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Barbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity's Dark Side, Dies at 81
It was a casual meeting.
Over salmon and field greens, Barbara Ehrenreich was discussing future articles with her editor at Harper’s Magazine. Then, as she recalled, the conversation drifted.
How could anyone survive on minimum wage? She mused. A tenacious journalist should find out.
Her editor, Lewis Lapham, offered a half smile and a single word reply: “You.”
The result was the book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” (2001), an undercover account of the indignities, miseries and toil of being a low-wage worker in the United States. It became a best seller and a classic in social justice literature.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/books/barbara-ehrenreich-dead.html
White House Correspondent the Most Recent High-Profile Departure at CNN
Source: The Daily Beast
The staff shakeups at CNN under new management and ownership continue. White House correspondent John Harwood announced Friday that “today’s my last day at CNN,” tweeting that he looks “forward to figuring out what’s next.”
Harwood came to the network in Jan. 2020 after spending 13 years at CNBC as a Washington correspondent, where he broke the news in 2008 that John McCain had picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. In 2015, he made a name for himself as a harsh Donald Trump critic after clashing with the then-candidate in a GOP primary debate—a reputation that continued at CNN.
His departure comes shortly after the network’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter—long an antagonist of right-wing media—was terminated and his show canned.
Harwood appeared three times on CNN Friday morning, and apparently knowing that this was his last day, took the opportunity to deliver a parting message about the challenges facing journalism—and CNN itself—when covering the current state of politics.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-the-most-recent-high-profile-departure-at-cnn
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1565763159826235393
Out now--The more detailed Receipt of Property that lists items collected during the FBI's...
Shall we read it together?
(with thanks to @hyeminjhan)
https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/1565706367205351424
- 1 doc with SECRET markings
- 2 documents/photographs without classification markings
Item #2: Box/Container from Office
- 99 magazines/newspapers/press etc dated 2017-18
- 2 CONFIDENTIAL docs
- 7 TOP SECRET docs
- 69 docs without classification markings
- 43 empty folders marked CLASSIFIED
- 28 empty folders marked "Return to Staff Secretary/Miliary Aide"
Two quick notes, we're putting "top secret" etc in all caps because it's like that in the document, but we do acknowledge it looks a little dramatic in a tweet
the document really does say "miliary" so don't @ us
Item #3: Documents from Office
- 2 govt documents/photographs without classification markings
Item #4: Documents from Office
- 26 (more press material) dated 01/2020-11/2020
- 1 doc marked CONFIDENTIAL
- 1 doc marked SECRET
- 357 govt docs without classification markings
Item #5: Documents from Office
- 396 got docs without classification markings
Item #6: Documents from Office
- 640 govt docs without classification markings
Item #7: Documents from Office
- 1 govt doc without classification markings
Item #8: Box from Storage Room
- 68 (more press material) dated 2015-2017
- 1 article of clothing/ gift item
- 1 book
- 2 govt docs without classification markings
Item #9: Box from Storage Room
- 91 (more press material) 2019-2020
- 1 article of clothing/ gift item
- 65 govt docs without classification markings
Item #10: Box from Storage Room
- 30 (more press material) 2008-2019
11 docs marked CONFIDENTIAL
- 21 docs marked SECRET
- 3 articles of clothing/ gift items
- 1 book
- 255 govt docs without classification markings
Item #11: Box from Storage Room
- 116 (press materials) 2019-2020
- 8 docs marked CONFIDENTIAL
- 1 doc marked SECRET
- 2 docs marked TOP SECRET
- 104 govt docs without classification markings
Item #12: Box from Storage Room
- 39 (press material) 2017-2020
- 71 govt docs without classification markings
Item #13: Box from Storage Room
- 62 (press material) 2018-19
- 2 docs marked CONFIDENTIAL
- 1 doc marked TOP SECRET
- 1 article of clothing/ gift item
-708 govt docs without classification markings
Item #14: Box from Storage Room
- 87 (press materials) 2018-19
- 2 docs marked CONFIDENTIAL
- 438 govt docs without classification marks
Item #15: Box from Storage Room
- 65 press materials
- 1 doc markd CONFIDENTIAL
- 4 docs markd SECRET
- 2 books
- 78 govt docs w/o classificat'n mark
- 2 empty folders w/ CLASSIFIED banner
- 2 empty folders labeled "Return to Staff Secretary/Miliary Aide"
Hmm... those empty folders.
Dan Rather: After President Biden's speech last night, it seems like a lot of people are unhappy...
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1565703864338132993
Biden failed compilation (sound up):
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1565677450708897792
... a missing voting machine made its way to a Goodwill donation center and then wound up on eBay
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1565671678994259970
The nation's poorest state used welfare money to pay Brett Favre for speeches he never made
Source: NBC News
The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.
Brett Favre earned nearly $140 million as a star NFL quarterback over two decades and millions more in product endorsements.
But that didn’t stop the state of Mississippi from paying Favre $1.1 million in 2017 and 2018 to make motivational speeches — out of federal welfare funds intended for needy families. The Mississippi state auditor said Favre never gave the speeches and demanded the money back, with interest.
Favre has repaid the fees, although not the $228,000 in interest the auditor also demanded. But the revelation by the auditor that $70 million in TANF welfare funds was doled out to a multimillionaire athlete, a professional wrestler, a horse farm and a volleyball complex are at the heart of a scandal that has rocked the nation’s poorest state, sparking parallel state and federal criminal investigations that have led to charges and guilty pleas involving some of the key players.
Favre hasn’t been accused of a crime or charged, and he declined an interview. His lawyer, Bud Holmes, said he did nothing wrong and never understood he was paid with money intended to help poor children. Holmes acknowledged that the FBI had questioned Favre in the case, a fact that hasn’t previously been reported.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nations-poorest-state-used-welfare-money-pay-brett-favre-speeches-neve-rcna45871
I once gave one of my very (fav) teachers one of my very favorite toys. Fast forward three decades.
https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer/status/1565467279889874944
https://twitter.com/Millicentsomer/status/1565471699209900032
NEW: Bridge Michigan analyzed the abortion rights petition... WE SEE SPACES
WE SEE SPACES
Here's how:
vimeo.com/745538798
https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1565450755208773633
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