Month: July 2020

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150,000

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On July 27, 2020
We have now passed 150,000 official COVID deaths in the U.S. One of the dead was a friend of mine, the New York housing activist and policy expert Tom Waters. You can read about him here. He died early in the epidemic and I only found out about it a week ago. I knew him […]
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Lieberman’s folly

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On July 26, 2020
In an interview with Isaac Chotiner, Carrie Cordero explains that the creation of the DHS was been a disaster, expanding the capacity available to an authoritarian president: D.H.S. is less than twenty years old—it was formed after 9/11. If Donald Trump had wanted to do this, but there was no Department of Homeland Security, what […]
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He seems nice

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On July 26, 2020
BTW Iceland averages less than two homicides per year: The U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wants to carry a gun. Despite being assigned to one of the safest countries in the world, Jeffrey Ross Gunter has been “paranoid” about his security since coming to Reykjavik last year, according to a dozen diplomats, government officials, former officials […]
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