‘If you do this right, who f---ing cares if it goes to zero,’ Chase Herro once said of crypto. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-13/behind-the-trump-crypto-project-is-a-self-described-dirtbag-of-the-internet?srnd=homepage-americas
One of the Nation’s Largest Auto Lenders Told Customers, “We’re Here to Help.”
Then It Took Their #Money and Their #Cars.
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CarMax partner Exeter Finance makes high-interest loans to people with troubled financial histories.
It allows borrowers to skip payments but often adds thousands of dollars in new charges — costs that customers say Exeter didn’t tell them about.
#News #PersonalFinance #Transparency #ConsumerProtection
https://www.propublica.org/article/exeter-finance-skip-payments-debt
💪🏼BREAKING: #Arizona Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit filed by the state Republican Party chair that challenged Gov. Katie Hobbs' (D) executive orders expanding voter registration and ballot drop off locations in the battleground state.— Democracy Docket
"A lack of accountability for the killing of United Nations staff and humanitarian aid workers in the Gaza Strip is "totally unacceptable," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-says-lack-accountability-un-staff-killings-gaza-unacceptable-2024-09-11/
‘Something every woman watching the debate probably noticed: Trump could not bring himself to say the name of the serving vice president, his opponent for the presidency. For him, Harris was just a pronoun: a nameless, identity-less “she,” “her,” “you.” … Harris bruised his feelings, and Trump reacted by shutting his eyes and pretending that Harris had no existence of her own independent of President Joe Biden, whose name Trump was somehow able to speak.’ David Frum https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/how-harris-roped-a-dope/679779/
New op-ed from Public Knowledge in MIT Technology Review:
"This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse."
Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/11/1103838/why-a-ruling-against-the-internet-archive-threatens-the-future-of-americas-libraries/
Another great Philly Inquirer editorial: "For perhaps the first time, many Americans saw there was nothing there but a deranged, old man. Harris delivered a master class in how to take down a bully. She pummeled Trump and put him in short pants. And she did it with style and substance."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/harris-trump-debate-performance-20240911.html
The #NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
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The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated.
It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current #police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.
#NYC #News #Law #LawEnforcement #CivilRights #Government #EdwardCaban
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban
7. Fires consume 9% of the world's LARGEST Wetland area, the Pantanal, in South America.
8. Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced last Saturday.
PLEASE share this post to raise awareness
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"Over and over, Harris deployed the same formula. She’d answer a question from the moderators on her terms, hitting her marks and making the points she wanted to make. But along the way, she’d make a quick digression: dangling some shiny object for Donald Trump to fixate on.
And time after time, he couldn’t help but take the bait. The result: He was perpetually embroiled in rhetorical dead ends while she was already onto the next thing."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-trump
We live in Florida, a state which is in the “likely GOP” column. Our daughter attends college in Pennsylvania, which is shaping up to be an important state for Democratic victory in this election. So our daughter has changed her voter registration to PA.
If you have college age children in battleground states, you might want to have a conversation with them about this idea. Just sayin’.
UN says lives of staff endangered in Israeli halt of #Gaza #polio vaccine convoy - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/un-says-lives-of-staff-endangered-in-israeli-halt-of-gaza-polio-vaccine-convoy so #israel wants to help polio spread, that's nice...
Ahead of tonight's debate, we look back at this story from last month.
Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why
Retired Analytical Chemist
League of Women Voters -voting methods, election security
Board Member Colorado Citizens for Science