Because I had a busy weekend, I had quite a full inbox this morning. After deleting the 85% of it that came from the Democratic Party and the Harris-Walz campaign (guys, you've already got my vote, FFS), I still had quite a few items of interest:
- Michael Tomasky reminds everyone: the XPOTUS is an evil buffoon, not an evil genius.
- Yesterday that same evil buffoon mooted a "Purge"-like day for the police to rough everyone up a bit.
- Contra most New York Times articles this election cycle, the Post's Jennifer Rubin lays out Kamala Harris's actual policy proposals.
- The Tribune's Laura Washington asks the same question I've asked several times: why is Dorval Carter still the CTA president?
- Chicago will elect half its school board for the first time in November, but other than a few articles in Block Club, no one seems to care.
- Over 100,000 Verizon customers lost service across the country today; no one knows why yet.
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finally proposed common-sense password recommendations that I hope someone in my company's Global Corporate Services IT department actually reads.
- Because of climate change, Switzerland and Italy have to redraw part of their shared border in the Alps.
Finally, astronomers have found a rocky, Earth-sized planet orbiting a dying main-sequence white dwarf star, seemingly having survived the star's expansion during its red-giant phase. This suggests that our planet may last until the end of time itself. Life on Earth probably won't last more than a billion more years, but that's someone else's problem.
