Tabby Thursday
I have been a little out of pocket, writing-wise, due to some minor travel and whatnot, so lots of tabs to clear!
- Via Reuters: Trump’s war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ’pro bono’ work for underdogs. And so a system already heavily skewed in favor of the rich and powerful becomes even more unjust.
- Via Gallup: 32% in U.S. Back Israel’s Military Action in Gaza, a New Low.
- Via Eye on the Tropics: Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week.
- Via NPR: Trump voters wanted lower medical bills. But for millions, bills are about to go up.
- Via LGM: Seditionist considered too racist to serve in the first Trump administration to head Institute of Peace.
- From Greg Sargent at TNR: Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb.
- From Brian Beutler at Off Message: Let’s Stop Beating Around The Bush, Part II.
- Via the Pike Road News: Ribbon Cut on New Inclusive Playground in Pike Road. Some very local news that I include only because it struck me that some people might find an inclusive playground to be”woke.” And the fact that the word “inclusive” is now on the bad list for the administration bumped me when I saw the headline.
- Via Hollywood Reporter: Skydance Tells FCC It Will Create CBS News Ombudsman, Eliminate DEI at Paramount.
- Via Rolling Stone in June: Dr. Demento, Madcap Radio DJ Who Launched Weird Al’s Career, Announces Retirement. I first listened to Dr. Demento when I was in junior high in the early 1980s, so I was amazed a few years ago to find out he had remained active for decades. A few years ago, I found the album Dr. Demento Covered in Punk, which was a fun bit of nostalgia (it is on Spotify, for anone who might be interested).
- Some white-washed history.
- And a little art history.
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And don’t forget the Mohawk Skywalkers
@Scott:
And that many of those being arrested, detained, and deported have, unlike Miller, significant indigenous American ancestry.
Re the covered wagon {tweet, X, Xit, twixt, whatever we’re supposed to call them}, for some reason I see that mural fairly often. She always looks like she has two right legs.
And I’m sure all the people on those wagons and trains and stagecoaches had parents who presented proof of citizenship at the hospital per Trump’s new “natural born” citizenship draft policy.
@Eusebio: Yeah. If we wanted to have a white nationalist nation, maybe we shouldn’t have stolen half of Mexico, complete with Mexicans.
Yeah, the Empire State Building went up during the Great Depression. The Moon landings* took place at the height of America’s involvement in Vietnam. That’s what not having immigrants does to your country: war and economic ruin.
Fight sophistry with logical sophistry.
*Does this moron know there was more than one landing on the Moon? I’m amazed how many people write off Apollos 12 through 17
I have to say, the investigation of wire transfers to Epstein does not seem likely to be fruitful. Paying Epstein for sexual adventures with wire transfers is kinda like paying for porn with a credit card.
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Huh. Maybe there is something there.
The Navy and NOAA have agreed to continue collecting and distributing the satellite data, at least for a while. One problem here is that the three satellites in question are long past their design life, and of a design that is prone to explode if not shut down soon enough.
If it were up to me, I would continue to allow the MAGA social media scene lead on the Epstein thing. Maybe just poking things once in a while.
That’s because the psychology is better. I mean, if you could drop hints that you are worried about what it might expose about Bill Clinton, so much the better. (Hint: I don’t think that procurement of any form interested Bill in the slightest. His whole thing was that he could persuade a woman to be sexual with him on his own. And a child would be too easy. That’s my take anyway.)
Of course, there would be countless numbers of Democratic supporters calling one “weak” and “feckless” for doing this.
Sometimes the best thing to do *is*, in fact, nothing.
@Jay L. Gischer: Maybe just poking things once in a while. That is what Wyden is doing. As you say, nothing may come of it but keep stirring the pot.
@Jay L. Gischer: But would he turn down something readily available?
I can cook up a pretty ok meal, but I’ll still get delivery.
My general assumption with Bill Clinton has been that there are few moral depths he wouldn’t leave unexplored if he thought they were safe. The man gives me the creeps, and I have no idea why anyone says he’s so personable or charming or whatever. He’s such an extraordinary phoney and fraud, and so few Democrats seem to be able to see it at a glance.
During the primaries in 1992, he travelled back to Arkansas to hang out for the execution of a mentally impaired man who saved the dessert from his last meal so he could eat it later. And by “hang out” I mean that he did nothing, but was in the state, to look tough on crime.
All I can say to his credit is that Clinton didn’t head down to the prison to eat that slice of pie. (That we know of)
On Pedophile Island, I fully expect that Clinton would say “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
Am I the only person who did not realize the cell doors on the famous minus-one-minute tape, were not Epstein’s? Epstein was up a set of stairs, and there was plenty of room, even setting aside the disappeared minute, for a man or men to walk just out of camera range, climb the stairs, and murder Epstein at leisure.
@Gustopher:
A couple of things about Clinton, but first… If he was involved in the abuse of children, then let that be known and let him face whatever consequences can be brought to bear. And I think very few people would disagree with that.
However, I thought there was no evidence that he ever went to Pedophile Island.
And as for having “no idea why anyone says he’s so personable or charming or whatever,” it may depend on what your definition of “is” is, since he’s been an adult for 60 years.