Jimmy Carter's birth is closer to John Quincy Adams's Inauguration Day than today's date.

I think ultimately this kind of thing — the normal free market view of health policy, which is that if you get sick and you’re not rich you should be drained of all your funds and eventually left to die — is more toxic than almost any amount of MAGA zaniness.

At least 163 police agencies across California let cops charged with misconduct retire quietly in exchange for permanently burying the misconduct case. The cops then instantly get hired for other police jobs, and all these secret deals are written by the same police lobby group.

"The thing about these networks of right wing influencers is they offer a cascade effect. You pay off or persuade one or six useful idiots & the entire network becomes your useful idiot." emptywheel (blue bayou) emptywheel.net/2024/09/19/use…

🚨🚨BOMBSHELL from the Journal Sentinel: Eric Hovde's bank flew $26 mil of cash across the US-Mexico border for Banco Azteca, a Mexican bank long reported to be used by Mexican drug cartels. Several other US banks cut off Azteca. But not Hovde's. #WISen jsonline.com/story/news/pol…

Preorder now: Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD's Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (UChicagoPress) a sweeping transnational history emphasizing Brazil's centrality in the Atlantic slave trade & how African practices survived among enslaved Americans press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Preorder now: Justene Hill Edwards's Savings & Trust: The Rise & Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank is a gripping narrative history of one of the biggest bank failures in American history and the largest institutional loss of Black wealth until the 21st century amazon.com/dp/1324073853?…

Today, the AHA published a major report with findings from the most comprehensive study of secondary US history education undertaken in the 21st century. The AHA did not find indoctrination, politicization, or classroom malpractice. (1/10) historians.org/teaching-learn…

Never had a story be so hyped up before. Here it is ‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor Mark Robinson made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…

Presented with the litany of evidence connecting him with the minisoldr user name on Nude Africa, Robinson said, “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.” cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…

Donald Trump on Mark Robinson: "Martin Luther King on steroids." Robinson on MLK: “commie bastard,” “worse than a maggot,” a “ho f**king, phony,” and a “huckster" cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…

Some Mark Robinson quotes on Black people in the latest Andy Kaczynski em steck story "Slavery is not bad.... I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few” “If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…

“We have to cherish Mark” “Better than Martin Luther King” “One of the great leaders in our country”

It has to be said, Andy Kaczynski and his team are very very good at what they do. cnn.com/2024/09/19/pol…

Radio Rwanda shit

From the latest edition of The Onion:

Utterly obsessed with this UCL researcher who won an Ig Nobel for showing that “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live well past 100 at unusual rates are actually just full of clerical errors and people committing pension fraud ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…

A Kentucky sheriff has been arrested after reportedly shooting and killing a judge in his courthouse chambers kentuckytoday.com/news/sheriff-a…

Charles Aycock has entered the chat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B…

Between this and signing the Kamala endorsement letter this week, Boustany is on the move