Here are some excerpts from the November edition of the Harper’s Index:
Percentage of American renters who spend more than half their salary on housing: 28
Number of years by which an average U.S. book reader outlives a nonreader: 2
Rank of the United States among countries with the largest proportion of book readers: 6
Of China: 1
Number of state prisons that are at least partially run by private companies: 89
Rank of police officer among the deadliest professions in the United States: 15
Of logger: 1
Minimum number of traffic tickets that have been successfully challenged by an online chatbot named DoNotPay: 180,000
Number of states that require aborted fetuses to be either interred or cremated: 6
Number of countries that have had a female head of state: 52
If you haven’t yet heard Michelle Obama’s speech today, here’s your chance:
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—ThinkProgress documents more foreign funding to Chamber:
ThinkProgress has a new investigation to supplement their story from last week that documented "the disclosure of fundraising documents U.S. Chamber staffers had been distributing to solicit foreign (even state-owned) companies to donate directly to the Chamber’s 501(c)(6)."
This new chapter of the investigation adds significantly to ThinkProgress's case with very specific donations documented that are far beyond what the Chamber has publicly acknowledged in interviews.
ThinkProgress began by documenting the three ways in which the Chamber fundraises from foreign corporations, and how that money goes into its "501(c)(6) entity, the same account that finances its unprecedented $75 million dollar partisan attack ad campaign." The Chamber has responded with a focus on just one of those avenues for fundraising--the red-herring AmChams, the network of Chabmer affiliates internationally, composed of American and foreign companies. The Chamber acknowledges their existence, and that it receives money from them, but has stonewalled any attempt to deteremine whether or not that money is making its way into their attack ads for Republicans. To date, the traditional media has just bought that story, has accepted the Chamber's "just trust us" line.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin updates us on the first polls to include reaction to the Trump tapes. And they look pretty much as you thought they would. It can only get worse, as the floodgates open & we try to keep up with the accusations. And they may yet find video!
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