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Marty Ascher
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Former Elections Counsel for NY Senate Dems, guitar player and democracy enthusiast.
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Farewell to Donna Jean Godchaux, who sang with the Grateful Dead throughout most of the 1970s. relix.com/news/detail/...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Feminine Force Behind the Grateful Dead's 70s Era, Passes Away at 78
Photo: Vernon Webb Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the feminine force and vocal powerhouse behind the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979, passed away yesterday,
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November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Amazing how he just keeps campaigning with the worst people in NYC politics and seemingly gets a pass for it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
S007: Even Flow
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ICYMI: Check out my latest Substack post summarizing the recent even year election law passed in NY and the court battle over its legality!
S007: Even Flow
New York's Even Year Election Law Upheld
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October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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rothschildmd.bsky.social
Steve Bannon's "third term plan" is that you become so convinced that Trump will cancel and/or rig all future elections that you disengage from democracy, don't volunteer or donate or run for office, and think your vote doesn't matter so why bother. It only works if you let it work.
October 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
My latest Substack Post, about how bills become law in New York State, is up now. Check it out!

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S006: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
How to Pass a Law in New York
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October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
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Check out my new backgrounder on the New York State Legislature!
S005: Don’t Pass Me By
New York State’s Legislature
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October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
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September 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies
kairyssdal.bsky.social Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 1
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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August 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/leah-litm…
Recently finished this book by
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and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Perfect for both lawyers and non-lawyers alike in making sense of our broken Supreme Court
https://michigan.law.umich.edu/news/leah-litm…
July 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
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New post up about this Ugly ugly bill!
S004: Beautiful Liar
An Interlude: Republican Reconciliation Bill Lowlights
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July 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
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New post up about why state governments matter!
S003: State Trooper
Why State Governments Matter
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July 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/legislat...

Introducing my new substack “Legislatively Speaking”, a space to discuss policy, politics, law, and more! Take a look and lmk what you think!
July 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Perhaps the most perverse part of CASA, other than its horrific impact on the infants of immigrants, is its timing. For four years, the Supreme Court sat back as a hand-selected group of far-right judges issued a stream of universal injunctions against the Biden administration. Then, barely five months into Trump’s second term, it suddenly cut down the practice. The court has applied an egregious double standard that awards Republican presidents with sweeping authority and presumptive legitimacy while relentlessly curtailing executive power each time a Democrat occupies the Oval Office. No democracy can long survive a regime in which a monarchical president and his black-robed collaborators supplant the Constitution with their own partisan whims.
June 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
The courts won’t save us. They were never going to.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 27
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
Trump Administration Live Updates: Newsom Sues Fox News Over Coverage of Phone Call With President www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Good.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Newsom Sues Fox News Over Coverage of Phone Call With President
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June 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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#NYC voters must #NeverForget how #Cuomo worked tirelessly as governor to betray his fellow democrats by helping the IDC maintain a Republican majority in the NY State Senate from 2011 to 2018.

#DontRankCuomo #NoCuomo #DREAM #DontRankEvilAndrewMayor

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Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
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June 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I know my pet issue is not universal etc but it’s actually insane to me how little of the anti-Cuomo campaigning addresses the years he spent conspiring with Republicans to deprive New Yorkers of the legislature they elected en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indepen...
Independent Democratic Conference - Wikipedia
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June 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.
June 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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“I’m a lawyer and I’m going to give you the legal term for what’s happening: It’s fucking ridiculous.” @zellnor.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Armed, masked ICE agents detained Brad lander. This is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It’s terrifying, it’s lawless, and it’s happening on our watch. We cannot look away.

Brad must be released immediately.
bradlander.bsky.social Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 17
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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NEW statement from NY Attorney General Tish James on Brad Lander's arrest, calling it a "grotesque escalation of tensions."
Attorney General James Condemns ICE Arrest of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the federal courthouse at 26 Federal Plaza: “This is profoundly unacceptable. Arresting Comptroller Lander for the simple act of standing up for immigrants and their civil rights is a shocking abuse of power. No one should face fear and intimidation in a courthouse, and this is a grotesque escalation of tensions. The administration’s rampant targeting of New Yorkers only makes our communities less safe.”
June 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
mascher716.bsky.social
I’d love for the President of the United States to stop saying I’m not a real American because I dont want to terrorize some of the worlds greatest cities.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 16
Trump is now directing ICE to focus on Democratic-led cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York:
Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History. In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens. These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!
June 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I don’t like to swear. And I have many friends at the New York Times, who I love.

But with all my heart: fuck the @nytimes.com editorial board for their idiotic, tortured, uniformed, fear-mongering, mealy-mouthed, bullshit mayor’s race op-ed.

First, let’s talk politics. What’s it doing? (1/5)
June 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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NYT Ed Board said last year that they aren’t doing local endorsements anymore, but they couldn’t help themselves from writing a gross roundabout endorsement of Cuomo.
No more local endorsements by the New York Times Kate Robertson and Nicholas Fandos Aug 12, 2024
June 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM