The National Debt

More Weekend Reading

DHS confirms Wisconsin to lose out on more than $50M in monthly federal food aid starting in May

Which States Tax Their Residents the Most and Least?

Biden’s infrastructure plan would replace every lead pipe in Milwaukee

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

The GOP, America’s most selfless political party

Deadpan Jen Psaki Mows Down Newsmax Reporter Over ‘Secret Memo’ Question

The rise of working from home

Quick, How Much Is $2 Trillion?

JEN PSAKI STUFFS FOX NEWS’ PETER DOOCY IN METAPHORICAL LOCKER DURING WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING

A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

Where Are Real Estate Taxes Lowest (and Highest)?

Kansas Senate majority leader was drunk in police chase, called an officer ‘Donut boy,’ authorities say

Republican legislative leaders want Josh Kaul to sue to allow state to use stimulus for tax cuts

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Weekend Reading

The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience

Listen, Progressive People!

Not a Housing Bubble

America’s Corporate Welfare Queens

Who Helps Pay Amazon’s Low-Wage Workers? You Do

Pastor’s wife planned husband’s killing with man they had sex with, Oklahoma cops say

Evers vetoes bill to give Legislature control of federal COVID relief funds

With ambitious new infrastructure plan, Biden isn't fooling around

GOP Legislators Want Pandemic Aid for Tax Rebate

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Screenshots of Wisdom

Weekend Reading

'Here we go again': Rand Paul clashes with Fauci (for the 4th time)

You misrepresented someone's argument to make it easier to attack.

When the Top U.S. Tax Rate was 70 Percent—or Higher

Both Fox News and Russian state media are trying to get Biden to debate Putin

Republicans have perfected the troll two-step: The art of being a jerk and then playing the victim

Sheldon Whitehouse Is Following the Money Around Brett Kavanaugh

Biden’s Planned Tax Hike to Hit People Earning Over $400,000 Hardest

Wisconsin Republicans authorize Assembly investigation of elections administration

The Future of Conservatism?

America’s Richest 1% Dodge Taxes On More Than A Fifth Of Their Income, Study Finds

America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant

US sinks to new low in rankings of world's democracies

More Weekend Reading

'Quiet Part Out Loud': RNC Lawyer Admits GOP Cheats To Win

Ron DeSantis Is Selling Vaccines To Rich Floridians

Trump’s Dismal Record on the Economy

Bill Requires National Anthem Before Games

Not Another Rich Guy for Senator

Wisconsin and local governments would receive $5.5 billion in COVID-19 aid under House bill

Elena Kagan Dismantled a Republican Lawyer and Might Have Saved Voting Rights Act in the Process

Linkages Between Labor Market Institutions and Inequality

Ronald Reagan and The Politics of Declining Union Organization

Labor Law Is Broken, Economist Says

Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining

$15 By 2025

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift the pay of 32 million workers

Suburban Socialism

This is a perfect example of the hypocritical capitalism Republicans preach.

New Great Lakes Water Diversion Request

They choose to live somewhere that is not sustainable. But then they whine, complain and bellow that they are entitled to <insert spoiled Republican entitlement demand here>.

When it comes to others, especially others that aren't white, others that don't believe in their god, others that don't live in their town, they need to go without. Getting things so easily makes others lazy. 

But when the SUV-crowd moves to the middle of nowhere and suddenly gas prices are high, they can't get water and/or any part of their utopia is disturbed, the know-nothing, big, bad government needs to come to their rescue.

And, is this case, the Village of Somers wants to have the State allow them to divert water to what is currently farmland so some well-connected land owner can make a killing off of future development.

As typical economics would have it, if you want a scarce resource delivered to an inconvenient location, the cost would obviously be extremely high. You know, to discourage such a ridiculous and wasteful allocation. Yet, the Wisconsin experience of those expecting their entitled water, outside of a location where it naturally occurs, is they complain and complain until the rest of us subsidize them being able to divert water. We subsidize them in that they don't have to pay the actual price the market would indicate. 

The same goes for the price of gas being subsidized below its market price. Really, the whole suburban mistake is a big subsidized wonderland for whites, where everybody else helps pay for their spoiled, wasteful, gas-guzzling lifestyle.

