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Video Thread 7/8/2023

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:46 am Open Thread, Politics

Jul 082023

Glenn didn’t post Thursday (probably did Friday but I had already put in this non-Trump**-related scary vid.)
Talking Feds – MAGA Judge Issues SHOCKING Political Injunction

MSNBC – Trump nightmare deepens as Jack Smith hits AZ 2020 plot with subpoenas

Robert Reich – Does the Constitution Ban Trump from Running Again?

Parody Project – Republicans with No Plan (tune from “The Mikado”)

Stray Cat Paws At The Window Every Day Until Lady Adopts Him

Beau – Let’s talk about 4th of July trivia….

Video Thread 7/7/2023

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

Jul 072023

Glenn Kirschner – Trump posts dangerous rhetoric involving Jack Smith, proving his ONGOING danger to the community (“Every accusation a confession”)

Thom Hartmann – The Hidden Truth Republicans Desperately Keep from the American People! 🤐

Ring of Fire – First Republican Debate To Happen During Trump’s Criminal Trial

Armageddon Update – Where Are We?

Dog Who Was Feral Her Whole Life Finally Goes For Her First Walk

Beau – Let’s talk about legacy admissions and a meme….

Video Thread 7/6/2023

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

Jul 062023

Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s danger continues: he posts Obama’s home address; armed Trump supporter heads to the address

The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – July 3, 2023

Robert Reich – Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism

Parody Project – Court for Sale

Sister Cats Take Turns Being Moms To Their Eight Kittens (I’m not sure whether they are blood sisters or “frosted” sisters – Dodo tends to “humanize” relationships)

Beau – Let’s talk about Chris Christie’s campaign….

Video Thread 7/5/2023

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:57 am Open Thread, Politics

Jul 052023

Glenn Kirschner – Biden says world leaders ask him why Trump has not been held accountable for Jan. 6 insurrection

The Lincoln Project – Raging Ron

Thom Hartmann – Unmasking the Ring Leader: Is Mark Meadows Pulling the Strings Behind the Scenes?

Parody Project – Happy Happy 4th of July (CC by creators, and full lyrics here )

The Tiniest Puppy Grows Up Wrestling With His Cat Foster Brother

Beau – Let’s talk about Kremlin games and generals….

Open Thread July 5, 2023

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:04 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 052023

Yesterday, It was, of course, a holiday, which was a good thing, since I was still having trouble with my shoulder. (Not that a holiday normally affects my schedule, but the drop-off in emails and news was a serious help.) I hadn’t slept much Monday night on account of my left shoulder – I could probably get to sleep with/sleep through that level of pain if it stayed level, but instead it was intensifying and dropping off at intervals of 1-2 seconds. Knowing the next twinge was coming, over and over, kept me focused on that. Finally I gave up and got up for a couple of hours, dealt with some email, found a short take or two, and after about an hour noticed that the twingeing was gone. So I went back to bed, and got back up in mid-afternoon. I don’t know whether anyone noticed Nameless’s comment telling me I had scooped Daily Kos with a video I posted of a flying squirrel faking his own death and setting up a crime scene? Well, yesterday Ilearned that I had also scooped Crooks and Liars with the story on the hundredth-birthday dog parade. I did end up looking up the “Capitol Fourth” on PBS (same people who organize the Memorial Day Concert, but different cast and different ambiance.)

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PolitiZoom – Neal Katyal Asserts Colorado AG Can Force SCOTUS to Rehear 303 Creative Case
Quote – [F]ormer Obama Solicitor General Neal Katyal appeared on Michael Steele’s MSNBC show today to assert that in light of new evidence that the Colorado web designer who brought the 303 Creative case, and who in fact does not design web-sites, willfully misrepresented the basic facts of her complaint, that the Attorney General of Colorado can force SCOTUS to rehear matter.
Click through for details, why and how. Neal just argued and won Moore v. Harper. I’d listen to him. My AG’s “Contact” website was borked, but if necessary, I’ll send him a snailmail.

