Hunter was a piker As the wingnuts chase down Hunter’s dick pics, this is happening in real time, in plain sight: Wealth funds in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have invested hundreds of millions of dollars with Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, according to people with knowledge of the transactions, joining Saudi Arabia in backing the venture launched by former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law as he left the White House. The infusion of money from interests in the two rival Persian Gulf monarchies reflects the continued efforts by Mr. Trump and his aides and allies to profit from the close ties they built to the Arab world during his presidency and the desire of leaders in the region to remain on good terms with Mr. Kushner as his father-in-law seeks the presidency again. The Emiratis invested more than $200 million with Mr. Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, two people told about the transactions said. The U.A.E.’s embassy in Washington declined to comment. A Qatari entity invested a similar sum, according to two people with knowledge of that deal. A spokesman for the Qatari embassy in Washington declined to comment.
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There is no bottom After reading a bunch of filthy transphobe garbage on twitter yesterday and already feeling queasy, I came across this. I need to take a shower and have a stiff drink. It is just so horrible: My 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition. Paramedics got his heart beating, but it was too late to save his brain. I could hold his hand, look at the small birthmark on it, comb his hair, and call out for him, but if he could hear me or feel me, he gave no sign. He had been a child in perpetual motion, but now we couldn’t get him to wiggle a finger. My grief is profound, ragged, desperate. I cannot imagine how anything could feel worse. But vaccine opponents on the internet, who somehow assumed that a COVID shot was responsible for my son’s death, thought my family’s pain was funny. “Lol. Yay for the jab. Right? Right?” wrote one person on Twitter. “Your decision to vaccinate your son resulted in his death,” wrote another.
“Some day, it’ll become time for [farmers] to leave this beautiful earth, and they’ll be able to leave their farm, without taxes, to their children. I got rid of the ‘death tax’ on farms so that when you do pass away, on the assumption that you love your children, you can leave it to them and they won’t have to pay tax.” “But if you don’t love your children so much and there are some people that don’t — and maybe deservedly so — it won’t matter, because, frankly, you don’t have to leave them anything. Thank you very much. Have fun.” There was a lot of speculation that he was talking about his own kids. Maybe he and Ivanka are on the outs? Eric made a bad deal somewhere? But as Philip Bump explained, he made that video after a stop in Iowa where he was bragging about his great accomplishments for farmers and he made a joke about not loving their kids and got a laugh from the crowd. He’s trying out new material.
Last week, at the University of Georgia School of Law, super conservative Judge Michael Luttig said: With the former president’s and his Republican Party’s determined denial of January 6, their refusal to acknowledge that the former president lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square, and their promise that the 2024 election will not be “stolen” from them again as they maintain it was in 2020, America’s Democracy and the Rule of Law are in constitutional peril — still. And there is no end to the threat in sight…. We are a house divided and our poisonous politics is fast eating away at the fabric of our society…. The Republican Party has made its decision that the war against America’s Democracy and the Rule of Law it instigated on January 6 will go on, prosecuted to its catastrophic end. Charlie Sykes’ Bulwark podcast, with Judge Luttig is quite interesting. You can listen to the whole thing here. Some highlights: “Treason-like” Charlie Sykes: Here you have the former president very openly saying we should terminate the Constitution in order to overturn this election.
Watch for it, red staters Chris Cooper, a poli-sci professor at Western Carolina University, observes a GOP move you’ll likely see in your red-state legislature if you have not already. This one is from North Carolina. Republicans can’t have private donors who support democracy stepping in to prop up state and local Boards of Elections the GOP means to starve of funds. What? No mention of a Hungarian-American businessman in the bill? Attend your local Board meeting. It will likely come up among conspiracy theorists there. The GOP really is pulling out every stop to sabotage elections and undermine any of your rights they can get their hands on. Women’s rights, their personal autonomy and freedoms, are under assault too. You’ve noticed? North Carolina Republicans rolled out their abortion ban legislation on Wednesday too: RALEIGH, N.C. (WGHP) – Four Republicans in the North Carolina House have filed a bill that would ban legal abortion in the state except as necessary to save a mother’s life. House Bill 533 was filed Wednesday by state Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beautfort), its primary sponsor, Rep. Ben Moss (R-Moore), Rep.
Martin Niemöller is overquoted because he nailed it Sorry to be such a downer this morning, but this is going to get worse before it gets better: FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – There were intense moments at the Kentucky Capitol on Wednesday as the General Assembly voted to override governor andy beshear’s veto of controversial legislation opponents call “anti-transgender.” Emotions ran high, from rallies and protests outside the Capitol to even shouting at lawmakers in the chambers. “We have created an environment of hate, and then we look at them like there’s something wrong with them,” said Rep. Pamela Stevenson, D-Louisville. As House Democrats stood on the House floor, dozens of protesters stood against Senate Bill 150. Associated Press: FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday swept aside the Democratic governor’s veto of a bill regulating some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people — from banning access to gender-affirming health care to restricting the bathrooms they can use. The votes to override Gov.
Glenn Youngkin shows his true colors again The man in the red fleece vest who dazzled the entire DC press corps with his alleged post-Trump moderate strategy strikes again. Bolts magazine has the details: Going forward, Virginians will no longer regain their rights when released from prison—the most recent policy announced by Virginia officials in 2021—nor at any later point, unless Youngkin deems them to be worthy on an individual basis. His decision, which a future governor could alter, sidelines many residents who expected they would get to vote in Virginia elections. “I’ve never voted in my life. I was looking forward to voting this year,” Sincere Allah, who was released from prison the week Youngkin was inaugurated in 2022 and who has since waited to learn if his rights will be restored, told Bolts, in reference to the state’s upcoming legislative and prosecutorial elections.
and DeSantis sinks The latest polls show that the Trump jump is real: Republican primary voters were read a list of 15 announced and potential candidates for the 2024 nomination. The survey, released Wednesday, finds Trump has doubled his lead since February and is up by 30 points over Ron DeSantis (54%-24%). Last month, he was up by 15 (43%-28%). No one else hits double digits. Mike Pence comes in third with 6%, Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley receive 3% each, and Greg Abbott comes in at 2%. All others receive 1% support or less, and just 3% are unsure. It’s fair to assume that the talk of his imminent indictment may have helped him with primary voters. They love to rally around the Trump flag. But Quinnipiac also has a new poll out which show this may not be such a great thing in the big picture: Americans 57 – 38 percent think criminal charges should disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for president again, if charges are filed against him as a result of multiple state and federal criminal investigations, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll released today.
Summer School on “Modern Monetary Policy and European Macroeconomics” (Maastricht, July/August 2023) 31 July – 4 August, 2023 | University of Maastricht, Netherlands Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics This course provides an introduction to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). During the course, students will examine the balance sheets and transactions that are relevant for understanding […]