Weekend Reading

Republican lawmakers refuse to approve any building projects in Evers' $2.4 billion plan

Wisconsin Senate approves Limbaugh resolution, Dems object

Kleefisch Spokesperson Compares Evers to Dahmer

Milwaukee expects $405 million from stimulus bill with first half arriving by May

New Support for Friedman's Plucking Model

The “Plucking Model” of recessions and recoveries

Announcer for high school basketball game uses racial slur after team kneels during anthem

Ten years ago, when Wisconsin legislators drew voting maps in secret, it cost taxpayers $3.5 million. We need a more open process.

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene

Republicans Mock Rescue Plan While Pushing A Tax Cut For The Richest

Pelosi says GOP will vote against COVID-19 relief and then take credit for it

Grothman accuses Black Lives Matter of disliking the 'old-fashioned family,' drawing rebuke from Democrat on House floor

A $60 billion surprise in the Covid relief bill: Tax hikes

Rep. Tim Ryan Demonstrates Proper Level of Anger Toward Republicans in Congress

Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes By An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households.

Donald Trump (Unironically) Requests a Mail-In Ballot Ahead of Palm Beach Municipal Election

Helping Wisconsin Voters Would Be Harder—or Even a Criminal Act—in Some Republican Proposals

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

Here Are the 8 Democrats Who Just Joined GOP to Vote Down Sanders' $15 Minimum Wage Amendment

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren quietly releases massive social media report on GOP colleagues who voted to overturn the election

When Most People Think of A Cruise That's Full of Shit...

Republicans' Alternate Universe of Delusion and Disinformation

Weekend Reading

U.S. Herd Immunity

Rush Limbaugh captivated dads like mine and created America's modern fascist aesthetic

Newsmax Host Attacks Biden’s 12-Year-Old Dog Champ: “Looks Like It’s From a Junkyard”

Donald Trump Jr. Rips Teachers Unions In Front Of A Gun Wall; Critics Go Ballistic
The Green New Deal Threatens Republicans’ Bread and Butter, it’s Not Just Competition in the Battle of Ideas
The Failure of the Media in Responding to the Lying Right

Born to Run: U.S cannabis enters the sweet spot

LESSONS FROM MY 4-MONTH SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK AND WHY DIGITAL DETOX IS NECESSARY

Utilities Offer Yield and a Way to Play Green Energy. And Their Stocks Are Cheap.

Stop Giving Liars A Platform

Good Riddance

Rush Limbaugh passes having changed GOP, conservative politics

Ten omissions from Fox Nation’s remembrance of Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh Taught Me How to Think Like a Piece of Shit

The Strength That Rush Limbaugh Projected Was So Flimsy

Limbaugh critics resurface incendiary comments after his death

Rush Limbaugh, Spouter of Racist Hate-Filled Garbage, Dead at 70

Rush Limbaugh Spent His Lifetime Speaking Ill of the Dead

I’ll Never Forget Rush Limbaugh Mocking Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s

Limbaugh draws fire on Obama parody

Tell The Truth About Limbaugh, At Long Last

Rush Limbaugh’s toxic legacy

Why Should I Say Anything Nice About Dead Rush Limbaugh?

Midweek Levity

 

Guadalajara 

Texas and Yet Another Failure of Privatization

Beto O'Rourke: Why Texas Oil & Gas Can't Keep Texans Warm

Greg Abbott Lies About Green Energy To Deflect On Freeze Fail - UPDATE: AOC Responds

The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather

Why Does Texas Have Its Own Power Grid?

The failure of privatization in the energy sector and why today’s consumers are reclaiming power

A Cost Comparison ofPublic and Private Water Utility Operation

Privatization of Water and Wastewater Services

Has privatization failed Texas utility customers?

Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage

Texas Mayor Tells Residents To Fend For Themselves

Feds Warned Texas To Weatherize Power Grid The Last Time This Happened

Fox News aired bizarre and wildly misleading claims about Texas' blackouts that pin blame on renewables and climate policies

Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?

Midweek Reading

How highways make traffic worse
The Hoax Master of Wisconsin
The New York Stock Exchange president says the stock market is not a casino. Here’s what academic research says.
Stock Market Gambling Around the World and Market Efficiency
‘Real World’ Republicans Demand To Know Why Nancy Pelosi Didn't Stop Jan. 6 Riots
A closer look at senators who voted to convict Clinton, not Trump
Let's tell the truth about the Republican Party: It's the real enemy of the people

Invertebrates

The Republicans' idea of governing, in a nutshell:

Businesses tied to Speaker Robin Vos and other lawmakers could see taxes cut after they took PPP loans

Ron Johnson votes not guilty

Government exists for them. It's their piggybank. So they can deregulate and pollute. To assure they and their cronies reap all of societies rewards.  

