The biggest news story you didn't notice today is that Democrats now control the House.

If you're watching the Federal Reserve news today, here's my story on why it probably doesn't matter.
mauldineconomics.com/connecting-the…

Massie is correct about the uniparty. Republicans and Democrats agree he and MTG are jackasses.

Your regular reminder that no amount of self sacrifice and loyalty will make a corporation care about you. Your employment is a transaction not a life debt.

Maybe the Saudis could stop bonesawing and beheading people. Then we'll talk.

Imagine how often this sort of thing happens to people who don't have ability to file a suit.

Instructive:

OTOH, pre-Biden normalcy featured refrigerator truck morgues.

Sherman McCoy I think this is a side effect of lost civic trust in general. In the 70s my parents let me roam because they assumed other adults would watch out for me, even miles from home.

HSA holders, you are being milked and you didn't even know it.

True but many Trump voters don't care. They *want* to be used and abused. They are North Koreans and he is Dear Leader.

Seeing a lot of right-wingers awfully upset about antisemitism at the moment who didn’t seem to be nearly as bothered by “very fine people on both sides”, the normalization of the Great Replacement theory, the proliferation of QAnon… 1/🧵

All very bad. But we shld catch on to the fact that how much a country spends on its own defense budget is irrelevant to Trump. Why wld he give a crap about that? Totally irrelevant to him. Not money in his or his govt's pocket. It's transactional. He wants obedience, favors.

I never got the “but the pandemic” argument. We elect leaders to lead, in and out of crisis. A crisis is a test; if you fail it you don’t get a do over.

Aggressively spreading the word that RFK Jr. is an anti-vaccine wacko would be
a) 100% true and
b) Very helpful to Democrats.

Perhaps a company in this position should have a full-time CEO.

Germany's last nuclear power plant closed in March 2023.

Contrary to fears, fossil fuel usage went down, not up, as renewable energy growth replaced all the lost production. theconversation.com/why-germany-di…

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