“.. The strong growth usually seen due to shipments of holiday merchandise, “we are not seeing that,” said Dale Rogers ..

@cnbc.com #FreightRecession
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RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

gotta catch em all. just got this on Insta from the CDC:

“.. 97% of Taiwan’s energy is imported by sea. If completely cut off, its LNG inventory would be fully depleted within days, crippling the island’s ability to produce electricity.”

@wsj.com
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those people are reactionaries — they sat atop a Jim Crow racial hierarchy, lost that position, want it back. but i don’t think that characterizes most of the politics of the contemporary right wing. 5/

one wonders whether the justice part ever had anything really to do with it. /fin

some evidence for this is the very same people were all-in on identitarian approaches to social justice when that was the tactic Hillary Clinton adopted to simultaneously ward off challenges from Bernie and Trump. now they dismiss those approaches as “the groups”. 6/

some people of their broad class (think prominent tech people) work to retain social position by joining the new winning team. others for whatever reason won’t do that, so want their team to win again. 5/

that is, they are not so much animated by a project of justice or equality, the arc of history they so went on about. they were at the top of a social hierarchy, and what they’re after is just getting that back. 4/

but i guess what motivates my little provocation (obviously that thread was a provocation) was a conjecture that this is in fact the motivation of a lot of self-styled centrists. 3/

only one influential faction that styles itself center has for its project basically return to as things were, before tumultuous changes. its project is a return to Clintonism, or Obamaism (are they synonyms?). they may be wise or unwise, but if the word has any meaning they are reactionaries. /fin

They want other people to look good dying.

Finishing schools for sociopaths.

And a pony.

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

By having the White House tell you what a good little girl you are.

Or perhaps the publisher is a reactionary POS and actually believes this nonsense.

Bade is apparently non-crazy from what I've heard - I think she was shortlisted in 2020 because of her gender and not her ideological bona fides (bc the GOP is actually a believer in race/gender essentialism when they do affirmative action, unlike AA's actual proponents). But anecdata, grain of salt

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
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The Justice Department has brought in two AUSAs from out of state to work the Comey prosecution: Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz. Both are detailed from the U.S. Attorney's office in North Carolina.

EU to halve steel import quotas to revive domestic industry The European Commission proposed on Tuesday cutting tariff-free steel import quotas by almost half and a 50% duty for excess shipments in a bid to preserve viable steelmaking in the European Union.

EU to halve steel import quotas to revive domestic industry reut.rs/4pWDvfs

We are losing to China because our local governments specifically do not want industrial development, and China's do. Unfortunately I think this is a mixture of being a rich country that's "coasting", and being a democracy and not a dictatorship

Cui bono, baby.

Homan kept the cash and didn't declare it.

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

In other words, it doesn't particularly matter whether she knows how to do the boring work of running a TV news network. Her role will be to pick her issues (like, say, Israel) and enforce ideological conformity, with everyone understanding she reports directly to the top.

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

AI Investors Are Chasing a Big Prize. Here’s What Can Go Wrong. There are good reasons to think that simply throwing more computing power at the current models won’t do it.

‘AI pioneer Marvin Minsky told Life magazine that true AGI was 3-8 years away—in 1970. Less widely known is that the magazine canvassed skeptics who cautioned that AGI was more likely to take 15 years. It’s always been the tech of the future, and it might stay that way.‘ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

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