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Here's the piece I wrote last month on the disintegration of the neoliberal economic order, and why Democrats need to be stronger on reversing globalization, checking technology, and supporting families.
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5/ It's bad enough America has decided to have the weakest gun laws in the high income world. But in many places, our weak laws aren't even enforced.
And the consequence, as we saw in Colorado Springs, is mass murder.
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4/ Incredibly, today 61% of all U.S. counties have pledged to not fully enforce state and local gun laws.
Many of these counties are very rural and sparsely populated, but this growing insurrection against the law has strangely flown under the radar.
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3/ He was a textbook case to have his guns taken away under the state's red flag law. But it didn't happen. Why?
Probably because Colorado's El Paso county calls itself a "2nd Amendment Preservation County" and refuses to implement many state gun laws.
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2/ Colorado has a strong red flag law that allows law enforcement to petition courts to temporarily take guns away from people who threaten violence.
Last June, the shooter was arrested for a bomb threat after an armed standoff with police.
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The Colorado Springs shooter had threatened to kill police. He was a textbook case to have his guns taken away under the state's red flag law.
So why didn't it happen?
1/ A THREAD on the growing crisis of "2nd Amendment Sanctuaries"
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Thanks to the in Hartford for organizing their annual Thanksgiving meals distribution. The boys and I delivered meals this morning in our neighborhood in the south end.
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This is a mainstream Republican leader explaining how the Colorado Springs victims deserved to die.
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.@JennaEllisEsq on the Club Q shooting. The “people killed in the nightclub that night, there is no evidence/that they were Christians. Assuming they have not accepted the truth/affirmed Christ as the lord of their life they are now reaping the consequences of eternal damnation.”
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This sounds like a small deal - an agreement over car tags - but it’s actually a highly emotional issue that threatened to spiral.
Now Serbian and Kosovar leaders need to make the tough choices necessary to achieve a full mutual recognition deal.
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Serbia will stop issuing licence plates with Kosovo Cities’ denominations & Kosovo will cease further actions related to re-registration of vehicles.
I will invite the parties in the coming days to discuss next steps
I thank EUSR @MiroslavLajcak & the Parties for the hard work.
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So here are the two charts you need to win any argument over whether gun laws matter.
1. America, with more guns than any other high income nation, is a wild outlier of gun violence.
2. States with stronger gun laws have much less gun crime.
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Cathy and I were so inspired to join the emergency food distribution effort in Hartford today organized by the amazing . Get to know their work - they are changing lives in Hartford.
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We have made a decision to saturate this nation with weapons, without any regard for a person’s fitness to own a tool of potential mass murder.
It doesn’t have to be this way. We could - and must - choose a different reality.
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#UPDATE A Chesapeake police spokesperson tells us at this point he believes no more than 10 people have died. It’s unclear if the shooter was an employee. The shooter is now deceased. Officers are walking through the Walmart super center checking for victims. @WAVY_News
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I think there is no clear good/evil story about tech. Some actors are malevolent. Others are trying to do good but have become detached from the real world consequences of their products.
But regardless of motive or intent, a reckoning is overdue.
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Social media promised to connect us in exciting, revolutionary new ways. So why is loneliness increasing as social media provides us with all these new ways to be in touch?
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So weird.
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We’ve now reached the point where multiple sitting senators are doing joint interviews with Herschel Walker on Fox News
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Senator is right about the need for permitting reform:
If we don't make it easier to build clean energy infrastructure, then we'll never reach our climate goals.
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. and I sent a letter to urging the Admin to quickly implement investments in coastal resiliency from the #BipartisanInfrastructureLaw and #InflationReductionAct that will protect coastal communities from climate change.
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"It can take a decade to permit and build offshore wind, clean transportation, and major electric transmission. This is as unacceptable as it is unnecessary."
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Since 2011 has intro'd biennial Supreme Court Ethics Acts to require the justices to adopt a code of conduct. The language has changed a bit year to year but the goal is the same.
His 2017 bill called for SCOTUS to write a code within 180 days of enactment. 2/x
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America can’t go green when transit and renewable projects take a decade to permit.
