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The Officers Danced at a Black Lives Matter Rally. Then They Stormed the Capitol.

By artappraiser on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 9:44pm |

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/rocky-mount-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter.html

Today’s Great Read:

Two officers charged in the Capitol riot once danced at a Black Lives Matter rally in Virginia. We examined what their story tells us about power and status in America. https://t.co/ZXnRWL79Kq

There Is a Generational Divide Among Republicans

By artappraiser on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 9:11pm |

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/opinion/romney-republicans-child-allowance.html

Good piece from @thechrisbuskirk : there's a generational divide among Republicans.

I'd argue the divide is basically, "People experiencing the modern marriage and childrearing trainwreck" and "People not experiencing it." https://t.co/pXNV800RLv
— Lyman Stone (@lymanstoneky) March 8, 2021

Biden’s Stimulus Is the Dawn of a New Economic Era

By artappraiser on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 5:33pm |

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/05/bidens-stimulus-is-the-dawn-of-a-new-economic-era/

Adam Tooze: Biden’s stimulus package “is more than a technocratic policy. It’s a Democratic triumph”: https://t.co/IJWUPXPJmA
— Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (@daniel_dsj2110) March 6, 2021

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‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping

By artappraiser on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 4:01pm |

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/business/global-shipping.html

4 reporters on the story:

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping https://t.co/8sUIXEE9Wj
— Razib Khan (@razibkhan) March 6, 2021

The President of the United States of America

By artappraiser on Sat, 03/06/2021 - 4:06am |

Another week in the books. pic.twitter.com/Q2u8fSS86Q
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 6, 2021

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White House fires Trump EEOC official after she refuses to step down

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 11:57pm |

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/05/biden-eeoc-general-counsel-trump/

White House fires Trump EEOC official after she refuses to step down https://t.co/nOX6yk9Ydf postpolitics
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 6, 2021

Why Republicans Don’t Fear An Electoral Backlash For Opposing Really Popular Parts Of Biden’s Agenda

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 7:25pm |

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republicans-dont-fear-an-electoral-backlash-for-opposing-really-popular-parts-of-bidens-agenda/

“Politics is as much irrational, emotive factionalism as anything else. But liberals only seem capable of understanding it as an orderly marketplace of ideas and contort themselves in pretzels to preserve the fiction that voters’ commitments are rational.” https://t.co/TRqRdA90Su

Jonah Goldberg:Toxic Asininity

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 6:37pm |

https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/toxic-asininity?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2NzE2NjcsInBvc3RfaWQiOjMzMzI3NzA1LCJfIjoiMUlqTnEiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTQ5ODcyNzYsImV4cCI6MTYxNDk5MDg3NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3ODE5Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.VV5Wybv8QmMmPcPoiEv9UGwT7O6J-cTp0THhl1c6ldk

Blogging changed the media business for the worse, and the devolution continues.

"If the New York Times didn’t exist, conservatives would have to create it, because much of the right is more interested in how the Times covers the news than the news it delivers."https://t.co/BxqOY0XOFF

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Europe productivity -- and US too

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 5:11pm |

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/europe-productivity.html

struck me that Yglesias is really onto something here with a single quip; made me thing along the lines of "post pandemic, are we just going to get back on the same productivity-and-huge-corporations rule the world hamster wheel?"

Small family businesses —> https://t.co/fGPyVTWnhH
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 5, 2021

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Supreme drama: Justice Breyer is not respectful in his dissent from Justice Barrett!

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/05/2021 - 12:14am |

https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/breaking-away-from-norms-and-traditions-justice-breyer-does-not-respectfully-dissent-against-justice-barretts-first-majority-opinion/

also, unanimous decisions are typically arranged for the first majority decision by a newbie, but this was 7-2

Breaking Away from Norms and Traditions, Justice Breyer Does Not ‘Respectfully’ Dissent Against Justice Barrett’s First Majority Opinionhttps://t.co/pwBJLSaRN2
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) March 4, 2021

Veteran Dallas Police Officer Charged with Two Counts of Capital Murder

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 11:42pm |

https://lawandcrime.com/police/veteran-dallas-police-officer-charged-with-two-counts-of-capital-murder/

.. both of the murders were personal in nature and not connected to each other or to Riser’s work as police officer...

