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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Eat Audit the Rich!

by Anne Laurie|  March 3, 20216:15 pm| 184 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Education, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Elizabeth Warren's plan isn't just Tax the Rich.

It's also Audit the Rich.

She wants wealthiest ~100,000 to have an audit once every ~3 years, and to nearly double the budget for the IRS, she tells @kevcirilli https://t.co/1S0fXgAtc5

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 3, 2021

One of my senior Senator’s campaign proposals that I’m glad to see revived, because she’s proposing to spend those new taxes on educational services that really need to be implemented.

It will, doubters insist, lead to a proliferation of cryptocurrency and money-laundering schemes. On the other hand, I’m seeing a lot of stories about new & creative methods in grey-area finance already (GameStonks! Non-Fungible Tokens!), along with hand-wringing that such schemes usually indicate the end of a ‘bubble’, so…

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Warren says she plans to talk to Yellen about how to implement a wealth tax; she discounts talk that it will be difficult to tally. Only assets worth more than $50,000 have to be counted and a lot of that is stock and real estate.

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 3, 2021

At about ~$22B a year, IRS would still be a very small % of federal spending. In ballpark of NASA.

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 3, 2021

To the moon, Alice!

Warren has a way to describe the difference in the wealth gap vs the income gap that's hard to describe in text alone:https://t.co/fdPa4V11Dt

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 3, 2021

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: In Its Way, Quite Educational!

by Anne Laurie|  August 12, 20206:40 pm| 101 Comments

This post is in: Education, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Sports

Part of me thinks there’s a very real chance that the cancellation of college football might actually drive the President’s approval rating below 40%.

— Bear Braumoeller (@Prof_BearB) August 11, 2020

GO FORTH TO DIE, YOUNG GLADIATORS! WE NEED THE ENTERTAINMENT!

Coach Lou out here sacrificing the youngins to Touchdown Jesus https://t.co/SnLHtqCj3n

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 11, 2020

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The Big Ten and Pac-12, two of the five wealthiest U.S. college sports conferences, postponed the fall football season, along with other fall sports https://t.co/IkKIdHzSeb pic.twitter.com/YEXiB4uQsp

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 12, 2020

Two of the five wealthiest U.S. college sports conferences postponed the fall football season on Tuesday because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a critical blow to both an iconic American cultural tradition and a multibillion-dollar entertainment industry…

The move leaves the future of college football being played at all this fall in significant doubt as college officials grow ever more wary of their ability to have thousands of unpaid players practice and compete without jeopardizing their safety and contributing to the spread of a highly communicable disease.

“We know that this is a difficult day for our student-athletes, and our hearts go out to them and their families,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a statement. “We have made clear that all of their scholarships will be guaranteed.” …

U.S. President Donald Trump advocated for college football to be played this year and suggested that student athletes are strong enough to withstand the novel coronavirus.

“We want to get football in colleges. These are young, strong people. They won’t have a big problem with the China virus. So we want to see college football start,” Trump said during a news conference at the White House…

I for one support Mike Pence's wish to play college football. Let's get him in there returning some punts. Maybe put him in the slot and have him run some routes over the middle. Honestly there's no wrong way to use him. https://t.co/sYOowfiuZ9

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) August 11, 2020

Last time you went to a football game, you walked out as a PR stunt.

Fuck off, you obsequious prick. https://t.co/mRYvEi4HsQ

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 11, 2020

Ah yes, a little more time. If only the pandemic had exploded earlier. Like, say, in March https://t.co/IcNeab15DY

— Drew Magary (@drewmagary) August 11, 2020

buddy do you know what the word “college” in “college football” means https://t.co/QgtUGd9ATt

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 11, 2020

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Late Night Open Thread: Trump’s Malign Pandemic Neglect Kills College Football; GOP Complains Indignantly About the Corpse

by Anne Laurie|  August 11, 202012:15 am| 71 Comments

This post is in: Education, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Sports

In order to own the libs, Trump voters elected a moronic despot who got college football cancelled. https://t.co/sUH5agXDjk

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) August 10, 2020

Why did the Big Ten seem to abruptly change course over the weekend, you ask?

"Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, has been found in at least five Big Ten Conference athletes and among several other athletes in other conferences." https://t.co/xsFUhXkoXy

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) August 10, 2020

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JUST IN: Big Ten votes to cancel football season: report https://t.co/qYrvaxbC09 pic.twitter.com/WkNorkqaLR

— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2020

The GOP Death Cult doesn’t give a shite about the unpaid gladiators; they just want their Base to stay diverted. Per the Washington Post:

… Trump is widely popular in many states where college football is a cultural touchstone, including the Deep South and parts of the Midwest, and he has called for the on-time and in-person reopening of schools throughout the pandemic. The president on Monday joined other congressmen in supporting players’ calls to play on, though they did not initially address the players’ other message, in support of forming a union…

america needs a functional government https://t.co/uKJkSgnVpI

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2020

Jim Jordan demands Ohio State reopen its showers. https://t.co/SKWY5wMCQb

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 10, 2020

America needs the USPS; football meh https://t.co/UH4iiFXP8e

— julie ingersoll (@julieingersoll) August 10, 2020

probably shoulda done your goddamn job five goddamn months ago then https://t.co/LsEeUTNO8A

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2020

*spends five months doing dick-all about covid and shooting college football in the head*

WHO WOULD DO THIS https://t.co/4t26yHaHor

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2020

this is like vegas closing the casinos – you don’t voluntarily walk away from billions of dollars for a virus that’s “under control” and “being contained” and “going to disappear” https://t.co/hgKICiX2yY

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2020

Hillary wouldn’t have had to cancel football.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 10, 2020

https://t.co/es4dU5W9F5 pic.twitter.com/EQ0wk4VBzl

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 11, 2020

but now today it must be retconned into some STUNNING NEW LIB TREACHERY as if just last night george soros punched the button to EXECUTE PROTOCOL NO BALL

— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2020

“Donald Trump screwed up our pandemic response and now we don’t get college football.

If we re-elect him we won’t get college football next year either.

I’m joe Biden and I approve of this message”

put on every tv

400 electoral vote margin

the end

— bdodgy (@bdodgy3) August 10, 2020

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Bad News for the GOP, Good News for the Rest of Us

by Anne Laurie|  July 15, 20207:48 am| 166 Comments

This post is in: Biden For President, Education, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat

Huge loss for Republicans. One of their signature issues for the year was punishing international students. Thoughts and prayers to them. https://t.co/yIqGyEsjsu

— AdotSad (@AdotSad) July 14, 2020

Standard demurral: Better informed front pagers (Hi, Tom!) will no doubt write about this later, but seriously, it’s good news for the students, for the American universities that serve those students, and for the very concept of FREEDOM that the opponents of these students claim to support…

BREAKING: The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have forced international students to leave the country if their colleges hold classes online this fall. The administration was sued over the new policy by Harvard and MIT. https://t.co/5kqSNY7r2C

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 14, 2020

BOSTON (AP) — Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said federal immigration authorities agreed to pull the July 6 directive and “return to the status quo.”

A lawyer representing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said only that the judge’s characterization was correct.

The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country, along with hundreds of universities that were scrambling to reassess their plans for the fall in light of the policy. With the policy rescinded, ICE will revert to a directive from March that suspended typical limits around online education for foreign students…

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Elsewhere, the same day…

"No. We are down to Kool-Aid drinkers and next of kin," said @acosta in response to question from @andersoncooper about whether there is anyone in the White House who could tell the President to not say/do what he did today. ??

— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) July 15, 2020

Media: @Acosta to @wolfblitzer: "I've never seen a president turn the #RoseGarden into a campaign rally the way @realDonaldTrump did over the last hour. This was the campaign rally he wanted to have in #NewHampshire last weekend. The myths, the lies, the stretching of the truth." pic.twitter.com/8o2vEanoz8

— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) July 14, 2020

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Per the paper of record in the company town whose monopoly industry is politics, the Washington Post:

President Trump on Tuesday held a Rose Garden event under the guise of punishing China over its crackdown on Hong Kong, delivering a lengthy diatribe against Democratic rival Joe Biden in a display that resembled a campaign speech at the White House…

White House aides had announced the Rose Garden event, which was not initially on Trump’s public schedule, as a news conference, and the president fielded a handful of questions from reporters. But his real motive appeared to be his attacks on Joe Biden — a stunning display of partisanship in an exquisitely manicured setting that presidents have traditionally considered off-limits for direct and extended political attacks…

I'm no longer "live"-tweeting, rather five-minutes-behind tweeting, because Trump is lying so much I keep having to stop

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020

definitely a new trump and not the guy who stopped doing these things after suggesting people inject lysol https://t.co/qYZ6HX4K7a

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 14, 2020

Trump dumped almost an hour’s worth of opposition research against his Democratic rival with less than four months to go before the election, hitting him over immigration, energy policy and the environment.

