Dec 112025
 

Yesterday, I found in my inbox and archived a Huff Post article on the civil suit that three Representatives have brought against the Apricot Antichrist. (I didn’t get all the money-asks out, but it is much easier to read than I found it. There is a good deal of white space and multiple photos. so it’s longish to scroll.) The lawsuit is not new, but it’s news to me that is it still ongoing. Generally, the websites of Representatives will not accept contact forms from non-constituents, and I have not checked to see whether any of these three is an exception to that. But if you are mailing Christmas (Hanukkah, Diwali, whatever) cards, and can spare three, this might be a good way to use the spares to send gratitude. Also, I saw the results on the special election in Georgia (we won) and the Miami mayoral election, not won by a Democrat in 28 years. One source said that we lost the most recent prior election by 9 points, but won this one by 67 points. That is quite a flip. I’ve seen different numbers since, but all the numbers show striking flips.

This from the 19th does make a kind of very ugly sense – “Wombs are essential to ethnic nationalist movements.” It’s a natural consequence of fear of immigrants to be worried about the birth rate. If they could only relax and allow (and empower) government to do what it is meant to do, like “promote the general welfare,” the birth rate would manage itself. Not everyone is competent to be a parent.

I am NOT recommending that anyone try this from The Root. As someone implied in a response, it needs “a special set of skills.” But it gave me a smile – even though I don’t trust “Mike” as far as I could throw Rhode Island.

This from The F* News, suggests to me that we need to work much harder to demonstrate that the modern Republican Party is actually a death cult. The lead story can be Exhibit A. When we run out of letters, which sadly won’t take long – we can start over with AA, and so on.

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Nov 072025
 

Yesterday, I received the link to Barry’s online obituary from Carrie. Barry and I must have been in the Marines at about the same time. Also yesterday, Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement from Congress – giving San Francisco plenty of time for candidates to show up – and there are several already. The 19th has the story, and I’m sure they are not alone.

This by Joyce Vance is as good a combination of summary and marching orders as I have seen.

Doktor Zoom from Wonkette makes an excellent point here. Maybe I’m weird, but instead of being the 80-year-old in the room who thinks they know what will worked because it always has, I’m the 80-year-old in the room saying, “We have never seen anything like this in my life and I don’t know how to cope with it. If we are going to rely on history, we need to go back to FDR’s first term election to see what worked, and even then, today’s not quite the same. We need also to listen to people who are new politics, including young ones.” Rational people have a strong tendency to believe that rational argument can educate people. It can do that for some, but not for enough to win elections (at least not in red areas.) We have to find ways to meet people where they are.

Wonkette was hot yesterday. I already bumped one from them to Saturday so as not to duplicate sourcing, but this was simply too funny (in a scary way) to wait.

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Sep 192023
 

Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s media interviews, his continued lies & the need for a gag order to protect the jury pool.

The Lincoln Project – Senile

PoliticsGirl – What is Going on with our Media?

Brent Terhune – They Kicked Lauren Boebert out of Beetlejuice

Puppy Who’s Been Through So Much Loves Her New Family

Beau – Let’s talk about Susanna Gibson and Virginia….

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