@_vectorist

consumer law, antitrust, admin law. Trucks and farms w/@antimonopolyUS, SNAP/Medicaid policy elsewhere. Past: @CFPB @HouseJudiciary @ACLU. DIY philly guy

 Philadelphia, PA
Joined March 2019
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Who could have predicted this Oh wait I did back in March and begged congressional Dems to use their appropriations leverage to do something about it
Jonathan Blitzer@JonathanBlitzerOct 21
The Department of Homeland Security is openly engaging in an unprecedented, partisan campaign to intervene in the midterm elections. My latest piece @NewYorker surveys the effort and looks at what it means at the local level: newyorker.com/news/the-polit…

How ICE Is Targeting the 2026 Midterms

In the run-up to the election, the Trump Administration is turning its immigration crackdown into a desperate hunt for voter fraud.

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A massive scandal. Rep. Clyburn was steering contracts to Navatek, the same company Dems are hitting Susan Collins over. He was doing the *exact* same thing. Some people on the Hill, both elected and staff, need to lose their jobs today.
Molly Redden@mtreddenOct 20
New: In early 2025, the FBI embarked on a major bribery investigation involving some of the most powerful men in Washington: Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and Rep. Joe Wilson. Then Trump purged the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry out the investigation. It’s dead. 🧵
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Replying to @admcrlsn @mehdirhasan @JGreenblattADL
interested to hear more about ADL’s change in policy
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Someone’s getting nervous about the 120th Congress
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Replying to @EWess92
Personally I think it’s unfair to hold the Wikipedia against him. This bio on the NYU Journal of Law and Social Change however, which also refers to him as a “litigator,” was more likely to have been provided by him
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OS2NOX@OS2NOXOct 17
DSA's National Political Committee will vote on whether to expel Nithya Raman as a member and whether to rescind DSA-LA's endorsement of her on October 19 The NPC has already voted and found DSA-LA to have violated DSA R22 for failing to question Raman on her support for BDS
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“Suppression?” Absolutely not. This is “curation,” according to free speech advocates. The censorship is free speech actually
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanillaOct 17
(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @THR hollywoodreporter.com/news/p…
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Wildly dated, dumb take from Yglesias—Alinsky was passé on the left when I was an organizer-in-training in the late 2000s. Alinsky/IAF-model organizing stresses building coalitions of churches, unions, etc., which Mamdani’s Gaza hecklers arent doing. FoxNews-Obama brained stuff
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IMO the city hiring is a sideshow; the key to understanding this story is the botched murder investigation in 2023. Did shoddy police work let a killer go free, who would go on to kill an officer? Or, did PPD frame an innocent man, making this seem like some sort of revenge?
mindy🌷@mindyisserOct 15
i don’t get why people wouldn’t want this guy to have a job. like yes he’s obviously a bad guy. but if he’s not in jail AND he’s unemployed, that seems worse for him and society? inquirer.com/politics/philad…

How the man accused of killing a Philly police officer got a city job despite his criminal history

Philadelphia's "ban the box" law prohibits employers from considering some parts of a job applicant's criminal history.

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The Republican destruction of Medicaid is causing a mass-closure of rural maternity wards. Labor and delivery across the country will face a massive funding and staffing crisis in just a few months. Here’s your “pro-natalist” party
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