@13:30, 4/4/17

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Today’s Paper

Quotation of the Day: In Lawsuit After Lawsuit, It’s Everyday People v. Trump

Apr 1st 2017

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, April 1, 2017.

"Standing in the door" will get one hurt.

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The Upshot

How Gorsuch’s Influence Could Be Bigger Than His Single Vote

By JUSTIN WOLFERS | Apr 4th 2017

A study finds the presence of a liberal or conservative justice can move the entire court left or right, and not only with their own vote.

Gorsuch should not sit on the supreme court.

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Food

Matzo With a Helping of Motherly Love

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Apr 3rd 2017

The matzos and matzo chips from a Brooklyn company come in boxes bearing admonitions from mom.

Get the "Kosher for Passover".
It is "the bread of affliction".

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U.S.

Strategic Debate in Gorsuch Battle: Use Filibuster Now or Later?

By CHARLIE SAVAGE | Apr 4th 2017

Deploying the filibuster now might please an energized liberal base, but Democrats could lose a weapon that would be more potent in a future Supreme Court fight.

If this fight is lost there may be no future.

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Food

Jam to Bring Back a Taste of Summer Vacation

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Apr 3rd 2017

Bleuberet Artisanal Foods now sells four jams made with wild blueberries from New England.

Childhood home.
Low bush is a different fruit.

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Opinion

It’s O.K., California. Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do.

By STEVEN GREENHUT | Apr 4th 2017

By breaking up the state, millions of people could have a chance at self-government.

This argument was over in 1865.
County government is illustrative of the probable result.

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U.S.

Tribes That Live Off Coal Hold Tight to Trump’s Promises

By JULIE TURKEWITZ | Apr 1st 2017

The Crow of Montana are among several Indian nations looking to the president’s pledges to end Obama-era coal rules or approve new oil and gas wells.

Native Americans are human.

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U.S.

In Gorsuch Confirmation Battle, Both Sides Spin and Mislead

By LINDA QIU | Apr 3rd 2017

There is no "common ground".
The fight is existential.

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U.S.

Fist or Glove: California Democrats Debate Response to Trump

By ADAM NAGOURNEY | Apr 4th 2017

Many Democrats in the state say they want to go to the barricades, but others are urging a more measured diplomacy.

The south lost the Civil War.

Wholesale violence is a losing tactic.

Let the Republicans end subsidies.
Keep the entitlements.

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Food

With Arrival of Avocado Bar, Brooklyn Has It All

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Apr 3rd 2017

The Avocaderia in Industry City sells smoothies, salads and, yes, avocado toast.

Avocado is delicious.


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