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May 2nd, 2024 - 1:21 am § in Misc.

Welcome to Steve’s blog

Dr. Steve Schwartz, a University of Washington medical researcher, created this blog to discuss campus issues, and it soon expanded to a wider range of subjects. Although he’s no longer with us, a contributor still posts articles that readers may find informative, interesting, or simply entertaining and funny (read statement of purpose here). Use the search term “handbill.us” to find this page on the internet. To scroll back to older posts, click on ←Previous Entries halfway down this page.

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MONSTER HURRICANE THREATENS FLORIDA

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Project 2025 puts bullseye on federal weather agency

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Republicans stall on FEMA funding

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April 28th, 2024 - 3:40 pm § in Misc.

In memory of Dr. Steve Schwartz, who created this blog

Professor Stephen M. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., the founder and proprietor of The-Ave.US, passed away from COVID-19 on March 17, 2020. Read local press coverage here and here. Steve joined the University of Washington Medical School’s faculty in 1967 and had taught there since 1974. He was world-f[...]

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April 28th, 2024 - 1:00 pm § in Misc.

Selected Movie & Article Links

Below are links to a sampling of our most interesting, infuriating, or just plain funny movies, articles, and essays. Selections for this list are entirely arbitrary. The-Ave.US has over 23,000 posts, so this isn’t an index. ABOUT THIS BLOG Welcome to The-Ave.US, an introduction to this blog ([...]

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October 8th, 2024 - 1:45 am § in Politics, Republicans

First voting fraud of 2024 found!

After former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI; photo, left; bio here) retired from Congress, he bought a $1.6 million home in Coral Gables, Florida, claimed a “homestead” tax exemption on it, and registered to vote there. Then Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) decided to retire, too, and Rogers decided [...]

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October 8th, 2024 - 12:53 am § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics

Trump sees Democrats in the mirror

When Trump looks into a mirror, he often sees Democrats. Four weeks before the 2024 election, he’s gone on a lying binge. His lies aren’t a bit creative; they’re his own biography. After one devastating hurricane, with another on the way, he’s falsely claiming Biden is divert[...]

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October 7th, 2024 - 5:55 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Republicans

Is Tim Walz a liar?

J. D. Vance (image at left), Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a prodigious liar. The most egregious of Vance’s lies is “telling stories” about Haitian immigrants that are untrue, racist, and caused bomb threats and school closures. But Vance also drastically flip-flopped on Trum[...]

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October 6th, 2024 - 11:33 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Elon Musk’s mother urges GOPers to “vote 10 times”

Maye Musk (photo, left), Elon’s mother, is a Trumper like her son. She also thinks Republicans committing voting fraud is perfectly okay. “You don’t have to register to vote,” she said. “On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and[...]

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October 6th, 2024 - 4:49 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

GOP blowhard absurdly blames Democrats for political violence

It’s a talking point in a campaign season, and an empty one. Most of the political violence is coming from Republicans: The Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, threats against judges and election workers, talk of “civil war,” and the attempts to assassinate Trump. (Both would-be assassins[...]

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October 6th, 2024 - 4:18 pm § in Democrats, Kamala Harris, Politics, Republicans

Will there be surprises in Senate races?

As of October 2024, Democrats have a 51-49 edge in the U.S. Senate, counting the 4 nominally “independent” senators who caucus with them. They are Joe Manchin (WV), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Bernie Sanders (VT), and Angus King (ME), of whom Sanders and King are reliable Democratic votes, and [...]

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October 6th, 2024 - 2:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

What’s behind Melania Trump’s support for abortion?

It “could have the effect of softening her husband’s image on abortion, something [he’s] sought to do as the issue has emerged as a potential game changer in the presidential race.” Therefore, reasonable people can be skeptical of her sincerity and see it as a gambit to help her [...]

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October 6th, 2024 - 1:49 pm § in Democrats, Economics, Kamala Harris, Politics

Harris’s “billionaire tax” spawns rightwing lies on social media

Kamala Harris’s proposal to tax wealthy people’s unrealized capital gains is a bad idea, but not for the reasons claimed on social media. First, definitions. I’ll use an illustration. Let’s say you buy 100 shares of Stock A for $60 a share and sell it for $75 a share. Your pr[...]

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