They are not accountable. They are not responsible. It's someone else's problem. It's someone else's fault.

Sunday Reading

Go read this article about how we got duped into cooking with gas

57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection

Warren Buffett’s Favorite Valuation Metric Is Ringing an Alarm

After acquitting Trump, McConnell slams him for a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty'

Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?

3 companies' million-dollar investments buoy Port Milwaukee

Lie After Lie: Listen to How Trump Built His Alternate Reality

The war on voting

Why the U.S. Is Underestimating Covid Reinfection

Louisiana Republican Party Censures Sen. Bill Cassidy For Voting To Convict Trump

A Broken Party Acquitted Donald Trump In His Second Impeachment

Republican Jurors Literally Met With Trump Defense Attorneys

Chris Cuomo's harsh takedown of Lindsey Graham: 'Spewing the same poison as the extremist perpetrators'

Fitzgerald Cited for Campaign Violation

Party Over Country

The majority of the Republican party continues their descent into complete irrelevancy.

Senate votes 57-43 for Trump acquittal

Shameless. Gutless. Immoral. Cowards. 

In The Land of Make-Believe

When your policies only benefit the top 1%, when you have nothing intelligent to add to any conversation, when the majority of your constituents have been hurt by your political decisions, all you are left with is symbolism, revisionism and make-believe.

After COVID shutdown, former Wis. Governor Scott Walker hopes to re-open Reagan’s boyhood home

In fact, it's all about revisionist history, an imagined past, phony accolades and false idols for bozos like Scott Walker.

I Am Not A Cat

Weekend Reading

Kenosha Judge Shrugs Off Kyle Rittenhouse’s Admitted Bond Violations, Denies Higher Bail And New Warrant

Breathing device sobers you up by hyperventilating the alcohol out

Sanders Responds to CBO Report on $15 Minimum Wage

Don’t Believe the Bad Press About the Economic Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage

CBO analysis confirms that a $15 minimum wage raises earnings of low-wage workers, reduces inequality, and has significant and direct fiscal effects

CBO attacks plan for higher minimum wage — or does it?

GOP senators criticized for appearing to pay half-hearted attention to trial

GOP senators discover their discomfort with intemperate tweets

Majority Of Those Arrested In Capitol Siege Had History Of Financial Trouble

Michigan's top GOP lawmaker: Jan. 6 Capitol attack was a 'hoax'

As DeJoy Readies New Assault on Postal Service, Pressure Grows for Biden to 'Clean House'

The Congestion Con

Further Means Testing of the Stimulus Will Be Disastrous for Suffering Americans

Resolution Cuts Pot Possession Fine to $1

Did UW-Whitewater send Robin Vos and Steve Nass to Madison to act like grade schoolers?

For Conservatives, Government Is The Problem and The Solution

Inspired by all the recent flurries we’ve had in Wisconsin, John Torinus is back shoveling the yellow snow of economic policy. He begins with two head-scratchers.

“Congress should think twice before getting too generous with weekly unemployment compensation. That’s because manufacturers are already having a hard time finding enough workers to man their factories.”

First, what is “too generous” for weekly unemployment compensation? Recent compensation has been bolstered by the fact that we’re living through a global pandemic. It’s part of a stimulus package to keep workers and businesses afloat. It’s not meant to exist into perpetuity.

Second, it’s been pretty clearly and universally established that manufacturers are having a hard time finding workers because the work is grueling and worth more per hour than the amount they are willing to pay.

Tornius alerts, “The labor shortage is real.”

Again, this is wrong. Pay that is not commensurate with the work that is being asked to be done is real. We have a compensation problem, not a skills shortage or a labor shortage.

Torinus then pretends that stimulus money distributed during the ongoing pandemic has left many just sitting at home collecting checks, and many others just planning to do this forever. This is classic Republican bullshit. They’ve been claiming this garbage forever. Poor and working class are lazy and will stay home if given then chance. Yet, conservatives will bend over backwards to cut taxes and provide incentives to the rich. Remember, The Haves are the job creators and something will eventually trickle down to the poor and working class.

