This CBC report tells us about the condemnation following the train station bombing in the Kramatorsk region of Ukraine by Vlad The Butcher (reporter is speaking from Lviv...and yeah, targeting schools and orphanages too...again, a pox on any world leader who turned their eye to Putin up until this madness boiled over...more here...
...and one more time, I want to take note of the recent vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the next SCOTUS justice; every U.S. Senate Repug walked out except for Mitt Romney while the Dems applauded, with Huckleberry Graham and Fake Ophthalmologist Paul holding up the vote...also, that Fix Noise guttersnipe Jesse Watters tells us that Dems blocked Janice Rogers Brown for the SCOTUS...she was never nominated to begin with...
...and with the prior clip in mind, Chris Hayes talks about how he thinks Dems can avoid getting painted into a corner, as it were, on crime (with idiots like Tom Cotton trying to confront KBJ on something she wouldn't know about unless you were talking about particular cases or statutes...I don’t think there’s a particularly clear approach that Hayes comes up with here, though he does outline the issue very well...I know some have held up Camden, N.J. as a model when it comes to de-escalating the role of the police, but what I’ve read is kind of a mixed bag, though IMO the emphasis on community policing is the right way to go (here)...there quite simply is no “quick fix” on this issue like so many others, but it will take a mix of “carrots” and “sticks” to address it properly...not the sort of thing you can turn into a slogan that fits on a bumper sticker, and that’s why a lot of so-called “moderate” independent voters will tune it out and instead just side with the Repug who yells “THEY WANT TO DEFUND THE POLICE” the loudest, and I’m honestly not 100% sure of what you can do about that except to stick to the courage of your convictions...and by the way, I’m hot and cold on Philly DA Larry Krasner; I think his advocacy has been a good thing in a lot of ways, though he has had a misstep or two as noted here...and by the way, Hayes knows a thing or two on this subject, as noted here...and playing offense for a change is a good thing too)...
...and David Doel speaks with Alex Kotch again, this time on nonprofits funding climate science denial and more or less “laundering” funds for this awful cause through mega-money managers like Fidelity and Vanguard (oh, great – have to remember the term “greenwashing”)...
...and the latest from Second Thought tells us why means testing is a bad idea, partly because it pointlessly increases the cost of affected legislation (and yeah, that $5 billion set aside by states for welfare is indeed an eye-popping number...”means testing costs the same or sometimes more than the service you’re trying to provide universally” – yep, I can believe that...and it figures that Bri-Fi, that idiot Gottheimer and #MaseratiManchin would come down on the wrong side of this issue...when discussing the OPM report, the number of people lost in 2000 due to poverty, lack of education and other factors in the Columbia study is gob-smacking)...
...and Will Bunch of inquirer.com recently noted that Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence held another one of his hate fests over the weekend (how the hell is he actually NOT in jail yet? And I don’t mean Bunch of course.) and a Johnny Cash tune was played in the background (here), and it was correctly pointed out that, were the “man in black” still with us, he would’ve been one of the first people to call out #45...well, commenter Brian Cummings on Twitter linked to this great Cash tune from back in the day, and I thought it was too apropos of a selection to not include here.
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