Jamie Raskin Makes Marjorie Taylor Greene's Cynical Stunt Go Up in FLAMES

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Resurfaced Stephen Miller Clip PERFECTLY Explains His Disgusting Worldview

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MAGA Bigot Proves She's MUCH More Ignorant Than We Once Thought

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets BRUTALLY Fact-Checked Straight to Her Face

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MAGA Idiot Throws a Fit After Democrat Hits Him with the Facts

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THE CULT WILL IGNORE THE FACTS BECAUSE THEY INVENTED THE FAIRY TALE ABOUT TRUMP.... 

THERE'S FAR MORE NOT INCLUDED....

TRUMP slashed CDC FUNDING which cut US STAFFING in CHINA

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COVID DEATHS were higher in REPUBLICAN VOTING areas that believed TRUMP LIES and refused to protect themselves. TRUMP promoted the ALIEN SPERM DONOR DOCTOR, DR. STELLA IMMANUEL... RON DESANTIS appointed LADAPO who embraced this propaganda to protect FLORIDA's PUBLIC HEALTH! excerpt:

One of the video's main speakers, Dr. Stella Immanuel, is a physician who operates a medical clinic in a Texas strip mall next to her church, Firepower Ministries. In the video, she called hydroxychloroquine a "cure" and said, "You don't need a mask" to prevent the virus' spread. Immanuel has claimed that ovarian cysts and endometriosis are caused by "demonic seed." Demons insert sperm into sleeping individuals when they have sex in their dreams, Immanuel claimed in articles on her church's website. Ladapo has also promoted the anti-parasite medication ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 symptoms. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised against using ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-new-surgeon-general-appeared-demon-sperm-doctors-covid-conspiracy-video-1631372

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THANK YOU ANDREW CUOMO for defining TRUMP'S COVID FAILURES! 

COVID is an RNA virus and the poorly educated embraced every whack-a-ding nonsense that continues to this day.... If handled appropriately, maybe we could have stopped COVID before it mutated...today, uneducated TRUMPERS cheer when Daffy Don says he'll stop mandatory vaccinations in schools...that defines STUPID!

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Certified MAGA nutcase Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shed crocodile tears about the lives lost during the onset of the pandemic while grilling disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, but thankfully Rep. Jamie Raskin was taking part in the same hearing and gave some much-needed context to her ridiculous argument. Sharon Reed breaks it down on Rebel HQ Be a driving force for change by supporting our work: https://go.tyt.com/rebelhq  Sharon Reed's Twitter:   / sharonreedlive   Sharon Reed's Instagram:   / sharonreedlive   Sharon Reed's Facebook:   / sharon.reed   #News #Politics #SharonReed

POLITICO NIGHTLY: Andrew Cuomo, a man searching for a plan

 

