Glenn Kirschner – Interview with Steven Van Zandt: Rock & Roll Legend AND Justice & Equality Warrior (Part 1)
Lincoln Project – Uh Oh, Donald
Thom Hartmann – Is America’s Militia Problem Growing?
Rebel HQ – Trump Accountant Throws Him Under The Bus
Ring of Fire – Trump’s Candidate Is Failing Miserably In Georgia’s Governor Race
Rocky Mountain Mike – See Karen Whine
Beau – Let’s talk about arbitration, women, and labor….
Yesterday, I actually finished one of the “buttonhole neckline” sweaters I’ve been working o. Sorry no picture yet. I’m not fluent in photography. But I do remember that has been requested and will be working on it. I found a brand new Rocky Mountain Mike parody (based on Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”) – it’ll be in Saturday’s video thread.- And, I placed a grocery order to be delivered today.
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Letters from an American – February 16, 2022
Quote – Parker’s Washington Post story showing the Freedom Convoys as the expression of a radical fringe was an important reality check to the breathless stories from the American right hailing the Freedom Convoys as a popular movement. The story that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton allegedly spied on then-candidate Trump’s campaign in 2016 illustrates the importance of the sort of reality-based corrective the Washington Post published about the Canadian truckers.
Click through for both stories. We may never be able to reach loony-tunes RWNJs, but it’s still important – maybe even more important – for sane people to have access to the truth.
The 19th – How Ketanji Brown Jackson’s pursuit of success as a lawyer and parent got her a potential Supreme Court nod
Quote – After another stint in private practice, Jackson was nominated by then-President Barack Obama to serve in a full-time capacity on his Sentencing Commission. She was confirmed to that post in 2010. It was the first of three times that she has gone through a Senate confirmation process. “This for me was an opportunity of a lifetime, and it was well worth enduring what I can only say was the extremely nerve-wracking nomination and confirmation process,” she said at the University of Georgia. “I actually taught myself to knit as a way to channel my nervous energy during that time. If anybody wants a scarf, I’m your source.”
Click through for details. It is far from certain who will actually be nominated, but she is a top contender, and has ahown good judgment (pun intended) in some of the 1/6 trials. Not only that, she has a sense of humor.
NBC News – Scientists have possibly cured HIV in a woman for the first time
Quote – An American research team reported that it has possibly cured HIV in a woman for the first time. Building on past successes, as well as failures, in the HIV-cure research field, these scientists used a cutting-edge stem cell transplant method that they expect will expand the pool of people who could receive similar treatment to several dozen annually. Their patient stepped into a rarified [sic] club that includes three men whom scientists have cured, or very likely cured, of HIV. Researchers also know of two women whose own immune systems have, quite extraordinarily, apparently vanquished the virus.
Click through for story, including caution from Dr. Fauci. We have ONE cure from this treatment. It’s definitle hopeful, but at best hopefully definite.
Footnote: Tuesday I featured Rober Smalls. Turns out Keith Knight (“Ye Olde Gentleman Cartoonist”) is a big fan of his.
Food For Thought:
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Document Destruction & Mishandling of Classified Materials: When Will DOJ Finally Act?
Meidas Touch – Laughing at the PATHETIC right wing propaganda machine targeting us!!!
Lincoln Project – Vernon Jones
No Dem Left Behind – Donald Trump and the GOP’s Plans to Subvert Democracy
Truth Matters (formerly politicsrus) – Day Without Immigrants
Rocky Mountain Mike – Discourse is Discourse
Beau – Let’s talk about the RNC, McConnell, and Trump….
Yesterday, my back pain was mild enough that I had time to use my TENS on one of my shoulders after finishing woth the back.That helped a lot – except now I need to do the other one. Hopefully, that will work out sometime this weekend.
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NBC News – Boy, 16, charged after predominantly Black D.C. schools receive bomb threats
Quote – A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats after several predominantly Black schools in Washington, D.C., were targeted with bomb threats Wednesday, authorities have said. Among the schools targeted was one that had already received a threat just a day earlier during a visit from second gentleman Doug Emhoff. In a statement Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that the 16-year-old had been arrested. The agency said it continued to investigate the bomb threats with federal partners.
