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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

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I have seen, maybe, *one* episode of THIS IS US. But when the Bat-signal went up for "Pennsylania election law" + "something in pop culture" ....

Would Randall Actually Win His Election on This Is Us?

We asked Philly’s political experts.

www.vulture.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

@BrittanyHailer No one coughs like Gaston Keeps masks off like Gaston No one scoffs at the words of the docs like Gaston He's especially good at expectorating ....

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@adambonin

3 years

I can't be the only one disappointed that this season of THE CROWN omitted the 1988 assassination attempt against the Queen while she was on a state visit to Southern California, when renowned opera singer Enrico Palazzo foiled a hypnotized ballplayer's effort at an Angels game.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Of all the attacks Hawley could make, this is one's particularly dumb and false: the PA law expanding vote by mail was pased with near-unanimous Republican support in October 2019, and was in effect in the June primary, too. Wasn't challenged until weeks after Trump lost. (1/2)

Leigh Ann Caldwell

@LACaldwellDC

3 years

.⁦ @HawleyMO ⁩ sends email to fellow Senate republicans tonight, responding to ⁦ @SenToomey ⁩ and defending his decision to challenge the Pa EC vote. He says they should debate on the Senate floor, not through press release and email.

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@adambonin

1 year

Last time she torched something like that, it was Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign.

Elizabeth Warren

@ewarren

1 year

Looks like I only set half the marshmallows on fire.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

I don't know how strongly I can suggest how tone-deaf and offensive it is, today of all days, to have a Jews for Jesus leader at a campaign event instead of an actual Jewish rabbi.

Howard Mortman

@HowardMortman

6 years

Rabbi Loren Jacobs of Messianic synagogue Shema Yisrael offers prayer before VP Pence speaks at Michigan campaign event: "God of Abraham ... God and Father of my Lord and Savior Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah...hate inspired shooting in synagogue in Pittsburgh"

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

So here's what the official 9/11 Commission Report has to say about the VP's claim of Iranian facilitation of the 9/11 Attacks.

Mike Pence

@Mike_Pence

4 years

Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

In a 5-2 decision this afternoon, the @SupremeCtofPA has ruled that Phila Bd of Elections acted properly in setting up its access rules for canvass observers, rejecting Trump efforts (and an intermediate court ruling) seeking closer access.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

RIP to the Harlem Globetrotters' Curly Neal, and I'm not sure how to convey to younger than Gen X how nicely ubiquitous he and the team were when we were growing up. They'd be on Wide World of Sports a few times a year, did a Gilligan's Island movie, helped solve crimes....

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

I'll make it simple, @chuckschumer : shut the Senate down. No unanimous consent, no nothing. A Supreme Court nomination cannot reach the floor in 2018.

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@adambonin

8 years

This will be the first time the Chicago Cubs get to play in an integrated World Series.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

What a patriot sounds like: McCain, 2008 RNC: "And, finally, a word to Senator Obama ... you have my respect and my admiration. Despite our differences, much more unites us than divides us. We are fellow Americans, and that's an association that means more to me than any other."

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

Thrilled to see our friends @JohnFetterman @giselefetterman back in Monroe County** today. Every county, every vote. *P.S. to @DrOz : it's in Pennsylvania.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

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Folks, if you're going to dunk on the (for the moment, still a licensed) attorney who used Chat GPT to perform legal research, don't omit the part where he gave the Court the transcript of his queries to Chat GPT which made him believe that the research was in fact reliable.

southpaw

@nycsouthpaw

11 months

Behold one of the many ways in which generative AI can change your life.

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@adambonin

6 years

the week has been won.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

That's not a floppy disk. That's a 3.5" hard disk. Floppies are 5 1/4" and can be double sided with a hole punch.

lex in tx

@alexissTyler

3 years

If you are old enough to remember using a floppy disk 💾 (without having to google what a floppy disk is) RT this. I’m trying to see something

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@adambonin

3 years

"Wow, I've never seen an Andy Reid team disappoint like this in a big game" said no Eagles fan, ever.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

"Fetterman’s wide-ranging interview was in sharp contrast to Mehmet Oz, who has been invited for a similar meeting and hasn’t accepted. Oz also refused to speak to editorial board... When he has taken questions, Oz has often been evasive on key issues."