View in browser   BY JOSEPH SPECTOR Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo | Mary Altaffer-Pool/Getty Images NOW WHAT? First, he was rumored to be considering a run for his old attorney general seat, a way to enact revenge on his chief foe, Attorney General Tish James. Then the speculation shifted: He might run in a Democratic primary for governor, entering a three-candidate field to blow up the race and hope to come out victorious, returning to Albany to redeem his family name after scandal felled his time in office. He chose not to do either. The petitioning process came and went earlier this month and nary a petition submitted by the once dominant figure in New York government. So now what for Andrew Cuomo? After first taking office in 2011, Cuomo appears committed to trying to stay in the spotlight — with his dwindling stockpile of campaign cash, name recognition and bully pulpit — but probably not an immediate run for office. In recent months, Cuomo has run TV ads with his $16 million left in campaign cash and gave two speeches at Black churches in a bid to rebuild his brand after he resigned last August amid sexual harassment allegations. The allegations were deemed credible in a report by James, and several other scandals — including undercounting Covid deaths in nursing homes and a $5 million book deal that used state resources — also fueled his demise. He continues to garner attention in New York and the nation, though not close to as much as when his daily briefings became national news and were viewed as a counter to President Donald Trump’s tepid response. The three-term Democratic governor said he was the victim of today’s cancel culture. He was also probably referring to his younger brother, Chris, who was fired by CNN as its top-rated host for huddling with Andrew’s aides to try to discredit his brother’s accusers. “It is a social death penalty. Anyone can get canceled at any time. And it happens today with frequency,” he said in a March 17 speech in the Bronx. Cuomo, the pugilist politician from blue-collar Queens and son of late three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo, probably wanted nothing more than to crush his enemies and return to his soft leather seat in the ornate governor’s office in Albany. But that doesn’t appear to be reality. He doesn’t run for office when it’s clear he’s not the odds-on favorite after his first run for governor in 2002 flamed out in disaster: He quit just days before the primary. This time, polls show it to be an extraordinarily uphill battle to beat his successor and former lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, in a primary. A Siena College poll last month showed 67 percent of registered voters did not want him to run for governor, and 56 percent believed that he sexually harassed women. A Siena poll in February found 80 percent of voters said he made the right decision to resign. Not numbers that instill hope of a successful comeback after he quit rather than face a likely impeachment by the state Legislature. “I don’t think New York should have ever taken him seriously,” said New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Wiliams, a Democratic candidate for governor. “If the Legislature had impeached, we wouldn’t be talking about him right now. But there is a danger if he ran in the general, so we’ve got to take that seriously.” Cuomo’s last hope this year to enter the race for governor? A quixotic run as an independent — a move that even technically would be hard to pull off with the number of petition signatures required by the end of May. And even if he does run, he would likely just split the vote among Democrats and could hand the election to Republicans — who haven’t won a statewide race in New York since 2002. “Andrew Cuomo does not like to lose elections, and Andrew Cuomo, I don’t believe, would want to be seen as a spoiler helping to elect a Republican,” said Siena College poll spokesperson Steve Greenberg, who is also a veteran political consultant. “That doesn’t seem like credentials Andrew Cuomo would want as part of his legacy.” So for now, he appears poised to take shots at the state of affairs in New York politics, play arm-chair quarterback … and have the occasional dinner with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. On Monday, Cuomo chided Hochul in an op-ed in the New York Daily News — not by name — over the resignation of her Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin last week after he was charged in a bribery scandal. He failed to mention the list of those in his inner circle who went to prison in corruption scandals during his 11 years in office. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. “Well that was a stressful 15 minutes.” Yes it was, Andrew Desiderio, our colleague who was tweeting after this evening’s alert to evacuate the Capitol due to what was then deemed by the U.S. Capitol Police “an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex.” Thankfully, shortly after, USCP gave the all clear, and the incident seems to have been triggered by a parachute display for Military Appreciation Day at the Nationals-Diamondbacks baseball game. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com. Or contact tonight’s author at jspector@politico.com, or on Twitter at @JoeSpectorNY.   INTRODUCING DIGITAL FUTURE DAILY - OUR TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER, RE-IMAGINED:  Technology is always evolving, and our new tech-obsessed newsletter is too! 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Go inside the minds of the biggest tech players, policymakers and regulators to learn how their decisions affect our lives. Don't miss out, subscribe today.     