This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s right-wing flag-flying; David Leonhardt’s take on A New Centrism; and OpenAI’s use – or not – of Scarlett Johansson’s voice. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Jodi Kantor for The New York […]
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In this week’s essay, John discusses Mothers’s Day, playing tennis with the Attorney General, medical scares, and more Notebook Entries: Notebook 19, page 16. April 2011 Is it possible, through applied thought, to become systematic in an approach to life? If you were to do that how would you […]
Production Artist for the Election Cycle at The Campaign Workshop Who We Are The Campaign Workshop is a fun and quirky bunch of political and advocacy professionals. We help progressive nonprofits, campaigns, labor unions, and advocacy groups to develop new strategies, create digital ads, design direct mail, deliver training, and […]
Graphic – Betfair over the last week on the overall majority market A week ago Rishi Sunak announced the election on the 4th of July and as we can see the first week of the campaign has hardly changed the expectation of gamblers. Starmer’s safety first approach is working so […]
Is the Labour party right or wrong to ban Diane Abbott from standing as a candidate for the party? All BritonsRight: 37%Wrong: 21% 2019 Labour votersRight: 28%Wrong: 36%https://t.co/GnvhNj9eVC pic.twitter.com/jLEOiMIRIJ — YouGov (@YouGov) May 29, 2024 It has been an exciting day for political aficionados with the apparent purge of some […]
As I have noted many times here, quantitative tightening happens to reduce the UK’s government-created money supply. Supposedly, this reduces the rate of inflation. There is not the slightest shred of evidence that this has worked in the UK, where our inflation rate has remained above that of countries and […]
I couldn’t work out why they were scraping the C List to get me on. Ah, yes, election period, so you can’t have anyone party identified because if you do then they all have to be on. That they got as far down as me shows how free – ahem […]
In war, exaggeration is a killer. In the media, exaggeration is a bestseller. In the current war there is a dearth of military and political analysts who for truth or money will tell the difference. Instead, when the mentality of the war fighters is a combination of racial superiority and […]
The Jews had this great idea of replacing all white men with black women. The only problem is, black women are a lot harder to get to go along with the agenda. You can’t intimidate or threaten a black bitch. She’s gonna be like “uh-uh, sweetie, you ain’t gon do […]
Metropolitan policer officer Michael Fanone suffered a brain injury and heart attack as a result of the brutal physical attack he suffered by the crazed Trump insurrectionists at the Capitol on Jan. 6th. Capitol police officer Harry Dunne suffered physically and emotionally during the attack. He was threatened with violence […]
