Glenn Kirschner – Why Trump’s Frivolous Executive Privilege Lawsuit Will Fail AND Why It Won’t Help Steve Bannon
MSNBC – Adam Schiff On Jan. 6 Vote To Hold Bannon In Contempt
Thom Hartmann – Was This SCOTUS Judge Working With Jan 6th Coup Plotter?
Ring of Fire – Republicans Are Terrified That Trump Will Destroy The Party Next Year
politicsrus – Native America
Liberal Redneck – To All the Americans Leaving Their Jobs
Beau – Let’s talk about an update on Biden’s wind-power push…
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s Iowa Rally, DOJ’s Inaction & the Implications for the 2022 Midterm Elections
The Lincoln Project – Package Deal
Thom Hartmann – The National Debt Lie Debunked
Ring of Fire – Cyber Ninjas CEO Says No More Audits After Getting Death Threats From Trump Supporters
Really American – Bannon And Others Defy Subpoenas: LOCK THEM UP
If cryptocurrency was [sic] honest
Beau – Let’s talk about the jobs report, early unemployment, and wages…. exactly the same as Robert Reich, in slightly different words.
Glenn Kirschner – Senate Report Reveals More Trump Election Crimes; What Congress Should Do About Witness in Contempt
Steve Schmidt on Deadline White House – I looked on YouTube and couldn’t find it.
Steve Schmidt perfectly nails Mitch McConnell’s game on #DeadlineWH , “Mitch Mcconnell and the Republicans want to create chaos. And then they will run on turning that chaos into restoring what was not broken before they broke it. It’s extremely, extremely cynical.” pic.twitter.com/TiPVKYm7Wk
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 6, 2021
Politicsrus – Debt Ceiling Part 3 HD
RepresentUs – Sen. Durbin Quotes McConnell to Prove Voting Rights Are Bipartisan
Thom Hartmann – The Two Strategies The GOP Will Use To Steal 2024 Election
Really American – Tucker Spews Raw White Supremacy On Air
Beau – Let’s talk about Idaho and republican divisions….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s de facto “All-Of-Government” Corruption Policy Exposed by Republican DHS Whistle Blower
Meidas Touch – The FUNNIEST Trump impression you’ll hear all day!
MSNBC – Colorado Secretary Of State Sues To Strip GOP Official Of Election Powers
RepresentUs – Senate dysfunction might crash the economy (Here’s the petition link) http://represent.us/debtceiling
Political Voices Network – Did You Hear The Liz Cheney Interview? You Need To! (I won’t go so far as to say you need to watch the whole interview – but this 2 minute clip – Yeah.)
Robert Reich – The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party
Beau – Let’s talk about a fact check of the US duty to help Haiti….
Glenn Kirschner – House Investigation of 1/6 Insurrection Issues 4 Subpoenas. Here’s an Overview of the Legal Issues
Meidas Touch – Rep. Dingell on Standing Up to “Hateful Bully” Marjorie Taylor Greene
Really American – Republicans Opposing Paid Sick Leave In Infrastructure
Liberal Redneck – Review of Kyrsten Sinema (Excerpt)
“Mangy Fetlocks” – A Message for Trumpsters About Their Car’s Warranty
Beau – Let’s talk about how white people should respond to racism they see….
Yesterday, my grocery delivery came quite promptly (in the first hour of a four-hour window) and I got everything put away quickly except the shelf-stable beverages – and I did get those in, and have room to store them, they’re just heavy. Also, we heard from WWWendy. Please check out yesterday’s open thread for her comment.
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
The Hill – Biden sidesteps GOP on judicial vacancies, for now
Quote – There’s no Senate rule that requires Biden get buy-in from GOP senators on who he nominates. But a Senate precedent known as the “blue slip” gives home-state senators tremendous sway over who gets nominated for district court vacancies in their state and the power to block nominees they oppose.
Click through for explanation. In politics, everything is a gamble, but this seems reasonable.
Democratic Underground – Schmidt: The “TRUMP COUP MEMO” should be an occasion for a giant, collective, national time out.
Quote – There now exists in the public realm, documentary evidence, a written plan to kill it off and replace it with something new. It was written by the Presidents atty and presented to the President. Trump took that paper and turned it into a weapon, a poisoned shiv and stuck it into the rib cage of American Democracy. He twisted it, crazed with rage that he had been rejected and repudiated.
Click through for the full thread – that’s what this is, a Twitter thread unrolled for easy reading. Schmidt knows whereof he speaks.
Twitter Threadreader – Harrowing account of effect of UNVACCINATED on hospital ICU capabilities
Quote – In August my dad was living independently in rural New Mexico, as he has for years, in a beautiful place with a view of the mountains. He got vaxxed against Covid as soon as it was available, wore masks, and was waiting out the pandemic like the rest of us. Then, he had a fall.
Click through for (tissue alert) story. This is another Twitter thread opened for easy reading. In case it gets taken down before you get to it, there is another copy here which won’t.
Food for Thought –
Glenn Kirschner – When Donald Sued Mary: Why Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Against his Niece and the NYT is Dead on Arrival
Thom Hartmann – Senator Whitehouse Exposes Plot To Seize Supreme Court
Now This News – Ad for Fake Funeral Home Trolls the Unvaccinated. (No words needed.)
Robert Reich – The Secret to Actually Taxing the Rich
The Daily Show – The Messed Up Hist-HER-y of Childbirth
Beau – Let’s talk about salad dressing and Flynn….
Glenn Kirschner – 60-Second Clip: It’s the Department of “Justice” not the Department of “Just Move On.”
Don Winslow Films – #McCarthysPlanToAttackBiden
The Lincoln Project – Abbott’s Wall
Franklin Project – Teachers are Civic Superheroes
Colorado Turnout Project – Crickets From Rep. Doug Lamborn (no CC)
Really American – Tuckers Newly Obsessed With Testicles (It is also possible the dude’s testicles are swollen, from some other cause, which he is too embarrassed to admit to [or doesn’t know why.])
Beau – Let’s talk about AOC’s dress…. (As a fabric artist [OK, technically a fiber artist, but still], I love it that he managed to get in the word “fabricate.”)