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But biological breakthroughs and conference deadlines are not convenient bedfellows.
Coalitions become harder to form and often include strange bedfellows.
They all are very, very natural bedfellows, so to speak.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but so too do common enemies.
Goldman Sachs and the Trump campaign were never natural bedfellows.
For Letitia James, politics has made quick and convenient bedfellows.
Critic's Notebook HAMBURG, Germany — Opera and philosophy make strange bedfellows.
The ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico is making some strange bedfellows.
It's the 21st century version of politics making for strange bedfellows.
But singing and the conservative game of golf are stranger bedfellows.
It resulted in discovering some interesting bedfellows within the crypto world.
But metal bands and craft beer make for uniquely fitting bedfellows.
This leaves the country in a small group of strange bedfellows.
As we both know, the Trump presidency makes for strange bedfellows.
We live in an era of fake news and strange bedfellows.
Dire crises sometimes have a funny way of creating strange bedfellows.
Social distancing and looking for love aren't exactly the best bedfellows.
In the world of enterprise software, there are often strange bedfellows.
Breakingviews President Trump and Senator Elizabeth Warren make odd antitrust bedfellows.
Murphy, in a case of politics making strange bedfellows, seemed to agree.
Any attempt to introduce ID cards would be opposed by peculiar bedfellows.
The fact that such utterly unlikely ideological bedfellows as Sanders and Sen.
One's bedfellows made strange by politics is certainly not a new phenomenon.
For the politics makes strange bedfellows file: Bernie Sanders and Karl Rove!
That's a case of strange bedfellows not many people could have predicted.
In dealmaking, a likely theme will be continued unions of unlikely bedfellows.
Where it stands: The AfD's ascendance is bringing together unexpected political bedfellows.
Even at the best of times, Trump and McConnell were uneasy bedfellows.
Meanwhile, confrontational Aries and evasive Scorpio do not make good bedfellows for Venus.
"Politics and entertainment have been bedfellows for all time," he told another reporter.
But for all their new found passion, China and Europe make uneasy bedfellows.
The parent company is also investing, so this makes for some interesting bedfellows.
Politics, and especially foreign policy, has always been the realm of strange bedfellows.
It is co-sponsored by a set of unusual bedfellows in both parties.
Politics often makes strange bedfellows, but this is no mere marriage of convenience.
Life and art, not for the first time, have made for intriguing bedfellows.
Today's email apps are not just work tools, they're our bedfellows and bathroom buddies.
Potentially prurient content presents a tricky political situation that often results in strange bedfellows.
That's also set the stage for some seemingly strange bedfellows of convenience — for now.
Florida may turn out to be a state with the strangest of bedfellows. Sen.
And yet, pop music and the symphony may still seem, initially, like strange bedfellows.
Italy shows how unlikely political bedfellows can nonetheless end up together, and in power.
This start is a prime example of why scouting and statistics are imperfect bedfellows.
"There will be some unlikely allies, some unusual bedfellows on this issue," he said.
The issue has made strange bedfellows of privacy-focused Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans.
We (nearly unanimously) buy into the myth that obscurity and quality are perfect bedfellows.
Nationalism and violence are natural bedfellows, and they won't be kept apart for long.
To lean on an old binary, activism and aesthetics can make for uneasy bedfellows.
"The whole idea was a big-tent approach, even odd bedfellows," Mr. Lippman said.
But Brexit makes odd bedfellows, and in strange ways he is beginning to resemble her.
Senior Venezuelan officials traffic drugs and weapons throughout the Americas with bedfellows Iran and Hezbollah.
OK, I could have accepted the uneasy bedfellows of whole tomato and a plain scone.
But that's the beauty of ideological alliances: They make enthusiastic partners out of strange bedfellows.
The Madkhalists make strange bedfellows of Mr Haftar, who claims to be fighting Islamist terror.
Yes, Reddit and Tencent are strange bedfellows, but that's exactly the point of venture capital.
Humans aren't perfectly rational thinkers, so conspiracy theories — and their bedfellows, superstitions — aren't anything new.
The clash has made for some unlikely bedfellows, as typical Trump allies such as Sen.
They are strange bedfellows, this pair of old men who have steered the country since 286.
These are all strange bedfellows, but so, once, were Bey and Jay as a romantic pair.
Peels and dry skin used to make horrible bedfellows, but as we said, things have evolved.
Are you thinking that cerebral joker Jim Halpert and Boom-Boom Bay make for strange bedfellows?
"Politics makes strange bedfellows, and this certainly has been true for school choice politics," Valant noted.
This was politics at its finest: when strange bedfellows operated in support of legislation, albeit imperfect.
Retailers are increasingly looking to unlikely bedfellows to broaden their offerings and rethink their store space.
But the strange bedfellows of this issue may be causing legal analysts to underestimate its chances.
But Trump has joined in his vaccine skepticism with unexpected bedfellows like the Green Party's Jill Stein.
If cake shaped like previously sworn enemies and current strange bedfellows can't bring people together, what can?
The "old guard" and the Pentecostal/Charismatic wing make for strange bedfellows when it comes to theology.
In the 1940s Hayek and Popper were able to argue that individual freedom and efficiency were bedfellows.
Movements created to protect national interests and exalt national identities tend to make awkward bedfellows, after all.
At first blush, Elon Musk and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may appear to be strange bedfellows.
Meditation and bondage might seem like strange bedfellows, but they actually pair together like milk and cookies.
As sports betting moves out of the shadows in the United States, strange bedfellows might be exposed.
"Sometimes politics makes for strange bedfellows," Corbin told me by email, when I asked about the payment.
Consumer culture and feminism have always been strange bedfellows, with the former tending to overpower the latter.
Yet even that may not be enough for such odd bedfellows to stick together for very long.
Still, conflict-weary Argentines appear to support a shift toward moderation, though it comes with unexpected bedfellows.
Why it matters: Reverse mergers often involve odd bedfellows, but this takes it to a new level.
Even by the usual standards of politics, this election's campaign against marijuana legalization has made strange bedfellows.
Politics makes strange bedfellows, and some of Yang's supporters seem to have plenty of room in their beds.
The liberal Jewish senator and the leader of the Catholic Church make for odd bedfellows in many ways.
Artists like Jill Magid or Antonio Vega Macotela, negotiating with governments, corporations, and private citizens, seem appropriate bedfellows.
Yet the array of threats facing the fossil fuel industry in 2020 could make for other strange bedfellows.
Perhaps this is simply the case that partnering whilst increasing feature parity doesn't always make for happy bedfellows.
The monster threat posed by Amazon is making for some strange bedfellows in the tech and retail worlds.
Nothing makes for stranger bedfellows than the best original song category at a movie (and television) awards show.
It's become a meaningless marketing label, along with bedfellows such as 'seamless', 'revolutionary' and — all too often — 'disruptive'.
In this regard, Kasich and Biden, contra the implicit sales pitch, make for the most ordinary of bedfellows.
