“Two weeks” origin story.

This is why all the crowing about the economy under Biden didn't make sense to people living in it. Business leaders and their lobbyists keep pushing the labor force into underemployment in order to not pay wage increases, payroll taxes and benefits.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

This is bleak. And offers no suggestions as to how to act. House Representatives seem like the only leverage ordinary Americans have because they turnover so quickly. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Not that he would, but he can't even claim ignorance for all of the executive orders he keeps throwing at the wall to see if they will stick. The only people benefiting from his existence are the lawyers. What a colossal waste of our country's resources and what a horrible thing to do its citizens.

“There seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable.” -Anthony Trollope

Randomly rewatched this movie with my kid and was appalled to realize that in the Joe Pesci speech scene, I cheered his answer back in the 90s, but now realize (after watching Trump steamroll over all branches) the faux Harvard gov prof is more correct. Skip to 1:40.

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A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, calling it unconstitutional.

Take that, Upchuck Hucklefuck.

#Sheshed

If they are out there, kudos to the script writers of Schitt's Creek for proving this former librarian and lifelong reader wrong every time I was convinced Moira was spouting made-up words every fifth episode or so. I enjoyed looking them up.