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Open Thread May 3, 2022

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:43 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

May 032022

Yesterday, I pretty much rested, or tried to. I kind of wore myself out Sunday and was having trouble staying awake. Some days are like that.

Cartoon –

Short Takes –

Letters from an American April 30, 2022
Quote – This letter is for the musician I met this week whose work takes her all over the country. She said that in her travels lately she feels something powerful building under the radar, and asked me if such a thing had ever happened before.
Click through for details.What we have here is history, and hope.

The 19th – She’s a White suburban mom. Can this lawmaker — and her viral speech — rally people like her for Democrats?
Quote – McMorrow said she is mindful of what it means to get media attention because she is a White woman. She highlighted Erika Geiss, a Black state senator, and Jeremy Moss, a gay state senator, who both gave impassioned speeches recently about inequities that have received far less attention. McMorrow said it shouldn’t be on marginalized people to do all the work. “If those of us who are not the ones negatively impacted by these attacks are comfortable and stand by and just let it happen, then it’s going to keep happening,” she said. “So now I’m looking at how I can make sure we’re elevating those voices.”
Click through – I posted the clip when it came out I”ve palyed a response or two. Now I want to feature her advice to Democrats.

Daily Beast – These States Are About to Put New Voting Laws to the Test
Quote – A number of states that have passed new voting restrictions in the past year—including Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, and Indiana—have primaries this month. Their outcomes will serve as the first big test of the impact of new voting restrictions enacted following the 2020 election and former President Trump’s election hysteria. Pulaski County Clerk Terri Hollingsworth, who serves as the county’s elections administrator in Arkansas, says executing the changes in her state has been “somewhat of a nightmare.” She’s worried about a new rule requiring voters’ signatures on their absentee ballots to match what the state has on file—fearing that signatures might have naturally changed over the years. “We’re not handwriting experts,” she told The Daily Beast.
Click throiugh for more analysis. These are some of the worst voting restrictions we have seen since Jim Crow. If you want to follow election law, this might be a good time to subscribe to the Daily Beast newsletter.

Food For Thought

Video Thread 4/30/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:10 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 302022

Glenn Kirschner – More audiotapes show Republicans McCarthy, Gaetz, Scalise and Mo Brooks feeding on one another

Meidas Touch – Catholic Politician REACTS to Marjorie Taylor Greene Calling Catholics ‘Satanic’

Lincoln Project – Last Week In The Republican Party – April 27, 2022

Democracy Now – Juan Gonzlez: In Surprise Move, Gorsuch Challenges U.S. Colonialism in SCOTUS Ruling on Puerto Rico (this really is jaw-dropping!)

No on H -Stop the Republican Con – Judges and Police agree [This ad being pushed by the DA they are trying to recall]

Rocky Mountain Mike – You Sank My Battleship

Beau – Let’s talk about Transnistria, the unknown, and new develops for Ukraine….

Video Thread 4/29/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:00 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 292022

Glenn Kirschner – Jim Jordan does Elon Musk’s bidding, sends “preservation letter” demands to Twitter board members

Thom Hartmann – Why Canceling Student Debt Can Save America & Get Out The Vote (His last vid ended with a cliff hanger, so I kind of had to post this one)

Twitter – Never forget

Never forget the time John McCain said Rand Paul works for Putin on the Senate floor because it’s still true to this day pic.twitter.com/uXJKEPOrM6

— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) April 26, 2022

RepresentUs – Michael Douglas Thanks Missouri Better Elections Team

Crooks and Liars – Jimmy Kimmel Recommends A New Drug For Marge

Puppet Regime – Putin’s Friendship of No Limits

Beau – Let’s talk about Bishop Evans and Operation Lone Star….

Open Thread April 26, 2022

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:39 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Apr 262022

Yesterday, I got a phone call from Virgil, which means he has been fully checked in (I was told that could take up to 2 weeks, but it only took 6 days.) He says the staff are very good people – I was surely glad to hear that. Anyway, I went to the DOC site to download and print the forms I will need (or may need) including the disability accommodation form. I have never needed to request accommodation at any of the other three places I have visited him, because they all are on one level or have ramps, and I can walk far enough to go therough the metal detector, and I can collapse the wheelchair so that it also goes through (not at the same time that I do.) But getting onto a shuttle bus is a shuttle bus of a different color. So I want to get that done in advance. I had no trouble finding the forms on line and only slight annoyance “printing” the pages I needed to a PDF. Next is to print to paper and fill them out.

