herman mark schwartz

Two more cases
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The party of pedophiles is enabling trafficking. Masked, un-uniformed men, random arrests, minimal follow-up for families. Who could have predicted this.

pay to be a member of the organization that george mason pays others $12k per paper to critique!!

it's how you know you're on the right side

chart showing US drug prices rising 3x the CPI

chart showing US life expectancy is 4 years less than comparable rich countries

US has the world's highest patented drug prices (but marginally cheaper generics). yet life expectancy is 4 years lower than peer countries and possibly plateauing. must be those costly TV drug ads! Side effects may include household bankruptcy and slower non-benefit wage increases.

It’s almost as if very high tariffs on imported intermediate goods and more general uncertainty deters hiring and investment. Again though, from the point of view of the Guardians of Pedophilia, de-unionization is worth shredding US manufacturing capacity.

And good luck door dashing munitions in the inevitable war.

Epstein's sweetheart deal? Cut by a Republican administration.

The guy who cut it? Trump put him in his first Cabinet.

Epstein's mysterious death? During Trump's first term.

Trump promised to release the files. Now he's not.

This is a Republican scandal. What is Trump hiding?

Bonus #caturday

Explaining, not advocating for the job seekers.
Retired militarys should speak out.
But looking at the broader picture of politicized militaries - one way helicopter rides, etc - I’d rather the active duty folks just repeat the mantra of “no domestic roles”

Looking for work, rocking the boat doesn’t help. Also many of the generals are still active duty and the norm is to be apolitical. We do want an apolitical active duty officer corps.

Break the middle men

Rerunning that old (now unfunny) soviet era joke:
Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev are on a train. Train stops moving.
Stalin: “shoot the engineer!” Train still stuck.
NK: “rehabilitate the engineer!” Still stuck.
Brezhnev, pulling down the window shades: “Comrades! The train is moving!”

Feature, not a bug. US auto majors are the last big unionized manufacturing sector. GOP has been on a 40-50 year campaign to deunionize the economy via lawfare, offshoring, etc.
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I am quoted here so let me be totally clear on my take: Jonathan Greenblatt has made a calculated choice to aid the consolidation of authoritarian power by the MAGA movement in exchange for the suppression of criticism of Israel. And the consequences for American Jews will be devastating.

Reporting today has uncovered more corruption from Trump and his DOJ:

1) had the FBI redact Trump’s name from Epstein docs

2) quietly moved child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security prison

Release the unredacted files and stop the cover up.

Federal BLS data now to become as reliable as the annual White House health report on Mr 🌮.
Paradoxically, this is likely to delay any rate cut as it adds to Fed uncertainty about data for the September meeting.

#theywantyoudead 68
Again, old enough to know people who had polio and were wheelchair dependent as adults, and being sequestered as a child with rubella bc of the many actual and potentially pregnant women in the neighborhood

Oh they just keep coming...
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And another one for the pedocon list
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Cue those scenes in the Good Place season 3 when the representatives of the true Good Place convened a panel to determine whether they needed a committee to appoint a committee, and maybe there would be an outcome in 2000 years... Funny then, less so now

Trump's 14th Amendment nullification plan - Lawyers, Guns & Money It’s very, very, very, very bad: For months, federal courts blocked the Trump administration from developing any such plans, finding the executive order unconstitutional from top to bottom. In June, h...

Part off my maternal lineage left Europe to get away from this shit. The part that didn't ended up in the camps.
But of course after a decade of erosion of rights.
H/t @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/trum...

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

record. every. lecture. on your own personal digital recorder, not the university system.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Trump's Cuts-Now It's Personal - Lawyers, Guns & Money Like everyone else, I know how Trump and Big Balls’ cuts are affecting people in my circles. So here’s my friend Alessandra La Rocca-Link in the Lexington Herald Leader on how Trump’s cuts to medicine...

#theywantyoudead 68
cut R&D (NIH, NSF) you kill people not just in the future but ruin ill folks' health today. reality is that medical science does not know much about many diseases. no R&D, no new knowledge.
h/t @erikloomis.bsky.social

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/trum...

That would be John Kennedy (R-LA) who i nominate as the first candidate.
Louisiana famously(?) has murder rates rivaling central america, and overall life expectancy below Paraguay ( and falling!)

And more

ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?

Nebraska median age 37.1, 1/6 over 65 yo
# of counties w/ falling population: 69 /93
But i am sure those widows out on the prairie will rally to staff the meat packing plants.
Maybe after 2032 when Social Security payments fall by 20-24% if nothing is done.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

a smiling kitten

one kitten hugging a second kitten

almost forgot #caturday !!1! so here's two, as penance.
from the 2019 set of four winter fosters