We sat in on John Fetterman’s endorsement interview. Here’s what he said about Bob Casey, abortion,...

Democrat John Fetterman said he'd prioritize "forgotten communities," abortion rights, and the minimum wage if he's elected to the Senate, though he was often vague on more detailed policy questions.

www.inquirer.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

. @BernieSanders better have a real good reason why he wasn't in DC to help draft *and vote on* coronavirus response legislation tonight, instead choosing to do an online "rally" from Burlington VT. As both a Senator and a candidate for President, he owes us answers.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

5 years

The NFL has revenue sharing, a salary cap (and team spending floors), and a player entry draft designed to reward the weakest teams. That's socialism, not capitalism.

Dan Crenshaw

@DanCrenshawTX

5 years

Should someone propose a 70% tax on the Patriots so that NFL competition is more fair and equal? Asking for a friend.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Daily reminder that the reason the PA vote canvass will take as long as it does is because PA Republicans refused a bipartisan request from our 67 counties to let them do prep work in advance of Election Day.

Gov. Wolf says Republicans walked away from pre-canvassing deal; Republicans deny deal was offered

Pennsylvania counties have requested ability to pre-canvass

www.wtae.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Moreover, it is decidedly not the role of Congress to decide whether the PA Constitution was violated. Even if it were here (it wasn't), it would be insanely absurd and unconstitutional to erase the votes of ~2.6M Pennsylvanians who were told this was a valid way to vote. (2/2)

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

🚨🚨 @SupremeCtofPA will exercise its extraordinary jurisdiction ("King's Bench") powers and take over the PA Congressional redistricting process. Judge McCullough to make recommendations by 2/7, parties can object by 2/14, Court to hear oral argument on 2/18.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

Look: I don't care how much of this is ex post statue-shining for GWB boosters: the fact that a President of the United States *voluntarily read a book* and was spurred into action is so alien to our experience these past 3+ years that we should take note.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

@MichelleBoisve2 @RMFifthCircuit As part of the team here in PA, thank you, but a seriously large part of the praise has to go to the unstoppable, talented attorneys for the Secy of State/Governor, the many county boards of elections, and the strong amicus briefs.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

I really don't know how to define white, male privilege more clearly than Jimmy Kimmel not getting out of the way of Quinta Brunson's moment. #Emmys2022

Glen Weldon

@ghweldon

2 years

BREAKING: White bro literally won’t move out of the damn way to let the black woman have her moment alone. #Emmys

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@adambonin

3 years

Yo, Philly: you told your friends, "don't wait to vote, and don't trust the mail. Use dropboxes!" They listened! In the end, only *535* Philadelphians voted by mail with ballots received during the three-day extension. Astounding.

Philadelphia Counted Over 500 Mail Ballots Received During Disputed Extension

Philadelphia counted 535 ballots that arrived in the mail during the state’s hotly-disputed extended deadline, a city election official said Sunday. That included 385 votes for President-elect Joe...

www.wsj.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

If you can text your co-workers "I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story," and still keep a prestigious future clerkship with Chief Judge Pryor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, then maybe we don't have enough cancel culture yet.

Eric Segall

@espinsegall

3 years

It gets worse. Apparently Judge Pryor will not answer questions about why he hired a law clerk who said she “hated Black people.”

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

shocked, shocked that a campaign managed by Bill Stepien ends with people intentionally blocking traffic on NY area bridges.

Midnight Rider🇺🇸 Trump is still your President!

@m1dn7ghtrider

4 years

I hope AOC isn’t using the Whitestone Bridge today there is a lot of traffic! 🇺🇸

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@adambonin

6 years

11. This is seriously weird for me. As my wife just said, this is my moment of being Marissa Tomei and being the only person on Twitter who knows a lot about which cars have positraction.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

SNL led off with a primary Dem debate sketch tonight and there's not a single tweet on my feed about it, a silence which speaks volumes to how politicall yirrelevant the show has rendered itself. I'll say it again: a collection of impressions is not the same as satire.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

5 years

If no team scores at least 14 points, the Eagles remain champions for another year.

