Have an excellent weekend and see you bright and early Monday morning.
Friday, September 29, 2023
Sycamore
Northumbria Police said officers arrested a 16-year-old boy on Thursday in connection to "what we believe was a deliberate act of vandalism."
Meidas Touch - GOP Hearing Backfires In Their Faces As Dems Flip The Script
If you only have time for one clip, watch this one. The Democrats were magnificent yesterday.
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Youngkin
Washington Post: Opinion - Alarmed Republicans are preparing to draft Glenn Youngkin By Robert Costa
“He appears to be leaving the door open,” Thomas Peterffy, a billionaire who has already given millions of dollars to Youngkin’s PAC, told me this week.
Replace
Washington Post: Hard-liners plot to replace McCarthy with a deputy as shutdown looms By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Marianna Sotomayor
...nominating a member of McCarthy’s leadership team, Rep. Tom Emmer (Minn.), to be the next speaker if they can successfully oust McCarthy, according to those people.
Fraud
NY Times: Hail to the Fraudster in Chief By Paul Krugman
And on Tuesday, Justice Arthur F. Engoron ruled in New York that Trump did, in fact, persistently commit fraud by overvaluing his assets, possibly by as much as $2.2 billion.
Disgraceful
He has once again caved to the demands of far-right lawmakers, opening an impeachment inquiry into President Biden and then agreeing to slash government spending to levels they clamored for.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 7:20 a.m. ET DOW futures are +169, S&P futures are +22.5, and NASDAQ futures are +99.75. The market is poised to open significantly higher.
Thursday, September 28, 2023
It's About Time
This is a gift article, available to anyone.
“Trump says the Constitution gave him, quote, the right to do whatever he wants as president, end of quote. I never heard a president say that in jest. Not guided by the Constitution or by common service and decency toward our fellow Americans but by vengeance and vindictiveness.”
Link
Washington Post: A crown branded onto bodies links British monarchy to slave trade By Karla Adam
...“the Mark henceforward, to be put upon the Bodys of the Negros to be sold & Dipos’d of in the Spanish West Indies,” under a contract between Britain’s late Queen Anne and Spain’s King Philip V.
Rejected
A civil trial in which Donald J. Trump is accused of fraudulently inflating the values of his properties could begin as soon as Monday, after a New York appeals court rejected the former president’s attempt to have evidence against him thrown out.
Lopsided
Nearly 20 percent of public housing residents in New York City reported making less than $10,000, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Nutjobs
For some like Gaetz — who, alongside holdouts Rosendale, Crane, and Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), never voted for McCarthy in the speaker’s race in January — the opposition at times feels personal.
Who Cares
Washington Post: The winners and losers of the second Republican debate Analysis By Aaron Blake
...(Nikki Haley) looking like a serious candidate who could appeal to all parts of the party.
People
NY Times: When Trump Says ‘People,’ He Means ‘His People’ By Charles M. Blow
When he says “our once great country,” he means the country when it most benefited those most devoted to him, at a time when the racial hierarchy was more fixed, the patriarchy was more entrenched, immigrant communities were often whiter and gender identities were more rigid.
Who Cares
The 91 criminal counts Mr. Trump is charged with went unmentioned — both by the moderators and the candidates ostensibly running against him.
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 7:05 a.m. ET DOW futures are +22, S&P futures are +1.25, and NASDAQ futures are -21.75. The market is poised to open mixed.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Implications
As matters stand, Mr. Trump’s lawyers are left facing a severe punishment for their client — the scope of which even they do not fully understand — and a trial at which Ms. James’s lawyers could exact yet more damage.
Most
NY Times: ‘This Is Going to Be the Most Important Election Since 1860’ By Thomas B. Edsall
Will the cultural left wing of the Democratic Party undermine the party’s prospects?
Sues
The lawsuit alleges that Biden’s data was “manipulated, altered and damaged before it was copied and sent” to Giuliani and Costello.
Fraud
Washington Post: N.Y. judge finds Trump committed fraud and sanctions his attorneys By Shayna Jacobs
The decision orders the parties to suggest candidates for receivers who will oversee the dissolution of the various entities that make up the Trump Organization’s corporate structure — a ruling that appears to mean the collapse of its operations in New York.
Six
Consequences for his company may be serious.
The appeals court is expected to rule as soon as Thursday.
Fraud
By effectively branding him a cheat, the decision in the civil proceeding by Justice Arthur F. Engoron undermined Mr. Trump’s relentlessly promoted narrative of himself as a master of the business world...
The Market On Wednesday
Good morning. At 7:20 a.m. ET DOW futures are +88, S&P futures are +15.5, and NASDAQ futures are +52.25. The market is poised to open moderately higher.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Comment
When you stream music online through sites like Spotifiy, you are able to look over data about who is listening to your songs. It's not specific, the data I get will indicate that I have 30 listeners in Atlanta for example. I don't get names of listeners or anything that specific, I get general locations. Looking through data for today, Tuesday September 26th, I see that I have 4 listeners in Ukraine. On a personal level, that makes me happy, knowing that there are people in this war torn country who are in some minor connected to me and my work. I support their success. The 65 represents the rank of that country in my stats.
Nothing
Washington Post: The Republican case against Biden takes a body blow … from Fox News Analysis By Philip Bump
...Kilmeade presented it to Poroshenko as possible, asking if that is, in fact, why Shokin was fired.
“First of all, this is the completely crazy person,” Poroshenko began. “This is something wrong with him.”
Nader
“Fascism is what the GOP is the architecture of, and autocracy is what the Democrats are practitioners of. But autocracy leaves an opening. They don’t suppress votes. They don’t suppress free speech.”
Why
This is a gift article available to anyone who might like to read it.
