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Best wishes to Scalise. I just wish Republicans didn't need to be personally harmed to become reasonable on stuff like this.
Majority Leader Steve Scalise is back in the Capitol amid chemotherapy treatments, addressing reporters this morning while wearing a mask. He notes that his “protocols” are going to be a little different going forward because of his immune system.
politico.com/live-updates/20…
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I'm shocked, horrified, and outraged. Mitt Romney has done a truly awful thing
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SCOOP: For years, Barstool Sports has run an apparent system of organized copyright infringement, using "burner" Twitter accounts to swipe countless hours of highlights owned by teams in every league. And they apparently have no intention of stopping. thedailybeast.com/how-dave-p…
Didn’t the legislature brag in March about massive tax cuts? #utpol deseret.com/opinion/2023/9/7…
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You guys are never gonna guess which city did a big package of YIMBY reforms in 2020.
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You folks ever heard of a mirror?
What @WhiteHouse isn't telling you: They're giving a single government agency power to arbitrarily set medicine prices with little accountability, oversight or input from patients & their doctors—with consequences long after this administration is gone. onphr.ma/3qIK0Jj
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is a lobbying group working on behalf of pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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Completely predictable
sltrib.com/news/education/20…
outgoing Rep. Stewart on bipartisan compromise: “How do you compromise on whether an African American slave is a person? Right? . . . our Founding Fathers had to do that, and they found a way to do it.” If this is the model, it explains so much about what's wrong with DC.
“the most common time for an individual to experience homelessness is during the first year of life. The second most common time for an occurrence of homelessness is between 1 and 6 years old” deseret.com/utah/2023/8/1/23…
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maybe it's just me but if i found myself in this position giving this advice — and having to explain why i'm giving this advice — i'd rethink my life choices
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Workers didn't 'discover' streetcar tracks on State Street in SLC.
They uncovered the remains of a once prolific transit network the city was built around.
Like many other U.S. cities, that network was intentionally buried in an overt attempt to make Utahns dependent on cars.
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"The risk factor is racism. When your pain is ignored, when your blood pressure is ignored, you die.”
A new @UNFPA report shows Black women across the Americas bear the heaviest burden of maternal mortality, but the gap is highest in the U.S.
wapo.st/3OhETbU
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The armies of Justice are at my gates.
They have indicted me twice and my counsels tell me another wave is coming.
I don’t know who to trust. My generals betray me on the daily. Even my children are wary of my fate.
Jack Smith marches from the North with his dire wolves. Fani Willis from the South…some say she might have a dragon. Alvin Bragg and Letitia James roam where I once ruled, burning down my legacy.
It has come to this.
The final days of my terrible reign.
The Mad King
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Huh, No Labels' own memo that they gave as an exclusive to... the Washington Examiner... says they will throw the election to Trump.
EXCLUSIVE — @NoLabelsOrg is brushing off efforts by outside political groups to squash its plans for a third-party presidential ticket in 2024, arguing it is well-positioned to dismantle the two-party system should it launch an alternative bid next year.
trib.al/zFbrsFS
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Registering my daughter for high school soccer tryouts and I get to this lovely little bit. Why would the UHSAA need this information? What does this have to do with her playing soccer?? What the hell?
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NEW: several lawyers- including on who successfully argued to end affirmative action - SENT MONEY via Venmo to a top aide of Clarence Thomas. theguardian.com/us-news/2023…
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Today I was asked why I don't join in blocking traffic to demand more climate action, knowing what I know.
I just don't feel like I could compete with this: