Heap o' Links Mon Mar 21, 2022

Back then, in the ‘80s, Chicago still held a lot of working class families. You could still afford to be a working class person living there and raise your family. People I grew up around were born and raised there and had family ties that held them to the city. If you look at a demographic map now, the ultra rich of the lakefront butts right up against the ultra poor. Seems like that’s the only way you can afford to live in the city now, either make well over a hundred grand or be on welfare.

Reporters and politicos were caught off guard Tuesday afternoon when the Sunshine Protection Act sailed through the Senate without issue, with no senators speaking up to object to it passing by unanimous consent. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, serving as Senate chair overseeing the motion at the time, broke composure, burst into a grin, and whispered, “Yes!”

“I was surprised that someone didn’t object,” she told BuzzFeed News the next day, while noting that Arizona does not change its clocks, “because we’re smart.”

In October 2019, COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci and other health experts speculated that a new ‘China’ virus could be used to facilitate an mRNA-based, “universal” flu vaccine. …“​​Why don’t we blow the system up?” asked the talk’s moderator…