But local politics make for strange bedfellows, and, more importantly, partisan divides can disintegrate at a small scale.
First, it is endorsed by notoriously strange bedfellows who have traditionally battled over competing visions for these herds.
It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when hardcore and metal weren't such comfortable bedfellows.
Extravagance and abjectness are the unlikely bedfellows that lend photographer Joanne Leah's gritty, glittery nudes their addictive appeal.
"The fact that this issue produces some unusual bedfellows, we regard it as a plus rather than a minus."
While politics and fashion aren't natural bedfellows, conversationally they've been sparring partners for as long as they've both existed.
Doctor Strange and The Beatles may seem like strange bedfellows, but there's actually a curious, fortuitous connection between them.
But if capitalism and democracy are such uneasy bedfellows, what explains their long co-existence in the rich world?
Historically, few would associate Amazon and big oil as close bedfellows, but that is likely to change, and fast.
In last week's installment, "Strange Bedfellows," entourage member Kennedy is punched in the face during Hakeem's club-hopping birthday.
The celebrated, strange-bedfellows partnership between Obama White House officials and Koch Industries was actually born at that summit.
Becky Quick: To somebody who wasn't paying attention, maybe the casual observer, you two might seem like strange bedfellows.
It would be hard to find these "strange bedfellows" all together in Washington without a subpoena in the mix.
Southern sludge and stoner metal make for extremely easy bedfellows; some might categorize them as one and the same.
The tangled state of affairs has made for strange bedfellows, and has helped to forge occasional alliances between companies.
With much work left to do, there may be no better time for strange bedfellows, in Congress and out.
I know politics make strange bedfellows, but he said he and Mitt Romney have kind of calmed things down.
What's fomenting the conspiracy world of Mr. Trump and company, as well as their strange bedfellows, the alt-right?
The conversation Iran, impeachment and Iowa are making for some strange bedfellows, just the way politics is supposed to.
The three nations of North America may make up the Nafta trade bloc but are strange bedfellows these days.
This is a profound reorientation, which might explain why current anxieties about the internet make for such unlikely bedfellows.
The self-described socialist Jewish senator and the leader of the Catholic Church make for odd bedfellows in many ways.
This means that our parties will always be loose coalitions, "big tents," or broad umbrellas that typically include strange bedfellows.
Trump's strongest supporters said his comment was not while many of his begrudging bedfellows did not make that particular charge.
Natural bedfellows In the weeks before the EU elections, Europe's populists achieved what they never succeeded before, by campaigning together.
Because honesty and political process are odd bedfellows, we are likely witnessing the last few primaries as we know them.
Now — 116 years since women were first permitted to enter the Olympic Games — sexism and the Olympics remain unfortunate bedfellows.
Though it wasn't the first time Mines had paired together unlikely bedfellows, the flip quickly racked up thousands of plays.
But the two mythologies — anti-Communist paranoia and anti-gay panic — fused in the American imagination and became strange bedfellows.
In fact, the abundance of my natural political bedfellows don't call themselves libertarian — though "socially progressive economic conservative" is a mouthful.
They were drooling bedfellows of all the romantic communists whether it was anybody in South America, or what&aposs his name?
It will still need to patch together a wide coalition of unlikely bedfellows, including regional strongmen, to challenge the BJP nationally.
In other news, a controversial US Census question creates some strange bedfellows, and a "blockchain bandit" is pilfering millions in cryptocurrency.
The old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows is being tossed around a lot, thanks to the rise of Donald Trump.
Sip it on its own or mix it into a mezcal margarita with a few unlikely bedfellows: limoncello, Midori, and cucumber.
He veers with ease between the multiplex and the art house, mixing whimsy and melancholy—not always the happiest of bedfellows.
Then there are the politically odd bedfellows responsible for the new, long overdue and beautiful National Museum of African American History.
But M5S leaders and PD have been very critical of each others' policies in the past and make for unlikely bedfellows.
The vote, which marks the first time the full Senate has held an AUMF vote since 22019, created strange political bedfellows.
The first is that Trump's border wall is making strange bedfellows of human rights-loving liberals and property rights-loving conservatives.
"Money makes strange bedfellows, and it has a way of taking shit and molding it into a golden goose," Tito said.
The proposal is being pushed by a coalition of strange bedfellows that includes corporations, environmental groups, former Republican politicians and economists.
Opera and contemporary art might once have seemed unlikely bedfellows, but the recent "White Cube at Glyndebourne" partnership was accepted without question.
Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Susan Sarandon, Nina Turner, Vladimir Putin, and Dr. Jill Stein—political bedfellows don't get any odder than this.
On occasion, financially successful artists (along with affluent non-artists and/or art dealers) made strange bedfellows with owners against certain manufacturers.
Toddlers and high design may seem like strange bedfellows, but there is nothing for children to break or destroy in the garden.
Reform has been backed by a strange-bedfellows alliance of conservative and progressive interest groups and many big-city law enforcement officials.
"Emotional inconsistency and assassination hardly make good bedfellows," remarks her handler, less than convinced that women belong in the field at all.
In linking the fate of the civil rights movement to Wallace's speech, she reminds us that the Constitution makes for strange bedfellows.
You might think that a shared suspicion of conventional understandings of sex and gender would make feminists and trans activists natural bedfellows.
It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support from a coalition of strange bedfellows, including the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Opera and dance have a long history as bedfellows, though since the late nineteenth century they have been more or less estranged.
It would be a spoiler to identify those bedfellows, but the bigger spoiler is that apparently another sequel is on the way.
Reform is backed by a strange-bedfellows alliance of conservative and progressive interest groups and by many big-city law enforcement officials.
Certainly sex and consumerism are no strange bedfellows, but in Rhoades's work, the relationship is rendered in an ad hoc, haphazard, illogical form.
This was a big change for a religious minority that tended to have conservative views: traditionalist Muslims and LBGT advocates are strange bedfellows.
Other echoes of the first Cold War include strange bedfellows, uneasy alliances, and plenty of proxy wars where a lot of people die.
The division illuminates much about modern Republicanism and the surprising bedfellows brought about when an emerging political force begins to imperil entrenched power.
Wall Street and Silicon Valley have never been happy bedfellows, and that was on full display this week during Tesla's quarterly earnings call.
The guns for mentally ill bill is being supported by strange bedfellows that give supporters strong political cover and helps earn brownie points.
An online student forum for a course from Oxford University showed that the main topic of conversation was cryptocurrency bedfellows bitcoin and ether.
The Republican Party's Islamophobia has turned Democrats and Muslims into strange bedfellows, while also masking differences that have emerged since the 22016 election.
While Lewinsky did not speak to Neyfakh for the show, the episode, "Bedfellows," does much of the same work as The Clinton Affair.
Opposition to that largesse has made strange bedfellows out of New York City Democrats Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and New York Gov.
A blend of the two ideas — concern for the environment and investment in infrastructure — might yield a surprisingly positive alliance of strange bedfellows.
Both sides are to blame, and frankly, one of the biggest problems is the fact that the parties are in some ways bedfellows.
