Glenn Kirschner – Surprise J6 public hearing; former US Atty General lays out evidence of Trump’s criminal intent
Meidas Touch – Furious Texas Paul REACTS to Horrific Roe v. Wade Decision
MSNBC – Footage Of Rudy Giuliani Encounter Reveals What Actually Went Down
Ojeda Live – Calling All Patriots, Working Class Americans & Defenders of Choice
Shirley Serban – Sound of Science (so realistic it’s spooky)
Beau – Let’s talk about the objection to unpacking the court….
Glenn Kirschner – Two topics: how to combat the Supreme Court revoking women’s rights; how to hold Trump accountable
Meidas Touch – AOC brings the HOUSE DOWN with Scathing Speech After Roe v Wade Decision
The Lincoln Project – Wandrea “Shaye” Moss
Farron Balanced – Fox News Host Hilariously Smacks Down Dr Oz For Lying About Poll Numbers
OwlKitty in Lord of the Rings
Beau – Let’s talk about unpacking the Supreme Court decision…. (I am in favor of a two-pronged strategy – expand AND impeach. But then I’ve always been a belt-and-suspenders type)
Yesterday, CPR News gave me all the information I needd to decide which Democrat to vote for the challenge Douglas Lamborn (or as I generally call him, Duggie Lamebrain.) There wasn’t much diffeence actually. I went with the one who had the stronger resume, who as also the one who got onto the ballot through the state assembly, which means if there is any money at all coming from DCCC, he’s the one who will get it. Of course there may noy be any. My district is +20 Red. Lamebrain himself has two primary challengers, both from the right – but that may turn out to be one too many. Election Day is the 28th, so we’ll know by July.
BTW, I put an Al Franken video into today’s video thread. I can’t claim it’s one of his funniest, but it is timely, and it’s under 8 minutes.
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Crooks & Liars – Trump Demands Minions Push Back Against Jan. 6th Hearings
Quote – Instead, some operatives are offering their clients talking points to prepare them for the inevitable questions that will arise around the hearing, but with the goal of steering the conversation back to domestic issues.
Click through for not-very-long but very-revealing story. Seriously, do they think the survival of demicracy itself is not a “domestic” issue?
CPR News – Thousands of Democrats are changing their voter registration in Lauren Boebert’s district ahead of the primary
Quote – Thousands of voters have recently left the Democratic Party in Western Colorado — some as part of a grassroots effort to defeat Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert in her upcoming primary election. Among them is Steven Hallenborg of Montrose. “Well, I’m a lifelong Democrat, and now I’m unaffiliated,” he said. Because he changed his affiliation, he now can vote against Boebert in the June 28 Republican primary.
Click through for numbers. Unaffiliated voters receive two ballots but may only return one – their choice which one. That osn’t a lot of Democrats, but it could be enough to make a difference.
The Daily Beast – Free Gas Cards Are the GOP’s New Campaign Gimmick—and It’s Legal (BBA)
Quote – Lucky drivers pulling up to a packed Chevron gas station south of Atlanta last Saturday finally saw a little relief at the pump, in the form of a $25 gas voucher straight from the goddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece. The catch: They had to sit through a pitch for her political candidate of choice—college football hero, Olympic bobsledder, Russian roulette aficionado, and now aspiring Republican senator Herschel Walker.
Click through for details. The thing that leaps out at me is – more proof that it’s impossible to predict the political position of anyone based on the known positions of even their closest family and friends.
Food For Thought
Yesterday, I did more work on a physical conditin I haven’t yet mentioned – a wart. I’m sure part of my problem is that it must have taken me the=ree yers to igure out it was a wart. Hey, it’s right a at the end of my elbow. Have you ever tried to look at the end of your elbow? Even without shoulder issues, I doubt I could have seen it without a mirror, preferably a magnifying miirror. All that time I thought it was a callus.Anyway, it is somewhere in diameter between a penny and a dime. the normal wart remover applications which come with pre-medicated strips that look like bandaiuds have a medicated area the diameter of an aspirin. I’m using those – trying to move them around to cover different parts – but I’ alternating that with other things. Today I received my order of gel and am using that. It has been impossible to keep the other strips in place for 48 hours (the recommended time frame – I doubt the tiny patches which come with the gel will last any longer, if so long. They’s be foe for an aspirin sized wart. I think they might cover mine if I could ut them on with a mocrometer. Maybe duct tape might help – allthough it didn’t much with the original strips. I suppose I should get some cheese to go with this whine.
