What Republicans like Elise Stefanik are supporting so they can get votes.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/

Courtesy of:

From an interesting thread:

«“Now we will get order in Sweden,” Jimmie Akesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats [far-right party], wrote on Facebook on Wednesday: “It is time to start rebuilding security, prosperity and cohesion. It’s time to put Sweden first.”»

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/world/europe/sweden-election-result-right.html

Bumper-sticker politics. This sounds so familiar. What voter has ever not placed their country first? The only ones who do are the multi-billionaires who have multiple homes all over the world and whose companies engage in trade all over the world.

«Sweden Democrats, which has worked to rebrand itself from its origins in Nazi ideology»

https://www.reuters.com/technology/truly-autonomous-cars-may-be-impossible-without-helpful-human-touch-2022-09-12/

Gosh, who’d’a thunk?

Ho hum, another person killed by a crazy person in America. Why do we do this? So much wrong with this story. Surely we can do better.

«in what his defense attorney said was an episode of uncontrolled paranoia, Marable pulled out a gun and fired aimlessly across a busy street.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/02/marable-sentenced-fatal-shooting-marmet-dc/

Still… 1 in 10 is a lot.

«If one agrees with Biden that this group poses a threat to American democracy, it is reassuring that it constitutes a tenth of the public — and not, as Biden’s detractors had it — half.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/02/trump-republicans-biden-maga/

[points to butterfly] Is this quiet quitting?

«national labor organizers … set May 1, 1886, as a deadline for businesses to grant their workers an eight-hour workday. … That day, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 workers struck nationwide.»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/09/05/labor-day-may-grover-cleveland/

And another piece of humor:

«Both May Day and Labor Day were honored in the United States by various labor groups for years, though the former had a reputation for being more political, more radical and less merry than the latter.»

Hmm. More merry or less merry? It’s kind of a dilemma.

Network TV, baby.

Oh, look, a “sensitive” warning! (It’s a photo of Shirer’s book.)