Month: May 2024

RFK Jr. Not Sure What His VP Pick Is Doing

Buck Banks

“I ran into her yesterday.”

“Almost exactly a month after introducing Nicole Shanahan as his vice-presidential pick in a carefully choreographed Bay Area extravaganza, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still seemed a bit unclear on exactly how his running mate was spending her time,” the Washington Post reports. “He offered some vague reassurances that the woman he had recently chosen to potentially sit just a heartbeat from the presidency was ‘working on every issue’ and ‘doing a lot of podcasts’ — and that while he couldn’t say ‘exactly what her schedule is,’ he was ‘very happy with what she’s doing.’”

Trump Trial a Windfall for Pro Line-Standers

Buck Banks

$60/hour

NBC News: Professional line-standers are a growing part of the gig economy. But the criminal trial of a former president accused of illegally covering up hush money payments to a porn star has translated into a windfall for people who get paid to wait — and who, as the trial goes on, have increasingly been hired by members of the general public with no stake in the trial other than curiosity.

Justice Alito Joined Right-Wing Anti–Bud Light Boycott

Buck Banks

$1,000 — $15,000

Amount U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold of stock in Anheuser-Busch Inbev in August 2023, just as a vicious right-wing boycott campaign of the company was reaching full swing, according to financial disclosure reports first spotted by the Substack page Law Dork. The boycott was in reaction to a social media partnership between trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light, one of AB-Inbev’s best-selling brands. The boycott campaign likely led to more than $1 billion in lost sales and wiped up to $27 billion off the company’s market cap.