WHAT'D I MISS? — CDC asks DOJ to appeal travel mask mandate ruling: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Department of Justice today to appeal a federal judge’s injunction against its travel mask mandate in order “to protect CDC’s public health authority.” “It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health,” the CDC said in a statement. — U.S. unveils new sanctions as Russia continues Donbas assault: The Biden administration today leveled new sanctions against a Russian commercial bank, a Russian oligarch and a group of companies operating in Russia’s virtual currency mining industry . The actions, announced by the Treasury Department, come on the second day of Russia’s new offensive in the Donbas region of southeastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have launched their anticipated assault after withdrawing from the northern part of the country. — Yellen, others walk out of G-20 meeting when Russian minister speaks: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other global policymakers walked out of a meeting of the Group of 20 major economies in Washington today when Russia’s finance minister began speaking, according to a person familiar with the matter. Yellen left the session along with Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and multiple other finance ministers and central bank governors once Anton Siluanov, the Russian finance minister who joined the meeting virtually, began to address the gathering, the person said. Some economic policymakers from other countries who joined virtually turned off their cameras when Siluanov began to speak, the person added. — Biden admin weighs reopening U.S. Embassy in Kyiv: The Biden administration is resisting growing calls from U.S. lawmakers, former diplomats and others to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv , a move advocates say would send a signal of Western strength and unity to Russia as its war on Ukraine nears the two-month mark. Multiple U.S. diplomats privately say they want an American return to the Ukrainian capital, an area from which Russian forces have withdrawn. More than a dozen European countries, including Slovenia, Italy and Spain, as well as the European Union, already have reopened their Kyiv missions or intend to do so. — Bernie Sanders hasn’t ‘ruled out’ running for president if Biden doesn’t seek reelection: Sen. Bernie Sanders has not “ruled out” a run for the White House in 2024 if President Joe Biden declines to seek another four years , according to a campaign memo obtained by POLITICO. The memo was circulated by Faiz Shakir, a top Sanders political adviser and his campaign manager in 2020. First reported by The Washington Post, the memo was distributed to allies, advising them how to “embrace the attacks” regarding Sanders’ support for their candidates in 2022. — Bidens will attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner this month: The Bidens’ attendance at the April 30 event would make them the first “first couple” to take part in the festivities since Barack and Michelle Obama attended in 2016. Donald and Melania Trump boycotted and occasionally counter-programmed the black-tie affair throughout their term in the White House. — DNC hauled in $16.8M in March: The Democratic National Committee racked up another record-breaking fundraising quarter to kick off 2022, bringing in $16.8 million in March and more than $42 million over the past three months even as the party stares down a brutal midterm environment. Just last month, the DNC and its joint fundraising arm collected the party’s highest March total ever in a midterm year, according to a DNC spokesperson. The numbers, obtained by POLITICO ahead of the monthly filing deadline, are a bright spot for a party that’s defending razor-thin margins in the House and Senate this fall. ASK THE AUDIENCE Nightly asks you: As Americans adjust to the end of the federal transportation mask mandate, we want to hear about your experiences. Have you traveled on a plane, train or bus this week, and if so, tell us about the masking environment? Did you feel comfortable traveling? Send us your responses via our form, and we’ll include select answers in our Friday edition.   DON'T MISS ANYTHING FROM THE 2022 MILKEN INSTITUTE GLOBAL CONFERENCE: POLITICO is excited to partner with the Milken Institute to produce a special edition "Global Insider" newsletter featuring exclusive coverage and insights from the 25th annual Global Conference. This year's event, May 1-4, brings together more than 3,000 of the world’s most influential leaders, including 700+ speakers representing more than 80 countries. "Celebrating the Power of Connection" is this year's theme, setting the stage to connect influencers with the resources to change the world with leading experts and thinkers whose insight and creativity can implement that change. Whether you're attending in person or following along from somewhere else in the world, keep up with this year's conference with POLITICO’s special edition “Global Insider” so you don't miss a beat. Subscribe today.     NIGHTLY NUMBER 59 percent The percentage of voters who supported the CDC’s decision to extend the federal mask mandate for transportation through May 3, according to a new Morning Consult/POLITICO survey taken April 15-17. PARTING WORDS A cannabis plant that is close to harvest grows in a grow room at the Greenleaf Medical Cannabis facility in Richmond, Va. | Steve Helber/AP Photo FROM BOOM TO BUST — The nation’s marijuana industry has boomed during the pandemic. So far, 2022 is looking like a bust, Paul Demko writes. Weed sales hit $27 billion last year, nearly doubling figures from just two years earlier — and revenues are projected to double again over the next six years. Even pot supporters in Congress seemed well-positioned to dismantle decades-old restrictions. But the still-green industry is mired in a financial funk: Stock prices have plummeted. Capital raises have crashed. And marijuana prices have slumped. “There’s a lot of assets just not worth anything, so they’re just going to go away,” said Morgan Paxhia, co-founder of pioneering cannabis investment firm Poseidon Asset Management. “We’re seeing defaults picking up; we’re seeing businesses shuttering.” While a new glut of semi-legal weed has helped sink prices, industry executives and investors say the lack of progress on federal marijuana legislation is the single biggest factor driving the sector’s economic downturn — and it’s unclear when their odds will improve. After Democrats won total control of the federal government in 2021, optimism swept the industry that Congress and the Biden administration would loosen restrictions on the drug and make it easier to run a profitable business. 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POLITICO NIGHTLY: Jackson’s confirmation escalated quickly

