Being a Delaware Republican must feel like being a Dallas Cowboys fan. Your ownership is scum, you have to live with knowing that you suck, you just know you will lose in some novel and embarrassing fashion, and in the meantime you need to hang around with the worst people. Like this fucking guy:
Join the Sussex County Republican Women’s Club at their Wednesday meeting featuring guest speaker Climatologist David Legates. More information is available at https://www.scrwc.net/club-meetings
Legates’s totally legit research has been funded by Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute, and ExxonMobil.
George Santos and REV – Both Lula Supporters
A Brazilian drag artist who says she knew George Santos when he dressed in drag in Brazil remembers the congressman during his younger years as a supporter of the country’s progressive president, not as the ultra-conservative politician he says he is now.
The artist Eula Rochard made headlines for circulating a photo she says is of Santos dressed in a red dress.
But in an interview with Insider, she said what’s puzzling to her is how Santos went from backing left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula,” to his current political incarnation.
“Low unemployment” is “bad” for the “economy”. And now I’m outta scare quotes for the month.
BLS: Alaska and Pennsylvania Set New Record Series Low Unemployment rates in December
by Calculated Risk on 1/24/2023 11:07:00 AM
From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary
Unemployment rates were higher in December in 7 states, lower in 5 states, and stable in 38 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-five states and the District had jobless rate decreases from a year earlier, 4 states had increases, and 11 states had little change.
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Utah had the lowest jobless rate in December, 2.2 percent. The next lowest rates were in North Dakota and South Dakota, 2.3 percent each. The rates in Alaska (4.3 percent) and Pennsylvania (3.9 percent) set new series lows. (All state series begin in 1976.) Nevada had the highest unemployment rate, 5.2 percent.
Can we please just stop using the terms “Classified” and “Top Secret”? They appear to mean nothing.
A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence discovered about a dozen documents marked as classified at Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The FBI and the Justice Department’s National Security Division have launched a review of the documents and how they ended up in Pence’s house in Indiana.
Cold War era Doomsday Clock Guys – “We’re still here.”
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight amid Ukraine war
The time on the clock was moved to 90 seconds to midnight for 2023. Midnight is supposed to symbolize the end of humanity.