Racist etc. Republican majorities cowed Democrats for decades. That time is over and done. We can tell them about themselves now without fear, no matter how much they caterwaul. Actually, we could have many times before, but our candidates listened to too much Conventional “Wisdom” and shut themselves up too often. Gore, Kerry, Hillary...No more.
Remember, remember The Eighth of #Roevember, SCOTUS Roe treason and plot. I see no reason Why SCOTUS Roe treason Ever should be forgot.#Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Focused on my freedom! We. Won’t. Go. Back. https://t.co/XDKuFPu4Zk pic.twitter.com/0nTmLpjdz3
FiveThirtyEight: 60 Percent Of Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall
There are a lot of election deniers on the ballot. Out of 529 total Republican nominees running for office, we found 196 who fully denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election. These candidates either clearly stated that the election was stolen from Trump or took legal action to overturn the results, such as voting not to certify election results or joining lawsuits that sought to overturn the election.
New Mexico banishes Trump ally from office for insurrection
A New Mexico state district court judge on Tuesday disqualified county commissioner and Cowboys for Trump cofounder Couy Griffin from holding public office for engaging in insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The judgment from state District Court Judge Francis Mathew permanently bars Griffin from federal and local public office. It arrived amid a spate of lawsuits aimed at sidelining political candidates and elected officials linked to the Capitol riots.
Good. That’s one. Let’s see what happens to the others.
Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach
Scoop: McCarthy's "Commitment to America" rollout
McCarthy “Commitment to America” as described on MSNBC
Yes, they should all be committed.
Hillary Clinton says Trump led 'seditious conspiracy' against US government
Clinton tells CBS she never thought to 'claim victory' in 2016 despite calling Trump an 'illegitimate president'
Repeated by Fox News! Nobody can tell her she isn’t allowed to say such things any more. Molly Ivins got there first, of course.
Forbes: Trump Kept Foreign Nuclear Secrets At Mar-A-Lago, Report Claims
More specifically, secrets about another country’s nuclear capabilities. But we haven’t been told which country.
Intelligence officials assess fallout of Trump mishandling of U.S. secrets https://t.co/NaU8hFTbE2 via @msnbc
Beau of the Fifth Column—Let’s talk about Trump’s nuclear documents
Bannon Indicted in NY State
Due to surrender to authorities today.
Bannon was involved in fundraising for “building a big beautiful wall” (guess who said that) under the auspice of We Build the Wall Inc.
His co-conspirators, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty to the Federal charges that Bannon was originally indicted for in April in the Southern District of NY. They weren’t as lucky to receive a Presidential pardon as Mr Bannon, as much as they may have believed that absolute loyalty to Trump would be rewarded. They were due to be sentenced today (Sept 6), but I have not read how that worked out for them. But in a plea agreement Kolfage agreed to serve 51 — 63 months.
ADL Center on Extremism report on 38,000 Oath Keepers
The Oath Keepers Data Leak: Unmasking Extremism in Public Life
To hear them tell it, you would think they had many thousands of infiltrators, and that most of law enforcement and the military were sympathizers.
Oath Keepers discussed protecting Rep. Ronny Jackson on January 6 (CNN) "Dr. Ronnie Jackson - on the move… Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him. He has critical data to protect." —Oath Keepers group message during Jan 6 attackhttps://t.co/grH5hmQT63 pic.twitter.com/BURNbJM1ej
Mike Seeger on jaw harp - Old Blind Drunk John (Fooba Wooba)
Burl Ives cleaned up his version for the kiddies.
Hey, John, ho, John, fubba wubba John.
Xi and Putin to meet in person next week, Russian envoy says: state media
Putin is desperate for friends, including North Korea.
Russia is purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea, US official says
U. N. Inspectors call for “security protection zone” at Zaporizhzhia power plant
The nuclear watchdog agency, which will later brief the U.N. Security Council, said that shelling around the Zaporizhzhia complex should be “stopped immediately.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency calls for a ‘safety and security protection zone’ at the Zaporizhzhia plant.
Ukraine seeks a safe route for civilians wanting to flee the region of an embattled nuclear plant.
Water disasters are not Good News. Finding out and starting to fix them after decades of racist neglect is.
Mississippi Says Water Pressure Has Been Restored in Jackson, But Boil-Water Advisory Still in Effect
In a statement, Jackson representatives said tanks at O.B. Curtis Water Plant "held steady overnight" and into the morning, with the plant's output meeting the city's goal of 87 pounds per square inch (PSI).
"All of Jackson should now have pressure, and most are now experiencing normal pressure," the city said while noting that "additional challenges as repairs and adjustments are made leave potential for fluctuations in progress."
Despite the progress, Jackson's boil-water advisory remains in effect. According to CNN, the city needs to collect two rounds of clear water samples to end the advisory, and they hope to begin testing in the next few days.
