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• Post #2850738

  From @rbreich: "... the amounts people are paid are morally justifiable only if the legal and political institutions defining the market are morally justifiable, which they are not." https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-undeserving-rich?r=es2a0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

• Post #2850737

  Probably the stupidest effing war of my lifetime: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/the-iraq-invasion-20-years-later-it-was-indeed-a-big-lie-that-launched-the-catastrophic-war/

• Post #2850736

  We’re doomed (cont’d): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/climate/global-warming-ipcc-earth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

• Post #2850735

  And the icons keep dying. https://twitter.com/MxHamx/status/1637613439987355649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1637613439987355649%7Ctwgr%5E0b52eb1fe9ee796e1c305b1863c9d9cf210b7446%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fbobbi-ercoline-woman-from-iconic-woodstock-album-cover-dies-at-73

• Post #2850734

  @BenNevis IOW, stupidity isn’t limited to time or place.

• Post #2850733

  @hunterwalk And ketchup is a vegetable.

• Post #2850732

  @nasa See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day.

• Post #2850731

  @lowqualityfacts Good to know.

• Post #2850730

  Who could’ve predicted? https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-tries-to-silence-top-producer-abby-grossberg-who-threatened-to-reveal-internal-convos

• Post #2850729

  Sigh. https://apple.news/A_USeLGDWQMeUDqt74VlLyA

• Post #2850728

  A tightrope that won’t be crossed successfully: https://barrons.cmail19.com/t/j-e-ejuuhid-dlkrluphh-r/

• Post #2850727

  What a sick dick this guy is. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/03/24/trump-warns-of-death-and-destruction-if-he-is-charged-in-hush-money-probe/?sh=1e7873c61777

• Post #2850726

  The worst combination: mean and stupid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/23/interest-rates-banks-inflation-economy/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_opinions&utm_campaign=wp_opinions

• Post #2850725

  Today's argument for the death penalty: https://www.courant.com/2023/03/24/warrant-ct-child-pulled-out-of-school-locked-in-closet-starved-and-beaten-for-months/

• Post #2850724

  Look. It's not as if the recent kerfuffle at Stanford regarding free speech is anything new. https://exhibits.library.dartmouth.edu/s/HistoricalAccountability/page/shockley-incident

• Post #2850723

  But yer sure not gonna hear about https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/verdict-is-announced-in-scottsboro-case?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2023-0325-03252023&om_rid=9551720d019ee738dac9ba680627a830b16402f914233f5802301d1d16a6bda5 in Texas or Florida.

• Post #2850722

  Not exactly the most encouraging headline one might read: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-water-department-delaware-river-chemical-spill-20230326.html

• Post #2850721

  Philadelphians can't drink the water and one of the few factories left in Reading explodes: Just another weekend in the Keystone State.

• Post #2850720

  Health care in these United States: "Cigna ... has built a system that allows its doctors to instantly reject a claim on medical grounds without opening the patient file ..." https://ctmirror.org/2023/03/25/how-ct-based-cigna-saves-millions-doctors-reject-claims-without-reading-them/?utm_source=Connecticut+Mirror+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=6121a6a735-CT+Mirror+Morning+Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_571d22f8e4-6121a6a735-68208641&mc_cid=6121a...

• Post #2850719

  A tepid #pridenight in Chicago: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/blackhawks/ct-chicago-blackhawks-pride-night-20230327-zundjwhc7fdxnc6ztqzxykkg7i-story.html