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Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social |
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New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
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Too Big to Fail
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If somebody offers you a choice between a giant weevil and a tiny weevil, you gotta go with the big one, right? How could you choose the lesser of two weevils?
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I'd probably just go with "Lord John Russell" and "Two Buck Chuck."
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Yeah this has been a thing for years now.
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This has been the plan for years, although I don't know if any people actually were sent there. Initially it was blocked because Rwanda was found to be an unsafe country to send refugees to, so they changed the law to call Rwanda safe.
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Sure, but when crosstabs are absolutely nonsensical and they only had a 1% response rate, it's pretty clear that the poll is telling you more about the types of people who answer phone calls from unknown numbers than about the state of the electorate.
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For years, Sunak's plan has been to send all undocumented migrants who show up in the UK, wherever they come from, to Rwanda.
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There are absolutely no circumstances under which I would ever care about the proper titles for the UK Prime Minister, very much including speaking to him face- to- face.
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I don't eat beans, so I'll pass
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I think it's very telling that every photo of every President shows that the job aged them incredibly... except Trump, because he didn't actually do the job.
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Especially the ones with metal blades
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People who can't walk can't be President, as FDR famously showed.
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Sure, absolutely.
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She went after Bill Clinton in 2017, saying he should have resigned over Lewinski. Cause a big rift with her and Hillary Clinton.
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Patrick Leahy was in the Senate from 1975 to 2023, and most people from states other than Vermont never heard of him.
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They did!
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Yeah, she'll be one of those people who eventually you'll realize has been in the Senate for 40 years even though you can't name a signature issue that they've had any real impact on.
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Which... isn't great! But right now she's just a Senator who'll always win re-election but will never be a party leader, which is... more than I've done with my life.
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She's up for re-election this year! Gillibrand's problem is that she came up as Hillary Clinton's protegee, which gave her some big coattails, but when she decided to start going after high-profile Democrats for sexual harassment (Franken, Cuomo, Bill Clinton) she became a bit of a persona non grata
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I literally said going in to the 2020 primary "I don't know who I'm going to support, but whoever they are, they're going to be under 70 years old." Which turned into a cosmic joke when the last candidates standing were Biden (77), Sanders (78), Bloomberg (78), Warren (71), and... Buttigieg.
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Who did I support in the 2020 primary, you ask? Although I was not excited about it, I was certain the eventual nominee would be Kirsten Gillibrand, because I am very dumb.
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Three things that are true: 1) I did not support Biden in the 2020 primary 2) I thought Biden looked like a reanimated corpse at the debate 3) I have every confidence that he is fully capable of being President, and the New York Times and other outlets are fucking him to goose readership
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A bunch of them promised to be one-term Presidents and I really don't have any idea as to why.
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He looked perfectly fine speaking in public at his rally in North Carolina Friday afternoon and in the White House Monday night.
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VP's who tried to run for election after the President's term was up: Al Gore, 2000, lost general Richard Nixon, 1960, lost general Alben Barkley, 1952, lost primary Thomas Marshall, 1920, lost primary Adlai Stevenson (not that one), 1896, lost primary John Breckenridge, 1860, lost general
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The last time a VP won after their President's term was up was George H.W. Bush, and the time before that was Martin Van Buren after Andrew Jackson's term was up (both one-term Presidents, incidentally).
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When 99% of the people you try to contact don't respond, doesn't the poll result say more about the type of people who respond to polls than it does about the electorate as a whole? Like, what are we even doing at this point?
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Judges are technically elected here in New York; in reality, political parties and the court system sit down and agree on slates of candidates who run unopposed.
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Shows Trump leading 48-40 among 18-29 year olds; 50-41 among Hispanics; 48-32 among non-white, non-Black, non-Hispanic; and only 53% of Black voters are currently leaning towards Biden.
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I've had some cases in very rural counties in New York, and it really is a pain when the judge and the other attorney clearly know each other well!
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Understandable, but even in rural areas I don't think it's great when attorneys become judges and then continue to fraternize with attorneys they knew before they were judges who appear before them.
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A lot of people see no problem with SCOTUS Justices' former clerks arguing cases in front of them and I just... do see a problem with that!
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I know that I'm an outlier on this, but I think judges should be required to recuse themselves if they know any of the attorneys representing any of the parties more than casually. If you've ever had dinner together, you shouldn't be allowed to decide their case.
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Biden
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Missouri's standing arguments are the equivalent of the Fifth Circuit doctors suffering "aesthetic injuries" from not seeing babies born. If this is the future of our country, we don't have a country.
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...yesterday Clarence Thomas issuing a dissent in a cert denial saying that OSHA is unconstitutional, it's entirely possible that there will be no workplace safety laws by June 2025, at least at the Federal level. That's not hyperbole."
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My response: "Sure, but I can tell you that this is probably the absolute worst time imaginable to be writing about anything regarding laws about health in the workplace. With Chevron being overturned last week, and the APA statute of limitations being essentially abolished on Monday, and then...
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A friend of mine who's a professor of healthcare policy just asked me if I could collaborate with her for a project she's working on during her sabbatical next spring about legal protections for workplace safety, and I was like, "boy howdy, do I ever have some bad news for you."
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Pontiac hasn't existed since 2009?
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That's really the worst case scenario. Biden comes out and says, unequivocally, that he's staying in the race and everybody needs to quit it with asking him to drop out, and then people spend the rest of the time until the election arguing that he should drop out anyway.
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Businesses are designed to make profits. Governments are designed to help their citizens. It's diametrically opposed agendas.
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I cannot picture the logical sequence that would lead someone to believe Dimon has a better chance of beating Trump than Biden does. Can't fathom it.
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Everyone seems to think a Labour landslide is baked in, but then again they also thought Remain was a lock, so who can say, really.
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Seeing a bunch of new Twitter refugees coming here this morning, and on the one hand I'm curious what happened over there yesterday, but not curious enough to subject myself to looking at Twitter.
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Spoiler alert: the President will not be hard pressed to find someone willing to commit murder.
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The domestication of dogs predates agriculture. Dogs were domesticated everywhere the right type of wolves existed. 30,000 years of parallel evolution of dogs and human civilization means dogs are integral to and largely inseparable from humanity. It's not really shocking that people are revolted.
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This was such a powerful and inspiring moment. Why did the Democratic Party stop doing things like this that made people feel proud of them?
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Unless Trump goes to jail.
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It's Emolga my daughter is obsessed with.
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Up to the judge
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