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From The Reporter’s Notebook
As TPM’s Tierney Sneed reported, Obama’s latest Wall Street regulation has Republicans in a tizzy. GOP lawmakers are trying to stall it with a bill saying the SEC has to take the lead. However, legally speaking, the SEC’s ability to address the issue—financial advisors’ conflicts of interest—is limited. Additionally, in terms of any regulation the agency can enact, SEC head Mary Jo White has signaled is not coming soon.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I a little surprised that the HPV vaccine, one of the great triumphs of modern science, has not yet appeared in the clown conference. We know how to eliminate 90% of the cases of cervical cancer, through mass immunization, and these monsters prefer to keep the disease around to scare the young people into an improbable and never-before-seen-anywhere obedience to the abstinence-dictates of Pappy (which will in any case not slow down the incidence of the cancer, since the virus is not gender-specific).”
Related: The HPV vaccine has reduced the frequency of cases amongst teenage girls by half.
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What We’re Reading
Meet the man who makes Donald Trump go viral. (Politico)
After three decades, has the brother of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing solved the case? (The New Yorker)
A look back at last fall’s Ebola freak-out. (The Huffington Post)
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