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<\/p>\nYesterday, I essentially got ready for today. That didn’t leave much time free. By the time this posts, I’ll be on the road, and by the tie the video thread posts, I’ll be in the middle of my visit. See you all when I get back.<\/p>\n
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Crooks and Liars – Pattern Of Democratic Clean-up On Aisle Republican Deficit Continues<\/a> Mother Jones – The Owners of the Democrats\u2019 Big Data Firm Have a Side Gig: Working to Elect Far-Right Republicans<\/a> The Revelator (Center for Biological Diversity) – A Nose for Science: Conservation Dogs May Help in Search for Endangered Franklin\u2019s Bumblebee<\/a> Food for Thought – Yesterday, I essentially got ready for today. That didn’t leave much time free. By the time this posts, I’ll be on the road, and by the tie the video thread posts, I’ll be in the middle of my visit. See you all when I get back. Cartoon – Short Takes – Crooks and Liars – […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4696,3704,3723,3721,4115],"class_list":["post-45652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-gop-lies","tag-justice","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Now we have the Biden economy doing what Trump had promised, but without having reversed any of the Trump![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/messes.jpg\")
tax cuts (yet). Just think how much better off our national finances could be if at least certain Democrats (cough, Sens. Manchin and Sinema, cough) would acknowledge that and help the president take the obvious next steps.
\nClick through for column.<\/a> It’s short but meaty.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The involvement of TargetSmart\u2019s owners in electing right-wing Republicans has remained unknown among the political professionals within Democratic and progressive campaign circles. Informed about this, a former technology specialist for the Democrats says, \u201cThis is not a good look for TargetSmart.\u201d And a union official notes, \u201cThis is pretty damning\u2026In the world [TargetSmart] occupies, it couldn\u2019t be much worse. A lot of Democratic consulting firms do work for corporations that don\u2019t always support Democrats or progressives. But to have a sister company working on behalf of Republicans is not good for its standing.\u201d
\nClick through for full story.<\/a> Sadly, the cold fact is that big successful businesses and Republicans go together We all would be better off to stay aware of thet.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The quest to save a rare pollinator from extinction has just gained an unlikely ally: a mutt named Filson. A six-year-old Australian cattle dog mix with black and tan fur and oversized ears, Filson will soon join the mission to find the endangered Franklin\u2019s bumblebee (Bombus franklini). The fuzzy pollinator, which no one has observed in 15 years, became a federally protected species this summer.
\nClick through for more,<\/a> and not just bees. This really is exciting for anyone who realizes how connected we all are.<\/p>\n
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\nBonus – a comment from the Wonkette newsletter:
\nA Journey Of One Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Baby Step. And we really do have a thousand miles to go when it comes to fixing America’s infrastructure, and this bill that was going to be a giant stride forward is ending up to be just one step. But it is a step, in the right direction for once<\/a>. And we should embrace that, and own that, and harken back to a time when all the steps were backwards, into authoritarian nativism, which really wasn’t all that long ago.
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