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@adambonin

6 years

The handmaids are here to protest Mike Pence.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

In a 2-1 decision, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the trial court's ruling that the Trump campaign has no right to send "pollwatchers" into Philadelphia's 17 satellite voting centers.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

I'm not entirely sure why today's iteration of the Waffle House Bet captured so much attention compared to this attempt in January which is a better story altogether.

A fantasy football bet leads to a $1,000 tip for a Waffle House server | CNN

A fantasy football punishment for finishing last leads to one man taking on a waffle eating challenge, resulting in a $1,000 tip for his Waffle House server from viewers of his livestream.

www.cnn.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

I always ask my conservative friends this: for tens (or hundreds) of thousands of fake votes to be inserted into the Pennsylvania statewide election, exactly how many people would need to be in on it? How would it work? And there's never a plausible answer.

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@adambonin

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

3 years

THEY WOULD’NT LET REPUBLICAN POLL WATCHERS INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!

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@adambonin

4 years

Olivia Pope: "I don't do lost causes or tilt at windmills. I don't perform miracles or do the impossible. I make cold calculations about difficult situations and I do not take on anything I know I won't win. And I will win this. I just need you to trust me. I promise you."

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

We're now directly in "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" territory.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Never let it be said that Michael Bay made things difficult for filmgoers.

Dates in Movies

@DatesInMovies

3 years

Mar 9th 1995 - "His wife" died. #TheRock

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

The newest GOP lawsuit in PA argues that PA Republicans acted unconstitutionally 13 months ago in creating "mail-in" voting, and the only proper remedy (2 elections later) is to throw out all mail-in ballots or let the GOP General Assembly pick a winner.🙄

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

By the way, PA voters: Just because you *can* theoretically wait until Election Day to mail your ballot doesn't mean you should. There's no guarantee your ballot will be postmarked that day. Vote as early as you can. Use dropboxes and early voting centers if you can. VOTE.

Lawrence Hurley

@lawrencehurley

4 years

NEW: Supreme Court denies Republican request to limit mail-in voting in Pennsylvania

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@adambonin

4 years

For anyone in the Philadelphia area, this is the equivalent of Walter Cronkite telling America the truth about the Vietnam War.

Action News on 6abc

@6abc

4 years

"How has wearing a mask come to mean anything other than a means to protecting the lives of those around you?" An important message from @Jim_Gardner

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

While everyone else focuses on Oz having an NYC physician and not one in Pennsylvania, I want to ask a related question: why is there any need to redact his address here ... unless this was sent to him at his New Jersey home? (His claimed PA address is public record.)

Justin Sweitzer

@justin_sweitzer

2 years

News: Dr. Mehmet Oz has released medical records in response to a recent editorial from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A letter (dated yesterday) from a physician released by the Oz campaign deems Oz to be in "overall excellent health." Here's the first page of the letter:

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

7 years

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when an awards show doesn't do the bit about how the envelopes are prepared and guarded carefully by accountants.

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@adambonin

3 years

This is the origin story for Gritty. HT: @rbarnard0

Bradford Pearson

@BradfordPearson

3 years

Philly wild right now

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@adambonin

2 years

He's at Villanova. An idyllic Main Line suburb surrounded by other idyllic Main Line suburbs. The most dangerous thing he could do would be to mess with a Bryn Mawr, Baldwin, or Agnes Irwin student because they are *fierce*.

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

2 years

My son goes to school here in Pennsylvania. And as a mom, I worry about his safety every single time he steps foot off campus. I know @DrOz will have the backs of law enforcement and keep our kids safe—and that's why I'm asking you all to vote for him on Election Day.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

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I'm not normally one for hyperbole, but @Lin_Manuel just did the best SNL monologue since Steve Martin's "Not Gonna Phone It In Tonight."

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

Siri, has Judge Kavanaugh ever ruled on the reliability and importance of a polygraph exam?

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

I urge y'all to read @marceelias 's essay. We have three GOP counties in PA - with ~1M voters - now refusing to comply with a state court order that they certify the results from all legally-cast ballots in a GOP primary, and not merely those ballots which *they* deem lawful.

