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Okay. That was quick. I’m done with Biden. Renata Hesse is total nightmare for workers. Her previous stint in DOJ had her tightening restrictions on songwriters while letting big tech off the hook. She is a pawn of Silicon Valley. Be very very afraid.

The Prospect and The Intercept have learned that Renata Hesse, a former Obama Justice Department official who then went on to work for Google and Amazon, is a leading contender to head up the DoJ Antitrust Division.
— David Dayen (@ddayen) January 15, 2021

Former Google attorney Renata Hesse when working at DOJ antitrust tried to change the details of the BMI and ASCAP consent decrees that would have made a $1 Billion lawsuit against Google go away. This is horrendously corrupt. This is a terrible terrible start for Biden.

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If you only read one of these links. Read this. This is abject corruption. When faced with ex post facto constitutional obstacles (making past actions illegal) Hesse’s division claimed her new rule wasn’t new, but had always existed. https://t.co/8gbO0EPPxP

We proposed Hesse investigate actual anticompetitive actions in music tech and she did nothing. She is a tool of Google. https://t.co/E5y0cU3LSr

Disgusting this person is gonna be in charge of antitrust. https://t.co/QTGhzjBMDr

Hesse’s rule would have only benefitted a handful of big tech companies but would have devastated small business owners,

https://t.co/VhCYacjQor

This blog because it shows how expensive Hesse’s proposed rule change would have been for individual songwriters. https://t.co/9zE9SMtzoF

Songwriters had to sue the DOJ to stop. Even when proven totally wrong Hesse dug in to apparently protect Google. https://t.co/h7Gt0rQiIm

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1/ I don't know why @TheRealCletus1 can't do this himself, but I have to do it for him.

Odd, uncharacteristic and one-off items surrounding the Biden presidency.
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2. Trump leaves on AF1, Biden flies small private jet.

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Biden saying that Rs “beat the living hell out of us” in downballot races across the country is significant, because (1) he said it to an audience that didn’t really want to hear it and https://t.co/FM7OwUgWYH 1/8

(2) because he wouldn’t have said it unless it was based on conclusive internal polling. 2/8

It is also encouraging if it *is* the correct analysis of Ds’ disappointing-- even calamitous--electoral outcomes in downballot races.

It is encouraging because it is easily remediable with better messaging. 3/8

In fact, Biden made it clear during the election that he did not favor actually defunding the police: that he only favored reforming the police, and specified policies to do that. But he didn’t say it loud enough, and downballot D politicians didn’t either. 4/8

(The R messaging over “defunding the police” seems to have worked to protect R politicians in downballot races, but wasn’t enough to get Trump himself reelected over the repugnance Ds and Independents felt for him.) 5/8

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Sitting down to work for the first day of the Biden presidency is a surreal feeling.

So much happened yesterday. I'm going to collect my threads here on yesterday's big immigration news.

First, we got key details of Biden's big immigration

There is a LOT to like about this bill. I want to highlight some of the proposed changes beyond just legalization, including:

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- Preventing "aging out" of children on nonimmigrant visas.https://t.co/jkFBIcNJEb
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 20, 2021

Once Biden had officially taken office, we got the first major action. As part of a standard transition process, the Biden White House froze all regulations which Trump had been trying to finalize at the last hour. I did a thread on what we

This is a standard order issued following every transition, but today it feels so important because of how many horrific things were in the pipeline.

Here's a brief thread about some of the terrible anti-immigration regulations that didn't make it across the finish line.

1/ https://t.co/q0QpfVxPXm
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 20, 2021

Last night we started getting more changes. One of the first was an order telling CBP to stop putting people into the so-called "Migrant Protection Protocols," a cruel program that's left thousands in a dangerous limbo. But there's still more to do!

Incredible.\U0001f38a I am overwhelmed with joy that we are finally seeing the end to one of the most cruel and heartless policies of the last four years\u2014one that caused horrific damage to peoples' lives.

The first part of the promise was kept. Now #LetThemIn!https://t.co/PZGrbvagaa https://t.co/PMeOxrKJvm
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 21, 2021

After that, we began getting the text of immigration executive orders. The first one put onto the White House's website was the order ending the Muslim Ban/Africa Ban and ordering the State Department to come up with a plan for reconsidering

\U0001f38aWe have our first immigration EO and it's the order ending the Muslim Ban/Africa Ban!

The Bans "are a stain on our national conscience and are inconsistent with our long history of welcoming people of all faiths and no faith at all."https://t.co/4lh20OCCAY pic.twitter.com/8mW9wuPyzc
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 21, 2021

The next immigration executive order put on the White House's website revoked a Trump executive order from January 26, 2017 which made all undocumented immigrants a priority for deportation and directed a DHS-wide review of immigration

\U0001f38aSecond immigration EO! It is short. It establishes that Biden believes that immigration enforcement "requires setting priorities to best serve the national interest."

It then revokes Trump's original EO that made all undocumented immigrants a priority.https://t.co/MvaeqPbiyK pic.twitter.com/dpkVZAKOT2
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) January 21, 2021

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