Hanging out with my big brother in Berkley, MI while the rest of the family are off at the football game. He has a killer sound system including a turntable and perfect speakers. So I asked “Do you have any Joni Mitchell.” Low and behold, he just bought Blue last week
This 1971 Funkadelic album is sooooo good.
Promotional pressing of @ElvisCostello’s “Imperial Bedroom”. Perfection.
We ate playing Promised Land on vinyl. Acoustic perfection. This one’s 4 you @sbagen
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"Finally, I have heard concerns from some about how this important work relating to antisemitism will bear on Harvard’s vital commitment to free expression. Combating antisemitism and fostering free expression are mutually consistent goals."
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"We are at our strongest when we commit to open inquiry and freedom of expression as foundational values of our academic community."
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Counsel for MN voters, @ronfein: is a case of extraordinary importance." Trump engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution of the United States
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@ronfein 1. Section 3 of 14th Amendment is self-executing. Court has duty to interpret & enforce Constitution
2. MN law requires this Court to regulate ballot excess and exclude ineligible candidates
3. President is officer of US and took oath that is equiv. to "support"
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"Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. It holds that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve such critical benefits.
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"In so holding, the Court cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.
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"The Court subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society.
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Look. No one really knows when the Department of Justice will charge Donald Trump with federal felonies related to document hoarding and destruction at Mar-a-Lago (and beyond).
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However, all of the legal experts expect that the next indictment is coming in the coming weeks if not days. “Next” — because, in case you’d forgotten, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald back in March on 30 state criminal counts.
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Regarding the feds, the biggest questions now are (1) whether the indictments will come out of the Miami grand jury or the D.C. grand jury or both and (2) who in addition to Donald will be defendants in these cases.
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The SEC just sued Binance Holdings Ltd (Binance) a company registered in Cayman that operates the world’s largest crypto exchange & founder Changpeng Zhao alleging “blatant disregard of the federal securities laws and the investor and market protections these laws provide"
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Zhao founded the business in 2017 and by 2021, the platform accounted for $7.7 trillion in crypto exchange volume. Plus, since July of 2017, Binance.com and Binance.US alone allegedly earned at least $11.6 billion in revenue from U.S. customers
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This is complex case and you’ll hear a lot about in in the coming days, but what it boils down to is mishandling customer funds and lying about it. You can read the 136-page complaint here. sec.gov/files/litigati…
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My guest today on #BookedUp is David de Jong, the author of a mindblowing new narrative nonfiction book called Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties.
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NAZI BILLIONAIRES puts the lie to the often-heard claims by descendants and apologists for the industrialists who collaborated for profit with Hilter. You’ve heard them too.That these business leaders did not know what was going on at the concentration and extermination camps
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More false claims include that these business leaders were helping Jews by buying businesses on the cheap, that they had not sought out to be members of the Nazi party but were forced to to stay in business.
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