SensibleTalker

It’s not okay for anyone to be sleeping on the sidewalk in the world’s richest country. We can fix this. My promise: When I’m mayor, we’ll cut tents and encampments in half by the Olympics and bring everyone in tents and encampments indoors by the end of my first term.

It’s always a good time for a reminder on Lesley Stahl and one of the most brazen attempts at covering for the media’s preferred presidential candidate ever seen: Trump says of Joe Biden and the Hunter laptop: “He’s in the midst of a scandal." Stahl: "He's not. Come on." Trump: "They spied on my campaign." Stahl: "There's no real evidence of that." Lesley Stahl is a prime example of why so few Americans trust “mainstream” media. OCT 2020:

Most people misunderstand Elon's ultimate goal He is trying to make our entire civilization win. To view it as anything less is just shortsighted Elon winning means humanity winning While most people are stuck in a zero-sum mentality, he operates with a "grow-the-pie" mindset You can see all the things he built till now and also his future plans He started working on things long before it was popular or considered possible: • Zip2 & payment systems • Electric vehicles & batteries • Pure vision self-driving • Humanoid robots • Starlink Internet • AI (OpenAI) • Neuralink • The Boring Company And the future is even bigger: 1TW compute clusters, space datacenters, lunar bases, mass drivers on the Moon, and making life multi-planetary... basically driving humanity toward becoming a star-faring civilization He consistently takes on the world’s hardest problems to push our civilization forward... He freakin makes sci-fi real

Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline. FWIW, JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal. Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families.

BREAKING: US Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui apologizes to White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen over reported treatment in jail

I have been sick at heart since the announcement of the Supreme Court decision which gutted the Voting Rights Act. Republicans throughout the south are racing to eliminate Black electoral power to elect representatives who look like them. We have seen this before, throughout Reconstruction and then as political deals and other Supreme Court decisions stripped away the brief gains that former enslaved people received with the 14th and 15th Amendments. But why as a Black person I despair is the stripping of rights is never enough. I fear that like before, the New Jim Crow will be brutally enforced by a corrupt, soulless social order that will stop at nothing to maintain its power. I am a child of Jim Crow refugees. There is history. Shame on the Supreme Court and shame on every person who voted to impose this regime. This is why elections matter. Vote them out in November.