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No Fair Remembering Stuff: The Brooks Brothers Riot
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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
Because I Am Forever A Snickering Tween
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
Now Listening: The Cornfield Resistance with Driftglass and Bluegal for Friday, September 9
I’ve been a listener since stumbling into a Second Life group that used to host listing parties online during the Bush-W Administration. Do check out their Patreon!
The Only Time Democrats Pay Attention To Rural America Is Before The Iowa Caucuses. That’s BS.
The only way for the party to regain traction in rural places is by running strong campaigns in districts that usually back Republicans.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/opinion/democrats-rural-america.html
The future of America depends on young organizers connecting with rural voters. We liberals have forgotten the maxim:
“All politics are local.”
We Saw This Happening, We Knew This Was Happeining
He also indicated that CDC could operate more effectively “if the public health agency was independent,” based on his experience in the Trump Administration. — Dr Robert Redfield, former CDC director
— Read on coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-releases/select-subcommittee-releases-new-findings-detailing-trump-administration-s
Two progressive Democrats plot a new course to fight Republican gains : NPR
Reps. Khanna and Raskin say Democrats should reclaim issues of patriotism, stay out of the political correctness business and improve their dialogue on racial divisions to reach out to all Americans.
— Read on www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1094288815/two-democratic-progressives-plot-new-ways-to-fight-back-against-republican-gains
Can Democrats Win Back Rural Voters? | The New Yorker
I’ve said this for more than 20 years; we’re not helping rural voters if we snub them because it’s easier to canvass in the suburbs and cities. And rural voters control Congress.
The Maine state senator Chloe Maxmin and her former campaign manager, Canyon Woodward, the authors of the forthcoming book “Dirt Road Revival,” join Dorothy Wickenden to talk about intensive grassroots organizing as the key to Democratic success at the polls.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/podcast/politics-and-more/can-democrats-win-back-rural-voters/amp
Thanks to @ProPublica, The Truth Is Coming Out
Oh, yes. The investigations into the planning and funding of the attempted Capitol Coup are getting closer and closer to the Trump crime family.
Guilfoyle’s texts, reviewed by ProPublica, represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family circle were directly involved in the financing and organization of the rally.
Progressives must no longer cede school boards to the GOP.
Progressives should treat these races as a prime opportunity to take on the right.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/conservatives-school-boards-youngkin-crt-progressives/