Life the Universe and ....: 10-22-2022

Ye’s ‘Buyout’ Of Parler Looks Very Much Like A Failed Company Taking Advantage Of Troubled Rich Guy

We examine stock purchases of the members of the U.S. Senate for years 2012-2020 and find that stock purchases by senate members generate abnormal returns. We also find that abnormal returns are higher if the senator has direct jurisdiction over the firm through committee assignments.

Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Pence: ‘Absolutely no one wants to hear what your plan is for their uterus’

ernie Is Right: Extreme Wealth Concentration Has Turned America Into an Oligarchy - A new congressional report commissioned by Bernie Sanders finds that the 1 percent now own one-third of all wealth, while the bottom half of Americans hold only 2 percent.

New Jersey Legislators Aim To Ban Most In-Car Subscriptions - New Jersey officials aren’t amused by automakers’ attempts to charge for the use of pre-installed hardware in cars, such as heated seats.

Slavery is on the ballot for voters in 5 US states | Nobody is trying to relegalize slavery, the ballot measures are to close a loophole in the 13th Amendment that allows involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime

Two cops 'voluntarily' resigned for failing to use a lethal weapon on a suspect

Why The Pentagon’s Crush on Elon Musk is Dangerous For Democracy | Once considered a cross between Thomas Edison and Moses, Musk is revealing himself to be an ill-informed, modern-day tyrant.

Biden slams House Republicans: “These guys don’t get it. It’s a lot bigger than Ukraine – it’s Eastern Europe. It’s NATO. It’s real, serious, serious consequential outcomes. They have no sense of American foreign policy.”

Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster Is a Disastrous Monopoly and Now Everyone Pays Ticket Broker Prices | Or: Why you are not ever getting an inexpensive ticket to a popular concert ever again.

25 days of diesel fuel in the U.S. left

ABC Australia Exposes Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drug Scam and Pharmaceutical Criminal Activity in the USA

Facial recognition used in arrest of 9/11 conspiracy theory lawyer accused of trying to disarm officer on Jan. 6 - John O'Kelly, who once filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group that believes explosives brought down the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, was arrested Thursday.

WASH POST: Classified papers at Mar-a-Lago held U.S. secrets on Iran missile program, China intelligence...

Putin 'plans to blow up major dam'; 'Historic disaster'...

Tried to detonate nuke?

Dash Dobrofsky

@DashDobrofsky

19h

Because Donald Trump has not been indicted for any one of his federal crimes, professors are forbidden to teach students that Trump did anything illegal as President. In other words, the failure to indict Trump will result in the continued academic whitewashing of his presidency.

Robert Reich

@RBReich

17h

When the GOP was last in power, they passed a $1.9 trillion tax cut for corporations and the super-rich.

What’s their top legislative priority if they regain control?

More tax cuts for the rich. They’re not even hiding it.

Some things never change...

Lindy Li

@lindyli

11h

RNC senior staffer was arrested for child porn

RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel said NOTHING

A GOP candidate masturbated near a preschool

Ronna said NOTHING

Trump assaulted at least 26 women

Ronna said NOTHING

But plz say more about how Democrats are the rapists & groomers

Lindy Li

@lindyli

10h

Trump earned a shit ton of money hosting the Saudi-funded LIV golf event

He’s earning even MORE $ by hosting another Saudi golf event

Kushner got $2 billion from MBS

Mnuchin got $1 billion

Ivanka got $100 million for her women’s fund 

Saudi blood $ drips from Trump’s hands

Tristan Snell

@TristanSnell

16h

Donald Trump is accused of rape. He denies it. His accuser sued him for defamation and requested a DNA sample from Trump — which would take 2 seconds to get, non-invasive, and would clear his name if he’s telling the truth. 

He refuses to provide it.

Republicans against Trumpism

@RpsAgainstTrump

Fun fact that many MAGA Republicans don't want you to know:  U.S. natural gas production set a record in 2021 and is on track to break that record in 2022.

Richard Stengel

@stengel

Oct 20

Trump may not be on the ballot in 2022, but Trumpism is. If election deniers win in 2022, your vote in 2024 may not matter. Don’t sit this one out. #vote

Jon Cooper

@joncoopertweets

17h

BREAKING: A federal appeals court just REJECTED Lindsey Graham's plea to avoid testifying to a Georgia grand jury for his attempt to over throw the US election for Trump. Now he MUST testify.

He's f**ked.

Dr. Jack Brown

@DrGJackBrown

18h

Trump will fight tooth-and-nail against submitting a DNA sample — an innocent person would gladly do so. Trump knows he's guilty AF.

Brown Eyed Susan

@smc429

Republican millionaires filled their already full pockets with forgivable PPP loans, then had the nerve to go to SCOTUS and ask them to block students from getting forgivable education loans?
What a horrible group of people. Why would anyone vote for that?

Zelenskyy says Russia wired a hydroelectric dam to explode and flood 80 towns in region it may have to abandon