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Open Thread for December 6, 2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 7:08 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Dec 062021

Yesterday was quiet, but I got a late start, so didn’t do a whole lot. Which is fine. I did assemble the next two weeks meds (a day late.)

Cartoon –

Short Takes

The Conversation – What the public doesn’t get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws
Quote – [A Wisconsin] bill … includes a ban against teaching that “[o]ne race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.” …. Now imagine a 10th grade social studies class begins a unit on corporate America. The teacher opens with basic facts about Fortune 500 CEOs…. In effect, this story suggests that white men are inherently superior – the precise message that Wisconsin’s bill prohibits.
Click through for the complete case. This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Dunning and Kruger would be facepalming.

The New Yorker – A Son Sends Josephine Baker to the Panthéon
Quote – The panthéonisation was a go, making Baker the sixth woman, and the first woman of color, to be so recognized. Born in St. Louis in 1906, she is also the first American-born person (she became a French citizen in 1937) to be honored alongside the likes of Voltaire and Hugo.
Click through. I thought I had a fair idea of what Baker did for humanity … but I vastly overestimated ny knowledge. She certainly deseerves this honor. If you are paywalled, I’ll be happy to send a pdf.

Crooks and Liars – BOGO: Koch Industries Buys An AZ Senate Candidate’s…Company
Quote – Republican Jim Lamon was the founder and owner of DEPCOM Power, a solar power company headquartered in Arizona. Lamon’s company was acquired by a division of Koch Industries, just in time to give Lamon a huge cash infusion with which to challenge Mark Kelly, who is running for re-election in 2022.
Click through for details. I believe this is called “plausible deniability” – which is seldom, and in this case not, plausible.

Food for Thought –

Video Thread 12/3/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:41 am Open Thread, Politics

Dec 032021

Glenn Kirschner – Not his own video, but an appearance on Stephanie Miller from 11/28. So, not new. He just shows a slughtly different side of himself to Stephanie.

RHQ – Trump Rioter Hit By Most Ironic Karma

Now this News – Exhibit Sheds Light on Migrant Farmworkers’ Stories

Really American – INSANE “Dr.” Oz IS A Danger To America

The Alt-Right Playbook – I’m not sure whether this is a new end note or whether I just don’t remember it (or maybe issed it.) But hey, it’s worth watching multiple times.

Reuters – White House unveils Biden Christmas decorations

Beau – Let’s talk about Fred Gray, Alabama, and a new south….

Video Thread 12/2/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:20 pm Open Thread, Politics

Dec 022021

Glenn Kirschner – Former DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark to Plead the 5th Amendment for Crimes he Committed w/Donald Trump

Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party

Ring of Fire – Corporations Are Using Inflation As An Excuse To Jack Up Prices For Consumers

Represent Us – Why We Should Make Election Day a Holiday (Look, I’m not opposed to making Election Day a holiday. But I am violently opposed to the idea that doing so will solve all out electoral problems. Frankly, that strikes me as elitism and privilege at its ugliest. Making Election Da a holiday will not enfranchise low income workers paid hourly in call centers, retail establishments, and places like hospitals and prisons where some one must work, holiday or no holiday. In fact, it may further disenfranchise the poorest, who are desparate to cover minimum expenses – time and a half or double time are a great incentive not to vote. Unless we also make voting by mail, no reason required, nationally available, safe, and dependable, and continue to support early voting and making more places available to vote, all the holidays on the world are not going to enfranchise the people who need it the most.)

Liberal Redneck – Liberal Redneck – SCOTUS and the “Pro-Life” Crowd

Brent Terhune – Black Friday

Beau – Let’s talk about a video for grown ups…

Video Thread 12/1/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:26 pm Open Thread, Politics

Dec 012021

Glenn Kirschner – More Evidence of Trump’s Election Conspiracy; Meadows Changes his Tune, Cooperates w/House Committee

Ring of Fire – Republicans Think They Can Ride Moral Panic Nonsense To Midterm Success

Thom Hartmann – Exposing The Plan To Tear America Apart (He didn’t mention that this was Russian’s plan in uneterfering tiwh tht 2016 electon – to tear us apart along racial/ethnic lines – because they could. I doubt they cared about the racial/ethnic aspect themselves. They just wanted to tear us apart. And that was an easy way to do it. And it was after it worked that it started to get so much worse internally. Russia no longer has to tear us apart. We are tearing ourselves apart.)

politicsrus – Minimum Wage (Don’t get dustracted by the Rickroll.)

Really American – Sometimes It Is About Race

Bear brothers reunited for Christmas

Beau – Let’s talk about tweets, Russia, and that plan….

