Friday Stuff

The Damage Report's John I. and Adrienne Lawrence tell us about ExxonMobil lobbyist Keith McCoy discussing pretty openly his company and its strategy for combatting efforts to fight climate change (as Daily Kos poster Walter Einenkel says, I think somebody may be negotiating a severance package as I type this...more here)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us more details on the indictment of Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg yesterday; someone I believe on Rachel Maddow provided somewhat informed speculation that the point of this narrow indictment is to pressure Weisselberg into giving up more details leading to future charges personally against Our Treasonous Russian Operative Of A Former Chief Executive and his family...we’ll see of course – more here...



...and Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC speaks with Neal Katyal about the wretched SCOTUS ruling yesterday related to Arizona and the Voting Rights Act, which is pretty much on metaphorical life support thanks to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR (yep, “Strip Search Sammy” Alito lets everybody know here that, in the final analysis, he indeed is a Trumpster...more here)...

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...and this video from More Perfect Union "brings the receipts," you might say, when it comes to "Curtsy Kyrsten"...



...and this CBS News report tells us about a couple and their newborn in Arkansas; they weren’t vaccinated and the mother almost died and the baby was born 10 weeks premature...I’m not including this video to look down my nose at these people – I’m glad the mom made it and I wish only good for them and their infant of course...just pointing out that we’re LONG PAST THE POINT where we should be talking about even getting the COVID vaccine unless you have a health condition which precludes that, which is rare actually...



...and Mehdi Hasan speaks with Dem U.S. House Rep Ruben Gallego on the formation of a commission to look into the treasonous insurrection of 1/6 (and I’m fine with including Liz Cheney BTW)...



...and Cenk and Ana give us their take on the same subject (God, the majority of the people in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district must be baked on meth or something...she’s raised $3 MILLION!...wonder how much of that is dark money, though – probably not as much as I hope)...



...and happy 70th birthday to bassist Joe Puerta of the band Ambrosia.

Thursday Stuff

It may be hard to believe that, as a congressman from Illinois, Donald Rumsfeld was a leading co-sponsor of the Freedom of Information Act and also fought for funding on behalf of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon Administration, but that actually is true; however, I’m sure that will be forever buried under a figurative avalanche of BS and propaganda – to say nothing of untold death and ruin – he was responsible for primarily as SecDef under Dubya, as Rachel Maddow tells us...



...and Jon Stewart gave Rummy the treatment he deserved here...



...and I thought this was a pretty sharp take on the other big story from yesterday (we’ll see what today brings of course – thinking about the SCOTUS rulings due today) from Rebel HQ’s Adrienne Lawrence; although I think Cosby is and remains human scum, I think this is a pretty well-thought-out analysis by Lawrence, a lawyer...



...and John and Charles F. Coleman of The Damage Report talk about the heat in the Pacific Northwest (and yeah, that map is pretty damn scary)...



...and speaking of scary, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idiocy runs wild yet again, claiming that the Plan B contraceptive leads to abortion (a typical attitude from a political party that continually denies science)...



...and I hope you're in the mood for an easy listening kind of seasonal tune, because I sure as hell am.

Wednesday Stuff

Beau of the Fifth Column gives us his take on wingnut Repug South Dakota Guv Kristi Noem’s decision to, in essence, privatize the National Guard in her state and send those folks to the southwest border...so many levels of dunderheaded stupidity here – part of me wishes that we’d FINALLY get to a point where someone in her party would say, “OK, we’ve officially gone too far now,” but after 600K dead from COVID, I don’t expect that will ever happen, and I don’t want to imagine what kind of a hellscape this country would be if it did...



...and part of me doesn’t want to get totally preoccupied with Republican cruelty and stoo-pidity at this site, but more and more I feel like I need to address this stuff – Farron Cousins tells us that LA Sen. Bill Cassidy basically considers infrastructure to be a “woman’s problem”...just say “oops” and get out, senator...



...and Chuck Todd(ler) questions AOC about that ridiculous WaPo column from “Curtsy Kyrsten” in defense of the filibuster...David Doel tells us about it (NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen presents that toad Peter Doocy trying to deflect from the fact that the “party of Lincoln” actually supported – wait for it! – “defunding the police” by not supporting the AFP...this guy could only get a job at The Roger Ailes BS Factory, and he’s helped by “dear old dad” taking up space on the “crotch couch” for that AM mess (video ends at about 6:48 – link to donate to “Don’t Be A Mitch” campaign to support funding elections in swing states appears at about 7:41)...