Democracy Docket

@DemocracyDocket

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🆕📖: More than a month after the most recent primary was settled, 3 counties in Pennsylvania are still refusing to certify accurate election results. These counties foreshadow how Republicans will continue to subvert future elections, @marceelias warns.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

This added note: if Van Drew switches parties, the @FEC has ruled that it's totally okay for outside groups to use his donor list and call/write everyone to let them know that he has switched parties, and that they have the right to ask him for refunds.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

They want each county to be limited to a single dropbox, at the county board of elections. One dropbox for all ~1.1M voters in Philadelphia, one for all 900K voters in Allegheny.

Ronald Brownstein

@RonBrownstein

4 years

Trump is already suing to prevent the expanded use of drop boxes in PA-which makes the goal of voter suppression that much more overt-but they would seem to be the best solution to concerns about the Post Office returning ballots in time.

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@sepinwall

Rob Perez

@WorldWideWob

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Grizzlies didnt even kill off Dillon Brooks’ character from the show with a dramatic goodbye scene, they did that thing where they replace him with someone already on set who looks like him and dont even care if the audience notices.

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@adambonin

2 years

Bill McSwain: voter fraud is bad, bad, bad! Also Bill McSwain: here's some of the nomination petitions I filed last week.

Bill McSwain

@McSwainPA

2 years

I’m the only candidate who has prosecuted voter fraud, and I know the importance of restoring faith in our elections. As Governor I will repeal the unconstitutional Act 77 and return our Commonwealth to a system of in-person ballots so everyone can vote with confidence.

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@adambonin

7 years

I really try to be measured in my reactions to things, but this strikes me as an impeachable offense.

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@adambonin

3 years

Just to add the obvious point: if the GOP had challenged the constitutionality *prior* to the November election, millions of Pennsylvanians who chose to vote by mail would have voted in person. And thousands would still have lawfully voted by mail under the prior law. (3/4)

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

My friend @malcolmkenyatta lost the Senate primary over two months ago, and yet he still hasn't stopped criss-crossing our Commonwealth to boost the @PADems @AllIn_PA ticket. It's so damn admirable.

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta

@malcolmkenyatta

2 years

In November Pennsylvania can elect leaders in @JoshShapiroPA , @JohnFetterman , @wildforcongress , and @PAHDCC state candidates who we can be PROUD to support! We have the added benefit of beating Republicans who are out-of-touch, out-of-state, and out of their damn minds.

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@adambonin

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Golly Dean Phillips's Pennsylvania nomination petitions are interesting. Between the penmanship and the fact that some of these aren't actual addresses ... 🤢

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

8 years

The Sotomayor dissent is epic and important. It's a Black/Brown Lives Matter manifesto.

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@adambonin

8 years

I'm old enough to remember when some regarded Howard Dean as unfit for the Presidency because ,,,, one time he let out an excited scream.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

As the Republican Chief Justice of @SupremeCtofPA wrote, "There has been too much good-faith reliance, by the electorate, on the no-excuse mail-in voting regime created by Act 77 to warrant judicial consideration of the extreme and untenable remedies proposed by Appellees." (4/4)

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@adambonin

1 year

Tell me you don't understand the political geography of Pennsylvania, or the concept of population density, without telling me you don't understand the political geography of Pennsylvania, or the concept of population density.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

FWIW, Pat Toomey did not debate Katie McGinty until October 17, 2016. Oz is whining because he's losing. Badly.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

So the electrician who just left didn't want to get into politics, *but* he shared that it was mostly Antifa/BLM who were being violent on 1/6, and that he understands Biden won't be getting sworn in on Weds because Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Thankful that @josh_levin taught me about the existence of this letter, on this week's Hang Up and Listen. From Jackie Robinson to a pro-segregation NOLA sportswriter, dated July 23, 1956, ending with a mic drop of true HOF caliber. #BlackHistoryMonth

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@adambonin

1 year

@FloundOfPesh @JordanMeehan There's a range of options. Dunk tank at Knoebel's, "Exhibit" at the Andy Warhol Museum. Tender at the Eternal Tap at the Straub Brewery in St. Marys. Operator of the lost and found at Kalahari Water Park.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

If I have to, I'll explain. Promise. But the first important thing to know is that this is not a count tonight; it's unofficial and does not include absentee or provisional ballots. The formal count begins Friday, & overseas/military absentees have until next Tues to come in.

