Normally my spin alarm goes off when I see such language, but it's coming from a specialist in ethics here:
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Jens Manuel Krogstand, Jeffrey S. Passel & D'Vera Cohn @ FacTank @ PewResearch.org, June 12
The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States has dropped to the level it was in 2004, and Mexicans are no longer a majority of this population. This decline is due mainly to a large drop in the number of new unauthorized immigrants, especially Mexicans, coming into the country. The origin countries of unauthorized immigrants also shifted during that time, with the number from Mexico declining and the number rising from Central America and Asia, according to the latest Pew Research Center estimates. Here are five facts about the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. [....]
includes several graphs and this very interesting map:
By Ryan Lovelace @ Law.com, June 28
Here are some things to know about one of three male lawyers—and the only Big Law attorney—who might just become the first First Gentleman.
By Ivana Kottasova @ CNN.com, June 28 (with video)
France recorded its highest-ever temperature on Friday as continental Europe continues to struggle with an intense heat wave. The mercury reached 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit) in Gallargues-le-Montueux in the Gard department in southern France, according to the French national weather service Météo-France. This is 1.8 degrees higher than the previous record from 2003 [....]
Europe has been battling the heat all week, with Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic each recording their highest-ever June temperatures on Wednesday.
The German Weather Service said temperature of 38.6 degrees Celsius (101.5 Fahrenheit) was recorded at 2:50 p.m. local time on Wednesday in Coschen, on the country's border with Poland. The previous record stood at 38.5 Celsius (101.3 Fahrenheit), which was measured in 1947 in Bühlertal, which lies close to France.
In Spain, firefighters have been battling a 15,000-acre wildfire near Tarragona in the country's northeast since late on Wednesday [....]
The second night of the first Democratic primary debate of the 2020 cycle broke records with 18.1 million people tuning in on live television across NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo, according to a press release from NBC.
It is strange that Cory Booker refused to raise his hand and commit to returning to the nuclear deal. He does not otherwise seem like an idiot.
The sudden dispute between the two most powerful Democrats is remarkable given their long history of cooperation and could have serious ramifications.
By Mike DeBonis & Rachel Bade @ WashingtonPost.com, June 28
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues in a private meeting Thursday that she thought she had a deal this week with her longtime ally, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer: She would ensure passage of a more liberal border funding bill in the House, and he would back her up by persuading Democratic senators to fight for it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, she was blindsided. Nearly all Senate Democrats voted for a Republican-backed bill that kneecapped the House and marked the most embarrassing defeat for Pelosi in the six months since Democrats took over the chamber.
“Schumer destroyed all our leverage on Wednesday by not being able to hold his people,” said a senior House Democratic aide [....]
Laura Rozen retweeted (and Nate Rawlings, a Biden aide!) Drezner's praise on this:
Frank Bruno:
The big question going into Thursday night’s debate was whether Joe Biden, the clear front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, would stumble.
That turned out to be the wrong one. The right question was whether he had sufficient vigor in his stride.
And the answer came in watching Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg — two of the event’s standout performers — run articulate and impassioned circles around him.
My fave was the Doc Ellis pitching a no-hitter on acid reference.
Just posting this for the sake of the headline.
Back in the day, I would have added "ROTFLMAO."
Heard the audio version of this on NPR yesterday. The print version is even more detailed and helpful summary. Excerpt that caught my attention in the audio:
By Sasha Inger & Tim Mak @ NPR.org, June 26
[....] As the NRA undergoes its turmoil, the broader movement it champions is splintering. Some supporters of the Second Amendment are continuing to advocate for gun rights but are going public with their specific opposition to the NRA over the allegations of financial misconduct.
Greg Kinman, who runs a YouTube account about firearms with 4.2 million subscribers, announced last week that he was no longer taking support from the NRA or promoting the group because of the recent controversies. "It's kind of gotten to the point where it's the last straw," Kinman said.
And prominent conservative writer Erick Erickson wrote on his website that the NRA was "adrift by grift" and "rotting from the inside out."
Meanwhile, former NRA staff have joined with NRA members to form a group called Save the Second. Founded in the past week and a half, it was created to be a watchdog for the NRA's finances [....]
Op-ed by Sahil Chinoy @ NYTimes.com, June 26 WITH CHARTS comparing U.S. with Europe
The Republican Party leans much farther right than most traditional conservative parties in Western Europe and Canada, according to an analysis of their election manifestos. It is more extreme than Britain’s Independence Party and France’s National Rally (formerly the National Front), which some consider far-right populist parties. The Democratic Party, in contrast, is positioned closer to mainstream liberal parties [....]