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Judge’s ballot ruling could upend NJ’s boss politics beyond Andy Kim’s Senate race (www.politico.com)

Biden Administration Finalizes Rule Curbing Use of Short-Term Health Plans (www.nytimes.com)

The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces....

How an obscure 19th Century law is being weaponized against bodily autonomy and abortion rights (www.salon.com)

“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates (www.propublica.org)

His job is to interpret the Constitution. Would he rather run the FDA? (wapo.st)

But Alito was the only justice who had voted on more than one case and whose record aligned perfectly with his ideological predispositions: There were zero cases in which he found that a conservative litigant lacked standing, and zero cases in which he found that a liberal plaintiff had standing to sue.

Harris finds herself, often, a half step further than Biden on Israel (www.politico.com)

“The vice president declined to speculate on a hypothetical situation, consistent with the administration’s position. We continue to have concerns about a major military operation in Rafah. We are never going to leave Israel unable to defend itself,” a Harris aide told POLITICO on condition of anonymity to discuss internal...

State department official’s resignation highlights rifts over US Gaza policy (www.theguardian.com)

A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses.

Why IVF looks different in the US than in the rest of the world (www.vox.com)

new video Ordinary Things about DAVOS (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. flirts with the Libertarian nomination (www.politico.com)

This New Jersey mayor wants to be a governor like Ron DeSantis or Greg Abbott — but for the left (www.politico.com)

Biden administration indicts and sanctions Chinese hackers accused of sweeping espionage campaign against US targets | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

EPA climate program: Sneak peek at 2028 Democratic primary (www.politico.com)

Lawmakers ask why the Biden administration won't let immigration judges talk to the media (www.nbcnews.com)

Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)

Democrats issue warning to Joe Biden (www.newsweek.com)

Gov. Gordon vetoes bill that would have closed Wyoming clinic providing procedural abortions (www.wyomingpublicmedia.org)

US congressional leaders propose spending bill that would cut UNRWA funding (www.aljazeera.com)

It is not uncommon for US legislators to use so-called “must pass” bills to advance their policy priorities and UNRWA has been in the crosshairs of pro-Israel members of Congress for years....

Senior Indian opposition politician arrested ahead of general election (www.ft.com)

NY AG takes step toward seizing Trump assets (thehill.com)

Hannah Arendt Prize: "Comparison is the way we know the world" (www.zeit.de)

We are not any smarter, kinder, wiser, or more moral than people who lived ninety years ago. We are just as likely to needlessly give up our political power and to remain willfully ignorant of darkness as it’s dawning. But we know something they didn’t know: we know that the Holocaust is possible.

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