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Crooks and Liars – Cawthorn Wasn’t In DRAG-Drag, He Was In NORMAL PERSON Drag
Quote – I’ve witnessed this kind of thing firsthand. At my high school every year, there was an assembly in honor of the football team — attendance mandatory. It ended with several players onstage dressed in drag. The message was that these kids were the embodiment of masculinity, so it was funny, get it? Not even remotely gay or transsexual or connected to transvestism!
Click through for details. I could wish this wasn’t correct and that it would hurt Maddy – but I fear that would be incorrect.

The Daily Beast – U.S. Is Now Aiming to Degrade the Russian Military, Says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
Quote – Austin, speaking bluntly Monday after a tour of Kyiv on Sunday, said Russia had “already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.” Austin was accompanied by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his trip, which was shrouded in secrecy until President Volodymyr Zelensky blurted out the secret at a Saturday afternoon news conference.
Click through – their source is the New York Times but I’m paywalled out. That trip to Ukraine must have been one impressive trip.

Media Matters – With attack on Twitter, the right shows it has institutionalized Trump’s corrupt use of government power
Quote – “Nice company you’ve got there; be a shame if something happened to it. Maybe you should save yourself some trouble and sell it to our buddy.” That’s the message 18 House Republicans, led by Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH), sent on Friday with a letter demanding Twitter’s board of directors preserve all records related to the bid by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to purchase the company.
Click through for article. This certainly sounds like RICO to me. Can we give DOJ enough money to hire 200 prosecutors, please? It looks like they are going to need more than 130 new ones.

Food For Thought

Video Thread 4/24/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:59 am Open Thread, Politics

Apr 242022

Glenn Kirschner – Don Jr. to meet w/J6 committee; Alex Jones wants to talk to DOJ prosecutors BUT demands immunity

Meidas Touch – Judge STORMS OFF after Rudy Guiliani unveiled as The Masked Singer

The Lincoln Project – Kevin McCarthy is a Liar

Farron Balanced – Florida CRT Math Book Panic Based On Fake Image From Twitter (Of course that isn’t really why. The real reason is a sweetheart deal between DeSantis and the approved books’ publisher But this is quite believable if you ddn’t know about the money.)

Really American – Marjorie Taylor Greene PANICS about ‘Nasty’ Press Allowed to Cover Her in Court

Robert Reich – How We Stand Up to Putin and Stop Climate Catastrophe

Beau – Let’s talk about a new law Tennessee about homelessness….

Video Thread 4/23/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:16 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 232022

Glenn Kirschner – Rep Jamie Raskin: Public Hearings Will Show, “Trump Launched a Coup Against VP Pence and Congress.”

The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party

Meidas Touch – Texan HUMILIATES Ted Cruz for Disney Furry Porn Fetish

Really American – Fox Host CALLS OUT Desantis’ CRT Math Claims On Air

Crooks and Liars – McCarthy Denies He Said He’d Ask Trump To Resign. Maddow Has The Tape. (McCarth is a liar. In other news, the sun came up this morning.)

Armageddon Update – The Arrogance of the Left (I don’t think “arrogance” is the right word – but it might as well bem because everything else in the rant is correct.)

Beau – Let’s talk about Mallory McMorrow and identifying with the bad guy….

Video Thread 4/22/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:29 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 222022

Glenn Kirschner – As Georgia Grand Jury Investigation into Trump Proceeds, Trump Co-conspirator Eastman Keeps Criming

Meidas Touch – Texan who went viral exposing Abbott’s border scam SLAMS Republicans for trying to raise his taxes

The Lincoln Project – It’s in the Plan

American Bridge Ad Launch featured on MSNBC

Really American – ‘Dark MAGA’ Trump Supporters Plot Revenge On Political Opponents (So nice to see Chip back – a little slower and a little softer language, but still Chip)

Golden Retriever Preps Little Boy For His New Role As Big Brother

Beau – Let’s talk about the US already learning from Ukraine and what we should…

Video Thread 4/21/22

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:01 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 212022

Glenn Kirschner – Reporting Asks: “Why Hasn’t Trump Been Indicted Yet? We Have Five Theories.”

The Lincoln Project – Skin in the Game

Robert Reich – How Trump could actually steal the 2024 Election

MSNBC – Eliminationist Rhetoric,’ A Fascist Tool, Gains Alarming Foothold In Trump-Era Politics

Twitter – A strong speech. Mallory McMorrow is a Michigan State Senator for Dostrict 13 (roughly Oakland County.) Elected in 2019, she is in her first term.

Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community…in a fundraising email, for herself.

Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won’t. pic.twitter.com/jL5GU42bTv

— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) April 19, 2022

Brent Terhune – A Madison Caethorne Party

Beau – Let’s talk about Texas, Abbott, and produce….

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