So said President Joe Biden to MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace yesterday.
His facebook message is more in depth on the subject:
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So said President Joe Biden to MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace yesterday.
His facebook message is more in depth on the subject:
come to think of it, the country itself is no longer the America of my mother’s (born before women could vote) and my gay nephew’s childhoods.
strangely too, it’s no longer (as of yesterday’s affirmative action ruling) the America that helped me and the 4 other women be admitted to a law school class of more than 150 freshmen some years ago.
Attribution: The Not Normal SCOTUS by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Funny, when Uncle Joe told Nicole yesterday “it’s not your father’s Republican party” I thought wow, that would be a great message for going after moderate Republicans. But I thought it was spur of the moment — happy to see this facebook ad, it means they’re settled upon this as a strategy. Yes!
This ain’t NOBODY’S Republican Party because it’s just a religious cult.
Jack Smith looks to hit Trump with up to 45 new charges and indict attorneys: report – Raw Story – Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
Aw man, Elon Musk’s hate-powered internet site is down, i was hoping for a morning dose of misinformation
Oh well, i guess i’ll have to settle for boring fact-checked and sourced traditional news, yawn
i saw a tweet yesterday when that lightly-staffed website was running, yesterday, and it said that Finland had banned private schools , and i thought to myself, “…rock on Finland, i have been advocating that FOR YEARS”, and a mix of pride and hope instilled almost a kind of intoxication as i reveled in my own sagacity.
I did have to wonder, though, after the buzz had worn off, “…but is that really true?”
Googled it, totally not true 😒
The Beginning of the End for Putin?
Interesting Foreign Affairs article.
If you’re referring to twitter, I just checked it and it seems to work same as ever.
i don’t have a twitter account, so i just try to read it without logging in, which was tedious but possible. i can’t now, but i suppose it could be me 🤷♂️
One of the wormholes i went down was academic criticism of social-media-based “citizen -journalism”, in the context of reporting on Prigozhin’s rebellion. i would like to share some of that criticism, here, because i think some
of you would be interested in it, but the concern i have is that i don’t know who these people are, on behalf of whom
or what they are posting, if they’re disinformationists or statists or 3rd-party chaos agents, or what, and there is a real war with real casualties going on in Ukraine, and i’m loathe to offer accidental (dis)informational support to their aggressor.
All that said, the underlying premise of most of their critiques of Western media analysis of the Prigozhin revolts is that none of the so-called experts in Western media understand the nuances of the various Russian state institutions and power-structures, and on a more basic level Russian society itself, and that Putin still enjoys a more secure position that the pundits would have you believe.
Is that true? i can’t say, but Western media tends to get Russian matters wrong
BB – I compared the most recent pic of Poo-tin with images from his visit to TX, down at the ranch in Crawford with W way back when. Either he’s had a lot of work done (not just Botox and fillers, but a nose job – which is entirely possible) or one of his stand-ins has been making the rounds. Need good pics, old and new, of the ears.
He has good reason to be paranoid and in hiding after last weekend.
I was in my sixth and final year of high school the year when integration came to the island, in much the same manner as described in THE PRINCE OF TIDES, by Pat Conroy. I observed it with full attention the day it “sank in” towards the end of the school year on the high school playground.*. After the events of that day made it plain to all that integration was not going to be beaten back, or down, but was here to stay, the white folks scrambled and had to take immediate and drastic evasive action.
The next year word got around that all the white folks kids would be attending classes at the local baptist church while they got them a school built on land donated by a local farmer. This mushrooming of religious white schools happened all over town and country.
* A whole ‘nother story.
Go Jack Smith!
Bring on more charges.
i had to laugh last year when the esteemed CBS News had on Krutschev’s Daughter, (as if it was likely that such a person would offer unbiased analysis without an agenda) to analyze Putin’s then potential threat to Ukrainian borders and sovereignty, and she said something, like:
”i zon’t zhink zat Poo-teenk vill inkvade, eet ees yust a bluff”
Of course he invaded the next day
Let’s remember that it’s not just tRUMPsky who would ruin our democracy. DuhSantis, Hayley, Scott, and anyone else running as a Republican are equally worrisome…as is Crackpot Kennedy who is running as a Dem.
I love POTUS Joe!
Biden/Harris 2024!
