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October 27, 2021

Veteran who resigned from Senator Sinema's advisory board: I'm watching video of her ignoring her...

Veteran who resigned from Senator Sinema’s advisory board: I’m watching video of her ignoring her constituents… they’re pouring their hearts out to her and she won’t acknowledge that they’re even a human being so that would be the last straw for me


https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1453073539968368640
October 26, 2021

Thanks to our generous partners in Katie and Erik Abraham, we are proud to announce the Michigan...

Thanks to our generous partners in Katie and Erik Abraham, we are proud to announce the Michigan Humane Center for Farm Animal Care at the Abraham Ranch! Details: http://michiganhumane.org/michigan-human










https://twitter.com/mhumane/status/1453019190756061191
October 26, 2021

NEW - Schumer and Wyden discussed a new corporate minimum tax... (UPDATE: Sinema endorses)

NEW - In the Senate Democratic lunch, Schumer and Wyden discussed a new corporate minimum tax, according to a Democrat in the lunch. It got major support in the caucus. Finance Cmte expected to release text today, before “Billionaire Income Tax.”


https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1453081513852080130


UPDATE:

NEW-@kyrstensinema publicly endorses minimum corporate tax

“This proposal represents a commonsense step toward ensuring that highly profitable corporations — which sometimes can avoid the current corporate tax rate — pay a reasonable minimum corporate tax on their profits”



https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1453105973334319108

October 26, 2021

Kansas City Will Get a New Kind of Stadium--Just for Women's Soccer

Source: WSJ

Billions of dollars have been spent to build stadiums for American men’s professional sports teams.

Soon, there will be one built for a women’s team.

Owners of Kansas City’s National Women’s Soccer League team announced they’re building a $70 million, 11,000-seat stadium to open in 2024. It appears to be the first top-division soccer stadium constructed for a women’s team.

“There are incredibly talented female soccer players in this country and in the world, and people want to pay money to come and watch them and support them,” said Angie Long, one of the team’s owners. “That isn’t going away. That’s growing.”

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/kansas-city-nwsl-womens-soccer-new-stadium-11635214796





https://twitter.com/drbret/status/1452960486887096321

https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1452976403591405572
October 26, 2021

Roman villa with world's only Caravaggio mural up for sale

A sprawling villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by the Italian master Caravaggio is being put up for sale for almost €500m (£422m).

The 2.75-metre wide painting Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in the 16th century to adorn the ceiling in his alchemy laboratory at Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, better known as Villa Aurora.

Villa Aurora, surrounded by high walls close to Via Veneto in central Rome, is all that remains of a retreat established by the cardinal.

“Del Monte bought property there, which he restructured before commissioning Caravaggio to paint the mural in his lab, which was only a very small room,” said Alessandro Zuccari, a history professor at Sapienza University in Rome who oversaw the valuation of the mural. “It’s an extraordinary work which was difficult to put a price on, seeing as it was the only mural ever done by Caravaggio and so we had nothing to compare it to.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/roman-villa-with-worlds-only-caravaggio-mural-up-for-sale


Pics via: http://www.minorsights.com/2016/08/italy-villa-aurora-ludovisi.html









The pedigree of the garden is outstanding: in Roman times this were the private gardens of one Julius Caesar, and they were later known as the Gardens of Sallust. When Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi started work on his Villa, a substantial number of Roman remains were unearthed, some of which still feature as garden ornaments today.






Lastly, for a final name-drop, the garden houses a statue by Michelangelo of the god Pan, who seems positively excited to see you.




October 25, 2021

Trump Has Weekend Freakout Over 'Horrible' Fox News Ads

Donald Trump spent at least part of his weekend yelling at the TV, releasing a new rant calling out Fox News for running ads critical of him.

“What good is it if FOX News speaks well of me when they continually allow horrible and untruthful anti-Trump commercials to be run—and plenty of them,” Trump said in a statement. “In the good old days, that would never have happened and today it happens all of the time.”

It’s not clear which ad triggered the former president, but several anti-Trump groups have been running spots critical of him and his supporters in Congress, often airing them on Fox News in hopes he’ll see them.

The progressive PAC MeidasTouch said it was one of their spots, airing on the right-wing network in the market where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort is located:

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1452445328381124611

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fox-news-freakout_n_61761954e4b079111a591dce


October 25, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in 'Dozens' of Planning Meetings With Mem

Source: Rolling Stone

EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff

Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed a stunning series of allegations to Rolling Stone, including a promise of a “blanket pardon” from the Oval Office


As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., have begun communicating with congressional investigators and sharing new information about what happened when the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Two of these people have spoken to Rolling Stone extensively in recent weeks and detailed explosive allegations that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.

Rolling Stone separately confirmed a third person involved in the main Jan. 6 rally in D.C. has communicated with the committee. This is the first report that the committee is hearing major new allegations from potential cooperating witnesses. While there have been prior indications that members of Congress were involved, this is also the first account detailing their purported role and its scope. The two sources also claim they interacted with members of Trump’s team, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who they describe as having had an opportunity to prevent the violence.

Judge Ordered Jan. 6 Rioter Not to Associate with Proud Boys. He Then Spoke at Rally Attended by Proud Boys
The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss to President Joe Biden was being certified.

“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289/



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October 24, 2021

Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin blasted Trump at the QAnon conference today.

Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin blasted Trump at the QAnon conference today. He said Trump promised he would lock up Hillary, but “at the end of your 4 year time, the only ones locked up were men like me, and others like me, that have stood by the president the strongest.”


https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1452393600495636483

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