James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

I hope people have fun today doing something that:

a) they are not very good at but enjoy anyway.

b) doesn’t result in a penny of profit for the billionaires.

The view while trimming the hedge this morning. It makes me happy. How could it not?

Y’all. I didn’t think I could like this man more. #Walz taught HS sophomores enough about geography and population factors that they accurately predicted the genocide in Rwanda.

“Walz said he was an early adopter of GIS software in the 1990s, using it, among other things, to teach high school students about the Holocaust.
He had his students build maps of the contemporary world using different layers of data that scholars believed could factor into modern-day genocides. “They started looking at food insecurity, potential drought, just like the UN was doing around famine early warning,” Walz said. 
In 1993, he asked his sophomores where they thought the next genocide might happen, based on the geographic data. They pinpointed Rwanda.”

Republicans continue to scrabble to find ways to attack. Elon Musk is using his huge platform to declare that
"Kamala is quite literally a communist."

Charlie Kirk announces that Kamala Harris is "more ambitious than Lucifer."

Donald predicts that Tim Walz — of all people — will “unleash HELL ON EARTH," a prediction to which Alexandra Petri responds with an amusing description of the Walzian hell.

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #progressive #Trump #JDVance
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/07/tim-walz-policies-hell-trump-satire/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIzMDAzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzI0Mzg1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjMwMDMyMDAsImp0aSI6ImI3YTZhYzg0LTNjNDMtNGY5NC05YTRhLTI1ODFjNTdiYTFiMCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzA4LzA3L3RpbS13YWx6LXBvbGljaWVzLWhlbGwtdHJ1bXAtc2F0aXJlLyJ9.6_SdA4VyIDxVYNmr6ICjTMdIGoXmbf6LfOSY-cToY7I&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The world's richest 1% has seen its wealth soar by $42 trillion over the decade.

That’s nearly 34 times more than the bottom 50% of the global population.

Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

I'm still up for Secretary of Fuckin' Shit Up. Fingers crossed.

Harris: we need to come together as a country

Trump: the Mexicans want asylum, they're breaking into our mental hospitals

RFK Jr: in October of 1998 I left a jar of human eyes in the fiction section of a Borders bookstore in Philadelphia

Griffin:

CBS poll: 74% of Black registered voters say they will definitely vote in the 2024 election. Not even three weeks ago, when President Biden was still the nominee, that number was 16 points lower.

J.D. Vance says that people who don't have children have no stake in the future.

Yet he's a Catholic: a religion headed by *checks notes* a childless Pope, and run by *checks notes again* thousands of childless priests. (Well, supposedly.)

And wait, news has just come in that Jesus, the man whose teachings Catholics claim to follow, was yet another man who (according to their own orthodoxy) had no children.

Childless people have no stake in the future.

Shouldn't he convert, or something?

It’s actually pretty damn simple: Vote for Kamala Harris and you never have to think about Donald Trump ever again, for the rest of your life.

Bill Barr says that enforcing a code of ethics on the Supreme Court would purge conservative justices.

Let that argument sink in for a minute…

#corrupt #scotus

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I'm sitting here astounded that my husband is hacking away with Covid and I'm sitting here feeling just fine. I went shopping. I wore a mask and got looks. The Covid wastewater rates are twice the national average here in MA, and yet I get weird looks for protecting everyone in Stop n Shop by wearing a freaking mask. People are so weird. Kind of like Trump-*WEIRD*.

To boost Trump, prominent racist, transphobe, and con-man Elon Musk has launched a PAC that harvests voter data through a deceptive "voter registration" app. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

In his latest faceplant, pompous buffoon JD Vance - a lead weight around the GOP's neck already - claims Putin freed Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan because "Donald Trump is coming back into office." GOOOOOOD TRY, LITTLE BUDDY. NOW LEAVE THAT DAVENPORT ALONE. https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/chameleon-trump-vance-harris-ethnicity/index.html