in this thread.
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New: a Laguna Beach billionaire and his wife are funneling money to anti-trans rights advocacy around the US. One group they helped start from scratch wrote Montana's ban on trans care for youth. “It made the worst of the worst people here more bold.”
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By fighting Disney and "woke banking," DeSantis wants to manufacture the illusion that he poses a serious threat to corporate America.
In reality, according to people who have watched his power-hungry rise, he has crony capitalism down to a science.
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As Election Day drew nearer, large corporations almost doubled their giving to election deniers. via
@HuffPostPol
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Private equity is gobbling up hospice care at an astonishing rate — and threatening to undermine its mission of death with dignity in favor of huge profits. My latest:
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As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of control over my employees' lives. But as a human? I care about birthdays.
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The Trump era gave the ACLU millions in cash and a new mission: to harness the power of the resistance.
This is the inside story of how they wound up in turmoil:
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New from me: a top
@ACLU
executive is leaving suddenly after two years of complaints about his treatment of staff and high turnover in his department:
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"glamorous travel" is a Boomer urban legend, like pensions and starter homes.
Perspective: Travel isn’t as glamorous as it used to be, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do our part. It wouldn’t hurt any of us to dress up for our next flight.
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Dedicated to all you Joe Manchins out there.
“If unemployment stops, I’m scared to think of what happens next. I’m scared for all our sanity.”
“What about somebody who needs to eat now? We have to live. What are we to do? What are we to do?”
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The ultrarich are in a mad scramble to pass on their wealth before Biden can hike their taxes. If you're trying to book a jet appraisal, you're probably already too late!
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someone in your group chat is the Lauren Oyler of not knowing who Renata Adler is
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You can simply be on the side of, every journalist doing good work is essential. You don't have to fall for their scarcity mentality and declare which struggling newsrooms deserve their fate more than others.
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The documents also show that the militarized crackdown on last summer's protests was not a split-second decision—it's how many police *prepare* for protests
Many departments explicitly said, we need military equipment to police civil demonstrators. The Pentagon said, you got it.
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NEW from me: I am *not* saying that this mysterious group of investors who bought $30m in gold bars "for the good of society" and to avoid capital gains taxes are breaking any rules…but I kind of wonder what the IRS would say!
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A controversial tax break to help poor neighborhoods has become a bonanza for wealthy investors — and crypto millionaires want in. My latest.
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The Pentagon is giving police departments that claim to be preparing for climate disasters priority access to surplus military vehicles, and who knows how that could possibly go wrong.
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NEW: Before he was CEO of the
@TrevorProject
, Amit Paley worked on McKinsey consulting teams that advised Purdue Pharma on boosting the sale of OxyContin and proposed ways to combat the backlash over the opioid epidemic.
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These "experts" have hardly any experience providing care for trans people and it shows
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dril is a time traveler who came back to warn us but the journey scrambled his brain. Still can’t believe how many of you don’t know this.
i truly believe that i will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity when i get every single post on hthis fucking website deleted by 2022
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U.S. District Judge Sarah Pitlyk just disclosed in a new financial filing that she also attended one of these luxury retreats.
Pitlyk, like many of the other guests, is a Federalist Society member and one of Trump's highly controversial judicial appointments.
New: A Koch-funded organization called the Judicial Education Institute is flying Trump judges to luxury resorts around the country where they huddle over a new strategy to advance "history and tradition" as the law of the land
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Again, I don't even know what to say. Emily's accountability reporting is unmatched. The CEO of United Way resigned because of her reporting on the company's sexist and racist culture like……last week?? She's a star.
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First off, we're one of
@WGAEast
's largest digital media shops. We amplify your calls for fair contracts, join your picket lines, and fight to raise the bar for the entire industry. As just one example, no other WGAE media contract has a higher starting salary than
@HuffPostUnion
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This map has really haunted me. I can't imagine the pain and violation of someone interfering with your loved ones' final resting place.
HuffPost has documented more than two dozen incidents where people protested the construction of a Muslim cemetery. Some states saw multiple incidents. Other communities had their cemeteries vandalized or broken into.
With support from
@IWMF
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And so few doctors are willing to defend these harmful laws that states are looking a little desperate.
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A couple of weeks ago I got an email offering me St Kitts and Nevis citizenship for the low low price of $125,000. It turns out wealthy Americans are seeking backup citizenship in record numbers. I took a dive into the process:
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Few people are more dedicated to shining a light on how extremism has taken over whole communities than
@letsgomathias
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"You can't get me for tax fraud if I never file my taxes" sounds like galaxy brain shit, but that's roughly the state of New York's whistleblower law. I wrote about a bill to fix the loophole, and the powerful interests lined up against it.
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Many of them were recruited by the Alliance Defending Freedom — whose goal is to turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy — and share some of the same reactionary politics (no matter how much they talk about science)
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But the courts are so conservative that all they need to hear is something that sounds like logic. If and when the Supreme Court weighs in on gender-affirming care, don't be surprised to see some of these names:
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The IRS office that investigates tips from whistleblowers is broken. Parts of the agency are deeply suspicious of working w informants, and cases are taking forever.
