While He Was Tweeting: The News We Missed This Week, June 30, 2017
While the chaos POTUS Trump was busy weaponizing his smartphone and 140 characters against Mika, Joe and the news media, actual stuff happened.
Lisa Needham
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Lisa Needham is an attorney who has worked in the areas of First Amendment, education, and labor law. She is a contributor to Rewire, where she writes about LGBTQ and reproductive-health legal issues, and Shareblue, where she writes about politics. She is ride or die for Dionne Warwick, Doris Day, and the Oxford comma.
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