Still, without those distractions, Trump's populism and aggressive anti-trade push could create strange bedfellows and swing some blue states into his corner.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a famous poet, wrote a lengthy ode to unwanted bedfellows crawling in through the chutes: The cockroaches are staging their attack.
Libertarian-leaning conservatives and egalitarian liberals need to forge strange-bedfellows coalitions to tackle policies that are simultaneously bad for growth and inequality.
Yet, it's not the first time the strange bedfellows' polar partisan positions have merged in the debate over national security and foreign affairs.
Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party over the last three years -- and the party's capitulation to it -- has made for strange bedfellows.
This will mean that political Islamic groups, such as the IRGC or Brotherhood, will find themselves to be strange bedfellows against common adversaries.
For now, researchers and industry representatives are either unlikely bedfellows in a harm-reduction game plan or at odds over the best way forward.
A Spanish-language media company and an English-language satirical news site might seem like unlikely bedfellows, but NPR reports that Univision Communications Inc.
To secure a coalition agreement, the unlikely bedfellows must overcome differences on a range of issues including immigration policy, Europe, tax and the environment.
It has made bedfellows with global capitalism — as modeled in Cuba's tourist economy — and the social fabric of American politics, as evidenced in Vermont.
Kaine's backing of Project Exile also makes him odd bedfellows with Trump, who has made law and order a central theme of his candidacy.
These realities may be less viscerally satisfying than the scandal-driven status quo, but good governance and increased cable news ratings are rarely bedfellows.
But the debate also shows how the issue could create odd bedfellows in Congress, where Democrats may be on the same side as Trump.
But one thing is certain—the top-two primary has disrupted the voting process and brought together strange bedfellows who rarely agree on anything.
So when land and property rights come under threat, they make for strange bedfellows of human rights loving liberals and private property loving conservatives.
The Greens and pro-business FDP parties are not natural bedfellows with marked differences over climate policy, immigration and reforms for the euro zone.
Microsoft and Red Hat still feel like odd bedfellows, given that they both want the enterprise to use their own operating systems and services.
The oddest bedfellows to emerge from any public coming out are the two factions of the "why do we even care?" school of thought.
They would seem to make odd broadcasting bedfellows: the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and the Global Service Center for Quitting Chinese Communist Party.
Politics and bedfellows and all that, although the bed in which slimy little Martin winds up isn't that of Wolf but his own mother.
As big institutions go green, it can make for strange bedfellows, like some of Goldsteins clients who were carried into the Goldman Sachs fold.
The China dispute certainly makes for strange bedfellows, with Trump facing calls from allies on Wall Street and free-trade conservatives to reach a deal.
Of course, as a longtime tech industry observer, I have also found it interesting to think of the strange bedfellows new car technologies could create.
A bill to audit the Federal Reserve, co-authored by unlikely bedfellows Rubio and Sanders, failed to gain approval this past January in the Senate.
Never allies previously, the two nations became bedfellows to ensure that any actions by OPEC's member countries would not be undermined by decisions in Moscow.
Climate advocates and oil companies make strange bedfellows, but history is filled with unlikely and short-lived alliances that formed to fight a common cause.
Luxury watch brands and the world of sports have long been bedfellows, so the news of this latest marketing marriage is unlikely to surprise many.
Close listening reveals them as surprisingly natural bedfellows: slipstreams of heavily processed sound flow through both, with emphasis on careful builds and beautiful cresting moments.
It's almost certain that any move would face legal challenges from a strange bedfellows group of interests ranging from consumer groups to natural-gas producers.
Highlighting the odd-bedfellows nature of such collaborative lobbying, the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers counts the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., as a lifetime member.
More than a roof, more than food, Mr. Arroyo said, at night, huddled in the dripping dark, he and his bedfellows crave just one thing.
But this time, the line is blurred and strange bedfellows have emerged with each new estimate of how the House and Senate would undermine Medicaid.
Others will involve more traditional retail politics, or building strange-bedfellows coalitions with people on the right who are frustrated and angry at Donald Trump.
The leaders make for strange diplomatic bedfellows: Neither man has a reputation for making friends out of foes, and each has publicly mocked the other.
MS: Strange political bedfellows, in his cabinet... RJH: Duterte seems confident that he can manage this "team of rivals", which has no precedence in Philippine politics.
There's unique value in physically placing one piece of music beside another, entering them in a conversation that makes the seemingly disparate feel like obvious bedfellows.
Politics, the saying goes, makes for strange bedfellows, but I do hope fellow Trump loyalist Tom Brady sends Rex a nice Make America Great Again hat.
Here is Sqirl, where Jessica Koslow delivers sorrel pesto rice and a "Home on the Range" tartine that makes bedfellows of sturgeon, romesco sauce and apples.
Goldman Sachs, unions and the Communist Party rarely find themselves on the same side, but hostility to Mr Zuma has made for strange—and numerous—bedfellows.
The arrangement makes for strange bedfellows, as the folks who drive trucks and those in cutting-edge computer science tend to live worlds apart, culturally speaking.
Certain that arch-capitalist Britain was his country's foremost enemy, he clung to his strange-bedfellows partnership with Germany long after Hitler had abandoned the arrangement.
Yet if politics can sometimes make odd bedfellows, the Brexit Party is taking that principle to the extreme, running candidates from all over the political spectrum.
"All of the chicks look like they want to give me some …" Hip-hop and art have become bedfellows, much as hip-hop and fashion have.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Erdogan are viewed as ideological bedfellows: They are populist leaders with little patience for the courts or other checks on their power.
BREAKFAST BROWSE Gmail is rolling out a black-background 'dark mode' A must for anyone whose bedfellows don't approve of their late-night email scrolling habits.
Supporters of the strikes include not just most of the big unions but such odd bedfellows as the Socialist Party and Marine Le Pen's National Rally.
This proposal has been so poorly thought out that it has made odd bedfellows of groups that are often on opposing sides of big policy debates.
So I do think that you'll see interesting coalitions being made, both industry interest and ideological interest, that may create some strange bedfellows on these issues.
She knows that you have to fight for what you believe in—she is French after all—but also that misery and acceptance aren't necessarily good bedfellows.
Early on, the event became popular with the digital subculture, lending credence to the belief that primitivism — even ironic primitivism — and great technological leaps make happy bedfellows.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle If Mario and friends seemed like strange bedfellows with Ubisoft's nubby little rabbids, weirder still is the type of game they're starring in.
This is because the 1985 farm bill was passed by a "strange bedfellows" coalition in which urban and rural districts joined forces in pursuit of redistributive benefits.
For an issue that strengthens national security while delivering an economic upside, the strange bedfellows of elected officials uniting on this issue aren't likely to back down.
This week: Environmentalists and nuclear power make odd bedfellows, the world's shipping sector charts a course, and a handy guide helps you reduce your own carbon footprint.
It's a position that makes strange bedfellows, pitting hedge funds and consumer advocates against groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which strongly objects to the practice.