 

View in browser   BY ELANA SCHOR Presented by Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson meets with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in his office on Capitol Hill. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images LET’S HOPE NO ONE PLAYS JAZZ FLUTE — Confirmation hearings start next week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. And the GOP is having a Ron Burgundy problem: Can it stay classy? Yes, I mean Will Ferrell’s mustachioed and bumbling newscaster from 2004’s “Anchorman,” who signed off the evening news by telling his hometown of San Diego to “stay classy.” You could hear a similar message to GOP colleagues from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, when he told POLITICO’s Marianne LeVine: “The best message I can give you at this point, but I think you’ve heard me say it before: It’s going to be a fair, thorough hearing, and we’re not going to get in the gutter like the Democrats did.” Four days later, one of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s four most ambitious Republicans was openly tangling with the White House over his suggestion that Jackson was too friendly to sex offenders during her time on the U.S. Sentencing Commission and as a federal district judge. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted that Jackson’s record “endangers children.” The RNC followed Hawley’s tweets with a note to reporters that bluntly summed up his critique as well as conservative qualms with Jackson’s time defending Guantanamo Bay detainees. That RNC email’s subject line: “Sympathetic to terrorists AND pedophiles?” Not quite the Burgundy-style class that some GOP senators were promising as a party that has been touting its electoral gains with minority voters prepares to greet a historic nominee. Of course, it’s all in the delivery — in politics as well as comedy. Republicans would surely say that their concerns with Jackson’s sentencing of sex offenders reflects a legitimate soft-on-crime failing in her record. But Hawley’s hard punch at Jackson days before her confirmation hearing robbed Republicans of the opportunity to roll out their criticism slowly and deliberately during next week’s hearings, with the gravity that the subject matter deserves. Now the Missouri conservative, widely considered a possible presidential candidate in 2024 despite his on-the-record denials of such interest, has gotten out ahead of the rest of the Judiciary panel’s Republicans. Notably, Grassley has stayed publicly silent so far on Jackson’s sentencing record while his team seeks more documents from her time on the Sentencing Commission. “I just want the documents,” Grassley told Marianne today. “We’ll go through those. And what questions I’m going to ask I’m not going to signal to anybody in the press.” One reason that Senate Republicans started this week so determined to stay out of the gutter when it comes to Jackson: They’re still smarting, nearly four years later, from Democrats’ pursuit of a full airing of sexual misconduct claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh — claims that the then-nominee strenuously denied. The bitter animosity that those allegations exposed among senators on the committee, at the height of the #MeToo movement’s national reckoning with pervasive sexual harassment, still hangs in the air at times. Republicans and Democrats alike in the chamber say they’ve gotten past it, but the GOP is intent on showing it can be more genteel toward a Supreme Court pick than the other side of the aisle was. One aspect of the Kavanaugh flap that’s little-remembered, though: The allegations against him didn’t emerge until the very last lap of his confirmation hearings. Democrats called for a vetting of accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations with striking speed once her story became public. Jackson, by contrast, is getting an early warning of how emotionally and politically charged some senators’ questions are likely to be next week. She’ll have plenty of time to practice staying classy when asked about her sentencing decisions. Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com. Or contact tonight’s author at eschor@politico.com, or on Twitter at @eschor.   A message from ACT|The App Association: App developers and related businesses employ more than 5.9 million Americans, across all 50 states, comprising a 1.7 trillion-dollar app economy. For small app makers, the app stores are a key ingredient to their ability to continue this incredible growth. The last thing small developers want is for Congress to undermine them so that Facebook can squirm free of software platform-imposed restrictions on its vast data collection enterprise.   