He then talks of the plethora of living wage jobs available for any willing worker. “Employers have also raised starting wages in this area to $14 to $16 per hour.” $15 per hour results in a yearly income of just over $30,000.

Torinus continues with even more drivel, “Yes, it is a noble goal to want a minimum level of income for every adult in the United States. But the better way to get there is through good-paying jobs in the private sector. Government jobs, which always seem to keep growing in number, may be necessary, but they do not propel the economy.”

Last I checked, the private sector has been around a while. We’ve deregulated, cut taxes and genuflected to their omnipotence for decades. Yet, the economy has been a roller-coaster of recessions alongside declining wages and benefits for most workers. And, despite Torinus saying so, the number of government employees has been declining, not increasing. As Fiona Hill, of the Brookings Institution, found, “Contrary to popular belief in the bloated growth of the U.S. public sector, the size of the federal government proportionate to the total U.S. population has significantly decreased over the last 50 years.”

Torinus’ article seems, in the end, to be an elaborate smoke and mirrors, which concludes, somehow, that the government is preventing the private sector from employing more people and also responsible for helping the private sector to employ more people.

He concludes, “We don’t need excessive unemployment compensation if there are lots of open jobs with good pay and benefits. Congress and the president have to get the incentives right. We can’t afford disincentives for working.”

Again, what is “excessive unemployment compensation”? What and where are these “open jobs with good pay and benefits”? Funny, too, that, with Republicans, “We can’t afford disincentives for working.” Yet, the subsidies, tax cuts and giveaways to corporations and billionaires can’t be considered anything but a disincentive and/or welfare. Somehow, in the twisted Republican logic, giving incentives to The Haves is sound economic policy, but giving incentives to those who really need it, is bad for business.

Wait, Who's The Snowflake?

I wonder what Republicans would be saying if some libtard, liberal, snowflake stormed the Capitol, destroyed property and wanted to kill legislators, and then demanded organic food in prison.

Man who wore horns in Capitol riot moved to Virginia jail that serves organic food

I don't remember any caveat regarding organic food in Republicans' chants of "Lock 'em up!"

Trickling Down or Just Getting Pissed On

Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Milwaukee's new Economic Development Commissioner wants to double-down on corporate welfare.

Milwaukee officials consider higher incentives to bring businesses downtown

According to the new Commish, "The city is exploring more aggressive policies to incentivize job creation and investments in the downtown area. Those could come in the form of employment incentives using the city’s main economic development tool, tax incremental financing, for example. Or it could involve new ways the city could help growing companies recruit workers to fill new jobs."

There's no money for potholes, we can't fast-track lead pipe removal, workers can no longer have affordable health care or secure retirements, a living wage is too much to ask, we can't upgrade public infrastructure, but there's endless and increasing money to giveaway to corporations.

Improving the roads and transportation options, upgrading broadband, updating the electrical grid and sewer system, greening public buildings, along with numerous other public projects, would go much further toward growing Milwaukee's economy than simply giving "incentives" to already profitable corporations.

For Further Reading:

Open For Business?

Ticked Off About TIFs

Development Gone Astray

The Con That Is Foxconn or How Republicans Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Socialism For The Rich

Job Piracy

Snow Job

Two Milwaukee aldermen call city’s snow removal efforts “simply unacceptable”

“The Department of Public Works’ snow removal efforts in the wake of this past weekend’s snowstorm are simply unacceptable,” begins a joint statement from Alderman Khalif J. Rainey and Alderman Russell W. Stamper, II. “Neighborhood streets across the city are a mess, and we are almost 48 hours past the end of the snowfall. Our residents are—AGAIN—fending for themselves as they use their own shovels and snow blowers to dig out from the snow, doing the job that DPW apparently isn’t up to doing!”

The article goes on to note that, "DPW sent out 110 trucks with salt and plows Saturday night and ended up with 270 pieces of equipment on Milwaukee’s roads by Sunday morning.”

Alderman Nic Kovac offered some pushback to the negativity, “Most of the feedback (about DPW’s efforts) is positive, not exclusively. We can always do better, but I think they’ve been doing a good job and most of the feedback I’ve gotten is our crews are working very hard.”

