Glenn Kirschner – NY DA Bragg invites Donald Trump to testify in grand jury; next prosecutorial step? An indictment
Politics Girl – Fox News Viewer?
Thom Hartmann – How Does Fox News Get Away With Lying To America?
MSNBC – ‘Complete bull’: Franken demolishes McCarthy for Tucker’s Jan. 6 propaganda
Leukemia cat was languishing in shelter. This woman took him home. Hanky Alert
Beau – Let’s talk about new Trump document case developments….
Have you ever heard of Susie King Taylor? Neither had I. Yesterday, I got an email from Theater of War which introduced me. She was the first Black nurse to serve in the Union Army during our Civil War. She wrote a memoir later, describing her experiences then and in the later Jim Crow era, and ToW is doing a presentation of selections from that memoir featuring Samira Wiley. That sounds like it could very well blow the roof off of the venue – except that the venue is Zoom. I also found it interesting that Margaret Atwood, who has played Tiresias a couple of times (“a crabby old prophet who is alwayr right – type casting”), has a Substack newsletter herself. I don’t necessarily want a personal newsletter just because I like the person, but I definitely signed up for hers.
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Denverite – Why homelessness solutions aren’t working and what the unhoused need, according to 828 people experiencing homelessness
Quote – In recent political debates, some candidates have speculated that many unhoused people simply don’t want housing. The results of the survey suggest that isn’t true in the vast majority of cases. “Between 93% and 99% of houseless people want some form of housing,” the report states. But four walls and a roof aren’t necessarily enough. People want safety where they’re staying, their freedom and community, according to the report. Housing needs to offer residents the basics: the ability to control the temperature, restrooms with showers and accessible locations.
Click through for story. If you work with the homeless, or know anyone who does, you can follow a link to the group (HAND) which produced this, then to their “2023 report” page, and download the whole thing. It’s 130 pages, but that isn’t all that many bytes – less than 32 MB, in fact, and I doubt whther you can even find a thumb drive any more smaller than 32 MB.
The Nib – The Long Road to Women’s Suffrage
Quote – On January 10, 1878, Republican Senator from California named Aaron A. Sargent introduced the “Anthony Amendment” – 29 words to amend the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and grant American women the right to vote…. It was named after the prominent suffragette, Susan B. Anthony, co-founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, an organization of which Senator Sargent’s wife, Ellen Clark Sargent, was treasurer.
Click through for full graphic. It was a long and hard battle – and there’s not really a happy ending. None of the three who worked so hard on this could see past whiteness – and none of them lived to see the 19th Amendment ratified. We all need to continue to grow in what reactionaries would call “wokeness.”
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Glenn Kirschner – Is Ivanka Trump throwing daddy, Don Jr. & Eric under the bus in NY AG Tish James’s civil fraud case?
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – March 7, 2023
MSNBC – Another Norfolk Southern train derails in Alabama as CEO testifies before Congress
Brent Terhune – They’re Grooming Kids
Chocolate Lab Growls At Her Foster Until…
Beau – Let’s talk about an upcoming consumer protection SCOTUS case…. (probably a year away, but really important)
Yesterday, I did more work on cartoons. I had planned to get this done earlier, and then stuff happened, so now I’m kind of on deadline. I finished through the 15th, and, since there was only one more to go (the 29th), I finished it also. I’m not even going to look at April before next week sometime – bu it’s less sressful on me if I get them worked out well in advance.
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PolitiZoom – McConnell Brandishes Inspirational Letter From Capitol Police Chief, Joins Schumer In Denouncing Fox News
Quote – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Tucker Carlson’s whitewashing of the Capitol insurrection was a “mistake.” “My concern is how it was a depicted … Clearly, the chief of the Capitol Police … correctly describes what most of us witnessed firsthand on January 6th.”
Click through for story. Obviously this happened before he fell – and you know at least some MAGAts are going to claim that his fall was retribution for this. I think not.
Crooks & Liars – Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is About Abortion Rights
Quote – When the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe vs Wade, the State of Wisconsin immediately reverted to an abortion ban that was passed in 1849. This law is so old and archaic and so poorly written, it is practically unenforceable. It is also all but guaranteed to come before the Wisconsin Supreme Court at some point in time. This naturally makes it the top issue in the upcoming election for an open seat on the state supreme court.
Click through for details. I don’t like the idea of electing judges, but it is what it is. Janet Protasiewicz, the progressive, was the top vote getter in an3-way open primary, BUT she received only a plurality, not a majority, and the third place (loser) is throwing support to the second place MAGAt. So this is not only important, but also precarious.
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Glenn Kirschner – Fox’s elections lies, Tucker Carlson’s J6 video sleight of hand, and the need for consequences
The Lincoln Project – CPAC Day 2 in 130 Seconds
VoteVets – Ban (140)
MSNBC – Chris Hayes: The Tucker Carlson villain origin story
Stray Cat Can’t Stay Away From Family’s House
Beau – Let’s talk about wolves and good news….
