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Krugman talking plain commonsense, as usual.

" The price of gold may be telling us something important.

" Ken Griffin, for those who don’t know, is a hedge fund billionaire who was a big supporter of Donald Trump in the last election. That is, he was one of those ultra-rich Trump backers for whom being an insurrectionist-criminal convict-Epstein pal-scammer-serial bankrupt with clear autocratic tendencies didn’t matter.

" What mattered was “TAX CUTS!”, “DEREGULATION!”. But you often find that kind of self-serving myopia in wealthy and powerful men, who inhabit a gilded bubble that leaves them unable to see what is right in front of their faces."

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ing

Paul Krugman · Ingots We TrustBy Paul Krugman
#Gold#USPol

Immigration attorneys should subpoena video from embedded social media people following ICE around.

I am not an attorney, but I would want my attorney to get all of the footage available from the government's propagandists.

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“The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust.

“As the political scientist Adam Przeworski points out, Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded.”

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Behold the senate rules. Complete with a C:\DOCS\ pathname. Reconsideration is Rule 13.

When a question has been decided by the Senate, any Senator voting with the prevailing side or who has not voted may, on the same day or on either of the next two days of actual session thereafter, move a reconsideration; and if the Senate shall refuse to reconsider such a motion entered, or if such a motion is withdrawn by leave of the Senate, or if upon reconsideration the Senate shall affirm its first decision, no further motion to reconsider shall be in order unless by unanimous consent. Every motion to reconsider shall be decided by a majority vote, and may be laid on the table without affecting the question in reference to which the same is made, which shall be a final disposition of the motion.

I guess as long as there is "unanimous consent" (i.e. nobody objects to it) there's no guardrail against pointless repetition of votes.

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rules.senate.gov/imo/media/doc

Why is ICE persecuting Christians by shooting a priest in the head with a pepper ball?

That is not a non-lethal use of that projectile, especially shooting down from above, which increases the damage it does.

Everything the Trump administration complains about is an admission of what they plan. From kidnapping kids and women to government paramilitaries shooting priests, the Trump admin is the mirror image of the horrors they scream about to justify the horrors they inflict on people.

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“The public can be extraordinarily powerful when it pushes back…”

“East Germany's dictatorship collapsed when multitudes began to march & organize against it, collapsing the illusion that everyone accepted tyranny.”

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AP: "The Senate failed to advance funding bills to end the government shutdown for the sixth time on Wednesday, continuing the stalemate as Democrats and Republicans traded blame for the impasse."

The thing I am not getting right now is what exactly is being changed in the two bills that the senate keeps failing to pass. The appearance is that they are just grandstanding and then voting again on the same language over and over. That's prohibited under Robert's Rules and in the House of Commons, but in the senate? Who the hell knows?

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cbsnews.com/live-updates/gover

www.cbsnews.com · Government shutdown live updates as Senate votes fail for 6th timeBy Kaia Hubbard

"The shifting messages — in some cases, claiming the exact opposite outcomes — is baffling state officials and energy industry professionals, as projects once hailed as a benefit to the American people are now being targeted by the same agencies as a waste of taxpayer money."

Gift link: startribune.com/energy-industr

Photo credit A stretch of the 500-kilovolt Great Northern Transmission Line in northern Minnesota.
www.startribune.com · Minnesota ratepayers likely will feel the consequences of canceled power transmission grantsPresident Trump’s Energy Department said the two multimillion-dollar grants would lead to more expensive, less reliable energy. But advocates see it leading to higher rates for customers.
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