Glenn Kirschner 0 An 86-Page Plea Bargian
The Lincoln Project – “Allegiance”
Liberal Redneck – Supreme Court and Mississippi
Corey Ryan Forrester – I would call this “What if Jen Psaki were a redneck?”
Hand-fed hummingbird
Beau on the Klamath River
The Lincoln Project – Well, this is interesting. I believe it’s called “stiring the s***.”
Meidas Touch – “Impressed?
Really American – Mo Brooks
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-fire-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy
Glenn Kirschner – I’m glad he’s taking this up … and has information on a petition (which I’ll spare you tracking down through Twitter)
Earth Day – “Trash TV” – Every time this video is watched, it will fund the removal of one piece of plastic from the ocean. I don’t know for sure if that is true for embeds, but you can always click through just in case.
LPLP – “Welcome home, Rattler! Michael “Rattler” Markus, “who served during the NoDAPL protests as an Akicita (defender), positioned between police and water protectors to keep everybody safe, was arrested in February of 2017. He subsequently accepted a plea to a civil disorder charge stemming from his presence on Oct. 27, 2016 — when law enforcement assaulted unarmed water protectors with sound cannons, tasers, bean bags, rubber bullets, and pepper spray.” Sprry about the spring plains wind, which can be heard throughiut.
5 Things Cats Do Better Than Humans!
Tweet – POTUS and VPOTUS call to Floyd family after vrdict
President Biden and VP Harris call the Floyd family after the GUILTY verdict! Thank you @POTUS & @VP for your support! We hope that we can count on you for the police reform we NEED in America! ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/cg4V2D5tlI
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) April 20, 2021
Republican Accountability Project
Really American – check for CC – also, this has been scrapped
Now This News – what you are not being shown
Lakota People’s Law Project
J Street recognizes Jimmy Carter with the Tzedek v’Shalom Award
Fugelsang – The Inadequate Dictator
Beau “Let’s talk about reaching your right wing family and posture statements” I don’t know how helpful this will be, but we should know about it.
It’s a tired day here in the CatBox, but I am eating well. Tomorrow is a Holy Day in the Church Of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos will be playing the Dolphins, but the game won’t be televised here. On Monday I have my Oncologist appointment, my infusion at the hospital, and a full WWWendy Day, so tomorrow I want to get as much rest as I can in preparation. Because Trump* is circling the drain, Saturday had become CATurday again, Happy CATurday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:38). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Compared to Trump*, Nixon’s crimes are chicken feed.
Short Takes:
From NY Times: A coalition of Democrats, Native Americans and liberal activists is urging President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to nominate one of Congress’s first Native American women to head the Interior Department, putting an American Indian in control of vast swaths of the continent and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The nomination of Representative Deb Haaland, Democrat of New Mexico, as Interior secretary would have undeniable symbolic power. If confirmed, a Native American for the first time would oversee 500 million acres of public lands, including national parks, oil and gas drilling sites, and endangered species habitat, and control the federal agencies most responsible for the well-being of the nation’s 1.9 million Indigenous people.
Ms Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas made history in 2018 as the first two Native American women elected to Congress, and Ms. Haaland would do so again as the first Native American cabinet secretary. But her lack of policy experience worries some Biden advisers, who have suggested another Native American candidate: Michael L. Connor, a deputy Interior secretary in the Obama administration, whose experience is unquestioned, even if he lacks the star power of Ms. Haaland.
I think filling that position with a Native American is a great idea and that either Haaland or Connor would be an excellent choice for the post. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence O’Donnell Thanks Rachel Maddow For Her Powerful Covid-19 Message
Rachel Maddow has been a Godsend to all Americans who love this nation. This is the first time I learned that her partner, Susan, had almost died from Trump* virus. Both are in my thoughts and prayers with thanks that Susan survived. Please join me! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast for our earth): Buffy Sainte Marie – No No Keshagesh
Listen to Buffy! The time to stop Republicating our earth and Build Back Better is NOW! RESIST!!
From the Biden Campaign
Had enough? pic.twitter.com/4W5OSoRzXI
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 30, 2020
Meidas Touch
Really American has two …
The Lincoln Project
This one is 13+ minutes, and it’s about Standing Rock
Beau makes a very good point here. It isn’t easy to think like a stupid person if you aren’t one, but we need to be able to.
