Glenn Kirschner – Donald Trump THREATENS NY DA Alvin Bragg in violation of NY state law; additional charges likely?
The Lincoln Project – Mr. DeSantis
Ring of Fire – Fox Host Begs Trump To Shut The Hell Up About 2020 Election
Armageddon Update – HELLthcare
Cat Is SO Gentle With His Squirrel Brother
Beau – Let’s talk about if NY is handling it wrong with Trump….
Glenn Kirschner – Judge ORDERS Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran to testify AGAINST Trump, and appellate court agrees!
Thom Hartmann – Fascist Bullies Don’t Stop… Unless We Stop Them
Ring of Fire – Trump’s Biggest Legal Problem Isn’t Getting Enough Attention
MSNBC – Supreme Court hears case on Navajo Nation water dispute
Abandoned Puppies Are All Grown Up And Looking For Their Forever Homes
Beau – Let’s talk about the water situation out west…. (Most of the snowpacks are above normal. There is ONE which is at only 80%. It is the one that feeds the arkansas River. The Ark is rhe river I would drive along after turning left at Pueblo when Virgil was in Las Animas. I feel like Rick – “Of all the basins feeding all the rivers, the one that is below normal is mine.”)
Glenn Kirschner – DOJ won’t charge Matt Gaetz for alleged sex-trafficking: how fed prosecutors make charging decisions
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – February 14, 2023
Thom Hartmann – Is Neo-Fascism Taking Over America?
Rocky Mountain Mike – Bang Bang (Joe Biden Shot It Down) – Featuring Mary in Ann Arbor
Feral Cat Hated Everyone Until She Fell In Love With Another Kitty
Beau – Let’s talk about McConnell pushing Scott out there…
Glenn Kirschner – Judge rules Trump’s “stand back and stand by” is admissible, relevant evidence in Proud Boys trial
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – January 10, 2023
MSNBC – Nassau County GOP calls on Rep. Santos to resign: ‘He deceived the voters’ (When was the last time Republicans called for a Republican to resign?)
Thom Hartmann – DeSantis Ascends To Fascist Fuhrer
The Riccardis – My Resume (The George Santos Song) – CC added by the Riccardis, so it’s accurate. (Tune – “America” from “West Side Story”)
German Shepherd Bomb Detection Dog Misses Her Job After Retirement
Beau – Let’s talk about Biden going all in….
Glenn Kirschner – J6 committee refers Donald Trump to the DOJ for criminal prosecution for the insurrection
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – December 20, 2022
Thom Hartmann – Fascism Has a Friend in Car Repossession
Ring of Fire – Republican Attacks On Critical Race Theory Flopped Hard In Midterms
Girls On a Long Bike Trip Pick Up a Stray Kitten
Beau – Let’s talk about the committee, the symbolic, and civics….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump Org GUILTY! Will Donald Trump be next? Plus, J6 committee to make criminal referrals to DOJ
The Lincoln Project – Trump Against The Constitution
MSNBC – Harry Dunn: ‘I’m Not Letting Anyone Steal The Joy I Feel’
Liberal Redneck – Liberal Redneck – Kanye, Nazis, Etc
Bird Loves To Annoy His Dog Brother
Beau – Let’s talk about Sweden, Finland, and cold weather gear….
Yesterday, this email notification was in my inbox:
So that is done. Although, as John Pavlovitz points out, on November 9, when we wake up, the world is still going to be there. And many things will still be the same. (And hope will still be there too.) Also, yesterday was World Opera Day, which I had not known existed. There’s always something to learn. As trivial as this is, I also learned (by looking them up) that the Met’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is 5’5″ tall, one inch taller than James Madison, and six inches taller than Robert Reich. What’s that saying, good things come in small packages? (No offense intended to tall people.)
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PolitiZoom – Talent Agency Drops Kanye West For Anti-Semitism, But the Real Story Is Misogyny-to-Fascism Pipeline
Quote – But that’s not the real story. Before all of this blew up, Amanda Maricotte at Salon wrote a piece that got to the roots of what is troubling West and why he’s even worth taking a look at. He’s not just an isolated rich dummy, an over the hill artiste who hasn’t gone on tour since 2016. He’s part of something a lot bigger and a lot scarier, in addition to his particular brand of mental illness.
Click through for article – which looks to an article by Amanda Marcotte for Salon here, which in turn looks back to two earlier articles here and here, and just like that, the light dawns. It isn’t coincidence that these things go together, or, at least, it isn’t any more. It’s the conscious, deliberate use of misogyny to turn people, particularly men, into extreme fascists. And I can’t get into words how dangerous this is.
The Daily Beast – Pelosi Has a New Plan That’s Going to Make Putin Really Pissed
Quote – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is slated to attend the Crimea Platform parliamentary summit in Croatia this week as part of a forum to discuss kicking Russia out of Crimea and returning the peninsula to Ukraine. Her visit is meant to show the United States’ “ironclad solidarity” with Ukraine, the Democrat said in a statement. But while it may seem like just the latest expression of support from the West, the trip could reverberate all the way to the Kremlin.
Click through for details. I don’t think pissing Putin off is necessarily a bad thing. This is not actually an escalation in any way, but a reiteration of what our position has been since at least two years before Trump** moved in.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Day 1 of Oath Keepers Trial: prosecutors lay out a strong case for seditious conspiracy
The Lincoln Project – MTG Trump Rally
No Dem Left Behind – Richard Ojeda lays out the blueprint for how Democrats keep the House and expand the Senate!
MSNBC – Rep. Raskin: ‘The Whole Country Should Be Alarmed About Where The GOP Is Today’
Parody Project – SPECIAL MASTER
Beau – Let’s talk about teachers, Russians, and supplies….