Day: January 18, 2021💾

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Conspiracy theorists commandeer Trump’s legal operation – Axios

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Off the rails: Conspiracy theorists commandeer Trump’s legal operation – Axios

The White House became a strange ghost town in the days after the election. Trump's schedule — already unstructured — became more so. It was impossible to shift his focus from his grievances about the election to important policy matters. In conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"

Most in the West Wing, including chief of staff Mark Meadows, understood that Trump had lost. But nobody confronted him directly with that unpleasant news. Instead many on the staff chose to avoid him.

Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute

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Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute

The night before his assassination in April 1968, Martin Luther King told a group of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee: “We’ve got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We’ve got to see it throughȁ (King, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,ȁ 217). King believed the struggle in Memphis exposed the need for economic equality and social justice that he hoped his Poor People’s Campaign would highlight nationally.

On 1 ebruary 1968, two Memphis garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. Eleven days later, frustrated by the city’s response to the latest event in a long pattern of neglect and abuse of its black employees, 1,300 black men from the Memphis epartment of Public Works went on strike. Sanitation workers, led by garbage-collector-turned-union-organizer T. O. Jones, and supported by the president of the American ederation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (ASCME), Jerry Wurf, demanded recognition of their union, better safety standards, and a decent wage.
Map: Beartown State Forest

Binghamton – Land Use

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While there is some agriculture around Binghamton, it's mostly pasture and hay except when you get into the fertile soils along the Susquehanna River around Windsor. Many of the hills are quite forested, with deciduous trees dominating the landscape.
Map: Watts Wildlife Management Area

Are taxes are going up next year?

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Are taxes are going up next year?

Spend some time on Reddit or Twitter and you might be concerned that taxes are going up next year, thanks to a misunderstood chart from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).

The chart, which was created in ecember 2017 when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was passed, periodically makes the rounds on social media because it seems to show that people earning between $10,000 to $30,000 begin paying more in taxes on average starting in 2021 than they would have before the law was passed.