Meanwhile, uber-rich and corporate tax cheats are dodging billions in taxes. My latest:
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After she and
@AkbarSAhmed
broke the news that US-linked forces were detaining journalist Adel al-Hasani,
@RepRoKhanna
and Biden mobilized to secure his release.
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Our reporting on extremism, where to even start?
@AndyBCampbell
literally wrote the book on the Proud Boys. No one worked harder than
@JessReports
to illuminate how the most radicalized corners of the internet have torn apart ordinary peoples' lives.
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At the peak of the pandemic, CareTrust, one of the largest senior housing landlords in the country, chose a company with an alarming safety record to run homes for hundreds of seniors.
Executives got a bonus.
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Rebecca absolutely owned one of the most important stories of the pandemic, education. She's one of the sharpest, most talented, generous reporters I've ever had the privilege of working with, and anyone would be lucky to have her work.
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I will die in this conference room before our members agree to a bad contract and the unit will allow my sacrifice. Do not test them.
Just finished up an all-unit update with 4.5 hours until our contract expires and one thing is clear — we are fed up and fired up 🔥🔥🔥
#FairContractNow
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I don't even mean to pick on
@JoeKeohane
. We've all seen similar shit being said about Vice etc. We can lament the choices of the idiots who ran the business side of digital media into the ground without taking shots at our incredible and enterprising colleagues
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On Jan. 6,
@igorbobic
put himself in harm's way to get some of the most crucial footage from the entire Capitol riot: Officer Eugene Goodman diverting the mob away from US Senators who were taking cover just a few doors away.
Here’s the scary moment when protesters initially got into the building from the first floor and made their way outside Senate chamber.
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Not everyone got an armored vehicle — but again, the Pentagon approved all these requests.
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@phillej_
has built crucial trust with activists around the country who are seeking justice for victims of police brutality. After the police killing of Tyre Nichols, he gave a voice to other Memphis families who have been ignored:
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More lives changed.
@Rowaida_Abdel
's unmatched reporting on Trump's Muslim ban has resulted in the US government reuniting separated families.
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The SDNY indictment of SBF accuses him of campaign finance violations without going into much detail. But SBF recently claimed he funneled tens of millions to GOP campaigns in secret—here's why that might be illegal.
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We're producing fearless and vital reporting that serves millions of ordinary Americans every day. I'm sorry you don't read us! I'm sorry you think some journalists should be sacrificed according to how non-elite is their readership!
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for my money,
@AlexCKaufman
is providing the country's best coverage on the future of nuclear power and the state-level political fights that will determine whether the nation meets its critical CO2 reduction goals.
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Onto the reporting.
@jessicaschulb
's extraordinary profile of Kip Kinkel put direct pressure on Gov. Kate Brown to free people from prison who committed crimes as children — which Brown did. She granted clemency to dozens of people a few months later.
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These are just off the top of my head. I'm not even doing justice to our coverage of abortion, pop culture, mental health, unions and labor, environmental racism, police violence.
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and
@SebastianMurdoc
is constantly breaking news about Alex Jones' crumbling empire. He was among the first to take seriously the Sandy Hook parents' legal crusade, and the trust he earned shows up in all his reporting.
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After the East Palestine derailment,
@c_m_dangelo
was the first to call foul on officials' methods for declaring the drinking water "safe," and
@Robillard
's reporting on a looming rail merger prompted
@SenWarren
to call for a halt to another dangerous consolidation
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Love and solidarity for the BuzzFeed and Complex colleagues who are losing their jobs. This absolutely sucks and you deserve better.
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This is absolutely devastating to me. You may know Nick as one of the best extremism and far right reporters working today, but you can put him on any story and he'll blow you away. He's also just one of the best god damn humans. I'm crushed.
I’ve been laid off after 7 years at HuffPost. I’m incredibly proud of the work my colleagues and I did there. If you have a job I would sure like one
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"They're indoctrinating the judges … by taking them to fancy, fancy, fancy resorts so they can learn what they are supposed to do."
@SenWhitehouse
reacts to my exclusive reporting on Koch-funded retreats for Trump judges.
New: A Koch-funded organization called the Judicial Education Institute is flying Trump judges to luxury resorts around the country where they huddle over a new strategy to advance "history and tradition" as the law of the land
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The WH/
@NSC_Spox
can't keep their story straight from one day to the next. First my colleague made things up—then he misunderstood when they plainly accused him of making things up
The truth is
@AkbarSAhmed
's peerless reporting on Gaza threatens them and they want to shut him up
72 hours after first responding to this story by claiming without evidence that I "made up" quotes
@NSC_Spox
is standing by that statement.
I look forward to an apology + retraction soon.