“There’s probably never been a time when candidates are so different,” Trump said. “We want law and order. They don’t want law and order.”…

*biden instantly gains two points in polls* https://t.co/3JS4cR0izo

— kilgore trout, suburban female understander (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 14, 2020

Our Very Serious Media is offended — the Oval Office Occupant is treating them like a bunch of Flavoraide-drunk MAGAt rubes! Up with this, they shall not put!

I have covered 7 Presidents. I have never seen a POTUS use the Rose Garden or any White House platform to launch a political attack against his opponent for reelection, a campaign rally barely disguised as a faux news conference. All during a pandemic and a recession

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 15, 2020

In this story, it appears as if @peterbakernyt is suggesting that the president is not well:https://t.co/MGF9RYMVTH

— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) July 15, 2020

Media: @JohnJHarwood to @wolfblitzer on @realDonaldTrump's newser: "He's obviously the underdog in the race, no matter what he says. He was rambling all over the place, not expressing coherent thoughts. And he avoided the issue convulsing the country right now: the #coronavirus." pic.twitter.com/oEzEAmwn84

— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) July 14, 2020

Well, this will be a challenge for the political pess, won't it? Whether to cooperate with that. https://t.co/bA1aUp13M9

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 15, 2020

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GOP Death Cult Open Thread: Sorry, But Schools Are *Not* Gonna Be Ready to Reopen

by Anne Laurie|  July 8, 20205:02 pm| 98 Comments

This post is in: Education, GOP Death Cult, Republican Venality, Repubs in Disarray!, Trumpery

Asked yesterday what specifically his administration is doing to help schools reopen, Trump did not say anything. Instead, he demanded that schools reopen and claimed “the fall” is a long way away: “Well, we have a long time to think about the school stuff. Because, you know.” pic.twitter.com/owbeFKHA9l

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 8, 2020

Maybe it’s just different for parents who love their kids

— JIM (@JimDoran) July 8, 2020

In the first place, during a normal year, many schools would be reopening sometime in August, just a few weeks from now.

In the second place, even in a non-pandemic season, getting the infrastructure ready to do so takes more time than that.

In the third place, the GOP’s Dear Leader can demand schools open up, and no doubt some of his death cultists governors will do their best to schedule some kind of official reopening… but no parent with any other options is going to send their kid(s) off to a plague pit just because it would make the Oval Office Occupant’s marketing campaign look better. And those unfortunate or misguided parents who do send their kids back will inevitably spark new coronavirus hotspots, for the teachers and school staff and relatives if not the kids themselves. Even schools in functional democracies, like South Korea and Denmark, have run into problems despite rigorous efforts. And that’s assuming that enough teachers & staff are willing or desperate enough to play ‘rona roulette in the first place.

You’d think someone in the Republican administration would step up to explain these basics, but I guess the Trump Purge has advanced to the point where even those individuals whose careers are most at risk can’t even muster that much of an effort.

Absolutely, kids need to be in school! And parents need the ‘free child care’ that too many Americans assume is the only reason for public schools to exist, too. But this ain’t a tv show, and firmly announcing Make It So! at the imaginary machinery behind the stage sets isn’t gonna make it happen.

Asked what the administration’s specific plan is to support schools, re testing, tracing, PPE, etc., Pence says, “The plan is to continue to do what we have done from the very beginning.” He claims that is providing governors “whatever support they need.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 8, 2020

.@kaitlancollins asks why Trump is threatening to cut funding at a time schools need more. Pence: “First and foremost, it’s – what you heard from the president is just his determination to provide the kind of leadership…that says that we’re gonna get our kids back to school.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 8, 2020

Authentic Heartland(tm) gobbledygook, from the Emergency Backup Dear Leader. It’s a death cult, all the way down.

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‘Blue tsunami,’ she says…

by Betty Cracker|  July 8, 20201:03 pm| 235 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Education, Open Threads, Politics, Republican Stupidity, Trumpery

With the usual preamble about counting chickens, hatchery, etc., this advisory from the Cook Political Report is amaze-balls:*

This election is looking more like a Democratic tsunami than simply a Blue wave. President Trump, mired in some of the lowest job approval ratings of his presidency, is trailing Biden by significant margins in key battleground states like Pennsylvania (8 points), Michigan (9 points), and Wisconsin (9 points). He’s even running behind Biden in his firewall states of Florida and North Carolina.

We’ve made changes to our Electoral College ratings to reflect this reality.

  • Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska’s 2nd district move from Toss Up to Lean Democrat.
  • Maine, once in Lean Democrat, moves to the safer Likely Democratic category.
  • Georgia has joined Arizona, North Carolina and Florida in the Toss Up column, although, at this point, Biden would be slightly favored to win at least Arizona and Florida.
  • Maine’s 2nd district has moved from Likely Republican to a more competitive Lean Republican.

