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The Internet doesn’t just enable cool avatars and the shorter form. It also allows the deeper form: cross-linked blog posts, extensive research, simultaneous screens and raw debate footage that anyone can scan online, at any time."
Zephyr Teachout
Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It’s not working and we need it working again. It’s not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system."
Zephyr Teachout
My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.
Zephyr Teachout
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men whose lawyers had never looked into their backgrounds.
Zephyr Teachout
New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different creative impulses.
Zephyr Teachout
The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.
Zephyr Teachout
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.
Zephyr Teachout
I mean this is a revolution in how campaigns work - more money was spent by super PACs than by either myself or John Faso. So what that means is that if you’re a voter in this district you are more likely to have heard from a super PAC than from me or my opponent.
Zephyr Teachout
Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.
Zephyr Teachout
As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.
Zephyr Teachout