Cash in...

 

Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Cori Bush of Missouri on Friday led a group of 35 lawmakers in urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row.

"We look forward to working with your administration to enact just and restorative policies that will meaningfully transform our criminal legal system for the better. By exercising your clemency power, you can ensure that there would be no one left on death row to kill. Given the historic nature of your administration, this would be an unprecedented -- but necessary -- action to reverse systemic injustices and restore America's moral standing," according to the letter.

There are currently 49 people on federal death row, 21 of whom are White, 20 who are Black, seven who are Latino and one who is Asian.

 Just a thought.

Humanity...

 

The Napalm Girl

Two positive psychologists, Martin Seligman (from the University of Pennsylvania) and Christopher Peterson (the VIA Institute on Character's scientific director), who published the handbook Character Strengths and Virtues (the "un-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"), describe six "virtues," or core characteristics that are universally valued. These virtues are:

Wisdom: Intellectual strengths that help you gain and use information.

Courage: Strengths of will that help you accomplish goals in the face of fear and internal or external obstacles.

Humanity: Interpersonal strengths that help you befriend others and tend to your relationships.

Justice: Social or civic strengths that help bolster a healthy community.

Temperance: Protective traits that help you avoid excess and stay on track in the face of temptations.

Transcendence: Strengths of meaning that connect you with the larger world and provide meaning.

Kick Back...

 

Hazm...

 

Listening to the science that we like, dismiss the others. Sience never change until it does. Just a thought. 

Ring...

 

Media...

 

Miracle...

 

Sleepy...

 

Wishing sleepy Joe some success with all these sharks circling for their own piece of the act.

Boring...

 

Moo Money...

 

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising taxes on the wealthy to a combined level of 14.7%, which would be the highest state-and-local tax rate in the nation.

The tax increase would raise $1.5 billion for the state, Cuomo said  in an address unveiling his 2022 budget proposal.

The state would raise the top tax rate to 10.86%, up from 8.82%, Cuomo said. That would yield a top rate of 14.7% for the wealthiest New York City residents in combined taxes.

"[It] would be the highest income tax in the nation," Cuomo said.