{"id":9611,"date":"2021-10-03T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9611"},"modified":"2021-10-03T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T01:51:26","slug":"10-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9611","title":{"rendered":"10.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Concentrated power has decimated the House and made legislators into actors. Here\u2019s how many votes have been allowed on floor-offered (not prescreened by speaker) amendments by year:<\/p>\n<p>2011: 414<br \/>\n2012: 153<br \/>\n2013: 61<br \/>\n2014: 96<br \/>\n2015: 94<br \/>\n2016: 29<br \/>\n2017: 0<br \/>\n2018: 0<br \/>\n2019: 0<br \/>\n2020: 0<br \/>\n2021: 0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Amash (@justinamash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinamash\/status\/1442152055242518531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html\">secret war plans<\/a> against WikiLeaks<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/in-the-midst-of-unprecedented-crisis-boeing-sales-chief-embraces-optimism\/\">unprecedented crisis<\/a>, Boeing sales chief embraces optimism<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX satellite signals used like GPS to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpsdaily.com\/m\/reports\/SpaceX_satellite_signals_used_like_GPS_to_pinpoint_location_on_Earth_999.html\">pinpoint<\/a><\/span> location on Earth<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Beijing have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3150303\/what-chinese-vice-president-told-old-friend-us-about-communist\">distrust of younger American officials<\/a>, whom they consider hostile to China and focused too much on ideological competition. They prefer to deal with trusted \u201cold friends\u201d such as Thornton, who is among very few to have maintained ties and access to some of China\u2019s most powerful officials.<\/p>\n<p>From Varlam Shalamov &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/untiroalaire\/status\/1442878217040314371?s=12\">Forty five things I learned in the gulag<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over an 18-year period, China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-58679039\">granted or loaned money to 13,427 infrastructure projects worth $843bn across 165 countries<\/a>, according to the AidData research lab at William &amp; Mary, a university in the US state of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2021\/09\/revisionism-on-deborah-birx-trump-and-the-cdc.html\">Revisionism<\/a> on Deborah Birx, Trump, and the CDC<\/p>\n<p>EyePhone: How one doctor is using the iPhone 13 Pro&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/m.dpreview.com\/news\/6989480102\/eyephone-how-one-doctor-iphone-13-pro-s-macro-capabilities-to-remotely-assess-patients\">macro<\/a> capabilities to remotely assess patients<\/p>\n<p>How did <a href=\"https:\/\/vodoueconomics.substack.com\/p\/how-did-30000-haitians-get-to-texas?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NzYxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTkxOTYxNCwiXyI6IlNFNTJSIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMzMDM2MzE3LCJleHAiOjE2MzMwMzk5MTcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi00ODQ5OTMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.40EytMP3NW-ZMLGDryIfvdFgI_8lAVGRfKAZsu0pFPQ\">30,000 Haitians<\/a> get to Texas?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetwentyminutevc.com\/keith-rabois-opendoor\/\">Opendoor Memo<\/a>: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor<\/p>\n<p>We are not doing an in-depth dive into Gov. Evers \u2018People\u2019s\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cswisconsin\/status\/1443960415990558728?s=12\">Commission maps<\/a> at this time for 2 reasons: 1) The Commission omitted the Voting Rights Act from its criteria. And in the drawing of their maps it appears this cornerstone of American civil rights was ignored<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese are very happy to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/10\/01\/the-elitism-of-the-woke\/\">woke culture spread<\/a> in America.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying the <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/2021-74485-001\">structure and nature of left-wing<\/a> authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Weyerhaeuser cites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/weyerhaeuser-cites-crime-in-pioneer-square-for-delay-in-reopening-its-seattle-headquarters\/\">crime in Pioneer Square<\/a> for delay in reopening its Seattle headquarters<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/10\/02\/the-strangest-thing-ive-ever-seen-494555\">president came to the Hill and whipped against his own bill<\/a> is the strangest thing I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concentrated power has decimated the House and made legislators into actors. Here\u2019s how many votes have been allowed on floor-offered (not prescreened by speaker) amendments by year: 2011: 414 2012: 153 2013: 61 2014: 96 2015: 94 2016: 29 2017: 0 2018: 0 2019: 0 2020: 0 2021: 0 \u2014 Justin Amash (@justinamash) September 26, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9611"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9611\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}