We all know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but the events of the last couple of days leave even the most politically savvy analysts scratching their heads.
In a sign of the odd bedfellows that emerge in the FISA debate, Paul told CNN he has had discussion with Lofgren over reforms to the law.
The companies Mr. Goodman endorsed were a motley assortment, strange bedfellows for a man who made his bones at one of the country's most respected financial publications.
She borrowed and combined elements from two — Victoriana and the Bauhaus, strange bedfellows — and doubled down on the elaborate printing and embellishment that has become her signature.
HANS MATTESPetaluma, California The parents of the students who refused to take Trump supporters as roommates should be asking for their tuition back ("Strange bedfellows", July 20th).
Perhaps a streetwear brand and a pornography website seem like strange bedfellows for the fashion industry, but Pornhub also collaborated with Hood by Air a few seasons ago.
Proving that Game of Thrones reaches a wide swath of the population, the show's latest collaboration brings together two very unlikely bedfellows: streetwear and the world of Westeros.
It's not been an easy task: most are nationalists, so by definition not natural bedfellows with each other, but Bannon's corralling has upped their clout, and staying power.
For months, political opponents have presented 5-Star and the League as natural bedfellows, pointing to a common hostility to Europe's fiscal rules, big business and the euro.
The riot catalyzed surprising alliances, but no bedfellows were stranger than Litchfield's inept white-power gang and the two Latina inmates Pidge (Miriam Morales) and Ouija (Rosal Colon).
In a case of truly odd bedfellows, that puts him in alignment with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who have long called for greater scrutiny of technology companies.
The US-Iranian settlement over the latter's nuclear ambitions have further enjoined the two unlikely bedfellows, out of a shared hostility towards any rapprochement with the Islamic Republic.
She characterized Mr. Trump as a singular menace and reinforced the point by highlighting her campaign's strange-bedfellows-support from longtime Republicans who were horrified by Mr. Trump.
Mr. Paul pressed for the repeal vote, in a strange bedfellows alliance with Senator Tim Kaine, the Virginia Democrat who was his party's vice-presidential nominee last year.
The two are frenemies — odd, codependent bedfellows with shared dreams of pushing outward into the solar system, a cantankerous couple that cannot live with or without each other.
William Attwell, practice leader for Sub-Saharan Africa at emerging markets consultancy Frontier Strategy Group, described the pair to CNBC as "ideological bedfellows," finding solidarity in international isolation.
"These two dynamics make for unhappy bedfellows and are the reason there is so much pressure on existing players, and why some are exiting the market," Saunders said.
Keeping the lights off lest you wake your housemates or bedfellows — and incur their wrath — can wreak havoc; from peeing on the floor to injuring yourself on bathroom appliances.
The law has been sustained by a political marriage of convenience between the strangest of bedfellows: social puritans and lobbyists for the Nevada casinos that enjoy a protected market.
They might sound like unlikely bedfellows — but today, if you take a look around your local gym, odds are some of the people in it are working out high.
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This, combined with the fact that EVs have bigger and more powerful batteries to help run power-sucking advanced driver-assistance systems, makes them ideal bedfellows for autonomous technology.
The influx of users has created unusual bedfellows on Parler, which has mostly been a home for supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump after starting up a year ago.
The farm bill has, especially in the scholarly discussions of American politics over the past 20133 years, been held up as a classic example of "strange bedfellows" in politics.
"   Strange bedfellows: The press and the political parties, tied together since birth By Susan Campbell, July 26, 2016 "For better or worse, the press and politics remain intrinsically tied.
This week more than 85033 influential leaders from our "strange bedfellows" coalition from around the country will come together in our nation's capital for the USGLC's State Leaders Summit.
A combination of Confederate and freak flags fly above it—they make strange bedfellows, of course, but find common ground in the intoxication levels of the people flying them.
Like many tech privacy issues, the Rule 41 change has made strange bedfellows on Capitol Hill, uniting civil libertarians from the right with privacy advocates on the left. Sen.
"While we may seem like strange bedfellows, we all want the same thing: to end hazing so other parents don't have to experience what we have," Jim Piazza said.
In January, the 60-person firm agreed to sell itself to BitGo, a San Francisco tech startup, making for strange bedfellows, even in an industry full of unexpected players.
The long game The national health debate remains mostly focused on repealing Obamacare, but there are signs that if Republican efforts fail, progressives could find new and strange bedfellows.
In this uncertain time of global restructuring, as longstanding alliances deteriorate and strange bedfellows find common cause, the bonds of cross-border scientific collaboration are more crucial than ever.
In Yemen, the party associated with the Brotherhood has formed a strange-bedfellows alliance with Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. to battle a common enemy, the Iranian-backed Houthis.
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Crossword puzzles and cartoons are natural bedfellows: both trade in wit and wordplay, and both can elicit those gratifying "Aha!" moments when the answer, or the joke, finally crystallizes.
Today in strange bedfellows: The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus share enthusiasm for the same bill — an infrastructure package with bipartisan and pan-ideological enthusiasm.
"It is representative of the strange bedfellows that the interaction of the U.S. and Chinese technology systems creates," said Adam Segal, a cybersecurity expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
It's not often environmentalists and the oil industry find themselves on the same side of an argument, but FirstEnergy Solutions' plea for emergency government assistance has united some unlikely bedfellows.
With strange bedfellows emerging like New York magazine's Andrew Sullivan and a collective of French women, it is little wonder the #MeToo backlash has become associated with an older generation.
The two countries make stranger bedfellows than ever as just days prior, Trump's own Department of Justice indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials for the infamous 2016 Democratic National Committee hack.
It's also the latest sign that more nutrition leaders — inside and outside of the health community — are beginning to take measures to address two seemingly unlikely bedfellows: hunger and obesity.
There's really no way this alliance lasts once the High Sparrow has been deposed, but on Game of Thrones, it's not politics so much as war that makes strange bedfellows.
In his new coalition, Five Star is flanked by the center-left Democratic Party — sworn enemies turned unlikely bedfellows — as well as the small, left-leaning Free and Equal party.
It has also made bedfellows of solar businesses and conservative-minded policy groups opposed to trade restrictions and subsidies that have in the past worked to undermine solar's forward march.
From #cut85033 to the American Conservative Union, Van Jones to Newt Gingrinch, we are reminded that the goal of helping people can bring together unexpected bedfellows and unite our country.
These women were championed by an array of strange bedfellows: feminists like Eleanor Smeal, celebrities like Lily Tomlin and stalwarts of a conservative administration like Laura Bush and Dick Cheney.
Crumb and company continue to attract strange bedfellows nearly thirty years after Weirdo published one final anthology, further shedding light on the darker, uglier, stranger side of the human condition.
His reticence to reach for the military option in some cases has made him a champion of the anti-interventionist right, who have also found strange bedfellows in the antiwar left.
It may seem like a sick form of sadism to give up two vices at the same time, but research indicates that smoking and drinking are bedfellows best evicted in tandem.
