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The dog ate my attachment

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The sub-frivolous complaint filed against Judge Boasberg for the crime if issuing unanswerable rulings against them has been dismissed: A high-ranking federal appeals judge dismissed an ethics complaint filed by the Justice Department against Judge James E. Boasberg, whose rulings repeatedly raised questions about the Trump...

Mamdani Discourse

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Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of writing out there on the Mamdani-governed New York. That's based on the centrality of New York to discourse always (annoying to everyone else in America),.

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The rise of the celebrity billionaire

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Andrew Gelman returns to a theme we've been kicking around for awhile, which is how in the New Gilded Age people of immense wealth create and nurture celebrity status, verging in some cases on actual cults of personality, on the basis of the fact that they...
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Election of the Day: Costa Rica

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Today is the day for the first round election in the selection of Costa Rica's 50th president. (Fun fact: the current regime in Costa Rica has a good case for "third oldest continuous presidential regime" behind the US and Chile (1830-1973). There's a case for putting...
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