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When you put STUPID in office...

DeSantis opened the floodgates
At last week's press conference, DeSantis said he would support legislation that would make it a bit more difficult to challenge large numbers of books. But, in May 2023, DeSantis signed legislation that made it much easier to challenge many titles.

Judd Legum on Book Challenges gone too far

popular.info/p/oops-desantis-s

BIG BROTHER COMING FOR YOUR TEACHER

The GOP opened a new front in its war on schools this month when Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita launched an online portal for people to report “objectionable curricula, policies, or programs” in schools across the state.

msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/i

Cartoon Idea

Two Aliens flying by Earth

One looks down and says, "What about there (pointing to Earth) as our next plunder?"

The other replies, "Don't worry about Earth, they kill each other there, they're gonna take care of it for us."

while restrictions on Palestinians entering Israel from the West Bank led to labor shortages in sectors like construction. Consumer spending took a nosedive in Q4, down 27% from the prior quarter, while government spending surged 88%.

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S: Morning Brew

WAR HURTS US ALL, GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

War causes Israel’s economy to shrink by nearly 20%. Israel’s GDP contracted by 19.4% on an annualized basis in the final quarter of 2023, far more than forecast, as the country’s economy buckled following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and its ensuing war in Gaza. Companies were left without 300,000 reservists, who were conscripted into the military, ...

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This is just the start: Even bigger CHIPS Act grants are expected to go out to chipmakers like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC in the coming weeks. While 37% of the world’s chips were made in America in 1990, that share is now just 12%.

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S: Morning Brew

US GETS MORE CHIPPY

Make America make chips again: The Commerce Department said yesterday it’ll send $1.5 billion to chipmaker GlobalFoundries to help it build a new factory near Albany, NY, and expand semiconductor production in Vermont. It’s the largest grant yet from the $39 billion piggy bank established by the 2022 CHIPS Act to bolster domestic chip manufacturing with direct subsidies.

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TOASTING ONE'S TEMPLE

ON this date in 1933 - Congressman Bun Man gave his famous 'Toasted Temple' speech which so moved the House that the U.S. House of Representatives completed congressional action on the amendment to repeal Prohibition.

Remembering that speech still brings tears to Mr. Purple's eyes, ...

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NASA Final Flight Check Personnel Bun Man and Mr. Purple actually had some last-minute trouble w/ Glenn as he appeared to be chickening out just before the flight.

Bun had to slap John around a little to get him calm, but it was Mr. Purple who saved the day when he said "John, this is a piece of cake, monkeys have done this before..."

Glenn manned up after that...

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ON this date in 1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.

He was the first American to orbit the Earth.

He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.

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Sadly, it wasn't. What Wall Street learned from all of this and what Congress aided and abetted was not a 'cleaning of our financial house', quite the opposite, it fostered new, slicker, and deeper ways to hide fraud.

Corporations disgust me and the Boyz...

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WAY BACK IN 2004 - Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in connection with the energy trader's collapse.

Skilling was later convicted and sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.

Chief prosecutors Bun Man and Mr. Purple saw this ruling as a new means to hold irresponsible capitalists in check.

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PREPAREDNESS

Ken-Dogger: Whoa there Shuffles, you ready for the day?
Shuffles: Yep, heard the weather's gonna be bad.
KD: That's what I hear, you're a little overdressed right now though.
S: Dude, you can never be too ready for the elements...
KD: Oh, you mean the weather, that's right buddy
S: Preparedness, the ultimate skill...
KD: You got me there Shuffles, you got me there.

THERE'S ONLY ONE KIND

Historybook: US Marines invade Iwo Jima (1945); HBD NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (1959); HBD Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Peace Prize winner for CRISPR genome editing (1964); RIP American author Harper Lee (2015); RIP German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (2019)

"I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks."

- Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

@Mandypar

What gives, you gonna say Good Morning or what?

sheesh, I'm on the clock here...

What up GF?

Brookings piece on the Native American challenges influencing their vote in 2024...

These are the most salient challenges Native American communities are facing. This information is particularly useful for both political parties to learn from, given that research has consistently found that Native Americans tend to make strategic voting choices based on perceptions of which candidate is going to do a better job advancing the interests of their communities.

@Museek

brookings.edu/articles/murdere

@catlynne333 Lindsey Graham should have lip tattoos on each cheek. That would be honoring his core value of talking out both sides of his ass every single day.

Later peeps,

Gym time

then Golf time

Then Mik Birthday celebration time

Peace Love Dove GOLF Peeps

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TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE

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