https://podcastaddict.com/be-the-bridge-podcast-with-latasha-morrison/episode/162508392&t=1479

From around 24:50 for 5 or 6 minutes is a word, as they say.

This seems like a big-ish deal:

«In the agreement, concluded a week ago, U.S. Coast Guard ships can enforce regulations inside Palau’s exclusive economic zone on behalf of the nation without a Palauan officer present, the Coast Guard said in a statement.»

https://apnews.com/article/us-pacific-palau-china-ff0bf4dd0ef151d357bec8c896d36fb9

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/desantis-refuses-biden-climate-ira-money-00113397

Unbelievable. Blocking consumer rebates because of politics.

This is sadly unsurprising.

Whoa….

«I shouted out “who killed the Kennedys,” and after all I said “whoever did it if you were alive when it happened you are allowed to accept as many bribes as you want, as long as you continue to vote the Federalist Society party line.”»

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/08/indicted-seditionists-and-torture-enthusiasts-agree-clarence-thomass-behavior-is-beyond-reproach#:~:text=I%20shouted%20out%20%E2%80%9Cwho%20killed%20the%20Kennedys%2C%E2%80%9D%20and%20after%20all%20I%20said%20%E2%80%9Cwhoever%20did%20it%20if%20you%20were%20alive%20when%20it%20happened%20you%20are%20allowed%20to%20accept%20as%20many%20bribes%20as%20you%20want%2C%20as%20long%20as%20you%20continue%20to%20vote%20the%20Federalist%20Society%20party%20line.%E2%80%9D

I got that reference.

(And have decided it is time to add this blog to my NewsBlur feed, if it isn’t already there.)

I don’t pay attention to minutiae sometimes, but here’s something relevant:

«In the 1960 presidential election, the results in Hawaii were too close to call. Richard M. Nixon was leading John F. Kennedy in the state by just 140 votes, and there was a recount of the whole state. The recount was ongoing as Republican electors met in the state to cast their votes for Nixon, and Democratic electors met and cast their votes for Kennedy, in case he was declared the winner. (He eventually was.)

Legal experts say there is a major difference between what happened then and in 2020: The results in Hawaii were legitimately in question, while Trump’s legal challenges had already been dismissed or soon would be.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/20/fake-electors-charges-trump-2020-election/

https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/8/20/23835730/supreme-court-optimism-democracy-moore-milligan-talevski

«The strongest case for optimism about the Supreme Court, in other words, boils down to eight words: We can beat them at the ballot box.

And then we will replace them.»

https://wondermark.com/c/939/

I should have blogged this forever ago (and maybe I did).

Every time I see “Kenneth Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard University” quoted somewhere:

«Thomas called his girlfriend over to check his eyes weren’t deceiving him.

But no, he was correct – he’d spotted a basic error in the spreadsheet. The Harvard professors had accidentally only included 15 of the 20 countries under analysis in their key calculation (of average GDP growth in countries with high public debt).

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada and Denmark were missing.

Oops.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22223190

I’m sure that guy triple-checks his spreadsheets now, but still….

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-debt-slowdown-recession-622a3be4

«At those rates, China would fail to meet the objective set by President Xi Jinping in 2020 of doubling the economy’s size by 2035. That would make it harder for China to graduate from the ranks of middle-income emerging markets and could mean that China never overtakes the U.S. as the world’s largest economy, its longstanding ambition.»

No one who has read Why the West Rules – For Now would get smug about this.