Glenn Kirschner – Trump & Bannon’s Ongoing Conspiracy: Trump Tells Bannon to Defy Congressional Subpoenas (Have they even served Scavino yet? He’s been hiding from the servers) I have some sympthy for the Justice Department. Indicting them without locking them up would only add fuel to the MAGAt fire. Indicting them and locking them up in a known location would also add fuel to the MAGAt fire. Possibly so would indicting them and locking them up in an unknown location (isn’t that what Guantanamo is for?) If they defy these subpoenas and Congress makes a criminal referral to DOJ, they might be able to lock them up for that without adding too much fuel to the fire, though. And then investigators might have a little slack to gather more evidence for the real charges. Hey, it’s just a thought.
Don Winslow Films – #DeleteZuckerberg
MSNBC – ‘It’s Bad News’: MAGA’s Gaetz Sex Crime Probe Takes New Turn (I post this not because of any interest in Matt Gaetz, but for what it imlies about other investigations.)
The Lincoln Project – Trump or Virginia
Really American – Unvaccinated Destroying Everyone Else’s Life
Liberal Redneck – School Board Terrorists
Beau – Let’s talk about the New York police union and narratives…. (Beau works ahead too, so he had not heard of the guy’s resignation when I saw this. But that still adds no facts to the reasons. By the time you see this, we may all know more.)
Glenn Kirschner – More Indictments Coming From NY DA Vance, Per Today’s Hearing in Weisselberg/Trump Org. Court Case
The Lincoln Project – Brian Kemp Laugh Track
politicsrus – Afghanistan Truth HD
RepresentUs – The Freedom to Vote Act Summary and Explanation. This is not the JohnLewis Act – it is the one which originates in the Senate … and therefore has a chance of passing. And it’s likely the best we are going to get. Ask yourself would we be better off with it or without it before picking at what it doesn’t do.
Robert Reich – 10 Years Since Occupy – What Did We Learn?
Armageddon Update – 9-11: We Forgot to Never Forget
Founders Sing – Here They Come Again
Beau – Let’s talk about Biden, mistakes, and the 1950s…. I rest my case (I’m blue in the face from repeating it myself, though nit as well as this presentation.)
Glenn Kirschner – Why Was the J6 Rally a Spectacular Flop? Here are the Two Big Takeaways from Today’s Failed Rally
Meidas Touch – Scoop: DeSantis staffers MOCK him behind his back, call him WRONG DeSantis
The Lincoln Project – Democracy is Under Attack. No surprises, but TLP style is pungent.
Don Winslow Films – #FloridaIsVietnam
Really American – Madison Cawthorn Threatens Civil War if Democrats Keep Winning Elections
Colorado Turnout Project – Lauren Boebert: American Terrorist (made months ago but being resurrected for the “rally”
Beau – Let’s talk about comedians and journalists…. I’m sure there’s not a sould here who isn’t aware of this (most of us have been since George Carlin, or even before.)
Yesterday was another quiet day – and also cooler, which was nice. I pulled together what I’ll be wearing Sunday
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HuffPost – Militia Leader Gets 53 Years In Minnesota Mosque Bombing
Quote – Hari made a brief statement before she was sentenced, saying, “For how blessed my first 47 years of life were, I can’t complain about what the last three have looked like … considering my blessed and fortunate and happy life, I can’t ask the judge for anything further.” She also said the victims who testified during Monday’s hearing have been through a “traumatic ordeal” and she wished them “God’s richest blessings in Christ Jesus.” Frank said he was prepared to recommend Hari, who is transgender, go to a women’s prison, but said the Bureau of Prisons would decide. Click through for story. Long in coming … but it looks like justice. 47 + 53 = 100, which is a healthy expectancy even for someone who is not trans.
ProPublica – THE SECRET IRS FILES
Quote – Taken together, [the collection of documents] demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The IRS records show that the wealthiest can — perfectly legally — pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year. Click through for lots more. The link I’ve provided takes you to the cover page with a list of – and links to – all the articles that are related. The quote is from the lead story.
The Hill – How lawmakers aided the Afghan evacuation
Quote – The Hill spoke to nearly 20 lawmakers and staffers in both parties about what their offices went through over the fraught two weeks between when Kabul first fell, on Aug. 15, and the last U.S. military flight, just before midnight Aug. 30. The mission was personal for many of them: Some are veterans, or relatives of veterans, of the 20-year war, and some had even worked with local interpreters whom they considered key to their survival. Click through for more. Traditionally, a part of every Congressperson’s job is to step in like an ombudsman for oppressed constituents. This is what that can look like. And, yes, it can be heart-wrenching. But it could also have been so much worse.
Glenn Kirschner – As Feds Prepare for the Pro-Trump DC Rally on 9/18, We’re Learning More About the “Failures” of 1/6
The Lincoln Project – 24 years (Of course the vast majority of rapists are not on the streets but in their victims’ homes.)
The Franklin Project – School Board Bullying IMO this fallout of January 6 is scarier than Sep 18.
politicsrus – Newsom HD – I had to push a couple to tomorrow since the recall is today.
Really American – Recall The GOP
Eyepop Productions – Boatlift This was made in 2011, and I saw it then on PBS – so it’s actually no longer untold – but many people aren’t aware of it.
Beau – Let’s talk about Biden, mandates, reactions, and Orwell….
Yesterday was pretty quiet. For a while in the afternoon rin poured and thunder roared, which at least kept the temprature down. My energy, however, remained low.
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The New Yorker – The Agent
Quote – Yemen was a particularly difficult place to start a terrorist investigation, as it was filled with active Al Qaeda cells and with sympathizers at very high levels of government. Click through if you will. It’s quite long because it’s quite in depth, and it’s hair-raising. I chose that quote because you could make it present tense, substitute “the United States” for “Yemen” and “Y’all Qaeda” for “Al Qaeda,” and it would be true.
The Guardian – Six US Capitol police officers could face discipline for 6 January actions
Quote – Investigators were able to identify officers involved in 26 of the cases [out of 38 investigations], the statement said, and found no evidence of wrongdoing in 20. Of the other six, it said, three are cited for conduct unbecoming, one for failing to comply with directives, one for improper remarks, and one for “improper dissemination of information”. Click throughfor little detail but much privacy. We did know some of the officers were more accommodating than needed be. We can hope these are they.
Glenn Kirschner – is late. So I threw in the kitten vid.
Meidas Touch – E. Jean Carroll says she has SLAM DUNK sexual assault case against Trump
Now This News – George W. Bush Compares Domestic Extremists to 9/11 Hijackers (or, When you’ve lost W…)
Really American – Texas Abortion Law Targets The Poor
MSNBC – What You Need To Know About The Planned Sept. 18th Rally – The white dude doesn’t convince me, and I’m glad to see he doesn’t convince the others either.
Cracked – If Dentists Were Honest | Honest Ads
Kitten Who Needed An Incubator To Survive Grows Up To Be A Spitfire – Personal story – I had a cat give birth on my bed (while I was in it.) She had 5 kittens, but rejected the last two. One was still in the placenta and not breathing, but the other was (mostly) out of the placents and was breathing, but cold. I warmed him in my hands, found a doll bottle, and tried to feed him a little milk (I had no KMR and no time to waste.) He took very little, if any, but it got all over him. In despair, I laid him down by MomCat to try to figure out what to do next. To my surprise, she perked up – “What’s this” – and started bathing him. I guess he must have smelled better and tasted good from all that spilled milk. Anyway, after that, he never looked back. In fact, he became her favorite of the litter. Totally by accident … but someone else might be able to use it sometime.