Lega and M5S are not natural bedfellows aside from their anti-establishment streaks and the parties have taken three months of discussions to agree a coalition, cabinet and program of government.
The West has to be careful in selecting strategic "bedfellows" in a country where frozen conflicts are capable of exploding sky high and exacerbating conflicts with Russia, leading to military confrontation.
But even if the current administration and its bedfellows get their way, advocates will not be dismayed, said Heather Barr, director of the women&aposs rights program at Human Rights Watch.
A group opposing drug pricing measures around the country includes major pharmaceutical companies as well as large construction-industry unions, the New York Times reports — strange bedfellows, to say the least.
It's not between left and right -- there are actually a number of crossover issues right now that have found strange bedfellows among Democrats and Republicans, criminal justice reform being just one.
The mission was to capture the genre's live-show energy on record, and also to transform a hit rock song released by Aerosmith in 1975 into a strange-bedfellows crossover duet.
I wrote a piece in August 2015, about six weeks after Trump declared his candidacy, noting what strange bedfellows he and the white working class are and why they work so well.
If Trump does go all out on AT&T (and Comcast), he'd be aligning himself with some unusual political bedfellows: Senators Bernie Sanders and Al Franken, both of whom oppose the merger.
It includes work, mostly in the form of performance videos, that shows how art, which supposedly functions as a quasi-independent form of aesthetic thought, has become bedfellows with business and politics.
M&M have had strange bedfellows before, but this plucky comedy will remind us that nothing is stranger than getting by on a wing and prayer (to the Lord of Light Comedy).
In the post recommending the book, the user acknowledges that jihadists and militant white supremacists are strange bedfellows, but they face similar obstacles and insurgent goals including the need for effective propaganda.
If Washington's impulsive decision-making does, in fact, negatively impact its allies, those partnerships will likely take a hit, and China may see more of these countries try to become strange bedfellows.
" Strange bedfellows Sanders has heavily praised Pope Francis in the past, telling CNN in September he considered him "one of the great moral and religious leaders of our time and in modern history.
There is, however, growing evidence that this coalition of strange bedfellows will implode if House Republicans insist on slipping in "below the radar" draft language approved by the House Judiciary Committee on Nov.
This is not the first time that mainstream Jewish institutions and individuals have chosen to embrace strange bedfellows for the sake of Israel, while staying quiet about or even reinforcing racism and Islamophobia.
With its galloping pace and strange criminal bedfellows, this funny and engrossing film sometimes feels like the droll capers of the Ealing studio (maker of "The Lavender Hill Mob" among other small classics).
The Madisonian vision would recover the purpose of Congress in our larger constitutional system but would mean slow going, greater cacophony, less centralization and more opportunities for coalitions of strange bedfellows to form.
But in the "politics makes strange bedfellows" column, get ready for a large number of Bannon's most vocal critics on the left rushing to defend his comments and treat them like the Gospel.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Over the past few years, dance and visual art have become increasingly frequent bedfellows, most often in museums, which are dedicating more space and money to performance.
Here's who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana Here's who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana Even by the usual standards of politics, this election's campaign against marijuana legalization has made strange bedfellows.
His strange bedfellows in the white nationalist movement would certainly agree that fewer immigrants and stricter voting procedures are a good thing, because, well, that would stop brown and black people from being empowered.
Sure, her platform ballooned when she became literal bedfellows with the Kardashians and let the world watch, but in terms of her own brand and legacy, it feels very much like Chyna is limbo.
These odd bedfellows coalesce in a single work by Bone, which is poised at the end of the somewhat mazy area where his works hang, making it the destination point of the gallery area.
It's quite an evolution from the everygirl character she was presented as in Season 1, but "misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows," and there's no character quite as tortured as Angela (even Elliot).
That, more than another conversation about tax cuts or tariffs, could be exactly what we need — not only to achieve better long-run growth, but also to make capitalism and democracy more comfortable bedfellows.
In a strange bedfellows kind of statement, Al Jazeera went on to lump Israel in with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the other Arab countries that have been at odds with it in recent months.
The sex lives of bedbugs may hold the key to helping humans control unwanted bedfellows, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS.
It's a sign that YouTube is doubling down on its comparatively aggressive stance on political misinformation at a time when its social media bedfellows have attracted criticism for their hesitance to do the same.
"Italy's establishment has a long history of making peace with odd political bedfellows and if it tires of Renzi it may well seek to favor the normalization of the 5-Star Movement," he said.
"Jim Whelan is a bridge builder who has a history of working with strange bedfellows," said John Raskin, head of Riders Alliance, a transit group, who has worked both with and against Mr. Whelan.
Scientists are nervously awaiting the Trump administration's reaction to the report, citing fears that it might be changed or even suppressed altogether in order to appease President Trump's denialist base and dystopian corporate bedfellows.
Proving politics really does make for strange bedfellows, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump warmly embraced the endorsement of his former rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, even as many of the latter's supporters denounced the move.
Here are some other things to know about gambling on live sports in Australia: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Many Australian sporting events and individual teams and stadiums have entered into commercial marketing arrangements with the corporate bookmakers.
Junk-shop techno tracks, like those constructed of late by the Texas-based producer Shit & Shine for labels like Editions Mego and Diagonal have always made easy bedfellows for this sort of brain-cooking climate.
I realized this last night while watching "Strange Bedfellows," which has the new mom trapped between the rock and the hard place better known as the trigger happy Lyons and the imprisonment happy federal government.
I'm not trying to justify or abet Trump and his supporters in climate denial, and I'm not thinking climate activists and the Trump administration will end up in some the kind of strange-bedfellows embrace.
"It's an odd selection by Trump because they're all three bedfellows from the [George W. Bush] administration," said Bill Mateja, a former prosecutor who was hired by Wray and worked under him for a time.
Driving the news: A strange bedfellows group formed last year by utilities and Tesla filed suit in the D.C. Circuit earlier this month against the Environmental Protection Agency's move to roll back fuel-efficiency standards.
And it appears from some projections that even the party's closest allies won't be able to fill enough of those seats, which means Netanyahu will need to recruit stranger bedfellows to secure a ruling majority.
Photo by Chris Martindale Doom metal and dystopia have always made for morbid bedfellows, and Salt Lake's SubRosa have been proving themselves to be remarkably adept at putting apocalyptic warnings to mournful music since 2005.
In short, who but Baxter, that perpetual troublemaker with words — he's had a bit of a fixation on wimples too — would ever have thought that two such unlikely bedfellows could actually enjoy each other's company?
But after almost three months, Lega and Five-Star Movement (M5S) formally joined forces last week, with a hybrid cabinet consisting of some rather odd political bedfellows, drawn from across the ideological and professional spectrum.
These speeded up transfers of detainees to third countries, more than 40 of which (including such strange bedfellows as Albania, Cape Verde, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Palau and Uruguay) have agreed to receive some of those set free.
