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What's it take to get corporations making record profits to share some of the wealth by paying fair taxes?

No paywall: wapo.st/457L20b

@realTuckFrumper It doesn’t help that Lloyd Austin is actually FROM Alabama, where Tuberville is not! @kennethb

Do I know any screen reader users who have successfully completed advanced math coursework? If so, I would like to meet with you. Boosts requested

"Getting rid of physical books because we now have databases is like getting rid of sunshine because of the existence of vitamin-D pills and cod liver oil." --love that.

a cogent plea for keeping physical libraries available:

scottlocklin.wordpress.com/202

"WITNESS TAMPERING"

Donald Trump -
"I am reading reports that failed former Lt. Governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, will be testifying before the Fulton County Grand Jury," Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Monday.

"He shouldn't. I barely know him but he was, right from the beginning of this Witch Hunt."
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #AureFreePress

axios.com/2023/08/14/trump-geo

You Either See Everyone Else As a Human Being Or You Don’t

It’s obviously morally abominable to booby-trap the border with razors. But some people think desperate migrants deserve whatever cruelties we inflict on them.

currentaffairs.org/2023/08/you

Today was supposed to be the first time a woman ascended to the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Instead, three of the eight seats on the #Pentagon’s board of most senior military members will be filled with interim officers for the first time in U.S. history due to Sen. Tommy #Tuberville’s blockade on #military promotions.

politico.com/news/2023/08/14/j

@persagen

"a former Army Ranger, State Department diplomat and founder of a charter school network who has no official certification for the Houston job"

The libraries are to be made into detention centers. Students who are "disruptive" in class will be sent to the detention centers to computer-learn.

A predictably military solution to a non-military problem.

Why do we *always* do this? We have experts who spend their lives learning how to educate and teach. Then we pick an authoritarian.

It’s time to talk about RICO. Specifically, George state RICO law, which is quite different from federal law, is much easier to prove, and carries some eye-popping penalties. And Willis could soon charge Trump & Co with it. statuskuo.substack.com/p/georg

Attention attendees! People are home today, and waking up sick with Covid. If you were there without a mask, please start testing.

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