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Morgan Stanley credits Bidenomics for 'much stronger' than expected GDP growth https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/bidenomics-spurred-stronger-gdp-growth-morgan-stanley.html

A recent quote about Robert Kennedy Jr. by Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of President Kennedy:

"He’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame,” said Schlossberg, whose mother is Caroline Kennedy. “I have no idea why anyone thinks he should be president. What I do know is his candidacy is an embarrassment. Let’s not be distracted again by somebody’s vanity project.”

@AnnemarieBridy The same idiots who suck down the kool-aid on Faux News, NewsMax and OANN will now get it mainlined through Twitter. So?
@vsnmaryland It’s affected mine. My cousin’s son took the life of his aunt and then his own. If he hadn’t had easy access to a gun, both might have lived and he might have been able to get the help he so desperately needed.
Book bans

#ClarenceThomas has set some important precedents in his career as a #SupremeCourt justice - for example, the elevation of the unrepentant rapist #BrettKavanaugh could never have occurred but for trail blazed by Thomas as a sexually harassing, pubic-hair distributing creep:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/01/30-years-after-her-testimony-anita-hill-still-wants-something-from-joe-biden-514884

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https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/06/clarence-thomas/#harlan-crow

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30 Years After Her Testimony, Anita Hill Still Wants Something From Joe Biden

When Anita Hill testified about sexual harassment three decades ago, the Senate was skeptical. Now, she has ideas for systemic change.

POLITICO
Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Clarence Thomas To Be Impeached Over Gifts From GOP Megadonor

"This degree of corruption is shocking — almost cartoonish," said the Democratic lawmaker.

HuffPost
Tonight on my SiriusXM show: 7PMET hour I welcome Tenn State Senator London Lamar
& DNC advisor Brad Woodhouse.
In 8PM hour it's our own "Law & Order" with former FBI agent
Frank Figliuzzi and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner 6 to 9PMET on SiriusXM channel 127
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

ProPublica