Author; former China lawyer; part of #NE02 #HarrisWalz team that flipped the #BlueDot; #KamalaforSC2019;老家 = 上海, but Lyon also cool.
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Listen To and Vote Like Black WomenTHREAD🧵On August 4, 1964, the bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were found after they were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. They were volunteers for "Freedom Summer." Don't know about the lynching of these heroic civil rights icons? Glad you asked.
WA administers its bar exam 2x/yr. W/out a bar license, new grads can't start their jobs. Here's the nightmare would-be WA Bar applicants encountered when the tech for administering the July exam failed: www.seattletimes.com/education-la... Hard to explain how stressful this is for young lawyers 😮💨
Inside the WA bar exam room where hundreds were kept waitingMore than 600 recent law school graduates are still in legal limbo after Washington's administration of the bar exam was canceled due to technical issues.www.seattletimes.com⤵️💯 Reminder: In terms of getting things done, Rep Lauren Underwood is who progressives think AOC is & Mayor Scott is who they think Mamdani is. Lesson? Anti-Blackness is deeply embedded in our collective psyche & results in racist assessment of performance.
PierceBaltimore has now seen the lowest number of homicides ever through 6 months of a calendar year. The BPD clearance rate for homicides is up too. Mayor Scott is a superstar & the work’s not done. www.baltimorecity.gov/mayor/news-m... www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
It’s as if the Trump peeps read Heather McGhee’s #TheSumOfUs & used it as a roadmap for destroying every good policy innovation of the last 6 decades… “Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating ItThe White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.www.nytimes.com@mayor.nyc.gov I wish you success! Residing at the other end of the country, it’s odd your campaign is now sending me fundraising texts. 🇺🇸 faces midterm elections to thwart a dictator; as such, a lot of fed candidates need our support. A mayor who doesn’t even belong to Dem party isn’t my priority.
Osborn-adjacent shenanigans in WA05? open.substack.com/pub/jerrysin... “Tavern poll specifically determined that @carmelaconroy509.bsky.social was the best-regarded challenger in the field….Conroy’s +22 among Democrats is the strongest rating any challenger earns with any group of voters polled.”
The Devil Is in the Details for WA-5A closer look at the methodology, omissions, and warnings behind Nate Powell’s 53–47 claim.open.substack.com