Why Does Tim Walz Hate Capitalism Today? Tabs, Thurs., Aug. 15, 2024
Morning news roundup!
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This by Josh Marshall is very good: We do know what Kamala Harris’s policies are, and it’s not just a “sugar rush” that is propelling enthusiasm for her and Tim Walz. (Gift link Talking Points Memo)
Three hundred thirty five thousand new climate jobs, why, is that a lot? (Greg Sargent at The New Republic)
“Harsh” and “direct” and “a breath of fresh air” from Elizabeth Prelogar answering all the bullshit lawsuits against Old Joe’s Student Loan Jubilee? Fuck yeah, Chris Geidner, tell me more!!! (Law Dork)
Here’s Wonkette’s favorite state ag commissioner candidate, Dr. Sarah Taber, doin the PBS!
Let’s adopt her and be the agriculture commissioner we want to see in the world! (Act Blue)
Trump is having another pathetic press conference today, this one at his New Jersey trash palace and wife cemetery. Here’s some questions the press could ask him about immigration, JK JK LOL. (America's Voice)
Trump and JD Vance hated the Olympics because it was full of Actually Good America, and they hate that. (Paul Waldman)
Tim Walz owns no stocks therefore he hates capitalism. Fine by me! (Media Matters)
If you buy some Wonkette Kamala merch, be so patient please, it won’t go out till next week, YAY FELICIA’S ON VACATION YAY!
I would be very creeped out by this creepy lady acting like something out of a Jordan Peele movie! (Benjamin Wittes)
Just turning away bleeding pregnant ladies from the ER. (AP)
I had no idea they’re letting ghost robocabs just roam around driverless now, but anyway, they’re letting ghost robocabs just roam around driverless now, and all they do is sit in a parking lot at honk at each other all night. (Ars Technica)
China’s gonna install 100 gigawatts of solar to help combat desertification, and that is all the solar in the entire world probably. Do it China! (Semafor)
These sexy motherfuckers got Trump and Elno’s heads put on their bodies to make what Utah Sen. Mike Lee calls the “best campaign video ever” (Twitter link) and is it? Is it really? And can they fucking sue?
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Hi friends! To go with today's hed gif, I wrote about Gustaf Tenggren, a Swedish immigrant to the US hugely impactful to mid-century illustration and animation. If you don't know about him, now's your opportunity. https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/gustaf-tenggren-artistic-chameleon?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks to Craig Nixon for doing the editing on this one!
And here's your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/83abcc96-f06d-4479-b88c-26f889cbb277
I don't think that I'm that judgemental. I mean, I don't refrain from judging jerkfaces who jerkface, but when someone is doing their own thing in their own space, I try to let them be.
But you know, I'm a little fucking martinet when it comes to language and I'm starting to flail losing this war over the meaning of "gender identity". There was, at one time, a very specific meaning there. The meaning is still specific in much of academia. But half-informed condesplainers, random trans people who think being trans makes them experts on language, and even a garnish of a few academia nuts have been using "gender identity" for a number of years now in ways that completely upends the term.
And I'm getting a bit pissy about it.