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<\/p>\nYesterday, Besides getting this and the Videos up for today, I also worked on getting them ready for tomorrow, so that I can spend more of today on geting ready, and getting enough sleep to go see Virgil.<\/p>\n
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Talking Points Memo – DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish<\/a> Robert Reich – Zelensky patriotism, Putin patriotism, Trump patriotism<\/a> Crooks and Liars – Disabled Voters Don’t Exist<\/a> Food For Thought<\/p>\n Yesterday, Besides getting this and the Videos up for today, I also worked on getting them ready for tomorrow, so that I can spend more of today on geting ready, and getting enough sleep to go see Virgil. Cartoon – Short Takes – Talking Points Memo – DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4936,4268,4115,4446,3838,3805,3766],"class_list":["post-47592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-disability","tag-insurrection","tag-justice","tag-patriotism","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-voting-rights","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\/47592","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=47592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who spoke to TPM last month about Garland\u2019s slow pace in the Jan. 6 probe, tweeted on Wednesday that [Thomas] Windom\u2019s appointment shows that the attorney general is \u201cNOT asleep at the switch.\u201d
\nClick through for more<\/a>. TPM seems to be the only otlet talking about this. But we can hope everyone else is distracted by the shiny objects of Kevin and Marj and Ron and Disney.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – We recoil in horror as Putin and his forces wreak havoc and death on Ukraine \u2014 before our eyes and in real time. Both Putin and Ukraine President Zelensky repeatedly invoke \u201cnationalism\u201d and \u201cpatriotism,\u201d but Putin\u2019s nationalism and patriotism are manufactured to justify this brutal and unprovoked aggression while Zelensky\u2019s words explain astonishing sacrifices now being made by ordinary Ukrainians to protect their freedom, democracy, and homeland. Donald Trump uses the same words, too \u2014 as do his acolytes in the Republican Party. His version of national patriotism is closer to Putin\u2019s than to Zeleneky\u2019s.
\nClick through for explanations<\/a>. I’m glad he isn’t ready to give u on the word, but sadly, I am. I’ve seen too many words destroyed.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – The Wisconsin Supreme Court finally got to hearing the case last week, after people had their rights denied. It was during this hearing that things went from bad to the stupefying ridiculous. Rick Esenberg, the head of WILL tried to deny that people like [Martha] Chambers [who has been paralyzed from the neck down following a horseback riding accident 27 years ago] even existed
\nClick through for the full story<\/a> if you can bear to. This literally beought me to tears.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nevertrumper.jpg\")
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