Feb 282022
 

Glenn Kirschner – Justice Ups and Downs: Two Judges Rule Against Trump While Two Prosecutors Resign from Trump Case

Lincoln Project – CPAC Day 1 in 105 Seconds

Farron Balanced – Florida Republicans To Force Teachers To ‘Out’ Children To Their Families

CBS News – NATO Deploys Response Force For First Time

MSNBC – Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: ‘We Won’t Put Down Our Weapon’

Robert Reich – Why Gerrymandering Could Get Way Worse

Beau – Let’s talk about Arbery, symbolic victories, and ripple effects….

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Nov 122021
 

Glenn Kirschner – This is from the Stephanie Miller show from October 31. So nothing new, but phrased and inflected differently whan he’s talking with Stephanie.

The Lincoln Projrct – Last Week in the Republican Party

Meidas Touch – Kyle Rittenhouse FAKE CRIES on stand as trial goes OFF THE RAILS!! (Sobs but no tears…)

Thom Hartmann – Media Lies Said Youngkin was Education Candidate

RepresentUs – More on Gerrymandered Pizza

Really American – Garland Stalls, Trump and Accomplices Roam Free of Consequences

Beau – Let’s talk about an internal Democratic party debate….

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Nov 032021
 

Glenn Kirschner – Washington Post’s January 6 Deep Dive; Is AG Garland/DOJ Criminally Investigating Donald Trump?

Ring of Fire – Cyber Ninjas Isn’t Turning Over Their Documents And Republicans Are Getting Angry

Everett Stern – almost 22 minutes and he’s not the world’s greatest orator. But the material is – plutonium. There is a related article in Newsweek 

RepresentUs – Two riffs on the gerrymandered pizza.

Sprouts – We all know about the Dunning-Kruger effect in dumb folks. But the corollaries go all the way up.

Beau – Let’s talk about roses, history, and a reality check….

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Aug 082021
 

Yesterday Iit was a little warmer, but not too bad. I just kind of took things slow and easy as much as I could.

Cartoon –

Short Takes

The Hill – Supreme Court decision could set off gerrymandering ‘arms race’
Quote – To be sure, the courts will continue to have a role to play in the looming redistricting fight. At the federal level, for instance, it remains illegal to carry out gerrymanders based on race. According to Parsons, however, state lawmakers will be particularly careful to frame their map drawing as motivated by party interest, as a way to side-step federal litigation. “In the wake of Rucho I expect many states will pack districts quite aggressively and explicitly argue that they are doing so based on partisan affiliation and not race,” he said.
Click through for deets and implications. This is not good. And saying, “Hopefully, Congress accepts that invitation before it’s too late” is not helpful. The House has written and passed the For The People Act which would address this. The Senate will not allow it to move forward – barring a miracle. So let’s not blame “Congress.” More than half of the states have some legislative or costitutional protection which could challenge attempts to gerrymander (or preclude them before they start) – but it only needs a few heavily gerrymandered states to poison the entire House and/or Senate. Ballotpedia and the National Council of State Legislatures have state-by-state information if anyone wants to check their own state.

The Week – The USPS awarded a $120 million contract to a company with financial ties to the postmaster general
Quote – “There’s no question he’s continuing to profit from a Postal Service contractor,” said Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Even if DeJoy complies with legal requirements, Canter added “it does create an appearance issue about whether it’s in his financial interest to continue to make policy that would benefit contractors like XPO.”
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CBS News – Florida breaks record for new daily Covid cases for third time this week
Quote – “This is real. And it didn’t have to be this bad,” Nikki Fried, Florida’s commissioner of agriculture and consumer services, tweeted Saturday. “We need everyone to do their part — #GetVaccinatedNow & #MaskUp. If not for yourself, for your friends, family, and neighbors. For our kids. For our doctors & nurses. For Florida.”
Click through for more info. You will be happy to know (even though it means he’ll be missig here) that our Mitch is outta there for a bit under a week (and having fun.)

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