I took a covid test the day after I returned home. Nothing was detected. There was an outbreak a week before we arrived in CO but perhaps being in the Navajo Nation area in general turned out to be a good thing?
We now know Abbott took $4.6 million from energy leaders after letting them off the hook for failures during the winter storm.
Meanwhile Texans face utility bill increases of up to 15% for the next 10 YEARS to pay for the grid crisis that his corruption created. https://t.co/6cmo1PU7MD
Never ending cycle as mother nature will see to another disaster down thier long before those 10 years are up. They know they can gouge thier customers so why do upgrades
Another attempt for the establishment to try and blunt more progressive momentum. This one will get likely gey ugly and I know the smears are already being lined up. At least Fetterman is a fighter and no knows his way around social media.
THE DRIVE TO PERSUADE President Joe Biden to cancel student debt took a major hit last week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned Congress with a surprise statement in opposition. The move may put her at odds with much of the public and the Democratic Party, but it aligns her with Democratic megadonors Steven and Mary Swig, the billionaire scions of the Bay Area’s oldest real estate dynasty who have deep ties to the California representative. Steven Swig has also long served as a treasurer for Pelosi in her fundraising efforts.
In November, after Biden’s election, and amid increased pressure to cancel student debt, the Swigs quietly circulated a memo among key Capitol Hill figures, making the dubious case that debt cancellation at the executive level is illegal. The argument in the memo gets much of its weight by virtue of the wealthy couple who produced it, as the Swigs are not just major funders of progressive nonprofits, but also have significantly bankrolled Pelosi and her House Democratic caucus.
The memo, obtained by The Intercept, was distributed to members of Congress by Freedom to Prosper, an organization founded by and for the Swigs. The couple has in the past directly lobbied Pelosi, according to two sources with knowledge of the meetings, in which the Swigs would suggest rhetoric or policy proposals that Pelosi would agree to adopt in some form. The source, like several others interviewed by The Intercept for this story, would only speak on condition of anonymity, citing the Swigs’ financial sway in progressive circles. (They have also contributed millions of dollars to the Democratic Party over the years.)
The couple have for many years given the maximum amount permitted in campaign contributions to Pelosi, who represents California’s 12th District which encompasses San Francisco, and Steven Swig has served as treasurer for Pelosi’s reelection campaigns since 2012. The Swigs also enjoy extended family ties to the Pelosis. Their niece worked for Pelosi from 2018 until March of this year, serving as a staff assistant, legislative correspondent, and policy associate. (The Swigs, according to a report in Mother Jones, even own mugs with a photograph of Pelosi on them, which they said they had gotten from a nephew who worked for her.)
The memo, which was designated for “INTERESTED PARTIES” and wasn’t disseminated to the general public, asserts that student debt cancellation via executive order is unlawful. “No, the President Cannot Cancel Student Loan Debt with a Pen Stroke,” a boldface title reads. The memo continues: “Recently, there has been heightened fervor around Senators Warren and Schumer’s proposal that President-elect Joe Biden could cancel student debt ‘with the pen as opposed to legislation.’ Unfortunately, that cannot happen. Attorneys on Capitol Hill say that the Executive Branch does not have congressional authority to cancel student debt.”
Despite the memo’s certainty, it’s far from clear that such an executive order is unlawful, experts say. When asked about the debate over the executive order, Marshall Steinbaum, a senior fellow of higher education finance at the Jain Family Institute and economics professor at the University of Utah, said via email, “The executive absolutely has the power to cancel student debt and there’s no excuse for not exercising it. A generation or more of students and workers have had their lives ruined by the failed experiment shifting the cost of higher ed onto individuals while corralling more and more students into the system. The failure is in the false assumption that a college degree or a masters would automatically cause earnings to increase more than sufficiently to pay off the debt. That hasn’t happened, and now it’s the victims of the policy failure who are carrying the burden while every year the government and higher ed institutions originate $100 billion more in student loans that everyone knows won’t be repaid.”
A student debt cancellation advocate who works closely with Congress added that their concession amounts to a cop-out given the near impossibility of a bill passing in the evenly split Senate. Why not, the advocate asked, just try an executive order and see what happens?
The idea of simply passing the executive order and letting the Supreme Court decide is hardly an abstraction; Biden did just that with his recent executive order imposing a moratorium on evictions. And the current pause in student debt collection at the federal level suggests that the executive has significant authority.
Hiring surged in July as American employers added 943,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.4% another sign that the U.S. economy continues to bounce back with surprising vigor from last year’s coronavirus shutdown.
The July numbers exceeded economists’ forecast for more than 860,000 new jobs. Hotels and restaurants, reopening and doing brisk business, added 327,000 jobs last month. Local public schools added 221,000.
The number of people who reported they had jobs surged by 1 million, pushing the jobless rate down from 5.9% in June. Last month, 261,000 people returned to the job market.
Scrambling to find workers as business surges back, companies raised wages: Average hourly earnings were up 4% last month from a year earlier.
i’ve reached my limit of articles, but yeah, the swirling framing is making me sick. like yesterday, that post about how everyone approves of the infrastructure bill and the pay fors.
the fact that they included that question in the poll is so reinforcing to Americans that their taxes do indeed pay for govt. programs, which birdies here know is false.
and that people don’t understand public/private partnerships or why we need more taxes on the wealthy, apparently.
