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  1. A recent independent CNBC found the same: Target blamed theft and violence for 9 store closures. Crime is higher at locations it kept open nearby WWW.CNBC.COM Target blamed theft and violence when it closed 9 stores in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland, but crime is worse at locations it kept open nearby.
  2. Telling my wife we don't have to order off the value menu anymore!
  3. Fed indicated 3 rate cuts in 2024 Fed Holds Rates Steady and Sees Cuts Next Year WWW.WSJ.COM Officials don’t rule out further hikes while penciling in three rate cuts in 2024
  4. I don’t think SCOTUS will do Trump any favors. They already got their seats. They don’t need him anymore. I also think a lot of establishment Republicans are realizing (or long ago realized) that things in the 90s and 00s were pretty good for them. They mostly got the legislative outcomes they wanted and were able to make incredible amounts of money at the same time. Yes, most Republican voters were left behind and found themselves feeling disenfranchised which lead to a leader like Trump, but most Republicans in Congress, the administrative state, and the judiciary are insulated from any type of blowback for that.
  5. As a daily MTG player I haven’t seen the full impact yet, but one of the Discord community managers that I interact with a few times a month was laid off. Right before Christmas too. Heartless stuff.
  6. I largely agree with this. I don’t think the metrics we use to measure the ‘economy’ are a particularly good indicator of the actual economy, at least in the way the average person thinks about it. I think in general, the average person really views the ‘economy’ in the terms of disposable income, or money left over after their bills are paid. But that’s not really how we measure the ‘economy.’ I think that’s why there is such a disconnect between Democratic messaging and the average voter. Because to the ruling/governing/intellectual class, a lot of the metrics we use to measure the economy: unemployment rate, jobs added, wages, etc are doing very well.
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  8. NYT: Prices are coming down. Here's why that's bad news for Biden.
  9. What the hell? I literally use the Mint app every single day, multiple times a day. I have for many years, before they were purchased by Intuit. Mint was having some weird account syncing issues over the summer after my bank did a back end update. It lead me to try out almost every single budgeting app in the App Store, and the only one I found remotely comparable and with a clean UI was Rocket Money, but it requires a monthly fee for a lot of features Mint included at no cost.
  10. Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, “Tally ho lads” the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion.He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
  11. Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM The justice failed to repay much, perhaps all, of the $267,230 loan. His benefactor wiped the slate clean, with ethical and potential tax consequences.
  12. Incredible House speaker live updates: Tom Emmer dops bid hours after Republicans voted to nominate him - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM House Republicans started over on the search for the next speaker of the House after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was ousted last week.
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