Sep 102021
 

Glenn Kirschner – House Committee Wants Phone Records of McCarthy, Gaetz & Others; McCarthy & Co. Decide to Obstruct

Meidas Touch – Trump’s ‘America First’ Hypocrisy EXPOSED!

CNN – Trump singled out election official. Hear the horrific voicemails he received

MSNBC – How One Bar’s Liquor License Case Could Bring Down The New Texas Abortion Ban

Ring of Fire – Treasury Says Top 1% Are Responsible For $163 BILLION In Unpaid Taxes Each Year

Really American – Trump’s 9/11 Lies Exposed

Robert Reich – Why the Filibuster is Unconstitutional

Beau – Let’s talk about my morning routine and plot holes…. (By all means let’s use a different letter. And I know exactly which one to use.)

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Aug 242021
 

Yesterday, I was mostly able to rest. I know it looks like I did a lot of work, but most of the stuff more or less fell into my lap. I was able to do some crocheting (I’m working on a top for a friend who helps me out a lot – with rides when my Dodge was falling apart to picking up prescriptions that I can’t have mailed to sending her sons over to deal with my yard. And more. I like to show I’m grateful.

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AP News – Rev. Jesse Jackson, wife Jacqueline hospitalized for COVID
Quote – Jesse Jackson, 79, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicized event as he urged others to receive the inoculation as soon as possible. He and his wife, 77, are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Click through for details (including some unrelated ones). Of course Jesse is fully vaccinated. I’ve not seen credible confirmation that Jacqueline is, but it would surprise me if she were not. Prayers still won’t hurt.

The Hill – Arizona elections officials launch bipartisan assault on GOP audit
Quote – Hobbs, Richer and others who object to the Senate-ordered review have been particularly critical of Cyber Ninjas and its chief executive, Doug Logan, who spread misinformation about the 2020 election before the firm was hired. The Senate signed Cyber Ninjas, a firm with no experience in conducting election audits, without a bid process, even though an experienced election audit firm had offered its own services.
Click Through for story. It’s nice that this is bipartisan. I have worked with many Republican County Clerks and Secretaries of State who took their jobs seriously and did not cheat. I’m glad there are still some around.

The New Yorker (Borowitz Report) – F.D.A. Withdraws Approval from “Whatever Drug Rand Paul Is On”
Quote – The agency emphasized that it did not know what drug the senator was taking, or whether he was taking any drug at all, but asserted that it was withdrawing its approval out of a concern for public safety.
Click through – This is the same day they approved the Pfizer CoViD vaccine. They are on a roll!

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Jun 032021
 

Meidas Touch – more Fred Wellman (singing my song)

MSNBC – All In – File under you “You can’t make this stuff up.”

Now This News – Voting Rights – also singing my song.

Robrt Reich on Police Unions -singing my song loud and clear.

Thom Hartmann – on Libertarianism

Corey Ryan Forrester – The Buttercream Dream Shoots on Racism

Beau – “Let’s talk about Republicans and not wanting to work….”

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Jun 032021
 

I am always So Happy when It’s Thursday. I got my groceries all in on Tuesday – it didn’t do my back any good, but apparently it didn’t do it any harm either. As usual, not all the non-perishable stuff got put away, and still isn’t, partly because I stocked up beyond my storage capacity. But it will be eventually.

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The New Yorker (The Borowitz Report) – Donald Trump will be reinstated in August as President of Trump University, according to one of his supporters. The loyalist, Harland Dorrinson, told reporters, “Donald J. Trump will be reinstated as President of Trump U. and will be teaching students how to get filthy rich in real estate by Labor Day.” Dorrinson said that skeptics who claim that Trump cannot be reinstated because Trump University ceased to exist in 2010 “don’t know what they’re talking about.”
Click through to learn what “really” happened to Trump U.

The Hill – Appeals court rejects bid by landlords to resume evictions
The ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest twist in a multifront legal challenge to the eviction freeze that was enacted by federal public health officials as a way to keep financially distressed renters in their homes and out of crowded homeless shelters during the coronavirus pandemic.
Well, this is good news   Click through for more details, including what to do if you are a distressed tenant (or know someone who is.)

