Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 40. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:28 PM for 9h 03m 48s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 34% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1836, Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of…
Federal Government
Courts, Daily Bread, Federal Government, Law, Trump
Daily Bread for 8.27.22: Original and Annotated Versions of the Affidavit for the Search of Trump’s Home
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Daily Bread, Ethics, Federal Government, Kakistocracy, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 8.4.22: Homeland Security Watchdog Needs Watching
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:50 AM and sunset 8:11 PM for 14h 20m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 39.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1914, in response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the…
Attrition, Authoritarianism, Big Lie, Daily Bread, Elections, Federal Government, Insurrection, Law, Never Trump, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 7.22.22: Trump’s Maneuvering is Futile Against Cheney’s Attrition
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:37 AM and sunset 8:25 PM for 14h 48m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 30.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1990, Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour…
Business, Daily Bread, Federal Government, Hubris, Local Government, Planning, State Government
Daily Bread for 5.7.22: Fordlandia’s Folly
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 62. Sunrise is 5:39 AM and sunset 8:02 PM for 14h 22m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 35.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1992, Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law.…
America, Cycling, Federal Government, History, Holiday, Local Government
Juneteenth
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Sometime later today, Pres. Biden will sign a bill, having passed overwhelminmgly in both the House and Senate, to make Juneteenth a national holiday. The House saw only 14 members opposed (one being Tom Tiffany, R-WI 7) and the Senate voted after Sen. Ron Johnson withdrew his opposition to a vote. Making Juneteenth a national…
Federal Government, Immigration, Law, Migrants, Trump
Psaki Reminds on Federal Immigration Policy
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Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
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Coronavirus, Covidiocy, Culture, Federal Government
Private Meetings in Public Monuments During a Pandemic
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The Washington Post reports that Interior [Department] shuts Washington Monument after interior secretary tests positive for the coronavirus (‘Park Service staff say they may have been exposed when David Bernhardt led a private, after-hours tour’): Officials have taken the extraordinary step of closing the Washington Monument starting Friday as a precaution after Interior Secretary David Bernhardt —…
2020 Presidential Election, America, Biden-Harris, Constitution, Elections, Federal Government, Presidential race 2020
President-Elect Biden’s 12.14.20 Address to Nation After Electoral College Tallies
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Federal Government, Housing, Poverty
Frontline: Poverty, Politics and Profit (Full Film)
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FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the billions spent on affordable housing, and why so few get the help they need. In a nine-month investigation that takes FRONTLINE and NPR from Dallas to Miami, NPR’s Laura Sullivan and FRONTLINE’s Rick Young find that just one in four households eligible for Section 8 assistance are getting it, and…
Federal Government, Portland, Trump
Videos Show How Federal Officers Escalated Violence in Portland
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Coronavirus, Documentary, Federal Government, ICE, Negligence, Public Health
How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
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Courts, Federal Government, Law, Laws/Regulations
U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on DACA in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California
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The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allows certain persons who arrived in the United States as children to apply for a forbearance of removal. Today, a five-person majority of the nation’s high court ruled in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California that the Trump Administration violated the Administrative…