We don’t believe you, you need more people. @ErickFernandez on Twitter.
The game is rigged.
Nine days after Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate for the Supreme Court, a CEO of a law firm with a robust practice before the high court purchased a property that Gorsuch owned with two other individuals.
Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579
Whoa.
Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/
Sorry, but you can't convince me that the test of a reusable rocket system is supposed to involve destroying the launch site—which was reusable on every prior generation of space flight technology—and launching debris thousands of feet away.
#SpaceX is not a serious company, it's a clown show, and it should not have a single dollar in government funding, much less billions.
How New Yorkers’ Food Scraps Get ‘Digested’ to Provide Gas for Homes
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/nyregion/nyc-composting-food-waste.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Over the last two decades, Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.
But that company — a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives — has not existed since 2006.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/16/clarence-thomas-ginger-financial-disclosure/
Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus
The Nashville Metropolitan Council on Monday voted to reappoint Justin Jones to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending the ousted lawmaker back to occupy the House District 52 seat as an interim representative.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/us/tennessee-democrat-house-representatives-expelled-monday
"After a Republican lawmaker was accused of sexually assaulting 15- and 16-year-old girls he had taught and coached, he was made chairman of the House education committee." https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/08/tennessee-descent-statehouse-mag-00091090
A majority of members of the Nashville Metropolitan Council will vote to reinstate Justin Jones to the Tennessee state Legislature after he was expelled from the House of Representatives on Thursday over his protests on the chamber floor against gun violence. #TennesseeThree
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/majority-nashville-council-members-say-will-vote-reinstate-expelled-le-rcna78706
WOW: For years, Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips, private jet flights, and yacht voyages from a billionaire GOP donor. Trips include retreats with political operatives, major donors and corporate executives from companies like Verizon.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
This is the unanimous Republican position: routine school shootings are acceptable.
Dead children—no matter how many—are preferrable to any regulation of weapons with no purpose other than to rapidly murder multiple people.
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on school shootings:
"We're not gonna fix it."
I know a lot of conservative culture war talking points are absolute nonsense, but I still can't get over "Woke Bank"
It's almost perfect in its idiocy.
Billion-dollar corporations whose overpaid finance teams don’t do basically due diligence should not get a bailout.
Roku Says $487 Million of Its Cash, or 26%, Was Held in Failed Silicon Valley Bank
Half a billion in one bank alone!
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/roku-svb-failed-silicon-valley-bank-cash-1235549817/
Venture capitalists and NYTimes working overtime to rewrite history on Silicon Valley Bank.
I'd believe it's a "systemically important financial institution," except that #SVB and VCs were adamant that it was not one, and lobbied hard to make sure it wasn't treated as one.
Sorry, no, we're not going to consider it one for bailout purposes only, especially not without any reforms to prevent the next one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/technology/silicon-valley-bank-fallout.html?partner=IFTTT
SILICON VALLEY BANK USED FORMER MCCARTHY STAFFERS TO WEAKEN REGULATIONS, LOBBY FDIC
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used-former-mccarthy-staffers-to-weaken-regulations-lobby-fdic/
It's not a news organization.
It's the commercial arm of a political movement specializing in strategic resentment and aggregated grievance in its public-facing self, while behind the scenes it tries to be a kingmaker and boss, riding the tiger of manipulated rage.
Read these examples.
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/167781446846964b4352fcfc6/raw
1. Big Journalism is shocked, shocked to discover that the Murdoch family's Fox "News" is a completely partisan propaganda outlet, spewing lies and injecting poison into our civic bloodstream.
2. Big Journalism has known this for many years. The sudden surprise is a pretense that only highlights the way the craft has treated -- will continue to treat -- Fox as if it had a shred of legitimacy.
3. Big Journalism will be shocked, shocked the next time a court case reveals what was already known.
Walgreens is restricting sales of abortion pills because they (probably correctly) believe they're more likely to face consequences for defying conservatives than for defying liberals, despite liberals official control of the Presidency and Senate and nationwide popular majorities. Either use power yourself or watch your enemies use power instead! There's no alternative!
