What happened to my day?

I've been heads-down debugging, except for going to the meetings already on my calendar, and just realized I've got to leave for rehearsal soon. I'll have to come back to these fun little nuggets later:

• What is this bullshit the OAFPOTUS is pushing about "white genocide" in South Africa?
• After some consideration, James Fallows has come around to believing that the way Senate Democrats ended the government shutdown will actually help us next year.
• The Chicago City Council finance committee rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson's tax plan for the second year in a row, principally over his plan to tax every employer in the city with more than 200 100 workers $21 $18 a month per employee.
• Weakness in downtown the real estate market has pushed up property taxes all over the city, on average by 17%. My tax bill came Saturday and had a 12% increase, so I guess I got off lucky?

Finally McSweeney's wonders what it's like to work for an evil company and still consider yourself a good person.

You... are finite. Za'athras... is finite. This... is wrong tool. No, no, never use this. (It's completely irrelevant to your post but it's a divine quote in our household.)

Were you talking about Za'athras, or his brother Za'athras?