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

6 years

Lamb (D) lead down to 2,493 votes (1.4%) w/ 87% of precincts reporting. The remaining precincts lean *slightly* Saccone. This might be a good time to look up PA's recount provisions. #PA18

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

1 year

He hath brokered a peace between the brothers Gallagher; stadium tour in 2023 to follow.

New York Post

@nypost

1 year

King Charles' first-ever Christmas speech may have a 'surprise'

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@adambonin

3 years

HOLY CRAP. Justice Dougherty, co-signed by Chief Justice Baer, expressly putting on the table the suggestion that Bruce Castor's decision not to prosecute Bill Cosby was part of a corrupt deal.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

Marc's expectation was correct. "The [federal] suit seeks emergency injunctive relief to stop the certification until the courts can consider the suit filed by five of the 257 voters whose mail-in ballots are not slated to be counted in the certification."

New lawsuit filed in fight over undated Lehigh County mail-in ballots

The November election results are set to be certified Tuesday.

www.lehighvalleylive.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

I have never seen this before in a campaign finance report. @realScottWagner lost over $600K of his contributors' money in the past three months through failed investments. How can Pennsylvanians trust him with their own money? cc: @timelywriter @CPotterPgh @AndrewSeidman (1/)

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@adambonin

1 year

Joe Biden's statement on the passing of Franco Harris is personal and deeply moving. I've never heard this story.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

. @JohnFetterman :

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

So we're clear: when we are talking about "undated ballots" here in PA, these are all ballots which were voted on time, and time-stamped by the county boards of election as having been *received* on time, and which the voters signed. Not ballots which arrived late.

Trip Gabriel

@tripgabriel

2 years

In Penn, the shoe is on the other foot: Ron Hicks, a McCormick lawyer, insists all undated mail ballots be counted, the same Ron Hicks who in 2020, working for Trump, tried to throw out 1000s of mail votes. Now, Trump is the only R smearing the process.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

No. No no no, Nate. There were about 60K such ballots received in the lower-turnout primary. There were fewer than 10K in the general election only because a massive public education effort + county investment in dropboxes worked. But the risk was real.

Tens of thousands of Pa. mail ballots were turned in after the deadline. November could be worse.

“These deadlines have real consequences,” a Delaware County Council member said. “And one of them is, people are going to be disenfranchised.”

www.inquirer.com

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

3 years

The chances that the election would be close enough that late-arriving ballots in PA would be enough to change the overall outcome was maybe something like 0.5% or 1%. (There were not many of these ballots.) So if that's what people were concerned about, it was overblown.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

In selecting Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump is picking the one person who's argued more than anyone else in the nominee pool that a sitting President can't be criminally indicted under the Constitution. That's really striking.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

They asked Oz what he thought about Wawa and Sheetz and he said the most important thing in finding the right Sheetz was a high thread count.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Narrator: It would gerrymander the court.

J.J. Abbott 🦅

@jjabbott

3 years

House GOP advances plan to elect Pa. judges by region; opponents say it would ‘gerrymander the court’

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

12. PA has a lot of well-trained Democratic recount lawyers. I'm just one. @kevin_greenberg is another. There are several in Pgh. If needed, we got this.