In the , Conservation Law Foundation President Brad Campbell and I make the progressive case for energy and infrastructure permitting reform.
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Had a working lunch with UN Secretary General António Guterres and my friend Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar’s Foreign Minister. I’m here in Qatar as part of the U.S. delegation opening the World Cup.
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Great visit to Al Udeid Air Base to thank our servicemen and servicewomen. Got the chance to talk with Qatari Defense Minister Khalid Al Attiyah. And that good looking airman with me is UConn grad Steve Martin!
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In the midst of touring, new music, historic climate action, and more, I wrote this piece with Senator . The midterms showed us again that young people are radically effective at making change in the world.
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The more time I spend traveling the country and my state in post-pandemic America, the more convinced I am that political leaders need to start taking the loneliness epidemic seriously.
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I thought a Republican majority was going to fix inflation.
(spoiler: they aren’t)
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6/ We lost the game, the crowd was going wild, and the first thing Steny thought about was making sure I was okay.
I know...it's a silly story. Just a baseball game. But for some reason, it says everything about Hoyer. He CARES about people. Even when no one is watching.
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5/ Hoyer was Majority Leader. A big deal. Had a large security detail. But within seconds of my error, he had forced his way out of the stands and into the locker room, to find me.
"You played a great game," he told me. "And you're a just a kid. You've got plenty of games left!"
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4/ I walked straight into the locker room to sulk. Didn't even stop to collect my things in the dugout. I collapsed in despair.
And then, from down the hall, I hear a voice calling my name.
"Chris!"
"Chris!"
"Where are you? It's Steny!"
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3/ I threw to first for the game ending out, but my throw sailed into right field. The tying and winning run scored. Walk off win for the GOP.
Members of Congress take this game seriously. I was a newcomer and I blew the game. I was embarassed and devestated.
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2/ By 2008, the GOP team had run up a long winning streak. But in the bottom of the last inning, the Dems had a chance to break the streak.
The GOP loaded the bases with one out. Then, a grounder to the pitcher, who threw to me, the catcher, for the first force out, and then...
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Steny Hoyer is a legend. He's a master legislative tactician, an unerring vote counter, and a matchless deal maker.
But the one story I always remember about Steny isn't about his legislative acumen, it's about his compassion.
1/ It's from the 2008 congressional baseball game.
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NEWS: @LeaderHoyer will step down from Democratic leadership but remain in Congress. Hoyer will back @RepJeffries for Democratic leader. He will aid the caucus/leadership in an advisory role if requested. w/@heatherscope & @JakeSherman
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"Wokeness" is a made up term meant to encompass anything the right wing disagrees with. Everyone who isn't a conservative is now "woke". It's the laziest political trope going.
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As leader, Nancy Pelosi wasn't afraid to take chances. In 2006, I was a long shot candidate - running against a 24-year incumbent Republican.
But in August, she came to Waterbury to campaign for (a much younger looking) me. A lot of people thought she was wasting her time.
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More to say about Pelosi soon, but this was just one of the moments from the ACA fight when she defied skeptics all over Washington -- and within her own caucus.
"By sheer will, she turned that room around."
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7/ 2 months later, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act. And today, it's so popular the new Republican Congress won't dare touch it.
I had never seen any person do what Pelosi did that night. I've never seen it since.
There hasn't been, and will not be, anyone like her.
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6/ She told us that it was time for us to stiffen our spines and march forward. She told us the country was counting on us. I watched her single handedly WILL the caucus to act. I watched her mettle change the entire mood of the room.
When she was done, no one challenged her.
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5/ She told the room that there come times when leaders have a choice to make - stand up to the powerful status quo and change the world or give into to short term political expediency.
This was our moment, she told us, to save lives and lift millions out of health care poverty.
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4/ And then, when everyone had spoken, she picked up a handheld microphone. I expected her to give into the calls to give up.
But she didn't.
She did exactly the opposite.
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3/ I remember it like it was yesterday. Pelosi sat at the front of the room in the basement of the Capitol, and she listened politely to the calls for retreat. Even some of her most loyal progressive allies were begging her to ditch the ACA in the name of political expediency.
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