John Pavlovitz
Quote – But there are times and there are events that defy this idea. Some things are bad and we cannot and should not minimize their implications on people or the planet. This has been a bad week for diverse humanity. It has been a bad week for vulnerable people. It’s been a bad week for racial equity. It’s been a bad week for people buried in debt. And, it’s been a bad week for those of us who grieve the erasing of so much progress in such a short time, even if we saw it coming, even if it felt like a foregone conclusion. Nothing really prepares you to see your worst fears realized.
Click through for full article. This is John’s email for the Fourth (which actually arrived on the third) and, while this message is always good to remember, I agree there are many decent Americans who really need to be reminded right now.

Food For Thought

Video Thread 7/4/2023

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:09 pm Open Thread, Politics

Jul 042023

In lieu of Glenn’s June recap – not a lwayer, but a legal discussion.
MSNBC – Ending affirmative action: the result of a 50-year Republican passion project

The Lincoln Project – Other Than His Crimes

CBS – Man arrested near Obama’s D.C. home for alleged threats

Parody Project – Fourth of July Special – A New Verse for the National Anthem

Foster Dog Refuses To Leave Her Crate For Weeks

Beau – Let’s talk about Trump, Smith, and a pair of Queens….

Open Thread July 4, 2023

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:02 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 042023

Yesterday, I seriously overslept – by choice – but it did cut into my working time. I’ve been having some issues with pain cutting into both my sleeo time but, even more to the point, into the amount of actual rest/recovery I get when I am asleep. I ran the TENS for extra time today, which has helped – I don’t suppose this will resolve the issue, so I’ll keep on it. On a brighter note, The New Yorker decided to run a group of 9 Name Drop quizzes together, all of them on literary figures (which helped up front), and I actually got all of them. Not spectadularly – five of the nine on the las clue and the rest somewhere between the socond and the fifth – but I’m still quite pleased about it. (I bombed the daily one, though.)

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Axios – Scoop: Hunter Biden’s lawyer roasts IRS whistleblowers in message to GOP chair
Quote – Why it matters: The White House has been struggling to answer questions about the IRS agent transcripts over the past week, but Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell is now taking the lead in fighting back against the Republican-led committee. The letter comes after Chair Jason Smith last week released transcripts of interviews with two IRS agents who claimed that the investigation into Hunter Biden was improperly handled along with a purported WhatsApp message that showed Hunter leveraging his father to close a business deal.
Click through for article (and full 10-page letter). I’m glad they are pushing back – no that anything we say will get through to MAGAt cultists, but there are sane people out there who need to get exposed to facts.

Letters from an American – June 30, 2023
Quote – It turned out that limiting the Fourteenth Amendment to questions of race and letting states choose their voters cemented the power of a minority. The abandonment of federal protection for voting enabled white southerners to abandon democracy and set up a one-party state that kept Black and Brown Americans as well as white women subservient to white men. As in all one-party states, there was little oversight of corruption and no guarantee that laws would be enforced, leaving minorities and women at the mercy of a legal system that often looked the other way when white criminals committed rape and murder. Many Americans tut-tutted about lynching and the cordons around Black life, but industrialists insisted on keeping the federal government small because they wanted to make sure it could not regulate their businesses or tax them. They liked keeping power at the state level; state governments were far easier to dominate. Southerners understood that overlap: when a group of southern lawmakers in 1890 wrote a defense of the South’s refusal to let Black men vote, they “respectfully dedicated” the book to “the business men of the North.”
Click through for full letter (as always, click “Continue reading”). It’s an historian’s view of the SCOTUS’s recent prejudicial decisions in the context of out history.

Food For Thought

Video Thread 7/3/2023

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:52 am Open Thread, Politics

Jul 032023

Glenn Kirschner – One after another, Republicans witnesses are meeting with Jack Smith and incriminating Donald Trump

The Lincoln Project – Just Like Every Other Politician

PoliticsGirl – Don’t Get Confused about the Trump Indictments

Liberal Redneck – Boo, SCOTUS, Boo

Neighbor’s Cat Visits This Woman’s House At 5am Every Single Day!

Beau – Let’s talk about why malaria is in the US….

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