Glenn Kirschner – Georgia DA Willis states that charging decisions are “imminent” for “defendants” for election crimes
The Lincoln Project – Elise Knew
Thom Hartmann – The Real Reason the Rich Flock to Davos…
Liberal Redneck – The State of Conspiracy Theories
Kitten Who Could Only Scoot Learns To Walk https://youtu.be/rhShLzq46zI
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump paying Clinton….
Glenn Kirschner – More Oath Keepers & other Trump foot-soldiers CONVICTED of seditious conspiracy and other 1/6 crimes
MSNBC – Rep. Lee introduces bill to fight white supremacy, ‘the largest part of domestic terrorism’
Farron Balanced – Judge’s Ruling Could Spell DOOM For Trump
Dick Van Dyke reads “A Most Non-Political Speech” by Rod Serling
Dogs Avoided This Pup At The Dog Park Until… 😍
Beau – Let’s talk about Alec Baldwin, charges, and lessons….
Glenn Kirschner – The dramatic difference between DOJ’s search of Biden’s home & the search warrant for Trump’s home
The Lincoln Project – Decision
Ring of Fire – Marjorie Taylor Greene Smacks Down Matt Gaetz’s Attempt To Be Friend Again
Randy Rainbow – Speaker of the House – Randy Rainbow Song Parody (I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed him.)
Aggressive, Feral Cat Loves To Cuddle Now
Beau – Let’s talk about my shirts, the art, the artist, and cancel culture….
Glenn Kirschner – DOJ will resist Jim Jordan’s subpoenas prying into criminal investigation of the insurrection
Robert Reich – The Republican Party’s Worst Nightmare
Farron Balanced – Trump Blames Evangelical ‘Disloyalty’ For All Of His Problems
Armageddon Update – Biden Did It Too! (I can’t wait to tell Virgil that Joe owns a pristine ’67 Corvette.)
Husky Becomes Obsessed With Man Living On The Street In Paris- (different rescue story)
Beau – Let’s talk about “just asking questions”….
Political Voices Network – Neal Katyal & Andrew Weissmann: Trump’s Political Fate May Have Been Decided…
Thom Hartmann – Will Long COVID Make America Poor?
MSNBC – Alec Baldwin and ‘Rust’ armorer to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in film set shooting (“Involuntary manslaughter” means different things in different states. In New Mexico it’s pretty minimal.)
Ring of Fire – Rudy Giuliani Somehow Keeps Getting Dumber
Stray Cat Waits At Guy’s Window Until He’s Adopted
Beau – Let’s talk about China, the US, the economy, and American exceptionalism….
Political Voices Network – Neal Katyal & Andrew Weissmann: Trump’s Political Fate May Have Been Decided…
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party January 18, 2023
MSNBC – ‘Dumb’: GOP’s Ron Johnson humiliated over nonsensical coup claim
Really American – Karl Rove OBLITERATES Republican whataboutism on Biden documents
This Dachshund Mama Dog Was Rescued From A Puppy Mill
Beau – Let’s talk about how to understand the House Republicans….
Glenn Kirschner – New interview with Michael Cohen suggests NY DA Bragg may be back in the Trump prosecution mix
Farron Balanced – Oops! Republicans Accidentally Admit They’ve Been Lying About Tax Cuts For Decades
The Lincolm Project – The Way I Handle Things
Politics Girl – Debt Ceiling Crisis
Stray Cat Stuck In A Wall For Over A Week
http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDFs/OutofSilentPlanet_CSL.pdf
Beau – Let’s talk about explaining Earth to aliens…. (C.S. Lewis did something like this in the first volumne of his “Space Trilogy” – and he [deliberately] wrote himself into a corner where his hero had to fail to translate a concept because it flat made no sense. There’s a pdf here of the whole book – the conversation begins at the bottom of page 119 of the pdf [numbered 115 in the text] and the untranslateable concept appears at the bottom of the following page. The conversation ends near the top of pdf page 122 [118] – not terribly long, but a bit long to quote. Though you aay have to suspend disbelief a bit, it’s very reavealing as to some things we think we know but really haven’t a clue.)
Yesterday, Weather Undergound advised me to maybe expect snow this evening, and maybe also a couple of days from now, during the night. I’m skeptical, but I’m also paying attention. Also, CPR reported that the judge to whom the Elijah McCain murder case is assigned has deemed there need to be three separate trials. Since there are five defendants, it will be interesting to see how that shakes out. Finally, the debt ceiling, but no deal, was reached. Axios has an article about emergency measures. (Did you know that the whole point of having a debt ceiling was to prevent this sort of thing happening?)
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Robert Reich – Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt ceiling
Quote – Congress could defuse this bomb by simply raising the debt limit, as it has dozens of times under presidents of both parties for decades. But the MAGA radicals now in control of the House of Representatives are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless President Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other key programs. I was involved in a similar fight over the debt ceiling fight twenty-eight years ago, which holds some lessons for what happens now.
Click through for full article. This is not a first rodeo for any of us.
Letters from an American – January 17, 2023
Quote – Today the bill for the elevation of Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to House speaker began to come due. McCarthy promised the far-right members of his conference committee seats and far more power in Congress to persuade them to vote for him. Now they are collecting.
Click through for full letter. She covers multiple abuses, starting with committee assignments, but she does get around to the debt ceiling too.
Food For Thought