RBG Petitions update –
Democratic Conservation Alliance
Fight for Reform (updated)
It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox. Providence already approved the Pembrolizumab treatments. WWWendy will get her schedule tomorrow from school, and I’ll be scheduling treatments as soon as I know what’s best for her. The 25 µg Fentanyl patch is giving me much better pain relief. For the first time in months, my pain level has been zero all day, except for when I Republicated a brick that made my hemorrhoids bleed. May all your Republicans be softer.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,254,561
US Deaths: 166,295
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Donald Trump has repeatedly and far-too-publicly mused over wanting his own face carved into Mount Rushmore. This we knew. Over the weekend, however, we learned that it has gone a bit farther than mere public desire: On Saturday, The New York Times reported that an unnamed Trump White House aide “reached out” to the office of South Dakota’s Republican governor to inquire as to what the process of adding new heads to Mount Rushmore might actually be.
Mt. Rushmore is on sacred Native American land. Can you imagine anything more sacrilegious than carving the head of criminal Fuhrer Trump* in a sacred place? RESIST!!
From NY Times: President Trump is considering new immigration rules that would allow border officials to temporarily block an American citizen or legal permanent resident from returning to the United States from abroad if the authorities have reason to believe the person may be infected with the coronavirus.
In recent months, Mr. Trump has imposed sweeping rules that ban entry by foreigners into the United States, citing the risk of allowing the virus to spread from hot spots abroad. But those rules have exempted two categories of people trying to return: American citizens and foreigners who have already established legal residence.
Worrying about spreading Trump* virus from Mexico to the US is bass ackwards. Mexico should be worried, not the US. Being Black or Latino will be “reason to believe the person may be infected” with Trump* virus, especially before election day. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Donald Trump Anti-Wall Protest Song<.p>
Amen! Kudos to left wing protestors! RESIST!!
In my youth, I climbed the back of Mt. Rushmore, stood on top of Abe’s head and looked down at Teddy’s nose. I intended no disrespect to the Lakota people. I had no idea that I was violating their sacred land. In fact, I had no idea that they are the rightful owners of that land.. Furthermore, I did not learn about the KKK links to the monument until today.
On Friday, President Donald Trump will continue his tour of racism and colonialism, moving from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the sacred Black Hills. Make no mistake, this visit is an attack on Indigenous people.
I visit the Black Hills alongside many other Lakotas every year as part of a tradition we have maintained for thousands of years. Stretching from what is now known as South Dakota into Wyoming, they are a sacred place that I take my family and my children to, like the Vatican for Catholics or Mecca for Muslims. The hills are where I feel most connected to Creator.
The Black Hills are also the site of death, violence and war. They are home to Mount Rushmore — a monument to white colonizers carved by a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer into land stolen from us by the U.S. government in 1877. Two of the men carved into that mountain are slave owners, and one approved the mass hangings of 38 Dakota men in the largest mass execution in the history of the United States.
Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore, timed to America’s celebration of the Fourth of July, is almost a natural sequel to his rally in Tulsa — originally coinciding with Juneteenth. He is taking his campaign from the site of one of the United States’ most horrific acts of racism to another place with long histories of oppression and state-sanctioned violence… [emphasis added]
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I find myself less inclined than many to blame George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt for practices that are horrifical by today’s standards, but were considered normal and acceptable when they were alive. They were all people who left things better than they found them. They helped establish the foundation, on which we are fighting to win justice and freedom for all.
Native Americans in South Dakota Protest Trump’s July 4 Trip to Mount Rushmore
I do support the Lakota demand to destroy the monument on Mt. Rushmore. I have nothing against having a monument to those four people and would not object to building one elsewhere. The monument is in the wrong place. The Lakota people gave up huge tracts of land, negotiating in good faith for the sanctity of the Black Hills, their sacred land. The only just recompense for the crime of forcing them off their sacred land is to return it to them. Republicans will argue that the monument is our heritage, but isn’t reinstituting the observance of this treaty after over a century of violation a far better heritage than four dead men carved in stone?
Julian Bear Runner: Trump Doesn’t Have Permission To Visit Mount Rushmore
And speaking of criminal Fuhrer Trump* (even though I’d rather not), he plans only a campaign event for racists, that he can use to start forest fires with an illegal fireworks display, and to kill as many Lakota people as he can, as his Sheeple spread the pestilence of Trump* virus, in the process of celebration Trump* and only Trump*. Shame on the entire Republican Reich!
