Mostly-lifelong Chicagoan, family-tree obsessive since the early '90s. Amateur hockey player, history geek, friend to all dogs, husband, father, conservationist, non-profit leader, and I used to tickle the ivories in front of people.
My genealogical database is always current with notes and photos and documents at: www.paulbotts.net
Also if you're into that sort of thing you might enjoy:
https://tinyurl.com/infamousrelations
"Do it and be damned!" -- cousin Gideon Olmstead (1748-1845)
In the US, there's been a lot of talk & concern about foreign investors buying up US farmland.
And there is, in fact, a tech startup that helps them do that! It's like Robin Hood for buying US farmland.
And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?
J.D. Vance.
Who Trump recently chose as his VP to "represent rural America."
IRS aims to more than double its audit rate for wealthiest taxpayers in strategic plan update
Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump
Trump “boasted about speaking to members of a murder victim's family. It now appears he made that up.”
"... I’m trying to imagine what the reaction might be if President Joe Biden publicly declared that he’d spoken to a murder victim’s family members, only to have evidence emerge soon after that those interactions hadn’t happened."
Alina Habba Accidentally Admits Donald Trump Could Be Totally Bought
https://newrepublic.com/post/180017/alina-habba-donald-trump-debt-foreign-countries
“Desperate” Trump’s inability to get fraud bond makes him “massive national security risk,” Dem says "Any foreign adversary seeking to buy a President knows the price," warns Rep. Sean Casten
Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in Donald #Trump’s White House, appears to be heading to jail after Chief Justice John Roberts turned down his emergency motion to stave off his imminent jail sentence for his defiance of a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/18/peter-navarro-supreme-court-00147649
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