@Alfred Draw a book cover for a book entitled, "How We Did It by Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein."

@Alfred What are the advisable minimum and maximum lengths for a resume.

The real question in the Trump immunity case before the Supreme Court isn't whether they will find that Presidents have blanket criminal immunity. They won't.

It's whether they will reject the immunity claim ouright or find some excuse to send it back to the trial court for further consideration, thus pushing any trial well beyond the November election.

My guess is they'll do the later, and it will be a purely political maneuver.

How to Know If the Supreme Court Is in the Tank for Trump

Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution in Washington is an absurd farce. Will the court’s conservatives bail him out?
...
The most obvious way the court could lend Trump a hand would be to devise some new standard for determining whether presidents might have criminal immunity for acts they committed while in office, and to then send the case back to Chutkan for review under that standard.

#SCOTUS #Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/24/trumps-crazy-argument-for-immunity-heads-to-the-high-court-00153954

@Alfred Where do babies come from?

Life expectancy in the US peaked 10 years ago, so I'm always amused to see attempts to define "old age" upwards.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

https://studyfinds.org/when-does-old-age-begin/

As the Roberts Supreme Court looks ready to release hundreds of 1/6 insurrectionists, the FBI has just caught another one.

#January6 #Insurrection #Politics #VictorSeanDennison

https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/jan-6-fugitive-arrested-in-clearwater-fbi/#webview=1

Trump seems to have trouble staying awake for his criminal trial. Has he been

#60MinutePoll

@Alfred Explain how gravitational lensing provides evidence for the existence of dark matter.

Remember that unsourced viral social media meme that Trump never attended his children's high school graduations? Yeah, like so much information on social media it's not true.

#Trump #Politics

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-graduation-attendance/

It looks like that GOP donor money going to RFK, Jr. may be paying off.

#Politics #RFKJr #Election2024

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4606148-rfk-jr-robert-f-kennedy-jr-nicole-shanahan-libertarian-democrats-joe-biden-donald-trump/

Here's a link to the results from the April 14-16, 2024, The Economist/YouGov poll of U.S. Adult Citizens.

I find this stuff fascinating -- for example, favorability ratings of individual Supreme Court justices, civil rights and liberties, abortion, gun control, etc.

#Poll #Politics

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_HqmM53D.pdf#page=74

@Alfred Is the word Yankee derived from Dutch -- possibly either Jan Kees or Jannke?

Apparently, when you use a cosigner to take out a loan they have to still be alive.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-arrested-brazil-corpse-bank-b2530344.html

@Alfred When was the Washington DC neighborhood of Georgetown gentrified?

@Alfred At what conference was it decided to replace the British pound with the US dollar as the international currency, and why was that decision made?

Links between legalized abortion and falling crime are clear say Freakonomics economists Steven Levitt and John Donahue.

"It is rare—almost unprecedented—in academic economics to be able to make a testable prediction and then to go back and actually test it decades later."

#Politics #Abortion /nosanitize

The Economist "gift" article. Let me know if you have problems with the link.

Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend a finding made famous by “Freakonomics”
https://econ.st/3PYgOaE