“Not Being at Home” Episodes 5 and 6
This week:
You’re Being Gaslit – Why Your Gas Stove is killing you (mine isn’t, because I haven’t had one for longer than I’ve been married – 1976, to be exact.
Why Dems Can’t Get It Done
Jun 022021
Joanne Dixon
Jun 022021
Glenn Kirschner – “No, he won’t.”
Meidas Touch – Taking Back the Word “Patriot”
NBC – Destroying education is not enough for Texas. They need to destroy voting rights too.
Ring of Fire – You can turn it off when you get to the ad atthe end.
Keith OLbermann vs. Michael Flynn – Keith has Flynn’s number, as does Alexander Vindman’s brother. But Keith is wrong about one thing. The President should never tell the Justice Department what to investigate – it is supposed to be an independent agency. But Merrick Garland IMO should be on this (and may be – they don’t discuss ongoing investigations, and they shouldn’t.)
Beau – Let’s talk about a question of privilege and Cher….
Jun 022021
Wednesday already – and so much going on. Well, let’s dig in.
Cartoon
Short Takes
The Hill – The Memo – For years I was predicting a French-Revolution-style uprising based on the way government was ignoring, not just the will of the people, but also the needs of the people, including needs the people didn’t themselves recognize (such as climatee change). Then the Trump** presidency seemed so much more like the rise of Hitler that I shifted my concerns. But now it seems I was wrong. We are re-living, in some ways, the French Revolution – and we are now approaching the Reign of Terror stage, and mob rule. A mob with no leaders with any power to restrain it. Empty Greene seems like an unlikely Mme. Defarge (and I’d be astonished if she can knit), but there it is. (And, believe it or not, I wrote this first – and then found TC’s cartoon. My timing could not have been better.)
QConference – The “Conference” at which Michael Flynn made the remarks on camera which he now denies having made was observed by the author of this Twitter thread. I’m sorry, it’s not in a neat thread reader, but I found it worth going through. The chief “takeaways” – This a near-religious movement, and they are preparing to enact violence if they don’t get their way in future elections. The talk of war is now preparation for it.
Robert Reich – H/T Mitch – Of course the Reich on the left is right. What may be more of personal annoyance to me than a major danger to democracy – but it seems that, having lived through four years of a Trump** presidency (not to mention the campaign before and the insurrections after), we seem to have all forgotten who has the authority to doo whatm and who does not have authority to do certain things. This sentence from the article: “So there will be no investigation.” – I won’t say it’s just wrong, but it’s not an established fact. A House Select Committee has not beed ruled out. A DOJ investigation (has not been ruled out (and if they are already investigating and have not told us, they are not going to tell us before it’s over.) But it kind of gives a wrong impression. Keith makes a similar error as to who can do what, and I’ll address that in the video thread. I’m sure a big part of it is that those of us who recognize the enormity of what we are facing are somewhat in a panic. But a better handle on who can and should do what would, for one thing, help us target the right people in petitions. And it should also help us to think more rationally, and God knows we’ll need that.
Jun 012021
Glenn Kirschner – Indictments of “Oath Keepers”
MSNBC – Gen Russel Honoré with Ali Velshi on Memorial Day and a Jan. 6 commission
This is the Tweet which goes with the Mike FLynn video cited in the Open Thread.
Patrick Byrne and Michael Flynn are releasing a movie called, ‘The Deep Rig’ on June 19 to present their ‘evidence’ that the election was stolen. It features QAnon influencers, Matt DePerno, Jovan Pulitzer and others. “It’s not over, and we have not lost.” Trailer: pic.twitter.com/sZt6o81nlm
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 29, 2021
Crooks and Liars – This is apparently real – and thank God (and these lawyers) for it.
Liberal Redneck – Kamala and Enjoying Memorial Day
Beau – A very personal video but one which is filled with hope. What was that about a door closing?
