May 162022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Federal prosecutors open grand jury probe into Trump’s removal of top secret docs to Mar-a-Lago

The Lincoln Project – Thank you, Jen.

MSNBC – America ‘Needs To Prepare For’ Insider Threats To Elections

Twitter – CNN – White supremacist terrorism

Politics Girl – Quick Civics

Food-Obsessed Cat Has Taught Himself To Open Containers With His Teeth

Beau – Let’s talk about a cliff analogy….

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May 152022
 

Glenn Kirschner – J6 committee subpoenas McCarthy, other representatives. Here’s what’s at risk if they fail to comply

Meidas Touch – Top Democrat DESTROYS Justice Thomas with speech of the year!

The Lincoln Project – The Crazy Ones

MSNBC – Swalwell: ‘Inference of Guilt’ If GOP Reps Don’t Honor Jan. 6 Subpoenas

CNN – Republican didn’t want the press at his event. So CNN got creative (unfortunately, so did the CC -which is gibberish – and the transcrip is no better. But the chyrons help.)

Shirley Serban – If I Were a Rich Man

Beau – Let’s talk about Quadry Sanders and Oklahoma…. (Wow!) —->> https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-oklahoma-officers-charged-manslaughter-unarmed-mans-death-rcna28032

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May 142022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trump election lawyer John Eastman caught telling PA legislators to just “retabulate” vote for Trump

Meidas Touch – Top Democrat BLASTS these two crazed Republicans in scathing speech [while wearing a tie in the colors of the Ukrainian flag]

The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – May 10, 2022

MSNBC – Lawrence Explains Just How ‘Monumentally Historic’ The McCarthy Subpoena Really Is [and how fundamentally – and rapidly – things have changed]

Sky News – Finnish President tells Russia ‘You caused this’ as he signs security pact with UK

Really American – Dr. Oz EXPOSED voting in Turkey’s election, denying Armenian genocide

Beau – Let’s talk about Natives, history, and volume being released….

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May 132022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Elon Musk wants Trump back on Twitter, saying that Twitter’s ban was a “morally bad decision.”

Meidas Touch – Mitch McConnell FACT-CHECKED on his Roe v. Wade Lies!

The Lincoln Project – Last Week In The Republican Party

MSNBC – Ted Cruz Slammed By Father Of Former Marine Released By Russia For Lack Of Support

VoteVets – Best Chance

ACKAH TV – Amanda Gorman Speaks on Roe (CC more legible on full screem)

Beau – Let’s talk about what Republicans said with the vote in the Senate….

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May 132022
 

Yesterday, I paid a couple of bills. I didn’t venture outside, though I suppose I might have, because besides the evacuations the day before, we also has spring winds (to blow them away) – but that’s a straight stick which points two ways, – the winds could aldo have brought the fires (and their smoke) closer. Not difficult to justify doing what I wanted to do anyway (grin.)

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Short Takes –

truthout – DeSantis’s Congressional Maps Deemed “Unconstitutional” by Judge He Appointed
Quote – Smith will likely replace DeSantis’s gerrymandered maps with one of two that the Republican-controlled legislature had previously passed, which the governor had vetoed earlier this year. Though still advantageous to the GOP, those maps are seen as somewhat better (though by no means perfect), in terms of respecting Black voters’ voices, than the ones DeSantis demanded be passed after his veto.
Click through for article. Here’s my take on DeSantis.

Media Matters – Fox News melts down following revelation Karine Jean-Pierre called the network racist. She’s right.
Quote – It’s not just people on the left pointing out Fox’s racism. In 2020, amid the George Floyd protests, The Daily Beast reported that it “spoke to more than a dozen Fox News insiders, who all suggested that behind the scenes there is a growing despair among employees about the network’s role in demonizing and spreading fear about Black Americans in particular.” One Fox staffer quoted in the piece described some of the network’s personalities as “a white supremacist cell,” adding, “This is rank racism excused by Murdoch.” Another described Fox programming as “white supremacist crap.”
Click through if you can stand to. Shall we expect Fox staff to treat Karine with even more disrespect than they did Jen? (OK, I grant I was shocked when Doocy said on camera that he would miss her because she’d always been a “good sport.”)

Robert Reich – Personal history: The Supreme Court I argued before fifty years ago
Quote – Douglas, Marshall, and Blackmun were the intellectual leaders of that Supreme Court. Their opinions gave the Court its moral heft. They drew not only from the Constitution as written but also from the nation as it had evolved. They understood the moral leadership America needed to protect the rights of the voiceless and the powerless. Today’s Supreme Court majority doesn’t have a clue about the Court’s moral authority, and couldn’t care less.
Click through for history, nostalgia, and moral clarity. Today’s FFT is a meme drawn from this article.  Feel free to share it.

Food For Thought

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 16: Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich testifies before the Joint Economic Committee January 16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Reich joined a panel testifying on the topic of “Income Inequality in the United States.Ó (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

 

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May 122022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Mark Esper hides Trump’s crimes & unfitness for office; discloses those crimes & abuses in his book

The Lincoln Project – Yes We Know

RepresentUs – Sen. Warnock and Sen. Ossoff on Gerrymandering and Voting Access

Farron Balanced – Lauren Boebert Informed By FEC That She’s Breaking The Law

PBS – Amanpour and Company – Kristin Du Mez: How Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith
Yes, this is long. But it is extremely illuminating. I assume the book is even more illuminating. It’s not brand new, but not much has changed.

Stray Puppy Wanders Into Stranger’s Home in the Middle of Night

Beau – Let’s talk about Britney Spears being every woman in the US….

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May 112022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Justice Alito should now be the subject of both a perjury investigation AND an impeachment inquiry

Meidas Touch – Texas Paul REACTS to Trump Wanting to Bomb Mexico (a little late, but to important to omit entirely)

The Lincoln Project – Bonfire

Thom Hartmann – Can We Sanction Fox News To Save Democracy?

RepresentUs – Sen. Warnock and Sen. Ossoff on the Importance of Bipartisanship (If they can put their money – that is to say, their actions – where their moouth is, more power to them.)

MSNBC – It Was A Coup: Jan. 6 Investigator Says Panel Will Prove Riot Plot

Beau – Let’s talk about the statements by Justice Clarence Thomas….

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May 102022
 

Glenn Kirschner – With Supreme Court misconduct from Thomas to Alito, Congress must hold hearings/impeachment inquiry

Meidas Touch – Texas Paul REACTS to Texas Governor Costing State Billions

MSNBC – Attorney Reacts To Judge Approving Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Re-Election Bid

Robert Reich – Why Republicans are NOT the Party of Freedom

VoteVets – Pete Buttigieg Perfectly Articulates Republican Behavior In 2 Minutes

SNL – Roe v Wade Cold Open

Beau – Let’s talk about why the democrats didn’t codify….

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