As someone who has only voted Democrat for national offices, i’d consider voting for Romney, with a recognition that he was vindicated regarding Russia and had the character to buck his party and vote for impeachment of currently-indicted guy
i’m not saying i would, i’m saying i’d consider it. What’s the worst that could happen? Loss of SCOTUS-control for a generation and a 30-year rollback of progressive policy goals?
i couldn’t in good conscience vote for any of the current formally-declared GOP candidates as long as the central theme of their efforts and platforms is exclusion
ok, pardon me, Slava Ukraine ✌️🇺🇦🫡🇺🇸
His name was Edward Brown. He was one of the eight or so African Americans who showed up for classes that year, ‘67 maybe. Edward was an enigma. Imagine Eddie Murphy, Sidney Poitier, or Cleavon Little in the 12th grade. He clearly was not “from the island”. Joe and I were in a rock and roll band playing in all manner of dive joints and so we were not really a part of the high school zeitgeist. Kind of cheesy outlaws, lol. So…..that day was proceeding about the same as all the others leading up to it, a Mexican standoff between derision and endurance, when Joe and I noticed a crowd of the football guys and their lackeys had formed a circle around one guy trying to goad one Arthur into a fight. Arthur was a bit goofy looking and a bit slow mentally so he attracted a lot of their abuse and he was plainly scared and didn’t know what to do as the other kid and the crowd kept taunting him. I nudged Joe and we watched Edward Brown striding across the field towards the would-be fight. None in the abusive circle noticed his approach. As he walked I watched as he stripped off his belt and began to wrap it around his fist until only the big brass buckle was left flailing. He walked into the center of the ring and very calmly asked, “Which one of you white motherfuckers wants it first?”… Read more »
Short Story of the Apocalypse:
”I went to Sullivant” by James Thurber
Talk about tough….our school had its own Coroner.
—Lenny Bruce
SCOTUS rules for anti-gay web designer 6-3
We have a SCOTUS that apparently is learning subtraction and division, and doing one hell of a job of it. Since they’ve subtracted about 60 years from where affirmative action programs stood yesterday, I cast my memory back to 1970 – when I first became exposed to diversity in an educational setting. So I graduated from my all white HS the year before black students from East Lake and Woodlawn began riding the bus to Huffman High. My sister was still attending there for a couple more years and she said the sky didn’t fall or anything like that – although I’m sure my mom and all the neighbors were sure it would. I went to UA main campus – it was 7 years after George Wallace’s stand in the school house door at Foster Auditorium There were a scant handful of black students in my second semester history class (about 100 students total in an auditorium class), in fact the girl next to me was one. Very nice, smart and reserved. Had to be a lonely existence for black students at UA back in those days – but they were pretty active – had one or two fraternities and a sorority and the AASA that participated in and sponsored student activities, and a couple years later the student body elected a black VP who was part of the anti-Machine Party (the Machine was the Greek system white frat boy party) who ended up being a good friend (and… Read more »
Poobah, I read an article yesterday about that case. Apparently it was a fiction drummed up by the same bunch of motherfuckers who drummed up the fictitious wedding cake case. Being afraid they might have someone ask them to design a wedding website was enough to get into court. So much for “case and controversy”. I hate our SCOTUS and the assholes (Mertle and Dumbass) who gave it to us.
SCOTUS has gone off the reservation.
Court strikes down student loan forgiveness. That’s a wrap for Democratic turnout 2024, Republican Court attacks women blacks gays and young people
Women, Blacks, LGBTQ, students. I think things will get interesting over the next 16 1/2 months.
Can’t believe court found standing in the gay case. The woman, the plaintiff, made up a case. No one asked her to do a gay page.The guy she cited as seeking the work says he never did, isn’t gay and is already married???
Don’t forget the POODs.*
*Pissed off old democrats.
Wow… been trying to tell people I know for years that the one reason to vote Democratic is because of the SC. I wonder if they believe me now….
I hear you Bink… but… but… as for Romney…. don ‘t do it…
Time for a gay person to refuse to make a cake/website/database/auto repair for any straight or christian (not religion type). I doubt that would raise a legal case or two, but still it would get five minutes of news time.
today’s meme…
Well, this is one POOD who will be voting in November ’24. As if a POOD vote in WV is worth even a tinker’s damn.
Standing in student loan case also in question.
State isn’t harmed by student loan forgiveness but got standing to sue.
And a non-existent wedding website never asked to create a gay page has standing to sue.
