#Federal

Asked by @NBCNews tonight what Republicans are thinking about @realDonaldTrump, I reported my calls to senior House/White House leadership, relaying on air they are celebratory about House gains, and in
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The GOP's liability immunity bill would make it impossible to sue negligent businesses, while also flooding the federal courts with lawsuits by businesses against people they infected, plus lawsuits by
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Today, Biden will sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal workers and contractors to $15/hour. You have a "failed" union campaign -- and its incredible organizer to
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THREAD1. I don’t know where the misinformation is coming from in LA about “leftover/unused doses” of the vaccine but lemme tell you what’s up from the front lines:Each vial of
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The negative, dangerous iterations of an individualistic, "liberty"-driven worldview run deep in our society. It isn't new, but in the modern urban era it's more self-sustaining in less populous areas
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Feels like one of the hardest pieces of covering vaccine rollout from a local perspective is figuring out which bottlenecks/logistical failures are federal, which are state & which are local.
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Maine is the 1st state in the US to use Ranked-Choice Voting for state & federal elections.For everyone wondering:How does RCV work?Why is it better than the old voting system?Should
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Ten financial institutions: Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank & others have been issued subpoenas in recent weeks from the office of USVI Attorney General Denise George! #ButNothingsHappening https://twitter.com/FinCrimeEdu/status
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As I posted. Maduro took office in 2013. BLM was founded in 2013. By 2014 BLM brought Maduro to Harlem. By 2015 they visited him in Caracas & have since
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Unreal-- DHS says it temporarily put FEMA chief Peter Gaynor in charge of the department Nov 14 so he could change the order of succession to make Chad Wolf eligible
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What Dems Say vs What Trump Supporters Hear (after it is filtered through Trump and right wing media)Dems say: “We want cops to stop disproportionately killing minorities”Trumpers hear: “Democrats hate
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Since @paulkrugman disastrously naive take on what life was like post-9/11 is going around, in this thread I'll catalog just a few things that I can remember happening to me
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So for anybody who wants to argue that our premier is smart, consider this: He wouldn't put in hard measures to stop the transmission of COVID at the start. He
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...there would have to be 37 such electors from battleground states other than MI, NV and AZ to get him below 270. That is so far outside the realm of
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[Thread] Tonight @RegionWaterloo Council will vote on closing 5 child care centres. At least 30 local parents and ECEs, along with several national child care experts are set to speak
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You're going to find out, in the near future, that all those people who studied the government for decades, but you denounced as "crazy conspiracy theorists" were right about everything.Apologies
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