Mortgage servicers are still engaged the abuses they perpetrated in the foreclosure crisis.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Ben Meng Made False, Felonious Financial Disclosure Report; More Proof of Lack of Compliance Under Marcie Frost
CIO Ben Meng demonstrates why CalPERS can’t be trusted….even as the giant pension is pushing legislation to be able to make loans in secret.
So What’s With Those Weird Seed Packets from China?
Oddities in the Chinese seeds story (and yes, people planted them).
How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany
In the many instances where far-right activity attempts to exhibit solemnity, gravity, or strength, a well-aimed joke is a powerful act of resistance.
Austria Confirms OPCW Report On Skripal Faking by the British – Vienna Exposes Financial Times Lies and Cover-Up
Revealing a big hole in the official Skripal story.
The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/31/2020
COVID-19 peak, or plateau? ~ Biden v. Sanders forces at platform committee ~ When you’ve lost Rod Dreher ~ Trump halts ad spend ~ Smugness ~ National security goons and the election ~ Warehousing, shipping for Xmas ~ COVID-19 immunity ~ WHO hires Cass Sunstein ~ Team masks
Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It
NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update
A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.
Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Kamala Harris or Susan Rice? The Veepstakes Appears To Have Kicked Out Two Truly Terrible Choices
If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn’t unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2020
COVID-19 in the five problem states ~ Biden’s ground game ~ Trump to postpone election or drop out ~ A taxonomy of state failure ~ GDP (ugh), employment situation, rail) ~ Boeing ~ Chinese seeds ~ DIV Covid vaccine ~ “The Stupids Do Covid!:” ~ Grinding games ~ The riots, forgotten ~ Circus Peanut Jello Salad
