Republicans were eager to stir hostility right out of the gate to the as-yet unknown figure whom Biden will chose as nominee to the Supreme Court.

Kamala applying for the role of captain.

Pop superstar Rihanna and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey are teaming up through their foundations to fund groups that support defunding the police.

Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation announced its partnership with Dorsey’s Start Small LLC to give "climate justice" grants to a dozen and a half groups.
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"We are proud to commit $15 million to 18 organizations working intersectionality on climate justice across the U.S. and Caribbean in collaboration with [Jack’s] [Start Small]," the foundation tweeted Tuesday morning, sharing a list of partnered organizations.

The Center for Popular Democracy, one of the organizational partners, published a blog post calling for the defunding of police in July 2020 during the riots following George Floyd’s murder.

Another partner, the Movement for Black Lives, wants to abolish the police and prisons entirely and fellow new partner Black Visions said the group envisions a "Minneapolis without policing" and has also called for the abolition of police and prisons.
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NBCUniversal's Peacock dug deeper into investment mode in 2021 -- with adjusted losses at the streamer more than doubling.

The next-generation Subaru WRX has been a long time coming and should bring some significant changes for fans of the once-rally-derived model. Here’s everything we know so far about the model which made Subaru a household name ahead of the new version’s imminent arrival in early 2022.

Spotify is working on removing Neil Young’s music after the musician demanded the platform take it down because he didn’t want to share a platform with podcaster Joe Rogan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Biden continues to scapegoat American businesses for government-created problems. On Monday, President Joe Biden gave a public address during a meeting with his Competition Council, discussing an executive order he issued last July. Why now? Because inflation keeps getting worse, and the Biden administration needs somewhere to lay the blame.
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Inflation has been hitting its highest levels in decades. In late December, for instance, gas prices were up 51 percent, beef prices up 20 percent, and furniture prices up 11 percent. Food prices are up. Clothing prices are up. Energy prices are up. Used car prices are up. Booze prices are up. And the list goes on.

Part of this can be blamed on the pandemic, which has contracted the labor force, increased demand for certain sorts of goods, and caused disruptions in supply chains.

But government policies have made things much worse. There's been absolutely massive amounts of new government spending—and printing more money to pay for it. (The "supply of dollars has increased by nearly 40 percent over the past 2 years, which is an off-the-charts record," Reason's Nick Gillespie noted in December.) Meanwhile, Biden and Democrats just keep trying to spend more.

While raising interest rates is traditionally a way to try and keep inflation in check, "America's high levels of debt make the maneuver more fraught because higher interest rates will reverberate through the government's own debt," Eric Boehm points out.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. If there is too much cash chasing too few goods, prices will rise. t.co/KEu6UvdEeZ

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 10, 2021
With Americans feeling the pinch of rising prices all around, Democrats have been looking for somewhere to lay the blame that doesn't implicate their own policies. They've coalesced around blaming big businesses—a sort of "killing two birds with one stone" strategy.

Passing "antitrust" laws that give government regulators more control over tech companies and U.S. markets at large has been big on Democrats' recent agenda. Blaming big businesses for inflation lends give a good cover to this push.

Rather than come across as control freaks who want a say in how all U.S. companies run, they feign concern for consumer welfare, asserting that lack of competition is what's causing rising prices. "Lack of competition costs the median American family household… $5,000 a year," claimed Biden on Monday.

Don't buy it.

These type of claims are based more in politics than economic realities.
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A Tennessee school board has banned a Pulitzer prize-winning novel from its classrooms over eight curse words and an illustration of a naked cartoon mouse.

The graphic novel, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by New Yorker Art Spiegelman, uses hand-drawn illustrations of mice and cats to depict how the author’s parents survived Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
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The graphic memoir elevated a pulp mass medium to high art when it nabbed a slew of literary awards in 1992 but appears not to have impressed educators in Mcminn county.

Ten board members unanimously agreed in favour of removing the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and drawings of “naked pictures” of women, according to minutes taken from a board of education meeting earlier this month.
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