Boy, that sure was some crisis
Wall Street banks in $70bn staff payout
Pay and bonus deals equivalent to 10% of US government bail-out package
Imagine if we had not had the bailout bill! The Wall Street types who shit the worldwide bed might have missed their outlandish compensation! One shudders to think.
But we’re safe now; at least until their bonuses come due next year, when we’ll have to have another emergency to make sure they get paid.
“White voters remain broadly behind Walker.”
Once again, white voters leave it to everyone else to save democracy.
We are ridiculous. https://twitter.com/kathrynresister/status/1598657878339899392
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/cnn-poll-georgia-senate-runoff-election/index.html
I have been saying for years now that one of the biggest shortcomings of the community researching "extremism" has been and is its reluctance to name misogyny as an incredible central value of US fascists.
bell hooks told us: it's white supremacist patriarchy. https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1598536649457258497
I don’t think a man’s continuous public harassment of his ex/mother of his children is any less serious than his racist rantings, actually. These are connected violences
Today I was with @johnbiggs at his house in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, talking about moving from Mailchimp to Substack as part of overhauling my famous author platform. "You're doing it now," he said, & proceeded to set up my substack account & move my mailchimp subscribers over. 1/2
I love a person who knows their priorities.
So good at quotes lol ☠️
BREAKING: Trump LOSES bigly: 11th Circuit rules Judge Cannon was incorrect, eliminates her ruling, orders case be dismissed.
Special master: gone. All restrictions on DOJ use of recovered Mar-a-Lago documents: gone.
Massive DOJ win. Great day for democracy and the rule of law.
From the referenced article in The Guardian:
“At one point last week the Morgan Stanley $10.7bn pay pot for the year to date was greater than the entire stock market value of the business. In effect, staff, on receiving their remuneration, could club together and buy the bank.”