Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Wednesday Stuff


With the unrelenting stream of garbage stories in the news from our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes, I thought it would be a good idea to present some items that are actually good news, and the first is this (from Mike Figueredo)...a Wisconsin bill banning gender affirming care is making its way through the state assembly, though, fortunately, it would be vetoed by Dem guv Tony Evers if it ends up on his desk, though the bill shouldn’t have been introduced in the first place...the good news in this is that Wisconsin resident Larry Jones waited to testify in favor of this nonsense, but after hearing the stories of those who would be singled out, he commendably changed his mind; kudos to him for coming around on this issue as he did...and more that 500 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced so far this year? Yep, I would also say that this is focusing on “the wrong one percent”...terrific point about waging the class war versus the culture war (NSFW/H)...



...and Farron Cousins lets us know that Bronzer Beelzebub recently claimed that he never signed the order to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, assuming he can even do that of course without congressional approval (though it’s not as if he actually cares about legality, as we should all well know by now)..funny thing, though – his scrawl does indeed appear on that executive order, so yeah, he’s lying yet again and also may not even be competent at this point to do the job he was elected to do if he’s admitting that he’s delegating tasks all over the place...



...and Thom Hartmann gives us some utter horror stories when it comes to Combover Caligula and his minions detaining people coming to this country from overseas, especially in the case of a green card holder returning from Germany, who was imprisoned and treated like a violent criminal...”a naked attack on free speech” indeed...with this gaggle of idiots in charge, NO ONE will want to come to this country before too much longer (and more on the case of New York Times v. Sullivan is here)...



...and Chris Hayes gives us the story of an Idaho teacher (Sarah Inama) who was told to take down her “Everyone is Welcome Here” sign in her classroom, apparently because the sign committed the unpardonable sin of including hands of a non-white skin color (with a report from local TV station KTVB...God almighty, what the #@$! Is going on in the West Ada School District??!!)...and yeah, idiots in the state legislature passed a law against “critical race theory” (and once more, CRT is a college-level field of study looking at systemic prejudice in particular laws, institutions and social structures...what’s going on in this classroom has NOT ONE DAMN THING TO DO WITH THAT!!!)...and is this Marcus Myers ever a racist nitwit!...segment also includes clips of residents protesting at town halls and the beyond-clueless response from Republicans (and a still-more-ridiculous response from the troglodytes of the West Ada School District is here)...



...and as a follow-up to the Hayes clip, I think this is a terrific response from Shawn Wright, owner of Brigade Screen Printing in Boise...since the Everyone Is Welcome Here sign was taken down in Inama’s classroom, orders for T-shirts with the sign have apparently flooded Wright’s shop, which is pretty cool I must say (and orders from all over the world, it should be noted)...this is another bit of good news I wanted to include here...

...and by the way, don’t look now, but PA Dems just flipped a state senate seat in a special election that had been held by a Repug for 46 years (and in a district Trump won by 15 points last year - more here); additionally, Dems won a seat in the state house, which now gives them control of that body (before, the seat totals were tied at 101 between both parties...more good news)...clip also gives us an important update on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election between Susan Crawford and Trump sycophant Brad Schimel, with Elmo trying to purchase the seat for Schimel – also important in this race to make sure the Repugs and their ridiculously gerrymandered maps don’t get reinstituted in that state...Brian Tyler Cohen gives us the details (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and drummer Paul Hester of Crowded House died tragically 20 years ago today (reach out and get help if you think you need it – life is too important, and too short).

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