...and as if we haven’t had enough dunderheaded nonsense from the “loyal opposition,” Repug U.S. House Rep Dan Crenshaw is all up in arms over the protest of athlete Gwen Berry during the national anthem...yep, more distraction BS from the other side (Cenk and Ana tell us more...didn’t know about that hidden racist verse in the national anthem...shocking)...



...and here is a summer reading suggestion; really well done and a page turner - makes me think of this somewhat dreamy tune.

Tuesday Stuff

Brian Stelter of CNN raised the red flags here about Sean Inanity of Fix Noise, echoed a bit by Adam Serwer in the following clip...



...and I thought this was a particularly spot-on commentary from Beau of the Fifth Column on Gwen Berry and the flag, the latest “values” dustup of a distraction from the “party of Lincoln” (including this numbskull from Texas)...



...and Chris Hayes asks If Race Isn’t Central to US History, Why is CRT So Important To The GOP (and kudos to Merrick Garland and the DOJ for suing GA over their BS voting law, which, if it didn’t start all of the garbage anti-voting stuff out there, was one of the first states to get that ball rolling, you might say)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Chris Wallace talking with that lying asshole Repug U.S. House Rep Jim Banks on $$ in the Biden ARP for funding related to criminal justice (wow, I had no idea that Nancy Pelosi and of course Ilhan Omar had such magical mystical power to drive down police recruitment and hiring...removing my tongue from my cheek - and if Democrats had actually cared about supposedly trying to take guns away from law-abiding gun owners, which I don't agree with though I'm sorely tempted to do so, they would have found a way to do it by now)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 6/29/15, with a commentary from Bill Maher on the “loyal opposition” from back when Maher used to actually be funny (NSFW/H)...



...and The Lincoln Project brings us “Last Week In The Republican Party”...



...and today is the 65th anniversary of President Eisenhower signing the Federal Aid Highway Act, which was a key milestone in the development of our interstate highway system (from an era where Republicans weren’t politically brain dead...more here)...



...and happy upcoming 70th birthday to Philly jazz legend Stanley Clarke.

Monday Stuff

Brianna Keilar of CNN gives us a report on how The Roger Ailes BS Factory (in particular, Laura Ingraham and The Swanson TV Dinner Heir) do their best to gin up white rage on an almost-daily basis (yeah, typical for Ingraham to focus on what allegedly was property violence in the wake of the George Floyd protests, since I guess non-white people aren’t actually people as far as she’s concerned)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about Paterson, NJ cop Spencer Finch beating up a black man who didn’t appear to give cause for this type of a response (yep, unfortunately, I'm not sure what impact the Derek Chauvin verdict will ultimately have)...



...and Ari Berman of Mother Jones reminds us of the garbage anti-voting bills out there supported by the “GOP” (nothing "grand" about them as far as I'm concerned...and feel free to throw this in the face of any conservative who starts with "Gee, Democrats owned slaves when Lincoln was president")...



...and this report from Second Thought is another video on what is potentially our next housing crisis (and it should come as no surprise whatsoever that Chucky Koch is smack dab in the middle of this mess...and of course, our corporate media is doing its best to manufacture this BS that younger people entering this rigged economy of ours want to rent homes as opposed to buying and building up equity)...



...and for the cherry on the icing of this shit sundae, if you will, Farron Cousins reminds us of our corporate overlords (representing 55 companies in particular) who have the ill-gotten wealth to create the housing bubble just noted largely because they paid absolutely nothing in taxes for 2020 (and speaking of crappy companies, I give you this)...



...and given the utterly depressing news of the prior two videos, I need a bit of an uplifting summer tune.

Sunday Stuff

I thought this was a nice postscript by Ari Melber to the sentencing of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd...



...and this clip tells us about the OANN lunatic calling for the execution of those who actually think Joe Biden won the presidency fair and square last November (and Ana is right about “The Sainted Ronnie R” getting rid of The Fairness Doctrine leading to Flush Limbore and the rise of right-wing radio)...



...and remind me to never visit Ashburn, VA (school board meeting going nuts over trans rights and critical race theory, which – wait for it! – isn’t being taught in Loudoun County schools...our enemies must be watching this from abroad and laughing their asses off)...



...and I need a nice and easy summer tune, and I think this will suffice (nothing to do with BS furor over "critical race theory" here of course).