Ahhh. The Gordie Howe hat trick. This one aged well.

With their Nationalist Socialist "white christian" drivel, Musk and Vance and Rubio helpfully reveal who they are while stroking MAGA haters. But it's a diversion. The real choice for younger generations: ride the galaxy aboard the multicultural Enterprise, or drudge for the corp on the Nostromo?

Our unifying "Christian faith" glosses over the Reformation and the Inquisition, Cromwell and the Huguenots, Pope Night and the 30 Years War. Now that Rubio has erased the contributions of Jews, non-believers, Africans and Asians we'll see if pale skinned papists join the Latin ones as targets.

Watergate pales before this.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

The Troubles are a possible outcome here - blessedly the lines are not as brightly drawn along faith or race as they were in Ulster. I spent time in Derry and Belfast watching two wings of the working class claw at each other's eyes. Twas grisly and grim.

In praise of the patriots of Minnesota, and wisdom for the rest of us: "If Men will not fight and defend their own perticuliar spot, if they will not drive the Enemy from their Doors, they deserve the slavery and subjection which awaits them." - Abigail Adams,

Teddy Roosevelt would agree. Absolutely. It's not just fascists - it's the roots of fascism that Democrats and Independents need to address.

There are Persons...amazingly stupid, as to distinguish in this Dispute between Power and Right, as tho’ the former did not always imply the latter...the Exertion of Power in those Hands with whom it is lodged, however unconstitutional, is always justified (Ben Franklin, posing as British hypocrite)

That Shakespeare one sounds pretty cool….the bard would approve, and maybe ask whether there are not better targets for the Atlantic today, like Fox News and its anti-Semitic ravings.

Why, by today's British historians, are the American rebels of 1776 demeaned as whiny tax scofflaws - but the barons who rose against King John over taxes (also with French aid) and forced him to agree to the Magna Carta, such venerated heroes?

History rhymes.The coal and railroad barons believed they were superior humans, graced to rule the commoners in their new age because a few patents and government largesse made them rich. When Darrow got them on the stand they spouted this sort of nonsense and appeared ridiculously greedy. TR noted.

People can prevail. History can click. Darrow could not save Debs from jail, or help the young Bryan against the coal and railroad barons and Mark Hanna’s Gilded Age vulgarians - but then came these guys named Roosevelt, scouring the malefactors of great wealth.

In our history the Supreme Court almost always sides with property. That is why the exceptions are well known - they are rare. I proposed this to Scalia once and he shrugged: if people want change they should elect lawmakers who will change the law; it wasn’t his job to search for rights.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

All of Canada is about to fall in love with Tom Wilson. It will be great to see.

And, the French fleet, short on money, was able to defeat the British at Yorktown and cut off Cornwallis because the Spanish inhabitants of Havana chipped in and sent an emergency fund to the French admiral for provisions. 3/

It was Spain, with some Cajun help, that liberated Baton Rouge, Mobile and Pensacola from British armies and sent gunpowder up the Mississippi to Daniel Boone and Clark to save Kentucky. In fact Boone died a Spaniard, sort of, as an immigrant in Spanish Missouri./2

So here is how long the Spanish have been here: when George Rogers Clark helped them defeat the British at the battle for St. Louis during the Revolution and build the US claim for the trans-Appalachian West, Spain had already been in North America for two centuries. 1/

This place is notorious for seizing law-abiding, legal immigrants on technicalities and threatening them with detainment in this facility if they don't self-deport. So they want it to be horrific.

In Ireland they think Trump is an arsehole. A weakling. He would have ridden with the Black and Tans or been a weasel of an informer. Some Irish Americans - Rogan, Kelly, Hannity, O'Reilly - forget their immigrant ancestors. Jimmy Breslin called them shopping mall Irish.

I bet if the FBI wasn't run by morons Savannah Guthrie wouldn't be forced to go on TV and tell some two bit kidnappers she'll pay millions of dollars in bitcoin for her mother's safe return

One minute and nine seconds. I guess this answers the question about whether the Democrats have a succinct, affecting message for the fall election.

Absolutely.

And...he royally energized House Democrats who will scorch the Republican earth - and now Trump, awakening to all this, has sold him out for picking on poor Bill and Hillary....

Anthony Davis to the Wiz! Went to the Wash Post web site: zilch, niente, bupkis. Went to the NYT/Athletic site - and there is the story! Somebody - the NYT? a smart ass blogger? The Banner folks? are going to make love and money filling the DC sports vacuum, and they'll name their first child Jeff.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Folks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.

Democrats gonna flip 100 House seats.

Nixon had Trump tendencies but on a far smaller scale: eg his silly Secret Service uniforms vs. destroying the East Wing, Rose Garden and Kennedy Center. The guardrails and norms were stronger. (Ailes but no Murdoch) But RN did shake down donors, stir hatred and use his power against political foes.

The Supreme Court, with rare windows of change, is an institution dedicated to the protection of property. A few unicorn cases grab our attention for good or bad while the work of sheltering commerce and corruption goes on masked, or in the dark. Clarence Darrow’s biographer says: Good move NYT.

I have been interviewed by Isaac Chotiner. Twice. He’s tough. But nobody is a craftier inquisitor than Brian Lamb.

Taylor Rehmet is only 33 by the way

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

After Saratoga the Hessian POWs were marched to Charlottesville where they were stunned by the destructive effects of white supremacy on the slave owning class. The wealthy whites spent their days in a vapid alcoholic haze; only dancing gave them brief respites of joy.

Harris lost because she didn't convincingly talk about prices and wages to folks struggling to afford a house, their kids' education, milk, eggs, hamburger and coffee.

JD Vance in 2021:

of racist demagoguery, the establishment of mass internment camps, the inhuman treatment of immigrants and the use violent tactics on the streets against protesters. Bishop Taylor lost some 30 relatives in the Holocaust.

The Catholic Bishop of Little Rock, Anthony Taylor, has published a striking column in which he compares developments under Trump in America, to things that happened in Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1932—he particularly notes the proliferation

Richard Nixon and Ted Kennedy - a secret meeting in a Washington church basement - we almost had national health insurance in 1974 - and then Wilbur Mills went swimming with a stripper. True story. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

The 1st amend does not cover just big news ops like Fox or NY Times. It protects the Tucker Carlsons and Joe Rogans and Don Lemons - your school newspaper and your yard signs, tshirts, books and movies too. Always has. Lemon's arrest is a malicious violation. S/ Clarence Darrow's biographer.

This style of post is literally every second thing I see on here and it’s utterly absurd. Van Hollen in particular could not be a worse target.

History says that this is far from over, and there are hard days ahead. But it is affirming - and a thrill - to see the power of a non-violent movement once more in our lives. India. Birmingham. The Moratorium. Manila. Kiev. Minneapolis. Keep the faith, baby.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

The Founders designed the Senate to have lawmakers from big diverse electorates and extra long terms to insulate them from haste and unruly passions, and encourage leadership. They should be out front on this. Are you okay, Dakotans, with what Trump goons are doing to Americans? If not, call Thune.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

In the W years, an immigration reform bill backed by Bush, McCain, Lindsay Graham, Obama and Ted Kennedy died under right wing media attack. Kennedy said: "What are they going to do with the 12 million who are undocumented? Develop a type of Gestapo here to seek out people in the shadows?"

Minnesota GOP leader Chris Madel: "I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican, when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of the color of the skin and what they look like. I did not sign up for that.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