Yesterday, I slept late but woke up refreshed. In my emails, I found one from Lakota Law about a Two-Spirit Powwow held lastmonth in the San Francisco Bay Area. Unfortunately, there’s really nothing to link to, but I put up a remoinder for myself for (I hope) early enough next year that I will be able to find it and share links to live streaming. I also worked on some cartoons coming up
Added today at about 10:45 am Pacific – Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized following a fall at a DC hotel. Per a McConnell spokesman: “This evening [now last evening – JD], Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner. He has been admitted to the hospital where he is receiving treatment.”
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Robert Reich – Greed needs guardrails!
Quote – The Labor Department is still woefully understaffed, and penalties are still too low. Every time the department’s budget is up for review, members of Congress — mostly (but not entirely) Republicans — refuse to appropriate enough funds for inspectors or to increase penalties. So of course migrant children coming into the United States, fleeing violence and poverty, have ended up in dangerous jobs. In Delaware, Mississippi, and North Carolina, young children are working in slaughterhouses. In Michigan, young children are making auto parts used by Ford and General Motors. In Virginia, girls as young as 13 are washing hotel sheets. In Florida and Tennessee, 12-year-olds are doing roofing jobs. In South Dakota, children are sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts.
Click through for full argument – not that we don’t already kniw this, and know why, but he does say things so well.
Mother Jones – Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
Quote – The emails demonstrate close collaboration between groups working behind the scenes to push bills banning transgender health care, including [Alliance Defending Freedom]—which has defended state-sanctioned sterilization of trans people in Europe—and the ACPeds—which has opposed adoption by gay couples and supported conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth. In recent years, ADF has drafted legislation banning trans children from using school restrooms or playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. (Both groups are also staunchly anti-abortion; ADF, which drafted the Mississippi abortion ban at the heart of the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, is currently representing ACPeds in a closely-watched lawsuit to ban an abortion pill, mifepristone, nationally.)
Click through for story. Back in the late seventies, when I was in my early 30’s and Bishop of Pueblo Charles Buswell was in his late 60’s, I met him as an informal gathering at my local church. Bishop Buswell was a truly good man (something which cannot be said about all bishops) and also a truly humble man (also rare – it’s easy to get caught up in all the ritual observabces and start believing one’s own PR.) I was chatting with him and the subject of transgender came up (at that time Trinidad, CO was about the only place in the country that a transgender could get gender-affirming treatment at all, and that was not as advanced as it is today.) He mentioned that a priest he had ordained, I don’t know how long prior, was transgender and the Bishop had released her and she had been treated in Trinidad. He then said, “I believe that in such cases the soul of a woman has been born into the body of a man,” and I replied, “That is my understanding too.” He grinned and said, “Well then, our diocese deserves the credit for having ordained the first woman priest.” He seemed qquite proud of that (as he had a right to be.) He died in 2008 (he would have been 95.) We need more like him – but I’m kind of glad he didn’t live to see all of this hatred.
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The Lincoln Project – CPAC Day 1 in 135 Seconds
Fluffy Owlets Grow Big and Strong to Return to Wild
Beau – Let’s talk about Hershey’s and what’s happening…. (Fortunately my side pretty much stopped hurting before I watched this – else I might have split it. bur what I want to know is – is oly the GQP entitled to outrage over candy? Or can I be outraged by Hershety’s because the name “Payday” mocks people who are “working for peanuts”? Or at Ferrero because the “100 Grand” bar is clearly obscenely inflationary?)
Yesterday, I decided whuch urgent care to visit, and went there – unfortunately I ended up walking completely around the building before finding the right door. I didn’t have to wait long. The doctor thought maybe a lipoma, maybe an abcess (I don’t think it’s an abcess – for one thing it’s not hot enough and for another all the abcesses I have seen [granted mostly in cats] hurt more constantly. This spot hasn’t hurt to speak of since last week at this time.) She sent me for an ultrasound and drew a line around the spot, which endeared her to the ultrasound tech (the spot today is the shape of a grand piano lid, except that the distance from thr bottom line nearest the keys to the rounded top is only 4 cm – less than 2″ (Last week this time it was about the size and shape of a standard playing card with the corners rounded off – seems it only increases in size when pain is present.) He did not find any fluid or underlying mass, so it’s still a mystery. I did just manage to pick up my prescription on the way home, and still get home – well, a couple of minutes after sunset, but with almost a half hour of “civil twilight” to spare. But I was exhausted. I have put up a half-sized video thread, using just videos where I have more than one in the queue from the source, in order not to get too behind or have to cut something good. Otherwise, see y’all tomorrow.
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