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1. Welcome to the weekend edition of the Editorial Board! I’m your host, John Stoehr. Before I get to what I published this week, a few words about what happened Friday at the Social Security Administration.
March 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This is really good stuff!
March 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is really good stuff!
This is the way.
Casar demonstrates how Democrats can effectively message on Fox News
March 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This is the way.
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90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
www.sciencefriday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.
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Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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Per NYFed regional business survey, firms' inflation expectations have picked up. On average, service firms expect costs to rise at a 5.7% pace, while manufacturing firms expect cost increases to rise 7.3%. Tariffs a big factor here.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/03/firm...
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/03/firm...
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Per NYFed regional business survey, firms' inflation expectations have picked up. On average, service firms expect costs to rise at a 5.7% pace, while manufacturing firms expect cost increases to rise 7.3%. Tariffs a big factor here.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/03/firm...
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/03/firm...
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Chief Justice Roberts has ordered that a response to the government's emergency application in the Dellinger case be filed by 2 p.m. (ET) tomorrow.
That quick turnaround suggests that #SCOTUS is hoping to rule sometime this week.
For much more background, see:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...
That quick turnaround suggests that #SCOTUS is hoping to rule sometime this week.
For much more background, see:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...
125. The Court's First Trump II Case Won't Be a Bellwether
The challenge to Trump's removal of the head of the Office of Special Counsel raises unique procedural and substantive issues likely to prevent it from serving as a referendum—in either direction.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Chief Justice Roberts has ordered that a response to the government's emergency application in the Dellinger case be filed by 2 p.m. (ET) tomorrow.
That quick turnaround suggests that #SCOTUS is hoping to rule sometime this week.
For much more background, see:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...
That quick turnaround suggests that #SCOTUS is hoping to rule sometime this week.
For much more background, see:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/125-the-co...
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russian mp oleg morozov reacts to trump/putin call on state-run russiya tv
“that’s the best thing about politics: sometimes it exceeds your wildest expectations…i can’t recall another day in recent history that has changed our moods so much."
“that’s the best thing about politics: sometimes it exceeds your wildest expectations…i can’t recall another day in recent history that has changed our moods so much."
February 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
russian mp oleg morozov reacts to trump/putin call on state-run russiya tv
“that’s the best thing about politics: sometimes it exceeds your wildest expectations…i can’t recall another day in recent history that has changed our moods so much."
“that’s the best thing about politics: sometimes it exceeds your wildest expectations…i can’t recall another day in recent history that has changed our moods so much."
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The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.
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This one needs to read the Constitution. Money doesn’t erase it.
February 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This one needs to read the Constitution. Money doesn’t erase it.
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Eliminating an Agency is not within the power of the President or an unelected billionaire. Separation of powers and checks and balances. We must #Resist.
Please watch and share.
@altusaid.bsky.social
#saveforeignaid
#standwithUSAID
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...
Please watch and share.
@altusaid.bsky.social
#saveforeignaid
#standwithUSAID
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...
youtu.be
February 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Eliminating an Agency is not within the power of the President or an unelected billionaire. Separation of powers and checks and balances. We must #Resist.
Please watch and share.
@altusaid.bsky.social
#saveforeignaid
#standwithUSAID
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...
Please watch and share.
@altusaid.bsky.social
#saveforeignaid
#standwithUSAID
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...
Beattie is at State now.
Trump new head of public diplomacy, Darren Beattie, says “NATO is a much greater threat to American liberty than Putin.” 5/
February 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Beattie is at State now.
This is a good read.
Here’s an article explaining it re USAID.
The same people frame the same stories in the same way. Some agency is part of the deep state and must be destroyed. He boosts the theory to mass awareness AND now has the authority to make the destruction literal reality.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
The same people frame the same stories in the same way. Some agency is part of the deep state and must be destroyed. He boosts the theory to mass awareness AND now has the authority to make the destruction literal reality.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid
Musk drove fringe viewpoints on USAID into the mainstream on X as the Trump administration halted the humanitarian relief agency’s work.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is a good read.
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Musk & the DOGE henchmen are now inside & gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees.
A great day for corporate scammers.
CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees.
A great day for corporate scammers.
February 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Musk & the DOGE henchmen are now inside & gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees.
A great day for corporate scammers.
CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees.
A great day for corporate scammers.
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The US Oligarch and Nazi Elon Musk has been defeated by a German court.
Germany has ruled that Musk must immediately provide researchers with access to X's data on politically related content ahead of the country’s election.
www.politico.eu/article/berl...
Germany has ruled that Musk must immediately provide researchers with access to X's data on politically related content ahead of the country’s election.
www.politico.eu/article/berl...
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The US Oligarch and Nazi Elon Musk has been defeated by a German court.
Germany has ruled that Musk must immediately provide researchers with access to X's data on politically related content ahead of the country’s election.
www.politico.eu/article/berl...
Germany has ruled that Musk must immediately provide researchers with access to X's data on politically related content ahead of the country’s election.
www.politico.eu/article/berl...
Whew!
🚨BREAKING: In a trio of rulings, North Carolina state court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn the results of the 2024 state Supreme Court election by throwing out 60,000 lawful ballots.
A big victory for voting rights and democracy!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
A big victory for voting rights and democracy!
www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (II)
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Whew!
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If Congress appoints Russ to the OMB this week, I believe he will play a key role in legitimizing Elon’s actions. This is also why DOGE being the US Digital Service matters. There are available shrouds of precedent for SOME of his actions & he's the bureaucracy guy that will try to clean it up.
It gets worse: Trump's Treasury Dept has a new letter spinning Musk's access to payment data as a mere "audit" that expands on work done during Biden admin. It's a sham. The letter simply ignores the biggest questions about this scandal.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1911...
Trump-Musk Purge Scandal at Treasury Takes Yet Another Unsettling Turn
As the Treasury Department offers some new spin about Elon Musk’s takeover of payment systems and ousting of a top career official, Senator Ron Wyden tells us why this “reeks of a cover-up.”
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If Congress appoints Russ to the OMB this week, I believe he will play a key role in legitimizing Elon’s actions. This is also why DOGE being the US Digital Service matters. There are available shrouds of precedent for SOME of his actions & he's the bureaucracy guy that will try to clean it up.
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This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
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Even tho it was entirely predictable, it’s no less disgusting that Jill Stein is nowhere to be seen. Shoutout tho to her and all the people that voted third party and got us here.
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Even tho it was entirely predictable, it’s no less disgusting that Jill Stein is nowhere to be seen. Shoutout tho to her and all the people that voted third party and got us here.
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Elon Musk wants to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons
February 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Elon Musk wants to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons
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"First, Democrats have the most powerful congressional opposition to a governing party in modern history. Speaker Mike Johnson can’t spare a single Republican vote in the House right now." Start acting like it?
New from former congressman Tom Malinowski: www.thebulwark.com/p/five-thing...
New from former congressman Tom Malinowski: www.thebulwark.com/p/five-thing...
Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now
The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some effective tools at their disposal.
www.thebulwark.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"First, Democrats have the most powerful congressional opposition to a governing party in modern history. Speaker Mike Johnson can’t spare a single Republican vote in the House right now." Start acting like it?
New from former congressman Tom Malinowski: www.thebulwark.com/p/five-thing...
New from former congressman Tom Malinowski: www.thebulwark.com/p/five-thing...
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This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue.
(And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.)
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
(And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.)
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
February 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue.
(And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.)
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
(And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.)
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...