But the group of awkward bedfellows could struggle in the cash-intensive and competitive tech sector, famous for hairpin swings in consumer demand and a brutally small margin of assembly-line error, senior industry participants said.
Re-enfranchising felons has drawn uncommon political bedfellows, with the liberal American Civil Liberties Union aligned with Mark Holden, the general counsel for Koch Industries, the conglomerate controlled by conservative political donors Charles and David Koch.
Among the more important of these is the fact that Italy now has in place a populist coalition government comprised of the strange bedfellows of the left-leaning Five Star Movement and the right-leaning League.
Last year lawmakers from both parties in Pennsylvania—nudged by an odd-bedfellows coalition of left-leaning activists, unions, chambers of commerce, Koch Industries and others—voted overwhelmingly to be the first state to do so.
"Tom Udall led an effort with the strangest group of strange bedfellows I've ever seen," said Richard Denison, the lead senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund who has long worked on the toxic regulation issue.
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Cisco Systems, two trendsetters in different eras of the internet, are joining forces as the growth of cloud computing puts new pressure on big tech companies and leads to strange corporate bedfellows.
During the American occupation — before the rise of the Islamic State made strange bedfellows of Washington and Tehran — Iranian proxies often exceeded Sunni extremists in terms of the number of casualties they inflicted on American forces.
But the Clipper Chip provoked a backlash from a coalition of unlikely bedfellows, including the American Civil Liberties Union; the televangelist Pat Robertson; and Senators John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, and John Ashcroft, the Missouri Republican.
With Brexit negotiations at an impasse and Prime Minister Theresa May's future uncertain, Labour and business — at times uneasy bedfellows since veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader in 2015 — are taking more notice of each other.
In Indonesia, where about 88% of the population is Muslim, religion and politics have made violent bedfellows; the separatist struggle in the province of Aceh, which came to an end in 2005, was underpinned by religious divisions.
As was the case during the fight against New Hampshire's Northern Pass project, resistance to both Virginia pipelines creates strange bedfellows out of liberal environmentalists and Trump voters, who are acting together against FERC and mammoth corporations.
It is a sad turn of affairs in a nation whose socialist government had in recent years put great store on sport, much like past Olympic triumphs of political bedfellows Cuba, China or the old Soviet Union.
With Hall of Fame coaches, blue-chip recruits, sizzling brand names and a shared propensity for running afoul of N.C.A.A. regulations, North Carolina and Syracuse were irresistible bedfellows on the Final Four stage, college basketball's marquee event.
Cosmologies, in other words, can make for strange bedfellows, and some of what Gray does best in "Seven Types of Atheism" is not only to draw distinctions among atheists but to make connections between nonbelievers and believers.
And today, left-leaning environmentalists eager to oppose oil pipelines or the de-listing of National Forests must navigate a political landscape in which they may find themselves bedfellows with gun rights activists and firearm industry lobbyists.
As co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solution Caucus, which has an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, Deutch has seen this group of strange bedfellows grow from a dozen members to 90 in just two years.
But if a deal were to be reached, it would add to a convoluted web of investments in the ride-hailing industry, where competitors have become strange bedfellows through investors who have placed bets on multiple companies.
As leading parties enter discussions to form a new government over the coming weeks and months, Vollaard warned potential bedfellows of the VVD to beware of what this could mean for the political futures of their respective parties.
A strange bedfellows coalition, including four of the world's biggest oil and natural gas producers, environmental groups and political leaders, are announcing a unified push urging Congress to enact a carbon tax to address climate change on Wednesday.
The "strange bedfellows" story of liberals and conservatives finding common ground on the need for criminal justice reform has become commonplace over the past few years, but media coverage often provides too simplistic an explanation of reformers' motives.
"Anxiety and insomnia are bad bedfellows; they often coexist," said Todd Arnedt, associate professor of psychiatry and neurology at Michigan Medicine, a health care facility at the University of Michigan, and director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program.
The answer lies in the Catalan independence movement, which in the last seven years has morphed from a marginal force into a genuine threat to Spain's territorial integrity, largely through a marriage of convenience among several unlikely bedfellows.
"Politics makes for the strangest of bedfellows," Sanford said of the predicament; he has spoken openly against Trump, yet he sees himself closer to the president on the gun issue than most of his Freedom Caucus colleagues do.
On Tuesday, a 39-year-old curator and artist, Ingrid LaFleur, threw her hat into the ring for this year's mayoral race in Detroit, a city where municipal finances and art have been uncomfortable bedfellows in recent years.
The coalition, which includes strange bedfellows representing natural gas, oil, wind energy and solar energy, asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to scrap the proposal, saying the comments filed by supporters don't show a legal justification for it.
"Like the one that has just crumbled, the would-be new coalition also comprises strange bedfellows who until recently were fighting like cats and dogs, be it in Parliament or the media," wrote Malaysian commentator Joceline Tan this week.
Where it stands: These companies join several others funding Americans For Carbon Dividends (AFCD), the lobbying arm of the Climate Leadership Council (CLC), which is a coalition of strange bedfellows that includes companies, environmental groups and former Republican lawmakers.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A car radiator repair boss, a longtime soldier and an economics professor - they are unlikely bedfellows leading the charge of an anti-immigration party that has come from nowhere to disrupt the cozy, stable world of German coalition government.
The alliance with the Nepali Congress party has made strange bedfellows of Mr. Dahal and that party's president, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who as prime minister in 2002, at the height of the Maoist insurgency, put a bounty on Mr. Dahal's head.
Unlikely political bedfellows Syriza and ANEL came to power in January 2015 on a pledge to crack down on corruption and to roll back the austerity measures previous governments put in place to secure rescue loans for the debt-racked country.
At the beginning of May, the US refused to provide aerial support to Shia militias during the battle to liberate the area around the village of Bashir, which includes al-Yarmouk, exposing some of the tensions under this strange-bedfellows dynamic.
In 2013, a coalition of surprising political bedfellows who also happen to be wrestling powerhouses -- Russia, the US, Cuba, and Iran -- worked together to keep wrestling (one of the original Olympic sports) on the Olympic program after the IOC tried set it aside.
"We may be strange bedfellows, but it's rare that people can just park whatever their political persuasions and ideology may be and try to help people in trouble, and that's what happened here," says Horan, who retired from Operation Blessing this year.
From being an object of derision among the private sector, there's a growing awareness, thanks in part to the work of President Obama's Presidential Innovation Fellows (and other public-private partnerships fostered by the administration) that government and tech aren't such strange bedfellows.
These strange bedfellows came together from the outer edges of one or both parties and have been responsible for national reforms to the criminal justice system, changes to how the United States conducts electronic surveillance, and several years' reforms to the Pentagon budget.
Investing in disparate sectors like consumer-focused wellness and organic brands and utility-focused software and services may seem like strange portfolio bedfellows, but the portfolio addresses a key issue for early-stage investment firms, which is following where money gets spent.
But Reddit and Tencent are strange bedfellows due to Reddit's historic reference to freedom of speech as core to its mission while Tencent is one of the most important architects of the Great Firewall of China, the most sophisticated censorship regime in history.
