Al Franken
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Al Franken, Democrat from Minnesota
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Hate Alito? Hate Collins? Hate Cruz? Then you’ll love my new video about abortion and the Constitution
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@Dahlialithwick
&
@JoyceWhiteVance
walk me through Alito's
#Roe
draft. Here: Lithwick on how the GOP’s quest to reinforce our fundamentally anti-democratic structures (i.e. electoral college) has given us SCOTUS decisions like Citizens United. Subscribe:
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Democrats’ attempt to codify the right to abortion went down 49-51. We should immediately drop a bill codifying the right to use contraception. Make Republicans vote on that one! Let’s go on offense for a change!
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Congrats to
@alvarombedoya
, confirmed to be on the FTC. He was my 1st legal counsel on the Judiciary Comm. & helped create the Privacy, Technology & the Law Subcommittee, which I chaired. His commitment to address antitrust & privacy will make this country a better place.
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On the Podcast:
@anneapplebaum
(The Atlantic) & nuclear arms expert
@Cirincione
on Ukraine. Here Anne postulates that Putin’s retreat signals that this is not some kind of existential conflict that has to end in nuclear war.
Subscribe on Spotify
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Happy Mothers Day to every mom out there! But especially to Franni, our daughter Thomasin, and daughter-in-law Stephanie. And to my mother-in-law Fran, the Matriarch, who turns 99 tomorrow!!!
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This wk on The Podcast – The Atlantic Monthly’s
@anneapplebaum
& Arms Expert
@Cirincione
on Ukraine & Putin and What We Know and What We Don’t Know, Turns out A LOT and A LOT. Here Anne describes Putin’s “genocidal project.”
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Saw
@SarahKSilverman
’s new musical - BEDWETTER - in previews last night! LAUGHED! CRIED! Amazing cast! Great songs. LOVED IT!
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DOH!
Susan Collins: “If this leaked draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely inconsistent with what Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh said in their hearings and in our meetings in my office.”
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This week on The Al Franken Podcast – a repeat of a great fucking episode!
@ryandbusse
, former gun exec & NRA member trashes the gun industry & the NRA. Here, Ryan talks about what the NRA used to be, way back when.
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Susan Collins voted for Kavanaugh because he told her that Roe was settled law. Maybe now she understands SCOTUS can unsettle settled law. (And/or he was just lying).
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