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Kurt Andersen
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Kurt Andersen
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New novel coming in August: THE BREAKUP. Previous: Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, Can’t Spell America, Heyday, Turn of the Century. Ex Studio 360, New York, SPY.
- Among other things, this hearing absolutely reconfirms that Trump’s impeachment by the House on January 13th, 2020, was justified and deserving of conviction.
- Nobody cared about his Fox News medical stunt last night. Only 300 cult members showed up for his rally on the South Lawn today. People have stopped caring. They want it to end. They’re turning the channel.
- Well that was an expensive hissy fit: in addition to damage to this site, Tesla is worth $25 billion less now than it was worth 24 hours ago.
- The @nytimes says there are 93,000 votes left to count and that Warnock's and Ossoff's estimated shares of those uncounted votes will be 77%. That'd give them each a net gain of 71,000 votes. If true, Ossoff would win by 69,000 votes (1.5%) and Warnock by 106,000 votes (2.5%).
- @nytimes: “Officials presented the president with options. The Pentagon tacked on the choice of targeting Suleimani mainly to make other options seem reasonable. They didn’t think he would take it. When Mr. Trump chose the option, military officials, flabbergasted, were alarmed.”
- Fraction of all US wealth owned by Boomers & Gen-Xers when the average member of each was age 35: Boomers, 1989 21% GenX, 2008 8% The average Millennial turns 35 in 2023. Right now they own 3%. There will surely be political implications. federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/da…
- People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators. What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added context"The House represents citizens based on district populations, while the Senate represents citizens on an equal state basis." house.gov/the-house-expl…. NY and CA have a total of 78 seats in the House, while the other states mentioned in the tweet have a combined total of 90 seats. britannica.com/topic/United-S… - The German Health Ministry confirmed a report that Trump “offered large sums of money” to the German pharmaceutical company CureVac to agree to sell rights to a possible coronavirus vaccine exclusively to America, “only for the US.”
- Wouldn’t it be nice if American voters said to themselves: “This 9.1% inflation really sucks, but given that it’s 8.1% in Canada and 9.4% in the UK and 9.6% in the EU, it really makes no sense to blame my financial pain on President Biden or Democratic Congressional candidates.”
- In the Ohio state legislature yesterday, the farthest-right GOP candidate was supposed to be elected Speaker by the body’s huge GOP majority. Surprise: 22 less-hard-right Republicans joined 32 Democrats to elect a more moderate Republican leader instead.
- If a rat could tweet, and it was cornered, would it tweet 45 times in 15 hours? Because that’s what the president did today.
