Wow, Okaydo, thank you! You may have just helped me finish my Christmas shopping!
$400?

https://www.digitaltrends.com/digital-camera-reviews/insta360-one-x-review/

So, breaking news...
Duffy, instructions to hold Ukraine aid in email from OMB to pentagon 90 minutes after Trump's Ukraine phone call where he asks for Biden investigation.

Quid.
Pro.
Quo.

In a normal world, if McConnell and the other GOP senators bury this and not demand witnesses, they ALL get voted out.
This isn't just bad for Trump, it's bad for anyone who excuses it.

Witnesses or death.

" On a single day in December 2015, Gary Jones, who resigned last month as president of the United Automobile Workers, spent more than $13,000 of the union's money at a cigar store in Arizona," the N.Y. Times' Noam Scheiber and Neal E. Boudette report.

The cigar purchases were "a small portion of the roughly $1 million in union money that court filings say U.A.W. officials spent on golf outings, four-figure dinners and monthslong villa rentals during regular retreats in Palm Springs."
Why it matters: The UAW has outsize influence over auto manufacturing, which employs hundreds of thousands of workers. The union's 40-day strike against GM this year cost the automaker an estimated $3 billion in profit." Axios

Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALS Who Turned In Edward Gallagher


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-video.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-video.amp.html

Second link:

Anguished Navy SEALs recall Chief Edward Gallagher as 'freaking evil' and 'toxic' - Chicago Tribune


https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-navy-seals-edward-gallagher-20191227-layfp7n56zd3nplbweb3ldckay-story.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-navy-seals-edward-gallagher-20191227-layfp7n56zd3nplbweb3ldckay-story.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Eddie Gallagher's fellow Navy SEALS describe him as 'evil'



https://mol.im/a/7830351

^ Good find and nice film reference Bearister.

Disney characters say tourists inappropriately touched them


https://apnews.com/ef382b99d281ae18367a573dce1e97fd

"...... said Disney spokeswoman Andrea Finger.."

The decade of the very poor and the super rich (the poor improved too!)

https://www.axios.com/worlds-richest-and-poorest-countries-growth-trends-570972f9-4ded-4405-b16f-f8f7620d77f7.html

"A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced to three years in prison because of his research." (AP)

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Whoa, that's pretty common around the DMV and not just among the "homeless" or at Whole Foods.

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It's just a down-on-his-luck man trying to avoid starvation. WHERE IS YOUR COMPASSION

" Neither Iran nor North Korea the twin war threats we told you about yesterday seem to fear President Trump, "precisely the critique he leveled at Barack Obama," the N.Y. Times' David E. Sanger writes:

Why it matters: "Both the Iranians and the North Koreans seem to sense the vulnerability of a president under impeachment and facing re-election, even if they are often clumsy as they try to play those events to their advantage."
The big picture: While the showdown with Iranian-backed protesters in Baghdad "seemed to be under control, it played to Mr. Trump's longtime worry that American diplomats and troops in the Middle East are easy targets and his longtime position that the United States must pull back from the region." Axios

When your children are dealing with the results of man-made global warning, will you fess up to obfuscating the issue? Will you say: "I was shilling for big oil, sorry". I bet you won't. Old habits die hard.

"In a SurveyMonkey poll for Axios, Republican voters chose children of President Trump Don Jr. and Ivanka as two of the top four picks for president in four years, Neal Rothschild writes.

Why it matters: An early poll like this is largely a measure of name ID. But it's also a vivid illustration of just how strong Trump's brand is with the GOP.
Ivanka and Don Jr. are near the top of a long list of politicians who have held elected office, many of them vocal supporters of the president.

Don Jr. has emerged as one of the most prominent defenders of his dad, frequently going after the left on Twitter, where he has 4.2 million followers, and serving as a popular warm-up act for presidential rallies. In October, at a rally in San Antonio, the crowd chanted "2024!" as Don Jr. spoke.
Ivanka Trump has pushed paid family leave as part of her White House work, and represents the president on the world stage, including championing his Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative. She danced with women entrepreneurs in Paraguay, and visits American workplaces" Axios

1978: the year that changed San Francisco forever


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/05/san-francisco-1978-changed-city?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

....I was sitting in Antitrust class when I heard what sounded like 1000 sirens. The aftermath of the Moscone/Milk assasinations.

Supplemental reading:

I think I found my new alt handle

Quite possibly a 90s Political Economy of Industrialized Societies major from Cal.

I think for a short while there actually was a Political Economy of Non-Industrialized Societies major at Cal, which was quickly changed to "Development Studies"...

Golden Globe, Best Supporting Actor:

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One of QT's worst movies. Pitt once again playing an unchallenging, slight variation of himself.

The Hollywood Foreign Press is so predictable.

Pitt's probably getting the Oscar too.

Though IMO that is not a "supporting" role. He's a co-lead.

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This is a great essay on the best movie of 2019.

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The best movie of 2019 won no major awards at the Golden Globes.

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This is a great essay on the best movie of 2019.

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so proud to have called this home

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but he doesn't want these poor people to keep more of their earned money, a fascinating juxtaposition

Don, Jr. in 2024!

Don Jr. trolls Hillary Clinton with AR-15 showing her behind bars



https://mol.im/a/7857747

Harvey Weinstein is perfecting the "bathrobe defense" utilized by mafiosi of old to play the sympathy card in court proceedings.

"New research confirms what economists have said for years: State and local economic incentives for megacompanies are a waste of money, Axios Markets editor Dion Rabouin reports.

A new paper from researchers at Princeton and Columbia found "no evidence" that state-and-local tax incentives to individual companies increased economic growth.
The study found that a quarter of all business tax incentives go to a very small group less than .01% of firms that opened new locations in 2014.

It estimates that state and local governments spend at least $30 billion a year on business tax incentives." Axios


Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives


https://www.nber.org/papers/w26603?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top