David Axelrod

@davidaxelrod

6 years

Recount lawyers, better sit by your phones. You may be needed.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

10 months

Yet again, it's (a) Republicans committing voter fraud, not Democrats, and (b) in a way that Voter ID requirements would not matter at all.

southpaw

@nycsouthpaw

10 months

Accidentally traveling from Ohio to Virginia to Florida to try to vote in each place by Election Day 2020, as one does, as a licensed attorney who’s into Donald Trump.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

1 year

One quiet feature of Act 77, which is more famous for introducing no-excuse vote-by-mail in Pennsylvania, is that it liberalized the rules for hospitalized voters so that no longer did doctors have to sign affidavits in front of notaries, or judges approve these applications. 1/3

Thomas Jefferson University

@JeffersonUniv

1 year

This past week, the JeffVotes team delivered 85 emergency absentee ballots for people who wouldn't been able to vote otherwise.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

1 year

Looks like my friend @malcolmkenyatta has some interesting plans. 👀

Philly State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta is preparing to run for state auditor general

The Philly lawmaker who grew his profile last year running for U.S. Senate confirmed he is "seriously, seriously considering" getting in the race.

www.inquirer.com

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

Ok, thread time. 1. Almost all the voting in these counties is done on touchscreen machines. Westmoreland County has a mix of touchscreen and optical scan. So a recount won't change things much -- only the Westmoreland paper ballots & absentees/provisionals could.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

Dear Jill Stein 2016 voters, Now do you understand?

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

Whoa. @RepBrianFitz goes from up 45-38 in this Biden +5 district to down 47-37 to @ashley_ehasz once voters are (correctly) told that "Fitzpatrick also wants to restrict abortion rights, even if the woman’s life is in danger and in most cases of rape and incest." Watch this race.

PublicPolicyPolling

@ppppolls

2 years

Our latest newsletter focuses on a new Congressional poll finding that the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion has the potential to significantly alter this year’s political landscape:

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

8 years

Impossibly grateful that someone turned David Byrne's "Life During Wartime" performance into this GIF.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

If your political party's success depends on cheering for the discarding of mail-in ballots from a largely elderly population, based solely on trivial, technical defects which do not bear on whether the ballot is valid, then your party's candidates and ideas really suck.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

This is plainly deceitful nonsense, especially given that Judge Brown Jackson has a lower reversal rate than almost any of her D.C. district court colleagues. She's written over 500 opinions. She's been reversed in, like, only about a dozen of them. (1/2)

Washington Examiner

@dcexaminer

3 years

. @JoeBiden ’s pick for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has a history of writing opinions that have been overwhelmingly reversed by her prospective colleagues. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was picked to replace now-AG Merrick Garland.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

6 years

So Brett Kavanaugh seems to have lied, under oath, about conduct which was not inherently illegal. (Drinking, yearbook, more.) Had he told the truth, he'd face moral opprobrium, but not legal jeopardy. Isn't that *exactly* what he and Starr went after Clinton for?

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

"Hold on. Explain to me again what your plan is for the Third Circuit ..."

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

5 years

Really looking forward to seeing Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performing "Shallow" tonight. Here's a photo from the dress rehearsal. #Oscars

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

The same crowd which refused to understand why "standing" or "laches" mattered are going to have the hell of a time once they're told of the implications of the felony murder rule.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

My favorite Gritty sighting. Outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, on the day Biden took the lead in PA, November 6, 2020.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

David Perdue will not be in the Senate on January 6. His term ends on January 3 at noon, and his seat will be vacant until the results of the January 5 runoff are certified.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

11 months

A federal judge has denied, in its entirety, Republican efforts to dismiss our complaint alleging that Pennsylvania's handwritten date requirement on timely-received mail ballots violates the federal Materiality Provision and/or First Amendment. 1/3

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

3 years

Early draft of the Court's opinion in Texas vs. Pennsylvania.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

4 years

Wow is that an elaborate headdress.

Talking Points Memo

@TPM

4 years

WaPo: Sanders Told By U.S. Officials That Russia Is Boosting His Campaign

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

🚨🚨SCOTUS has *denied* certiorari in Benninghoff vs. 2021 LRC, a Republican challenge to PA's new state legislative reapportionment map which had claimed it had gone too far in deliberately creating districts to allow members of racial minority groups to be elected.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

11 months

Using only food, where did you grow up?

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

5 years

The generous owner/founder of Phila's @LaColombeCoffee offered to pay off the entire student lunch debt of the kids at Wyoming West, up in PA's coal country. The school board president declined his $22,000 offer. WTF.

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Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social)

@adambonin

2 years

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, on Friday at @librarycongress : “I have a seat at the table now, and I’m ready to work." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, today.

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