Glenn Kirschner – Mark Meadows testifies in grand jury about BOTH the insurrection & Trump’s classified docs crimes
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – June 6, 2023
MSNBC – Lawrence: Mark Meadows could be second White House Chief of Staff convicted of crimes
Thom Hartmann – Are You Scared Of Woke?! Fox News Propaganda Exposed
Tiniest Abandoned Puppy Is Found In A Box On The Curb
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump, wokeness, and branding….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s lawyers meet with Jack Smith. Next stop – indictment!
Thom Hartmann – Is This The MOST Terrifying GOP Law For Women YET?
Rebel HQ – Newsom May End DeSantis’s 2024 Run With This
Parody Project – This Fits Him to a T – Parody of I’ll Never Find Another You
Cat Loves Jumping In And Stealing His Mom’s Baths
Beau – Let’s talk about Utah, libraries, and finding out….
Glenn Kirschner – Tape made by Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, now in hands of prosecutors. Is any of this normal?
MSNBC – Trump’s ‘panic’ on display when asked about docs case audio tape
Farron Balanced – Roger Stone Caught On Tape Explaining How He Manipulates Donald Trump
Robert Reich – What a Vietnam War Riot Says about Today’s Culture Wars
Watch This Sassy Cleft Palate Puppy Argue With His Mom
Beau – Let’s talk about the debt deal and what’s in it…. (Since filming, it has sailed through the Senate and been signed, but the points made are still valid)
Glenn Kirschner – ANOTHER damaging tape in Trump case, but this one was made by his lawyer!
The Lincoln Project – You think Biden Could do That?
MSNBC – Biden has once again defied expectations from haters and his own party
Parody Project – The MAGA Song – Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
Cat Chronicles His Journey With Unrequited Love
Beau – Let’s talk about Paxton and turning Texas blue….
Yesterday, My drive was pretty uneventful except for some pretty heavy rain on the way down. It didn’t last long, but it gave the wipers a challenge on their highest setting while it lasted, and affected visibility. We played four games of Scrabble, not competetively, but with the aim of using allt he letters legitimately – and succeeded on all but thelast one. We were left with 8 vowels between us and the poard so tight that there was really no place to put any of them. He returnes all greetings. Today, both short takes are from substack – I apologize for that, but both of them include Tulsa (the Greenwood massacre) in their contents, and that anniversary is already a few days old.
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The Good in Us – Black Wall Street
Quote – Since the end of the Civil War, the thing most likely to incite white violence against emancipated Black citizens was their success. Giving Black Americans full rights, beyond the freedom that had so grudgingly been granted to them after the Union prevailed, proved to be a bridge too far for many whites—even Northern Republicans…. In retrospect, it seems self-evident that the driver behind the essential re-enslavement of Black people after Reconstruction was Black prosperity.
Click through for full column. Even before I realized how horribly many massacres there have been in the US, I had begun to realize that, although the impulse for anyone in a marginalized group is to demonstrate their own worth, that is often unsuccessful at best and dangerous at worst. But she says it better than I can.
Letters from an American – June 1, 2023
Quote – In other economic news, the Biden administration today announced actions designed to address racial bias in the valuation of homes. This sounds sort of in the weeds for administration action, I know, but it is actually an important move for addressing the nation’s wealth inequality…. Homeownership is the most important factor in creating generational wealth—that is, wealth that passes from one generation to the next—both because homeownership essentially forces savings as people pay mortgages, and because homes tend to appreciate in value…. There is a reason that the administration has centered its housing policies on June 1. This is the anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre,
Click through for full article. I’m very glad the Biden administration is doing this. I hope they stay on it when it comes to actually making it happen. For more than 150 years we have trusted people to do the right thing and, frankly, that doesn’t work.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Trump can’t find classified document he stole; DA Willis goes all RICO; Pence cleared of wrongdoing
The Lincoln Project – DEE/DUH-Santis
Thom Hartmann – Did An 80 Year Old WWII Warning Predict America’s Descent Into Fascism?
Armageddon Update – Ai, Ai, OH NO!!!
Baby Owl Goes Everywhere With Her Family
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump’s Day 1 promise….
Glenn Kirschner – Audio recording shows Trump may have violated US espionage laws. Federal indictments MUST now issue
The Lincoln Project – Trump Debt Ceiling
Ring of Fire – Lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims FBI Set Up ‘Honeypots’ To Trick Capitol Rioters
Brent Terhune – Mike Pence’s Biker Gang
Cat Meets New Boyfriend On A Walk But Is Skeptical About Him At First, Until…
Beau – Let’s talk about juries in the US….
Yesterday, we resolved the car registration issue. Of course i don’t actually have the sticker yet. So when I go to see Virgil tomorrow, I will have in the car a copy of the entire email correspondence to explain the delay and prove i am actually in good standing in case I should be stopped. Of course I hope that won’t ne neessary – but but why take chances when one doesn’t have to? Also – not actually yesterday, but while I was preoccupied – I learned that what used to be “Elderhostel” is now named “Road Scholar.” If you weren’t familiiar with it, it’s a no-profit that books travel for older people. I would not call it exactly cheap (and some of it is downright pricey), but they do make it more affordable than if you were to try to book it yourself. So if anyone you know is considering leaving, not just a red state, but the whole country, it would be a resource to help check potential destinatins out. I did not register – I assume if one does, one would be able to see more than I was able to. Also yesterday, though, I received a package I wasn’t expecting yet – the window for delivery they gave me when I ordered was June 3 – July 3. It was 4 pairs of glasses for Barbie dolls (including one pair of sunglasses.) Hopefully not having to try to make glasses out of jewelry wie will inspire me to get busy on the justice robe for my RBG doll, and then will only need to make the collar. (The doll doesn’t look a whole lot like RBG, though she looks very much like the actress who played her in the biopic which IIRC was called “On Account of Sex.” And the sunglasses – well, I have pulled a bunch of red yarn out of my stash in anticipation of using them. 😉
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Letters from an American – May 31, 2023
Quote – But, as Josh Marshall pointed out in Talking Points Memo today, the Republican base no longer seems to care much about fiscal issues. Instead, they are pushing the cultural issues at the heart of illiberal democracy: anti-LGBTQ laws, antiabortion laws, anti-immigration laws. Former president Trump is making those themes central to his reelection campaign. Yesterday he released a video promising that on “Day One” of a new presidential term, he would issue an executive order that would end birthright citizenship. Our current policy that anyone born in the United States is a citizen, he claims, is “based on a historical myth, and a willful misinterpretation of the law by the open borders advocates.” He promises to make “clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic US citizenship.”
Click through for full column. Donald Trump** promised/threatened to do away with birthtight citizenship on his first day (if he wins.) Here’s why that is, at the very least, unconstitutional.
emptywheel – LORDY, THERE ARE TAPES [OF TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGING HE HAD STOLEN CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS]!
Quote – First, it’s certainly possible this is one of the documents pertaining to Iran that WaPo has reported were among the ones obtained in the search in August 2022. If it is, then it would be a document that Trump transported back and forth from Florida — something that would make it easier for DOJ to charge this in DC instead of SDFL.
Click through – I’m sure you know the basic part of this story. This may fill in some details.
Food For Thought
