“This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election”
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Mariel Garza, editorials editor at The Los Angeles Times, has resigned. The announcement comes after the paper’s billionaire owner killed an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. Link: LA Times opinion editor quits after billionaire owner kills endorsement
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Funny how Republicans loved the “p” word when it was about Bill Clinton. Driftglass’s ‘five minutes on David Brooks’ is back. Tick tock! And we’re not exactly accepting the Cheneys and The Bulwark into our tent. Link: Ep 848: Yeah We’re Never Mixing Tea With Lemonade Ever Again — The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
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Claire McCaskill absolutely furious over yet another shocking revelation of Trump’s abyssal garbage pit where character should be. “When he promised a family he would take care of their funeral expenses, that was before the election,” said McCaskill. “That was in April of 2020. When he said, ‘I’m not going to pay to bury the f-ing Mexican,’ that was after he had lost in December.” She told viewers “to remember, he’ll say anything before an election, but his true character comes out after the election.” Link: ‘He’ll say anything before an election’: Ex-senator blasts Trump after bombshell report
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Data suggests canvassers linked to Elon Musk’s America Pac falsely claimed to have visited homes of potential voters.
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It’s Saturday, I’m listening to a “clip show” retrospective version of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” and I’m trying to exercise my atrophied blogging muscles. I used to be a prolific long-form blogger, until Twitter, real Twitter, remodeled my brain to think in 240-character snippets. I have a desktop computer, and a wheezer of a laptop, that made this easy. And then I got more into wanting to say Something Important via my iPhone or my mini iPad, with their teeny on-screen keyboards. This is a frustrating process and I stopped blogging because it was hard to type and hard…
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Four years ago, an incompetent braggart screwed up the scientific, public health based response to COVID-19. The world economy was at a standstill. I was furloughed, spouse was job-hunting, we stayed home and hoped like hell things would improve after the election. They did, but not until 12:01pm, January 20, 2021. www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/18/us-voters-economy-inflation-growth-presidential-election
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www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Little-Things-You-Can-Do-to-Save-the-Environment-by-hollyatodds/69181176.121KU
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Excellent episode by @driftglass@mastodon.social and @bluegal@newsie.social at #ProfessionalLeftPodcast https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/08/ep-737-no-fair-remembering-stuff.html?m=1
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The Manhattan DA revives the inert “hush money” case against TFG, and this little detail will never fail to make me snicker like a schoolgirl. I’m sure AG of The Daily Beans podcast will happily dust off her Pecker jokes! The Times reported on Monday that witness David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, a tabloid that helped broker the deal with Daniels, was seen entering a building in Lower Manhattan where the grand jury has been empaneled. — Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/donald-trump-hush-money-grand-jury-new-york