ABC: Bill Clinton criticizes Obama’s Bain attacks, praises Romney’s ‘sterling business career’

The New York Times daily email “The Morning” for May 8, 2023 — authored by journalist David Leonhardt — includes the following: When Democrats and progressive activists talk about undocumented immigration, they tend to emphasize forces in other countries — like wars and political oppression — that are beyond the control of the U.S. government….

For documentation see How the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine: a compendium. Quoted in Glenn Greenwald’s WHO CAUSED THIS WAR? The US’s Twisted Interference in Ukraine. For documentation for the above two memes, see Glenn Greenwald’s WHO CAUSED THIS WAR? The US’ Twisted Interference in Ukraine. From Dennis Kucinich: The Enemy from Within From Jeffrey…

Write me a 12 line poem about the hypocrisy of the U.S. concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, given the U.S. invasion of Iraq and other countries, the U.S. occupation of one third of  Syria,  the presence of about 800 U.S. military bases overseas, and the history of provocative NATO expansion. In webs of power…

Liberals tend to dislike suburban sprawl and over-dependence on cars. Conservatives tend to dislike regulations and lack of freedom. Here’s a policy change that should satisfy both liberals’ desire for more walkable, self-sufficient neighborhoods and conservatives’ desire for more freedom. The proposal  is to loosen zoning regulations so as to allow homeowners to open small…

Many people fear that AI will replace workers and will be used to surveil, control, or even kill people. As Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI” and the inventor of many of the techniques used in generative AI says, fears that AI will be used to spread disinformation and to make the rich even richer….

By Melanie Mazza  at EOI Online Two cities struggle to fund homelessness relief. One succeeds. San Francisco just did something Seattle couldn’t manage: on Election Day, they voted to tax big business to fund homelessness relief. Like Seattle, San Francisco is a tech city whose rising costs have pushed people out of the area and out…