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If I were a dad I’d be a Storm Dad. I cannot stop going “wow” and trying to get everyone around me to go “wow” whenever a good storm rolls in
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The prison executives in this story took a feel-good trip to Norway to learn about "humane" incarceration. But when an ace jailhouse lawyer got too good at suing them for dismal prison conditions, they tossed him in solitary.
I wrote about how Oregon DOC — which claims to model itself after Norway's progressive practices — retaliated against its most effective jailhouse lawyer, firing him from his job and throwing him in solitary for 120 days, potentially delaying his freedom
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After protests over Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile, police near Ferguson, Baton Rouge and in Minnesota sought armored vehicles to deal with future protests.
After the raid on Standing Rock in N. Dakota, sheriffs in S. Dakota prepared for a possible repeat
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Members of the
@HuffPostUnion
are in our final days of bargaining before our contract expires! We’re fighting for fair wage increases, a strong benefits package, and a real path to career growth for our hardworking, talented colleagues. We won’t settle for less! ✊🏻
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Yes, and: people have hardly begun to grasp how dangerous the end of Roe is going to be for ordinary maternal care.
You're having a miscarriage? Your fetus has rights. You're having a difficult delivery? Your body is just the vessel for the baby, you don't need our care.
I wrote about how the assertion that privileged people are going to find their circumstances unchanged is both incorrect and anesthetizing:
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The administration blessed this incredible arrangement because the official, Kurt DelBene—husband of Rep. Suzan DelBene—agreed to transfer all the stock to a trust fund for their adult kids. Leaving him with no financial stake in Microsoft “as a practical matter.” OK!
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U.S. immigration is a quagmire, but a handful of people in Congressional have trained themselves to become relentless advocates for constituents facing deportation or trying to flee war zones like Palestine. My story:
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Read my remarkable colleague
@AkbarSAhmed
's extensive, painstaking interviews with two senior leaders of Hamas, where he presses them on the group's Oct. 7 attacks on civilians and its vision for the future of Israel-Palestine.
NEW: I extensively interviewed two senior leaders of Hamas.
HuffPost pressed them on civilians on Oct. 7, Israel-Palestine’s future & more.
We sought news & relevant, rarely heard perspectives. We brought back analysis unlike any US outlet. Please read:
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As Congress shrugs off the bloodshed in Gaza, Muslim and Arab staffers are reaching a breaking point.
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I am so sick of watching my industry reject its very best people, the ones who do enterprising and inspiring work and live up to journalism's promise.
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I also wrote about FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame's attempt to buy his girlfriend Michelle Bond a seat in Congress—which is not illegal per se but *is* hilarious.
As the couple geared up to be movers-and-shakers, $4m eyesore in the DC suburbs. Bond got absolutely munched in her primary
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these NYT moral panic pieces never fail to imply that trans peoples are getting *too much medical care* when literally the opposite is true
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I can't stop thinking about how good this
@rtraister
story was and how it stands out from so many others because she was willing to ask an extremely simple question: Could this guy be full of shit?
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Ronald Newman was in charge of ED Anthony Romero’s marquee plan to transform the ACLU into a juggernaut across the entire political battlefield, not just the courtroom.
His departure came less than 24 hours after HuffPost learned about an HR investigation into Newman.
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I’m a mature 30-something ready to internalize the wisdom of my elders, let’s see what she’s got.
<reads one tweet>
Nope not gonna do that
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At its heart, this is an incredible story about the PR lies that accompany prison reform.
Left: the DOC head posing in power suit while people in her prisons plant a "healing garden." Right: her testifying that desk toys are *too* humanizing and liable to get someone killed.
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Based on my reporting,
@SenFinance
has sent requests for information to three companies/professionals who are getting creative with Opportunity Zones to help crypto investors avoid capital gains taxes:
A controversial tax break to help poor neighborhoods has become a bonanza for wealthy investors — and crypto millionaires want in. My latest.
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Jersey strong 💪🏻
One man standing outside ballroom where Christie spoke today still remembers being stuck in four hours of traffic during Bridgegate as part of his regular commute from New York to New Jersey.
“I suffered in that traffic,” he said
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Just affirming that we have the best health care system in the world! My troublesome luxury bones ("teeth") are on a different deductible and I'm TWELVE HUNDRED dollars lighter than I was this morning
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How fast and loose are people getting with Opportunity Zones?
A guy mining cryptocurrency in South America is pretty sure he can qualify for the huge tax break if he technically sets up a "management company" in the United States.
A controversial tax break to help poor neighborhoods has become a bonanza for wealthy investors — and crypto millionaires want in. My latest.
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NEW: A former Washington Commanders employee says the president of
@SpecialOlympics
North America had “a reputation for making inappropriate comments about female colleagues’ attire and their bodies” when he was a football exec.
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Overturning Roe could absolutely have a far-reaching impact on Plan B.
No, Plan B doesn't cause abortion — it prevents pregnancy — but SCOTUS already ruled in Hobby Lobby (2014) that you can go after Plan B *if your heart tells you* it causes an abortion.
Kansas City area health system stops providing Plan B in Missouri because of abortion ban
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