Sentencing set for Sept 30 in the high-profile Capitol riot case of Zachary Alam, who was accused of being on the frontline of mob outside the House Chamber, as House members made theirescape

The insane amount of money spent on US federal elections is depressing. Probably over $10B will be spent on this cycle. This is capital that could've been invested in education, healthcare, infrastructure, new businesses, or addressing urgent societal challenges. Elections don't

America, where we teach third-graders how to use a tourniquet instead of keeping guns away from lunatics.

This is worth watching. If you've seen politicians or celebrities work "average people" crowds, you know that it's very hard to *keep up* a faked sense of comfort and connection. Anybody can smile for a photo; not everybody can seem natural for several minutes on end. Eg: GWB

There is something so deeply sinister about this completely manufactured fantasy of kids being given transition surgeries at school at a time when kids are quite literally being murdered at school.

Trump’s own campaign could not find a single example of this “school secretly sends child for gender-affirming surgery without parental consent” thing having ever happened anywhere in the US. Experts say it has not and could not. It’s a lie. cnn.com/2024/09/04/pol…

Choppers working on a fire just south of Seven Feathers, at Canyonville on I5, in Southern Oregon. Fire started yesterday after a car crash according to local reports.

Trump doesn’t have “proposals.” He has complaints, rants and untethered notions. “Tariffs will pay for everything I want to fund” isn’t a policy. It’s “nonsense.”

Fox responds to Kamala Harris’ spice store visit by devoting an entire segment to…  attacking the spice store

“The spice store is a great example. It was kind of a cringe inducing thing. She also couldn't get her messaging right. She goes to a store known for bigotry and says we wants to move past divisiveness and it shows she's not ready for this.”

What we’re asking of educators in this country is unsustainable.

A small but interesting story in the larger Tenet saga is that one of the contributors to the apparent Russian influence op, Tayler Hansen, has said he was banned from YouTube. He's the only Tenet contributor to claim this. This is what it says when I visit one of his old videos.

So far, aside from Bloomberg, major media doesn’t seem to have picked up on Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on countries that don’t use the dollar. So before the sanewashing begins, here’s what he said in context (from C-Span closed captioning)

Happy 70th Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 36 senators and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

And he can do almost all of it by himself. Congress? What Congress?

Netanyahu is leading Israel to the brink of convulsive bloodshed. In part, it's his desperate, Machievallian attempt to cling to power. In part, it reflects the deep darkness at the core of his being. Most Israelis understand this. You should, too.

Sure looks like a cop hits a handcuffed Tyreek Hill.

Net Support For: A federal law limiting how much companies can raise the price of food/groceries: +15% A federal law establishing price controls on food/groceries: -10% Siena/NYT / Sept 6, 2024 / n=1374

I'm (seriously) considering a new segment on Marketplace: Batsh*t Crazy Economic Things the Republican Nominee for President Says.

The Harris campaign has rolled out a policy/issues page on their website, and this might be a new Harris proposal 👀 Harris will push to end the federal tipped minimum wage, which has stood at $2.13/hr since ‘91 kamalaharris.com/issues/