NY Times: Why These 13 Republican Voters Don't Want Trump Anymore
I voted for Trump, but what he was doing was wrong. And they’re taking that all the way to the courts. I can't believe he’s going to do time for it, but he needs to be penalized somehow.
Michigan
“No self-serving photo op can erase Trump’s four years of abandoning union workers and standing with his ultrarich friends,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for Mr. Biden’s campaign, said in a statement.
The Market On Tuesday
Good morning. At 7:10 a.m. ET DOW futures are -133, S&P futures are -19, and NASDAQ futures are -74. The market is poised to open significantly lower.
Monday, September 25, 2023
'Cassandro'
Watching 'Cassandro' on Amazon and it's the best movie I've seen all year. Outstanding.
NPR: 'Cassandro' honors the gay wrestler who revolutionized lucha libre By Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Heat
Gift article, available to anyone.
Washington Post: Scientists found the most intense heat wave ever recorded — in Antarctica By Kasha Patel
Etiquette
Voice mails are an artifact of the days before text messages. If you have information that needs to be communicated in an accurate, timely manner, you’re far better off putting it into writing as a text or email.
Internet
We are in a time of eroding trust, as people realize that their contributions to a public space may be taken, monetized and potentially used to compete with them.
Democrat Hal Rafter Wins Special Election In New Hampshire
Washington Post: Trumpism costs the GOP in a crucial election, again Analysis By Aaron Blake
Democrat Hal Rafter won by 12 points in a state (New Hampshire) House district that went narrowly for Donald Trump in 2020.
Ruling
He (Trump) filed a lawsuit.
His targets were Ms. James, the New York attorney general, and the judge overseeing the trial, Arthur F. Engoron.
Deal
In the coming days, guild members will vote on whether to accept the deal, which has much of what they had demanded...
The Market On Monday
Good morning. At 7:35 a.m. ET DOW futures are -24, S&P futures are -4, and NASDAQ futures are -17.5. The market is poised to open moderately lower.
Friday, September 22, 2023
Never
Washington Post: Opinion - Why prices are never going back down By Catherine Rampell
Besides the risk of recession, there’s another reason it would be mechanically difficult for overall U.S. prices to fall back down: Wages have risen, too.
Menendez
Looks like Biden's weaponized justice department, according to Donald Trump, has decided to indict a Senator who is a Democrat.
Dysfunctional GOP
NY Times: Why Kevin McCarthy Can’t Do His Job By Paul Krugman
But even a superb leader would probably be unable to transcend the dynamics of a party that has been extremist for a generation but has now gone beyond extremism to nihilism.
And yes, this is a Republican problem. Any talk about dysfunction in “Congress,” or “partisanship,” simply misinforms the public.
Housing
...the housing market has continued to slow down amid rising interest rates. Meanwhile, prices continued to rise, with the median sales price climbing 3.9 percent from a year ago to reach $407,100.
Dangerous GOP Nonsense
And the most pivotal federal aid programs — including those assisting the victims of the deadly wildfires in Maui — could struggle to provide urgently needed support.
Murdoch
NY Times: The Ludicrous Agony of Rupert Murdoch By Michelle Goldberg
Wolff (in his new upcoming book 'The Fall: The End Of Fox News') paints Fox’s owner as embarrassed by the channel’s vulgarity and horrified by its ultimate political creation, Donald Trump.
War
The drones have begun to make a difference in one corner of a stagnant war, soldiers, commanders and pilots said in interviews, because their different materials and variable frequencies can evade enemy jamming systems.
The Market On Friday
Good morning. At 7:05 a.m. ET DOW futures are +41, S&P futures are +11.5, and NASDAQ futures are +69.5. The market is poised to open moderately higher.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Side Effects
NPR: As Ozempic use grows, so do reports of possible mental health side effects By Sydney Lupkin
...received 489 reports of patients experiencing anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts while taking semaglutide drugs, including Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus.
Treatment
NY Times: Ronna McDaniel Gets the Trump Treatment By Frank Bruni
Only this time, he’s staging his rival event, a prime-time speech to striking United Auto Workers members that he could have scheduled for any other night, in McDaniel’s own backyard.
Junk
She brings a suitcase full of Diet Coke, and as her trip goes on and her inventory wears down, she collects more space to fit the trinkets and items she buys from her travels.
A Vivid Display Of Dangerous Incompetence
...a vivid display of G.O.P. disunity on federal spending that threatens to lead to a government shutdown in nine days.
Undercut
This is a gift article, available to anyone who might like to read it.
A copy was reviewed by The Washington Post, and it shows that Trump’s own campaign paid more than $600,000 for research that undercut many of his most explosive claims. The research was never made public.
Divisions
The tensions center on Trump’s recent comments disparaging an abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy and pledging to work with “both sides” on a federal ban...
War
The visit comes at a crucial moment in the war, with Ukraine’s fight against Russian invaders heading into the harsh winter months.
But it also comes as polls have detected a growing weariness over the war among the American public...
Young
NY Times: Young Voters Are Frustrated. They’re Staying Engaged ‘Out of Sheer Self-Defense.’ By Charles M. Blow
According to Pew, among American adults under 30, 70 percent favor having a national popular vote for president, 58 percent favor expansion of the Supreme Court...
The Market On Thursday
Good morning. At 7:30 a.m. ET DOW futures are -186, S&P futures are -34, and NASDAQ futures are -157. The market is poised to open significantly lower.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Judge
Washington Post: 96-year-old judge who refuses to retire suspended for ‘misconduct’ By Rachel Weiner
Her transgression: refusing to cooperate with an investigation into whether, at the age of 96, she can no longer do the job.
Hug
Washington Post: Opinion - How I overcame my fear of touching and learned to love the hug again By Ross Gay
As William Carlos Williams almost says about poetry, which I’d say is also a kind of touch: We “die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”
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