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Intelligence Analysts Use U.S. Smartphone Location Data Without Warrants, Memo Says
Charlie Savage, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 48 minutes ago
The disclosure comes amid growing legislative scrutiny of how the
government uses commercially available location records.
The intelligence agencies must get warrants for civil data.
Smart phones need not broadcast location data.
ISPs must behave themselves and be regulated to prevent behavior drift.
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Kremlin Welcomes Biden’s Offer to Extend Nuclear Treaty
Andrew E. Kramer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 49 minutes ago
The response from Moscow suggests that Russia will engage in talks to
continue a disarmament pact, despite the new U.S. administration’s pledge
to take a harder line on other issues.
Putin recognizes there are no winners in nuclear war.
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Senate Confirms Austin in Historic Vote, Installing First Black Defense Secretary
Catie Edmondson and Jennifer Steinhauer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The former general was approved overwhelmingly, after Congress granted him
a waiver from a law that bars anyone who has been retired from active-duty
military service for fewer than seven years from leading the Pentagon.
General Austin will serve Biden well.
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Why Kamala Harris Is a Star of the N.Y.C Mayor’s Race
Katie Glueck, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
The candidates are competing over who can best capture Washington’s
attention and assistance as New York navigates its recovery from the
pandemic.
The City of New York needs to change its tax structure.
Immediately it needs to end the pandemic and become social.
None of the candidates I am aware of seem to know these things.
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Why Kamala Harris Is a Star of the New York City Mayor’s Race
Katie Glueck, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
The candidates are competing over who can best capture Washington’s
attention and assistance as New York navigates its recovery from the
pandemic.
I don't know that she is. There are many social systems that share space in the city.
None of them should dominate the others.
An unusual person will be required to preside over this complex social structure.
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National Guard troops who protected the Capitol for Biden’s Inauguration were told to sleep in a parking garage.
John Ismay and Glenn Thrush, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago
The National Guards are not abused.
The stand down is not the emergency deployment was.
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McConnell Seeks Delay of Trump Impeachment Trial
Nicholas Fandos, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 6 hours ago
Senator Mitch McConnell’s call to delay former President Donald J. Trump’s
trial left the timetable uncertain as party leaders wrangled over the
basics of a functioning Senate.
Resolved.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/22/us/joe-biden
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Here’s What’s in Biden’s Executive Orders Aimed at Covid-19
Noah Weiland, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 6 hours ago
President Biden’s new executive orders included moves to increase testing,
organize Covid-19 data and require mask wearing for interstate travel.
Biden is struggling to control covid-19.
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Biden’s Virus Plans Meet Reality
Giovanni Russonello, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 7 hours ago
These issues havebeen resolved positively.
Covid-19 and the vaccines get the attention of the biden administration.
Science is dominant.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg is secritary of transportation.
Avril Haines is the director of national intelligence.
Lloyd Austin is Defense Secritary.
Janet Yellen is Secritary of the Treasury.
Thirty others are acting heads of agencies.
McConnell keeps the filibuster for cabinet confirmations.
Trump's senate trial is delayed for three weeks.
The senate rules remain unresolved.
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Trump's Accusers Watched the Inauguration Together on Zoom
Jessica Bennett, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago
Seven members of this self-proclaimed ‘strange sorority’ watched President
Biden’s inauguration together.
The"Kindly Ones"are reformed.
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What Jerry Brown Could Teach Joe Biden
Shane Goldmacher, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago
The former California governor and Mr. Biden both inherited acute crises
after taking over from celebrity politicians. One achieved a turnaround;
the other is just getting started.
Tactical liberal politics works.
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Lawmakers seek to return National Guard soldiers to the Capitol after they were relocated to sleep in a parking garage.
John Ismay, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 hours ago
The National Guard have lives.
Bivying in a clean parking garage is not hard duty.
Let them go home.
The Capitol police can be vetted and returned to duty.
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Banished by Trump but Brought Back by Biden, Fauci Aims to ‘Let the Science Speak’
Michael D. Shear, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
Using the kind of blunt language that so often infuriated the former
president, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the health threat from the virus was
still “very serious.”
Dr. Fauci continues to speak truth.
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Can Someone Please Open the Door?
Annie Karni and Katie Rogers, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago
The Bidens waited for an awkward moment in front of a closed door when they
arrived at their new residence, a protocol breach that turned out to be a
small but curious bit of disarray.
Trump thought he could keep the Whitehouse.
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The Logic Of Bootlickers Is The Logic Of Too Many Americans
Ian Welsh, Ian Welsh - 16 hours ago
This is sweet and lovely in the purity of its boot-licking
authoritarianism: Repeat after me: I am not smarter than Joe Biden. I am
not smarter than Kamala Harris. I am not smarter than Nancy Pelosi. I am
not smarter than James Carville. But if I l stand back and watch and learn,
I will […]
Ian Welsh does not pay attention to politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Koch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Buchanan
There is work to be done. These people seek our self destruction.
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In Biden’s Washington, Democrats and Republicans Are Not United on ‘Unity’
Peter Baker, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The new president seeks bipartisanship, but he is caught between
Republicans who want tangible concessions and Democrats who are in no mood
to compromise.
There will be no unity.
There will be more power politics.
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Forced to vacate the Capitol, National Guard soldiers are now sleeping in a parking garage.
John Ismay, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The National Guard is going home.
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Psaki Tries to Strike a New Tone in the White House Briefing Room
Katie Rogers and Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
After the Trump White House’s undisguised hostility toward reporters,
President Biden’s press secretary promised to “share the truth, even when
it’s hard to hear.”
Press Secritary is the public voice of the presidency.
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Who is Butch Bowers? Trump's New Impeachment Lawyer
Maggie Haberman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
"Every defendant deserves a defense."
Butch Bowers has a difficult project. It would be impossible if I sat the jury.
Butch Bowers has a difficult project. It would be impossible if I sat the jury.
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Pentagon Official Approves Guantánamo Trial of 3 Men for Indonesia Bombings
Carol Rosenberg, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago
The case was dormant throughout the Trump administration, and then a
military official suddenly approved it as the first new case at Guantánamo
since 2014.
The prison at Guantánamo is a war crime and should be closed.
The prisoners should be tried in civilian courts or released with reparations.
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