Mr Benny wanted to stop by the WBC in Topeka just to see if they were still hating gays, military personnel and others. However, I deflected by finding the more efficient routes to CO.
In CO, monsoon season started a couple of weeks ago. IL got rain during July as our lawn is fairly green. But it’s been dry since we arrived early in the week.
If you want an idea of our broken our gov't is look at how much the centrists are fighting @BernieSanders $3.5 trillion infrastructure spending over the next ten yrs. At the same time, the Federal gov't is projecting to spend $9.67 trillion on the military. Nearly 3 times as much
it’s frigging ridiculous. he’s not for changing anything, or he’d at least reform the filibuster. even manchin used to say that he was open to reform. wth
It is actually Damn fitting that the Obama era memorial will privatize a 19th century public park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted given away to benefit an oligarch.
— 🌹 Clark, a proud citizen of GoFundMe nation (@Clarknt67) August 6, 2021
gd it’s just running over our country. i feel helpless in the face of their shiny lies like their shiny teeth. every time i look at Shontel’s murderous self with her shiny teeth and her oh so cosmopolitan look that people eat up i get mad. and Obama’s smirking smile i just get mad and feel helpless. especially now.
a different liberal friend said, “nina put up a good fight,” in this condescending way and i started to tell her about brown’s funding and the smear campaign but it was obvious she didn’t really want to hear it, so i said something about how i didn’t want to get into excuses and stopped. and i didn’t have the receipts in front of me.
the point being how many millions of people operate on that level where they think people pointing out things are negative and so they have an incomplete picture of the people that represent us? then she went on about how wonderful Heather Cox Richardson is. ugh.
Not saying Twitter has taken over my life, but when I couldn’t figure out how to update my profile, I went to my son’s room to get the advice of a tech-savvy young teen, and apparently he moved out several years ago, is thirty, and running his own business.
wpDiscuz
Fire away…
I took a covid test the day after I returned home. Nothing was detected. There was an outbreak a week before we arrived in CO but perhaps being in the Navajo Nation area in general turned out to be a good thing?
Looks like Beto is running.
and does anyone believe they will again lower those prices after the 10 year payoff? yay private ownership of things we need to survive!
Never ending cycle as mother nature will see to another disaster down thier long before those 10 years are up. They know they can gouge thier customers so why do upgrades
What is he running on? He needs to shed the fact he’s married to a super $$ woman.
Zzz…
Another attempt for the establishment to try and blunt more progressive momentum. This one will get likely gey ugly and I know the smears are already being lined up. At least Fetterman is a fighter and no knows his way around social media.
Thought the same thing, $hill, Clyborn and Obama will all endorse and stump for him.
The big sign will be if BO gets involved cos Fetterman has the votes.
BO’s fingerprints are somewhere in OH-11 too, but not as visible.
Bear Sun is big on TikTok but dont see much elsewhere so bringing his story here
He has major native support and some great clips in his tiktok of his walks across the navajo reservation on the official tiktok channel:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdwV11qc/
Link to individual clips
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdw4o1Uv/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdw4qR6B/
Glad to see you, LD. 🙂 Sorry about getting on your case earlier. Hope this finds you, JD and furballs well! 🙂
he must be so hot sometimes. go bearsun!
More money makes the political world go round
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/05/student-debt-cancellation-nancy-pelosi/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/july-jobs-report-2021_n_610d283de4b05f81570915af
You mean botoxed senile corrupt Nancy? How do we get rid of thrash like her?
Brooks is full of himself as usual, but look who retweeted this.
i’ve reached my limit of articles, but yeah, the swirling framing is making me sick. like yesterday, that post about how everyone approves of the infrastructure bill and the pay fors.
the fact that they included that question in the poll is so reinforcing to Americans that their taxes do indeed pay for govt. programs, which birdies here know is false.
and that people don’t understand public/private partnerships or why we need more taxes on the wealthy, apparently.
Glad I am not on Twitter. It’s the same thing as stupid, only worse.
Mr Benny wanted to stop by the WBC in Topeka just to see if they were still hating gays, military personnel and others. However, I deflected by finding the more efficient routes to CO.
wbc?
nevermind. dah. must be the named church.
haha!
Ms. Benny, how bad is the weather out there?
In CO, monsoon season started a couple of weeks ago. IL got rain during July as our lawn is fairly green. But it’s been dry since we arrived early in the week.
it’s frigging ridiculous. he’s not for changing anything, or he’d at least reform the filibuster. even manchin used to say that he was open to reform. wth
gd it’s just running over our country. i feel helpless in the face of their shiny lies like their shiny teeth. every time i look at Shontel’s murderous self with her shiny teeth and her oh so cosmopolitan look that people eat up i get mad. and Obama’s smirking smile i just get mad and feel helpless. especially now.
a different liberal friend said, “nina put up a good fight,” in this condescending way and i started to tell her about brown’s funding and the smear campaign but it was obvious she didn’t really want to hear it, so i said something about how i didn’t want to get into excuses and stopped. and i didn’t have the receipts in front of me.
the point being how many millions of people operate on that level where they think people pointing out things are negative and so they have an incomplete picture of the people that represent us? then she went on about how wonderful Heather Cox Richardson is. ugh.
otherwise a very caring woman.
Why is BO not building his library in Hawaii? That’s where he was born, etc. What a bad joke Raygun YUPPIE he is. They are a curse!