WHAT'D I MISS? — Biden will talk to Xi: Biden will speak to China’s Xi Jinping Friday, the two leaders’ first call since Russia invaded Ukraine and one that could play an outsize role in determining the trajectory of the war . During the conflict’s early weeks, Russia has aligned itself with China, and Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin reinforced their nations’ ties during the Winter Olympics in Beijing just before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The White House, in its announcement of the call, said that Biden and Xi’s discussion will feature a discussion of “managing our countries as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and other issues of mutual concern.” — Report: Griner’s arrest extended to May 19: A Moscow court has extended the arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges. They were identified as containing oil derived from cannabis, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. President Joe Biden meets virtually with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office of the White House. | Win McNamee/Getty Images — Europe’s Covid spike has Biden officials concerned, could lead to return of masks: The surge in Covid-19 cases in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom, is prompting urgent conversations among senior Biden health aides about the potential of the U.S. experiencing another wave this spring, according to three senior officials familiar with the matter. While cases in the U.S. are at an eight-month low, the exponential growth in infections seen in several European countries is the latest evidence that Covid-19 remains a persistent threat that has the potential to upend the White House’s hopes of moving past the pandemic. — Biden picks new Covid-19 czar: Biden announced that Ashish Jha will be the next White House Covid-19 response coordinator, installing a well-known public health commentator on the administration’s pandemic team . Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, has been a regular guest across cable and network news throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. He will replace Jeffrey Zients, who has headed the Biden administration’s coronavirus response since January 2021 and will return to private life in April. — Pelosi apologizes to Biden admin officials for Covid aid stalemate: After two top Biden administration health officials pleaded with Democrats today to approve more coronavirus aid funding, Speaker Nancy Pelosi apologized to them in front of her caucus for having to ask at all. Pelosi told Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and top infectious disease adviser Anthony Fauci she was sorry they needed to come before House members from the president’s own party to call for $15 billion to continue the U.S. fight against Covid, domestically and abroad.   WIN A VIP TICKET TO THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH! POLITICO and SHOWTIME are teaming up for an evening of cocktails and conversation featuring the POLITICO Playbook team and Mark McKinnon and Jennifer Palmieri from "The Circus" on Showtime in Washington, D.C. Enter for a chance to win a ticket to join fellow Playbookers and newsmakers at this exclusive, VIP event by Friday, March 18th. Winners will be notified on that date (travel and accommodations not provided, this is a widely attended event pursuant to House & Senate ethics rules). ENTER HERE.     FROM THE HEALTH DESK THE COMMISH — Dave Chokshi stepped down this week after serving as New York City’s health commissioner since August 2020. He spoke to Nightly’s Joanne Kenen during his last days in office, reflecting on what it takes to defeat Covid, particularly when public health is politicized and trust is fragile. Chokshi played a central role in New York’s vaccine mandates as well as the vaccination campaign tha t prevented an estimated 1.9 million Covid cases — and 48,000 deaths, according to a city-backed study done by Yale researchers. One task of public health officials “is to engage with the political process,” Chokshi said. But he wasn’t expecting this much politicization, this much polarization, during the pandemic. “It constrained rational discourse about the very real tradeoffs that we had to confront in all our policy decisions,” he said. No matter what policy the city put forth, about masks or vaccines or testing, people tended to interpret it using a political lens. That made it harder, he said, to do his job, to “save lives and prevent suffering.” The uproar over masking was challenging, Chokshi said, and looking back he wonders if he took it for granted that people understood the basics of how a respiratory virus works, and of how a mask can slow transmission. He learned that vague talk about “community,” or jargony conversations about the “immune-compromised,” didn’t resonate as much as about talking about someone’s grandma. Chokshi kept treating patients at least two days a month, at a Bellevue clinic for people experiencing homelessness. It helped him stay focused on how the pandemic was affecting people — and helped him hone his messaging, on vaccines in particular, to his city. It reminded him to listen to people’s fears, not guess at them. He came to understand that people worried about “side effects” weren’t focused on sore arms or a