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Daily Kos (David Neiwert) – Far right trains its eliminationist sights on LGBTQ community with deluge of threatening rhetoric
Quote – The mood at far-right chat rooms has grown more openly violent as well, particularly as white nationalists have embraced the Buffalo shooter and his eliminationist “replacement theory” motives—and the threatening rhetoric around Pride events such as the one planned in northern Idaho in June has sharpened. As this recent study warned, the previous year’s relative calm in terms of far-right violence is manifestly over.
Click through – though it’s hard to stomach, if we ignore it, it will only get louder.
Crooks and Liars – Audience Mocks Boebert Relentlessly At Primary Debate
Quote – Coram is challenging Boebert for her Congressional seat, positioning himself as a rational Republican (I know, I know, but his site and the media he shares really does suggest he’d be more of a friend to Democrats than Joe Manchin is,) and Bobo actually shows up to debate him. Speaking a mile-a-minute (from notes, which was prohibited by the debate rules,) she sounds like an unprepared 6th-grader making up lies about a girl she’s trying to beat out for a date with the dodgeball king
Click through for one-liners (and video.) There used to be some rational Republicans in Colorado, so maybe there still is one. I don’t know how heavily the new district is rated Republican, but I certainly would hope Coram wins the primary, and maybe some of those atendees are Democrats feeling the same way. And if so, I would certainly forgive them for ratf***ing the primary.
The Mountain Ear – Carousel of Happiness: A history of making smiles
Quote – After rescuing the empty frame of the Looff carousel, [Scott] Harrison immediately began hand-carving wooden animals to help bring the carousel back to life. Harrison still carves to this day, and has created more than 50 unique animals for his vision, each with a story and a deeper meaning to their creator. Once the Carousel of Happiness (COH) was completely restored Harrison created a non-profit organization and, with help from the Nederland community, raised the $700,000 needed to build the carousel its permanent home on 20 Lakeview Drive.
Click through for a little joy in a sorrowful time. Harrison is a Vietnam veteran, so this story is not completely off topic. (Closeups of the animals can be found here.)
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Trump offered Kellyanne Conway an unsolicited blanket pardon. Let’s talk Rudy/Don Jr./Ivanka/Jared
Meidas Touch – Texas Paul REACTS to Marjorie Taylor Greene defending White Supremacists
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – May 24, 2022
MSNBC – Rev. Al Sharpton: I Think The President Is Legitimately Angry On Guns
VoteVets – Semper [Illinois]
Miserable blind cat crying for help rescue cat before & after 7 monthsThis one is kind of a roller coaster – but ends on an up)
Beau – Let’s talk about what Dems can learn from the Scopes trial….
Glenn Kirschner – Giuliani testifies; friends of Stone are flipping; Ginni Thomas insurrects & Loudermilk gets quiet
Meidas Touch – Texas Paul REACTS to Bombshell Elon Musk Scandal (This is starting to remind me of an incident in Okinamwa, not too long before I came back stateside – not, I rush to assure you, to me personally, but a story I heard from a reliable source.)
The Lincoln Project – Skin in the Game
MSNBC – Raskin On Giuliani’s Jan. 6 Testimony: ‘Definitely Has A Lot Of Information’
VoteVets – Leader
Guy Visits Dog And Her Friends In The Desert For Over A Year
Beau – Let’s talk about what aliens can teach us about tech companies….
And a little bonus – this is a new kind of video which can’t be embedded, can’t even be stopped, not even at the end, because it is always on autoplay and will take you to the next one (in this case, a rabbit giving birth.) So why am a sharing something so difficult? Because it is a preview of the R Reich – H Jackman cameo on The Simpsons (probably the only way any sense will ever get shown on Fox.)
Glenn Kirschner – DOJ wants the 1000+ transcripts of witness testimony from the Jan. 6 House committee. Here’s why
Meidas Touch – Muslim TV hosts EXPOSE clear DOUBLE STANDARD in recent Buffalo shooting
The Lincoln Project – Doug Mastriano is Dangerous
RepresentUs + Mondaire Jones shares a first-hand account of a failing democracy
Ring of Fire – Marjorie Taylor Greene Says The ‘Real’ Racists Are The Ones Denouncing White Replacement Theory
Armageddon Update – Abort The Court
Beau – Let’s talk about when the wealthy meet climate change….
Glenn Kirschner – J6 subpoena puts McCarthy in a trick bag: testify & incriminate Trump or refuse & commit crimes
Meidas Touch – Texas Paul REACTS to Republicans Spreading Racist White Replacement Theory
MSNBC – Lawrence: ‘Fox News Has Blood On Its Hands’
Also MSNBC – DOJ Requesting Transcripts From 1/6 Committee According To NYT
The Lincoln Project – Remember Buffalo
Pittie Has The Cutest Way Of Grooming Her Foster Kittens
Beau – Let’s talk about midterm math for Democrats….