My prediction for 2023 is that the corruption of all levels of law enforcement will be increasingly hard to ignore, but politicians will still ignore it!
When the most powerful politicians in the country have an obvious law enforcement problem very close to home (Secret Service, Capitol Police, FBI, effing IRS enforcement), and do *nothing* about it, well...
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Once again, thank you so, so much for your support this year. I am genuinely overwhelmed. The readers of this blog are the nicest people in the world and I could not be more grateful. Here’s hoping that this next year brings us some peace and stability. I always wish that every year. But even if it doesn’t, we’ll be here documenting, analyzing and synthesizing the news as we see it. Tom, Dennis, tristero, spocko, Batocchio and I look forward to delivering it to you every day of the week as we’ve been doing for the past 20 years. To all that we lost and all that we gained in the past year, and to all that’s to come in the days ahead…cheers! — digby
I have argued that in order for a mathematical modeling exercise to illuminate its target the following two conditions must be met:(1*) the objects under investigation must plausibly be stable, modular, and quantitative, with no qualitative differences among instantiations of each type; and (2*) the relations between them must be fixed and law-like throughout the […]
A brief recap before the storm The White House wants to remind you what Democrats got done last year. Maybe because unless the GOP self-destructs the Biden administration’s ability to be loud and proud has a short half-life. I know someone needing the shingles vaccine. As of today there is no cost for those covered under Medicare Part D. If eligible, get vaccinated. Here is one benefit that slipped by me. We’ll see how much more Biden can get done in 2023 with a hostile, Republican-controlled House obsessed with investigating Anthony Fauci and Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop. Jeffrey Billman of Informed Dissent cautioned that we’re looking at two years of Benghazis because “when you elect clowns, you get a circus.” It will be a clown show or a horror show, one way or another. Update: Forgot to link to this Guardian longer review of more good news from 2022.
I wish you with this illustration strength and courage against all the "dragons" who might be on your way in 2023.
Can you see the numbers in the silhouettes? I'm doing this type of illustration yearly on the blog for the new year, I have a tag with all of them since 2009 if you want to see this little tradition.
Big-Butt Ants Are A South American Delicacy (Thanks to pharmaross)
People gobsmacked over size of 'bigfoot jumbo' sausage from local chippy (Thanks to Emily, Leslie and w) Morrisons shoppers gobsmacked as Easter eggs spotted on Boxing Day (Thanks to pharmaross) People gobsmacked by Asda's 'great value' air fryer that can...
We joined thousands of revellers who accepted the invitation and sent avatars of themselves to Midnight in The Metaverse on New Year's Eve. An avatar of Paris, 41, greeted fans from a DJ booth, with hearts behind her, at Club...
A cloud formation baring eerily resemblance to a flying saucer out of Jordan Peele’s sci-fi film “Nope” shocked California residents this week. An Aussie woman’s incredible clip of an Outback toilet filled with green tree frogs has stunned the internet....
A holiday anthem perfect for Maryland is the song "Crabs for Christmas" (Thanks to ImNotDave)
Guess they were right about all the crimeing going on there. Stealing over $100K!
Machete attack in NYC Confetti rained at midnight in Times Square as revelers greeeted the new year. The crowd was a sign of a return to normal, perhaps, depending on what happens with the latest Covid variant. Earlier in the evening, however, something darker occurred nearby. Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in an early morning press conference that a man wielding a machete attacked a group of city police officers just after 10 p.m. near a security checkpoint for the New Year’s Eve event. The 19-year-old struck several officers in the head before he was shot in the shoulder, wounded, and apprehended by officers. Three officers were hospitalized and in stable condition, one with a head fracture, another with a severe laceration. Reporting is preliminary, but the attack is under investigation to determine whether it fits a terrorism profile (CNN): The FBI, NYPD and Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating, officials said in an early New Year’s Day joint news conference. “I want to be very clear … there is no ongoing threat,” said Mike Driscoll, the FBI assistant director in charge of the New York field office.
Thanks to all our readers, writers, and supporters for sticking with us this year. Bring on 2023!
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There are significant gender differences in how economic information diffuses within the household.
The White House said Bernie Sanders’s war powers resolution would prolong the war, but that’s what its own efforts are doing.
The post Biden’s “Diplomacy” in Yemen Means Taking Saudi Arabia’s Side — and Could Spark All-Out War appeared first on The Intercept.
It's Groundhog Year, again.
*The new American variant for 2023
Thanks to all who read this blog in 2022. The final readership data was as follows: The third-best year ever. But the focus was on
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Neoliberalism as an enabler of the spread of Covid19 Imad A. Moosa The spread of Covid19 was aided by unpreparedness, the fact that the private…
The post Neoliberalism as an enabler of the spread of Covid19 first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.To justify its 20-year war, the U.S. said it cared about the Afghan people. Now Congress is abandoning those seeking to escape Taliban rule.
The post What the United States Owes Afghan Women appeared first on The Intercept.
Two big budget fallacies harming Australians Geoff Davies What if the federal budget is completely misconceived? What if we could avoid much of the hardship…
The post Two big budget fallacies harming Australians first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.This will be the year that Europeans realize the designed irrelevance of the European Union. The quagmire in Ukraine’s killing fields will bring on the realization of the need for a diplomatic process to end the war, but also the realization that the EU is radically incapable of playing any significant role in it. Who […]
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On behalf of DiEM25, greetings and Happy New Year. 2022 brought us a hideous War and crippling price hikes. 2022 brought environmental disaster closer to home and varieties of neofascism at our door. 2022 was the year our dire predictions about Europe’s failures and the world’s slide into a New Cold War were confirmed. But, […]
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