The debate made for strange bedfellows, as a well-known labor organizer teamed up with an economic libertarian to argue in favor of UBI, while two aides to former president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden pushed back on the idea.
I think one of the common bedfellows of desire for sex is introspection as to why nobody wants to fuck you, and, for me, it became pretty hard to deny that my weird, misshapen body was a big contributor to the issue.
But with its recent moves to shut down the Qatari-backed broadcaster Al Jazeera's operations in the country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has chosen some strange, decidedly undemocratic bedfellows and sent a worrying message about its commitment to a free press.
It is the latest example of the evolving trans-partisan nature of the anti-war movement, which has drawn some politically strange bedfellows on the far-right and far-left who are advocating for extricating U.S. military forces from open-ended conflicts.
Further clouding the outlook for both German politics and for deeper European integration is the fact that Chancellor Angela Merkel is likely to be forced to form a coalition government with the unlikely bedfellows of the Free Democratic Party and the Green Party.
And while a soda company, a network broadcaster and a car company (I swear there's a joke in there somewhere) may seem like strange bedfellows, Czertok tells me there's roughly a 70 percent overlap in the types of technology startups all three are interested in.
The move is part of a broader, strange bedfellows alliance that spans renewable energy groups, the oil-and-gas industry and environmentalists — a mix that highlights the high-stakes of one of the most intense energy policy fight of the Trump era thus far.
I don't think I understand what that term stands for anymore - it seems to have swollen to accommodate some quite unexpected bedfellows - but I still use it to distinguish it from pieces of music that have fixed duration and rhythmically connected, locked together elements.
Away from the office he was known for making collages in which he cheerfully married strange bedfellows (buttons and boot jacks, work gloves and pebbles, airline luggage tags and canceled stamps) as if to counter the cool minimalism of his 211-to-22001 life.
For as long as I can remember, climate campaigns have been animated by the same basic idea: big ad outreach, lots of strange bedfellows from the military, business, or celebrity worlds, educational town halls, all pushing for broader awareness and engagement on the issue.
Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, who is developing a Middle East peace plan, convened a gathering on Thursday morning attended by Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Pompeo and 150 others that united some strange bedfellows in the name of isolating Iran.
Strange bedfellows, to be sure, given that Asian-Americans have made the greatest leftward political shift of any group of US voters in the last 25 years — going from just over 30% Democrat in 1992 to supporting President Obama's re-election by a staggering 20083% in 2012.
The makers of Mario mightn't seem likely bedfellows for a game featuring a bucket-load of blood and guts and gratuitous profanity—not to mention a lead character whose own hair is her outfit, and can be temporarily shed to form weapons—but here we are.
"It's not often you have best performing currencies the yen and real - they're very odd bedfellows, and it shows how volatile risk appetite has been and how classic correlations are breaking down," Tim Graf, managing director and head of macro strategy, EMEA, at State Street in London.
Speaking of strange bedfellows, if Ali is granted an honorary knighthood, he will not only be joining Bono and George Bush but J. Edgar Hoover, the former head of the FBI who famously investigated and tried to undermine the Civil Rights movement and Ali's beloved Nation of Islam.
It sounds great, and also like the sort of collaboration that should've happened much sooner, as Goldfrapp and Depeche Mode feel in many ways like natural bedfellows, and their respective, often complex and downtempo takes on British electronic music have frequently felt like they'd go hand in hand.
His unpopularity has united Malaysia's three biggest opposition parties—the progressive, Chinese-backed Democratic Action Party (DAP), the centrist Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), and the Islamist Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS)—but they have always been strange bedfellows, sharing the goal of ousting Barisan Nasional and little else.
That reapportionment, expected in December 20.48, will kick off the year-and-a-half-long process of redrawing congressional-district maps — still in many states a brazen partisan battle that makes strange bedfellows, unplanned retirements and intense member-versus-member races, especially in states poised to lose seats.
That has required a Google Drive account, but customer requirements can sometimes make for strange bedfellows and Dropbox and Google have been working together to bring this integration to fruition because it's something both companies' customers have been asking for, Quentin Clark, SVP of Engineering, Product and Design at Dropbox explained.
Passage of the Cures Act was a rare bipartisan effort that made strange bedfellows of Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is a polio survivor, and Democrats, headed by then-Vice President Joe Biden, who lost his oldest son Beau to brain cancer at age 46 in 2015.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — The two behemoths of 21958th century art, Marcel Duchamp, credited with introducing the concept of readymades and radically altering attitudes towards the plastic arts, and Salvador Dalí, perhaps the most famous of the Surrealist painters, will be to many the unlikeliest of bedfellows.
It will mean that if unemployment were a few percentage points higher, if the man who murdered two police officers last week had been brown rather than white, if Trump's odd-bedfellows alliance of Russian hackers and angry FBI agents had been a bit more effective, Trump would have won.
Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), Carl LevinCarl Milton LevinStrange bedfellows oppose the filibuster Listen, learn and lead: Congressional newcomers should leave the extremist tactics at home House Democrats poised to set a dangerous precedent with president's tax returns MORE (D-Mich.) and Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine)  for 34 years.
In a story titled "Strange Bedfellows," an anonymous contributor told a story of how he quit smoking weed after an evening spent busking with a djembe turned into getting way too high in a spooky old house with a strange old wizard man who couldn't stop talking about cutting people open.
"Dark Times" by the Weeknd Another "writing hits makes strange bedfellows" case — it's hard to imagine nice-guy-for-life Sheeran cozying up to the Weeknd's sex-and-drugs-and-the-night aesthetic, but apparently the pair banged this number out after a post-show awards party that went till 5 a.m.
Kleeb and Ruppert, and perhaps even Dave Domina, may hold out hopes of softening the hearts of their strange political bedfellows, but that night at Wiegert's house, when I asked him if he had "evolved" by working with Nebraska Communities United, Bold Nebraska, and now the state Democratic Party, he dismissed the idea.
He sees a coalition of odd bedfellows like Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, and curious Trump supporters eager for change.
This "spycraft makes strange bedfellows" aspect of Jason Bourne is a big part of why its second half holds together as well as it does, and it wouldn't work at all if Alicia Vikander weren't playing Heather as someone who occasionally appears to be ensuring that even she doesn't know which cards she's holding.
This mind-set has strange old bedfellows in the refusal of colonial governments to build universities in West Africa in the early 1900s (because what the colonized needed was basic education) and the defunding of higher-education institutions in many parts of the continent beginning in the 1980s (because poor countries could not afford them).
Maybe it's "politics makes strange bedfellows," or perhaps "misery loves company," but both the White House and the congressional Republicans need to get some kind of win on tax reform in the wake of a year with no major legislative achievements other than the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a process convened by Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a diverse "committee" of strange bedfellows—budget experts and advocates from organizations like the National Taxpayers Union, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Association of American Universities, United Way, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars—came together to craft specific solutions and a path forward.
