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Chase Madar

@madar.bsky.social

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Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law and society at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.

  1. New strictures on executive authorities would disproportionately burden progressive administrations that want to take bold action to stabilize prices, address climate change, and build new industries.

    See @arnabdatta.bsky.social et al here. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

    There are seven tools President Biden can use to create the green energy jobs of the future, while limiting inflation.

    Seven Ways the Executive Branch Can Turbocharge Green Industrial Policy - Roosevelt Institute

    There are seven tools President Biden can use to create the green energy jobs of the future, while limiting inflation.

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  2. A valuable read as to where we are at. How we talk about the current moment influences the next steps we need to take.

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  3. Trying to image the repercussions I would face as a federal employee if I did this to a political banner I didn't like.

    Then again I don't carry a contingency dildo in the course of my duties. Is that a regular part of ICE kit now?

    As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down.

    In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

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  4. Andrew Cuomo will likely go to the grave never quite believing he was bested in the NYC mayoral primary by a 33-yr-old overt socialist and nonzionist. His calcified brain is simply not wired to take that data in.

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  5. This is a weird one for originalists bc there was never a time when the Census wasn't counting people who weren't born here/didn't have citizenship. They'd just count them and deny them the vote!

    Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."

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