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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 8:39:07 GMT -8
My friend Jack can talk to vegetables. Jack and the beans talk.
Meet the Speaker
Johnson supported a legal strategy to throw out the 2020 election based on no evidence of widespread fraud.
Johnson, a former lawyer, led an amicus brief signed by over 100 Republican members of Congress backing a flawed Texas lawsuit that asked the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election. He also played a key role in crafting the rationale that many of his GOP colleagues used in justifying their votes to throw out the 2020 election results ― even just hours after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
“In formal statements justifying their votes, about three-quarters relied on the arguments of a low-profile Louisiana congressman, Representative Mike Johnson, the most important architect of the Electoral College objections,” according to The New York Times.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 8:52:32 GMT -8
"Previous Guy's Filings Were So Awful." "How Awful Were They?"
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 8:57:09 GMT -8
Ticketmaster Continues to Be a Predatory Monopoly
Most sports fans and concertgoers hunting for tickets on the Live Nation and Ticketmaster platforms still aren’t seeing the total costs right away, despite a summer pledge for more transparent fees and pricing.
Live Nation, the entertainment giant and venue promoter that owns Ticketmaster, promised in mid-June a new “all-in pricing experience” for concerts where, starting in September, consumers would begin “seeing the total cost from the start” of their ticket searches. The commitment came at a Biden administration event focused on cracking down on so-called “junk fees” that raise the prices of many consumer products and services.
But when NBC News reviewed more than 40 upcoming ticket offerings for events in over a dozen states this week, fee transparency was almost always more than one click away.
For more than 90% of the events reviewed, Ticketmaster’s listings displayed the base rate for tickets — without any of the mandatory Ticketmaster-imposed surcharges. To see the “all-in” price, consumers must either sign in to a Ticketmaster account and continue through the purchase process, or navigate to the “filters” menu on the search screen and toggle on an option to “show prices including fees.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 8:59:23 GMT -8
No One Prepared For a Cat 5. This Will Be Another Humanitarian Disaster for Over 1 Million People.
In a single day, Hurricane Otis went from a nuisance to a monster.
The hurricane, which made landfall near Acapulco on Wednesday morning as a Category 5 hurricane, “explosively intensified” by about 115 mph in just 24 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center, which called this a “nightmare scenario” for southern Mexico.
Only one other storm in recorded history — 2015’s Hurricane Patricia — has eclipsed that mark, it said in a forecast Tuesday night.
“Imagine starting your day expecting a stiff breeze and some rain, and overnight you get catastrophic 165 mph winds,” Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, wrote on X. “Just 24 hours prior, it was a tropical storm and was forecast to make landfall as a tropical storm.”
At Least No One Will Be Blocking Relief Supplies.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 9:16:51 GMT -8
A Scaramucci is 66 Emmers
He lasted four hours.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 9:17:55 GMT -8
Meadows Always Looks Out for Meadows
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 9:20:24 GMT -8
The Kids Are Alright All Left
Millennials and Gen Z Are Tilting Left and Staying There
As the saying goes, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young, then you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.
The idea, of course, is that liberalism is a game for the youth and that age brings security, stability and a natural resistance to change. The upshot, in American politics, is that while most voters might start on the center-left, with Democrats, they’ll end their political journey on the center-right, with Republicans. One party represents disruption and change; the other party represents a steady hand and the status quo.
Or at least that’s the story. The reality is a little more complicated. Not only does our narrative of political change over time exaggerate the degree of rightward drift among different people as they age, but there’s also good evidence that for the youngest generations of Americans, it is hardly happening at all.
The evidence comes from a new Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest data from the General Social Survey, a comprehensive examination of American attitudes and beliefs, conducted since its creation in 1972 by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 9:23:54 GMT -8
Hunger is Usually Not the Result of Food Shortages, But Terrible Food Distribution
Millions more Americans had difficulty securing enough food in 2022 compared to the year prior, including 1 million households with children, interrupting a years-long trend of declining hunger in the U.S., according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released on Monday.
While the USDA did not provide an explanation for the rise, previous reports from food banks and the U.S. Census Bureau have indicated that hunger is up in the U.S. as low-income Americans struggle to recover from the pandemic and from the end of expanded food assistance.
The USDA report found that 12.8% of households, or 17 million households, struggled to get enough food in 2022, up from 10.2%, or 13.5 million households, in 2021.
Nearly 7 million of those households faced very low food security, meaning members' normal eating patterns were disrupted or food intake dropped because of limited resources, USDA said.
Food insecurity had fallen steadily between 2011 and 2021 before spiking in 2022, the report showed.
Regular surveys by the Census Bureau since the start of the pandemic have also showed rising hunger. More than 27.6 million Americans reported experiencing food scarcity in the most recent survey, conducted between Sept. 20 and Oct. 2, up 9.5% from the start of the year.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 25, 2023 10:01:30 GMT -8
Meet the Speaker Update
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