Odessa, Texas Residents Help Each Other Overcome Water Shortage After System Breaks amid Heat Wave
Temperatures reached 100 degrees in the city as water remained off for more than two days due to the "major" water main break
Baltimore Sun: Latest updates: Where to get water, areas affected, and more after E. coli found in Baltimore water
The Guardian: Toxic arsenic levels make tap water unsafe for thousands in New York City
Residents of one of the largest public housing complexes in Manhattan have not had safe drinking water for more than a week
SHUT UP AND DRINK YOUR ARSENIC
Tom Paxton, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band w/m: Tom Paxton © 2001 Pax Music (ASCAP)
I heard it on the radio, on Prairie Home Companion, but I can’t find a performance on the Interwebs.
Shut up and drink your arsenic, plebes. Ordinary news indeed. https://t.co/cumbmylhbh
Biden cabinet meeting about recent successes
President Biden begins a cabinet meeting by touting the CHIPS Act and the IRA package as proof that “democracies can deliver for people” pic.twitter.com/dPeEYyS1EH
Unlike TFG, who used such a meeting to extract fulsome and nauseating “Dear Leader” praise from his devoted but totally transactional paskudnyaks, Biden took the opportunity to praise his team for their hard work and their many contributions to OUR recent successes.
I’m incredibly optimistic about the future that we’re building here in this country, but it requires solid work making these laws work.
As Trillian put it in HHGTTG,
We have normality. Anything that you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
Rs are losing on every one of those issues.
Good News Thursday: They Smashed the Overton Window to Flinders
MSNBC: Congress returns: 5 things on lawmakers’ to-do list ahead of the midterm elections
Any of those could be a whole Diary, and will be, here in GNR or elsewhere on DK.
There is reasonable hope for limited R cooperation on the first two, because total intransigence there would heat up the midterms against them even more.
And then Congress has to break for campaigning throughout October up to #Roevember 8.
In the meantime, the Obamas were at the White House, where Biden hosted their glorious official portrait unveilings, which TFG refused to host or even allow, Boo! Hiss!
Today, in a longstanding American tradition, @BarackObama and @MichelleObama will return to the People’s House to unveil their official White House portraits. Don't miss the live @WhiteHouse ceremony, starting at 1:30 PM ET. pic.twitter.com/a9Q7ay4jow
A song that McCartney said he had been itching to do back in the day.
Today including political-historical #MAGAlarkey weirdness.
Joy Reid: "The history of the United States is replete with violence that results in a group of people who felt entitled to get their way not getting their way." https://t.co/v8BS6NC6SU pic.twitter.com/QXQg1yIvWa
The map of historical horrors is shown 23 seconds in. Cue CRT caterwauling.
Green crabs have already invaded Washington's shorelines. Now they're heading to Alaska.
Green crabs have already invaded Washington's shorelines. Now they're heading to Alaska. | Via nbcnews https://t.co/iSuXnn1HxY
The region under Thwaites and other glaciers is being explored by several Boaty McBoatfaces.
Boaty McBoatface to see action in £20m mission to study melting Antarctic glacier https://t.co/oHUc7ocVig pic.twitter.com/WlDtpfuRig
Skills.. pic.twitter.com/djF4NiyGm1
Honored to be retweeted by MSNBC’s Joy Reid. https://t.co/cLUMALqK4T
The US Department of Veterans Affairs will begin offering abortion services for the first time, opening up new options for veterans and other VA beneficiaries whose pregnancies resulted from rape or incest or otherwise pose a threat to their health. https://t.co/gACKs2KwIG
#Indivisible #TruthBrigade: Focused on my freedom! We. Won’t. Go. Back.
Prison break.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/d81G57agnc
Four new studies in Science reveal evolutionary innovations in reptile and amphibian brains using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. https://t.co/vOxHG9qHJh (THREAD) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/ZXOUcdp8ne
An axolotl! (/ˈ æ k s ə l ɒ t əl / ; from Classical Nahuatl: āxōlōtl [aːˈʃoːloːtɬ] (listen ) )
Single-cell analyses of axolotl telencephalon organization, neurogenesis, and regeneration
Cell-type profiling in salamanders identifies innovations in vertebrate forebrain evolution
Altered insulin signaling allows queen ants to live long and reproductively prosper, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://t.co/Qm032aiWh4 pic.twitter.com/7DQYznQpQr
If you’ve seen everything.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/pIcPdVrjE9
The World Turned Upside Down
Bill Bramhall, The New York Daily News @BillBramhall pic.twitter.com/fcqmgooBOs
Drew Sheneman, The Star-ledger #GOPHypocrisy pic.twitter.com/OXSJ14J3XZ
Jim McCloskey, The Cartoonist Studio #LaborDayWeekend @laloalcaraz pic.twitter.com/DKyuPJTeZK
Today's best political cartoons: https://t.co/a7lOjKd41p pic.twitter.com/myh8ZC98Nr
America First is a fascist slogan that goes all the way back to WWII, at least. Everyone knew it then, too. Check out one of Dr. Seuss' political cartoons on the subject. pic.twitter.com/opxJNCJ1FW