Tuesday Stuff

David Doel tells us about a Dem named Taylor Rehmet winning a Texas state senate seat that had been held by Repugs for 50 years (more here)...Mango Mussolini endorsed Rehmet’s opponent, Repug Leigh Wambsganss (and no, I don’t know how to pronounce her name either), and that pretty much did in the “R” party candidate...and $2.4 mil for a state senate race? Once again, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United (oh, and check out this from Repug U.S. House Rep Pete Sessions – yeah, Rehmet won this historic victory because of the bad weather...just keep telling yourself that, you knucklehead)...



...and John and Sharon Reed of The Damage Report bring us the news that, apparently, the alleged head of CBS News Bari Weiss held another “town hall” to get more in touch with CBS’s dwindling viewership...sooo, this person who has never managed anything related to journalism has the unmitigated gall to criticize the staff of her own network and hire a bunch of wingnuts to supposedly make everything right somehow...”it’s just been right wing DEI (with Weiss) from the beginning” indeed...and as far as Tony Dokoupil is concerned, I would just call him Mr. Katy Tur because that’s easier to pronounce...



...and Ali Velshi tells us about corporations supporting ICE...Velshi nails it IMO when he lists all the different types of private companies behind ICE and the CBP, and how those outfits enable the ongoing horrors on our TV, computer, phone screens, etc., to be honest (and great job by Velshi to give us a much-needed-I-believe history lesson on the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott)...one current example is Avelo Airlines being forced to participate in ICE kidnapping flights to send immigrants to CECOT or God knows where...and I thought that was a mealy-mouthed non-answer from the Home Depot spokeswoman about federal law enforcement not required to produce a warrant to enter their parking lots and/or stores...the issue is DETAINING CONTRACTORS WITHOUT A WARRANT – try reading the freaking room!...I knew Apple had removed the app tracking ICE agents, but I didn’t know Google had also done that – typically spineless (and if ICE enforcement is a “vulnerable group,” and I don’t think they are, then what the hell does that make US???!!)...



...and Sam and the crew from The Majority Report give us the awful news of a supporter for the Gropenfuhrer in Nebraska running over a high school classmate protesting ICE...oh yes, please tell me about equivalence from the left (and yes, I heard about the pepper spray incident, which was wrong but definitely not the same thing)...Matt Lech mentions the chasm between Gen Z men and women on this stuff, and I don’t think there is NEARLY ENOUGH attention paid to that; as far as I’m concerned, it’s up to the guys to stop acting like idiots and get invested in their own future, and yes, that’s my simplistic boomer “take” on the whole thing...



...and Mr. Newberger gives us an example of how our fourth estate SHOULD treat the Tangerine Toddler (NSFW/H)...

...and I’d known about this for about a week, but to be honest, I was too gutted to say much of anything about it...we knew Dan and his family and crossed paths from time to time, and you simply won’t meet better people...this gives a pretty good accounting of Dan’s accomplishments; kind of mind boggling to realize just how much he managed to get done in his all-too-brief time in our midst (and his father was a longtime fixture at the Philadelphia Daily News also)...the service is Thursday, and I can think of no more apropos tune than this one (and I'm wearing sneakers as I type this).