www.inquirer.com
> What a genitalia joke and a four-letter word about Kamala Harris is telling us about the American fascism threat under Trump.
www.msnbc.com
You want to keep him from taking office and repeating his pollution-maximization agenda? Then don't just [vote](https://iwillvote.com/) — [get involved as a volunteer for the Harris campaign](https://go.kamalaharris.com/)
TL;DR; You can raise minimum wage quite a bit, but prices only go up a tiny bit.
www.newyorker.com
IMHO the big thing that will help is [actually volunteering for her campaign](https://go.kamalaharris.com/) Archived copies of the article: * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ttxH1) * [archive.today](https://archive.ph/wip/fngM3)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14414729 > > The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said. >
> The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14397907 > > Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up. >
> Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up.
silence7 2d ago • 100%
To be fair to her, I don't think her views have actually constituted the limiting factor on US action — that would have been what could pass through the Senate, where we needed the vote of a literal coal baron to get even budget reconciliation passed (that takes only 50 votes + the VP, anything else requires 60 votes)
silence7 2d ago • 100%
Yeah, and he claimed to have covered it up so that it wouldn't be in his military records. So now they've got witnesses to both time periods, one saying he wasn't shot while in the military, and the other saying that they heard him admit to shooting himself.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14376748 > > Now, in interviews, two people who had close interactions with Mr. Sheehy during key moments in the story have come forward, raising new questions about whether the bullet wound had come during his military service. > > > >A former SEAL colleague, Dave Madden, who had what he described as a close relationship with Mr. Sheehy before they deployed to Afghanistan, said that Mr. Sheehy never mentioned a gunshot wound to him, and almost certainly would have done so in a conversation they had during their deployment if he had indeed been wounded. > > > >On the issue of the later injury in Montana, Kim Peach, a park ranger who spoke with Mr. Sheehy that day at the hospital, said Mr. Sheehy personally told him that he had accidentally shot himself in the arm, and handed over a revolver with a spent round. > >
> Now, in interviews, two people who had close interactions with Mr. Sheehy during key moments in the story have come forward, raising new questions about whether the bullet wound had come during his military service. > >A former SEAL colleague, Dave Madden, who had what he described as a close relationship with Mr. Sheehy before they deployed to Afghanistan, said that Mr. Sheehy never mentioned a gunshot wound to him, and almost certainly would have done so in a conversation they had during their deployment if he had indeed been wounded. > >On the issue of the later injury in Montana, Kim Peach, a park ranger who spoke with Mr. Sheehy that day at the hospital, said Mr. Sheehy personally told him that he had accidentally shot himself in the arm, and handed over a revolver with a spent round.
silence7 2d ago • 85%
Access options: * [gift link](https://wapo.st/409HXgH) - registration required * [archive.today](https://archive.is/ljhEw) * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/0PpdI)
www.seattletimes.com
Archived copies of the article: * [archive.today](https://archive.ph/wip/uZZyW) * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/h5uJz)
silence7 2d ago • 66%
It's not subjective though.
www.theatlantic.com
It's almost like [he's intentionally doing exactly that](https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a): > Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist. > >"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I asked Trump. > >Trump hesitated. "Who told you that?" > >"I don't remember," I said. > >"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." ("I did give him a book about Hitler," Marty Davis said. "But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.") He can still be stopped. Americans: * [Make sure you're registered to vote](https://iwillvote.com/) * Vote early if you can, on Nov. 5 if you must. * [Volunteer](https://go.kamalaharris.com/)
silence7 2d ago • 75%
It's not just the top; since the pandemic, wages at the 20th percentile are rising again:
silence7 3d ago • 100%
The idea is to replace the income tax for billionaires and corporations, and borrow huge amounts of money as well.
silence7 3d ago • 21%
I agree that housing went up more than other parts of the market basket, and that we should build enough to force it down — indeed per your link rent is in fact slowly falling at this point.
silence7 3d ago • 42%
The market basket approach they use looks at the mix of goods and services people buy. So yes, it captures the fact that housing is more of a typical person's budget than milk.
silence7 3d ago • 50%
It's describing an average. There are definitely subgroups doing both better and worse
silence7 3d ago • 33%
That's literally a textbook definition of inflation.
silence7 3d ago • 18%
Yes, but it's included in the proportion to which you buy those things. So if you're spending a lot less on other things, but more on housing, it's a wash for your overall expenses. The point is that compared with overall expenses, wages went up more.
silence7 3d ago • 12%
The point of the inflation index is that it includes the same basket of things that people buy — including housing. There are some specific ways in which the official numbers can lag peoples' experience (eg: how owners-equivalent rent is handled) but what you're doing is suggesting something terrible, but not actually providing any real evidence for it.
silence7 3d ago • 40%
U-6 looks at those kinds of underemployment numbers, and is doing pretty well:
This doesn't mean it's perfect, or everybody is now a sudden billionaire. It does mean that it's within the range of "pretty much ok for most people"
silence7 3d ago • 23%
They didn't — what they did was raise a bunch of red herring type issues.
There are a ton of measures of unemployment which try to capture the kinds of thing they're talking about, and they show similar imporvements.
silence7 3d ago • 15%
There's always risk in life, and the world isn't some perfect place. The point is that it's actually improved recently, by any measure you might use.
silence7 3d ago • 31%
That's what adjusting for inflation is.
silence7 3d ago • 100%
They're fracking, but in granite, rather than in an oil and gas deposit. So you shouldn't see the same kinds of hydrocarbon releases and contamination that go with fracking for oil and gas, or the same huge production of contaminated wastewater that needs to be disposed of.
silence7 3d ago • 100%
A lot of boreal forest does need low-intensity fire. This spaces trees out and prevents fuel accumulation so that the trees largely survive.
If you let things go, you end up killing all the seeds in the soil when an intense fire comes through, and depending on whether the local microclimate has changed, and what seed sources are actually available, you can end up with a very different plant community.
If you want to keep that from happening, it takes regular application of thinning and prescribed burns.
silence7 3d ago • 100%
Yeah he has some serious issues with coherence. But I'm paying a lot of attention to climate, so I notice it more on that issue than others.
silence7 3d ago • 100%
The existing large-scale batteries are largely lithium. There are a bunch of iron-chemistry ones and sodium-ion ones which have been deployed over the past year, with factories going up to scale them up. I'm not expecting to be limited by lithium availability for stationary batteries.