This is a good summary.

As mentioned elsewhere, pediatric cancer funds have already been restored in separate legislation.

The subtitle is pretty good too.

If they are not planning to renew their leases, then they aren’t doing the bidding of their landlords as OP suggested.

In other words, if a company (for some reason) wants to please commercial real estate owners, it doesn’t have to end WFH.

And if it doesn’t care about pleasing commercial real estate owners, then it must have some other reason for ending WFH.

Right, but if you have a tenant then you don’t care what their WFH policy is.

That makes no sense. Commercial landlords collect rent regardless of how often employees are on site.

The real reason for RTW policies is that companies want to downsize without firing workers (and thus without paying unemployment). Hence:

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told staff they will need to be back in the office full-time, seemingly pushing 73% of his colleagues to consider quitting over the move

Stankey said 85% of them already lived near one of the offices. The remaining 15%, he said, will have to “make decisions that are appropriate to their lives.”

Ethan Crumbley was, in fact, charged with one count of “terrorism causing death”. And he pleaded guilty.

It would still change at arbitrary days, because other countries will still use it.

Any state can abolish DST on its own, some have already done so.

There was a bill in Congress to put the entire country on permanent DST (which states can’t do on their own). It died because (a) some states don’t want permanent DST, and (b) doctors have found that permanent DST is less healthy than no DST.

In fact, Congress already tried permanent DST briefly in the 70s. Some children were killed in early morning traffic accidents, schools responded by shifting their winter hours later, and the public generally turned against it.

Last time, the EU raised tariffs on Kentucky bourbon specifically to pressure McConnell.

This time, I expect all affected countries to raise tariffs on Teslas. Combined with Americans fleeing the brand, Elon’s alliance with Trump might not work out as he expected.

Because there remains an unanswered question: what small cut some other folks are going to get.

The only way to answer that is with an auction. Just like in the above analogy, the only way to determine your eBay fees is to actually have an eBay auction.

And they did have an auction, but the presiding judge didn’t like the auction rules. They can change the rules and thus change the cut, but the winners won’t change.

The Sandy Hook plaintiffs are owed $975 million. They are supporting the Onion’s bid by pledging as much of that as necessary to beat the opposing bid (remember, they have rights to most of the auction proceeds).

An analogy: you put something on eBay, and then decide you want to keep the item for yourself. You can easily outbid anyone else, because in the end you are (mostly) paying yourself. The only question is how much eBay’s tiny cut will be.

Well, Sandy Hook plaintiffs are basically putting Infowars on eBay but determined to win the auction. The winner of the auction is a foregone conclusion, so the only question is what small cut some other folks are going to get.

Nobody wants to spend much money on it. That’s why the Onion will win the auction, they can use $965 million of Alex Jones’s own debt, courtesy the Sandy Hook families, to pay for it.

Attacking someone who’s attacking other people is usually called defending.

Same thing said by cops every time they shoot someone.

This is the first step to failing twice.

FUAC might get another chance to bid, but so will the Onion. And the Onion will outbid FUAC, because they have up to $965 million available if necessary.

painting themselves as the oppressed

I don’t think that’s what Marx meant, and by extension that’s not what this piece means either.

Marx’s opening lines roughly amount to “We’re taking over this place, the oldtimers know it and fear us, so it’s time to start making our demands known.” It’s a call to assume power, not a plea for sympathy.

He is trying to. I don’t think he will succeed.

They didn’t publish the Communist Manifesto. They published a parody with the opposite meaning.

It doesn’t really prove anything.

Marx:

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies… Two things result from this fact: I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power. II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

Lindsay:

A rising spirit is haunting America: the spirit of a true Christian Right. Moreover, all the existing powers of the American Regime since the end of the Second World War have aligned themselves against it and its re-emergence from the shadows of American civic life, politics, and religion—the Marxist Left and its neo-Marxist “Woke” descendant, the liberal establishment, the neoconservatives, and their police and intelligence apparatuses. There are two consequences of this unholy alliance. First, the Christian Right itself is recognized by all these forces to be a power and thus a threat. Second, it is time for this arranged order to end and for a New Christian Right to emerge and stake its rightful claim on twenty-first century American politics.

They are business partners with Jones, they aren’t actually owned by Jones.

Handwriting analysts try to figure out if something was written by forger who carefully studied their victim. This is not that.

You don’t need an expert to prove that the manifesto was written by someone who never knew Mangione.

They found a handwritten manifesto on him. It would be very easy to prove that it’s not his handwriting, if it actually were planted.