These moves alone push Biden over the 270 electoral vote threshold (to 279).

Georgia a toss up? Jeebus, Mary and Joseph! And Trump has negative coattails too!

Republican strategists we’ve spoken with this week think Trump is close to the point of no return. A couple of others wondered if Trump had reached his “Katrina” moment: a permanent loss of trust and faith of the majority of voters.

In talking with strategists on both sides this last week, it’s also clear that Trump is dragging Republican congressional candidates with him as well.

Speaking of the no-coattailed orange carbuncle, his concern for America’s children is touching:

I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools. While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 8, 2020

It’s July. Schools open NEXT MONTH, and the CDC just issued guidelines, which Trump will now bully them into abandoning.

The school situation is serious. But speaking of “permanent loss of trust and faith,” we all know Trump wants to open schools (and on the cheap!) so they can function as daycare centers to goose parental productivity. He thinks if he can resurrect the economy from the smoking crater left by the massive impact of his pandemic mismanagement, he’ll have a chance in November. That’s what this is all about, period. And governors like DeSantis will follow him right off a goddamn cliff.

Open thread.

H/T: Valued commenter Marcopolo

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Excellent Read: The *Real* Lord(s) of the Flies

by Anne Laurie|  May 11, 20204:32 pm| 60 Comments

This post is in: Education, Excellent Links, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

So, white British dude imagines that boys marooned on an island will become murderous "savages." Actual children — Tonga people, "savages" as imperialism endlessly frames them — built a commune and took care of each other. https://t.co/aa3bCw3P5e

— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) May 9, 2020

I’d read Kipling’s Stalky & Co. some years before we were assigned Lord of the Flies in the eighth grade, so I took it as further proof that the British public-school system was designed to turn callow teenagers into mature sociopaths. Never found it believable that anybody other than overwrought English teachers would mistake Golding’s nasty fantasy for anything more than torture porn, but apparently such people still walk among us. Rutger Bregman’s report in the Guardian is a lovely corrective:

… The real Lord of the Flies, Mano told us, began in June 1965. The protagonists were six boys – Sione, Stephen, Kolo, David, Luke and Mano – all pupils at a strict Catholic boarding school in Nuku‘alofa [Tonga]. The oldest was 16, the youngest 13, and they had one main thing in common: they were bored witless. So they came up with a plan to escape: to Fiji, some 500 miles away, or even all the way to New Zealand.

There was only one obstacle. None of them owned a boat, so they decided to “borrow” one from Mr Taniela Uhila, a fisherman they all disliked. The boys took little time to prepare for the voyage. Two sacks of bananas, a few coconuts and a small gas burner were all the supplies they packed. It didn’t occur to any of them to bring a map, let alone a compass.

No one noticed the small craft leaving the harbour that evening. Skies were fair; only a mild breeze ruffled the calm sea. But that night the boys made a grave error. They fell asleep. A few hours later they awoke to water crashing down over their heads. It was dark. They hoisted the sail, which the wind promptly tore to shreds. Next to break was the rudder. “We drifted for eight days,” Mano told me. “Without food. Without water.” The boys tried catching fish. They managed to collect some rainwater in hollowed-out coconut shells and shared it equally between them, each taking a sip in the morning and another in the evening.

Then, on the eighth day, they spied a miracle on the horizon. A small island, to be precise. Not a tropical paradise with waving palm trees and sandy beaches, but a hulking mass of rock, jutting up more than a thousand feet out of the ocean. These days, ‘Ata is considered uninhabitable. But “by the time we arrived,” Captain Warner wrote in his memoirs, “the boys had set up a small commune with food garden, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.” While the boys in Lord of the Flies come to blows over the fire, those in this real-life version tended their flame so it never went out, for more than a year…

They survived initially on fish, coconuts, tame birds (they drank the blood as well as eating the meat); seabird eggs were sucked dry. Later, when they got to the top of the island, they found an ancient volcanic crater, where people had lived a century before. There the boys discovered wild taro, bananas and chickens (which had been reproducing for the 100 years since the last Tongans had left).

They were finally rescued on Sunday 11 September 1966. The local physician later expressed astonishment at their muscled physiques and Stephen’s perfectly healed leg. But this wasn’t the end of the boys’ little adventure, because, when they arrived back in Nuku‘alofa police boarded Peter’s boat, arrested the boys and threw them in jail. Mr Taniela Uhila, whose sailing boat the boys had “borrowed” 15 months earlier, was still furious, and he’d decided to press charges…

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