New rule: Anyone who wants the Supreme Court to reverse rights it doesn’t like has standing to sue.
Statement from the guy plaintiff claimed asked her to make a gay marriage site: “I wouldn’t want anybody to … make me a wedding website?” he continued, sounding a bit puzzled but good-natured about the whole thing. “I’m married, I have a child—I’m not really sure where that came from? But somebody’s using false information in a Supreme Court filing document.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/29/2178416/-The-apparent-big-lie-behind-the-pending-anti-LGBTQ-SCOTUS-case
The latest from our “great” Ottawa County Commission.
https://www.wgvunews.org/news/2023-06-27/ottawa-county-board-passing-resolution-aimed-at-protecting-childrens-innocence
Jan. 6 Suspect Arrested Near Obama Home After Trump Shares Address — Had weapons, ammunition in van…
https://www.newser.com/story/337141/fugitive-jan-6-suspect-arrested-near-obama-home.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=nordot&utm_campaign=rss_main&s=01
President Trump shared Obama address on Truth Social hours earlier. A Truth Social account linked to suspect Taylor Taranto reposted the article Trump shared and added, “Got them surrounded!”
To be decided a few months before 2024 election
meanwhile, other things that might blow up too – literally. Russia reducing its presence at nuclear plant, says Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian Russia is reducing its presence at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate (GUR) has claimed, with staff told to relocate to Crimea and military patrols scaled back. The agency’s chief, Kyrylo Budanov, has alleged Moscow has approved a plan to blow up the station and has mined four out of six power units, as well as a cooling pond. Last week Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Russia was plotting a “terrorist attack”. According to the GUR, several representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, have already left. Ukrainian employees who stayed at the plant and signed contracts with Rosatom had been told to evacuate by Monday, preferably to Crimea, it said. The intelligence agency named three senior individuals – the plant’s chief inspector, the head of the legal department and the deputy in charge of supplies – who had already departed. It said the number of Russian soldiers at the station and in the nearby town of Enerhodar had been reduced. […] Former plant workers told the Guardian it would be difficult to damage the reactors, which were protected by thick steel and concrete. But they said the small cooling pond – which the Russians have allegedly mined – was more vulnerable, as was a dry storage area used for spent nuclear fuel. An explosion in the cooling pond could lead to a partial… Read more »
other scotus news:
Supreme Court sends back Ohio redistricting case | The Hill
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Truth is none of us is rich enough to buy a seat of two of the court formerly known as supreme, or a few congress critters. America has never been for the average person, even though a few good people tried. Unless something quite radical and possibly horrible happens to a few of those for sale on the court formerly known as supreme, and President Biden gets the replacements in we will possibly see many more rights turned into huge piles of cow manure in the next year. They can feel it and are not going to stop.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-abortion-johns-hopkins-study/
“Close to 10,000 additional babies were born over a nine-month period after Texas banned most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy…”
“Analyzing live births in April through December 2022, the study captures people who were at least seven weeks pregnant when the law went into effect or later became pregnant. The researchers used historical birth data to model how many births likely would have occurred in Texas if the law hadn’t gone into effect and compared that to the number of actual births.”
“After the ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy went into effect, Texans were finding ways to circumvent the law and terminate their pregnancies. People showed up to clinics earlier in pregnancy; there was a spike in demand for abortion-inducing medication from AidAccess, an online provider; and clinics in nearby states saw a flood of Texans.”
“But advocates and clinics warned that there was no way these workarounds were accessible to everyone who previously would have sought an abortion.”
“The state is still battling persistently high maternal mortality numbers, a crisis disproportionately impacting Black women, and is staring down a health care provider shortage that is already limiting labor and delivery options in rural areas.”
Wow…. Sounds like Biden is now at war with the court formerly known as the Supreme Court….. good!
I always thought that Zager and Evans song was kinda pessimistic, but in a fun kinda way.
you tell me
they paved paradise and put up an intergalactic superhighway
2525 was a big one for us teens as we knew the russkies were going to bomb us at anytime. But, also look at the other songs of July 1969.
Allow me to fuck with your algorithm
Can’t believe they took a hypothetical case. Who takes a freaking hypothetical case? Anyone who came into my HR office with a what-if case, I said come back when you have an actual case.
Ok, a little something to help the brain, And I would bet her redition of a Jim Croce song would be fit to listen to also
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