Jun 012021
So here is the plan – OK, not really, it’s juat a proposal. I welcome feedback both positive and negative. I will put up an Open Thread daily. It won’t be posted between 2 and 5 am as TomCat’s were, but I can always use the scheduling tool to put ot up at, say, 7:00 am Pacific (8 Mountain, 9 Central, 10 Eastern, not sure about Oz) and be consistent about it.
– I am thinking it’s maybe time to scrap the puzzle.
– I can include a cartoon every day – at least at first, they mostly will not be mine; but I do have the frame saved and can start making some as subjects arise. Besides, most of TC’s bear repeating.
– I should be able to come up with 2 or 3 short takes daily, even as competent and no-nonsense as President Biden is. there are others who are not.
– If anything in my personal life affects when or how much I will be able to post, I will, of course, tell you. Otherwise, not so much.
– There is no way that I know enough about 60’s and 70’s pop music to come up with blasts from the past daily. Is anyone else interested in that?
Cartoon:
Short Takes
Twitter – A thread from Michael Harriot, concerning the Greenwood Massacre, AKA the Tulsa Race Riot. It’s posted in a Thread Reader so that it makes a coherent article. It tells the true story of that Massacre of 1921, a hundred years ago. It’s not what you’re thinking. I thought I knew something about it, but I certainy didn’t know all this.
The Hill – 9 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2022 This is scary because the list includes both ways.
PolitiZoom – Mike Flynn Telegraphs How He Intends To Sabotage Future Elections With His Movie ‘The Deep Rig’. I consider this important enough to feature it both here and in the Video Thread (his tweet). PolitiZoom was started and is operated by Ursula Faw, who used to write at Daily Kos. A few others who used to write there now (also) write here – all are people I trust to fact check.
May 312021
Glenn Kirschner – One the DOJ is wrong on
MSNBC – Sure is too bad Missouri lost Claire McCaskill. But I’m grateful they elevated her first, anyway.
CNN – Happy to hear Acosta speak up on this. Maybe some will listen.
Tornado Siren? (I’m getting tornado warnings here between thunderstorm warnings now. ‘Tis the seasin.)
Beau on UFO’s
Keith Olbermann – The fact is, whatever we do, people are going to get hurt. We need to be sure the people who want fascism are the same ones who get hurt – or at least, hurt the most.
May 312021
This is the thread I had ready for yesterday, but didn’t want to post it then as we all had other things on out minds. I am also posting it early so that a thread will be up early for comments So please consider it today’s Open Thread and hang comments on it. I have even included a “Blast from the Past” at the end (with a bit of explanation as it’s often misunderstood.)
Glenn Kirschner – “A Tale of Two Insurrections”
The Lincoln Project – Memorial Day
Armageddon Update – Yes, Titus can be tough to listen to. But his facts are sound. Sadly, that’s getting harder to find.
Ring of Fire – Giuliani phone call – Farron manages not to editorialize too much (and of course Hattie is always adorable.)
Thom Hartmann – Why so few plea deals? You may already be aware of this … but he explains it so well.
Beau – “Let’s talk about a second Operation New Life and counter arguments….” I want one of those T-shirts.
“Blast from the Past” – Going Home – Paul Robeson
There is more to this song (and to the singer) than most people are aware of. Sure Dvorak – but without two other men (both nlack) it would never have existed. Harry T.Burleigh. William Arms Fisher. It has CC but CC does badle with music, so the lyrics are here.
There will be more videos this afternoon, also.
May 302021
Thatt is not the most flattering picyure of our dear friend. But he was so thrilled with that sweater.
Like so many here, I came to know TC through Care2. I was happy when heasked to take on the small duty of re-posting to Care2. That’s how I became emotionally involved enough to push myself in to the “gang od four” who got involved when in 2015 he suddenly “disappeared” We were all terribly worried, but we did find him even before he was recovered enough to start chasing the nurses again. Who can forget the day when he “ketched two!”
From now on, I don’t know whether I will ever again think of TomCat without also thinking of WWWendy. Se brought so much comfort and light and joy into his life that we, being so geographically far away, were unable to supply.
I hope she will forgive me for adding the image of an angel to her post. I know she is too modest to do so … but we all now she is one.
“Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”