Video Thread 11/30/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 12:02 pm Open Thread, Politics

Nov 302021

Glenn Kirschner – Prosecutors Push Back on Bannon’s Circus; Roger Stone & Alex Jones Prepare to Plead the 5th

The Lincoln Project – Road Map

Ring of Fire – The Republicans’ Next Attempt To Steal An Election Will Be Far More Successful

Every year some corporation or organization comes out with a commercialdesigned to celebrate something progressive, something progressive people care about. This year, it is Post Office Normay. (Tissue alert)

Beau – Let’s talk about the perception of race in the US from outside….

Open Thread for November 26, 2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 7:21 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 262021

Yesterday was, of course, Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I hope everyone had a wonderful day whether or not you are in the United States. Tomorrow, I will be going to see Virgil. I think I’m ready.

Cartoon –

Short Takes –

The New Yorker – Could One Shot Kill the Flu?
Quote – For decades, scientists have dreamed of what some call a “universal” flu vaccine—one that could target many strains of the virus. A universal vaccine would save countless lives not just this year but every year; as those numbers add up, it would become one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in history. Until recently, it’s been beyond the reach of molecular biology. But new technologies are extending our abilities, and researchers are learning how to see through the flu’s disguises. Without knowing it, we’re living on the cusp of a remarkable scientific achievement. One of the world’s longest pandemics could soon be coming to an end.
Click through for complications. It’s not a certainty – but it is a possibiity -and that is progress. If you re paywalled out, feel free to email me and I’ll send a pdf.

Crooks and Liars – Justice For Ahmaud Arbery: ALL 3 Defendants Found GUILTY
Quote – The jury was not representative of the community, with 11 white and only 1 Black member, which was a concern that even the judge raised. They deliberated for roughly 10 hours and there was concern that this could be a Kyle Rittenhouse or George Zimmerman repeat. But JUSTICE PREVAILED.
Click through for details. I put up a tag Wednesday when this was announced, but I wanted to featureit also. It’s important.

The New Yorker – Peng Shuai and the High Stakes of Business in China
Quote – The post was up for about ten minutes before the state’s well-oiled machinery of censorship kicked into gear and took it down. Comments on Peng’s account were locked. Screenshots of her sixteen-hundred-word post, which were spreading, were scrubbed. Her name disappeared from Internet searches. Emojis and words related to the case did, too. For a while, even the word “tennis” was blocked. Behind the state’s erasure of Peng’s presence on the Chinese Internet was another urgent and troubling question: What would happen to her?
Click through for the story which is not at all simple. I never expected to be looking to “The Sporting Scene” for a short take, but pf coourse, she’s not the first sports woman, and will not be the last, whose life clashes in some way with authoritarian leadership.

Food for Thought –

Video Thread 11/26/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 6:34 am Open Thread, Politics

Nov 262021

Glenn Kirschner – Michael Cohen Tells CNN that New York and Federal Prosecutors are Working Toward Indictments

politicsrus – Insulin

Thom Hartmann – Why Won’t Social Media Stop “Tokyo Roses” From Destroying Our Democracy?

Vox – Why you don’t hear about the ozone layer anymore. How did we manage to not get this dismissed as a hoax? And how can we do it again?

MSNBC – There’s Still Work To Do’ Says Rev. Al Sharpton On Arbery Trial Guilty Verdict

Rocky Mountain Mike – Auto Con-Bot 3000 (not a song. But funny.

Beau – Let’s talk about hot takes, the Christmas parade, and intent….

Video Thread 11/24/21

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:39 am Open Thread, Politics

Nov 242021

Glenn Kirschner – House Committee Issues Subpoenas for Roger Stone & Others; Moving Up the Insurrection Food Chain (Working up the foos chain always made sense to me. Start at the top, you may wind up giving a plea bargain to the actual criminal, and executing [almost] an innicent person. That’s what happened to Julius Jones.)

Meidas Touch – Elie Mystal: What if Black people stormed the Capitol on Jan 6?

Don Winslow Films – #ShockingUnansweredJan6Questions Well, I can answer one question – the reason it took so long between forming the committee and the first subpoenas was because they had a ton of documents – and voluntary testimony – they needed to get through first. That is not just a theory, at least one person on the committee has said so publicly. And it makes sense. A good lowyer never asks a question of a witness to which he or she doesn’t already know tha answer. (I can answer a few of the others too, but I couldn’t back up those answers as I can with this one.)

Rebel HQ – Richard Ojeda: Special Place In Hell For People Like This Major Ojeda’s accent it fairly thick, but unlike so many on this subject, he knows whereof he speaks, and it’s worth the listen to get the facts.

Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party

Parody Project – Blew It Again

Beau — Let’s talk about Thanksgiving and Sesame Street….

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