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The Full-Frontal Pom-Pom

Fun, playful, and an excellent reminder that it’s already time to schedule your annual mammogram. One size fits A to double D. Any pinching is fleeting.

The Gastric-Glow Three Pack

These brightly colored fuzzy socks draw inspiration from the contents of at least one entire cabinet in your kitchen.

The Instant Facelift Slouch Sock

No matter how many times you pull them up, the cruel mistress of Time will slip them right back down.

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Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?

The post Kamala’s Moment appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

My neighbor Craig is a prepper. For years, he’s been telling me the world is coming to an end, and for years, I’ve been ignoring him. Then one day I saw him digging with a shovel in his backyard. The bank gave him a second mortgage, he told me, and he was going to build a bunker forty feet beneath the earth. I accidentally laughed at him, and the two of us haven’t spoken since.

But then ChatGPT was released, and there were all these articles about AI taking over the world. And then Trump was running for president again, and that Ohio Senator called for a civil war if Trump loses. And then I saw an Instagram post speculating that Coscto was encouraging consumers to stock up for the apocalypse, because they were selling Readywise Emergency Food Buckets, and it dawned on me that maybe Craig was right. Maybe I should be preparing.

My credit rating is, according to Equifax, fucking abysmal, so I knew a bunker bank loan was out of the equation. But I do have a Costco card, and I figured the least I could do to prepare for the End Times was drive over to Costco and buy my own Readywise Emergency Food Bucket.

Eyebrows raised as accounts show Reform UK rushed to repay £200,000 to Richard Tice, just a week after Nigel Farage took control of the party

An inside look at the little-known task force that uncovered the companies secretly funding Nixon’s operation.

‘I didn’t have a fall. A woman knocked me down outside Kwik-Save.’ Head in the bubble dryer, an elderly customer recounts her story with gossipy relish. After the fall, rather than simply visit the GP to have her stitches removed, the elderly woman visited the salon instead. ‘There’s nothing Hilary can’t turn her hand to.’ […]

These factors do not exist in isolation but interact and act as force multipliers for each other and are ripe to be manipulated through identity politics

There has been much attention online to a piece by Joseph Heath arguing that analytical Marxism disappeared because the analytical Marxists all turned into Rawlsian liberals. At a certain level of resolution (blurred, zoomed out) the argument has something going for it. But at that level, all it amounts to is the claim that this […]

Aydan Dogan and Ida Hjortsoe Exporting allows firms to access a larger market, but it also implies costs and risks. Some of these costs and risks are due to the time between production and sales generally being longer for exported goods than for goods sold in the domestic market. In our recent Staff Working Paper, … Continue reading Why short-term finance matters (a lot more) to exporting firms →

The Gallup poll shows that voter enthusiasm is higher than it’s been since 2008. (That was a very good year for Democrats, by the way.) Guess why? It’s the Democrats. Democrats’ current level of enthusiasm is one percentage point shy of the group’s high in Gallup’s trend since 2000. That was the 79% measured in February 2008, when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were engaged in a spirited battle for the party’s presidential nomination. Enthusiasm subsided later that year, but by the end of the campaign, consistently more than seven in 10 said they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting. Democratic enthusiasm was also elevated during the 2004 and 2020 presidential campaigns. I’d rather be the Democrats than the Republicans….

A government cannot run continuous fiscal deficits! Yes it can. How? You need to understand what a deficit is and how it arises to answer that. But isn’t a fiscal surplus the norm that governments should aspire to? Why frame the question that way? Why not inquire into and understand that it is all about…

Sean Paul’s post on the 2nd Amendment got me thinking about the prospects for civil war in the USA, in particular this spicy quote:

So, Sean Paul, what does this have to do with the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms?

Everything to do with slavery, and nothing to do with holding our government accountable. Seriously, do you honestly think a couple thousand Texans with AR-15s could out fight an armored brigade? GTFOH.

It won’t be lard-ass militias that matter if there is a civil implosion in the US.

These things always come down to intra-elite splits and/or intra-military splits.

I was on the The Nicole Sandler Show show as RFK Jr.’s brain worm. I was going to add photos of the people and articles that I was referring too, because as bizarre at all these stories sound, I WAS NOT MAKING THEM UP! I decided to just list the articles below in case anyone wants to know more details. These are Real Headlines Written by Actual Humans about RFK Jr. in a new segment I’m calling RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm News. (The graphic is from an actual article on brain worms from ABC News, Australia that said, “headlines about brain worms can be alarming.” but adds, “..here are ways you can minimize your risks of being infected with one.” ) When I talked about how Dave, RFK Jr’s brain worm, would be advising Trump on loyalty and cabinet positions I was talking about John McEntee, Trump’s body man during the 2016 campaign is currently working on HR for the Trump campaign.

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Trump actually posted this on Truth Social: He’s said and done a LOT of disgusting things in his short political career. But this may be the worst. He and his republive minions are out there every day on social media pushing the lie that Harris slept her way to the top. I know I don’t really have to say this but it’s important. She had a relationship with Willie Brown, the Speaker of the state assembly for about a year in the mid 90s when she was a prosecutor in Alameda County. He recommended her for a job on the unemployment appeals board.( I don’t think that’s quite the stepping stone to power people what you to believe.) Then she went to work for the San Francisco DA’s office and the San Francisco City Attorney, ran for San Francisco DA and she won. Twice. After that she ran for Attorney General of California and she also won twice. After that she ran for the Senate and won and then ran for VP and won. She has been an elected official for over 2 decades. Unless she gave blow jobs to millions of voters, she did not sleep her way to the top. It’s absurd. There’s more here. Ugh.

OK guys, here’s the deal. Last night I had a decently long dream in which Vishnu appeared to me personally, blue but golden with godly light and so on, to explain to me that he was real, and that I should worship him but not necessarily his avatars, more just him, (though I objected that […]

New evidence suggests the corvid family has surprising mental abilities.

The post Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.

And she had a right to be NBC’s Ryan Reilly: NBC News on Tuesday reviewed more than 30 minutes of video from the roughly 48 hours surrounding the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, including video that showed Pelosi being led away from the building by her security detail as she pressed her staff members to get the National Guard to respond to the Capitol. The newly surfaced remarks go further than the public ones she made on Jan. 7, when she said Trump had “incited an armed insurrection against America” and “instigated” an attack that would “forever stain our nation’s history.” The same day, the HBO video shows, Pelosi spoke to her staff while she was sitting under an ornate mirror that had been smashed when the pro-Trump mob ransacked her office hours earlier. “We take an oath to protect our country from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” she said. “There is a domestic enemy in the White House.

“What do you need to solve the climate crisis? The answer is, everyone.” This quote from climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe highlights the importance of collective action, which is crucial in the travel industry. In this blog post we explore three ways in which travel for tourism can be conducted more sustainably: eco-tourism, carbon emissions offsetting, and global environmental projects.

The post Sustainable Travel appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

100 years ago, a circle of physicists shook the foundation of science. It’s still trembling.

The post When Reality Came Undone appeared first on Nautilus.