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Yesterday, I started to look for any pictures which might illustrate the Furies (PoPublica does not permit reprinting pictures), and got sidetracked by the Google Doodle, which was of Alan Rickman. I didn’t completely fall down that rabbit hole, but I did end up using an image I already knew about, as you’ll probably have guessed if you saw it. The Peter Sellars (with an “a”) mentioned is the Australian director, not the deceased British actor and comedian (who spelled Sellers withan “e”). Sellars with an “a” is still alive at 83 and as outrageous as he ever was. Also, I came across a short post at Democratic Underground which I thought was kind of special – you can see it here. Finally, I put together a chair I had ordered which came Saturday, and did some rearranging to get it where I wanted it to be.

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Southern Poverty Law Center – ‘LONG OVERDUE’: BLACK MEN KILLED IN INFAMOUS COLFAX MASSACRE COMMEMORATED ON NEW MONUMENT
Quote – In a bold swap engineered by a Black man and a white man working together, reckoning has come at last to Colfax, Louisiana… This month the Rev. Avery Hamilton, whose great-great-great-grandfather was the first Black man murdered in the rampage, and Dean Woods, whose great-grandfather was part of the paramilitary force that left the courthouse grounds soaked in blood, dispelled the ghosts of their family histories to achieve some measure of justice for the victims of the Easter Sunday massacre. They presided over the unveiling of a monument to the victims.
Click through for story and background. It’s very easy to lose hope in the face of virulent bigotry, not just here, but world wide. But – when something like this happens – it helps.

Daily Kos (Joan McCarter) – Biden needs to go it alone on the debt ceiling
Quote – Civiqs asked about just one of those alternatives, the platinum coin. It’s the “one neat trick,” as Bloomberg’s Joshua Green calls it, for Biden to make the problem disappear…. Precisely. It doesn’t have to be the coin. There are other options, including the one deemed by Michael C. Dorf, law professor at Cornell Law School, the “least unconstitutional option.” That would involve Biden taking Section Four of the 14th Amendment literally, and using it. He could declare that Congress is failing in its constitutional duty to pay the debts it incurs, so he must act to uphold its clear directive: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.”
Click through for article. I have not seen anyone else writing on the subject taking quite this approach.

Food For Thought