Veteran Dallas Police Officer Charged with Two Counts of Capital Murderhttps://t.co/TXDAsNRhSS
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) March 5, 2021

Las Vegas wrestler rattles Texas special election

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 10:50pm |

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/04/vegas-wrestler-texas-election-473834

...He told people he was encouraged to come to Texas to file for the seat by members of Trump's entourage and that he had come from Mar-a-Lago and would be returning there after...He said Cruz “wanted to see him in Congress,” as well...

“Rodimer initially tried to file to run on Wednesday afternoon in Fort Worth. When he realized he needed to file in Austin, which is several hours away with traffic, he chartered a plane to take him there.” https://t.co/vNLVxF7ptP

It's 8:07 pm on March 4, do you know where your leader is?

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 7:59pm |

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23QAnonCult&src=trend_click&vertical=trends

S.F. pays $61,000 a year for one tent in a site to shelter the homeless. Why?

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 6:11pm |

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/S-F-pays-61-000-a-year-for-one-tent-to-house-16001074.php

So yeah, you could just rent every one a very nice 2-br apartment https://t.co/CWlj1mBCpT
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 4, 2021

Assistance in understanding those unwoke Hispanics in places like the Bronx

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 5:03pm |

I have scanned the English side of a large campaign postcard I just found on my car's windshield at my home in the Bronx (the other side is in Spanish.) Then I went and put it on a picture hosting website and I looked up the background of family name of the candidate > it is Ecuadorian. The scan is posted after the jump, it's quite self-explanatory.

Speak softly and carry a big agenda

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 1:08pm |

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/opinion/biden-american-rescue-plan.html

"Biden Is the Anti-Trump, and It’s Working"

From a hard grader, @ezraklein, some very positive words:https://t.co/XIxi1r1Czz
— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) March 4, 2021

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Reporter Robbed At Gunpoint While Covering Car Break-Ins At San Francisco’s Twin Peaks

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 3:02am |

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/03/03/kpix-5-reporter-robbed-gunpoint-auto-thefts-san-francisco-twin-peaks/

@ KPIX5, SF Bay area tv, with video, March 3

Criminals stole billions in COVID-19 unemployment benefits; relief bill won’t prevent it from happening again

By artappraiser on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 12:32am |

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-03-02/criminals-stole-billions-in-covid-19-unemployment-benefits-new-relief-bill-wont-stop-a-repeat

I am quite inclined to believe this because: it just happened to me only a few weeks ago! Someone used my identity (including my name, SS# and address) to file for unemployment in NY state! I'm self-employed for years and I don't qualify, also now on SS. I only filed once with them, in the 80's. I was getting weird mail from Dept. of Labor I didn't understand. I filed a complaint online. They had already discovered the fraud but their letter took 10 days to reach me because of the USPS problems.

Capitol Police chief acknowledges failures of 1-6 but can't say what increased budget would do to solve

By artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 8:46pm |

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/politics/acting-uscp-chief-testifies/index.html

Acting US Capitol Police chief acknowledges failures of January 6 but can't say what increased budget would do to solve them | @PeterNickeas & @HaleyBurtonCNN https://t.co/evrzscK8Lv

Biden Secretly Limits Counterterrorism Drone Strikes Away From War Zones

By artappraiser on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 8:14pm |

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/us/politics/biden-drones.html

By Charlie Savage & Michael Schmitt @NYTimes.com, March 3

[....] The military and the C.I.A. must now obtain White House permission to attack terrorism suspects in poorly governed places where there are scant American ground troops, like Somalia and Yemen. Under the Trump administration, they had been allowed to decide for themselves whether circumstances on the ground met certain conditions and an attack was justified.