Thursday Stuff

Sam Seder and The Majority Report tell us about what I could call the pretty clear-headed reasoning from Dem U.S. House Rep Katie Porter of California on the question of impeachment…



…and I thought this was a pretty even-handed report by the New York Times on the oil tanker episode (attack?) in the Gulf of Oman recently (and we know the Iranians are bad actors overall, but I have zero trust in Pompeo or anyone else in the Trump regime concerning their claims of Iranian involvement – at a minimum, we need to wait and see...and of course, as noted here, Huckleberry Graham will yell about a war that he will never have to worry about fighting, as well as that smug, insufferable, traitorous, lying orange POS of a “president”…and there are a few takeaways here as far as I'm concerned, and one of them is that our "friend" Bibi continues to be a cheerleader for trying to sucker us into another war in the Mideast)…



…and as far as I’m concerned, a lot of this garbage from our elected leaders stems from the fact that we should have murdered the AUMF in about a hundred different ways by now, but of course, we can continue to thank the Bush gang for “the gift that keeps on giving,” though, as Dem U.S. House Rep Barbara Lee points out to Ari Melber (with former Repug U.S. House Rep Tom Coleman), President Hopey Changey isn’t innocent here either…



…and as long as we’re harking back to Bushco a bit here, I give you Liz Cheney trying to claim a particle of moral high ground against AOC over the latter’s “concentration camp” remark (more here - and my God, is Chuck Todd a TOOL for this...and check out the roaring silence from many, but not all, faith groups in response …”terror is baked into the DNA of the policy we’re seeing right now” indeed)…



…and I’m sorry I’m a little late with this video on the significance of “June-teenth” (here)…

…and the Philly jazz community is mourning the loss of WRTI radio host Jeff Duperon (here), who brought all kinds of interesting new music and artists to our attention, and who shared his love of this music freely with his listeners…deepest sympathies to family and friends (here is a tune for the occasion).