A very smart analyst that I respect asked me to think a bit more on the Cassidy bill from 2015 that I was writing about last week. So I’m working on that. Now I want to look at the distributional impacts of the Cassidy-Sessions bill. I’ll be using a pair of 27 years olds as …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Keep Resisting!
Happy to march with 125k+ women (& friends of women) in Boston. We can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back. #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/8yCQZBrqpO — Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) January 21, 2017 Maybe it’s just me, but… the present social moment reminds me of the Anita Hill – Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. All the nice …
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Can we pull off a peaceful protest, or what?
Even though the Women’s March on Washington drew about three times the crowd as Trump’s ultimate ego gratification event the day before, it was incredibly peaceful. In fact, multiple news outlets say there were zero arrests, which is pretty amazing. I think the fact that it was a woman-led event with more females than males …
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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Toad Kisses Toady
Trump just literally blew a kiss to James Comey at a WH reception for law enforcement pic.twitter.com/HwVq9DNdZd — Richard Hine (@richardhine) January 22, 2017 Between this and Tillerson I guess we know what Trump thinks was decisive. https://t.co/yjYlblXQ2a — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 22, 2017 They should also send fruit baskets to Stein & Johnson …
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Late Night Open Thread: Reverberations from the Women’s March Are Just Beginning
And @womensmarchchi embroidered protest sign is hooped and ready! @womensmarch #notmypresident pic.twitter.com/My8AyqRxfq — Shannon Downey (@ShannonDowney) January 19, 2017 Julia Ioffe, Russian emigre and professional cynic, despite her worst fears was not immune: Protesting is easy. Real political work is hard. My latest, on the #WomensMarch. https://t.co/WoVtQL6VFx — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 22, 2017 … …
From the BBC: The Real Housewives of ISIS
The BBC, very wisely, decided that the best way to deal with ISIS’s attempts to recruit young Muslim-British women was to use satire and ridicule. While this has drawn some controversy, the BBC is absolutely correct to go this route. Some of the most effective anti-al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) Information Operations, which was ISIS’s …
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Television man is crazy
This Brian Stelter segment is amazing. I wonder how long his bosses at CNN will allow him to keep being this honest with the viewing public.