@chicagotribune.com ran an excellent piece this morning talking about the role that fundraising and money play in Krishnamoorthi's rise to power and his position in the current Senate race.
You can't understand his current political position without talking about campaign finance.
Extremely bad conditions for my paddle league championship match tonight.
While I was sitting on an adirondack at the deck of the Crater Lake Lodge on my honeymoon with my wife, a group of scraggly hairy folks seated next to us were served a bottle of wine. PCH thru-hikers, receiving a care package. I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy wine like they did then.
Literally just requires the board of NBER to become alerted by a trustworthy source that they absolutely should remove Sumners.
Lost track when you started accenting the e and doing a crack about parentheses. Was there some engagement with the facts you could point to?
Vintage memes … vintage comedy and wine … vintage clothes and records and cabinetry… vintage furniture, typewriters, paperbacks and pens… vintage quilting, documents, rifles, rugs, and baskets.
It’s context-dependent, could mean anything from 1 to 250 years
“Your haters just move on you” posits a different conspiracy: women and allied opponents of gender discrimination control power in economic academia. Looking at the known facts around Summers’ career, Harvard, economics, and academia, do you think that conspiracy is real?
As with Prince Andrew, an elite club taking aggressive action against an Epstein associate *now* suggests that additional damning information will soon come to light. Somebody at FBI tipped off somebody at Harvard and AEA. We’ve just seen the tip of the iceberg.
Impeachment now.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
Voters don’t have views, they have interests.
Sundas “Sunny” Naqvi, a U.S. citizen from Skokie, spent nearly 30 hours in custody by federal immigration officials after she was detained at O’Hare Airport last week. She was later released out of a facility in Wisconsin. Naqvi's sister called the experience "terrifying."
Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.
Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.
Hiaasen’s take on the Cuba-Venezuela-Caribbean Murderous Airstrikes will be a can’t-miss read
I recently replaced Amazon Prime with Walmart+ because of Bezos and because the Walmart+ membership fee is covered by AmEx. Usually buy garden supplies at Home Depot. Always assumed they were all comparable in price. Walmart’s price is literally 33-50% lower for the same product?
More and more crocuses showing up each sunny day. How to enjoy the outdoors while fully understanding that more freezing temperatures and snow are coming this month… has taken me some years to learn.
legalise it (sociology)
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.”
Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.
The last time we killed a big guy in Iran, out of the blue, they mostly brushed it off and rolled with it. (At least that’s what appears). Assuming that they really did just roll along, and will do so again, seems to be Trumps play here
She claimed she was with Epstein and several other people who left her alone in the room with Trump. “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” she recalled Trump saying, according to the FBI report. She said he unzipped his pants and forced her head to his penis. She said she immediately bit him and Trump struck her, the report said. She told the FBI agents that she bit him because he “disgusted” her. In her third interview, she told agents she wanted to clarify how Trump reacted to her biting him, explaining that Trump “pulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head.”
Wow
January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total.
And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID.
Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker.
Let’s be honest about his record.
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
Why are Republicans so afraid of debate? Free speech. Doesn’t Issa believe in conservatism deeply enough to put up a (1) fight?
Love this misty Chicago fools’ spring weather
Interesting
Over and over, the patterns repeat
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