The City of Milwaukee has 1,424 miles of paved streets (7,000 lane miles). Between the roads, parking lots, and sidewalks DPW is responsible for plowing, having most of this cleared 48 hours after over a foot of snow has fallen, doesn't seem to be a bad job on the part of the DPW.

Maybe the aldermen should be sounding the alarm on truly "unacceptable" issues. It's possible the plowing efforts could use some tweaks. What can't? But, based on the amount of snow and the fact that was primarily cleared within 48 hours, plowing does not seem to be a pressing issue the aldermen should be seeking media attention for and releasing joints statements about. 

Weekend Reading

Someone Is Going to Have to Explain to Me How This Makes Any Damn Sense

Wisconsin GOP Are Manipulative Pieces of Sh*#

Foxconn Sued For Being Lying Pieces of Sh*#

What happens if the Wisconsin Legislature repeals the state mask mandate? Here are five things to know

In First Speech as Budget Chair, Sanders Rebuffs 'Partisanship' Complaints From GOP That Unilaterally Passed $1.9T Gift for Rich

Here are the 11 House Republicans who voted to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments

City Creating Plan to Develop and Preserve Bay View

Why Chicago Is Lighting Its Railroads on Fire

Biden Beats Back The Austerians At The Gates

The Economic Consequences of MajorTax Cuts for the Rich

Income inequality in America is at its highest level in more than 50 years

More than 80% of the stocks in the US are owned by the wealthiest 10%

One Emergency After Another: Wisconsin Governor And Legislators Battle Over COVID-19

Midweek Reading

Why Phoenix may be uninhabitable by the end of this century

South Carolina GOP Censures Rep. Tom Rice Over Trump Impeachment Vote

Biden’s chief of staff smacks down NY Times for whining about undoing Trump legacy

'Cry Me a River': Sanders Hits Back as Billionaire Investor Whines About Potential Tax Hikes Amid GameStop Fiasco

The Price of Wheat Doesn’t Tell Us About the Strength of the Economy and Neither Does the Stock Market: Why Is This so Hard for Intellectual Types to Understand?

The Robinhood/GameStop “Scandal”

What do short-sellers really do?

The Store of Value Generation is Kicking Your Ass and You Don’t Even Know it

Billionaire Sports Owners Get Richer

Robin Vos Will Solve Foxconn Fiasco

The GameStop Bubble Is a Lesson in the Absurdity and Uselessness of the Stock Market

The problem with the Republicans' 'offer' on a COVID relief package

Making a Martyr Out of a Murderer

Now Scott Walker is exploiting the pandemic to - you guessed it - attack teachers and their unions

Warren To Join Senate Finance Committee, Immediately Introduce Wealth Tax Bill

Email Reveals Real Reason Vos, Republicans Created Racial Disparities Task Force

Trump's American Carnage

Sunday Reading

Ted Cruz Says Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Could Be Impeached Next

Scott Fitzgerald has never been an honorable public servant

Effects of gerrymandering felt in Wisconsin as governor, GOP clash over Covid restrictions

Coronavirus World Map: We've Now Passed The 100 Million Mark For Infections

Highest-paid executives of publicly-held companies Part I, II, III and IV

Elizabeth Warren Smacks Wall Street ‘Casino’-Goers Amid GameStop Kerfuffle

We Energies Wastes $75 Million Per Year

Elizabeth Warren’s Face Says It All When She’s Challenged On Wealth Tax

WI GOP Learns Its COVID Agenda Could Cost the State $50 Million per Month

The GameStop Game and Financial Transactions Taxes

Robinhood, and its role in the GameStop saga, explained

Superforecasting: The Art & Science of Prediction

Republicans' "Private Citizen" Bullshit (Yet Another Installment In The Republican Hypocrisy Compendium)

Weekend Reading

Joe Biden’s Dogs Shepherd In New Era of Presidential Pets at the White House

Wisconsin GOP Rejects Special Session on Unemployment

America Abandoned Its Economic Prophet. The World Embraced Him.

Debt and Deficits, Yet Again

Hearings Scheduled about Proposed Privatization, Loss of Public Access to Bradford Beach's Historic Bathhouse
Senate Joint Resolution 3: terminating the COVID-19 public health emergency, including all emergency orders and actions taken pursuant to declaration of the public health emergency.

