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Reader S sent this piece advocating that serving politicians don’t need to write and promote books. It’s a good piece. I’d add that they don’t need to trade stocks, either.
To some of his constituents, it may seem as though Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the US Senate, has spent a bunch of time pontificating on Bluesky lately and not enough time taking decisive action against increasing fascism in America. But this coming Tuesday he will publish a new book called Antisemitism in America: A Warning, so he’ll surely have to get off Bluesky to do some book promotion.
The book purports to be a platform for the “highest-elected Jewish official in American history” to speak out in an age when Jewish hate is “surging,” at least according to the Anti Defamation League, the organization that recently defended Elon Musk’s very blatant Nazi salute, about which Schumer himself was silent. The announced first printing is 250,000.
This seems relevant:
It would be a damn shame if his tour was “marred” by protests, as the press likes to say.
Also, note that I doubt that he or any of the other cloture voters will have a town hall.
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