Wednesday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report informs us that Our Ochre Abomination staged a confrontation with Dem Maine Governor Janet Mills some time ago (as a reminder) over #47’s discriminatory anti-trans sports ban in schools, as Mike Figueredo tells us...sooo, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule wanted to let 170K Maine kids go hungry in order to punish TWO trans athletes? Yeah, that sounds about right for this regime...and OF COOUUURRSE, Mr. “Art Of The Deal” blinked and Gov. Mills will get the USDA funding for school kids that Mills and her state are legally entitled to (NSFW/H)...



Update: I pretty much don't bother anymore with the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, but probably the only writer I read at this point is Jamelle Bouie; he hit it out of the park today with this.

...and John of The Damage Report lets us know that, more Trumpist BS notwithstanding, yeah, “MAGA Mike” Johnson and his fellow bootlickers in the U.S. House, including Bri-Fi, are indeed going to have to cut Medicaid to pay for more stinking tax cuts, which of course that nitwit Brian Kilmeade con-vee-niently forgets to mention, about the stinking tax cuts I mean (and Medicaid was expanded under the ACA - shocking that Kilmeade is actually right for a change - but that was pretty much paid for by the Feds, though red states largely refused the ACA expansion anyway)...good point by John to basically lay out the strategy from the “party of Lincoln,” which is to just cut Medicaid and dole out tax cuts as soon as possible to help deflect people from getting POed about it at town halls...not that people will be fooled, but that’s typical for these “R” cretins in power, to tell people to just shut up and get on board with our rotten policies...GREAT point by John and Luke Beasley that MAGA and the rest of the wingnuts will truly be turning the culture wars garbage “up to 11” next year to get people to vote against their own self-interest...look for a gay trans athlete leading a pro-Palestinian boycott illegally subscribed to Medicaid who, as it turns out, will be an “anchor baby” who was a DACA arrival to this country and was also a fentanyl mule with heart tattoos linked by #47 to Tren de Aragua and also charged in the abduction of a white female college student (a la Laken Riley), and every single MAGA YouTuber and social media influencer, to say nothing of Fix Noise, will be talking/posting about this person 24/7/365 (and no, I don’t want to see white female college students abducted and/or harmed in any way)...



...and Mehdi Hasan speaks with Democracy Now! on the first anniversary of starting his news site Zeteo, and also talking about Gaza...one of Hasan’s great points is how Palestinian voices are “iced out” from our oh-so-august-in-their-imaginations corporate media, including those Sunday morning programs that haven’t mentioned any of the starvation in that region...Hasan also talks about the torture (and yes, that’s what it is, as Hasan says) of imprisoned foreign students such as Rumeysa Ozturk (and just as a reminder, Ozturk was released pending a hearing, but she should never have been snatched and flown off to Louisiana without due process in the first place)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about Repug U.S. House rep Michael McCaul of Texas (of course) who says something pretty darn racist about his colleagues in the U.S. House...the starting point for McCaul’s disgusting words is Newark, NJ mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest and detainment by masked federal immigration police when he joined three Democratic congressmembers set to tour a newly reopened 1,000-bed Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility run by Geo Group (advocates say the facility lacks proper permits)...as always, a Repug NEVER EVER thinks the racism is about THEM...as Jesse says, the issue wasn’t “peacefully protesting”; the issue was (and is) the fact that sitting Congress people HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT TO CONDUCT OVERSIGHT, and for McCaul to use the phrase “gang violence” in that ridiculous statement of his tells us what kind of a mental defective he truly is...and Tricia McLaughlin, quite simply, is a f*cking liar from a regime of liars and I don’t know what else needs to be said about that (NSFW/H also)...



...and I apologize for failing to note earlier that May 11th was National Twilight Zone Day...and yes, that’s really a thing; I present the following clip from this episode as a tribute...



...and that also gives me an excuse for this tune.