The Nazification of the Republican Party

Poor Dan O’Donnell Feels Persecuted

Wisconsin Senate votes to end Gov. Tony Evers' statewide face mask mandate

Fox Schmooze

You Reap What You Sow

When Republicans have power, the idea of "unity" doesn't even enter their collective mind. It's their way or the highway. But now that the citizens have had enough of the Republicans' bullshit and lies, suddenly Republicans are clamoring for unity.

Yet, when one sees stories like these:

Arizona Republicans Censure Party Leaders At Odds With Trump

Rand Paul spars with ABC host over election integrity

The mother of all false equivalencies

Trump paid Capitol rally organizers over $2.7 million

Who, in their right mind, could find unity with such reality-denying, cognitively dissonant, know-nothings?

Sorry, conservatives, right-wingers, Republicans, but you can fuck off! Democrats have been goose-stepping rightward politically on issue after issue for the past five decades. Yet, it was never enough. Conservatives continued to cheat and gerrymander. Endlessly taking more and more. And, it was working. But, as is typical for Republicans, they got greedy. They wouldn't stop. They kept cheating and abusing their power. 

And now it's all blown up in their faces. 

So fuck unity. And fuck Republicans. You reap what you sow. 

Public Work Should Be Done By The Public Sector

A recent article - Waukesha's Zignego Co. lowest bidder at $87M for Highway 50 road project - made me again think of the delusional efficient private sector viewpoint. 

Conservatives and wannabe-economists have, for years, pounded the private sector efficiency drumbeat. Sadly, this perspective is as misguided today as it's ever been.

For the majority of private sector actors, the modus operandi has been to cut corners, pay workers less and/or to simply not do certain tasks altogether. 

For Further Reading:

The Lean Efficiency (And Persistence) Of Private Sector Lies

Privatization, Increased Costs And Income Inequality

Fizzle for the buck

Why public–private partnerships or other ‘innovative’ financing of infrastructure will not save taxpayers money

And The Winner Is....The Public Sector

Myth: The Private Sector is More Efficient Than the Public Sector

Why taxpayers are getting a bargain from public-sector workers

Weekend Reading

Wisconsin Supreme Court casts doubts on Republican-backed redistricting rules

Republicans Still Don’t Get It

Chicago-Area Billionaire Gave Millions To ‘Patriots’ Group That Backed Pro-Trump Rally

‘You Were One of Trump’s Yes Men,’ Fox’s Chris Wallace Tells Mick Mulvaney

Uihleins, owners of Wisconsin company, gave millions to group sponsoring the Jan. 6 March for Trump

These 15 state legislators asked Pence not to certify election results

Off-duty police were part of the Capitol mob. Now police are turning in their own.

The History of Wisconsin and Milwaukee’s Population Growth

Everything is awful. Here’s a Q&A with a philosopher about why cats rule.

What Alan Krueger taught the world about the minimum wage, education, and inequality

Republicans Lash Out Against New Security Measures At The Capitol

Milwaukee Newspaper Takes ‘Rare Step’ of Fact-Checking Ron Johnson Op-Ed with 19 Detailed Footnotes: ‘How About Telling the Truth?’

Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Providing Public Pensions To Millionaire Members Of Congress?

Walker: Capitol Attack "Identical" to 2011, Triggered his "PTSD"

Tiffany, Fitzgerald and Johnson are just as guilty as Trump

Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly flashed white power signs, serenaded with Proud Boys anthem during bar visit

QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens Joe Biden With Impeachment

Johnson, Tiffany and Fitzgerald are Trump's stooges

Republican Hypocrisy On Display, Yet Again

The Republican Party should really be referred to as the Hypocrite Party. 

Republicans Lash Out Against New Security Measures At The Capitol

Republicans are fine with children having to go through metal detectors to get to school, passengers taking off clothing to be able to fly, and any other number of inconveniences for the population at large...until it impacts them. Then they are outraged and their personal freedom is being infringed. 

Yes, to keep the NRA happy, so any dipshit can carry and own a gun, the population at large must capitulate to enhanced security measures, but Republicans legislators feel they should be exempt from such disruptions.

Republicans are truly terrible people (and I use the term "people" loosely).

Thursday Reading

U.S. government checks constituted 40% of farmers’ income in 2020

A New Congressional Budget Office Study Shows That Medicare for All Would Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually

Trump’s Businesses Raked In $1.9 Billion Of Revenue During His First Three Years In Office

Ronald Reagan Paved the Way for Donald Trump

Republicans won in rural Wisconsin again, now comes the hard part — governing

Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does – is Biden listening?