When: Opens Saturday, September 24, 63pm–midnight Where: BBQLA (2315 Jesse St., Boyle Heights, Los Angeles) Art and sports make for strange bedfellows, but they have more in common than one might think: both prize innate physical talent, have their own sets of superstars, and have contentious rivalries (not to mention obscene amounts of money).
Jobs, the all-American purveyor of new technology, and Frenchman Arnault, protector of centuries-old luxury brands may not seem obvious bedfellows, but the Apple co-founder had a "combination of creativity and a keen sense of how to manage growth," and was one of the people Arnault most admired according to a 2017 Forbes interview.
While that feverish formula can render "American Made" difficult to follow at times and creates a few turbulent patches, the intent and underlying message are crystal clear -- conveying the strange bedfellows and moral corner-cutting that characterized U.S. adventures in Central America during this era, in the name of combating the twin evils of drugs and communism.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is creating strange bedfellows with his proposal to expand ethanol sales, with some environmental groups and the oil industry opposing the new rule.
In the first few roll-calls since the opening of the latest parliamentary session, May's measures have squeaked through by a tiny margin, but the government has been forced to make some significant and embarrassing concessions to stave off criticism about its new political bedfellows, whose social policies in particular are viewed unfavourably by many British liberals.
It is one big reason Baker-Shultz has the support of oil giants like ExxonMobil and BP. Corporations like Microsoft and Ford and an assortment of strange political bedfellows, including the late Stephen Hawking, Ben Bernanke, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio and Christiana Figueres, lead negotiator for the Paris Climate Accord, are all listed as founding supporters.
This confident, vampish St. Vincent was a world away from the skittish Texan indie guitarist who'd toured with the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens during the 2000s and made records on the side, or even the more musically equanimous and ambitious St. Vincent on the wonderful 2011 album Strange Mercy, which explored the unlikely bedfellows of submissive sexuality and depression.
But as they were all figuring it out, one of the sector's key investors considered combining a pair of strange bedfellows: In an acquisition attempt that hasn't previously been revealed, the owners of the Weekly Standard and the Washington Examiner explored purchasing the Federalist, according to four sources familiar with what happened, as well as emails obtained by BuzzFeed News from 2003.
My primary literary bedfellows in the ensuing years were death obsessives like Philip Roth and Robert Lowell, or poets who were far too successful in its pursuit (Sylvia Plath, who was less enthusiastic about her life in the London literary scene than Athill, her counterpart who was born more than a decade before her and survived her by more than 50 years).
And in numbers like the one below, we get a glimpse of Simon's tongue-in-cheek but ever-present warmth toward his characters: Toward the end of his career, Simon wrote a string of loosely autobiographical plays in which he turned away from the more overtly comedic and began lacing his familiar family dysfunction and portraits of odd bedfellows with real conflict, drama, and even pain.
Culture and commerce have long been easy bedfellows in the complicated relationship between the United States and China, so it's unsurprising that two first novels by young American authors, "Number One Chinese Restaurant," by Lillian Li, and "The Emperor of Shoes," by Spencer Wise, should feature a Chinese-American restaurant and an American-owned Chinese shoe factory, respectively, as the hubs in which lives, loves, languages and histories intersect.
Strange bedfellows That 92-year-old Mahathir has switched political allegiances would likely have caused consternation among opposition party hardliners, who will remember him as much for his time as leader of the ruling party, as they will for his more recent criticism of Najib, says Bridget Welsh, Associate Professor at John Cabot University and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for East Asia Democratic Studies of the National Taiwan University.
Democratic strategist Jennifer Holdsworth on Friday said that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's decision to withdraw troops from Syria is making for some "extremely strange bedfellows" after drawing mixed reactions from leaders around the world.
This was the reality the Justice Action Network — a bipartisan coalition of bedfellows as strange as the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative group — had in mind when it asked the Democratic candidates to identify, for instance, the first criminal justice legislation they would propose, the first executive action they would take, and their top priority among several bills pending in Congress.
The ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest — and perhaps the last — twist in a long-running tale of strange criminal bedfellows, one that improbably brought together Mr. Scarpa, a scion of La Cosa Nostra's Colombo crime family, and Terry L. Nichols, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people.
Carlos CurbeloCarlos Luis CurbeloOvernight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress Democratic lawmaker pushes back on Castro's call to repeal law making illegal border crossings a crime MORE (R-Fla.) released a carbon tax bill that has already gained supportive statements from these unusual bedfellows.
Sure, they'll be strange bedfellows, but it's high time the Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE-style libertarian Republicans make common cause with the far-left Democrats to lead America out of the swamp of perpetual war to a sustainable foreign policy that Americans could truly be proud of.
Trump is a wild card in the fight — even after Attorney General William BarrWilliam Pelham BarrTrump criticizes Sessions after Alabama Senate primary heads to a runoff Trump tells Republicans he won't extend surveillance law without FISA reforms Why the rule of law depends on the president and his attorney general MORE told senators recently that the Trump administration wants a total reauthorization without reforms, Trump has raised the possibility that he would support some libertarian-minded reforms, potentially making for strange bedfellows in a contentious battle that typically pits privacy hawks against national security types.
The case has made for strange bedfellows, with the National Review receiving backing from the Center for Investigative Reporting, which has produced award-winning coverage of climate change; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellOvernight Health Care: Fireworks on health care expected at Dem debate | Trump FDA pick dodges on vaping ban | Trump to host meeting on youth vaping Friday | AMA calls for immediate vaping ban GOP senator blocks vote on House-passed Violence Against Women Act On The Money: Senate scraps plan to force second shutdown vote | Trump tax breaks for low-income neighborhoods draw scrutiny | McConnell rips House Dems for holding up trade deal MORE (R-Ky.); The Washington Post; and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Never had politics made stranger, or more numerous, bedfellows than the movement to keep us out of World War I. Working actively against American intervention were the country's growing Socialist Party, which had 1,200 members in elected office; key figures in Congress, including the great progressive Republicans George Norris and Robert La Follette, and the populist Democratic House majority leader (and white supremacist) Claude Kitchin; powerful industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford; revered social reformers such as Jane Addams and the liberal rabbi Stephen Wise; the peace-loving secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan; the publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst; Helen Keller, civil rights groups, labor unions, the women's movement, Irish- and German-American groups, countless clergymen and assorted independent radicals.
I really, really don't think that's going to happen either, for numerous reasons, some of which I can't believe I actually have to spell out to Bitcoin true believers, such as: Bitcoin is deflationary and a little inflation is actually not a bad thing; fiat may technically be a four-letter word but only libertarians think it's an obscenity, and fiat currencies are not "backed by nothing," they're backed by the strength of the economies they denominate; governments are extremely powerful entities who get to dictate much of the future within their borders; most people don't actually want to use Bitcoin, and there's no real reason for them to start; credit and cryptocurrencies are, as noted bear and former blockchain COO Preston Byrne points out, currently a very bad and dangerous combination, and will never be the best of bedfellows; etc etc etc.

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