Click Through for details. One would expect that his parents had started on “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught” early and aggressively.
(Hanky Alert) Mother Jones – Her Boyfriend Killed Her Baby While She Was at Work. Oklahoma Might Lock Her Up for Life.
Quote – In November, Hogue was convicted of first-degree murder, even though she never laid a hand on the boy. At a sentencing hearing on Friday, a judge will decide whether to send her to prison for life, as the jury recommended. How is that possible? Hogue was convicted under Oklahoma’s “failure to protect” law, which requires parents to shield their kid from physical harm if they’re aware, or should have been aware, that another adult is abusing the child.
Click through for full article (notice I don’t say the full story). This case reallymakes me wonder, notso much about thelaw or even the prosecutors, as about thejury. Because if there ever were a case where jury nullification would have been appropriate, it seems to me like this is it.
Black History Month – Wikipedia: Jane Bolin
Quote – On July 22, 1939, at the New York World’s Fair, Mayor of New York City Fiorello La Guardia appointed 31-year-old Bolin as a judge of the Domestic Relations Court. For twenty years, she was the only black female judge in the country. She remained a judge of the court, renamed the Family Court in 1962, for 40 years, with her appointment being renewed three times, until she was required to retire aged 70. She worked to encourage racially integrated child services, ensuring that probation officers were assigned without regard to race or religion, and publicly funded childcare agencies accepted children without regard to ethnic background.
Click through for full bio. As the first black woman Supreme court justice is undergoing cofirmation hearing, I though it would be good to memprialize the first black woman judge in the United States.
Food For Thought:
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Document Destruction; Pence Says “Trump is Wrong” & Republican Party Continues to Implode
CNN – NC elections board says it can disqualify Rep. Cawthorn from running over January 6 .[It appears to me that it is exactly the State Secretaries of State/State Elections Boards who have the sole authority to determine who does and doesn’t go on the ballot. I have wrotten to my Secretary of Stateabout my representative.]
The Lincoln Project – “Legitimate Political Discourse 2
Ring of Fire – First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Says Free Community College Is Off The Table
politicsrus – Legitimate Political Discord
Brent Terhune – ban the books NOW
Beau – Let’s talk about fast food, California, and AB 257….
Glenn Kirschner – GOP Gives Aid & Comfort to J6 Defendants by Declaring their Conduct “Legitimate Political Discourse”
The Lincoln Project – “Legitimate Political Discourse”
Ring of Fire – Steve Bannon Issues Ominous Warning To Mike Pence For Going Against Trump
Rebel HQ – What Is Trump Hiding In Mar-A-Lago?
MSNBC – Wisconsin Supreme Court Allows Use Of Ballot Drop Boxes In Feb. Spring Primary [for the last time, maybe]
Randy Rainbow – The Tango Vaccine
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump getting convicted….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Incriminating Outburst: “Pence Should be Investigated for NOT Overturning the Election”
The Lincoln Project – Winter Is Coming
Meidas Touch – Mike Pence: Trump is WRONG, his comments are ‘un-American’
Political Voices Network – An Unreal Story of Trump in Office
Robert Reich – “Legitimate Political Discourse”
Liberal Redneck – Recent Holocaust Rhetoric in America
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump going all in [last] weekend….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump Pushes Protests, Promises Pardons During Texas Rally: Reveals his Fear Indictments are Near
American Bridge – Co-Chair Cecile Richards: Biden making historic SCOTUS pick
Meidas Touch – Nikki Fried BLASTS Ron DeSantis for HIDING TESTS as Omicron surged
The Lincoln Project – Vote While It Counts
politicsrus – Our Future Needs Strong Public Schools
Radio DJ Drives An Hour Every Day For Months To Gain This Wild Pittie’s Trust
Beau – Let’s talk about fake electors and real subpoenas….