Crooks And Liars – The Next GOP Election Steal Won’t Resemble The Last One
I don’t know whether Democrats can block the [Texas voter suppression] bill in the special session. I assume it will pass eventually. Even if it doesn’t, fourteen states have already passed restrictions on voting just since the 2020 election, with more to come.
Not pleasant, but we need to be aware. If HR1 can get through the Senate we can nip this in the bud. If not … prepare to live under real fascism (as opposed to narcissistic fake dictator in clown uniform fascism.) Click though for detaills.

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Jun 022021
 

Glenn Kirschner – “No, he won’t.”

Meidas Touch – Taking Back the Word “Patriot”

NBC – Destroying education is not enough for Texas. They need to destroy voting rights too.

Ring of Fire – You can turn it off when you get to the ad atthe end.

Keith OLbermann vs. Michael Flynn – Keith has Flynn’s number, as does Alexander Vindman’s brother. But Keith is wrong about one thing. The President should never tell the Justice Department what to investigate – it is supposed to be an independent agency. But Merrick Garland IMO should be on this (and may be – they don’t discuss ongoing investigations, and they shouldn’t.)

Beau – Let’s talk about a question of privilege and Cher….

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Jun 012021
 

Glenn Kirschner – Indictments of “Oath Keepers”

MSNBC – Gen Russel Honoré with Ali Velshi on Memorial Day and a Jan. 6 commission

This is the Tweet which goes with the Mike FLynn video cited in the Open Thread.

Crooks and Liars – This is apparently real – and thank God (and these lawyers) for it.

Liberal Redneck – Kamala and Enjoying Memorial Day

Beau – A very personal video but one which is filled with hope. What was that about a door closing?

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Jun 012021
 

So here is the plan – OK, not really, it’s juat a proposal. I welcome feedback both positive and negative. I will put up an Open Thread daily. It won’t be posted between 2 and 5 am as TomCat’s were, but I can always use the scheduling tool to put ot up at, say, 7:00 am Pacific (8 Mountain, 9 Central, 10 Eastern, not sure about Oz) and be consistent about it.
– I am thinking it’s maybe time to scrap the puzzle.
– I can include a cartoon every day – at least at first, they mostly will not be mine; but I do have the frame saved and can start making some as subjects arise. Besides, most of TC’s bear repeating.
– I should be able to come up with 2 or 3 short takes daily, even as competent and no-nonsense as President Biden is. there are others who are not.
– If anything in my personal life affects when or how much I will be able to post, I will, of course, tell you. Otherwise, not so much.
– There is no way that I know enough about 60’s and 70’s pop music to come up with blasts from the past daily. Is anyone else interested in that?

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Twitter – A thread from Michael Harriot, concerning the Greenwood Massacre, AKA the Tulsa Race Riot. It’s posted in a Thread Reader so that it makes a coherent article. It tells the true story of that Massacre of 1921, a hundred years ago.  It’s not what you’re thinking.  I thought I knew something about it, but I certainy didn’t know all this.

The Hill – 9 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022 This is scary because the list includes both ways.

PolitiZoom – Mike Flynn Telegraphs How He Intends To Sabotage Future Elections With His Movie ‘The Deep Rig’. I consider this important enough to feature it both here and in the Video Thread (his tweet).  PolitiZoom was started and is operated by Ursula Faw, who used to write at Daily Kos.  A few others who used to write there now (also) write here – all are people I trust to fact check.

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May 222021
 

Thom Hartmann – Is American Democracy in Worse Shape Than You Think?

Armageddon Update – about Aliens – in case you don’t want to watch, I’ll leave you with his concept of “lamest distraction from the insurrection ever.” I think that nails it.

Ring of Fire – Arizona Audit Descends Into Chaos As Republican Official Threatens To Arrest Her Own Party Member

Puppet Regime

Founders Sing – just for fun – no message here, ecept that excellent entertainers are time;ess.

Beau on continuing to wear masks.

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