If it looks like a recession, and smells like a recession, and the bond market is priced like a recession, then guess what: it’s here.
Why the world needs a spot Bitcoin ETF in the US: 21Shares CEO explains
N. Korea reports 6 deaths after admitting COVID-19 outbreak
Biden Administration and GOP Clash on Vaccine Strategy
Even if we cut some slack for Esper and all the others who served as honorably and conscientiously as they could until they were faced with either the dead end of resignation or being fired, the fact is that these men and women remained silent for far too long once they were out of government service. They held back important things that the American people and their elected representatives needed to know. They kept them as their own personal secrets, either out of some misplaced sense of bureaucratic propriety, or because they had a book deal and didn’t want to steal their own thunder from release day.
They had a duty to speak up sooner. And they failed in that duty.
Esper, Mattis, Tillerson, and many, many other people who crawled through the Shawshank sewer pipe that was the four years of the Trump administration needed to speak up the minute they were out. Instead, they teased their book bombshells or played coy games of slap and tickle on cable outlets.
January 6 Committee Subpoenas Five GOP Lawmakers
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas on Thursday to five Republican members of Congress, including Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, who refused to meet with the panel voluntarily.
The committee’s leaders had previously been reluctant to issue subpoenas to their fellow lawmakers. That is an extraordinarily rare step for most congressional committees to take, though the House Ethics Committee, which is responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct by members, is known to do so.
Russia threatens ‘retaliatory steps’ if Finland joins NATO
Keep the leaks coming: The case against Donald Trump is being built up by Republicans’ big mouths
Meatpackers Pushed "Baseless" Claims To Influence White House, Report Alleges
America’s large meatpackers pushed “baseless claims of beef and pork shortages in the early weeks of the pandemic to persuade the Trump administration to keep packing plants running and disregard the risks of the coronavirus,” according to a special House subcommittee investigating the nation’s pandemic response. At least 269 meat packing workers eventually died from the virus.
Conservative Parents Seek to Ban Library Apps
E-reader apps that became a lifeline for students during the pandemic are now in the crossfire of a culture war raging over books in schools and public libraries.
In several states, apps and the companies that run them have been targeted by conservative parents who have pushed schools and public libraries to shut down their digital programs, which let users download and read books on their smartphones, tablets or laptops.
Some parents want the apps banned for their children, or even for all students. And they’re getting results.
“Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hospital overwhelmed with kids in crisis being dropped at ER doors
Children who lash out in homes and protective placements are increasingly being dropped off at the M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital, prompting the creation of a makeshift shelter in an ambulance garage.
This is in generally thriving Minneapolis/St. Paul. What must it be like in poorer cities?
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