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Washington Post, 1/30/23: showdown coming over blue slips, quotes Russ Feingold. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/30/senators-prepare-showdown-over-judges-blue-slips/
@[email protected], 12/8/22: showdown coming over blue slips, quotes Russ Feingold. https://prospect.org/politics/democratic-judicial-makeover-depends-on-blue-slips/
Read the Prospect, get the news first, etc.

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Senators prepare for a showdown over judges and ‘blue slips’

Also in today's edition … Release of Nichols video sparks renewed calls for Congress to act ... Congressional focus on China intensifies ... What we're watching: What spending cuts are on the table for House Republicans?

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The House Oversight Committee found in 2016 that as much as 90 percent of classified material doesn’t need to be classified.
Here are some of the secret documents that we have to hope never enter the wrong hands:
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-01-30-president-classified-document-scandal/

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Presidential Document Scandals Should Take Down America’s Secrecy Industry

We classify way too many documents. Unfortunately, that will probably not be the takeaway from recent events.

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TIL Ukraine's war economy policy is so neoliberal that even the IMF and the World Bank are alarmed https://prospect.org/world/2023-01-30-ukraine-neoliberal-war-mobilization/

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Ukraine’s Neoliberal War Mobilization

Low taxes, privatization, and pared-back labor protections could undermine Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression.

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Episode 262 PREVIEW - Marianne Williamson on the Politics of Love http://dlvr.it/ShYPVl

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Episode 262 PREVIEW - Marianne Williamson on the Politics of Love | Left Anchor

In this excerpt Marianne talks about the bad and good sides of the Biden administration. Subscribe here to listen to the whole thing!

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"The 14 largest publicly-traded pharmaceutical companies spent more on stock buybacks and dividends alone than on R&D. This contradicts pharma’s insistence that companies must keep drug prices high as a 'necessary cost' to reinvest in new discoveries."
https://prospect.org/health/2023-01-23-moderna-covid-vaccine-price-hike-bernie-sanders/

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Moderna’s COVID Vaccine Price Hike Reveals Government’s Failure

The U.S. co-invented the mRNA vaccine. So why doesn’t it act like it?

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This week, during the first congressional hearing on Ticketmaster/Live Nation in decades, senators in both parties condemned the disastrous 2010 merger that led to Ticketmaster's domination of the live music sector.
Let's talk about the rising costs of the care economy. https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-18-inflation-unfair-costs-of-care/
The Unfair Costs of Care

A very different kind of inflation

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The Freedom Caucus Has a Harebrained Plan to Jack Up Taxes on the Poor

Under the ‘Fair Tax,’ the poorest fifth of Americans would pay roughly 70 percent of their income in taxes.

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Great conversation on @[email protected] w/@SamSeder who clearly got into the details of @[email protected] and my Live Nation/Ticketmaster article.

Listen if you want stories like how Grateful Dead, w/ its own ticketing service, once made a row of fans named "Brian."

https://prospect.org/power/ticketmasters-dark-history/ https://twitter.com/majorityfm/status/1618299780853293056

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Ticketmaster’s Dark History

A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam

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Good breakdown of social wealth funds from @[email protected]. Similar funds in Norway & Alaska have been successful and cheap. But political hurdles are numerous to establish one, rendering a traditional outcome like slashing benefits/raising taxes more likely
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-23-bipartisan-plan-social-security/

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The Smart Bipartisan Plan to Shore Up Social Security

Bill Cassidy and Angus King propose an American social wealth fund.

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