transient fever. They were worried about long-term unknowns, including the shots’ impact on fertility. That in turn led him to tailor messages aimed at easing those concerns. But that’s easier to do one-on-one in a clinic than it is in a city of more than 8 million. So New York opened an ambitious misinformation surveillance program, watching for what was bubbling up or being amplified on social media, and then trying to counter them. Sometimes that meant amplifying pro-vax messages, for instance about why vaccines are recommended during pregnancy. Sometimes it was a more direct rebuttal of falsehoods — like a flood of inaccurate messages that the shots cause infertility. Sometimes it meant going directly to the tech platforms to try to get misinformation taken down. After four waves — and uncertainty about when or if a fifth wave might hit and how hard — Chokshi said he understands that public health officials must communicate uncertainty without confusing people, or ending up having them hate you so much that they just tune you out. As New York lifts restrictions, it has used color-coded alert levels to try to help prepare people for what could lie ahead – what they might have to do, what New York government might do. One thing he’s proud of: stepping up vaccination efforts and requirements early in the Delta wave, so that by the time Omicron showed up, the city had significant protection. His biggest regret: that two years into the pandemic, during Omicron, Black New Yorkers were twice as likely to be hospitalized as white New Yorkers “despite a huge focus and investment and intention on equity in our Covid 19 response.” “The outcomes are the outcomes. This happened on my watch,” he said. “That’s something that should be very chastening and humbling.”   A message from ACT|The App Association:     NIGHTLY NUMBER 12.5 percent The proportion of the population who were active smokers in the 2020 National Health Interview Study . That’s down from 14 percent in 2019, and is the lowest recorded rate since at least 1965, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (h/t Katherine Ellen Foley) PUNCHLINES WAR HITS THE FUNNY PAGES — Political cartoonists and satirists continue to try and find the lighter edges of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Brooke Minters takes us through the latest in a new Weekend Wrap , including the U.S. providing defensive weapons, Elon Musk’s messages to Putin, and Tucker Carlson’s appearances on Russian TV.   DON’T MISS POLITICO’S INAUGURAL HEALTH CARE SUMMIT ON 3/31: Join POLITICO for a discussion with health care providers, policymakers, federal regulators, patient representatives, and industry leaders to better understand the latest policy and industry solutions in place as we enter year three of the pandemic. Panelists will discuss the latest proposals to overcome long-standing health care challenges in the U.S., such as expanding access to care, affordability, and prescription drug prices. REGISTER HERE.     PARTING WORDS ‘I HAVE A LOT OF OPTIONS OPEN’ — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued his attempt at a comeback tour today, laying out his state budget priorities even though he’s out of office and denouncing what he continues to call a cancel culture that led him to resign in August amid sexual harassment allegations, Deanna Garcia writes. Cuomo gave an address and answered questions from the crowd for an hour at the Bronx church run by former Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., a conservative Democrat whom the former governor often sparred with over same-sex marriage and abortion rights. But with Cuomo looking for opportunities to tout his accomplishments and try to remake his scandal-scarred image, he accepted Diaz’s invite last week, often joking during the appearance about their differences but also their friendship. And Cuomo continued to stoke speculation about a potential comeback, telling reporters who swarmed him after the speech that he hasn’t ruled out a return to office — or a potential run for governor. “I have a lot of options open, and I’m considering them,” Cuomo told reporters after the event. If he were to run for office — and he had $16 million in his campaign coffers in January and is already running ads to promote himself and his 11-year record in office — he would have to make a move quickly. Petitions for statewide office are due in early April to get on the June primary ballot.   A message from ACT|The App Association: The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) and the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) would prohibit the app stores’ privacy controls that prevent Facebook from tracking you across apps without your express consent. The proposals would open up treasure troves of consumers' most sensitive data, and yet we still lack a strong federal privacy law that sets rules of the road for protecting, processing, and providing transparency about personal information. 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