Trickle-down economics is dead. It’s time to tax the rich harder

NBC's Chuck Todd to GOP senator on Electoral College challenge: 'You're the arsonist here'

A decade ago, this scientist predicted 2020 would bring 'peak' chaos to the U.S.

The Senate’s coup-staging ‘Dirty Dozen’ shouldn’t be allowed to hold office

Federal Judge Tears Apart Election Lawsuit

Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero

Capitol attackers have long threatened violence in rural American west

The Covid Tracking Project

St Croix County Republican Party tells members to 'prepare for war' and to remove 'leftist tyrants' from local office

Sunday Reading

F*** You, Ted Cruz

Biden’s Record-Breaking Cabinet Nominees, In One Chart

Republicans want to move on from the Trump riot without any self-reckoning

Fox News wants its viewers angry enough to watch but not angry enough to riot

The New History of the Milky Way

The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration

No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0
White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison after guilty plea
Mass Delusion in America

Fox News’ Mocking Of ‘Crybaby’ Democrats Has Not Aged Well In Scathing Supercut

Donald Trump’s Years Of Violent Rhetoric Laid Bare In Damning Supercut
The right's new conspiracy theory: blame left for Capitol riot

Ted Cruz and His Pals Are Responsible for Wednesday’s Carnage and Mayhem

'White privilege on display': police hypocrisy condemned after pro-Trump insurgence
D.C. mob riot versus Act 10 and Black Lives Matter protests

Rioters breached US Capitol security on Wednesday. This was the police response when it was Black protesters on DC streets last year

Interstate 94 Expansion Gets Cold Reception at City Hall

Monday Reading

Trickle-Down Economics Fails a Sophisticated Statistical Test

Shirley Abrahamson was our truest Wisconsinite

Merry Christmas We Energies

South Shore Terrace beer garden opens for winter with chalets

Wisconsin Center District closes on bond sale for $420M expansion

AOC calls Amazon jobs a 'scam' because more than 4,000 of its employees are on food stamps

Deutsche Bank May Seize Trump’s Assets If He Loses and Fails to Repay Debt

Brianna Keilar Hits Pearl-Clutching Republicans With A Very Long List Of Trump’s Insults

Millionaire Republican Cites Deficit To Block Aid — After Enriching Himself With Special Tax Cuts

Foxconn tells Wisconsin it never promised to build an LCD factory

Fifty Years of Tax Cuts Didn't Trickle Down

Wisconsin Jurists Who Defied Trump Get an Earful

Wisconsin Supreme Court says individuals can determine for themselves whether they can avoid the voter ID law because of age or disability

Poverty

 

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Midweek Reading

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
How Compass Became the Bane of Real Estate
How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market

Police Association Calls BLM Protesters ‘Terrorists’

Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuit

Senator Ron Johnson No Longer Has Constituents; He Has a Boss, a Don

The Election is Over. Wisconsin Turns to Redistricting.

Democrat asks Pelosi to refuse to seat lawmakers supporting Trump's election challenges

A new California bill would require a 4-year degree to become a cop

Violence flares in Washington as far-right Trump supporters clash with counter-protesters

Everything We’ve Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong

Best Metal Music Of 2020

Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment

Rebel Wizard - Magickal Mystical Indifference

Midnight - Rebirth By Blasphemy

Enslaved - Utgard

Sepultura - Quadra

King Diamond - The Institute

Protest The Hero - Palimpsest

The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic

Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions

Igorr - Spirituality And Distortion

Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow

Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus

Lamb of God - Lamb of God

Umbra Vitae – Shadow of Life

Vader – Solitude in Madness

Cirith Ungol – Forever Black

Ulcerate – Stare Into Death and Be Still

Lucifer – Lucifer III

Sylosis – Cycle Of Suffering 

Plague - Portraits of Mind
VoidCeremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

August Burns Red - Guardians

Inferi - Of Sunless Realms

Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity

Carcass - Despicable

Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

Hellripper - The Affair of the Poisons

Uada - Djinn

Harakiri for the Sky - I, Pallbearer

Necrot - Mortal

Antichrist Demoncore - Satan Is King

Adzes - No On Wants To Speak About It

Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress

Satan's Fall - Final Day

Testament - Titans of Creation